BOYS' SOCCER PREVIEW: CLOSE FOOTHILL RACE IS EXPECTED.Byline: Matthew Kredell Staff Writer Foothill League play begins today and, after more than a month of boys' soccer tournaments and warm-up contests, contenders for the title are down to, oh, about four or five teams. Two things are evident. One, there is no dominant team in the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. . Two, this will be one of the most competitive Foothill League seasons in recent memory. Hart and Canyon usually contend for the title. This season, Valencia and Saugus also could contend, and Burbank can't be ruled out. The matchup between Canyon, the defending Foothill League champion, and Hart, which won the previous two years, is the league's most significant. Canyon plays at Hart on Jan. 18. Then, in what could decide the league title, Hart plays at Canyon for the final game of the regular season Feb. 7. ``It will be a battle right down to the wire,'' Hart coach Robert Ciccone said. ``I wouldn't be surprised if it came down to the last game.'' Another interesting matchup will be Hart and Valencia. Hart beat Valencia 3-0 in the final of the Hart tournament. But it is difficult to beat an opponent three times in a season, as Newbury Park found out when tied by Valencia in the Hart tournament after beating the Vikings 5-0 and 3-0 in two previous contests. ``We get them two more times,'' Valencia forward Brian Wright For the convicted drug smuggler, see . Brian Wright (born in Sydney, New South Wales) was an Australian rugby league player for the South Sydney Rabbitohs and the Eastern Suburbs Roosters in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership competition. said after losing to Hart. ``No one expected us to get this far.'' Hart has to be considered the league favorite, coming off a Hart tournament championship. But the Indians went through a bracket In programming, brackets (the [ and ] characters) are used to enclose numbers and subscripts. For example, in the C statement int menustart [4] = ; the [4] indicates the number of elements in the array, and the contents are enclosed in curly braces. without stellar competition. Hart's best win on the season actually was a tie against Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks. Canyon has a win in penalty kicks over defending City champion El Camino Real El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road or The King's Highway) was the name of a series of pre-automobile highways linking the various New World colonies of Spain:
tr.v. o·ver·whelmed, o·ver·whelm·ing, o·ver·whelms 1. To surge over and submerge; engulf: waves overwhelming the rocky shoreline. 2. a. up-and-coming City team Granada Hills 4-0. It's a sharp contrast to the nearby Golden League, where every coach concedes the league title to Quartz Hill. The Rebels have beaten Hart, Canyon, Valencia and Saugus. Quartz Hill coach Andre Matalon said Saugus played his team the toughest in a 2-0 game. Saugus also beat Sylmar and tied Westlake. The league's top player is Hart goalkeeper For the close-in weapon system, see . In many team sports, a goalkeeper (termed goaltender, netminder, goalie, or keeper in some sports) is a designated player that is charged with directly preventing the opposite team from scoring by defending the Kyle Reynish Kyle Reynish (born Novemebr 3, 1983 in Valencia, California) is an American soccer goal keeper, who currently plays for Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer. Reynish played college soccer for University of California Santa Barbara from 2002-2006, sitting out between his freshman , who has had 12 shutouts each of the past two seasons, a Hart record. He had four shutouts in the Hart tournament, allowing just one goal and scoring a goal from 75 yards with one of his awesome drop kicks. Reynish, a senior, is in the process of deciding on a college. But he finds it difficult to schedule recruiting trips during a league season so competitive. ``No one in the league is going to be a pushover push·o·ver n. 1. One that is easily defeated or taken advantage of. 2. Something that is easily done or attained. See Synonyms at breeze1. ,'' he said. ``There's no team I can skip. Anyone can beat anyone.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Tim Sachs and his Hart High teammates are expected to be in the thick of the Foothill League boys' soccer race. Andy Holzman/Staff Photographer |
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