`HUGE TASK' AWAITS THOUSAND OAKS; NEWBURY PARK PASSING FORMIDABLE.Byline: Jim Inghram Daily News Staff Writer Statistically speaking, the top-ranked team in the area going against a middle-of-the-pack team that is struggling of late would represent a mismatch mismatch 1. in blood transfusions and transplantation immunology, an incompatibility between potential donor and recipient. 2. one or more nucleotides in one of the double strands in a nucleic acid molecule without complementary nucleotides in the same position on the other . Newbury Park (9-0, 6-0) is flying. Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. (4-5, 3-3) is not. The Lancers lanc·er n. 1. A cavalryman armed with a lance. 2. A member of a regiment originally armed with lances. 3. lancers (used with a sing. verb) a. A kind of quadrille. b. are not having the season it hoped for. A 28-point loss to Agoura last week didn't help. The same Agoura team Newbury Park beat by 10. Does that mean Newbury Park is favored by 38? Well, on closer examination of past scores, which mean little, the Lancers defeated Royal by four and the Panthers edged Royal by three. So there is some hope for Thousand Oaks? ``There's hope, we know we have to play our best game to beat them,'' Thousand Oaks coach Mike Kelly This article is about the newspaper columnist. For the baseball player, see Mike Kelly (baseball). Mike Kelly is a columnist for the The Record, a newspaper serving Bergen County, New Jersey. said. ``We have a huge task in front of us, but we hope top make it entertaining and stay in the game. Typically this game has had a league championship at stake and has seen crowds of 7 or 8,000, hopefully we'll get close to that and the crowd will help us finish up on a great note and help salvage salvage, in maritime law, the compensation that the owner must pay for having his vessel or cargo saved from peril, such as shipwreck, fire, or capture by an enemy. Salvage is awarded only when the party making the rescue was under no legal obligation to do so. our season.'' Kelly said the key to the game is to stop the Panthers passing attack. Easier said than done. ``Nine teams have tried to do that and nine teams have failed,'' Kelly said. ``Nobody has been able to do that. It wouldn't break our heart if there was a little rain on Friday night.'' Having said that Kelly also noted the Panthers defense, while lacking in recognition in comparison to its offense, is equally formidable. ``Their offense is always touted,'' Kelly said, ``but the defense creates a ton of problems.'' Newbury Park coach George Hurley George Hurley (born September 4 1958 in Brockton, Massachusetts) is a drummer noted for his work with The Minutemen and fIREHOSE. Hurley's powerful style brought a sense of musicianship to the genre, paving the way for new possibilities in underground music. stated that his team had two goals coming into the season: ``One was to develop a running game, the other was a better defense. This is the best defense we've had since 1991.'' The defense is paced by defensive backs Russell Thomas and Jake Farrel and linebacker Brian Crain. The offense behind quarterback Nick Czernek is one of the most proficient pro·fi·cient adj. Having or marked by an advanced degree of competence, as in an art, vocation, profession, or branch of learning. n. An expert; an adept. in the area. Czernek has passed for 2,440 yards. His main targets are Farrel (53 receptions), Tyler Johnson Tyler Johnson (born June 7, 1981), is an American baseball player born in Columbia, Missouri. Johnson spent most of the 2006 season with the Cardinals' minor league team, the Memphis Redbirds, but appeared in 56 games and pitched 36.1 innings with the St. Louis Cardinals. (33) and Paul Sanford (30). ``They have a lot of weapons,'' Kelly said. ``We'll have our work cut out trying to keep everything in check.'' CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: PAUL SANFORD The receiver is a key player in Newbury Park's passing attack with 30 receptions this season |
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