AVC NOTEBOOK: AVC VOLLEYBALL SETTING THE TONE.Byline: Chris Cocoles Daily News 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. volleyball team is learning quickly. Amy Glennan is the lone returning player at coach Jane Cwayna's disposal, and considering her limited role in 1997, it's difficult to label the sophomore a veteran. Toss in seven freshmen, and any kind of early Marauders success would be considered gravy. Still, as they host Cypress in a 5 p.m. match tonight, take a gander Gander, town (1991 pop. 10,339), NE Newfoundland, N.L., Canada. Gander's airport, an important base in World War II, is a hub for international flights; it also attracts many refugees. It was the site of a Dec. at the Marauders' progress report through a little less than one month: 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 has captured three of its four dual matches and beat four consecutive opponents at last weekend's Cypress tournament before falling in the championship quarterfinals to Yuba College Yuba College is the main campus for the Yuba Community College District in Marysville, California, USA. External links
``It's nice to get some in the win column. We haven't started well the past couple years,'' said Cwayna, in her 18th season as AVC's head coach. About the only negative for AVC thus far was the loss to Yuba on Saturday. In a one-game elimination match, the Marauders fell 15-6 after they scored a 15-10, 15-3 victory over the same opponent. ``We couldn't pass, didn't block well and I think we were a little tired,'' Cwayna said. ``We haven't been able to be in the gym (to practice) as much as we've wanted to. It was a long day (Saturday), and we have to be in better shape.'' Following tonight's match, the Marauders get a week off to recover from the tournament. Size matters: Cwayna hasn't produced this kind of height and/or hitting power in some time. Jennifer Keating, who 5-foot-11 freshman who starred at Palmdale High last fall, and 6-foot-1 AVC basketball standout Ebony Davis could pose matchup problems for opposing front rows. Keating leads the team with 48 kills and Davis has recorded 13 blocks in AVC's four dual matches. ``Jennifer has done a great job for us,'' Cwayna said. ``Ebony can be as good as she wants to be.'' Glennan has been the top digger with 43 and Cwayna praised the early work of setter Denise Cabrido. The Mojave High product has dished dished adj. 1. Concave. 2. Slanting toward one another at the bottom. Used of a pair of wheels. Adj. 1. dished - shaped like a dish or pan dish-shaped, patelliform concave - curving inward out 106 of AVC's 110 total assists. Cross country: There are worse places to run around than San Francisco's Golden Gate Park This article is about the park in San Francisco. For the US National Recreation Area just north of there, see Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Golden Gate Park, located in San Francisco, California, is a large urban park. At 1017 acres (4.1 km², 1. . That's where the Marauders will compete next in the Golden Gate Park Invitational on Friday. The AVC men shouldn't need much motivation based on their previous performance. At the MiraCosta event in Oceanside on Sept. 18, the Marauders' chances of winning took a detour, literally. Sophomore Mike Barkhuff was running strong with the leaders at the 2-mile mark when a race official steered him off the course. Barkhuff got back on track but finished 10th. Barkhuff, Aaron Williams This article is about the American basketball player. For the American cartoonist, see Aaron Williams (comics creator). For the boxer see, see Aaron Williams (boxer). (12th at MiraCosta) and Geoff Thurber (13th) have been the Marauders' top runners to date. Diana Russo and Tina Villanueva were AVC's top women's runners at MiraCosta. Men's basketball: It probably won't make coach Newton Chelette any happier, but for the record add another win to AVC's 1997-98 season. Rio Hondo College Rio Hondo College is a community college located in unincorporated Whittier, California. It was founded in 1960 and mainly serves the cities of Whittier, Pico Rivera, Santa Fe Springs, El Monte, and South El Monte. sent a fax Monday stating it would have to forfeit all its victories from last season for using an ineligible student-athlete. The player in question was Melvin Farmer, whose transcript from Compton College was allegedly invalid. Rio Hondo Rio Hondo may refer to:
Hot shots: 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 is hosting the sixth annual Hot Shots youth basketball program. Open to boys and girls boys and girls mercurialisannua. aged 6-14, the camp runs for three consecutive Saturdays beginning Oct. 24. Cost is $60 and includes a T-shirt. Information: women's basketball coach Jackie Lott at 722-6447. Big Macs for little ones: Local McDonald's restaurants continue their support of AVC athletics with the McDonald's Junior Marauders club. Any child enrolled in the eighth grade or lower can join at a cost of $5. Membership includes free admission to all regular-season AVC home football and basketball games and free Marauders apparel given away at select games. Information: 726-6445. |
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