AVC COMING TOGETHER; AFTER ROUGH START, MARAUDERS JELL.Byline: Art Avila Staff Writer 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. men's basketball team went into last weekend's Oxnard tournament looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. its first win. It not only won twice against tough teams, but more importantly may have found its winning ways. After starting the season with four consecutive losses, including two at home, the Marauders defeated L.A. Southwest and Oxnard. Coach Newton Chelette said the team's youth and inexperience in playing together hurt them early on. ``The biggest thing is our inexperience, understanding the rules. We work on that by playing games,'' Chelette said before the tournament. The Marauders (2-5) may have overcome early growing pains grow·ing pains pl.n. Pains in the limbs and joints of children or adolescents, frequently occurring at night and often attributed to rapid growth but arising from various unrelated causes. to come together as a team. ``We played extremely well,'' Chelette said. ``We played as a team.'' The team lost in its season-opening tournament and two at home before defeating L.A. Southwest 94-90. ``We knew it was going to happen,'' Chelette said about the team finding its first win. ``They expect to win all the time. ``Everybody's starting to learn their roles. It was more of a team effort. I'd much rather have a team playing than an individual.'' Freshman Jimmy White leads the team in scoring, averaging 17 points a game. In his first game as a Marauder MARAUDER. One who, while employed in the army as a soldier, commits a larceny or robbery in the neighborhood of the camp, or while wandering away from the army. Merl. Repert. h.t. , he scored 32 points against Grossmont. He also leads the team in rebounds with 44. In the Oxnard tournament, freshman Michael Callaway led the team in scoring in all three games, getting 32 points against Oxnard. In his first three games of the season, he is averaging 23 points. As a team, the Marauders are averaging 75 points a game and allowing opponents 81. The team's biggest loss came at home against College of the Sequoias
``We're behind where we want to be,'' Chelette said, ``But we'll get there.'' Home-court advantage: The Marauders host the McDonald's Tournament this weekend, starting with a game against L.A. Trade Tech on Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Marauder Gym. The tournament features some of the toughest teams in the region with Riverside, Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. , Canyons and Mt. San Jacinto San Jacinto, river, c.130 mi (210 km) long, rising in SE Texas as the West Fork and flowing S to Galveston Bay. Its chief tributary is Buffalo Bayou, and both the bayou and the lower river are used for the Houston ship channel. competing. ``Coming in, Riverside is going to be one of the favorites,'' Chelette said. ``They're all good teams. Every team was in the playoffs last year.'' 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 is in a bracket with Mira Costa and Canyons, which play Thursday at 5 p.m. Chelette has been mixing up his starting five at the start of the year and does not have a set lineup going into the weekend's competition. ``I'm still experimenting, putting different people together,'' he said. ``I'll never settle on five starters for every game. There's good competition and good players.'' Bowl time: AVC's season is over, but Marauder Stadium will be hosting one more football game this weekend. The third annual McDonald's Community College Bowl will feature Southwestern College Southwestern College is the name of several colleges in the United States:
Southwestern (8-2, 6-2 in Foothill Conference) finished tied for second behind conference champions Mt. San Jacinto. Southwestern did not play at Marauder Stadium this year but defeated AVC 20-17 on Oct. 16. For L.A. Southwestern, it will be the team's first trip to Lancaster since 1991, when they faced the Marauders in the 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, Bowl. The Cougars finished this season second in the Western State Conference South. The only other Foothill Conference team they faced this year was Mt. San Jacinto, losing 17-3 in the season opener. Women's hoops: The AVC 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 has gotten off to a similar start to the men, going winless in the season's first tournament. In the Santa Barbara tournament, the Marauders lost to Santa Barbara and Irvine Valley. The women did get wins against Cabrillo College and San Mateo at the Cosumnes Invitational in Sacramento Nov. 20-21. Ebony Sullivan leads the team in scoring with 10.3 points a game and 24 assists. The Marauders' (2-4) first home game will be Dec. 7 against Riverside in the Marauder Gym at 7 p.m. |
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