CLU NOTES: HOOP IS ELUSIVE TARGET FOR CAL LUTHERAN MEN.Byline: Patrick Hipes Daily News Staff Writer That clang one might hear ringing daily from the Cal Lutheran gym is not some plumber fixing a leaky pipe, nor a custodian pounding out the dent in that tricky door. No, that would be the Cal Lutheran men's basketball team, which is going through a shooting slump since upsetting NAIA NAIA abbr. National Association of Intercollegiate Athletes power Westmont 71-70 on Dec. 6. ``You can run all the plays you want, and we're executing on offense and getting the shots we want,'' Kingsmen coach Rich Rider said. ``But if you can't make the shots . . .'' The Kingsmen (4-6) are shooting 41 percent from the floor on the season and 66 percent from the foul line foul line n. 1. Baseball Either of two straight lines extending from the rear of home plate to the outer edge of the playing field and indicating the area in which a fair ball can be hit. 2. entering their final preseason game Saturday at NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II Cal State Dominguez Hills. ``We're working on it a lot in practice,'' Rider said. ``When things aren't going well, you just work harder. I don't think you can rush it.'' 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. might have to. After Dominguez Hills, the Kingsmen open the 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. season Jan. 14 at Pomona-Pitzer, the three-time defending conference champion. arrow A first time for everything: Cal Lutheran's 72-69 loss to Carthage (Wis.) in the championship game of the Lutheran Brotherhood Classic on Dec. 29 was the first loss for the Kingsmen in the four-year history of their own tourney. It was CLU's fourth loss of the season by five points or fewer. arrow One down, two to go: The Cal Lutheran 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 ended its 17-day break from games with a 76-63 loss to host Chico State on Monday. It was the first of three road games in three nights for the Regals (2-6), who have lost three games in a row. After Tuesday's game at Simpson College
Simpson College is a four-year, coeducational liberal arts institution situated in Indianola, Iowa, USA, and affiliated with the , Cal Lutheran plays at UC Santa Cruz on Wednesday. CLU beat the Banana Slugs (2-5) 88-42 last season. Junior enter Missy Rider, entering the Chico game averaging a team-high 12.7 points and 5.4 rebounds, scored a game-high 19 points and grabbed 12 boards. The Regals trailed 32-31 at halftime. arrow More Chico: Monday's game was a homecoming of sorts for senior forward Brandie Murrish, who attended Chico High and Butte Butte, city, United States Butte (by  t), city (1990 pop. 33,336), seat of Silver Bow co., SW Mont.; inc. 1879. It is a trade, ranching, and industrial center. Community College in nearby Oroville before transferring to CLU. Murrish, who missed most of the team's early practices after breaking her leg, scored 10 points and added six assists. arrow Hoop, etc.: Despite the struggles in the win column, the Regals are hitting 73.2 percent of their free throws. . . .Four of the six Kingsmen losses this season have been at home. CLU hadn't lost back-to-back home games since 1990-91. |
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