COC NOTEBOOK: COC WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM NOT SURPRISED WITH TOUGH DRAW.Byline: Gideon Rubin Staff Writer VALENCIA - Don't blame the seeding committee. At least that's the opinion of 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. 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. coach Greg Herrick, who said although he's not thrilled about being seeded seventh in the California Community College State Championship tournament - the Cougars are in a bracket In programming, brackets (the [ and ] characters) are used to enclose numbers and subscripts. For example, in the C statement int menustart [4] = ; the [4] indicates the number of elements in the array, and the contents are enclosed in curly braces. that includes second-seeded Ventura, the three-time defending state champion - his team has nobody to blame but itself. It could've been worse. Canyons (24-6) will host No. 26 Golden West (11-17) on Saturday night. If the Cougars advance past the first round, they'd host the winner of Saturday's game between No. 10 Fullerton (21-10) and No. 23 Southwestern (14-14) in the second round Wednesday. It could've been a lot better, though. Canyons would have likely been seeded no worse than fifth if it held on to a four-point lead in the final minute of an eventual loss to Valley last Saturday that cost the Cougars a share of the Western State Conference title. A fifth seed would have meant it would've been two home games away from a rematch REMATCH Cardiology Clinical trials–Randomized Evaluation of Mechanical Assistance Therapy as an alternative in Congestive Heart failure–related to use of a portable, electric left ventricular-assist system–LVAS–eg, HeartMate® with Valley - albeit on the road - in the regional finals. That would probably have been the Cougars' easiest road to the state championships, which will be held at the University of San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. from March 13-16. ``I would have liked another shot at L.A. Valley,'' Herrick said. ``I think we showed that we can beat them, but as far as the seeding goes, you make your own bed and that's why we're where we're at.'' --A second chance: Last season, the Cougars got a measure of vindication VINDICATION, civil law. The claim made to property by the owner of it. 1 Bell's Com. 281, 5th ed. See Revendication. after a second-place finish Noun 1. second-place finish - a finish in second place (as in a race) runner-up finish finish - designated event that concludes a contest (especially a race); "excitement grew as the finish neared"; "my horse was several lengths behind at the finish"; "the in conference by reaching the regional finals. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. sophomore center Julianna Diaz, just like last season, Canyons is viewing the playoffs as a second chance. ``We want to prove to everybody that we're capable of beating good teams and the playoffs are definitely a way to show it,'' she said. ``It's something that's on all of our minds.'' Although it might be tempting to look ahead, Diaz said the team's focus now is exclusively on Golden West. ``It's Saturday now, and if we do win on Saturday then we'll look to the next game,'' she said. ``Knowing that every game could be our last is definitely an incentive to play that much harder.'' --Very doubtful: Freshman forward Grace Coronado, who has been sidelined for more than a month with a knee injury, hasn't recovered from a setback setback In architecture, a steplike recession in the profile of a high-rise building. Usually dictated by building codes to allow sunlight to reach streets and lower floors, the building must take another step back from the street for every specified added height interval. she had in practice more than two weeks ago. She's ``very doubtful'' for Saturday night's game, according to Herrick. --Difficult road: Despite a strong finish - the men's basketball team won four of its past six conference games - the Cougars (10-19) are seeded 27th in the state tournament and will open on the road Saturday night against No. 6 Oxnard. If Canyons survives the first round, it would play on the road against the winner of Saturday's game between No. 11 Cerritos (21-11) and No. 22 San Diego Mesa (17-13) on Wednesday night. The top-seeded team in Canyons' bracket is No. 3 Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley (28-6). CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Canyons' Sarah McIntosh and the rest of the Cougars are seeded seventh in the state tournament and will host Golden West in a first-round game Saturday. Charlotte Schmid-Maybach/Staff Photographer |
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