CANYONS WINS AT BUZZER TO CLAIM TOURNAMENT TITLE : CANYONS 79, A.V. 77.Byline: Chris Cocoles Daily News Staff Writer The play wasn't exactly scripted for him, but College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. guard Rahsard Walker wasn't just the guy who got the ball down the floor in a hurry. Walker answered John Burrell's game-tying 3-pointer with 6 seconds left to dribble the length of the floor and sink a jumper at the buzzer for a 79-77 win over Antelope Valley on Monday in the final of the Cougar cougar: see puma. cougar or puma or mountain lion or panther Species (Puma concolor) of large, graceful cat that lives in a wide variety of habitats in the Americas, from southern Alaska to Patagonia. Holiday Classic. Canyons (6-8) won its tournament for the first time since 1991 and snapped the Marauders' three-year tournament winning streak. Walker, a freshman from 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.] High, is primarily a ballhandler, though he did make five of his first seven field goal attempts. ``My job was to penetrate and pass. I knew I could beat the whole (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 ) team down the floor because they had their backs to me,'' said Walker, who stopped just to the right of the foul line and let fly with an attempt that swished through the net. ``A weird feeling rushed through my body as I shot it. I guess you can say I had it.'' ``We had to get it down the floor quickly,'' said Canyons coach Lee Smelser. ``I thought about calling the timeout but (Walker) wasn't looking at me.'' Burrell, who finally appeared after a quiet first 35 minutes, tossed in a fadeaway fade·a·way n. 1. The act or an instance of gradually diminishing in brightness, loudness, or strength until actual disappearance occurs. 2. Baseball a. A screwball. b. jumper from the deep-right corner that brought the Marauders all the way back from what had been a nine-point deficit as late as the 2:30 mark. Burrell, the Marauders' leading scorer on the season, had 17 points but was just 5 of 12 from the field. Trevor Beal led AVC with 18. 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. Bryan Finley paced the Cougars with 25 and Woodley Polynice added 18. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion