Cougars look to heat up the net
BY TR AVI S D A V ID V W H ITTAKER
In athletics, there will always be streaks.
Some are hot and some are cold. Either
way, everyone loves it when their favorite
team and player are on fire. They get
that feeling like they are in the zone and
everything moves at their o w n pace. For
the Clackamas Cougars volleyball team,
they want to feel that way once again
going into league play.
Out of the gate, the women's volleyball
team started off hot in their non-league
schedule. During the month of August
they won 6 of the 8 matches contested,
including a 5-match winning streak over
the weekend of Aug. 27 to Aug. 28. With
Septem ber not being as friendly, they
only w ere able to win 5 of the 14 total
matches for the month. The team endured
a 6-match losing streak from Sept. 9 to
Sept. 17.
The team still feels that they can make
the N orthw est A th le tic C on ference
tou rn am ent this season. Going into
league play they had a 9*10 record.
Sophomore Lauren Tennyson, No. 9,
who is an outside hitter for the Cougars,
mentioned that there is a solid number of Killingbeck, likes the way that the team
returners on the team. “ We’re just trying got started this season.“ Non-League was
to m ake sure our good days outweigh actually really good. We had a lot o f far
our bad days,"she said. According to the away tournaments where we played some
Cougars volleyball team roster, six of really good teams, she said. “ The Walla
the eleven players are sophomores this Walla tournament is always a good one.
They always have super good teams that
season.
With the team only having two more helped push us and to get us better for
scheduled home games for the season league play."
With only a handful of league games
(Oct. 21 and Nov. 9), they will have to
deal with a lot of league road games on played so far the Cougars still have a 12-
13 (2-3 in league) record, and they have
the back stretch of the season. Second-
year head volleyball coach Sarah Hoeke time to improve.
Hoeke added, “ For us to succeed, we
actually prefers it this way.
need to play to our full potential. Every
“ This gives us confidence and helps
us feel comfortable as a team before we day in practice that is w hat we work
towards and strive for. We have great
travel to the rest of the league games,”
she said. This way we know our potential athletes who have the capability to do
amazing things. ”
and we have that mind set as we travel."
Last week the Cougars went 1-1 as they
Seven of the nine remaining scheduled
matches are on the road. The farthest the defeated Mt. Hood Community College in
team will have to travel for the rest of the • four sets. CCC def. Mt. Hood 23-25, 29-
season is to Coos Bay and Roseburg to play 27,25-15,25-19 and fell to Clark College
Southwest Oregon Community College in four sets 25-22,10 -25,19-25,19-25.
and Umpqua Community College on Oct. They take the court tonight, Oct. 12, in
Salem at Chemeketa Community College.
28 and Oct. 29. If they qualify for the
A ll scores, roster inform ation and
NW AC tournament, that would be played
in Tacoma, Wash, on Nov. 17 to Nov. 20. records w ere taken directly from the
team 's page on the NWAC website.
Team captain and sophom ore lead
defensive specialist, No. 3, Aysia
photos by Austin Boltz
Left: Ashley Johnson goes for a kill to win a key set.
Center: Sophomore Lauren Tennyson bumps the ball in a match during a home
game.
Right: Clackamas sophomore Aysia Killingbeck celebrates a key point during a
match.
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