THE MASTER'S BEAT: GOAL DROUGHT GETS SERIOUS : LEADING SCORER NOW ON DEFENSE.Byline: Jim Inghram Staff Writer The goal shortage is reaching serious proportions. There haven't been that many scored by The Master's men's soccer team all season (24 goals in 15 games), but it's been especially stark of late. The team has lost three consecutive matches and six of its last seven. In five of those defeats, the team has been shut out. The drought has left the team with a 5-10 record and in danger of its first losing season since 1992. ``We were having problems with other teams scoring on us too much when we were winning,'' coach Jim Rickard said. ``So I moved Ricardo (Bradbury) to defense. It's been a combination of the forwards not scoring and moving our best goal scorer to defense.'' There are four regular-season games left, three of them on the road. A victory in all four and two wins in the postseason are a must to avoid a below .500 record. The postseason, however, is not a given and the team will not know if it qualifies until sometime around the first of November. Bradbury continues to lead the team with eight goals, although he has been moved to defense. Anthony Brueggeman has four. Last year, as a freshman, Brueggeman had 11 goals. Women's soccer: The team had its three-game winning streak Noun 1. winning streak - a streak of wins streak, run - an unbroken series of events; "had a streak of bad luck"; "Nicklaus had a run of birdies" snapped Monday with a 4-0 loss at Concordia, but that defeat didn't take away from a productive weekend. Behind the play of Sara Riojas and Heather Halsted, the team swept two games in the Bay Area, defeating Menlo College The sprawling campus is on the border of affluent Atherton and Menlo Park, and is adjacent to its former partner institution, Menlo School. In 1927, the college program became a separate junior college from Menlo School and continues to share the same campus. 5-0 and Mills College Mills College, at Oakland, Calif.; for women; est. 1852 as the Young Ladies' Seminary at Benicia, Calif., moved 1871, chartered as Mills College 1885. The first women's college in the Far West, it has programs in English literature and creative writing, foreign 8-0. Riojas, a freshman forward, scored five goals in the victory over Mills to raise her team-leading total to 14. Jasmin Graspointer is second on the team with eight goals. Halsted, last year's top scorer, has scored four goals in the past three games. The team is 6-8 and has scored 36 goals in its six victories. Volleyball: The women's volleyball team split a pair of games in the 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. area last weekend, losing to Christian Heritage Christian Heritage can refer to:
The team is 13-9 and will play in the Diane Daniels Classic at St. Edwards University in Austin, Texas, on Friday and Saturday. Basketball: Basketball practice for men and women's teams started two week ago and games begin in just over three weeks. The women open on the road at Pacific Union College History Pacific Union College was founded as Healdsburg Academy (changed within a year to Healdsburg College) in the northern Sonoma county town of Healdsburg in 1881 with Sidney Brownsberger as its first President. on Nov. 5 and at Bethany College Bethany College may refer to:
The men open at home against Christian Heritage College on Nov. 6. Last season the women finished 28-6, but lost leading scorer and rebounder Elizabeth Hansell to graduation. Hansell was a third-team All-American. Coach Ken Sugarman does return several standouts, however, especially at guard, where Karen Gormley, Sara Scheffer and Nikki Hover are all back. The trio combined to average 25.2 points a game. All three are from the state of Washington. The team's top newcomers are 6-foot-3 freshman forward Lesley DuBois of Santa Rosa Santa Rosa, city, Argentina Santa Rosa, city (1991 pop. 80,629), capital of La Pampa prov., central Argentina. It is a modern city and road junction surrounded by a rich agricultural and cattle-raising area. and a pair of junior guards, again from Washington, Rebekah Sherfey (Carnation carnation: see pink. carnation Herbaceous plant (Dianthus caryophyllus) of the pink family, native to the Mediterranean, widely cultivated for its fringe-petaled, often spicy-smelling flowers. ) and Melynda McNicol (Olympia). The men were 22-13 last season and have four starters returning. The top three are Joclin Julmist, a 6-foot-5 senior forward from the Bahamas; Joey Penberthy, a 6-foot-3 guard from Fresno; and Reggie McFerrin, a 6-foot-5 forward from Los Angeles. The trio averaged a combined 49.5 points a game. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Airborne Anthony Brueggeman, left, tries to head the ball away from CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge players in game earlier this season. Brueggeman has four goals. Eric Grigorian/Special to the Daily News |
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