NOTES: RAIDERS WANT VINDICATION IN PLAYOFF OPENER SATURDAY.Byline: Heather Gripp Daily News Staff Writer At least part of Sean Roche's goals were fulfilled. The season didn't go exactly as planned for the first-year coach of the Moorpark College Moorpark College is a California-state funded community college located on a 134 acre (542,000 m²) property reclining on a hill in Moorpark, a town in Ventura County, California. men's soccer team, but his Raiders did qualify for the playoffs. After losing their last Western State Conference game 5-1 to Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. on Tuesday, the Raiders had to wait until Wednesday night to learn their fate. Moorpark (14-9-3, 5-5) earned a berth in the Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, Regionals and plays a 7 p.m. game Saturday at Harbor. ``It'll be a chance to vindicate ourselves a little bit,'' Roche said. The Raiders won twice as many games as last year's team that went 7-8-2 and 2-5-1 in conference, but Roche had higher hopes for the revamped lineup. After a quick start, Moorpark lost four of its last six games. ``I think if we were to focus for an extended period of time, we could be very good,'' Roche said. ``We had a hard time concentrating on soccer for an entire game (Tuesday). There have been other distractions and I think it has something to do with our immaturity, with our youth.'' Santa Barbara scored twice in the first 10 minutes and the Raiders couldn't recover against the conference's second-place team despite a strong second half. ``Santa Barbara, you could tell they'd been to a championship game and wanted to get back,'' Roche said. ``They played a perfect game.'' Cross country: The Raiders are peaking at the right time. The Moorpark men finished third in the conference, but their performance at last week's Southern California Regionals showed they're on track to defend their state title. Todd Disney's 20:55 first-place finish Noun 1. first-place finish - a finish in first place (as in a race) win - a victory (as in a race or other competition); "he was happy to get the win" led the Raiders to victory. Reymond Coronado took fifth to help Moorpark edge Bakersfield by 18 points. 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) champion Glendale placed fifth at the meet. The Raiders women, who finished fourth in the WSC, placed 11th at the regionals led by Melissa Bond's 19:48 13th-place finish. Both teams qualified for the Nov. 21 state championships held in Fresno. Volleyball volleyball, outdoor or indoor ball and net game played on a level court. An upright net, 3 ft (or 1 m) high, the top of which stands 8 ft (2.43 m) from the ground for men, 7 ft 4 1/8 in (2. : The Raiders enter tonight's game at Hancock in Santa Maria Santa Maria, city, Brazil Santa Maria (sän`tə mərē`ə), city (1991 pop. 217,592), Rio Grande do Sul state, S Brazil. It is a major railroad terminus and the site of an important military base. with a winning conference record, but a playoff play·off also play-off n. Sports 1. A final game or series of games played to break a tie. 2. A series of games played to determine a championship. Noun 1. berth isn't likely. The Raiders have just one division win and are in fourth place with a week to go in the regular season. ``It's not because we're bad or we're not playing well,'' coach Steve Burkhart said. ``The other teams we're playing are just doing really well. As far as we're concerned, it's just a tough division. We've got a good team this year, but we're in a tough division.'' The division's top three teams entered the week with a combined three losses in Northern Division play. A rule change allowing more than three teams from a division in the playoffs doesn't go into effect until next season. The play of Heidi Ferguson and Dani Upmeyer continue to be bright spots for the Raiders. |
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