Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Boo Jackson Offensive Player of the Year


BOO JACKSON has been unanimously named Offensive Player of the Year in the American Division of the Mission Conference for his spectacular season as El Camino College’s quarterback.

Jackson’s stats at the end of the regular season show him leading the conference with a 189.5 quarterback efficiency rating. He has thrown for 23 TD’s and been intercepted just four times. His completion percentage is 64.6 on 124 completions in 192 tries. His yardage total is 2047 for 10.66 yards per attempt.

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CROSS COUNTRY
BERKELEY - For the first time in school history, the California men's cross country team will compete as a team in the NCAA championships. The No. 10 Golden Bears received an at-large bid to the 2007 national meet on Sunday.
The Bears finished in the top five in every race this season, including a fourth-place finish at last Saturday's NCAA West Regional where MICHAEL COE finished 40th with a time of 31:10.90 over the 10K course. He was the fourth Cal runner to finish with Yosef Ghebray coming in eighth, David Torrence 9th and Mark Matusak 11th.
The NCAA championships will be held on Monday, Nov. 19, on the campus of Indiana State. Cal was among 12 other teams that earned one of the at-large bids to the 31-team, 255-runner men's and women's NCAA fields.
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IRVINE--COLIN HACKER helped UC Irvine’s men to finish 20th at the NCAA Regionals Saturday. Nick Mosey led UCI with a 60th-place finish of 31:42.10, followed by Sky Johnston in 90th (32:27.45), Hacker 116th (33:06.40) and Rusty Whisman 144th (34:02.00).
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MONTECITO --Westmont’s men’s and women’s cross country teams, including NICK MARTIN, are preparing to compete at the NAIA National Championship in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Saturday. The men’s team is returning to nationals for the third year in a row.
The men’s squad will be led by seniors Aaron Megazzi and Robert Cherry. Megazzi, who earned All-American honors at last year’s national championship, has been the marquee runner for the Warriors over the last four years. Cherry was Westmont’s top finisher at the Region II Championship two weeks ago.
Joining Megazzi and Cherry will be Martin, a senior, sophomore Sean Adams and freshmen Jacob Goodin and Eric Williams.


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WOMEN’S SOCCER

KATIE McINTOSH’s Chico State Wildcats were nipped in the first round of the NCAA Div. II playoffs last Friday by Cal State Los Angeles. Regulation ended scoreless. Chico’s season ended with a 13-5-3 record and a conference championship.

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BASKETBALL

JOEL SMITH was third leading scorer tonight as Washington downed Utah 83-77. He tallied 11 points in 21 minutes with 3-for-4 shooting. He went 4-of-5 from the free throw line. He also contributed three assists as Jon Brockman lit it up with 31 points. With the victory the Huskies now go to Madison Square Garden for the NIT semifinals against Texas A&M.


Smith was also in the starting lineup Tuesday night as Washington destroyed the New Jersey Institute of Technology 88-47 in the Huskies’ first official game of the season. Smith was at a guard spot where he saw 20 minutes of action and racked up 12 points on 5-of-7 shooting including 2-of-4 from beyond the arc. He also made two steals, grabbed two rebounds and committed zero personal fouls.

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GEOFF WEST was in the starting lineup for University of Mary’s second exhibition game vs. South Dakota State. His shooting touch was off a bit though. He went 0-for-6

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