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. The football team continues its spring workouts with plenty of freshmen and a decent class of returning sophomores, all of which has coach Brent Carder optimistic entering his 33rd season with the program. ``This time last year, we had a high percentage of returners. And considering the vast majority of the kids are new to each other, we feel good about this year's group,'' Carder said. ``We have a handful of experienced sophomores, so there's no reason for us to be anything other than optimistic at this point.'' Wide receiver James Laurence, offensive lineman Eric Bonney and running back Teddy Monroe are among the returning starters. 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. Carder, the freshman brother tandem of Brian and Steve Pugh - 6-5, 310 pounds and 6-3, 300 - respectively, could see playing time on the offensive line. Quartz Hill's John Arslanian (6-2 275) is another probable impact freshman. - 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 Swimmer Marcus Brooks received acceptance to his dream school, West Point. Brooks immediately agreed to attend the military academy that has family history. One older sister, Ericka, recently graduated from West Point and another, Robin, is enrolled. Brooks won the Golden League title in the 50-meter freestyle this year. He was fifth in his class with a 4.31 grade-point average. - Matthew Kredell Highland The Daily News All-Star Baseball All-Star Baseball is a baseball video game series developed and published by Acclaim Entertainment. The series began in 1998 with the release of All-Star Baseball '99. and Softball games are Saturday and Monday, respectively, but Highland won't have a major presence in either. No baseball player qualified for the game this season and one softball player, Angie D'Errico, managed to make the roster. - Nevin Barich Nevin Barich (born August 6, 1979) is a former American sports journalist now working as the Senior Editor of The National Notary, a trade magazine based in Los Angeles with a circulation of more than 300,000 nationwide. Lancaster Eagles baseball player Jason Anderson
- Heather Gripp Littlerock Ten Littlerock football players are on the West roster for the annual High Desert All-Star Football Game on Saturday at Antelope Valley College: Linemen Alex Cauchon, Barry Perkins, Emmanuel Esparza and Jared Berg; quarterback Joe Fields Joseph Charles Fields, Jr. (born November 14, 1953 in Woodbury, New Jersey) is a former professional American football center and guard who played 14 seasons in the National Football League from 1975 to 1988 for the New York Jets and the New York Giants. ; receivers Ray Battle, Robert Cash and Mike Creel; linebacker Alex Jackson; defensive back Leandro Alejo. Littlerock coach Jim Bauer is the head coach of the West. - Gerry Gittelson Palmdale Derek Hagan wasn't able to fulfill his promise to win the state title in the triple jump. Instead of improving his distance over the final meets of the season, Hagan's length decreased over the final four postseason meets, culminating at the state finals Saturday. Hagan jumped just 46 feet, 3 1/2 inches for eighth place. A day earlier, he had gone 47- 1/4 in the prelims. Two weeks earlier in the Southern Section finals, he reached 47-9 1/4. Last year, after Palmdale's Jamil Smith, now at Washington State, won the state triple jump title, Hagan promised his friend he would keep the title at Palmdale. - Matthew Kredell Paraclete Former Spirits' baseball standout Jason Brown didn't get to pitch for the Harvard University baseball team last weekend when the Crimson appeared in an NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Regional in Houston. The Crimson lost 8-3 to host and top-seeded Rice and was eliminated the next day 4-3 by Washington. Brown, a sophomore right-hander, went 0-2 in eight appearances. - Chris Cocoles Quartz Hill The Rebels will be represented nicely in the upcoming Daily News All- Star baseball and softball games, scheduled for this Saturday and Monday, respectively. Quartz Hill softball senior Cassie Corless and baseball senior Gavin Brandon helped their teams win Golden League titles. Brandon was an offensive and defensive standout infielder for the baseball team. He led the team in triples (six) and 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 (27) while batting .391. Corless, a catcher, formed a 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. 1-2 punch on offense with junior Jennifer Curtier. Corless hit .426 with 20 RBI. - Chris Cocoles |
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