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Cougars In Top CO.C Harriers

20 In Nation Running To· Win

By Fred Fink The Western State Conference
meet is the most important of the
The key to success? year for us ••• and we're going
Togetherness.
to run to win it."
This is the theme of coach Cross country coach Monty
Larry Reisbig's · explanation for Cartwright is aware that every-
the remarkable football fortunes thing must break just right for
of the Cougars. They are a team, the Cougar harriers to win the
he suggests, not just athletic in- conference mee t this Friday
dividuals. (Nov. 2) at Pierc e College.
"It's a case of steady progress
all season," he _remarked. "Our of Much depends on the health
Richard Burns and Gary ·
off erise has come a long way.__ Dumer recovering from leg in-
we 're averaging 325 yards a game. juries , said the slim coach who
The offensive line has sprung Ron arrived at COC only last August
Jamerson into first place in state with one veteran from last
scoring, and second in rushing. year' s squad available to him.
And · credit their pass rush pro-
That veteran 1 s Ed Marynow-
. tection for part of quarterback ski, team captain, who, accord-
Pete Crowley's fine record. He ing to Coach Cartwright "is one
ranks sixth in passing in the
of a half dozen WSC runriers
state. capable of winning the individ-
"The defense is doing its ual championship this Friday ... _
thing by holding opponents to 200 The coach added that Burns
yards or so per game, too,'' Reis- also ''has an outside chance
big went on. ''The special teams at it." With the dual meet
have been great. There hasn't Peggy Kennedy throws a "cre~cent" kick at ins~ruc~or Gary Rovarino season already over in the con-
in karate class that meets twice a week. Rovarino 1s attached to the
been a long runback against them ference, COC currently ranks
so far, and several times the punt Sheriff's department. fourth in the WSC with a: record
and kick-off teams have nearly of 5-3. Moorpark leads, Glen..;
gone all the way. Juan Campbell dale is second, and Allan Han~
Game close twice in the Venturi cock is third.
game.''
The final conference stand-
Ci ting the Ventura game, Ries- ing will be determined by com-
big said, "We beat the Pirates bining dual meet results with ·
24-17, but they are a very good Friday's WSC meet tally.
· football team, a real challenge. Recapping the season up to
It took ,a great game from every- now, Cartwright said the best
one to . win, and that was what we team efforts were logged against
got. Ventura and Santa Barbara.
'' Jamerson gave us 143 yards ''I'm very pleased with the
in 25 tries, and added 79 more on season," he said.
five receptions for two scores. Recent state rankings indi-
Crawley checked in with 10 com-
.pletions in 18 attempts. The de- cate that ·College of the Can-
yons is competing iri one of the
fense was · beautiful •. Baldwin, toughest cross country confer-
Boswefl, Brouchet, and Stewart ences in California. ·
in the backfield, Nunnelly, Brown, "Three conference schools
and Willis in the ]ine were great. are ranked among .the top 10 in
The . specialty teams were . just the state," he said.- "Moorpark
fantastic." is 2nd; Hancock is 5th, and
While Reisbig characterized Glendale is 6th".
the defense as "beautiful", Ven- COC. one of the smallest
tura still outgained the Cougars competing schools, is more than
by about 100 yards. holding its own with these high-
The point is that most of the ranked schools.
yardage was gained by Ventura Running with Marynowski and
between the 20 yard lines. But Burns on Friday will be Gary
when the Pirates attempted to Durner, Russell Nelson, Paul
breach the goal line, the Cougars Wheeler, and Mark Funk, assum-
dug their claws in and stopped ing the injured are well •
. them. The meet following the WSC
This was really part of the championship race will be the
Cougar game plan which let .the Southern California Nov. 9 also
Pirates run but emphasized de- at Pierce College. Top runners
fense against the ''bomb", the in this contest will be eligible
. bigscoring pass play. for the California .State meet
It has: been that kind of play Nov. 17 at West Valley College . .
that brought the Cougars to high
National ranking last week. They
are tied for 18th with Rio Hondo Karate Class
nationally, and 10th in California. ·
And going up? (Cont'd from Page 1)
The San Fernando Valley New Cougar scoreboard goes in place on the south side of the stadium. Prak. Rovarino is a ''brown belt"
sportswriters have already chosen The football team had hoped to play at least one game this season on and his aides, the chief instruc-
three cougars for "player of the its own field but facilities will not be ready in time. tors, are 6th degree "black
week" honors on five occasions belters ".
· this season. One, Jamerson, has "It's a great class to develop
been honored three times, and List of Rules tences they are hard to read. physical and mental self-disci-
Larry Nunnelly and John Grisaffi 9-Don't use commas, which pline," said Pat Baltau, a mem-
have each earned a plaque for (Cont'd from Page 1) aren't necessary. ber of the class.
premiere defensive efforts. 5-When dangling watch your 10-Try not to ever split in- Another, Barry Bregger, said
In addition, the Canyon Boost- participles. finitives. he likes the course because ''It's
ers Club has cited Nielson Paialii, 6-Verbs has to agree with 11-Its important to use your good exercise and it promotes
Pete Crawley, Mike Lombardi, their subjects. apostrophe's correctly. self-confidence."
Jerry Slimak, Ted Willis, Randy 7. Just between you and I, 12-Proofread your writing to Paul Nunez is taking the class
Burgland, Steve Brouchet and case is important, too. see if you any words out. because "It's fun, exciting, and
Tom Jack as outstanding players. 8--Don't write run-on sen- 13--Don't mis pell words. a new experience for me."