AVC NOTEBOOK: SOFTBALL TEAM TURNS IT AROUND.Byline: Sean Ceglinsky 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. softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' team had every reason to be disappointed after opening the season 4-21. ``We were all shocked. We were pulling our hair out,'' 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 coach Becky MacQuarrie said. But the Marauders, the defending Foothill Conference champions, are back to their winning ways. AVC (11-23, 5-2) had won seven in a row before a conference game Wednesday at Cerro Coso. ``I've got to be honest, it was tough to get out of that losing mode,'' MacQuarrie said. Inconsistent pitching, struggling defense and little chemistry among the freshman-dominated team contributed to AVC losing 14 of 15. ``Some of the stuff was mental so we went back to the basics, back to the drawing board,'' MacQuarrie said. ``We worked on the fundamentals and the kids needed that. We broke things down and worked on specific areas. It took us awhile, but things are going better now.'' AVC continues conference play Friday with a 3:15 p.m. game against visiting 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. . --Turnaround in order: Consistently inconsistent best describes the baseball team this season. The Marauders (7-11-1, 6-9) opened Foothill Conference play 2-0 but then lost seven consecutive games, including a two-game series against visiting 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 , in which the pitching staff allowed 34 runs. The Marauders begin a nine-day stretch in which they'll play five conference games, beginning with Thursday's game at Barstow at 2:30 p.m. --Keeping up with the Joneses: Several Division II 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. programs have expressed interest in Kristel Jones, who was first team all-state. AVC coach John Taylor John Taylor, or Johnny Taylor may refer to: Academic figures
``Her work ethic work ethic n. A set of values based on the moral virtues of hard work and diligence. work ethic Noun a belief in the moral value of work is unbelievable. She was a pleasure to coach,'' Taylor said of the 5-foot-8 sophomore, who was was named Foothill Conference Player of the Year after averaging more than 16 points per game, finishing her two-year career as the program's all-time leading scorer (1,052). ``(Colleges) sign the high school kids first and then sign junior college players for immediate needs. All she needs is to bear down on her academics and the athletics will take care of themselves. She'll go somewhere. I'm sure there's schools that would love to have her.'' --It's been awhile: Sid Melvin became the first 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. since 1995 to be named to the all-state team by the California Community College Men's Basketball Association. In two years at AVC, the 6-foot-3 sophomore guard scored 1,083 points, seventh on the all-time list. Melvin also is receiving interest from Cal State Northridge and Northern Colorado, where he hopes to make an official visit in early April. ``Now is the hard part, deciding where I want to go. It's a choice that's going to affect me for a while,'' Melvin said. ``I knew if I put in the work (at AVC) I'd be able to transfer out of here when I was a sophomore. I just want to play, it really doesn't matter where.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: SID MELVIN: First men's basketball player at AVC since 1995 to be named to the all- state team. |
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