`DREAM COME TRUE' THRILLS MUSKETEERS.Byline: Dave Desmond Daily News Staff Writer Until last season, Moorpark High School's girls' basketball team had never advanced beyond the first round of the Southern Section playoffs. So, please pardon the emotion displayed by players and coaches Wednesday night after their 52-42 victory over Dominguez vaulted the Musketeers into tonight's Division II-A championship game. ``This is a dream come true,'' said senior guard Tracey Milburn, whose unseeded team will meet top-ranked Brea-Olinda High School at 6:15 p.m. at the Long Beach Pyramid. It will mark the first time Moorpark has sent any of its boys' or girls' teams to a Southern Section final. ``I can't even describe how this feels,'' sophomore forward Damaris Hinojosa said. The two-time defending Frontier League The Frontier League, based in Troy, Illinois, is a professional, independent baseball organization located in the Midwestern United States and Western Pennsylvania. It operates mostly in cities not served by Major or Minor League Baseball teams and is not affiliated with either. champion Musketeers, however, need to play their best game tonight to keep the dream season alive. The joy of Saturday's quarterfinal quar·ter·fi·nal adj. Of or relating to one of four competitions in a tournament, whose winners go on to play in semifinal competitions. n. 1. quarterfinals A quarterfinal round. 2. A quarterfinal match. upset of San Bernardino San Bernardino, city, United States San Bernardino (săn bûr'nədē`nō), city (1990 pop. 164,164), seat of San Bernardino co., S Calif., at the foot of the San Bernardino Mts.; inc. 1854. was tempered by the opposing team's accusations of racial slurs. However, an investigation into the matter by Moorpark officials provided no evidence of such an occurrence. Brea-Olinda (25-3) has been characterized by area coaches as a basketball factory, and the LadyCats have built an unparalleled dynasty An application development system for enterprise client/server environments from Dynasty Technologies, Inc., Houston, TX (www.dynasty.com). Introduced in 1993, it is a repository-driven system that supports Windows, Mac and Motif clients and NT, OS/2 and major Unix servers and databases. in the Southern Section. They are seeking their ninth consecutive division championship and have been rated as high as fifth this season in various national polls. In 1993, Brea-Olinda won the national championship. All-Southern Section players Marissa Bradley and Jennifer Saari are the heart of a program that traditionally draws in excess of 2,000 green-clad LadyCat fans to the Pyramid each year. Moorpark will answer with senior guard Milburn, who has been on fire through the playoffs. She has averaged 22.3 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists in her last three games. With Milburn on the bench in foul trouble Wednesday, Hinojosa sparked a 15-4 fourth-quarter run against Dominguez, which resulted in the come-from-behind victory. She finished with 23 points, 16 rebounds, 11 steals and six blocked shots. Moorpark, which entered last year's playoffs seeded first in Division III-AA after an undefeated regular season, was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Bishop Montgomery High School Bishop Montgomery High School (commonly referred to as "BMHS" or simply "Bishop" by students) is a Catholic high school serving twenty-five parishes in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles. BMHS was founded in 1957, and staffed by the Sisters of St. , the eventual state champion. The Musketeers' postseason path has certainly been more bountiful Bountiful, city (1990 pop. 36,659), Davis co., N central Utah; inc. 1892. It is a residential suburb N of Salt Lake City with some farming and floral nurseries; machinery and motor vehicles are produced. Bountiful was settled by Mormons in 1847. this season, but not without its bumps bumps a term used to describe a variety of papulonodular dermatoses in horses, including 'heat bumps', 'feed bumps', 'protein bumps', 'wheat bumps' and others. No specific disease or etiology has been assigned to the term and veterinary dermatologists wish it would disappear from use. . They survived another early-round scare last week, outlasting host Atascadero in a second-round game that went into overtime. Win or lose tonight, the Musketeers already can claim a remarkable ride. ``This is what high school sports is all about,'' coach Brent Milburn said. ``Getting the opportunity to play for a section championship is extremely gratifying grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. .'' |
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