COC NOTEPAD: WINNING'S A KICK, BUT RIDE IS A BEAUT.Byline: Kirby Lee Special to the Daily News It's been a long haul Long distance. Long haul implies traversing a state or a country. Contrast with short haul. for College of the Canyons' first-year women's soccer coach Phil Marcellin. Marcellin, who previously coached at Bakersfield College BC was founded in 1913 and initially housed on the campus of Bakersfield High School (then Kern County Union High School) before moving in 1956 to its current location "on the hill" in northeast Bakersfield. , commutes 150 miles a day from Kern County to Canyons along with his wife Michelle, an instructional lab aide in the chemistry department. It was an emotional day last week when Canyons defeated Bakersfield 2-0 in the first meeting between the schools in a home match last week. The Cougars followed it up with a 0-0 tie against Glendale to improve to 6-7-1 and 2-4-1 in Western State Conference play. ``It felt good to win, but I felt bad for the players I left behind,'' said Marcellin, who came to Canyons for the opportunity of a fulltime teaching position. It promises to be a very exhausting day for Marcellin, win or lose, when Canyon faces Bakersfield on the road later this month. Marcellin, who is awaiting completion of a home in the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. , will be forced to make the round trip from Bakersfield to Canyons twice. ``There have been a lot of early-morning commutes to school and late evening drives home but it has not been bad,'' Marcellin said. The Cougars, who play 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. at home Friday and are sixth in the WSC WSC Winter Symposium on Chemometrics WSC Winter Simulation Conference WSC Wayne State College WSC Westfield State College (Westfield, MA) WSC Western State College (Colorado) standings, have had their share of misfortune. Adriana Contreras has been out with a concussion for the last two weeks after receiving a knee to head. Brandee Whitney suffered a severely sprained ankle A sprained ankle, also known as a ankle sprain, ankle injury or ankle ligament injury, is a common medical condition where one or more of the ligaments of the ankle is torn or partially torn. ankle against Bakersfield. Goalkeeper Tealena Baltad, sweeper Tracy Passafiume and defender Dusty DeGeorge have turned up the defensive pressure in their absence, holding both Bakersfield and Glendale scoreless in the last two matches. Forward Cristie Burnett and Christa Sanchez lead the Cougars in scoring with five goals each. Cross country: Canyons will compete in the second of three WSC meets Friday at Bakersfield. The Canyons women are coming off a 10th-place finish in the Golden West Invitational The Golden West Invitational (GWI) high school track & field all-star meet brings together top high school athletes from throughout the country and provides them with the very highest levels of competition. two weeks ago, paced by a 17th-place finish by Nancy Moulton. Men's basketball: The football team's gains has been the basketball team's losses. Mike Ascensio who played on the basketball team last season has decided to concentrate on football. The basketball team also is banking on the addition of Jason Taylor Jason Taylor may refer to:
Center Mike Motherspaw, forward Sam Harris and guard/forward Dirk Baker are returning starters. Guard Charles Madison and Ron Slater are also back for Canyons, which began workouts this week. Woodley Polynice, a starting guard at Canyons for the last two seasons and younger brother of Olden Polynice of the Sacramento Kings, will play at the University of La Verne The University of La Verne is a private university in La Verne, California (about 35 miles east of Los Angeles) with a main campus, seven satellite campuses throughout central and southern California, a law school, and two military regional campuses at Point Mugu Naval Air Station . Baseball: Sophomore left-hander Jeremy Shields retired all five batters he faced in a junior college all-star game The Chicago Charities College All-Star Game was a preseason American football game played annually (except in 1974) from 1934 to 1976 between the National Football League champions and a team of star college seniors from the previous year. at Loyola Marymount. As a freshman at Canyons last season, the Hart High graduate was 8-1 and earned All-WSC first team honors. Shields will be one of four returning all conference players for Canyons along with honorable mention selections Cory Briggs (second base), Sergio Franco (outfield) and Chris Coash (first base). The team has about 45 players participating in winter workouts. Freshmen Anthony Trejo (Crespi), J.J. Rosati and Sean Zortman (Palmdale), Travis Richardson (Hart), Steve Lombardi (Canyon) and Matt Lane (Saugus) have made impressive showings, according to coach Len Mohney. |
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