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The starting players for the Portland Community
College Cascade Center basketball team are Jerry
Avery, Stanley Harrison, Kevin Luster. Fred Jones
and Tracy Cage.
Young PCC Cascade team holds 4-3 record
The tallest man on the P ortland
Community College Cascade Center
basketball team is 6’ 2” tall.
And the PCC team only has two
players w ith fo u r years o f high
school basketball experience.
But the team is already 4-3 for the
season and PCC coach John Lee
expects to see the team w in n in g
most o f the 16 games le ft in the
season.
Why?
“ Because they h u stle ," Lee said
smiling.
Lee said the group is younger
than last year’ s team , m ostly
eighteen and nineteen year olds but
hard working as a team.
"T h e y beat teams on just sheer
hustle,” Lee said. “ They just don’ t
q u it. The team members are good
friends. They are a happy bunch.
That helps them play well.”
Guards C harles " D u f f y ’ ’ Jer-
nigan and Larry Collins, plus center
forward Darrell "T u n a ” Turner are
the only team members carried over
fro m last year. C o llin s is a
Washington High School graduate
who played va rsity ball at
Washington High for two years.
Last year PCC ended the season
19-16.
New players on the PCC Cascade
team are: Tracy Cage, guard from
G ra n t; Stanley H a rris o n , guard
from Madision; Jerry Avery, guard
from Benson; Mark Sumner, guard
and forw ard from F ranklin; M arty
Pine, guard fro m M c M in n v ille ;
Fred Jones, fo rw a rd from Benson
and Harold Amos, forward or cen
ter from Connecticut.
Starting players for the games are
usually Jernigan, C ollins, T urner,
Amos and Cage or Avery.
PCC Cascade baske tba ll coach
forsees a good season.
" T h e team is young and they
d on ’ t have a lot o f experience, but
they play very w ell,” Lee said.
" I th in k we w ill have a good
season. I expect to win most o f our
games, except against C laudia’ s or
D r. B e rn a rd ’ s. T h e ir teams are
made o f many college graduates and
some ex-p ro players so it is not
realistic to expect our team to win
these games, but in an even match
w e'll win. The kids have a winning
attitude.”
l ee said he hopes more people in
the Northeast Portland area around
the PCC Cascade campus at 705 N.
K illin g s w o rth w ill come to the
games.
" T h e games are free and the
players are good, but people just
d on ’ t know we have a team ,” Lee
said.
The Portland Community College
team plays other m ajor AA U city
league teams plus m a jo r small
college ju n io r varsity teams during
the season.
Home basketball games schedules
fo r the PCC Cascade gym at 7:30
p.m. are:
January 16 - Lin field College
January 21 - Claudias
January 28 - Lewis & Clark
February 13 - Dr. Bernards
F ebruary 14 - P a c ific Power &
Light.
February 20 - Claudias
February 26 - Judson Baptist
Two PCC basketball home games
are scheduled fo r the PCC Sylvania
Center gym this season. They are:
January 23 - Pacific University
February 9 - W illam ette U n iv e r
sity.
T e rry Cage, a new P o rtla n d
Com m unity College Cascade Center
basketball gua rd , said " t h e fans
won’ t get bored when they come to
o u r games because we are an ex
c itin g bunch to w atch. We have a
good display o f basketball.”
( age played freshm an ball at
G rant High School, then dropped
basketball and w orked on his
studies u n til he came to P( C this
fall where he is in his first year as a
business adm inistration major.
I lie 19-year old. 5'7” , 142 pound
player doesn’ t have the height
u sually associated w ith college
basketball, but he ducks and darts
th ro u g h pra ctice and games at a
speed which keeps the ball moving
and taller players scrambling for the
ball.
" W e ’ re a p re tty good ru n n in g
te a m ," ( age said. " I f we just run
more, then nobody w ill be able to
hang with us."
Winning good to Mychal Thompson
By Ullvsses Tucker, Jr.
Mychal Thompson, the Portland
T ra ilb la z e rs star c e n te r/fo rw a rd
has heen playing some o f the best
basketball o f his young career lately
as his team is starting to play win
ning basketball.
" I t ’ s nice when you’ re winning,”
he said. "W h e n we were losing
during the early part o f the season I
felt really bad and I hated to show
my face in public. I ended up spend
ing more time at home than usual
durin g the losing streak, but i t ’ s
good to be back out again.”
T ho m pso n, a native o f the
Bahamas has been c ritic iz e d by
several local writers for his "spacey
play” during a few o f the Blazers
early loses. Mychal explains.
“ I t ’ s not that I 'm not try in g
hard,” Thompson said quickly. " I
don’ t understand why they choose
to single me out because I work hard
all the tim e. N a tu ra lly, I'm a very
kool and laid back person and most
o f it comes from growing up on the
Island. I guess i f people want to
label my actions as such, that's their
business. I know better.”
C u rre n tly T hom pson is the
Blazers second leading scorer with a
15.3 clip and leads the team in re
bounding. He also leads the team in
block shots and turnovers.
D u rin g the Blazers nine game
winning streak, Thompson led the
team in scoring four times and on
the boards five times. Thom pson
says that he enjoys the extra re
s p o n s ib ility o f p la ying the post
position when Tom Owens or Kevin
Kunnert gets into foul trouble.
" I fin d playiung the hole very
challenging.” said Thom pson. " I
played center in college and I think
I ’ ve been holding my own against
some o f the centers aro un d the
NBA. Bob Lainer and Kareem are
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P o rtlan d ’ s w orld ranked m iddle
weight Mike Colbert, w ill headline a
main event 10-rounder, January 22,
1981 at Portland Exposition Center.
Colbert is one o f only two fighters
to go the distance w ith W B C
W elterw eight C ha m p ion Thom as
" H i t M a n ” H earns and fo u g h t
fo rm e r O ly m p ic C ham pion Sugar
Kay Seales to a draw. Mike, fighting
away from home the last couple o f
years, h o ld w ins over R ocky
M osely, T on y L ic a ta and Renato
Garcia.
On the undercard, Eugene’ s hard
h ittin g B antam w eigh t "S w e e t
Baby” James M anning 3-1 w ill be
seen in a 8-rounder. M anning, only
18 years old was shown the ring sav
vy o f a veteran and is certainly one
to keep an eye on.
P o rtla n d ’ s undefeated M id d le
weight Billy M innix 5-0 is scheduled
for 6-rounds. M innix in his last bout
in P o rtla n d , came o f f the canvas
fo u r tim es in the fir s t 2 -rounds
against tough Frankie Duran to stop
Frankie with a desperate rally in the
third.
A couple o f good, young, P o rt
land I eatherweights w ill see action
in separate 4 -ro u n d bouts. Bobby
N ew com b 1-0 w ho impressed
boxing people w ith his spectacular
2-round KO win over Carlos Chavez
w ill return. Brian T inke r w ill fight
in fro n t o f the h'ofne fo lk s fo r the
first time. Brian made a successful
debut in Boise, w hip ping Lorenzo
Garcia in a6-round decision.
In a nother 4 -ro u n d e r, P o r t
landers w ill get a chance to sec the
latest Northwest Heavyweight sen
sation. T on y G a llo 4-0 at 260
pounds has s im p ly proven to o
strong lo r the c o m p e titio n so fa r,
having K O ’ ed a ll fo u r o f his o p
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FROM THE FRONT DOOR
By Tom Boothe
From the Front Door, I wish to share the following with our citizens here in
our local community. It appeared in the Thursday, January 8, 1981, Wall
Street Journal.
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THE DUMBEST PERSON IN THE WORLD
How dumb? Very dumb is the American who knocks what he's got. Here's
what he's got: A country of unbounded beauty. Almost unlimited natural
resources. A judicial system that is the envy of the rest of the world. Food is
so plentiful overeating is a major problem. A pTess nobody can dominate. A
ballot box nobody can stuff. Churches of your choice.
One hundred million jobs. Freedom to go anywhere you want, w ith the
planes, cars and highways to get you there. Social security. Medicare.
Unemployment insurance. Public School and plentiful scholarships. Oppor
tunity to become a millionaire. O.K., Complainer, what's your second
choice? Go.
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I agree with Mr. Gray’s statement. If you think you have nothing to start
with, how about starting with courtesy, humility, respect and a positive at
titude.
M ychal on defense, blocking a tw o pointer
the only ones who have given me
problems.”
T ho m pso n, a fo rm e r A ll-
American at the University o f M in
nesota and a member o f the 1978-79
A ll N BA Rookie Team, broke his
leg last season. After a one year lay
o ff, Thompson thinks his leg is in
excellent shape fo r the p hysical
N BA play,
" I n the beginning, I wasn’t sure
how it w ould respond,” he said.
“ But now I feel p re tty confident
since I have a couple o f good games
under my belt. You can look for me
to go even more harder from here
on o u t.”
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How we perform as individuals will determine how we perform as a
nation. FREE: If you would like an 8 ’A ”x 11” reprint of thia message
write to Harry J. Gray, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, United
Technologies, Box 360. Hartford, CT 06141.
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