CLU (0-3) TRIES TO START OVER; KINGSMEN OPEN SCIAC AGAINST STRUGGLING WHITTIER.Byline: Heather Gripp Staff Writer Three weeks of game experience and a bye week to regroup re·group v. re·grouped, re·group·ing, re·groups v.tr. To arrange in a new grouping. v.intr. 1. To come back together in a tactical formation, as after a dispersal in a retreat. should help. A team with even more youth and deficiencies to overcome can be an equally effective remedy. After an 0-3 start, the Cal Lutheran football team looks to turn its season around when it opens Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference The Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) is a college athletic conference that operates in the NCAA's Division III. It consists of eleven small private schools which are located in Southern California and organized into eight athletic programs. play today against a Whittier team that has gone from conference champions a season ago to one that ranks among the conference's worst in offense and defense. The opponents' woes and its own growth during a tough nonconference schedule have CLU (language) CLU - (CLUster) An object-oriented programming language developed at MIT by Liskov et al in 1974-1975. CLU is an object-oriented language of the Pascal family designed to support data abstraction, similar to Alphard. hoping the 1 p.m. home game is the start of a title drive for the Kingsmen, who tied for the 1997 SCIAC SCIAC SIGINT Correlation Integration & Analysis Capability championship after a slow start. ``We've gotten our focus on SCIAC and flushed flush 1 v. flushed, flush·ing, flush·es v.intr. 1. To turn red, as from fever, embarrassment, or strong emotion; blush. 2. those last three games out,'' wide receiver Josh Salic said. ``That's really all you can do.'' Positives the Kingsmen don't want to forget include Chris Czernek taking over as the starting quarterback and completing 55 of 95 passes for 529 yards, George Keiaho and Dorian Stitt ranking among the conference's top four rushing leaders and Mark Kevern providing the ninth-best Division III
Division III (or DIII) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States. punting average (40.51 yards) in the nation. But there are many things the Kingsmen hope are behind them. Czernek has thrown five interceptions and the young offensive line has struggled to keep him from being sacked. The offense has committed seven fumbles and has not scored a touchdown in the past six quarters. The defense, meanwhile, ranks near the bottom of the SCIAC, giving up an average of 379.7 yards a game. Unlike the nationally ranked team CLU opened the season against or the Division I-AA competition it faced in the second game, the Poets (0-3) have easily exploitable weaknesses of their own. Whittier's ground game has produced just 89 yards this season and opponents have run wild against a defense that has given up 729 rushing yards and allows a combined average of 385 yards a game. Opponents have scored at least 40 points in each of the Poets' first three games, including a 45-0 conference loss to La Verne La Verne (lə vûrn), city (1990 pop. 30,897), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1906. La Verne, which began as a citrus-processing center, now has varied manufacturing, including electronic components, apparel, hand . Youth is among the biggest problems. Quarterback Steve Luce, last year's SCIAC Offensive Player of the Year, was one of several seniors on Whittier's 1998 7-2, 5-0 team. All-conference wide receiver Jeremy Snyder, running back Marcel Marcel the fast ebbing of time impels him to devote his life to recording it. [Fr. Lit.: Proust Remembrance of Things Past] See : Time Desir and six All-SCIAC players on defense are also gone. Sophomore Nick Tomasello replaced Luce and has completed 47 of 115 passes with seven interceptions for 564 yards and four touchdowns. Senior Otis Carmichael (20 receptions, 215 yards, 2 TDs) and sophomore Craig Tortorici are Tomasello's primary targets. A 13-point loss to Menlo is the closest the Poets have come to a win. WHITTIER at CAL LUTHERAN Whittier update: Graduation Graduation is the action of receiving or conferring an academic degree or the associated ceremony. The date of event is often called degree day. The event itself is also called commencement, convocation or invocation. stripped Whittier of several key players from last year's SCIAC-championship team and the Poets are struggling to adjust. Last week's 45-32 loss to Menlo was the closest yet for a team that has been outscored 128-45. Cal Lutheran update: The Kingsmen have lost four straight dating back to last year's season finale For the music notation program, see . A finale (italian word) is a closing part, act or movement of a dramatic or musical composition, or more generally any event or procedure with a dramatically concluding effect. at Redlands and did not score a touchdown in their last game. The defense ranks second to last in the conference, giving up an average of 379.7 yards a game, but freshmen Joe Griffin Joe Griffin was born in Asheville, North Carolina on July 14th, 1981. He co-founded Submitawebsite in 1997, and served as Vice President at iCrossing for 3-years. Joe Griffin oversaw the successful acquisition of Submitawebsite by Website Pros in 2007. and David Oviedo gave encouraging performances in CLU's last game. Each had seven tackles in the 28-3 loss at Whitworth. Oviedo, a linebacker from Moorpark, made five solo tackles, including two for losses. Outlook: After two weeks on the road and a bye, this is CLU's best chance yet for a win. The Kingsmen lead the overall series 10-3 but are just 4-3 in the last seven meetings with the Poets, including a 16-13 loss last year. CAPTION(S): Photo, box PHOTO Running back George Keiaho (25) has been one of Cal Lutheran's few bright spots this season. Evan Yee/Staff Photographer Box: Whittier at Cal Lutheran (see text) |
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