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By Robert Buttitta
"Just go out there and have a
good time."
That is what head football coach
Larry Reisbig said to his team
before it went out to play a tough,
talented, Ventura team last Satur-
day.
At that time that (having a good
time) seemed to be the only thing
COC could do. Ventura went into
the game ranked 8th in the country
and 4th in California.
However, after a terrible first
quarter, the Cougars came back in a
big way to crush Ventura 35-21. If
one saw only the first quarter, he
wouldn't have believed the outcome.
On the third play of the game,
Ventura's quarter-back ran by the
entire COC defense enroute to a 67 -
yard touchdown run. At the end of
that quarter, Ventura led 14-0 with
COC having a negative four yards
offense. COC's fine quarterback, Reggie Ogburn (11), passed and ran the Ventura Pirates wild in last Saturday's game which the
The second quarter began in
Cougars won 35-21. Ogburn passed for three touchdowns, ran 37 yards to score another, and ripped off a 76-yard scamper
much the same fashion. COC that led to more points. The Pirates rate as one of the top-10 community college teams in the nation. Cougars play
fumbled the kickoff, but luckily Glendale there tomorrow afternoon. (Photo by Ron Nicholson).
recovered the ball. It looked as if it
was going to be a long, long game Harriers Run
for COC - until the Cougars got a
big break. That break was a
recovered fumble. Jeff Tracy Third in WSC
pounced on the loose ball at the
Pirate 35-yard line. By Jim Walsh
That fired up the COC offense, Cougar harriers didn't win but
and the team marched 35 yards for a looked good in losing at Santa Maria
score, the last 15 coming on an last week against a highly competi-
Reggie Ogburn to Randy Ryan pass. tive Allan Hancock.
A few minutes later, COC was on Hancock took the steam out of our
the march again. A 20-yard run by cross country runners by taking 1st,
Ken Gipson was one of two big plays 3d, 4th, 6th and 7th places in the
in the drive. The other was quarter-
back Obgurn's 37-yard T.D. scram-
ble. Biggest cross country meet '
l
With 5 minutes left in the half, of the year here is tomorrow's 1
the score was tied. That's the way it (Saturday, Oct. 15) COC :
stayed until the third quarter when Cross Country Invitational in
the Cougars offense scored another which up to 30 high school and
touchdown, this one on a 1-yard 15 community college squads
pass to Anthony Robbins. will compete. This, the third
Incredibly, COC now led 21-14 in annual Invitational, will in-
a game in which it had been down clude Monterey, rated No. 1
14-0. After a Pirate touchdown tied in the state. San Jose, rated
the score at 21-21, COC began on No. 2, also may compete. The
offense again. The Ventura defense Cougars won the event two
held and COC punted. Ventura then years ago and placed second
marched to the COC 10-yard line last year. High school harriers
where it had a first and goal. Now start running at 9 a.m. and
- the break of the game! the college boys at 1:30 p.m.
Ventura fumbled and COC's Avon
Riley recovered the loose ball. With dual meet, logging 21 points. The Robin Barbarick, member of COC's women's cross country team, crossed
3rd and 12, COC's big play maker, Cougars placed 2d, 5th, 8th, 9th and finished line first among Cougar harriers in recent meet staged here. At left is
Reggie Ogburn, broke loose for a 10th for 34 points. (Lowest score in assistant coach Pat Williams, former Idaho State sprinter.
76-yard run to the Pirate 17-yard cross country wins).
line. A few plays later, Ogburn hit Our Main Man, Joe Terrones, "They ran extremely well in this
Ryan again and COC led 28-21. scored the second place in a good contest, running together as a OPINION
COC's final score came on a time of 21.20. Joe is the Cougar's closely knit unit," said coach Monty
40-yard interception run by Terry most consistent runner so far this Cartwright. (Cont'd From Page 2)
Love. season. The scores were COC, 25, Santa I tried one of those Spanish
Terrones was also COC's front Barbara, 36, and COC, 15, Compton, stations but understood nothing.
MOVIE SITE runner at the conference meet with 50. And the 24-hour news station at
Moorpark which the Cougars won What are Cougar chances at 7 :30 o'clock in the morning drove me
(Cont'd From Page 1) by a score of 26-36. another Western State Conference up the wall.
"Every dollar we get in rental But perhaps the best performance title? (COC is the defending cham- I had only one choice left.
fees means one less dollar from the so far by our harriers was turned in pion). I braced myself and prepared to
district taxpayers," he said. at the recent three-way meet with "We're the darkhorse this sea- go deaf.
This is the second Quincy episode Santa Barbara and Compton, which son," said Cartwright. "We're third
filmed here. Other filming involved COC won. Cougars placed 3d, 4th, in the conference right now, having KHJ!!!
Something for Joey, a Mary Tyler 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th, with lost two meets so far." The music was still the same, and
Moore production; a Polaroid com- Terrones again leading our pack, A realistic forecast calls for the the disc jockey was as raucous as
mercial featuring James Garner and followed by Eric Goethals, Manual Cougars to place third in the ever. But what a relief! Just what I
commercials for Toyota cars, Wrig- Fierroz, Ismal Garcia, Will Porter, conference this year, after Glendale needed - a sure cure for· radio
ley gum and an air conditioner. Ron Shirley and Richard Uhlman. and Hancock. boredom.