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DC Irvine: Time to begin anew for AnteatersV / •Tpie Orange County Register» •t IRVINE — Forget UC Irvine won just once last season. And lost 25 times.•Forget the Anteaters return four starters from that team. Only one is a junior, two are sophomores ahd the lone senior is academically ineligible. And ofoly one, junior Lamarr Parker, has seen UCI win n^ore than one game.* Forget, too, that attendance dipped almost as the morale around the Anteaters program.! First-year coach Pat Douglass isn’t remember-iflt tny of that. It’s a new season with a new coach-iag staff, new players, new uniforms and even new sboes. More important, Douglass is instilling a new ajttitude.* You can’t dwell on last year and come in and you were unsuccessful because you didn’t dosaid Douglass, whose Anteaters open the n Saturday playing host to San Francisco, s is a new program.... We are starting over.” glass’ reclamation project began with an aul of the team. Several players are gone, ullhble to meet offseason guidelines Douglass set.; Douglass is counting on a strong group of newcomers to lead the turnaround, along with returning starters sophomores Andrew Carlson, a center Who has shed 20 pounds and improved his moves updemeath; Juma Jackson, a forward; andParker, last year’s leading scorer, who could see time at point guard and shooting guard.I ‘y?e have a lot of players in the program who djoiPt know to play at this level, but Lamarr does,” Douglass said.I Parker averaged a team-high 13.4 points, four assists and had 47 steals last season. Douglass initially figured to move Parker to the shooting gutrd spot permanently and hand over the point job to transfer Junior Bond, who averaged 14 pflfits, six assists and two rebounds for Illinois al College last season.t after watching that combination in two exhi-games, Douglass is leaning toward using er as a back-up point guard.Carlson and Jackson, both Big West All-Fresh-mgn last season, will anchor the front line. Carlson attended pete Newell’s Big Man Camp over the stflhmer, and it shows.3ouglass has several players who can play small flt;Rvard — freshman Ben Jones, who averaged 17 P9its and 12.3 rebounds at Sonora High last sea-sad; Adam Stetson, a 6-7 forward from Western wbraska Community College; and Brian Scoggin, WQo averaged 14 points at Saddleback College a yjjfr ago.think we can shoot the ball,” Douglass said.J ut can they win?'I don’t have the same expectations as some cgbches (in Big West),” Douglass said. ‘‘But I do h|e a vision as to where I want the program toIfCI ROSTERMayerJason Flowers 4 mi Lamarr Parker 1 £ Malachi Edmond 1 £} Junior Bond ig Juma Jackson 2qC Puneet Sahi 2mL Brian Scoggin - Anthony Delacruz Adam Stetson Ben Jones Matt Willard t Andrew CarlsonpYr.Ht.Wt.GFr.6-1180GJr.6-1180GJr.6-0165GJr.5-8140FSo.6-4180GJr.5-11145GJr.6-2190GSo.6-4190FSo.6-7210FFr.6-7210FJr.6-9225CSo.6-10245
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Santa Ana Orange County Register
Santa Ana, California, US
Thu, Nov 13, 1997
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