BOYS' SOCCER NOTEBOOK: NO SIGNS OF HART SLOWING DOWN.Byline: Matthew Kredell Staff Writer Hart became a Foothill League power in boys' soccer in Robert Ciccone's six years as coach. But with Ciccone retiring and 12 seniors graduating, it appeared the Indians were going to take their lumps this season. All those league teams hoping to kick Hart while it was down had better make new plans. Under first-year coach Louis Romero, the transition has been a smooth one. In fact, the Indians are better than ever. Hart is off to a 13-0-1 start, scoring 35 goals and allowing just three. ``We're doing a lot better than a lot of people were giving us credit for entering the season,'' Romero said. ``Being a young team with a new coach, they figured we wouldn't do very well. I got to give a lot of credit to the kids.'' The turnaround Turnaround A situation where a company that has had poor performance for an extended period of time experiences a positive reversal. Notes: A speculator may profit from a turnaround if he or she accurately anticipates the improvement of a poorly performing company. of players actually might have helped Romero. He was familiar with most of the younger players coming up, having served as the frosh/soph coach the past three years. Returning starter Jose Esquivel has been a key for Hart at 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 , shutting down 11 opponents. Matt Valaika has emerged to replace the departed Devin Del Do as the team's top scorer. With 17 goals, Valaika is on pace to break Del Do's school record of 22. ``I think we're even better than last year,'' midfielder
In association football, a midfielder is a player whose position of play is midway between the attacking strikers and the defenders (highlighted in blue on the diagram). Juan Hernandez said of the team that went undefeated in Foothill League play. ``Last year, it was more, Get the ball to Devin-type thing. This year, we pass the ball quickly and open it up for each other. We play beautiful team soccer.'' --Hart tournament revisited: After a two-week hiatus hiatus /hi·a·tus/ (hi-a´tus) [L.] an opening, gap, or cleft.hia´tal aortic hiatus the opening in the diaphragm through which the aorta and thoracic duct pass. because of the rain, the Hart soccer tournament will continue Saturday. The quarterfinals will be played at 12:30 p.m., with the semifinals at 3:30 p.m. The final is at 10 a.m. Monday. The quarterfinal quar·ter·fi·nal adj. Of or relating to one of four competitions in a tournament, whose winners go on to play in semifinal competitions. n. 1. quarterfinals A quarterfinal round. 2. A quarterfinal match. schedule is Saugus vs. Monroe of North Hills, Paraclete of Lancaster vs. Beverly Hills Beverly Hills, city (1990 pop. 31,971), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The largely residential city is home to many motion-picture and television personalities. , Hart vs. Chatsworth and Granada Hills vs. Valencia. Valencia was added back into the top 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. because Canoga Park dropped out of the tournament. --Rough stretch: The rain from past weeks will make for a tough schedule as teams scramble To encode (encrypt) data in order to make it indecipherable without having a secret key to "unlock" it. The term came from the early days of cryptography which camouflaged analog transmissions with secret frequency patterns. to make up games. Most area teams had two league games rained out, and have to fit in the Hart tournament this weekend. Hart could end up playing six games in seven days with two games in the Hart tournament Saturday, the Hart tournament final Monday, Valencia on Tuesday, a makeup makeup In the performing arts, material used by actors for cosmetic purposes and to help create the characters they play. Not needed in Greek and Roman theatre because of the use of masks, makeup was used in the religious plays of medieval Europe, in which the angels' faces Wednesday with Burroughs of Burbank and Saugus on Friday. Even with the games piling up, Hart coach Romero isn't concerned. ``You can never play enough soccer for those guys,'' Romero said. ``They were all upset with me for canceling games. They're hungry to play.'' Matthew Kredell, (818)713-3607 matthew.kredell(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Hart's Fabrice Gautrat, left, battles Quartz Hill's Garrett McDaniel for a loose ball. John Lazar/Staff Photographer |
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