FOR ALL THE POTATOES AVC WANTS WIN TO FINISH RIGHT.Byline: Sean Ceglinsky Staff Writer The 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. football team had one goal this season: Return to postseason play for the first time in four years. That goal becomes a reality today when the Marauders (7-3) face host Bakersfield (8-2) at Memorial Stadium in the 50th Shrine Potato Bowl. Kickoff is set for 1:15 p.m. ``We're just very pleased to finish the season on a positive note,'' AVC (1) (Advanced Video Coding) The video compression techniques used in the H.264 standard, jointly developed by ISO and the ITU-T. See H.264. (2) (Audio Visual C coach Brent Carder said. ``We play a good team in a great bowl game. What more can you ask for?'' How about a victory? ``We're going to have to make some things happen out there,'' said Carder, who's looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. his first bowl win in nine years. The game is being hyped, with good reason, as an offense vs. defense showdown. Ranked No. 2 overall in the state, the Bakersfield defense is allowing 193 yards per game - only 75 on the ground. AVC, which has set 24 school records this season, counters with state's eighth-ranked offensive unit. Most of AVC's success can be attributed to its experienced nucleus of players. This is a team laden with sophomores, 18 in all, who would like nothing more than to go out winners in their final game. A look at some of the sophomores' numbers: --Seventeen tackles, three sacks, two forced fumbles and two touchdowns - one on an interception return and the other on a fumble recovery. Over the course of a 10-game season, those types of statistics would be respectable for any defensive lineman. However, that isn't the case for Anthony Diggs, who accomplished all that in one game against San Bernardino Valley The San Bernardino Valley is the hub of Southern California's Inland Empire. It is drained by the Santa Ana River. It is bordered on the north by the San Bernardino Mountains and the eastern San Gabriel Mountains, on the east by the San Jacinto Mountains, and on the south and west . The Palmdale High graduate has 15 sacks and needs two more to set the school's single-season mark. --Quarterback Cory Allred has thrown for a 2,082 yards and 19 touchdowns, both single-season school records. His 179.17 passing- efficiency rating is among the top five in the state. --Tight end DeVon Stewart and wide receiver Brandon Eggerth each have 61 career receptions, tops in AVC history. At 6-foot-2, 205 pounds, Stewart also has the most touchdown catches (10) in one season. --Though DeAndra Cobb DeAndra Cobb (born May 18, 1981) is a free agent running back in the National Football League. High School Years Cobb attended Clark High School in Las Vegas, Nevada and was a letterman in football and track. hasn't set any records, he's the first AVC running back in 13 years to rush for more than 1,000 yards in a season. --Jason Anderson doesn't excel in any one area - he excels in all of them. The 6-3, 200-pound running back/receiver/kick-return specialist led the Foothill Conference in all-purpose yardage yard·age 1 n. 1. An amount or length measured in yards. 2. Cloth sold by the yard. Noun 1. at 165 per game. ``Records are nice, but losing would overshadow o·ver·shad·ow tr.v. o·ver·shad·owed, o·ver·shad·ow·ing, o·ver·shad·ows 1. To cast a shadow over; darken or obscure. 2. To make insignificant by comparison; dominate. all of our accomplishments,'' said Eggerth, a Bethel Christian of Lancaster graduate. ``We understand that we have to win first. It has to be win first.'' To do so, it will take a collective effort by every player from punter Chris Starling starling, any of a group of originally Old World birds that have become distributed worldwide. Starlings were brought to New York in 1890; since then the common starling (Sturnus vulgaris) has spread throughout North America. to center Felix Perez Felix Perez or Félix Pérez and variants can mean
Said Allred: ``We just have to go out and play football.'' --Bakersfield notes: The Renegades lost 31-13 to City College of San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden in last season's state-championship game. ... Free safety James McGill James McGill (October 6, 1744 – December 19, 1813) was a Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He was also a prominent member of the Château Clique. was selected the the J.C. Grid Wire All-American first team. The 6-foot-3, 215-pound sophomore leads the team with four interceptions and is second with 79 tackles. ... Sammy Moore, a 6-1, 180-pound wide receiver, played at Arizona State last season and runs the 40-yard dash in the 4.4-second range. 50TH ANNUAL SHRINE POTATO BOWL ANTELOPE VALLEY at BAKERSFIELD Kickoff: 1:15 p.m., at Memorial Stadium. Radio/Internet: 610-AM; www.foxsports610.com. Records: AVC 7-3, 5-3 Foothill Conference; Bakersfield 8-2, 6-1 Western State Conference Mountain Division. Series: AVC leads 1-0-1. The last meeting between the two schools was in 1948, when AVC won 13-6. Injury update: AVC - LB Darryl Richard (knee) is probable. Bakersfield - RB Robert Thomas (ankle) is questionable, TE Russell Handy (back) is out. Did you know: AVC's Cory Eggerth (44 catches) needs three more receptions to set the school's single-season record. ... For Bakersfield, 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) Mountain Division champ, LB Ryan Koeker has a team-high 133 tackles, two sacks and has forced and recovered three fumbles. ... With 1,060 yards, AVC's DeAndra Cobb needs 77 yards to move into the top five on the school's single-season rushing list. CAPTION(S): box Box: 50TH ANNUAL SHRINE POTATO BOWL (see text) |
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