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REZ SAZGARI

Michigan club coach Greg
Perkins),
” Ditta said. “I asked
lots of questions and got the
answers I was looking for,
which was important because I
wasn’t coming to Michigan to
see him play.
“I learned Mori is a
phenomenal, multi-sport
athlete. He’s an attacking player,
which fits the profile of what
we were looking for in our
2023 recruiting class. And he’s
a fine young man.
”
Miller made his decision
to go to Pomona-Pitzer in
October.
Ditta said he has a good
nucleus of returnees to his
2023 team, but he wants his
incoming freshman to be
contributors, too.
“They don’t have to be
starters, but I want them to
push our starters,
” he said. “If
that happens, they can earn
some playing time and fill a
role for us.
”
Miller will be attending
Pitzer College for his classes.
He plans to study political
science and perhaps go to law
school from there.
The Pomona-Pitzer men’s

soccer team is a program on
the rise. It went 7-7-1 overall
and 6-4 in the tough Southern
California Intercollege
Conference last year. The
Sagehens advanced to the
semifinals in the conference
tournament.
Sagehens? Yep, that’s the
nickname of the 21 Pomona-
Pitzer sports teams. Their
mascot is Cecil the Sagehen.
The Sage Grouse is a large
ground-dwelling bird that can
grow to 30 inches in length
and two feet in height. It
feeds mainly on insects and
sagebrush, which is how it got
its name.
“I know. Our mascot is a
bird. But Cecil can be mean,
”
Ditta said.
Pomona-Pitzer’s primary
sports rival is Claremont-
Mudd-Scripts, the co-op teams
of the other three colleges
in the Claremont College
consortium. All five schools
are located in Claremont, a
city located 30 miles east of
downtown Los Angeles.

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Mori Miller works his way around a Detroit Country Day player
during a game last season.