WOMEN'S WATER POLO: VALLEY BREAKS AWAY, THEN BREAKS FOR COVER.Byline: Ross Siler Staff Writer GLENDORA - The lightning could be seen off in the distance during warm-ups, the rain arrived midway through the second quarter and the Citrus College According to the Public Policy Institute of California, Citrus College had 632 students who transferred to universities during the 2005-2006 academic year, ranking seventh in the area. Citrus College students are represented by ASCC the Associated Students of Citrus College. pool lights cut out soon thereafter. For the Valley College women's water polo water polo, swimming game encompassing features of soccer, football, basketball, and hockey. The object of the game is to maneuver, by head, feet, or hand, a leather-covered ball 27 to 28 in. team, the objective Wednesday afternoon wasn't just beating Mt. San Antonio College Mt. San Antonio College (commonly called Mt. SAC; pronounced as the word "sack") is a community college located in the Los Angeles suburb of Walnut, California, next to California State Polytechnic University, Pomona which is just over a hill. Mt. in the first round of 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, playoffs. It also was beating a storm that grew more menacing by the second. To borrow a weather-related term, the Monarchs succeeded on both fronts. Sophomore driver Jessie Stiles Stiles can refer to: People
``It was getting a little close,'' said sophomore Samantha Zuckerman, who added three goals. ``I think we were all glad to get out of the water.'' Or, as one parent put it late in the fourth quarter: ``Hurry up and finish this off before we all get barbecued.'' With the victory, Valley (25-4) continued its best season in program history. They won 14 consecutive games at one point and will face top-seeded Long Beach on Friday at Cypress in the regional quarterfinals. The Monarchs were seeded eighth of 10 teams for the tournament, though they didn't play like it Wednesday. Valley broke open a 2-1 game in the second quarter, scoring three times on breakaways - two by Stiles and one by Megan Winchell. ``I didn't think we would be that much quicker than them,'' Stiles said. ``But (the breakaway) turned out to be our best option.'' Valley put the game out of reach on the final sequence of the third quarter. With a 6-on-5 advantage, the Monarchs swung the ball to Stiles, who fired it for a score to make it 9-4. Winchell added another goal, her team-leading 102nd this season, in the fourth. Valley got all 13 of its players into the game late. Coach Bill Krauss Bill Kraus (died 1986) was an American gay rights and AIDS activist and congressional aide who served as a liaison between the San Francisco gay community and Congress in the 1980s. said afterward he was surprised his team had so little trouble with Mt. SAC (16-11), seeded only one spot lower at ninth. Meanwhile, a telling stat stat adv. With no delay. adj. Immediate. STAT Stat! Clinical medicine adverb Fast, quickly, immediately, schnell, vite Lab medicine noun came courtesy of goalie Caroline Bohbot, who had four assists - only one fewer than her total all season - feeding to her wide-open teammates streaking ahead on the breakaway. But the memories from Wednesday undoubtedly will be of the rain, lightning and thunder. The officials nearly stopped the match twice, and as soon as it ended, Citrus closed its pool for the rest of the evening. Ross Siler, (818) 713-3610 ross.siler(at)dailynews.com |
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