BOYS' BASKETBALL PREVIEW: LITTLEROCK'S ADDED ALL THE LITTLE THINGS.Byline: Heather Gripp Staff Writer Last year, defense was enough to take second place. But with other valuable ingredients available to supplement the solid defense this time, the Littlerock High boys' basketball team expects to be in the running for a Golden League title. ``A lot of our points were generated on defense,'' Lobos coach Ben Dale said of the team he guided to a 20-6 record in his inaugural season. ``That's about all we had last year.'' Dale added a few more offensive strategies to Littlerock's repertoire Repertoire may mean Repertory but may also refer to:
adj. 1. Talking or behaving irrationally; wild: a raving maniac. 2. Exciting admiration: a raving beauty. n. about to make up for the loss of height that came with the graduation Graduation is the action of receiving or conferring an academic degree or the associated ceremony. The date of event is often called degree day. The event itself is also called commencement, convocation or invocation. of eight seniors from last season's team. ``We're trying to build something,'' Dale said, ``but this isn't a building year. ``We lost a bunch of seniors, but I've got the meat of the team back.'' Leading the way are seniors Gene Myvett and Brandon White Brandon Christian White (December 22, 1972- current, born in Baltimore, MD) is an entrepreneur known as an internet pioneer for starting an internet site called ChesapeakeAngler.com in 1995 which later became the better know recreational fishing site called WorldWideAngler.com. , two of only three non-seniors to earn first-team All-Golden League honors last season. Myvett, a 6-foot-4 guard, is in his third year on varsity and is coming off a season in which he led the Lobos with 19.1 points per game. White is a versatile 6-6 center, who averaged 10.8 points a game and led the region with 13.6 rebounds a game as a junior. ``He's a phenomenal rebounder,'' Dale said of White. ``He just runs the floor. You won't believe he's only 6-6 if you see him play.'' To go along with what Dale calls Littlerock's best senior class since the school's initial senior class, the Lobos expect to get plenty of playing time from sophomore Frank Robinson This article is about the baseball player and manager. For the Nottingham busker, see Frank Robinson (Xylophone Man). Frank Robinson (born August 31, 1935 in Beaumont, Texas), is a Hall of Fame former Major League Baseball player. and freshman Laqwin Mitchell. Robinson is a quick, 6-5 power forward with long arms that add to his defensive ability. He averaged close to 40 points a game last season for the Lobos' freshman team and was exposed to a higher level when he went to the Double Pump basketball camp. ``He came back wide-eyed,'' Dale said. ``He's a talented kid. He may be our first Division I player. He's got great athleticism; he's just one of those kids.'' Mitchell's previous experience is minimal, if any, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Dale, but the 5-9 point guard is an aggressive player who handles the ball well, has speed and doesn't seem intimidated in·tim·i·date tr.v. in·tim·i·dat·ed, in·tim·i·dat·ing, in·tim·i·dates 1. To make timid; fill with fear. 2. To coerce or inhibit by or as if by threats. by anyone. ``I didn't see any point in holding him back,'' Dale said. He also didn't see any point in holding his team back, which is why he is trying to get the Lobos the type of competition they need to prepare for the playoffs. Although Littlerock played teams with good records in the past, they were not at the Division I-AA level, leaving the it unprepared for the postseason, where they have yet to win a game. Littlerock substituted the Nordhoff tournament with 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. tournament this season, where Dale admits his team will ``be in over our heads.'' ``We go into playoffs with a 20-win season, that's great,'' Dale said, ``but we go in last year and they've never seen that level of competition.'' Half of Littlerock's six losses came in league last season, and the Lobos don't envision the race for the Golden League title getting any easier this season. Defending league champion Quartz quartz, one of the commonest of all rock-forming minerals and one of the most important constituents of the earth's crust. Chemically, it is silicon dioxide, SiO2. Hill's size and winning tradition make the Rebels Dale's pick to be the team to beat, but he considers Littlerock, Highland and Palmdale all in the mix for a title. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Gene Myvett is in his third season on Littlerock's varsity team In the United States and Canada and UK, varsity sports teams are the principal athletic teams representing a college, university, or high school or other secondary school. Such teams compete against the principal athletic teams at other colleges/universities, or in the case of . Tom Mendoza/Staff Photographer |
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