FORMER AVC PLAYER TURNS COACH.Byline: Chris Cocoles Daily News Staff Writer Whether or not he was aware of it, this was Allen Adams' climactic moment as an athlete. A redshirt freshman catcher/third baseman at 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. , Adams blew out his left knee midway through the 1989 season. Later, the injury would be diagnosed as a torn anterior cruciate ligament anterior cruciate ligament n. Abbr. ACL The cruciate ligament of the knee that crosses from the anterior intercondylar area of the tibia to the posterior part of the lateral condyle of the femur. , his second such injury in less than two years. Although he wasn't playing, Adams remained in uniform and charted pitches for the team. It was the next to last game of the season. 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 and Chaffey were tied at 12 with two outs and a runner on third in the bottom of the ninth. Marauders assistant coach Joe Watts, playing a hunch, called timeout. After consulting with head coach Frank Bluma, Watts inserted Adams as a pinch-hitter. ``I said `Let's give Allen a chance.' (Bluma) said he can't even run. I told him, `He'll drive in the winning run,' '' said Watts, now in his fourth season as AVC's head coach. When his name was called, Adams was shocked. ``I was still wearing my sneakers sneakers Noun, pl US, Canad, Austral & NZ canvas shoes with rubber soles sneakers npl (US) → zapatos mpl de lona; zapatillas fpl . I had to find some cleats to put on,'' said Adams, recently hired as an assistant coach with the Marauders. Watts' premonition was prophetic, as Adams lined a base hit up the middle to score Ken Tatum Kenneth Ray Tatum (born April 25, 1944, in Alexandria, Louisiana) is a retired professional baseball player who played 6 seasons for the California Angels, Boston Red Sox, and Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball. with the winning run. The only snag was Adams making the required distance between home plate and first base. ``I knew he couldn't even walk or run to first base. Had the (Chaffey) players known about the injury, they could have thrown Allen out,'' Watts said. ``But when he hit the ball the center fielder just let it go. Allen was hobbling down to first as the players were walking off the field. That's Allen Adams Allender Steele Adams, known as Allen Adams, (16 February 1946 – 5 September 1990), was a British Labour politician. Adams was Member of Parliament (MP) for Paisley from 1979 to 1983, then for Paisley North from 1983 until his death in 1990 at the age of 44. in a nutshell.'' Watts coached Adams in three sports at Paraclete High School Paraclete High School is a Catholic High School in Lancaster, CA operated independently of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles. 186 seniors graduated in the 2006-2007 school year. , converting him from a football guard to a three-time All High Desert League quarterback. ``I remember one year our football team didn't have a quarterback and I asked the JV coach who was the smartest leader on the team. It was Allen,'' Watts said. As a senior in 1986, Adams led the Spirits to a 7-0 start in the Kern Valley game on Halloween night. ``I was stood up and then was cut from the side,'' said Adams, who remained in the game until a second-half injury sent him to the sidelines. The injury didn't require surgery, but Adams skipped his senior year in basketball and was ineffective during the baseball season. His chance to play at a four-year school now wrecked, Adams attended AVC and spent one year rehabilitating his knee. In 1988, he returned to the diamond and was making a full recovery from an injury when the knee buckled again, this time while sliding into home plate and colliding with an opposing catcher. ``I played with a brace and was just starting to get back into shape when I tore the ACL See access control list. 1. ACL - Access Control List. 2. ACL - Association for Computational Linguistics. 3. ACL - A Coroutine Language. A Pascal-based implementation of coroutines. ["Coroutines", C.D. again,'' Adams said. ``At least my playing career ended on a higher note.'' He transferred to California State University, San Bernardino California State University, San Bernardino is a state-funded university in San Bernardino, California, part of the California State University System. The university was founded in 1965. Enrollment annually tops 16,000 and is on pace to reach more than 20,000 by 2010. , to earn a degree in political science, selling athletic shoes to fund his education. Once Adams graduated, his alma mater, Paraclete, had a teaching position open that also offered coaching opportunities. He assisted both the football and baseball teams and though it was his least favorite of the three sports he played, Adams replaced his varsity head basketball coach, Andy Gavel gavel small mallet used by judge or presiding officer to signal order. [Western Culture: Misc.] See : Authority , in 1994. Adams took the Spirits to a school-record two consecutive High Desert League championships before Watts offered him the AVC job. The Marauders haven't been a playoff team since the Kevin Appier ``I think this is going to be a big challenge for me. I'm going to be coaching people who are older than I'm used to,'' Adams said. ``I have a goal to be a college head (baseball) coach and this is a step in the right direction.'' CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Allen Adams, a former basketball coach at Paraclete High School, is now an assistant baseball coach at Antelope Valley College. Jeff Goldwater/Daily News |
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