BOYS' VOLLEYBALL: VALENCIA BEATS CANYON TO NAB FOOTHILL TITLE VALENCIA 3, CANYON 1.Byline: Lee Barnathan Staff Writer SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, - The reign is over. The domination of the Foothill League is ended. The swagger the Canyon boys' volleyball volleyball, outdoor or indoor ball and net game played on a level court. An upright net, 3 ft (or 1 m) high, the top of which stands 8 ft (2.43 m) from the ground for men, 7 ft 4 1/8 in (2. team exhibited for two seasons is gone, having moved across town to Valencia. Except for a third-game surge that averted a·vert tr.v. a·vert·ed, a·vert·ing, a·verts 1. To turn away: avert one's eyes. 2. a sweep, visiting Canyon found itself outclassed out·class tr.v. out·classed, out·class·ing, out·class·es To surpass decisively, so as to appear of a higher class. Adj. 1. , outmatched and outlasted. The Vikings won their first league title Tuesday with a 15-7, 15-9, 14-16, 15-6 victory. Then their booster club A booster club is an organization that is formed to contribute money to an associated club, sports team, or organization. Booster clubs are popular in American schools at the high school and university level. surprised them with league-champion T-shirts. It almost was too much for Valencia outside hitter Chris Haigh. ``I'll probably go home and cry, I'm so happy,'' Haigh said after a match-high 20-kill, 14-dig effort. ``It's the first time we beat Canyon (actually, the second). The dream's finally come true. I dream about it every night, every practice. It's all about beating Canyon.'' Canyon (20-6, 6-2) had won the last two league titles and the Cowboys cowboys, in American history. 1 Tory marauders, adherents to the British cause in the American Revolution, who fought in the contested area of Westchester co., N.Y. thought they could sweep through the league again this season. The streak reached 23 consecutive league matches before Valencia (25-4, 7-1) won last week. But actually, the Cowboys had been in trouble before that. Their best hitter, Jesse Alo, had been slumping. Then the team drew a difficult 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. at the Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. tournament, played well but fell short of expectations. Against Valencia this season, they didn't come to play until it was either too late or almost too late. ``It seems like Valencia gets up for us and we get down,'' Canyon coach Dave Gutierrez said. ``Valencia's sharper against us. They play their best against us. Valencia's gotten better every time.'' In the first meeting April 3, Valencia had match point before Canyon came back to win in five games. On April 26 and on Tuesday, the Vikings won the first two games easily before the Cowboys woke up. Last month, Canyon won the third game 15-2. On Tuesday, the Cowboys trailed 9-2 before rallying and again denying Valencia at match point. This time, unlike the April 3 match, the Vikings regrouped in the fourth game and turned a 6-5 Canyon lead into victory. No Canyon player got more than Alo and Fernando Martinez's 11 kills. Martinez had 12 digs, and Alo and Marcos Borja had 11 digs each. ``We got our mentality men·tal·i·ty n. The sum of a person's intellectual capabilities or endowment. straightened out,'' said Valencia outside hitter Corey Feldt, who had 13 kills, ``and we had to put people away. There was no stopping us then.'' With one league game remaining Thursday, both teams have qualified for next week's playoffs, Valencia in Division I and Canyon in the more challenging Division II. Gutierrez can only hope his team comes more ready to play. ``I thought we were making mental errors, making dumb mistakes, mistakes we don't make in practice, mistakes we don't make against other teams,'' Gutierrez said. ``Bad choices, net mistakes at bad times. In the first game, we served five balls out. I can't coach that. The guys have to figure it out.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Canyon's Skyler Chambers (24) tries to block a shot by Valencia's David Lauf during the Vikings' Foothill League victory Tuesday. Phil McCarten/Staff Photographer |
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