BOYS' BASKETBALL: ASGHARI RIDES BENCH IN TAFT VICTORY SMITH SCORES 33 AS TOREADORS CLINCH THE WEST VALLEY TITLE TAFT 67, BIRMINGHAM 64.Byline: Gerry Gittelson Staff Writer Kicked off the Taft High of Woodland Hills' basketball team a month ago because of differences with coach Derrick derrick: see crane. Derrick famous hangman; eponym of modern hoisting apparatus. [Br. Hist.: Espy, 170] See : Execution Taylor, high-scoring Mustafa Asghari, now at Birmingham of Van Nuys, appears to be having similar problems with Patriots coach Al Bennett. Asghari, averaging 23.7 points per game, started against his ex-team Friday night but finished with just 10 points in 10 minutes and Bennett shouted at him. He was on the bench when visiting Taft of Woodland Hills surged to a 19-point lead in the fourth quarter. Asghari finally returned with 2:52 remaining and Birmingham down by 11. He was brilliant in the stretch run, dishing an assist, then hitting two 3-pointers in the final 42 seconds, including a 25-footer to pull the Patriots to within one point with 14 seconds left. Asghari was fouled on the play but missed the free throw - and a four- point play - that could have tied the game. As things were, Taft's Steve Smith hit four key free throws in the waning seconds and the Toreadors held on for 67-64 West Valley League victory in the regular-season finale For the music notation program, see . A finale (italian word) is a closing part, act or movement of a dramatic or musical composition, or more generally any event or procedure with a dramatically concluding effect. for both teams. Asghari's midcourt attempt rattled rat·tle 1 v. rat·tled, rat·tling, rat·tles v.intr. 1. a. To make or emit a quick succession of short percussive sounds. b. off the rim as time expired. Taft (16-7, 8-2) clinched the league title. Birmingham (7-12, 3-7) was on the bubble to qualify for an Invitational in·vi·ta·tion·al adj. Restricted to invited participants: an invitational golf tournament. n. An event, especially a sports tournament, restricted to invited participants. Adj. 1. playoff play·off also play-off n. Sports 1. A final game or series of games played to break a tie. 2. A series of games played to determine a championship. Noun 1. berth and might have blown its chances. Pairings will be announced today. Why did Bennett bench Asghari for so long? ``I refuse to answer that question,'' Bennett said. Asghari also declined to comment. Smith, who scored 33 points without having to worry about Asghari guarding him most of the evening, was as puzzled as anyone. ``I thought he should have played the whole game,'' Smith said. Birmingham had other problems. The Patriots committed 22 turnovers. And three times in the final minute the Toreadors rebounded their own missed free throws. Birmingham, which had lost to Taft by 13 points Jan. 24, kept up with the Toreadors for most of the first half. Lauren Leath's jumper The simplest form of an on/off switch. It is just a tiny, plastic-covered metal block, which is pushed onto two pins to close that circuit. It is used to select a myriad of functions on a printed circuit board or on a peripheral device. gave Birmingham a 22-19 lead with two minutes remaining before halftime. But Smith answered with two quick baskets, and Nima Javaherian's inside bucket A reserved amount of memory that holds a single item or multiple items of data. Bucket is somewhat synonymous to "buffer," although buffers are usually memory locations for incoming data records, while buckets tend to be smaller holding areas for calculations. See hash table, buffer and variable. gave Taft a 25-22 lead at the break. With Taft ahead by one early in the third quarter, Smith scored 15 points - including two 3-pointers - during a 20-3 spree, boosting the visitors to an 18-point lead heading into the fourth quarter. Smith scored 26 points in the second half. An all-state football player, he appeared equally as comfortable on the basketball floor. But he was concerned with Taft's inability to keep its lead and the fact he committed several key turnovers down the stretch. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what happened in the second half,'' he said. ``I guess their pressure got to us.'' Arman Shatrang led Birmingham with 18 points, including eight in the final three minutes "Three Minutes" is the 46th episode of Lost. It is the twenty-second episode of the second season. The episode was directed by Stephen Williams, and written by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. It first aired on May 17, 2006 on ABC. of the game. But he fouled out with 59 seconds left, which gave the momentum back to Taft. Leath scored 16 for the Patriots, and Levi Henry had 12. No Taft player other than Smith scored in double figures. |
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