BASKETBALL BEAT: SIMI VALLEY BEATS ROYAL, MAKES PLAYOFFS AT SAME TIME.Byline: Heather Gripp and Jim Inghram Daily News Staff Writer The chance to sweep Royal was incentive enough for the Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. girls' basketball team. With the added bonus of securing a playoff berth, the rivalry had even more meaning Saturday. The Pioneers applied a defensive grip on the Highlanders that limited them to 11 of 40 shooting from the field and rolled to a 46-34 victory. It improved Simi Valley's record to 18-6 overall and, more importantly, 7-3 in league play. It also assured them of a place in the Southern Section Division I-A playoffs. Senior Jamie Sturdivant led the Pioneers with 10 points, but it was her defensive work against Royal's Mari Myllykoski that made the difference. Myllykoski, who Royal coach Mike Kohl has called one of the best jump-shooters he has ever seen, had just two points. She entered the game averaging almost 17 a game. ``We knew it would be a close game and that we needed to play good defense to win,'' Sturdivant said. The Pioneers plan was to deny Myllykoski and post player Teresa Russell the ball and make the Highlanders use other options. Russell finished with four points. Elise Metcalf had 10 points for Simi Valley to tie Sturdivant for game-high honors. Kellie Gessell had nine to lead Royal. She's back: A pre-game defensive drill cost Grace Brethren's Crystal Robertstwo months of her senior season while she recovered from an injured right index finger. She returned to practice Monday and will play sparingly spar·ing adj. 1. Given to or marked by prudence and restraint in the use of material resources. 2. Deficient or limited in quantity, fullness, or extent. 3. Forbearing; lenient. Thursday as 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. host L.A. Lutheran. Her minutes should increase, however, especially if the Lancers qualify for the playoffs. ``I hit hands with one of my teammates when we were warming up,'' Roberts said. ``It didn't seem like much at first, but after a while I couldn't bend it so I knew something was wrong.'' Roberts had the finger checked and it was discovered that she pulled a ligament ligament (lĭg`əmənt), strong band of white fibrous connective tissue that joins bones to other bones or to cartilage in the joint areas. The bundles of collagenous fibers that form ligaments tend to be pliable but not elastic. and had a bone chip. Just like that, she was out. ``Her main sport is softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' ,'' Grace Brethren girls' basketball coach and athletic director Athletic director (commonly, "athletics director") is a position at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, which oversees the work of the coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic Scott Nandor said. ``We didn't want to take any chances of ruining that season for her. She is easily the best pitcher in the league and we didn't want to mess around.'' After her first practice Monday, Roberts said she was a little scared because she was worried about re-injury. ``It's still sensitive,'' she said. ``But it's taped up and should be fine.'' New league, same result: The Moorpark girls officially clinched their first Marmonte League The Marmonte League is a high school sports league primarily made up of schools from Ventura County. The Marmonte Leauge is part of the CIF Southern Section. Click here to view the league schedule. title last week. Damaris Hinojosa's ability to produce essentially anything the Musketeers need, from numerous points to rebounds, enabled the 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. champs to dominate their new league as much as the old one. Moorpark, which has lost one game overall, improved to 11-0 in the Marmonte after Monday's win against Agoura. Happy birthday: Newbury Park girls' coach Nori Parvin is putting her birthday celebration on hold this year. As a triplet triplet /trip·let/ (trip´let) 1. one of three offspring produced at one birth. 2. a combination of three objects or entities acting together, as three lenses or three nucleotides. 3. , she usually spends the day with her brother and sister, but this time their birthday falls on the same day as Sunday's basketball seeding meeting. Parvin is on the seeding committee. Her Panthers (11-11, 5-6) could provide the perfect gift by earning the Marmonte's final playoff spot. Newbury Park pulled off an upset of second-place Simi Valley two weeks ago, but the Panthers slipped in the standings last week with losses to Moorpark and 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. . Monday's win against Westlake kept the Panthers in the running, but Royal (11-10, 5-5) clings to a slight advantage for third. Big game: The winner of tonight's matchup between La Reina La Reina (Spanish: "The queen") is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It consistently ranks in the top five communes with the best quality of life in the Metropolitan Region. and Oak Park gains the upper hand in the race for the Tri-Valley League's final girls playoff berth. The Regents (11-7, 4-4) and the host Eagles (10-10, 4-4) are both tied with Bishop Diego for the third place. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO STURDIVANT |
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