At the end of August, Colton moved to Oregon to attend Clackamas Community College and play on their men's basketball team in the NWAC (NorthWestAthleticConference). The first few weeks of September they had a camp, and then practices every Monday-Friday. School started at the end of September. The official season is still a little ways away ... you can check out the schedule on the Clackamas Athletics website (schedule), first official (still pre-season) game will be November 15. There are a few "jamboree" round robin events before that. Here's the full schedule (although there's already been an update on the website) ...
The first Juco Jamboree was October 13 in Centralia. There was a live stream available with a subscription to BallerTV, which I paid, so that I could see the action. The video wasn't the best quality, but it was better than missing out! The set-up was interesting. Round robin, four teams, three games. The games were a single period (26 minutes?), no quarters/halves or even switching sides. A shooting foul got one point, then a single second shot. The Clackamas crew was playing in their pink practice jerseys as the team hasn't been finalized yet. Colton started all three games, scored each game (and had quite a few assists) and got good playing time (considering there were three full teams and the reduced clock). I was able to make highlights ...
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Next up, was another jamboree, this time hosted by Clackamas.
There wasn't live streaming, but Colton was able to get me some video after the fact, so there are highlights! These were quick matchups, just 20min/running clock games. Clackamas had five games, they won two, lost three. Colton wrote "South Puget Sound and Tacoma are possibly two of the better teams in the NWAC so we weren't too upset with those losses. Blue Mountain was rough, we did not play well. I was happy with how many assists I was getting, especially for how short the games were. The game against Tacoma was awesome, it was the last game of the night and we had some of the other teams watching too."
Off the court - refueling!
