COC BEAT: REALITY SETS IN AT TOURNEY AS SOFTBALL TEAM GOES 1-3.Byline: Scott Magoloff Daily News Staff Writer Confidence was dashed and high hopes were slashed last weekend as the College of the Canyons' softball team had a disastrous Cypress Tournament, its first competition of the season. Despite having only two sophomores, coach Ray Whitten said he has the talent to challenge for a Western State Conference championship. But 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. players and coaches learned a lot about their team, which went 1-3 in the tournament. ``One of my assistants said to me during the game on Sunday, `I don't understand; we're the ones The follow-up of ABC's Still the One slogan from 1977 was We're the One (In a Million). It was also the premiere slogan for the United Kingdom's Sky Television (now British Sky Broadcasting) in 1989. with the talent and we're losing,' '' Whitten said. ``That kind of sums up our whole weekend. We just couldn't put it together.'' Pitching, considered a team strength, was a disappointment. And the offense matched it. 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. was out-hit 36-21 and outscored 18-8. And the hits allowed increased throughout the tournament, as the opposition had seven, eight, 10 and 11 hits, respectively, in the four games. Canyons' opposition batted .383 while the Cougars had a .247 team batting average batting average n. Baseball A measure of a batter's performance obtained by dividing the total of base hits by the number of times at bat, not including walks. Noun 1. . ``Each pitcher that pitched showed good ability,'' Whitten said. ``We just haven't played together. Things didn't roll our way. I have all the confidence in the world in our pitchers. By the time league starts any kinks will definitely be worked out.'' Showing few kinks was second baseman second baseman n. Baseball The infielder who is positioned near and to the first-base side of second base. Noun 1. second baseman - (baseball) the person who plays second base second sacker Valerie Reyes, one of the bright spots for COC See chip on chip. , going 4 for 9 in the tournament. And shortstop Chantal Pershing had a two-run homer in COC's 5-3 victory against Golden West. Approaching the finish line: Saturday's 82-71 loss to Bakersfield put the pressure on COC's 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 to win the rest of its games if it hopes to steal a conference title. Wins are never easy to come by, but they are even more difficult to obtain when a team's best player is added to a list of injured players. It happened against Bakersfield when leading scorer and rebounder Kameelah Purdom sprained an ankle. Purdom missed Monday's 78-62 win over Pierce, but coach Greg Herrick is hopeful she will return by tonight's game against Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. . He also said, depending on her condition today, that he might just rest her and save her for the playoffs. ``Coming off the loss on Saturday, we had to pick it up,'' guard Tasha Allen said. ``And losing Kameelah, it was hard.'' Allen, who was named Western State Conference Player of the Week last week, had 25 points and seven assists on Monday, almost single-handedly making up for Purdom's absence. Allen had 29 points in the loss to Bakersfield. And all this has come with a knee injury, which coach Greg Herrick said is thought to be a torn cartilage. Almost: COC's Becca Voigt was one steal shy of a triple-double against Pierce. She had 20 points, 10 rebounds and nine steals. |
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