ANTELOPE VALLEY COLLEGE: SUCCESSFUL START FOR AVC WOMEN.Byline: Gideon Rubin Staff Writer LANCASTER - Another week, another tournament title for the Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. women's basketball Women's basketball is one of the few games which developed in tandem with men's. It became popular, spreading from the east coast of the United States to the west coast, in large part via women's colleges. team. The Marauders, who hadn't won a tournament title in school history before this season, now have two barely more than a week into the season. AVC (1) (Advanced Video Coding) The video compression techniques used in the H.264 standard, jointly developed by ISO and the ITU-T. See H.264. (2) (Audio Visual C (6-0) defeated tournament host Glendale 73-68 in overtime in Sunday's championship game, just one week after winning the San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. Mesa tournament against the host team. The Marauders' strong start is reflected in the early polls, too. AVC is ranked fourth in the state and third in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, . AVC was led by sophomore forward/center Mariqueta Starling starling, any of a group of originally Old World birds that have become distributed worldwide. Starlings were brought to New York in 1890; since then the common starling (Sturnus vulgaris) has spread throughout North America. , the tournament MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. , and sophomore guard/forward Sheena Crenshaw cren·shaw also cran·shaw n. A variety of winter melon (Cucumis melo var. inodorus) having a greenish-yellow rind and sweet, usually salmon-pink flesh. [Origin unknown.] (Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley High), an all-tournament selection. Freshman forward center Kelli Valentine (Lancaster) had a breakthrough game for AVC with 15 points and 13 rebounds against Glendale. Despite the rankings and impressive accomplishments, AVC coach John Taylor believes there's room for improvement, noting his team has committed too many turnovers and hasn't yet fully grasped a system that requires players to block for better rebounding position on both ends of the floor, something they'll need to do to overcome a relative lack of size. Taylor was sure to point out those perceived weaknesses on Monday when the team spent its practice reviewing film. ``When we start playing some of the best teams in state, those are things we're going to need to do,'' Taylor said. That Taylor found fault with his team's play is by his own admission because of the lofty goals he has set for the team. Those goals center on winning a fourth consecutive Foothill Conference championship and winning a state title. And even Taylor said the team's play wasn't all bad. ``I thought we made big plays with games on the line and that's something you just can't teach,'' Taylor said. ``It shows a lot of heart and it shows they want to win. When it counts, they really get after it.' --Rest and heal: An off week in advance of next week's prestigious College of the Sequoias
Sophomore guard Sarah Williams (Palmdale) is day-to-day with a leg contusion CONTUSION, med. jurisp. An injury or lesion, arising from the shock of a body with a large surface, which presents no loss of substance, and no apparent wound. If the skin be divided, the injury takes the name of a contused wound. Vide 1 Ch. Pr, 38; 4 Carr. & P. 381, 487, 558, 565; 6 Carr. , and freshman guard Sasa Stojic will miss this week's practices with an injured foot tendon. ``It's a good time for us to rest and heal,'' Taylor said. --'Something we can correct': The men's basketball team settled for a consolation title at the Fullerton tournament, winning its last two games after a season-opening loss to Saddleback Saddleback see Wessex saddleback. of Mission Viejo, the state's top-ranked team. The Saddleback loss dropped the Marauders from ninth to tied for 19th in the state coaches' poll and from fifth to a tie for ninth in Southern California. AVC was led by all-tournament selection Wendell White, a sophomore forward. ``I thought we played really hard and we played together but sometimes didn't play with a lot of intelligence,'' coach Newton Chelette said. ``That's something we can correct with time, but we have a lot of freshmen and we have a lot of sophomores who didn't play that much last year, so it's going to take time.'' The Marauders (2-1) open the three-day Oxnard tournament against L.A. Harbor (3-2) on Friday at 1 p.m. --All-AVC team? Despite a third-place Foothill Conference finish, the Marauders were well-represented on the all-conference women's volleyball team. Sophomore middle blocker Sarah San Nicolas (Desert), sophomore outside hitter Cora Peeler (Desert) and freshman setter Tiffany Bull (Littlerock) were first-team selections. Freshman middle blocker TaMesha Jefferson (Lancaster) and freshman outside hitter Jennie Nua (Palmdale) made the second team. Jayne Cwayna was named Coach of the Year for the third time in her AVC coaching career. --First team Sophomore defensive back Richard Newton (Littlerock) and sophomore tight end DeAndre Day (Rosamond) were first-team all-conference selections. --State meet Sophomore Jose Burrola placed 58th (21 minutes, 34 seconds) at last week's state meet in Fresno as AVC's lone representative. Gideon Rubin (818)713-3607 gideon.rubin(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Sheena Crenshaw, left, and Mariqueta Starling were two of the main reasons why the Antelope Valley College women's basketball team won the Glendale Tournament. The Marauders are 6-0 and have won two early-season tournament titles. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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