RIVALS IN WSC MATCHUP.Byline: Chris Cocoles Staff Writer VALENCIA - Nobody wanted to dance with either the Allan Hancock College Allan Hancock College is a California public community college located in Santa Maria in northern Santa Barbara County. Approximately 13,000 credit and more than 5,500 noncredit and community services students enroll each semester. or College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. football teams. So these two wallflowers that have tangoed before will meet again at Saturday's Western State Conference Bowl at COC See chip on chip. . Bowl games traditionally don't match teams from the same conference -in this case from the same division, 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) Northern. But that was what co-champions Canyons (9-1, 6-1) and Hancock (8-2, 6-1) ended up with when the State Commission on Athletics chose the postseason pairings. ``Do you know why we're here? I'll tell you why we're here. Because no one wanted to play Hancock and no one wanted to play College of the Canyons. In this state, we're looking to play somebody different,'' Cougars coach Chuck Lyon said at a bowl-game news conference Tuesday morning. ``We called around, (Hancock) called around. But they said, `You've got to play each other.' OK, let's do it.'' While the top four teams in the latest state rankings (No. 1 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 vs. No. 2 Fresno and No. 3 Bakersfield and No. 4 Grossmont) are the marquee games on Saturday, the Canyons-Hancock game could be among the more entertaining of 14 bowls. The Cougars are ranked sixth in the state and the Bulldogs 13th. The teams have developed an intense rivalry that produced three cliffhanger cliff·hang·er n. 1. A melodramatic serial in which each episode ends in suspense. 2. A suspenseful situation occurring at the end of a chapter, scene, or episode. 3. games the past three years, including a 21-14 COC win in September. ``We've got one more chance,'' Bulldogs sophomore defensive lineman Abe Rosales said. Having lost to the Cougars in the regular season, the Bulldogs seemed more juiced See Joost. See also juice. for a rematch. But COC had what Lyon called one of the most efficient practices he's witnessed in the past three years since football was reinstated. ``They're hard-nosed. They're going to come out and hit us and we're going to hit them,'' Canyons defensive end John Harrison
John Harrison (March 24 1693 – March 24 1776) was an English clockmaker who revolutionised and extended the possibility of safe long distance sea travel in the said. ``They're a lot like us.'' --Bowling on campus: Three years after football returned to COC, the Cougars are playing in a bowl game in their own stadium. It will be the first postseason game at Cougar cougar: see puma. cougar or puma or mountain lion or panther Species (Puma concolor) of large, graceful cat that lives in a wide variety of habitats in the Americas, from southern Alaska to Patagonia. Stadium. ``The fact that we get to play it on campus is special for me and for our team and college,'' said Lyon, who played football at Canyons in the mid-'70s. ``And there was no doubt that the school would rally around it and that happened. It's really going to be a nice deal.'' --Get the point: Though the Bulldogs and Cougars both scored in the 40s in their 1998 thriller and the 50s in a 1999 Hancock win, Lyon had a much more conservative approach when asked to predict Saturday's outcome. ``0-0? Who knows? I bet you there won't be a lot of points scored,'' Lyon said. If Hancock coach Barney Eames' premonition is correct, the game should be a classic. ``OK, there's probably going to be 10 seconds on the clock, the score's going to be tied. . . . We roll the dice and your guess is as good as any,'' Eames said. --Injury update: The Cougars have an explosive running back in freshman Stephen Stokes, who has been a big lift given all the injury problems COC has had in the backfield. Former starters Major Caldwell and Steve Smith were both lost for the season. Freshman running back Marcus Nash Marcus DeLando Nash (born February 1, 1976 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an Arena Football League offensive specialist for the Dallas Desperados. He was a first round pick for the Denver Broncos in the 1998 NFL Draft but was shortly traded away to the Miami Dolphins, where he was (broken leg) is also out. COC linebacker Jonathan Fanene Jonathan Fanene (born March 19, 1982) is an American football defensive end for the Cincinnati Bengals. Jonathan Fanene is currently scheduled to start for the Bengals in the upcoming 2007 football season. (broken arm) is out. --Early risers: Hancock's press-conference contingent included five players. The turnout surprised Eames when the team left Santa Maria early in the morning to arrive in Valencia in time for the 9 a.m. function. ``These guys really showed me something, to all be ready to go at 5:30 in the morning. It's pretty impressive stuff,'' Eames said. At least one Bulldog is used to getting an early start. Freshman running back Andre Nickelson lives in Paso Robles Robles is a common surname in the Spanish language meaning oaks, and may refer to:
WESTERN STATE CONFERENCE BOWL Who: Hancock (8-2) vs. College of the Canyons (9-1) When: Saturday, 1 p.m. Where: COC's Cougar Stadium CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: College of the Canyons and Allan Hancock renew their rivalry in the Western State Conference Bowl at COC. Box: WSC BOWL (see text) |
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