NOTES: RICKARD HITS COACHING MILESTONE.Byline: Patrick Hipes Daily News Staff Writer 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. men's soccer coach Jim Rickard was adding up his team's statistics last winter, as he always does, when he noticed casually his career win total was 95. Not too shabby for a 30-year-old who had just finished his seventh year of coaching the Mustangs. Rickard even guided them to two national championship tournaments in his first two seasons. Last Friday the news got even better. The Mustangs knocked off No. 13 National American University National American University (NAU) is a private, for-profit university with multiple campuses in the United States. NAU has undergraduate and graduate programs. Academics 3-2 in overtime in Rapid City, S.D., giving Rickard his 100th career victory. ``I didn't really think about this until I had looked at the stats,'' Rickard said of the milestone. ``I noticed the NAIA NAIA abbr. National Association of Intercollegiate Athletes doesn't start listing career wins until a coach reaches 100, so somebody must think it's a pretty big deal.'' It is, and after The Master's finished its two-game jaunt to South Dakota South Dakota (dəkō`tə), state in the N central United States. It is bordered by North Dakota (N), Minnesota and Iowa (E), Nebraska (S), and Wyoming and Montana (W). with a 2-1 victory over Briar briar: see brier. Cliff College Hulme Cliff College was established by Henry Grattan Guinness in 1883 following the success of Harley College, which had out grown its site in Bromley-by-Bow. It was called Hulme Cliff College in honour of the Elizabeth Hulme, who gave Guinness "Cliff House" in Curbar, Derbyshire, , he returned to campus the winningest coach in the program's history. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what my future holds,'' said Rickard, ``but I don't want to do anything else right now.'' More men's soccer: Rickard's team improved to 6-3-2 after the Briar Cliff game, but it was the victory over ranked NAU (1) (Network Access Unit) An interface card that adapts a computer to a local area network. (2) (Network Addressable Unit) An SNA component that can be referenced by name and address, which includes the SSCP, LU and PU. that mattered most. Midfielder Eric Benitez scored the game-winner in overtime, his team-leading fifth goal of the year. It was the team's 22nd goal of the season, calming fears the squad can't always find the net. ``We're still making adjustments, trying lots of combinations to see what works the best,'' Rickard said. The team will see soon enough. It plays at Division I Cal State Northridge tonight at 7 p.m. at North Campus Stadium. Women's soccer update: It's not going as well for Dudley Hitchman's team, which lost all three games in a trip to Oregon over the weekend and fell 4-0 to Cal State Northridge on Monday. The Mustangs have lost five in a row - scoring just two goals in that span - and are 4-10 for the season, not far in the loss column from their 9-11 finish a year ago. Four of its final five games are on the road, and The Master's still must play away at Division I Pepperdine, Division III
Division III (or DIII) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States. power UC San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. and NAIA rival Azusa Pacific. Still, a match Saturday at Reese Field against fellow independent U.S. International University has playoff implications. A victory over an independent program weighs more with the NAIA than do 10 losses to anybody else. Tickets available: The college has made single-game and season tickets available for the upcoming 1998-99 men's basketball season. The 17-game home schedule includes The Master's Fall Classic (Nov. 13-14), an early-season game with perennial national NAIA power Azusa Pacific (Nov. 24) and a mid-season date with Division II Cal State Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. (Dec. 30). Single-game tickets are $6 and season-ticket packages are $65 through Nov. 12. Information: Jack Mutz, Associate Athletic Director, (805) 259-3540, ext. 222. Odds and ends: The volleyball team had lost two in a row entering Tuesday's home match against La Verne. One problem for the Mustangs (10-8) has been lack of regular play - they hadn't played since Sept. 29 and don't play again until the St. Edwards Tournament in Austin, Texas beginning Oct. 16. . . . The women's basketball program began practices last week, hoping to improve on a disappointing 10-20 record in 1997-98. Coach Ken Sugarman needed only two new players to fill out his mostly-retuning squad. BY THE NUMBERS Jim Rickard's career record as men's soccer coach at The Master's College: Year Record 1991 13-10-1 (xx) 1992 10-11-2 (xx) 1993 17-6-1 1994 17-4-3 1995 11-9-0 1996 16-4-2 1997 11-11 1998 6-3-2 Totals: 101-58-11 (xx) -National tournament appearance CAPTION(S): Box BOX: BY THE NUMBERS (See text) |
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