DAILY UPDATE.COLLEGES 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. Not even 27 points from Sydney Melvin could keep the men's basketball team from its first loss, a 93-87 defeat to Long Beach on Tuesday Melvin, a freshman guard from Rosamond High, made eight 3-pointers and made all three of his free throws in his highest-scoring game of the season. Melvin and the Marauders (5-1) face L.A. Harbor on Friday in the first round of the Oxnard Tournament. - Sean Ceglinsky HIGH SCHOOLS 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 Football players don't get the normal Thanksgiving day off to sleep in and watch sports. Antelope Valley will be practicing until early afternoon. ``It takes away from the holiday, but it feels good for me,'' quarterback Johnny Walker said. ``We are going against a high-ranked team (Hart), so we should practice. We need to be ready.'' - Matthew Kredell Highland Diana Georgescu lost 6-4, 6-1 in the first round Saturday of the girls' tennis Southern Section Individuals at Agoura Hills High. Georgescu, a freshman, upset Quartz Hills' senior Jillian Jones in the Golden League tournament to make the Individuals. Jones had beaten her twice in the regular season. - Rich Hammond Rich Hammond Los Angeles Daily News sports writer. Instrumental in bringing the Los Angeles Kings hockey organization closer to the fans. He is the atypical "what a guy" to Kings fans everywhere. Rich Hammond on himself. Lancaster Former Eagles basketball standout Anthony Gamboa is adjusting to the next level. The 6-foot, 155-pound guard is no longer a primary player, but he is working his way up and making contributions for the 5-1 Marauders. Gamboa averages two points a game. - Heather Gripp Littlerock Football standout John Ford, who transferred out before the season, is having a successful senior year at Foothill High in Henderson, Nev. He rushed for 288 yards and five touchdowns last Friday - giving him 11 touchdowns over the last two games - to push his season totals to 1,951 yards and 32 touchdowns. Ford looks to surpass 2,000 yards Saturday against McQueen of Reno in the state semifinals. The 6-foot-2, 220-pounder has committed to UNLV UNLV University of Nevada, Las Vegas . - Gerry Gittelson Palmdale The Falcons need every advantage they can get against Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame , the top-seeded team in Division III
Division III (or DIII) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States. . So Palmdale players and coaches are happy to get the Knights in Palmdale when the teams play Friday at 7:30. ``Being at home always gives you a bit of an advantage,'' coach Jeff Williams For the poker player, see . For the physician, see . For the astronaut, see . Jeff Williams (born June 6, 1972 in Canberra) is an Australian-born, left-handed pitcher for the Hanshin Tigers baseball team. said. ``The weather could be a factor. If it's a cold night, we'll be used to it.'' - Matthew Kredell Paraclete The kicking game could play a big factor in tonight's Paraclete-San Jacinto Southern Section Division XII football playoff game Noun 1. playoff game - one game in the series of games constituting a playoff game - a single play of a sport or other contest; "the game lasted two hours" playoff - any final competition to determine a championship . San Jacinto's Segio Aguayo made field goals of 42 and 50 yards in the Tigers' 20-7 first-round win over Bishop. Aguayo's ability to reach the end zone on his kickoffs and to get plenty of hang time on his punts is a concern for Paraclete, which has three excellent kick and punt returners in Erick Jackson, Curtis Brown
``I hope we get an opportunity,'' Paraclete coach Jeff Cortez said. ``Joe and Erick are our punt returners and it drives us nuts when they don't catch it. Because of they do catch it, they can gain a lot of yards.'' - Chris Cocoles Quartz Hill Former Rebels football standout Brian Woodworth, a senior wide receiver at Cal Lutheran University, repeated his junior year with a first-team All-Southern California Intercollegiate in·ter·col·le·giate adj. Involving or representing two or more colleges. Adj. 1. intercollegiate - used of competition between colleges or universities; "intercollegiate basketball" Athletic Conference An athletic conference is a collection of sports teams, playing competitively against each other at the collegiate or high school level. In many cases conferences are subdivided into smaller and smaller divisions, with the best teams competing at successively higher levels. selection. Woodworth finished the year with 55 receptions for 806 yards and six touchdowns as one of four receivers for record-setting Kingsmen quarterback Chris Czernek who ranked in the top six in the conference. The versatile Woodworth was also the All-SCIAC punter. He was second in the conference with a 41.4 punting average. - Chris Cocoles |
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