Will Hermens

Review staff writer

The men’s soccer team erased a two-goal deficit  Sept. 27 against Pacific University, but lost in overtime on a breakaway goal.

Saturday marked the team’s first league game away from home. Their early-season inexperience showed early in the first half. Linfield started off with two mistakes on defense, giving the home team an early advantage.

Pacific sophomore forward Michael Iacolucci scored fewer than 14 minutes into the game from 10 yards out of the left side of the box. Pacific netted another goal fewer than 10 minutes later when junior midfielder Kevin Fujimoto rebounded and scored off his own shot.

Down two goals, the Linfield offense helped the defense, scoring right before the half. At the 43:01 mark in the first half, freshman midfielder Kyle Wallace scored an unassisted goal from 15 yards out, cutting Pacific’s lead to one.

“We did a good job of keeping possession,” Wallace said of the team’s second-half performance.

Keeping possession of the ball helped Linfield dominate the second half of the game. After just 15 minutes into the second half, sophomore defender Kyle Brouse passed to Wallace, who chipped the ball past the outstretched arms of Pacific sophomore goalkeeper Andrew Stevermer.

The goal, Wallace’s sixth of the season, not only tied the score, but for the third time all season, the team scored more than two goals in a game. Linfield scored twice against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps College and Northwest Christian University.

“We need to keep pushing,” junior defender Colin Bebee said was head coach Ian Lefebvre’s message to the team entering the second overtime game in a row.

Linfield had two corner kicks and appeared to be in control of possession during overtime.

However, with four minutes remaining in  overtime, Iacolucci scored on a breakaway. The game was Linfield’s second overtime loss and seventh game in a row decided by one goal.

Linfield had six fewer shots on goal than Pacific and was unable to convert two corners kicks in overtime.

However, Wallace’s two goals can be attributed to a formation change from a 4-4-2 to a 4-3-3. The change allowed the ’Cats to keep four defenders but move a midfielder to the forward position.

Bebee said the team has to try to maximize effort at practice this week in order to reduce mental mistakes late in the game. Wallace said the team must keep possession and attack with numbers on offense and said he believes the team will come out on top of the coming two games with a pair of victories.

Wallace said he believes  a win over the University of Puget Sound will get the team back on track.

The ’Cats will continue to seek their first conference win of the season when they take the field at Puget Sound on Oct. 4, followed by George Fox University on Oct. 5, with both games scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m.

Katy Thompson

Review staff writer

The Wildcats women’s golf team finished second at the Linfield Invitational where they were once again defeated by George Fox University.

Although George Fox defeated Linfield for the third time in a row, the ’Cats came out with a new strategy for the next time they go up against against the Bruins on Oct. 5.

“We could potentially beat them if we cut off at least 10-20 strokes,” freshman Sophie Corr said.

It is evident that one way the ’Cats could shave off those superfluous strokes would be to improve their chipping and putting skills, in essence, polishing up their short game.

“George Fox is a formidable competitor because their short game is very clean,” Corr said. “They eliminate a lot more strokes compared to us. I think they practice more on that than we do, but we are getting there.”

Linfield has spent the bulk of the season fine-tuning each others’ swing. Head coach Karly Cramer emphasized the importance of having a powerful and developed swing right out of the tee box.

The team agreed it is difficult to come back from the summer and be expected to have perfect form.

“I felt that the golf season was like, ‘BOOM,’” Corr said. “I just got put in it. The first few weeks I just spent reviewing my swing.”

Cramer has been helping Corr develop her high school swing into a “college” swing, one that is more advanced and articulated than Corr’s previous swing.

“It sucked that it took half of the season just to do that, but we know that we need to switch up our priorities and work on our short game if we want to be seen as a serious threat in the Northwest Conference,” Corr said.

The ’Cats relatively undeveloped short game should be seen as evidence that Cramer has worked wonders with the athletes in her program, freshman Lydia Smith said.

Cramer’s coaching style may have taken some players awhile to get used to, but a majority of the freshmen say she is better than their high school coaches. One reason is that she comes off as more relaxed than most coaches.

“She is probably one of the most easy going people I have met in my life,” Corr said. “She has so much knowledge of the game. She can play and teach it. That is a rarity to find in a coach.”

Cramer motivates her players to go to practice, Smith said, even when they have trouble with the course.

“She is the one who encourages us to find the time to practice and to do so with a purpose,” Smith said.

Cramer is trying to persuade the women to never give in to their fears and self-doubts.

“There are a lot of times I feel like I want to give up, because golf is such a mental game.” Smith said. “But then again I always go back to it.”

Jordan Jacobo

Sports editor

Blazing past the competition, junior Marci Klimek has been an impressive pace-setter for women’s cross country in the Northwest Conference this season.

She is building on last year’s breakout performance in which she finished 68 out of 280 runners at the NCAA Division-III championships. Klimek’s performance was a feat that matched former ‘Cats runner Carrie Mahoric, who finished in the same position in 1998, as the best for cross country since Linfield became a D-III school.

Klimek’s first four meets, all first-place finishes, have been by no means overlooked. They have helped build her coach and teammates’ confidence that Klimek can carry the team and perhaps finish within the top 25 at this year’s national championship race in late November.

Most recently, Klimek earned the top spot at the Linfield Cross Country Open, with a blistering time of 22 minutes, 32 seconds on the 6k course. She was a full 20 seconds ahead of her closest competition, Linfield junior Frances Corcorran.

“Her season has been off to just a roaring start,” head coach Garry Killgore said. “A lot of that should be a credit to her attitude and work ethic right now. She’s doing the right things for herself in terms of keeping healthy.”

Injury aside, only a few competitors pose a challenge to Klimek’s undefeated conference season as she looks forward to the next three meets, Killgore said.

Sophomore Amy Pomante of Whitworth University, senior Kelsey Owens of Pacific University and seniors Maddie Coffman and Jena Winger of Willamette University are the strongest runners among the NWC competition and will be Klimek’s final test Nov. 1 before regionals.

Killgore said his focus in coaching Klimek this season is partly getting her to learn when she has to slow down as well as teaching her some alternative training methods.

Working out and recovering in the pool, training with a medicine ball and using plyometric exercises will supplement Klimek’s already demanding training schedule, but Killgore hopes these alternative methods will keep her injury-free this fall.

“What makes her special is that she knows it hurts to race fast, and that’s a really difficult thing for a racer to come around to,” Killgore said.

He said his biggest role as coach has been holding Klimek back from applying a workout so rigorous that it would weaken her throughout the season.

A bond of trust has been forged between Klimek and Killgore. They now focus on training smarter, not necessarily harder. Appropriate recovery methods will be the key to Klimek’s continued success, Killgore said.

On Oct. 4, the team heads to the Willamette Open in Salem, and Klimek has the opportunity for a fifth-straight finish at the head of the pack.

From there, it’s just the Pioneer Open on Oct. 18 that separates her from a NWC title.

Last year, Klimek finished 11th at the conference meet. She was the best among her team’s finish, and she was awarded with All-Conference honors.

Klimek continued her march toward prominence, placing 10th at regionals. Her time of 22:25 qualified her for the NCAAs, a race she hopes to be at once more this season.

Freshman Shanna Peaden said Klimek’s presence and leadership have helped motivate her to improve and race faster this season.

“As a captain, Marci leads completely by example,” she said. “You watch her and you’re like, ‘One day I want to be like her.’ “

Klimek has taken the effort and the time to make sure all of Linfield’s eight freshman runners are feeling at home, not just with athletics but with adjusting to the college.

“She just goes out there and puts her heart into everything,” Peaden said. “It’s amazing, but she always is on the same level as us. I never feel like she puts herself above us.”

Killgore said Klimek’s quiet demeanor does not mean she is not a leader for the team.

He said she has been able to push the team and add to the high expectations the program has set for itself.

Klimek’s steady dominance this season lends itself as a beacon for Killgore’s training program and gives Linfield’s up-and-coming runners, Peaden and freshmen Brooke Keudell and Nelly Evans, a mark to shoot for. As a junior, Klimek still has much room to grow within the cross country program.

“It’s really fun to train with someone of that caliber,” Peaden said of Klimek. “She’s a good friend, a good runner and I think that we’re very lucky to have her as a captain.”

Grant Lucas

Review staff writer

A fumble recovery by junior defensive tackle Paul Nishizaki sealed the first win of the season for the Wildcats on Sept. 27 as they took down Southern Oregon University in overtime.

The first half did not provide much excitement for Wildcat fans as Linfield was only able to rack up 125 yards of total offense, never entering the red zone inside the opponent’s 20-yard line.

The lone scoring threat from the ’Cats came midway through the second quarter when senior kicker Scott Birkhofer missed a 51-yard field goal attempt.

SOU, however, had two golden scoring opportunities in the second quarter. Raider senior kicker Corey O’Neill attempted a 34-yard field goal but sailed it wide to the left with five minutes remaining in the half.

With 20 seconds remaining, the Raiders were on the Linfield 10-yard line. SOU senior quarterback Bryan Lee-Lauduski was picked off by junior cornerback Bubba Lemon.

The first score of the contest did not occur until the 4:24 mark of the third quarter after a Linfield fumble was recovered by SOU. Lee-Lauduski then connected with senior wide receiver Danny Patenaude for a 22-yard touchdown.

Linfield responded quickly with freshman defensive end Sparky Gonzalez recovering a fumble on the Raider 35-yard line.

After driving to the one-yard line, sophomore running back Simon Lamson punched it through for the tying score.

With a little more than 10 minutes remaining in regulation, Linfield stopped SOU on third down to force a Raider punt. The ’Cats began their drive on their own five-yard line. Fifteen plays later, Linfield was on the Raider one-yard line with 1:06 left in the game. Lamson tried to power his way through for the go-ahead score, but he fumbled, and it was recovered by SOU in the end zone, resulting in a touchback.

After a Raider punt, Linfield decided to run out the clock to send the game into overtime, the Wildcats’ first since 2002, also against SOU.

Nineteen seconds into overtime, Linfield sophomore quarterback Cole Franklin scampered into the end zone, giving the ’Cats their first lead of the game.

On SOU’s first overtime play, Lee-Lauduski fumbled the snap, and Nishizaki fell on top of the ball to seal the victory.

Linfield was able to hold Raider senior running back Marlon Rosales to 26 yards on the ground after he busted out 81 yards in the first half.

Franklin passed for 123 yards on 9-18 passing and added 63 yards rushing with the winning touchdown.

Sharing the spotlight with Franklin was Lamson, who achieved a career-high 126 yards rushing on 23 carries and one touchdown.

“Everything was going right,” Lamson said. “The offensive line opened up lanes I couldn’t miss. I have to credit them with my statistics and the way the game ended. They’re the guys doing the dirty work.”

The Raiders totaled 240 yards throughout the game, but the Linfield defense forced three crucial turnovers, two fumbles and an interception.

The win improves the Wildcats’ record to 1-1 overall as they prepare for their conference opener against the Menlo College Oaks on Oct. 4.

“They’re a dangerous offensive team,” Smith said.

Sports Commentary

Lucas Myers

For the Review

The greatest time of the year has finally arrived. The smell of autumn has started to creep up on my senses as they recover from a long summer of agonizing allergies.

Yet the end of the allergy season is not what I’m excited about. It is the arrival of prime time football season.

The naps during baseball games are coming to an end, and ESPN will no longer be overrun with those repetitive tennis matches, which seem to last forever and take me back to my childhood video game, Pong.

No longer do I have to spend Monday nights with the girlfriend at some knitting festival or become a human pretzel doing yoga. Finally, I can grab a few cold ones, throw down a greasy cheeseburger and spend some quality time with the fellas.

This season is underway with a fast start and has brought along great news; and that takes a writer’s job easy.

First of all, Brett Favre is no longer a cheesehead or in retirement; instead, he took his country-boy attitude up to New York where he led the Jets to a season-opening win. Unfortunately, during the following two weeks the New York Jets have turned into the New York Jet-lags.

But honestly it is not the NFL anymore without Favre in that Packers uniform. We no longer get to see him tackle his receivers and leap into a crowd of crazy Green Bay fans. Instead, we see Aaron Rodgers trying to impersonate the Lambeau leap. Favre pulling a Michael Jordan, though, is far from the biggest news these days.

Hollywood model Tom Brady finally found out what getting injured really feels like, and this time he does not need to fake it to get attention like he did before the Super Bowl last year. This time he can stand on the sideline and watch his backup quarterback, Matt Cassel, play. Cassel, who has not started a football game since his senior year of high school, will lead his team to a 9-7 record and out of the playoffs where the Patriots belong.

New England’s defense is getting too old, proven by their recent trips to Sunday brunch at the senior center. Their linebackers can no longer stop the run, and their defensive backs look like they are walking behind those receivers. On Sunday, the “hoodie coach” of the Patriots was outcoached by the Dolphins as they pulled the direct snap out of the college ranks and put up one rushing touchdown after another.

Enough with the sensationalized NFL. How about the real gridiron where players actually play because they love the game?

The college season is up and running after a few weeks of hard-fought games. There have already been some big changes in the top 25. It was nice to see “Smokin’” Pete Carrol and his army of Trojans get the No. 1 rank after their demoralizing victory over Virginia and continued domination of Ohio State.

USC will continue this  streak until they get ousted from the BCS because the Pac-10 is supposedly weaker than the SEC.

The Big Ten is the most overrated league in the nation, and they still seem to get a team into the championship every year. For once, give us here on the West Coast some love and put the army of Troy in position to destroy an SEC team.

Rankings are not the only problem in college football these days. For the last couple weeks, every Washington Huskies fan has been as mad and disappointed as a fan could be because of the poor officiating that literally decided the game for the Huskies against the BYU Cougars.

Quarterback Jake Locker scored a touchdown with seconds remaining to put the Huskies in position to take it into overtime after the PAT, but after Locker scored he tossed the ball in the air and began to celebrate.

The celebration was not a dance or show; it was just a normal old-fashioned celebration. The refs apparently did not want to stick around for overtime, so they threw the flag for unsportsman-like conduct and made them kick the PAT from 35 yards away. That led to a BYU block and another UW loss. Needless to say, after that game I had to go buy a new television.

Why call excessive celebration at a time in the game where it will change who wins or loses?

Referees should stick to officiating games, not deciding them. Maybe the referee who threw the flag had a good reason, like a hundred bucks on the BYU
Cougars.

Will Hermens

Review staff writer

   The men’s soccer team fell short in its opening conference games, losing 1-0 to Whitworth University and 2-1 to Whitman College in
overtime.
   “We need to stay positive,” junior goalkeeper Joe Locascio said. “It’s a team effort.”
   On Sept. 20, the team played well until Whitworth senior midfielder Caleb Barnhill scored a goal with just six minutes remaining in regulation. Although Whitworth out-shot Linfield 13-10, the Cats’ defense denied multiple scoring chances throughout the game.
   “Our defense is playing exceptionally well,” Locascio, who anchored the defense early in the season, said.
   The team has had six of its games decided by one goal in the first eight matches of the season. The Wildcats entered conference play last weekend with an overall record of 4-1 and were expected to win both games.
   “I thought we should have come out of there with a win,” coach Ian Lefebvre said after Sunday’s loss to Whitman.
   Whitman controlled the first half of the game, keeping possession in Linfield territory the majority of the game.
   However, Linfield had a multitude of scoring chances late in the first half, with a header and a shot from outside the box that just missed hitting the crossbar.
   With fewer than seven minutes remaining in the first half, Linfield scored first when junior Kurtis Wong split two Whitman defenders and snuck the ball past senior Whitman goalkeeper Brett Axelrod.
   Wong had an open shot to the net after Axelrod came out of the net to challenge Wong, only to slip and have his feet come out from underneath him.
   With just a few to go before halftime, Whitman had an opportunity to score but Locascio stopped the Whitman shot, keeping a one-goal lead going into the second half.
   The team fell short in both games as the clock wound down and fatique became a factor, Lefebvre said.
   He praised the team for attacking Whitman toward the end of the first half, leading to multiple shots just wide of the net. Linfield had possession deep in Whitman territory but could not convert on most scoring
opportunities.
   The second half started with Whitman as the aggressor, scoring just two minutes into the half with a goal from sophomore midfielder
Jason Shon.
   On the defensive end, Linfield played with that consistency, allowing Whitman few shots on goal. The Wildcats had a couple of late-game scoring chances in the second half, only to be denied by Whitman. Axelrod, who came up with a save off a Linfield header with only five seconds left.
   “We need to collect on passes,” Lefebvre told the team before the start of the overtime session.
   Whitman controlled possession early in overtime, but Linfield managed to put pressure on Whitman. Linfield had a scoring opportunity off a corner kick with fewer than two minutes remaining, but the Whitman defense held. Whitman worked down the field to get a shot, but Locascio made a tremendous save, fully extending to his right to keep the game tied.
   Whitman got the ball back, and forward Stephen Phillips dribbled between two Linfield defenders, scoring the winning goal with three seconds remaining.
   “It was a good learning experience for us,” Lefebvre said. “We are a young group.”
   The team continues to look for its first conference win of the season, traveling to Pacific University, University of Puget Sound and George Fox University for its next three games.
Linfield’s only game this weekend is Sept. 27 against Pacific. The game, at Forest Grove, starts at 7 p.m.

Rachel Mills

Review staff writer

   The men’s golf team swung its way to its second victory in two weeks Sept. 24 at the Illahee
golf course. 
   “We are very excited,” head coach Greg Copeland said. “We went to the national championships last year, and we are hoping to go again.”
   Copeland, in his eighth year with the team, is trying a new approach this season. The meet was part of his strategy, he said. The competition was an event designed to simply let the teams
have fun.
   “This was a dual meet with Willamette,” Copeland said. “We’re trying something different.”
   He said the results from the meet do not count toward the Northwest Conference Championships.
   “This was just a fun event,”junior Joel Rychard said.
   The meet was designed after the Ryder Cup, a golf tournament in which team members work in pairs. The results were tallied by combining the partners’ scores, with a total of eight possible points, Rychard said.
   Participants from Linfield and Willamette played in pairs.
   “It’s a type of meet that we’ve never played before in college,” senior co-captain Andrew Fitch said.
   Fitch tied for first place at the previous meet at Illahee, but did not attend this week’s meet.
   “It’s not really an important meet,” Fitch said. “It’s just to have fun and get to know one another better.” The meet fulfilled its purpose, Rychard said.
   Rychard and his partner, freshman Alex Fitch, scored the highest number of points possible, as did juniors Tony Kordosky and Tyler Nelson. 
   “We don’t normally team up like that,” Rychard said. “It was nice to get some time to play in pairs and work together.”
   Junior Yutaro Sakamoto said the team used the meet to practice.
   “It’s just a scrimmage,” he said. “We’re just working out the kinks.”
   Copeland said he hopes to use this meet to motivate the team during the season. They are considered the front-runners in the conference and everyone will be gunning for them.
   He said that it was not about the number of strokes the team got but about teamwork.
   Sakamoto agreed, saying they will likely cruise through the season without any major surprises.
   The team is hoping for another trip to the NCAA National Championships.
   “I think we’ll be as strong, if not stronger, than last year,” Copeland said. “We lost one player last year who is really hard to replace, but we have some good freshmen this year.”
   Copeland said he  expects to see good things from Rychard, Fitch, Korodosky and senior Kevin Duerr. Fitch said that co-captain Kordosky stands out the most.
   “[He's] played really well this year, and heÕll definitely be one of our top players,” Fitch said.
   But he also said he believes all team members contribute relatively equally. 
   “We have seven guys who are really consistent and similar in skill level,” he said. “We fit together really well.”
  The team will return to normal competition this weekend. It hosts the Linfield Invitational on Sept. 27 and 28 at  the Michelbook Country Club.

Grant Lucas

Review staff writer

   The weekend did not end well for womenÕs soccer, as Linfield lost back-to-back conference games against Whitworth University and Whitman College.
   On Sept. 20, the Wildcats hosted the Whitworth Pirates, then ranked No. 2 in the nation. The ÕCats were able to keep up with Whitworth as the score remained tied for more than 60 minutes. 
   Linfield took hold of the game with the first goal in the 64th minute with some dynamic teamwork. Sophomore Rachel Miles lofted a pass from the right wing to freshman Sarah Walton, who laid the ball up for senior Steph Caster, who was able to slip the ball past the keeper and into the net.
   Whitworth battled back and fought hard for a quick equalizer. Sophomore Emily Rohde dribbled down the right, eventually dropping the ball back for senior Penelope Crowe. She attempted a shot, but it sailed wide.
   The Pirates had another scoring opportunity shortly after when sophomore Kaylyn Plumb ripped a shot from the top of the 18-yard box.
   Sophomore goalkeeper Kelsey Hasselblad reacted quickly and tipped the ball off the crossbar. The rebound was prompty cleared by Linfield’s defense.
   Whitworth’s persistence finally paid off in the 89th minute when Crowe lofted a free kick past Hasselblad into the net for the equalizer.
   The Pirates tallied the winning goal just five minutes into overtime when senior Whitney Ramsey received a pass from senior Kara Tisthammer. Ramsey fired a low shot that slid by Hasselblad.
   Though the loss was disheartening, Hasselblad set a new single-match record for Linfield as she made an incredible 17 saves.
   “We knew they were the No. 2 team in the nation, and we had nothing to lose,” senior Kate Franklin said. “We came into the game focused and controlled the ball well.”
   Though the Wildcats managed the ball for most of the game, they were outshot by the Pirates 27-8.
   After the tough loss to Whitworth, the Cats needed to prepare for another conference game the next day against the Whitman Missionaries.
   As the score remained deadlocked, Linfield and Whitman exchanged missed shots.
   Missionary junior Corina Gabbert broke the tie just before the end of the first half as she unleashed a low shot from the top of the 18-yard box that made its way into the back of the net.
   In the 64th minute, Gabbert tallied her second goal as she headed a cross from senior Jennifer Doane into the net.
   She was not done there. In the 69th minute, she received the ball on the right side and fired a shot to the far post. The kick deflected off Hasselblad and into the net, completing Gabber’s that trick.
   “We played our hearts out against Whitworth and, unfortunately, it didnÕt end the way we wanted it to,” Caster said. “We didn’t come out ready to play against Whitman, and it cost us
the game.”
   The losses to Whitworth and Whitman dropped Linfield”s overall record to 2-4 and 0-2 in conference play.
   “We learned how well we can play when we are all playing as one cohesive unit,” Caster said. “We also learned how bad we can play if we don’t play as a team. This weekend was a good learning experience.”
The Wildcats prepare for another full weekend of conference matches as they travel to Forest Grove to battle Pacific University on Saturday and host Lewis & Clark College on Sunday.” Caster said. “We also learned how bad we can play if we don’t play as a team. This weekend was a good learning experience.”
The Wildcats prepare for another full weekend of conference matches as they travel to Forest Grove to battle Pacific University on Saturday and host Lewis & Clark College on Sunday.

Greg Larson

For the Review

Brianne Ries

Assistant editor

   Last weekend, the Wildcats’ volleyball team knew  great challenges lay ahead. Their weekend included matches against No. 16 Pacific Lutheran University, followed by the No. 9 University of Puget Sound.
   On Sept. 19, the Cats lost their first match of the Northwest Conference to the defending NWC champions, PLU, who cruised to a blistering seven-point lead against the Wildcats.
   Linfield seemed almost tranquilized but shook off the point difference, fighting and clawing its way back into the match, but inevitably lost 29-27.
   During the second match, senior outside hitter Kelsey French led Linfield on a scoring surge to bring the score to 24-22.
   However, the Lutes came back, scoring two consecutive points to tie the match and went on to take
the win.
   The Wildcats had several scoring surges led by freshman outside hitter Samantha Lau, who racked up
12 kills.
   Senior defensive specialist Rachel Rahn, who had a team-leading 21 digs, but the LutesÕ consistency was the determining factor.
   Lau is leading the team with 56 kills this season.
   The Lutes went on to win the match, dropping Linfield to 0-1 in the NWC.
   “We didn’ play as well of a match,” head coach Shane Kimura said. “We had our chances. [We] just made more mistakes than we should have.”
  Linfield faced off against the UPS powerhouse Sept. 20 and showed great tenacity as everyone expected a delivery of defeat
from UPS.
   Freshman outside hitter Tara Hill led Linfield to a 22-19 lead, but the Loggers earned six straight points to steal the match.
   The second set was hard-fought, but UPS prevailed and scored 17 quick points to the ÕCats five to put them away in the third.
   “Last weekend, we  played two top-20 teams, national leagues, [and] it was a tough back-to-back match for us,” Kimura said.
   Returning to defend their home court this weekend, Kimura and the Cats face a tough game against Lewis & Clark College, which is currently standing at 2-0 in the NWC.
   “We’ve got to cut down on some mistakes for this weekend and hopefully improve a little bit from last weekend,” Kimura said.
   The Wildcats are hungry for their first conference victory and will attempt to lock it up against Lewis & Clark tonight in the Ted Wilson Gymnasium
at 7 p.m.
Following that game, they square off against Willamette University at home at 7 p.m on Sept. 27.

Jordan Jacobo

Sports editor
    Playing through damp conditions Sept. 20 and 21, sophomore Katie Kilborn and freshman Sophie Corr led the ÕCats to a third-place finish at the Pacific Invitational hosted at Quail Valley Golf Course.
    George Fox University held on for its second tournament win of the fall season. The Bruins improved  their first round score by six strokes and were unmatched on the day. Sophomore Brianna Nap finished with a team-best total of 169 strokes over
the weekend.
   George Fox, which finished just one stroke ahead of Linfield at the Willamette Five-Way Invitational the previous week, has proven itself to be a dominant force in the Northwest
Conference.
   Willamette University senior Whitney Ueno comfortably topped the competition with a final score of 154, eight strokes better than the runner-up.
   For the Cats, Kilborn and Corr tied for ninth overall, scoring 185 during two days of play.
   Also golfing for Linfield, junior Brittany Johnston finished with 186 strokes and freshman Lydia Sith
with 199.
The Cats host the Linfield Invitational on Sept. 27 and 28 at Michelbook
Country Club.