BELL-JEFF TOURNAMENT: CRESCENTA VALLEY THROWS HAT INTO RING.Byline: Gerry Gittelson Daily News Staff Writer Crescenta Valley High School Crescenta Valley High School is an secondary school located at 2900 Community Avenue in La Crescenta-Montrose, an unincorporated community in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The school is a part of the Glendale Unified School District. wants to be the Valley's No. 1 girls basketball team. Anybody care to argue? The Falcons certainly made believers of 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. , thrashing thrashing: see threshing. Excessive paging in a virtual memory computer. If programs are not written to run in a virtual memory environment, the operating system may spend excessive amounts of time swapping program pages in and out of the disk. the Pioneers 60-31 - after surging to a 43-9 halftime lead - in the consolation game Con`so`la´tion game 1. A game, match, etc., open only to losers in early stages of contests. of the Bell-Jeff Summer Hoop tournament on Saturday at Bell-Jeff. ``I read a lot about how great Harvard-Westlake is, but we're very strong,'' said senior Michelle Greco, Crescenta Valley's star player who scored 10 points in eight minutes against Simi Valley and averaged 24 per game last season. ``I think we're working better as a team this year.'' Crescenta Valley The Crescenta Valley is a small inland valley in Los Angeles County, California. Its name derives from its crescent-like shape, with the convex portion facing roughly northeast and the concave portion southwest. (29-3) advanced to the Southern Section Division I-A finals last season. Bell-Jeff, which lost by one point to the Falcons last year and went 31-2, is not expected to be nearly as dominant. Bell-Jeff has lost seven key players - including star Jaclyn Johnson - lost two-of-three in the tournament. Moorpark, featuring high-scoring Demaris Hinojosa, and Hart, which lost 38-31 to Crescenta Valley (without Greco) in summer league action last month at College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. , are also among the region's elite programs. New Crescenta Valley coach Damian Scribner has taken over the Falcons after guiding the junior varsity junior varsity n. Abbr. JV A high-school or college team that competes in interschool sports on the level below varsity. Noun 1. to a 20-0 record in 1996. Scribner, saying he was not concerned when the Falcons lost to hot-shooting Ayala 59-50 earlier in the Bell-Jeff tournament, likes what he sees. ``We're much better than last year,'' Scribner said. ``We're more versatile and more players will step up this season.'' Guard Tara Gregory, a returning All-Southern Section player, chipped in 20 points against Simi Valley. Gregory credits Scribner for bringing the team closer together. ``The big difference is there's more of a player-coach relationship this year,'' Gregory said. Greco is getting back in the swing after participating in several All-American basketball camps this summer. ``It's nice to be back,'' Greco said. ``We only lost two players and we have a lot of good players that have come up, so I think we have a lot of options on this team.'' |
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