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Sports

Cross Country

By Bob Parker
In the past two weeks, the COC
Cougars have had two very im-
portant Invitationals. Through hard
work the Cougars managed to be
consistent in both races, placing
second in their respective division.
They placed second within the small
community College Division at the
October 16th COC Invitational, and
finished second at the Santa Bar-
bara Invitational on October 23.
The Cougars held a home course
advantage on the 16th, tackling the
course as if it were bread and
butter, as they earned their second
place finish. John Brenneman, Cougar runs right . . .into opposing line.
coming off an injury, ran his first
race in two weeks and was the first
Cougar to cross the finish line. John At Least They're Consistent
placed 15th overall and had a time of
21:16. Rick Fuller finished 22nd in
21 :29. Coach Cartwright said of Jim By Bob Brunsell
Landeros, "Jim probably ran his Santa Barbara seemed to be only half the first quarter gone, to be more explosive than in the
best race for us today and should taking it easy Saturday night as stunned the Cougars with a 14-0 first half, they still couldn't score.
continue to progress as the season they downed the disappointed lead. Later in the 3rd quarter, COC drove
rolls along." Jim placed 34th in Cougars 17 -2 in Santa Barbara. When Mel Cook, the blue and down to the Vaquero 12 yard line
21:49. The other Cougar runners The Vaqueros attack started im- gold's leading rusher, suffered a and proceeded to snap the ball past
scored as follows: Fierroz, 39th mediately on their first possession. knee injury in the first quarter, the both running backs all the way to
place in 21:53; Starinieri, 44th place The Big Red, led by the impressive Cougars counted on Dwight the 45 yard line where Santa
in 22:04; Meza, 49th place in 22:09; running back Jeff Pierce, marched Thomas, who gained 103 yards. Barbara recovered and denied the
Terrones, 59th place in 22:32 and 7 4 yards in 10 plays for their 1st six. Even though Thomas had a good Cougars again.
Hoppe, 63rd place in 22:42. The drive was capped off by a night the Cougars failed to score. The Cougars defense, led by
"This was probably the best team Pierce plunge from the 3rd yard Late in the 2nd quarter Santa Roger Slater, John Piercy and Dean
effort of the year." That is how line. The extra point by Dave Stark Barbara found themselves losing Lemar held the Vaqueros through
Coach Cartwright summed it up was good, and the Vaqueros with momentum and stalled deep in their the entire second half, but the weak
after his Cougars finished second in only 4½ minutes gone, took the own territory. Forced to punt, the Canyon offense couldn't move. Mike
the Santa Barbara Invitational, early lead 7 -0. Big Red center snapped the ball Flavin was called in with 9 minutes
October 23. The Cougars had 57 The Cougars running their special over Ken Percy's head and out the left in the game and was pressured
points, second to Palomar's 35 offense, (2 running backs and a end zone for a safety. to stimulate the offense. Unable to
points. Rick Roller ran a super race, blocker in the backfield), failed to With the score 14-2, Santa Bar- move down to the goal line, the
finishing 7th in 21:06. John Star- move and were constantly forced to . hara drove once again late in the 1st Cougars watched the time and the
inieri took 11th place in 21:20, Doug punt it away. half deep into Cougar territory. game tick away.
Hoppe was the 12th in 21:22, Joe Dave Stark then added three on a 28
Terrones was 13th in 21:25, Jim On Santa Barbara's second pos- yard field goal to increase the Next week the Cougars will be
Landeros was 14th in 21:37 and session they marched for another Vaquero lead to 17 -2 at the end of home against Compton and are
six. This time it was Chuck Melen-
expected to win their first league ·
Manuel Fierroz placed 18th in 21:46. the first half.
dez, the Santa Barbara quarter- The Cougars came out running game. Although first place is all but
The Cougars will finish the season
against Compton and Allan Hancock back, hitting Steve Dudley for a 40 the special offense in the second out of reach, maybe the Cougars can
at home on October 29th. Then the yard score. The kick by Stark was half, which obviously wasn't too make their record respectable in the
remaining games.
again good and Santa Barbara, with
Cougars will compete in the WSC successful. Although they did seem
meet on Nov. 5. Coach Cartwright I
hopes his Cougars can come up with
a surprise victory. However, Cart-
wright feels, "Glendale is the prob-
able favorite to win the conference J
meet, with Moorpark and ourselves
as top contenders." In individual
competition, Coach Cartwright
admits, "I feel Scott Blackburn of
Moorpark and Ed Ramirez of Ox-
nard are heavy favorites to win the
race, with Ramirez the more likely
to win." He includes Brenneman,
Fuller, and Starinieri in that cate-
gory, too. The top three teams will
go on to compete in the Southern
California Cross Country Champion-
ship.

COC women interested in
trying out for the Women's
Intercollegiate Softball Team
and Women's Track and Field
( winter and spring quarter
sports), please see Mike Gil-
lespie in P.E. Office #17. The
deadline is November 17.
Hurry!
Cougar runners across the line in good time.