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Warriors’ stay upbeat despite loss to Cypress Zachary Weber Staff Writer
After a successful opening game against Santa Monica College and first win against Santa Barbara at the EC Classic, the women’s volleyball team experienced its first loss. Last Friday during the EC Classic second game against Cypress College, the Warriors had its first loss. The Warriors loss 22-25, 2515, 16-25, 25-16, 15-13 in five sets. Both teams were evenly matched going into the deciding fifth game, until Cypress took the lead on a hitting error and clinched the match. “It’s going to be a big load for her (Luafalemana) all year, to see her keep working, stay positive and lead the team, which she has handled very well,” Le Valley Pattison, coach, said. A dominating performance by Tarryn Luafalemana, outside hitter, who had twenty-five kills and fifteen digs. Pattison has praise for returning sophomore, Luafalemana and wants to see contributions from
every player on the team. “We need a little offense from every position, we rely a lot on Tarryn and Nigeria,” Pattison said. Nigeria Owens, middle blocker, is a returning sophore who had eight kills and nine blocks at the match against Cypress College. Luafalemana is confident that the team will clean up its mistakes and bounce back. “We know what we need to do to grow to get better on the court, nothing we can’t fix in practice,” Luafalemana said. Elise Tizon finished with nine kills, three blocks and one ace against Cypress. “It was intense, we commited to the game even though we had small errors,” Tizon, rightside hitter and libero, said. Leading the defense was Karlee Napoleon with 19 digs. “We just need to work more on our technical stuff like blocking, serving and looking for open areas to hit for everybody on the team including myself,” Luafalemana said The women’s volleyball team beat Santa Barbara College at the earlier match last friday soundly
in three games 25-11, 25-16, 2725. Luafalemana led the way with 20 kills and 10 digs. Freshman Nicole Echeverri chipped in with five kills and two aces and Karlee Napoleon had nine digs. “We had a good game kind of Rocky but it was our first game,” Luafalemana said. The women’s volleyball team had a victorious win against Santa Monica College in Wednesday night’s nonconference game. Striking three wins in a row, 25-9, 25-18, 25-22, the Warriors had an impressive season opener. “We came out strong in the first game, the second game I was a little nervous and the third game was close,” Pattison said. “We got off to a good start and it was fun to finally see the women play,” Pattison said. Santa Monica College has a great libero, Karlee Napoleon, libero, said. “We have to keep on playing hard and aggressive,” Napoleon said. Luafalemana, outside hitter, led the way with 13 kills and 11 digs at the Santa Monica College game.
In 2011, Luafalemana had a successful season where she tallied 54 kills. “Our first game together, we did really well with communicating, we played together and got better as the game went on,” Chelsea Mataalii, outside hitter, said. The Warriors played well in their first two games, but struggled in the third game against Santa Monica College. “Our freshman did a good job communicting with the team during the game,” Owens, middle blocker, said. Allison Lim, freshman, setter, helped the Warriors with 29 assists Pattison added. “They did not give up I expected them to roll over, we realized that we had to come together and finish the game off,” Mataalii said. “In the third game, we struggled passing, it was a little hard to run our offense, we had to push hard to get the last points,” Mataalii said. The women’s volleyball team will play all day at the San Diego Mesa Invitational tomorrow and Saturday.
September 13, 2012
Philip Prins Union Nicole Echeverri, No. 6, prepares to try and pound the volleyball past the Cypress defensive wall during the team’s second game of the EC Classic Women’s Volleyball Tournament Friday. The team won its first game against Santa Monica College, but lost to Cypress in a close game that went all the way to the fifth set.
Warriors’ fall 2-0 after loss to Alan Hancock College Sam Tedla and Zachary Weber Staff Writers
The Warriors couldn’t find that cohesive connection to put together a productive game Saturday against Alan Hancock College. Jesse Scroggins, quarterback, struggled to find that continuity with his receivers, going 10 for 33 passing and rushing for 32 yards on 12 attempts. “I know in week one Jesse (Scroggins) kind of struggled a little with his timing and it kind of carried over to the game,” Royshaun Lewis, free-safety, said. He had a solid week of practice with his timing and connection with the receivers, Lewis added. “I guess seeing a new team and going against a team’s defense besides ours, his timing was off with him and the receivers,” Lewis said. Scroggins ran for a 21-yard touchdown in the first quarter, which was the Warriors only led of the game at 7-6. “We came into the game knowing that it was a big game, knowing that it was a must-win game,” Lewis said. It seemed like we have started off a little slow, and then the team started to pick it up in the end of start of the first quarter Lewis added. “As far as the first and second quarter, I felt like the offense started off pretty good, but as the game went on we had bad communication and everything just went downhill from there,” Lewis said. Luckner Brady, wide receiver, had one catch that went for 23 yards and Derrick Macon had three catches for 39 yards. “We played a better second half so that is something positive, offensively, we started getting things moving but it was too late,” EricCapacchione, team captain, fullback and tight end, said..
“We were pumped up, it was a long trip, but we thought we were ready but we didn’t come up with the plays,” Capacchione said. The defense could not contain Alan Hancock’s Cameron Payne, running back, giving up 232-yards rushing yards and three touchdowns on 22 carries. The Warriors’ defense also could not get in the backfield to create pressure resulting in no sacks and no tackles for loss. “The fact that we never started two quarterbacks before that’s the most painful thing, we need to get that win to get back on track,” Cappachione added. The Warriors could not move the ball down the field due to struggles on third down, going just three for 15 on third downs. The Warriors will look to regroup and get its first win against Pasadena City College on Saturday. “We are looking forward to getting our first win really, by working hard, coming together as a team, hoping to do very well against Pasadena College because we need to prove ourselves,” Capacchione said. “We are going to get it done on Saturday,” he said. If the team goes out in the field, handle their business and focus, the team will do good, Antoine Anderson, wide receiver, said. “We started out real slow, we just need to tighten up, we were out of focus defense and offense,” Anderson said In the second half the team played better but it was too late, Anderson added. “We’re going to focus and tighten around the edges and work more with our quarterback, we were out of sync with him and do all the little things to help us win,” Anderson said.. Last Saturday’s game the team struggled a lot with pass and plays, the defense had missed tackles and long coverages, Kelvin McCoy, left
guard, said. This week the Warriors are preparing and practicing harder, McCoy added. “We need to come out with a bigger tempo; defense and offense picking it up have every assignment on point, wide receivers and quarterbacks working out after practice,” McCoy said. Running backs going over blocking assignments, he said. “Coaches going through preparations for us, I can see a big difference from this week compared to last week,” McCoy said. The intensity has picked up this week and the team is not taking any games lightly anymore, McCoy added. “We have to play at 100 percent, during every play, blocking has to be perfect as well as tackling and defense positioning, it all has to be perfect,” he said. The team was out in the EC stadium perfecting all of our mistakes, McCoy said. “We are young, we just have to click on the offense and defense side,” Auston Johnson, linebacker, said.. In the game against Alan Hancock College the offense was better, Johnson said. “We had a little team meeting, things are more together,” he said.. In the meeting the team talked about people doing their jobs and not worrying about what the other team is doing just to focus on their position, Johnson said. “The team’s strategy is more clear and more together now,” Johnson added. The next game is Saturday agaisnt Pasadena City College at 6 p.m.
she said. “We should have won we were starting to find our feet, we started to play a lot better, we created more opportunities and our defense was more organized,” Baquero said. “We did a lot better than we usually do, they didn’t dominate as much we didn’t make that many mistakes,” Jasmine Brink, defender, said. “We had had a lot of shots on goal and much better passes.” By talking a lot more, the women played much better together, she said. “There is many small things to improve on the women’s soccer team,” Brink added. The team has many players playing out of position, Brink said. “We have a good team we have a lot of people playing out of position,” Brink, defender, said. The team played very well overall, the talent and skills are there, Brittany Brown, outsidemid, said. “It is a work in progress, the team is still getting to know each team player’s style, we need more time to know each other,” Brown said. Baquero is very proud and is confident the women’s soccer team will have a succesful outcome for the next game, she said. The next game is tomorrow at home against Alan Hancock College at 5 p.m.
ter, but then around fourth, we started to get a bit tired, we just need to practice more and build more endurance,” Ashton Derojas, utility, said. The team had many chances to take the game and the match between Fullerton could have been won but we just needed to focus, Derojas added. “For me as a goalie, it’s positioning. Where I am in the goal as
Men’s and Women’s soccer Men’s water polo team test teams’ effort wasn’t enough the water for the first time Zachary Weber Staff Writer
With 18 freshman on the roster, the men’s soccer team is struggling to find some cohesiveness as it fell to Victor Valley College 3-1, in the game last Saturday. Fatigue and heat could have contributed to the teams’ lack luster play. The game was played in the high desert and delayed because the officials showed up an hour late. “It was really hot, and it was two hours away and the referees came in late, so that interfered with our mind set,” sophomore midfielder Ozzy Rodriguez said. Falling behind 2-0, the Warriors tried to get back in the game as freshman forward Dani Guzman scored the only goal for the Warriors. The team drops to 1-2-1 and coach John Britton was not pleased with the effort. “Perhaps we expected an easy game, we didn’t prepare ourselves mentally, and we paid the price,” Britton said. The level of effort was not there and it was a disappointing loss to a very good team, Britton added. Ozzy Rodriguez said he believes his team needs to give a better effort. “Many of the players are lazy.
A lot of the men don’t have intensity it shows in practices,” Rodriguez said. “Not enough talking and I would take blame in that, there was no communication,” Rodriguez said. Without communication within the men’s team, the players won’t perform as well, Rodriguez added. “Jess (Chamberlain) and Alex (Perez) have been putting in hard work and they go all out,” Rodriguez said.
“It is a work in progress, the team is still getting to know each team player’s style, we need more time to know each other.” —Britney Brown outside mid
Both players have been a positive influence on the men’s soccer team and contribute to the bringing out the best in the players, he added. Last Tuesday the women’s soccer team tied in a scoreless game against San Diego Mesa College. Coach Jaymie Baquero is very optimistic going forward, but believes her team should have won,
Karly Daquila Staff Writer
One point separated the Fullerton College Hornets from the Warriors up until two minutes before the game ended this past Friday at 3 p.m. The Warriors’ last play did not work against Fullerton College. The men’s water polo team was taken by surprise when the Hornets brought an extra man into the water, causing the Warriors to miss its opportunity to go into overtime. The final score was 6-5, with the Warriors one point behind Fullerton. “They are traditionally a pretty strong team, so that we had a close game with them bodes well for us. We actually had several opportunities to win the game and we just couldn’t convert them,” Cory Stanbury, coach, said. Early in the fourth quarter, the Warriors had a penalty throw and the Hornets’ goalie blocked it. “This is something that should be scored 95 percent of the time,” Stanbury added. The upcoming games are forcing the players to focus on what needs to be strengthened to beat their upcoming opponents. “It was a slow start coming back for us, a lot of new players too. We started to pick up the pace around the second and third quar-
“We actually had several opportunities to win the game and we just couldn’t convert them.” —Corey Stanbury coach
opposed to where the field players are. I need to know exactly where I am,” Stephen Sorbom, goalie, said, “We missed a lot of opportunities.” Sorbom provided the team with 11 saves during the game. One of the best plays was by Dylan Colbert who scored three goals during the game, Stanbury said. “We were playing a pretty good team and a good team will
mess you up a little. But they only scored 6 goals. Looking around other teams that were playing, their goal production was over 10. We did a good job on the defense,” Stanbury said. Colbert managed to score three goals for the team, while Adam Rudow and Alec Ortiz comtributed with scoring one goal each for the total of five goals. “Fullerton frequently gets into the playoffs, so the fact that we had a one point ball game with them straight out of the shoot was a good indicator that we were going to do pretty well,” Stanbury added. What the men’s water polo team learned from the game on Friday and putting it to use for the rest of the season, The men’s water polo team are taking its missed opportunities at beating Fullerton and looking at them from a positive perspective. “We can see some things that we need to work on, opened our eyes to a lot of things, we have a lot of freshmen that are playing that came from a lot of different programs that need to learn how to work together a little bit more. This takes time,” Stanbury said.