WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL LOSING STREAK ENDS THE MASTER'S COLLEGE TOPS VANGUARD.Byline: IVAN OROZCO Staff Writer SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, -- After eight matches and two tournaments, 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. women's volleyball team found itself in an unwanted situation. The Lady Mustangs lost three consecutive matches during the Concordia tournament in Irvine and seemed to be missing momentum going into Golden State Athletic Conference The Golden State Athletic Conference is a college athletics conference in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). The conference commissioner is Dr. Cliff Hamlow of Azusa Pacific University. Conference leadership is shared among the member institutions. competition. Second-year coach Kristine Butler's team swung the momentum and ended the losing streak with a 3-1 win against visiting Vanguard on Tuesday night in both teams' conference opener. Led by Brynn Edwards, the team's leader in digs and service aces last year, junior setter Christy Swagerty, and sisters Amanda and Rachel Roleder, the Lady Mustangs took three of four games (30-22, 30-24, 23-30 and 31-29) to improve its record to 4-5. The Roleder sisters combined for 50 kills and 17 digs. Rachel Roleder collected 30 of those kills, a career high. The Lions (4-1, 1-0) came into Tuesday night's game undefeated, winning their first four games. The Master's traveled a different path during its first four games. After the Sunbird sunbird, common name for tropical, Old World birds, including more than one hundred species in the family Nectariniidae. Like the unrelated New World hummingbirds, to which sunbirds are often compared, sunbirds have long and slender, highly curved bills, tube-shaped invitational in Fresno in late August, the Lady Mustangs sat on a 2-2 record, beating Holy Names and Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame de Namur while losing to Savannah College of Art and Design SCAD enrolls more than 7,000 students from all 50 states and 100 countries. International student enrollment is 10-12 percent. Degree programs include advertising design, animation, architectural history, architecture, art history, arts administration (M.A. and Southern Oregon This article is about the southern region of the U.S. state of Oregon. For the University, see Southern Oregon University. Southern Oregon is a region of the U.S. . A 3-1 game win against Dominican is The Master's last win before losing three straight, including losses to Dakota Wesleyan, Caroll and Montana Tech. The Lady Mustangs have 21 games left in the 2006 season to better last year's overall 9-19 record. The Master's finished 5-15 in GSAC GSAC Golden State Athletic Conference GSAC Governance Structural Adjustment Credit (World Bank) GSAC Greater San Antonio Chapter (of the National Contract Management Association) . A handful of youngsters -- sophomore Jill DeVries, and freshmen Tanya Beckendam, Rebecca Patterson, Allison McKinney and Elizabeth Roe also hope to add to The Master's game plan. Women's and men's soccer back on track: Recovering from a 5-0 loss to NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II CSU See DSU/CSU. 1. CSU - California State University. 2. CSU - Cleveland State University. 3. CSU - Channel Service Unit. Bakersfield in the season opener, The Master's women's soccer team found its offensive attack and solidified its defense in its past two games. The Lady Mustangs scored six goals in the two games while allowing one goal. The Master's beat Kansas Wesleyan, 3-1, Friday and shut out Simpson on Saturday to bring its record to 2-1. Ten starters returned this year, including goalkeeper Leticia Pena, defender Treschia Fishburn, midfielder Melissa Freeman and forward Jill Oldright. Freeman leads the team in scoring with three goals, surpassing her two-goal total in 2005. She scored twice against Kansas Wesleyan and once against Simpson. The Lady Mustangs will try to continue their winning ways Friday against CSU East Bay and throughout the next five games before conference play begins Sept. 26 against Hope International. Meanwhile, the men's soccer team is a scoring machine. The Mustangs have buried 15 goals in three consecutive wins since losing to CSU Bakersfield in the season opener. Ewout Van Rhee and Rob Miller, all-GSAC player in 2005, lead the team with five goals each. Miller scored three goals for a hat trick during a 5-1 win against Holy Names. The Mustangs routed Simpson, 8-0, and shut out Kansas Wesleyan, 2-0, to improve their record to 3-1. The Van Rhee-Miller scoring machine is complemented by forward Jared Thornton (five goals, four assists in 2005). The Mustangs look to improve a 6-8-2 season under 16th-year coach Jim Rickard and a 3-6-1 record against GSAC rivals last year. In nonconference action, the Mustangs will travel to Denver to take on Colorado College of Colorado Springs on Friday and Metro State on Saturday. ivan.orozco(at)dailynews.com (818) 713-3607 |
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