AVC MAINTAINING ITS GRIP; NEXT STRETCH IS GRUELING, BUT FOOTHILL TITLE IS THE PRIZE.Byline: Chris Cocoles Daily News Staff Writer Until last weekend, Brent Carder hadn't seen such slick fingers and generosity in one of his 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. football teams since a rainy Saturday in 1972. The Marauders played at Hartnell College Hartnell Community College is a 2-year community college in Salinas, California, USA. It was founded in 1920 as Salinas Junior College, and renamed in 1948 for William Edward Petty Hartnell. The mascot is a black panther. on a swamp of a field in Gilroy 25 years ago. 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 lost 30-0, and Carder recalls that his team turned the ball over 13 times. ``We played that game on a Saturday night and they had just played four high school games there. Hartnell knew how to play on a field like that and we were just a bunch of guys A Bunch of Guys (BOGs), or Group of Guys (GOGs) are terms used by counter-terrorism officials to refer to small, self-organizing terrorist cells.[1] BOGs typically have little to no contact with global terrorist groups like al Qaeda, so they independently plan and from the desert,'' said Carder, whose Marauders host Chaffey tonight at 7. The field at Citrus College wasn't such a quagmire last Saturday, but AVC still had trouble holding onto the football, fumbling eight times and losing possession on five of them. The difference was, the Marauders still found a way to win, getting touchdown runs from Lafayatte Bailey (twice) and Kenyatta Dawson and another spirited effort on defense to beat the Owls 21-14 and remain in the middle of the Foothill Conference title race. ``It's not easy to win when you fumble eight teams and get a punt blocked,'' AVC assistant head coach/offensive coordinator Frank Blua said. ``It's a tribute to our defense and our ability to overcome all that and still win the game.'' The Marauders haven't been all that pretty this season - just effective. At 3-1 in conference play (4-2 overall), AVC controls its destiny; it can at least share the Foothill title if it runs the table. ``I think the good thing about this team is that we've found ways to win and overcome some adversity,'' Carder said. ``We'll continue to improve as the season progresses.'' Chaffey (2-2, 3-3), unlike the Marauders, has come up short in several close games but still poses a threat as AVC begins what has loomed as a three-week death march against last year's conference tri-champions (Chaffey, Grossmont and San Bernardino Valley The San Bernardino Valley is the hub of Southern California's Inland Empire. It is drained by the Santa Ana River. It is bordered on the north by the San Bernardino Mountains and the eastern San Gabriel Mountains, on the east by the San Jacinto Mountains, and on the south and west ). ``This Chaffey team is so close to being 4-0 (in the conference),'' Carder said. The Panthers lost on a Southwestern touchdown on the game's final play and then dropped a 41-34 overtime decision to Mt. San Jacinto a week later. ``This team is still one of the defending tri-champions from a year ago,'' Carder said. ``It's a game we have to win and they probably feel the same way.'' Notes: The Marauders won't have the services of wide receiver Ty Gifford because of a dislocated dis·lo·cate tr.v. dis·lo·cat·ed, dis·lo·cat·ing, dis·lo·cates 1. To put out of usual or proper place, position, or relationship. 2. right shoulder suffered in a freak accident during a practice blocking drill. . . . Offensive lineman Jim Coffer coffer In architecture, a square or polygonal ornamental sunken panel used in a series as decoration for a ceiling or vault. Coffers were probably originally formed by wooden beams crossing one another to produce a grid. is done for the year after the sophomore broke his collarbone col·lar·bone n. See clavicle. at Citrus. . . . If his team can conquer the Chaffey, Grossmont and San Bernardino triplex triplex /tri·plex/ (tri´pleks) triple or threefold. triplex triple or threefold. - a tall order - it could leave just Victor Valley, a team AVC has never lost to in 11 tries, standing in the way of a conference title in the final game of the regular season. ``What we'd like to see is to set us up for the Victor Valley game for the conference championship,'' Carder said. CAPTION(S): Photo: The ball-carrying of Lafayatte Bailey, right, has been a keyto Antelope Valley College's success this year. Jeff Goldwater / Daily News |
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