Sophomore Parker Gaddis scored a season-high 36 points including what proved to be the clinching free throws as the Clark College men’s basketball team concluded its season with an 82-81 NWAC South victory at Southwestern Oregon in Coos Bay.
Gaddis, coming off a 30-point game on Thursday against Chemeketa, made 12 of 23 shots and was 10 of 15 from the free-throw line. He also had a team-high nine rebounds.
Starters Sam Scarpelli, Sethon Moore and Matt Garrison each scored 11 points.
Gaddis made three consecutive free throws with 29 seconds to play, giving the Penguins an 82-80 lead.
SW Oregon had a chance to tie from the line a few seconds later, but made just one. The Lakers had the final possession with 15 seconds to play and failed to score.
Clark finishes the year 14-13 overall, and sixth place in the NWAC South at 6-10.
WOMEN: SW OREGON 60, CLARK 41 — Mahrysa Thomas scored 15 points to go with a team-high six rebounds as the Penguins lost their season finale at Coos Bay.
Clark finished the season 5-22 overall, and eighth in the NWAC South at 3-13.
Baseball
Clark picked up its first win of the season with a 15-1 victory over Shoreline in the first game of a doubleheader at Kindsfather Field. The Penguins dropped the second game 6-2.
In the victory, the Penguins used four pitchers in a four-hitter. Connor Wojan and Campbell Dace hit home runs as the Penguins had 10 hits.
Wojan added a second home run on the day in game two.
Clark (1-3) is scheduled to play a doubleheader at Shoreline today.
Softball
Clark opened its season with a loss and a tie against Shoreline.
Shoreline won the first game 16-4 in six innings, but then the teams ran out of daylight in the second game with the scored tied 19-19 after eight innings.
Alexis Henderson, an Evergreen High grad, was 3 for 4 with a two-run double, a three-run home run and six RBI in the second game for Clark. Mary Schorn was 3 for 3 with an RBI and four runs scored, and Emily Hewitt was 3 for 4 with a run-scoring triple, five RBI and four runs scored.
Track and field
Clark’s Micah Kinnunen, a Hockinson High grad, tied for first in the 100 meters at 11.06 seconds at the Linfield Erik Anderson Memorial Icebreaker meet in McMinnville, Ore.
Jett Pharn-Cromb, a Prairie grad, was first in the 200 at 22.71, and fourth in the 100 in 11.15 for the Penguins.
