COLLEGE SCENE.Byline: - Lee Barnathan and Chris Cocoles UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX The 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 finishes the regular season this weekend at home against Cal and Stanford. The possibility exists that when the Pacific-10 Conference The Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) is a college athletic conference which operates in the western United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I. Membership Full members tournament begins March 1 at Oregon, the Bruins will draw Cal. The 10th-ranked gymnastics team showed depth in winning the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). Invitational in Berkeley. The Bruins competed without All-Americans Onnie Willis and Kristin Parker, who sat out due to ankle injuries, but other athletes had career-best scores. The Bruins will host Oregon State on Saturday at 7 p.m. USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. The women's basketball team finishes the regular season at home this weekend against No. 2 Stanford and Cal. If the season were to end today, USC would finish fourth in the Pacific-10 Conference at 10-6 (13-11 overall). This is significant because coach Chris Gobrecht believes the top four teams (or at least the four semifinalists in the upcoming conference tournament) should qualify for the NCAA Tournament NCAA Tournament can mean: Men's Sports
At 5-11 overall, the men's volleyball team is off to its slowest start in history. The 2-8 conference start is its slowest since the 1998 team began 1-8. By beating UC 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. on Tuesday, USC ended an eight-match losing streak (all Mountain Pacific Sports Federation The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation is a college athletic conference whose member teams are located in the western United States. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I. matches), which was its longest since a nine-match skid over the 1971 and 1972 seasons (the league streak is a school record). CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge The women's basketball team needs one victory in its final three games to qualify for the Big West Conference tournament, and the most likely chance will be Sunday at home against Cal State Fullerton. The Titans' 64-55 victory over CSUN on Jan. 24 is their only conference win so far. Beating the Matadors again would give Fullerton the tiebreak tie·break n. See tiebreaker. for the final tournament berth. Is there a hotter hitter in college baseball than Cal State Northridge second baseman Shaun Larkin? Maybe not, considering the Texas Tech transfer already has earned Louisville Slugger national player of the week honors and the Big West Conference's player of the week award twice. Larkin is batting .538 with nine homers and 21 RBI RBI abbr. Baseball runs batted in Noun 1. rbi - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season" run batted in in 39 at-bats. He's just as patient as he is devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. at the plate, with 19 walks. LOYOLA MARYMOUNT Basketball player Kate Murray has been named to the conference all-academic team. Murray, a junior, is 53 points shy of 1,000 for her career. With two regular-season games and at least one West Coast Conference tournament game left, she will have to average 17.7 points in those three games to reach that mark this season. Murray is averaging 13.5 points per game. Also, senior guard Rosa Bernasconi needs 45 points to reach 1,000 for her career. She needs to average 15 in the next three games to guarantee 1,000. She averages six points a game. PEPPERDINE The men's volleyball team is ranked No. 1 nationally in this week's polls. How well they play on the road will determine how long it remains at the top. The Waves play five consecutive road matches, which began Thursday at Pacific. They're 5-2 on the road this year. They finish the regular season with seven of nine matches at home. ... Going into Thursday's game at San Diego and a Saturday game at Santa Clara, the women's basketball team (19-6, 10-2) needed one victory to win the West Coast Conference title and earn the top seed in the WCC WCC n abbr (= World Council of Churches) → COE m (Conseil œcuménique des Églises) WCC n abbr (= World Council of Churches) → Weltkirchenrat m tournament. A victory also would give the Waves a fifth consecutive 20-win season. JUNIOR COLLEGE UPDATE Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. The women's basketball team plays host to Victor Valley at 8 p.m. tonight in the Foothill Conference Tournament. Antelope Valley has a third seed after losing to Rio Hondo in the final game of conference play. The tournament winner receives the conference's second automatic berth into the state regional playoffs. Conference champion Rio Hondo already holds the first spot. Victor Valley (3-25) should be an easy first-round opponent for the 18-12 Marauders. College of the Canyon The women's basketball team, ranked No. 9 in the state, lost 69-65 to top-ranked Ventura on Saturday. The Cougars (22-8, 9-1) lost another big game Wednesday, 73-63 to Valley, that had the Western State Conference South lead on the line. The Cougars defeated the Monarchs, then ranked No. 2 in the state, 74-57 on Jan. 26 to give Valley its only league loss. Glendale College The Vaqueros are happy spring sports are starting because the basketball season was dismal. The men (12-15, 4-5) and women (9-19, 2-8) won't advance to the Western State Conference South playoffs. Baseball began the season 8-3, with three victories coming from starting pitcher Ivan Lopez. The softball team played 11 games in one week and is 10-3. Moorpark College The Raiders opened the track season last Thursday at West L.A., where the men swept four conference opponents and the women went 3-1. The men dominated with 135 points, 90 ahead of second-place Ventura. The women finished second to West L.A., which scored 78 points to Moorpark's 45. ... The women's basketball team beat up on Pierce 104-36 to improve to 22-9, 8-2 on the season. Pierce dropped to 1-24, 0-10. Pierce College Three former Brahmas football players signed letters of intent with four- year schools. Defensive linemen Jose Escamilla and Joe Mailangi signed with Charleston Southern in South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. . They were All-WSC in 2000 but sat out last season. Juan Cuellar, also a defensive lineman who played for Pierce in 2001, signed with Dickinson State in North Dakota. Valley College Neverson White and Midwin Francis were named co-players of the week for men's basketball in the Western State Conference South. White scored 27 points, including 5 of 5 on 3-pointers, and added 12 rebounds, seven assists and five steals in two victories. Francis, a 6-foot-6 freshman from Mission Hills, had 26 points and 17 rebounds as Valley (26-5, 11-0) beat Santa Monica 62-60 and Bakersfield 71-68. |
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