Cross Country
Next Meet -- Sat, Nov. 21, State Championships, Fresno
The Marauders men and women teams will compete - the women for the first time since 1996.
Last Meet -- Southern California Championships
For the first time since 1994 both the mens and womens cross country teams qualified to run as teams in the State Meet. The meet finished 13th and the women were 16th. It marks 20 straight years that the Marauders have sent either a team or individual to the State Meet.

Soccer
Last Game -- AVC 6, Mt. San Jacinto 0
Marauder soccer beat the Eagles 6-0 to record their ninth shutout - just upping their record, and winning their 12th game. That 12 wins ties the record for wins in a season that was set by last year's squad. Denise Perez got the scoring underway in the 20th minute, and three minutes later Shannon Cox connected with her second penalty kick in as many games. Valerie Arciga scored twice, and Adri Ruiz - last season's record breaking goalie - had an assist.
In goal, Thannia Huerta continued what should be a record breaking season, shutting out the Eagles for 75 minutes before being relieved by Breanna Dundes.

Football
Next Game -- Sat., Oct. 24, 6 p.m. at East LA
The Marauders face the 2-1 in conference Huskies on a field AVC has never won on.
Last Game -- AVC 35, West LA 10
To think it could have been worse. AVC gained 623 yards, 284 of that off Josh Firm's passing, 174 off Kene Martin's rushing. But they also fumbled the ball away four times and threw an interception in the win.
In fact, West LA scored all their points off two of those turnovers, and another was on the West LA one.
It was the No. 11 state rushing offense vs. the No. 11 state rushing defense, and as has happened ever since Perry Jehlicka took the helm in 2007, the Marauder defense had the upper hand. West LA was only able to gain 131 yards, short of their normal 200 on the ground, and 62 yards of that were scrambles by Alan Ferguson. His 45 yard scamper, the longest of the game, set up the only West LA touchdown. The No. 2 rusher in the conference, AL White was held to just 28 yards on the day.
In the meantime, the Marauder rushing attack came out of their season long slumber, thanks in part to Kene Martin, who gained 174 yards in 23 carries.
On the passing side, Firm continues to up his passing yard high on a 18-29 game with one touchdown. His favorite receiver was Devan Matton, who caught seven passes for 158 yards. It was the first time since 2002 that a Marauder receiver picked up more than 150 yards in a game.
The 623 yards of total offense closed in on the Marauder record of 654 in 1996 against Rio Hondo, the last time AVC had over 600 yards in total offense. The 9.5 yards a play average was second best in AVC history after the 9.8 in that 1996 game.
The score was 17-10 at halftime after a late Marauder interception gave the Wildcats a 32 yard field goal with no time in the half.

Track
Russ named All-America in two sports
Eddie Russ Jr. took third in the state 400 meters with a 47.25 clocking in the state championships in San Mateo.
The top four are considered to be All-America, meaning the Russ has been named All-America as a football return specialist for the 2008 football season and now as a track athlete.
It is the first time a Marauder has been name All-America in two sports, and the first to be named such in the same season.
His time was only .03 of a second off his school record time.
Butts wins state long jump title
Ryan Butts soared 25 feet 4 and three-quarter inches in the state long jump championships to reset his own school record and become the fourth Marauder man to win an individual championship.
Butt's leap was his first over 25 feet in his career at AVC to be the first Long Jump state champion from AVC. He finished fourth in last week's southern California championships with a 24-0 jump.

Fastpitch
Nine named to All-Foothill Conference team
The Marauders put nine players on the All-Foothill Conference teams Wed. after a fifth-straight conference title. For the first time in five years, AVC did not receive any of the top awards of Player, Pitcher and Coach of the Year.
FIRST TEAM: Being named to the first team were player of the year nominees Cassandra Lewein (ss, 5-2,

Bailey • Lewein • Sandberg • Mauldin • Anchondo
SO, Lancaster (Quartz Hill ‘07/Hope Intl Uni.)) who led the Marauders in hits, singles, triples, walks, stolen bases and hit by pitch and Shannon Bailey (C, 5-2, SO, Lancaster (Quartz Hill '07)) who led the Marauders in slugging percentage and RBI. The only reason Bailey didn't receive a second straight Catcher of the Year nod was because the conference dropped the award after last season. Heather Sandberg (P/IF, 5-5, FR, Lancaster (Lancaster ’08)), AVC's nominee for Pitcher of the Year who was tops for the Marauders in wins (8) and ERA and had 61 strikeouts was named to the first team as was pitcher Marisa Anchondo (P, 5-5, FR, Victorville (Silverado ’08)) who was second in ERA and Ikea Mauldin (3b/ss, 5-5, FR, Lancaster (Lancaster ’08)) who was second in hitting.
SECOND TEAM: The Marauders landed four others on the second team list, including last
season's first team choices Candice Miller (1b/3b, 5-4, SO, Quartz Hill (Quartz Hill '07)), Vanessa Guevara (OF, 5-6, SO, Saugus (Saugus '07)) and, Jade Terry (2b/3b, 5·3, SO, Burbank (John Burroughs '07)) as well as Courtney Evans (P, 6-0, SO, Boron (Boron '07)).

Fastpitch
Fastpitch's conference win streak snapped at 71
The Marauder Fastptich team lost for the first time in conference since 2004, losing 4-1 to Mt. San Jacinto in Menifee and ending a 71 game conference winning streak.
AVC last lost in conference on Apr. 7, 2004 when they lost 9-4 to Chaffey in Rancho Cucamonga. They would beat San Bernardino Valley 10-0 to end the year, then went 12-0 in 2005, 21-0 in 2006, 14-0 in 2007 and 2008 and were 9-0 going into today's game.
It is the first time a Cindy Vargas only-coached team has lost a conference game. Vargas was co-head coach from 2003 to 2005. Still the Marauders are 82-15 in conference in her seven seasons.
The loss put the Marauders into a tie with Mt. San Jacinto for Foothill Conference lead, but AVC could still win their fifth straight title by beating Chaffey and San Bernardino Valley to close out the conference season.

Track
Eddie Russ Jr. breaks 400 meter record
Eddie Russ Jr. broke the AVC 400 meter record in the Orange Coast Classic in Costa Mesa with a 47.25 clocking.
That breaks George Daniels' 1996 mark of 47.74. It is the second fastest community college 400 meter in the state so far this season and the eighth best time in the nation.
Russ was fifth in last year's state championship meet in the 400 meters.
During the football season Russ did something no one has done on any level above high school - return six kick offs for touchdowns. He was also the 2008 Marauder Football MVP.

Women's Basketball
Marauders end "second best" season ever
The Marauders ended their second best season ever losing to SJ Delta 60-54 in the quarterfinals of the state tournament. AVC was 28-10 overall and 11-3 and champions of the Foothill Conference. This Marauder team scored more points -- 2526 -- than any other AVC squad.

Women's Basketball
Florida Siaosi ends season with several records
Florida Siaosi (F/C, 5-11, SO, Hesperia (Sultana ‘06/CS Bakersfield)) became the Marauders' and Foothill Conference's first State Player of the Year. She set school records for season points -- 701, becoming the first Marauder to reach 700; season field goal shooting percentage -- .634, beating out Paula Page's 1990-91 record of .559; season offensive rebounds -- 169; season defensive rebounds -- 320; season rebounds -- 489; and season rebounding average -- 12.87, eclipsing Kim Fairchild's 1987-88 12.62 rebounds per game mark. She is now third in season points per game with 18.45 per game.

Men's Basketball
Season Ends
The Marauders ended their season 21-15 in a 80-78 overtime loss at San Diego City. Rod Singleton scored 24 points for the fourth time in his career and Raymond Cody scored 19 points and pulled down 13 rebounds in his last game as a Marauder. But Marquintice Davis hit just his third three pointer of the season with 2.8 seconds left in regulation to send the game into overtime and then an off-balance two pointer with .8 seconds left in overtime to win it for the No. 4 seeded Knights.

Men's Basketball
Four Marauders named to All-Foothill Conference teams
They finally announced the All-Foothill Conference teams, and it was pretty much what one would expect. Named to the first team were Rod Singleton (PG, 5-10, 185, Fr, Los Angeles (Fairfax ‘07)) who led the Marauders in scoring and Kyisean Reed (F, 6-7, 190, Fr, Palmdale (Highland ‘08)) who led the Marauders
SINGLETON • REED
in rebounds and blocks while setting the game block record with six in three games.
Named to the honorable mention squad was the two sophomores, Raymond Cody (G, 6-5, 185, So, Lancaster (Antelope Valley ‘07)) and Jerome Moton (F, 6-8, 210, So, Palmdale (Pete Knight ‘07)).

Women's Basketball
Six Marauders named to All-Foothill Conference teams; Siaosi MVP
After coming up Foothill Conference champions for the seventh time in the program's history, the Marauder women's basketball team had their best-ever showing in the All-Foothill Conference team, garnering the conference's MVP with Florida Siaosi, three others on the first team and two on the honorable team. In fact all six of those who were regular starters picked up All-Conference honors. The only thing that kept it from being a sweep was Rio Hondo's Kathy Pudelko being named Coach of the Year.
<--Florida Siaosi (F/C, 5-11, SO, Hesperia (Sultana ‘06/CS Bakersfield)) was named the Marauders fifth conference MVP after leading the conference in rebounding and was second in scoring. She had huge games in wins over Chaffey, Mt. San Jacinto and Rio Hondo. She has broken the Marauder season records for rebounding and points, and should break the field goal percentage mark. She was named All-Tournament in four of the Marauders' six tournaments, and was the MVP of the AVC Holiday Tournament
She scored the third highest number of points in Marauder history – 35 – and pulled down 17 rebounds in Foothill Conference opener against Mt. San Jacinto. So far she has 17 double-doubles, scored 20 points or more 16 times, scored 20 points or more and pulled down 20 rebounds or more twice, pulled down 14
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rebounds or more 16 times and pulled down 20 rebounds or more three times
In addition to Siaosi, AVC's first team honorees includes Tijera Mathews (F/C, 5-10, FR, Palmdale (Palmdale ’08)) who was the Marauders' second leading scorer and rebounder and best free throw shooter and shot blocker, Siedah Wilson (PG, 5-7, FR, Lancaster (Palmdale ’08)) who was second in three pointers and Lucia Puchelova (G/F, 5-11, SO, Ruzomberok, SVK (NBK Ruzomberok/Colby, KS)) who was third in three pointers.
The only two Marauders to make the first team All-Foothill Conference last season were named to the honorable mention team this season: Brittney Lloyd (PG/G, 5-5, SO, Palmdale (Palmdale ’07)) who was third in scoring for the Marauders and Carleigh Hobson (G-F, 5-10, SO, Palmdale (Desert Christian ’07) who led the Marauders in three point shots and was fourth in scoring.

Women's Basketball
Next Game -- TBD, Playoffs
The Marauders will out their playoff seeding on Monday.
Last Game -- *Rio Hondo 60, AVC 54
It was a great day for the Marauders - Flordia Siaosi set the season scoring mark and AVC clinched a share of the Foothill Conference title.
But it was the Roadrunners who had a better day, as Cynthia Duarte scored 17 points and Rio Hondo picked AVC's pockets 12 times to clinch a third place spot in conference as well as the best overall record in the conference.
For the Roadrunners, it was their seventh straight win, losing last to AVC in Lancaster, that included the two conference champions in the last two games, and it broke an 11 game winning streak by the Marauders against them.
The Marauders knew coming in the game that Mt. San Jacinto had beaten San Bernardino Valley, meaning AVC was conference champs win or lose. But AVC, who last Saturday seemed completely out of the title hunt, had the chance to win it outright. No matter, it still marks the seventh title in the 28 years of the program, the fifth in the nine seasons John Taylor has coached the Marauders and the fifth in the last seven years.
For Siaosi, she scored 20 points and pulled down 20 rebounds. It was her second 20-20 performance of the season, and the 16th time this season she has scored 20 or more. The 15 point, a lay-in with six minutes to go, was a big one, as she passed Paula Page for the season scoring mark with 636 points. She now has 641 points, and already a season record 438 rebounds.

Volleyball
Three named to All-Foothill Conference team
Marauder Volleyball landed two players on the first team All-Foothill Conference and another on second team. Jeannette Niswonger (S/OH, 5-10, FR, California City (Mojave ‘96)) who was econd in points for the
Niswonger • Marroquin • Remy
Marauders and best in hitting percentage and led the Marauders in digs was named first team as was Ashley Marroquin (S, 5-7, FR, California City (Mojave ‘08)) who led the Marauders in set assists and is the eighth best for a Marauder in a season.
Kahli Remy (OH, 5-10, FR, Leona Valley (Quartz Hill ‘08)) probably was named second team because she sat out the last four matches because of a knee injury. Still led the Marauders in kills, points and kills per set.

Football
Last Game -- Canyons 41, AVC 17
With two minutes and 43 seconds, the No. 8 Marauders were within of 10 points, 27-17 of the No. 1 in the nation Cougars.
Few had given the Marauders any shot at all in the Western State Bowl first round playoff game. But few felt that the Marauders, coming off a horrendous defensive permance against LA Valley that dropped them from first in the state to eighth could hold a Cougar team that was averaging 500 yards a game on offense, and gained 507 against AVC in the first game of the season 200 yards below thier average.
There were those, too, who didn't feel that a Marauder offense that had spent the season relying on the power of Dominic Blood, would go to an effective passing game and slice through the No. 1 defense in the state and the No. 9 pass defense in the state.
The fact that neither scored in the first quarter probably caused enough heads to be sctatched. But the Cougars finally found some holes and had a 13-3 lead at halftime.
Then midway through the third, the AVC defense looked like they were done, trying to push down the No. 3 rusher in the state, Fred Winborn, instead of tackling him as he scored his second TD of the game.
But the Marauder coaching staff had an ace up their sleeve. They set up four wide, and one of those receivers was Eddie Russ Jr., who was playing cornerback the whole game. John Perez hit Russ on a post and Russ simply ran away from the defenders for a 91 yard TD. For Russ, it was his fourth method of scoring a TD this season -- kickoff return, fumble return, punt return and pass reception. The only way he didn't score this season was by rushing and interception return.
AVC gave up a 61 yard kickoff return on the ensuing kickoff and Canyons used that position to pull out to 17 points again.
And so it stayed for 15 minutes until Perez, who was 16 for 31 for 232 yards, hit Charles Johnson on the same post pattern on fourth and four and he used his speed and athleticism to bring AVC within 10 again. Johnson caught seven passes on the game for 121 yards.
The Marauders went for the onside kick, as had worked for them against LA Valley, but the ball went right in the hands of Nate Jones, who found a big hole and went 41 yards for the clinching touchdown.
The Cougars got one more offensive chance and instead of kneeling on the ground to end the game and host El Camino the next week, they inexplicably decided that they needed to score, making the final score look bigger than the game actually was.
Actaully, the Marauder offense, which has been mired in the bottom 10 in the state all season, gained more yards - 308 - than the No. 1 offense in the state - 305. Defensively, Troy Butler showed why he was Defensive Player of the Year in the American Pacific, leading AVC with nine tickles, just like he led the Marauders in the first game against COC. The defense also held the state's No. 4 pass defense to 135 yards below their average.
It also needs to be pointed out that Blood had a decent game, especailly with all the passing going on, and was over 100 years for the sixth straight game, but two consecutive losses left him with just 98 yards. Still, that put him as the 10th best career rushing in Marauder history, and moved into the No. 6 spot on the season rushing charts, getting past such heavy weights and Jamar Day, DeAndra Cobb and Hall of Famer Jim Johnson.

Soccer
Six named to All-Foothill Conference team
For the first time since 2006, the Marauders have players on the All-Foothill Conference teams. The
A. Benesch • L. Benesch • Cox
Marauders were 12-7-1 overall, 9-3 in the Foothill Conferennce and second. Named to the first team were the Benesch sisters - Ashlin Benesch (MF/F, 5-7, FR, Lancaster (Quartz Hill ’08)) and Lauren Benesch (D, 5-5, FR, Quartz Hill (Quartz Hill ’06)) as well as Shannon Cox (MF/F, 5-4, FR, Lancaster (Quartz Hill ’07)). On the second team are Rheanna Crawford (MF, 5-3, FR, Palmdale (Quartz Hill ’08)) who was AVC's No. 2 scorer on the season, Lauren Miszklevitz (MF/F, 5-9, FR, Lancaster (Quartz Hill ’08)) and Chelsea Porter (D, 5-5, FR, Quartz Hill (Quartz Hill ‘08)).

Football
Marauders get top three All-Division picks; 12 named at All-Confernece teams
The Marauders did extremely well in the All-Conference balloting, nearly picking up a clean sweep of the top awards, including the co-Offensive Player of the Year, the Defensive Player of the Year and Coach of the Year as well as seven on first team and five on the second team
OFFENSIVE CO-PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Dominic Blood (RB, 6-1, 210, So, Palmdale (Palmdale ‘06)), who has had six 100+ yard rushing games and is the 11th Marauder to gain over 1000 yards in a season was the first Marauder conference player of the year since Lamart Cooper in 1992.
DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR: The Marauders’ leading tackler Troy Butler (DB, 6-1, 195, So, Waldorf, MD (Gwynn Park ‘06)) became the second straight Marauder to be named conference Defensive Player of the Game, following Eric Leon who was the first Marauder to be named Defensive Player of the Year since Daron Rogers in 1991.
FIRST TEAMERS: Eddie Russ Jr. (DB, 6-2, 185, So, Cottondale, FL (Cottondale ‘05)) was tabbed not only a unanimous choice for return specialist, but was also first team at cornerback. Chris Whitney (LB, 5-11, 225, Fr, Spartenbug, SC (Byrnes ‘08)) who broke Marauder game records for sacks and tackles for a loss and Demetrius Collins (SS, 6-0, 200, So, Miami, FL (American Academy ‘03)) who was named first team for the second straight season were tabbed as linebackers and Brandon Lott (DL, 6-0, 250, Fr, Lancaster (Antelope Valley ‘08)) picked up
Russ Jr. • Dominguez • Ross • McDaniel

Collins • Whitney • Lott
the honor for defensive tackle. The offensive line in front of Blood was honored as center Chris Ross (OL, 6-3, 300, So, Lancaster (Lancaster ‘07)), tackle Alex Dominquez (OL, 6-3, 280, Fr, Ridgecrest (Burroughs ‘08)) and tight end Daniel McDaniel (TE, 6-4, 275, So, Palmdale (Highland ‘05)) who with only one catch for four yards was clearly named for his blocking.
SECOND TEAMERS: The offensive line picked up a second teamer with Meko James (OL, 6-4, 305, Fr, Winston-Salem, NC (Parkland ‘08)) and wide receiver Charles Johnson (WR, 6-2, 200, So, Erlanger, KY (Lloyd Mem ‘07/Estrn KY U)) was also named for the offense. Defensively safety Marcus Wyre Jr. (SS, 5-8, 190, So, Lancaster (Lancaster ‘07)) and defensive linemen Mike Miller (DL, 6-3, 245, Fr, Palmdale (Pete Knight ‘07) and Pablo Navarro (DL, 6-5, 265, So, Palmdale (Highland ‘07) made the second team.
COACH OF THE YEAR: For the second straight season, Perry Jehlicka was named Conference Coach of the Year, and unlike last season he was named the only recipient of the award.

 

 

 

Cross Country
Next Meet -- Fri., Nov. 7 at Southern California Regionals, Bakersfield
The Marauders who qualified will attempt to qualify for state.
Last Meet -- Foothill Conference Championships, Barstow
Melissa Olmos (5-7, FR, Rosamond (Rosamond ‘07)) became only the second Marauder in history to win back-to-back Foothill Conference titles, beating the rest by 24 seconds on the Barstow College course today, marking the third straight year a Marauder has won the women's individual title.
She was the Marauders' only runner, which was exactly the situation the last two seasons when she won last season and in 2006 for Jelani Carter when won the conference title. Olmos was the fifth Marauder to win the championship meet and joins Jean Harvey who won consecutive titles in 1990 and 1991 as the only Marauder to win the title back-to-back.
Josiah Downer (5-9, 120, FR, Van Nuys (Grace Christian ’08)) and Michael Miller (6-0, 135, FR, Rosamond (Rosamond ’08)) were the only members of the men's squad, that finished fifth, to qualify for the southern California Regional race as individuals. The Marauder men's team did not qualify.

Volleyball
Next Match -- Wed., Oct. 29 vs. Mt. San Jacinto, 5 p.m.
The Marauders host an Eagle team they beat earlier in the season.
Last Match -- *Chaffey 3, AVC 2
In the last game of the first half of Foothill Conference play both teams came in undefeated in conference, and it looked like it, with both teams trading set wins and battling in the fifth set -- which is supposed to end at 15 points -- with the Panthers getting the 18-16 win to take the match and the first half lead in the conference

Soccer
Next Game -- Tue., Oct. 28 at *Chaffey, 3 p.m.
The Marauders head to the road to face the Panther, who they beat 1-0 in the last three minutes at AVC Soccer Field.
Last Game -- AVC 6, *Rio Hondo 0
The Marauders remain undefeated at home and continuing scoring in bunches, having outscored the last two opponents 13-0.