COACHES: BASKETBALL TEAMS STRONG.Byline: HEATHER GRIPP The Master's College History The Master's College was founded as Los Angeles Baptist Theological Seminary on May 25, 1927 to meet the need for a fundamental Baptist school on the West Coast. The Master's College has good reason to be looking forward to the start of basketball season next month. Both the men's and women's teams are preseason picks by the conference coaches to finish among the top three in Golden State Athletic Conference The Golden State Athletic Conference is a college athletics conference in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). The conference commissioner is Dr. Cliff Hamlow of Azusa Pacific University. Conference leadership is shared among the member institutions. . The coaches voted The Master's women to finish second behind defending champion defending champion n (SPORT) → defensor/a m/f del título defending champion n (Sport) → champion(ne) en titre Vanguard Vanguard Any of three unmanned U.S. experimental satellites. Vanguard I (1958), the second U.S. satellite placed in orbit around Earth (after Explorer 1), was a tiny 3.25-lb (1.47-kg) sphere with two radio transmitters. and the men to take third behind defending champion Azusa Pacific and NAIA NAIA abbr. National Association of Intercollegiate Athletes finalist Concordia. The high preseason status shows a lot of respect in a conference that sent five women's teams to the NAIA tournament last season and has had a representative in the men's final the past two seasons. The Mustangs' women's team went 20-13 and 11-9 in GSAC GSAC Golden State Athletic Conference GSAC Governance Structural Adjustment Credit (World Bank) GSAC Greater San Antonio Chapter (of the National Contract Management Association) play last season. The men were 22-11 and 12-8. --What happened? The women's soccer team has gone from the best start in program history to enduring a 1-3 skid that has dropped the Mustangs to 6-4-1 and just 1-3 in conference. The once-productive offense has managed only two goals in the past four games. The Master's was shut out twice last week, including a 5-0 loss to sub- .500 Concordia on Saturday, a game in which the Mustangs were outshot 18-4. Things don't get any easier this week. The Master's plays host to defending NAIA champion Westmont on Wednesday before playing at undefeated Biola on Saturday. --Back to .500: The men's soccer team evened its GSAC record at 2-2 by defeating Concordia 2-1 on Saturday. The Mustangs, 7-5 overall, play host to Westmont at 3 p.m. today. --Big test: The women's volleyball volleyball, outdoor or indoor ball and net game played on a level court. An upright net, 3 ft (or 1 m) high, the top of which stands 8 ft (2.43 m) from the ground for men, 7 ft 4 1/8 in (2. team faces its biggest challenge of the season tonight when the Mustangs play at top-ranked and defending national champion Fresno Pacific. The Master's took Fresno Pacific to five games last season. If they could go a step further this year and pull off the upset, the Mustangs would be the first team this season to beat Fresno Pacific (20-0, 10-0). The Master's (10-9, 5-6) is in seventh place in the GSAC, but is coming off a 2-1 week that moved the Mustangs within a half game of Azusa Pacific, a team The Master's defeated in four games Saturday. --Getting stronger: The cross country teams head into next week's GSAC Championships with the brightest outlook they've had all season. Racing at the same site as the conference championships, the Mustangs produced respectable finishes on both the men's and women's side at Saturday's Vanguard Invitational in·vi·ta·tion·al adj. Restricted to invited participants: an invitational golf tournament. n. An event, especially a sports tournament, restricted to invited participants. Adj. 1. . Melyndee Butterfield (20:47) and Amy Rice (20:55) both placed in the top 30 for a women's team that is envisioning better results when it overcomes its recent bout with the flu bug. The men's team, which has been plagued by injuries all season, had five runner available for the first time this season and finished in sixth place, led by Tim Smith Tim Smith is a common name. Notable people with the name Tim Smith include:
Heather Gripp, (818) 713-3607 heather.gripp(at)dailynews.com |
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