DAILY UPDATE.COLLEGES 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. The Cougars baseball team needs a strong showing in its final series to maintain hope of a playoff berth. COC See chip on chip. lost twice to Glendale last week to drop into third place, three games behind In sports, the phrase games behind, often abbreviated as GB in tables, is a common way to reflect the gap between a leading team and another team in a sports league, conference, or division. the first-place Vaqueros. Only the top two teams in the division qualify for playoffs. The Cougars begin their final series today at Pierce. COC faces Pierce again Saturday at home in the Western State Conference finale. - Heather Gripp The Master's College History The Master's College was founded as Los Angeles Baptist Theological Seminary on May 25, 1927 to meet the need for a fundamental Baptist school on the West Coast. Biola first baseman Mark Wade For the American hammered dulcimer musician, see . Mark Anthony Wade[] (born October 15 1965, in Torrance, California) is a retired American professional basketball player. is giving Mustangs left fielder Brandon Tisher a run for the Golden State Athletic Conference The Golden State Athletic Conference is a college athletics conference in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). The conference commissioner is Dr. Cliff Hamlow of Azusa Pacific University. Conference leadership is shared among the member institutions. batting title. Tisher's average remained at .434, but Wade had closed the gap to three points with a .431 clip. Both players had similar statistics, Tisher with six home runs and 35 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 and Wade with eight home runs and 35 RBI. The Mustangs should finish the season as the GSAC's top hitting club. The Master's was at .332, eight points more than Biola. - Chris Cocoles HIGH SCHOOLS Canyon Former varsity track star Aaron Thompson fared well in the decathlon decathlon (dĭkăth`lŏn), in modern Olympic games, a contest for men held over two days and composed of 10 track-and-field events. at the Mt. Sac multievents at Azusa Pacific earlier this month. Thompson finished sixth with 6,381 points. Thompson, who competed at Mt. Sac along with teammate Sammie Freeman, was as high as third place after the first day. - Nevin Barich Hart Hart's baseball team, which remained in second place in the Foothill League with a 6-5 victory Tuesday over Saugus, needs to sweep its final three games to have a chance for first. On Tuesday, Craig Cohen hit a grand slam (his second grand slam of the season) for Hart (14-8-1, 8-3-1), which finished the game with no baserunners left on, the lowest total since at least 1987. - Gerry Gittelson Saugus The Centurions' baseball struggles against Hart reached new levels of frustration Tuesday. Saugus lost 6-5 despite allowing the Indians just three hits. Craig Cohen of Hart hit a grand slam off Josh Fogel in the third inning and the winning run was scored in the fourth off an infield single and two wild pitches. Saugus (13-9, 5-7) is trying to make the playoffs. - Matthew Kredell Valencia Jimmy Rohan had three hits Tuesday to break the Vikings baseball team's record for hits in a season. The senior third baseman has 42 hits, surpassing Brady Burrill's record of 40 in 1998. Rohan also had three stolen bases in the 12-4 victory over Burbank. The win keeps the Vikings (19-4. 9-3) in a tie with Canyon for the Foothill League lead. - Heather Gripp |
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