Apparently no one plays defense any more. Lots
of high scoring games in community college football on Saturday in Week
No. 3 . . . .

Antelope Valley 44, Chaffey 35

Santa Monica 45, San Bernardino Valley 34

Victor Valley 61, LA Southwest 10

Riverside 51, Saddleback 13

Mt. SAC 20, Cerritos 8

Citrus 36, Grossmont 22

Mt. San Jacinto 42, LA Valley 22

College of the Desert 48, College of the Canyons 30

Scores for Week 2 in Community College play . . . .

San Bernardino Valley 35, Glendale 0

Riverside 47, Compton 7

Santa Monica 34, Chaffey 20

Mt. SAC 34, Bakersfield 14

West Los Angeles 29, Victor Valley 23

Saddleback 50, Canyons 34

Here’s the schedule for Saturday’s community college games (Sept. 8)

Santa Monica at Chaffey, 6 p.m.

Bakersfield at Mt. SAC 6 p.m.

Palomar at Riverside, 6 p.m.

San Bernardino Valley at Glendale, 6 p.m.

Citrus at Moorpark, 1 p.m.

Cerritos at Fullerton, 6 p.m.

All Foothill-Conference honors have been handed out in men’s and women’s basketball. The biggest awards went to the most deserving. Some conferences and leagues water down the honors by naming a first and a second team as well as honorable mention. Some even name a third team.

But this conference does it right, just a first team, although the women have honorable mention. It’s a tough, deep conference so being named is truly an honor.

Here’s the complete list

MEN
Player of the Year - Keon Pledger, So., San Bernardino
Coach of the Year - Jeff Klein, Chaffey

All-Conference selections
Shelton Boykin,Fr., Antelope Valley
Deondre Brodie, So., Chaffey
Daquan Brown, So., Barstow
Dakota Downs, So., Mt. San Jacinto
Donte Godlock, So., Chaffey
Da’Shawn Gomez, So., Antelope Valley
Thair Heath, Fr., San Bernardino
Eric Lawton, So., Mt. San Jacinto
Aaron Moore, Fr., San Bernardino
Steffon Neal, So., Chaffey
LaVanne Pennington, So., Barstow

WOMEN
Player of the Year - Paige Haynes, So., 5-7, San Bernardino Valley

Coach of the Year - Sue Crebbin, San Bernardino Valley

All-Conference selections

Nisha Barrett, Fr., Barstow
Yvette Bennett, Fr., Antelope Valley
Darshae Burnside, Fr., San Bernardino
Amber Chavez, So., Victor Valley
Daniella Cooper, Fr., Mt. San Jacinto
Vanessa Gutierrez, So., Rio Hondo
Stephanie Hoskin, Fr., Cerro Coso
Brittani Jefferson, So., Antelope Valley
Tiana Jones, Fr., Chaffey
Janelle Junior, So., San Bernardino
Arione Nabors, So., Chaffey
Jasmine Ray, Fr., San Bernardino
Danielle Reed, So., Mt. San Jacinto
Missy Spoesltra, Fr., Desert

Honorable mention
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Rosalind Barnes, So., Chaffey
Malika Jackson, Fr., Antelope Valley
Mechel’La Logan, So., Barstow
Ebony Mease, Fr., Victor Valley
Ashley Milan, Fr., Desert
Jeanette Ramirez, So., Rio Hondo
Terri Todecheeene, So, Mt. San Jacinto
Latosha Trainor, Fr., Cerro Coso
Jennifer Young, So., San Bernardino

Victor Valley College baseball coach Bob Smith has resigned after accepting an assistant baseball position at Division II Pacific University in Forest Grove, Ore.

The San Bernardino Valley College men’s cross country team coasted to its 15th consecutive Foothill Conference title on Wednesday at Guasti Park in Ontario. Coach Wes Ashford thought Antelope Valley might contend but it was ALL Wolverines.

SBVC placed seven runners in the top eight and 10 in the top 12. Ashford ran 17 athletes and they finished in the top 23 in the 66-man field. Sophomore Raymond Dominguez of SBVC took individual honors with a four-mile time of 20:09. Teammate Jonathan Lopez was second in 20:30.

Antelope Valley boasted the third place and ninth place runners but SBVC took fourth through eighth.

On the women’s side Victor Valley repeated, turning back a challenge from Antelope Valley. Cheryl Eastwood, a first-year runner from Victor Valley, won the race in 18:25.

SBVC was fourth in the field with the best showing being a third-place from Yesenia Trujillo.

The San Bernardino Valley College football team finally got into the win column, beating Santa Monica 37-17 tonight. The game wasn’t even that close as the Wolverines were up 30-0 before the Corsairs scored for the first time in the fourth quarter.

The Victor ValleyCollege football team opened its season with a resounding thud, losing to national power Mt. SAC 61-14 today in Victorville.

It’s likely another case of a very young team not fully making the adjustment from high school football to college football. Too many players go into the JuCo game thinking it’s just an extention of the high school game. Well it’s not!

The Rams have a whopping 82 freshmen on their roster. So let’s just hope this was a wakeup call.

Coach Dave Hoover used four quarterbacks without much success. Courtney Patton seemed to fair best. He can at least scramble a bit and did, running for his life on pretty much every play.

The bright spot was the play of freshman wide receiver T.J. Gretzner out of Serrano High school who can go up and get the football. He had four catches for 128 yards, including a 44-yard touchdown reception for the Rams second score.

Hoover will know a lot about his team in the next week by how it handles the thumping.

The Rams travel to Santa Ana next week.

Here are a few other scores fron the first week of play.

Citrus 36, West Los Angeles 25
Long Beach 20, Golden West 14 (OT)
Fullerton 41, Santa Ana 10
Grossmont 36, San Diego Mesa 7
Santa Monica 21, Compton 10
Allan Hancock 51, Santa Barbara 6

College of the Canyons 35, Antelope Valley 7

Bakersfield 52, L.A. Pierce 41

Pasadena 41, Glendale 20

Saddleback 37, Orange Coast 6

Venutra 44, Moorpark 21

Cerrtipos 29, LA Harbor 14

Mt. San Jacinto 24, College of the Desert 22

Palomar 23, Southwestern 13

LA Valley 28, East Los Angeles 21

El Camino 56, LA Southwest 7

Don’t look now but it is already time for the area junior colleges to kick off their football seasons. All will be playing their season openers this Saturday. It will be Chaffey (4-6) heading to San Bernardino Valley College (5-5) for a 6 p.m. showdown and Mt. SAC (12-1) heading up the hill to square off against Victor Valley (6-4) in a 1 p.m. tussle.

It should be a very interesting season. At Chaffey, veteran coach Carl Beach has had his hands full. Not just because heading a football program is a time-consuming job. He has the added burden of serving as interim athletic director which gives one a handful of other headaches. Then there’s the renovation of the old gym which had housed the football offices, meeting area and weight room. For now things are pretty spread out.

Beach is more confident in his quarterback situation than he has been the last few years. The struggles of the offense were the main reason for the subpar showing recently.

Meanwhile Kevin Emerson worked some magic at SBVC in his debut in 2009, turning a 0-10 team into a more than respectable 5-5 one. The Wolverines won four of their last five games, topped off by a huge upset of then-unbeaten LA Harbor in the regular season finale. That says it all about where this program could be headed if it gets the proper administrative support. And that’s a big IF given what seems to be a lack of commitment to athletics in recent years.

Then there is Mr. intensity up at Victor Valley in Dave Hoover. The Rams are always going to play hard and be competitive. Numbers are up and Hoover said he has more depth and quality depth than he has had before in his 10-year tenure. He had problems with a lot of his out-of-state players last year but has weeded out the undesirables, That can only help.

 More on all the local teams coming up this week with separate previews of each school. 

Several football players from Victor Valley College have made decisions on four-year colleges, according to Rams coach Dave Hoover.

Quarterback Travis Hunter (Barstow HS), wide receiver Pelton Smalls and offensive lineman Eric Wilkinson (Serrano HS) are headed to Kansas Wesleyan, continuing a pipeline of athletes from the High Desert to that school.

Noseguard Darnell Hicks is headed to Division II Texas A&M Kingsville while wide receiver Donald Fusilier will attend NAIA Lindenwood (Mo.)

Rounding out the group are linebacker Mike Matthews (Serrano HS) who will play at New Mexico State and offensive lineman Treven Medawar (Hesperia HS) who has chosen Benedictine (Kan.)

Fusilier was a first-team All-Mountain Conference selection while Hicks while Smalls and Hicks were second-team All-conference selections.