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Tigers fall in tournament final Seles Rodriguez Staff Writer
Football
Volleyball
Men’s Water Polo
Women’s Water Polo
Season Record 8-2 Conference: 5-1 Next game: vs LA Harbor at 1 p.m
Season Record 11-12 Conference: 4-9 Next game: At So Cal Regionals
Season Record 18-11 Conference: 4-1
Season Record 24-6 Conference: 4-2
Football Sept. 1
RCC 27 Ventura 28
Sept. 8
RCC 47 Palomar 7
Sept. 15
RCC 51 Saddleback College 13
Sept. 22
RCC 31 LA Harbor 7
Sept. 29
RCC 75 Long Beach 12
Oct. 6
RCC 45 Fullerton 28
Oct. 13
RCC 63 El Camino
Oct. 20
RCC 21 Citrus 18
Oct. 27
Bye Week
Nov. 3
RCC 40 Desert 10
Nov. 10
RCC 0 Mt. Sac 25
Men’s Basketball Season Record 2-1 Conference: 0-0 Next Men’s game: At Riverside 5 p.m
Women’s Basketball Season Record 0-1 Conference: 0-0 Next Women’s game: At Santa Barbara TBA
Cross Country
Men’s Water Polo
Sept. 12
RCC 18 Santa Ana 9
Sept. 7
At Palomar TBA
Sept. 14
RCC 8 West Valley 12
Sept. 15
At UC Riverside 7:30 a.m.
RCC 10 Ventura 5
Sept. 21
At Central Park, Huntington Beach
Sept. 15
RCC 6 Diablo Valley 12 RCC 12 Cuesta 14
18000 Goldenwest St. At Irvine Regional Park 9 a.m.
Oct. 5
Sept. 26
RCC 14 Orange Coast 10
1 Irvine Park Road Orange, CA
Sept. 28
Cal Baptist Tournament 8am-6pm
92869
Sept. 29
Cal Baptist Tournament 8am-6pm Oct. 12
At Leadbetter Beach 3 p.m.
Oct. 5
RCC Tournament 1-1
Shoreline Drive & Loma Alta
Oct. 6
RCC Tournament 2-0
Oct. 10
RCC 23 Fullerton 7
Oct. 12
RCC Mini Tournament 2-0
Volleyball
Oct. 17
RCC 23 Saddleback 5
Oct. 19
Golden West Tournament 0-2
Aug. 31
RCC 3 San Bernardino 2
Oct. 20
Golden West Tournament 2-0
Sept. 4
RCC 3 Canyons 0
Oct. 24
RCC 9 Golden West 14
Sept. 7
RCC 3 Mt. Sac 2
Nov. 1-3
OEC Championships
Sept. 14
At San Diego Mesa At San Diego Mesa
RCC 4 Golden West 16 Nov. 8-10
So Cal Championships at
At Irvine Park 10 a.m. 1 Irvine Park Rd. Orange, CA 92869 At Fairview Park 10 a.m.
Nov. 3
20777 Lorain Rd. Fairview Park Nov. 17
At Woodward Park 9 a.m. 7775 Friant Rd. Fresno, CA 93720
Men’s Basketball
RCC 12 Orange Coast 10
All Day Sept. 15
Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Oct. 26
Nov. 6
RCC 78 LA Prep 58
Nov. 9-11
At San Jose
All Day
Fullerton College
Sept. 21
RCC 3 Victor Valley College 0
RCC 6 Cuesta 10
RCC 104 Lassen 85
Sept. 21
RCC 3 Grossmont 2
RCC 10 Cerritos 11
RCC 62 San Jose City 75
Sept. 28
RCC 3 Santa Ana 0
Oct. 3
RCC 1 Cypress 3
Oct. 5
RCC 0 Orange Coast 3
Oct. 10
RCC 3 Fullerton 2
Oct. 12
RCC 0 Saddleback 3
Oct. 17
RCC 0 Golden West 3
Oct. 19
RCC 2 Irvine Valley 3
Oct. 24
RCC 3 Santa Ana 0
Oct. 26
RCC 2 Cypress 3
Oct. 31
RCC 0 Orange Coast 3
Nov. 2
RCC 2 Fullerton 3
Nov. 7
RCC 3 Saddleback 1
Nov. 9
RCC 0 Golden West 3
Nov. 14
At Irvine Valley 6 p.m.
Nov. 20
So Cal Regionals (1st Round) TBA
Nov. 24 Nov. 27
So Cal Regionals (2nd Round)
Women’s Water Polo Sept. 14
RCC 13 Cerritos 9
Nov. 16-18 Tournament at San Bernandino TBA
Sept. 15
RCC 15 Chaffey 2
Nov. 20
Vs Miramar College 5 p.m.
Sept. 15
RCC 15 Cypress 3
Nov. 27
Vs Southwestern 7 p.m.
Sept. 26
RCC 15 Orange Coast 6
Dec. 4-8
Riverside Holiday Tournament TBA
Sept. 27
RCC 12 Foothill 5
Dec. 19
Vs Fresno City College 7 p.m.
Sept. 28
At Cuesta Tournament 2-0
Dec. 27-29 College of Canyons Tournament
Sept. 29
At Cuesta Tournament 1-1
Oct. 3
RCC 13 Cypress 3
Oct. 10
RCC 10 Fullerton 11
Oct. 12
RCC Mini Tournament 2-0
Oct. 17
RCC 20 Saddleback 4
Oct. 19
At Long Beach Tournament 2-0
Oct. 20
At Long Beach Tournament 1-1
Oct. 24
RCC 5 Golden West 7
Nov. 1-3
Orange Empire Championships at Cypress
TBA
RCC 16 Saddleback 16
So Cal Regionals (3rd Round)
RCC 6 Fullerton 9
TBA
RCC 8 Orange Coast 5
Nov. 30
State Championships TBA
Dec. 1
State Championships TBA
RCC 87 Stanford Club 74
Nov. 9-10 So. Cal. Reigonals at Fullerton College RCC 8 Cerritos 6 RCC 7 Fullerton 8
Women’s Basketball Nov. 9-10
At Bakersfield RCC 48 Sequoias 78
Nov. 15-17 Santa Barbra MXTE Tournament TBA Nov. 29
Gilcrest Invitational Tournament at
Dec. 2
Sequoias TBA
Dec. 7-9
L.A. Valley Monarch Tournament TBA
Dec. 13
Vs Mira Costa 5:30 p.m.
Dec. 14
Vs San Diego 5:30 p.m.
Dec. 28-30 Ventura VC Optimist Club Tournament TBA Jan. 4
Vs Orange Coast 5:30 p.m.
Riverside City College men’s basketball team began the 2012-2013 season in its first scrimmage against Los Angeles Prep at its home court in the Wheelock Gymnasium on Nov. 6. The players began the event by offering a team prayer for coach John Smith, who was unable to attend the scrimmage due to an injury he received the day before at their Monday night practice. Assistant coach Joshua Thomas stood in for the absent coach Smith and coached the team to victory over LA Prep with the final score of 78-58. “In this game we want to teach the guys that we also have to put in effort along with skill and talent,” Thomas said. The goal of the game was to bringing in the energy. “We have been preparing this game for the past four days,” Thomas said, “We broke down their offense that they run, into a ‘UCLA type offense’ from back in old school with John Lenins.” The Tigers maintained an average ten point lead throughout the game. “We’re looking to narrow down our guys who will be playing initially and what rotations work best before Friday our first game of the season,” Thomas said. “Shannon Fowler another returning from last year, only played five games last year because he went down with an injury,” Thomas said. “So this year he comes back as a registered freshman and he plays really big for us, he rebounds, blocks shots and scores so we’re expecting big game from him.” LA Prep consisted of all freshmen and having many divisions one ranked players. LA Prep’s head coach Mike Miller, former Los Angeles Community College men’s basketball coach lead LACC to three state championships under his coaching. “He is a great phenomenal coach, very successful,” Thomas said. The Tigers began with a strong start winning their first three games of the season; however, they lost their last game of the weekend while playing in the San Jose Tournament game against San Jose Community College on Sunday, Nov. 10 with the final score of 75-62. “Great learning lesson for later on in the year,” coach Smith said. The Tigers had come in to the season with a strong start defeating the competition on Nov. 9 against Lassen College with the final score of 104-85. Next the Tigers will compete at the San Bernardino tournament taking place beginning Friday Nov. 16 to Sunday Nov. 18 taking place at Joseph W. Snyder Gymnasium.
Volleyball nears conclusion of season Usman Siddiqui Staff Writer
RCC’s volleyball team is approaching the end of their regular season with the Southern California Regional beginning on Nov. 20. In four of the team’s most recent games, they went 1-3. The Tigers hosted Orange Coast College on the Oct. 31 and fell short of their opponent 0-3. Fullerton College defeated the Tigers, 3-2, on Nov. 2. They played host to Saddleback College on Nov. 7 and took the 3-1 victory. The Tigers fell to Golden West College by a final score of 3-0 on Nov. 9.
RCC athletic website gets new look James Williams Sports Editor
Riverside City College athletics department has seen quite a few changes over the past semester including the completion of the newly renovated Wheelock Gymnasium. Another change would be newly hired athletic director, Derrick Johnson, who was hired at the start of the fall semester. Johnson is the first to be hired as the athletic director on campus in over seven years. The latest change is a complete makeover of the RCC athletics web site which will launch in late Nov. Assistant basketball coach Joshua Thomas and cheerleading coach Rachelle Fawcett have been in charge of starting it up and Johnson has been monitoring it and managing the overall site. “It’s a very tidiest project and we started from nothing we didn’t have anything from the last website all of that information was gone so we started on generating are own information based on here on out and recent seasons and go to old media guides and talk to many different coaches,” Thomas said.