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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.

