BOYS SOCCER BEAT : SAME NAME, 2 GAMES.There's Jose Freire, Birmingham soccer coach. And then there's Jose Freire, veteran international broadcaster. In his nine seasons, Freire has built the Braves into one of the most consistent City Section teams. This year is no different - after Birmingham's 2-0 Northwest Valley Conference victory over San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. on Wednesday the defending conference champ is 7-0 and ranked No. 5 in the Daily News Top 10. When he's not running drills, Freire is an L.A. radio and television sports correspondent, beaming broadcasts of Dodgers, Angels and now Galaxy games to his native Ecuador. ``I go to all the games,'' he said. ``I've been doing baseball on the radio for 24 years.'' The native of Guayaquil (about 100 miles southwest of the nation's capital Quito) has a new beat - Major League Soccer's Galaxy, which just completed it's second season. He has little excuse to be scooped by the competition - Galaxy head coach Octavio Zambrano Octavio Zambrano (born February 3, 1958 in Guayaquil, Ecuador) is a soccer coach, one of the all-time winningest coaches in Major League Soccer history. Zambrano moved to the United States from his native Ecuador in 1980 to attend Chapman University and later played in the is also from Guayaquil, and one of the team's best players is Esmeraldas, Ecuador's own Eduardo Hurtado Eduardo Hurtado Roa (born January 12, 1969, in Esmeraldas, Ecuador) is a footballer who plays as a striker. He has the record of being one of the all-time leading scorers for the Ecuador national football team with 26 goals in 74 caps. . ``I know Octavio,'' Freire said. ``He's supposed to come to one of our games, sometime.'' Marmonte mix-up So, what happens when the area's top-ranked soccer team shows up for its game and nobody's there? It happened Wednesday, sort of, when 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. was to host Channel Islands in the Marmonte League The Marmonte League is a high school sports league primarily made up of schools from Ventura County. The Marmonte Leauge is part of the CIF Southern Section. Click here to view the league schedule. opener. As the kickoff drew near, the only Channel Islands team around was the junior varsity junior varsity n. Abbr. JV A high-school or college team that competes in interschool sports on the level below varsity. Noun 1. . It turns out the Raiders never heard that Simi Valley switched starting times this season from 5:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. The game was eventually postponed, probably to Jan. 12. The mix-up couldn't come at a worse time for the No. 1 Pioneers, who host No. 3 Royal today at 2:30 p.m. The team hasn't been in a match since winning the Lancaster tournament over the weekend and hasn't played on their new, 75-yard-wide field since a playoff game Noun 1. playoff game - one game in the series of games constituting a playoff game - a single play of a sport or other contest; "the game lasted two hours" playoff - any final competition to determine a championship last year. Not a great way to prepare for the league rival. ``I almost felt like playing their JVs,'' Simi Valley coach Rob Looyen said. ``Now I hope we can get enough bounces our way (against Royal) and win the game.'' Tough break It was not the way former Daily News Player of the Year Pete Vagenas wanted it to happen, but the ex-St. Francis star will take his NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association championship after watching from the bench during UCLA's 2-0 victory over Virginia on Sunday in Richmond, Va. Vagenas, who played a major role in the Bruins' midfield, hurt his right ankle during UCLA's quarterfinal victory over Clemson the week before. He spent hours in the training room leading up to the Final Four but was unable to play. ``It's killing me, not being out there,'' said Vagenas, a sophomore. Other locals on the Bruins' title team: sophomore defender Nick Paneno (La Canada), junior defender Adam Cooper Introduction Adam Cooper was a character in the Australian police drama series ‘Blue Heelers’. He joined the cast in late 1994 while the programme was still in its first season. He was transferred to Mt. (Calabasas), redshirt freshman midfielder Caleb Westbay (Royal). Etc. All-Tourney honors: The Burroughs All-Tournament team - Sean Gesell and Josh Montgomery (Royal), Miguel Meneses and Rob Honicky (Burroughs), Justin Canel and Armando Nila (Crespi), Claudio Basaez (St. Francis), Jeremy Hetzel (Kennedy), Zack Schwartz (Harvard-Westlake), Rick Zeller (Valencia). Bumps and bruises: The early-season struggles of Crespi (3-2) are not purely tactical. The Celts The following pages provide lists of nations or people of Celtic origin, arranged by branch of Celtic ethnicity or language grouping: Goidelic Celts
1. ACL - Access Control List. 2. ACL - Association for Computational Linguistics. 3. ACL - A Coroutine Language. A Pascal-based implementation of coroutines. ["Coroutines", C.D. . He will have surgery over the winter break and is done for the season. ``It was kind of a freakish freak·ish adj. 1. Markedly unusual or abnormal; strange: freakish weather; a freakish combination of styles. 2. Relating to or being a freak: a freakish extra toe. accident,'' Crespi coach Rob Kodama said. ``Now we expect other guys to step up.'' Scoring pains: Palmdale coach Claudia Cline said her Falcons have been struggling to score goals. If there's a dispute, note that the team's leading scorer is sweeper Kim Britton (5 goals), who has been asked to play striker the last two games to bolster offensive opportunities. ``It's a lack of personnel,'' Cline said. ``We only have one true forward.'' Color me bad: It's a frightening trend, first seen `in America on the feet of U.S. national team midfielder Thomas Dooley and repeated on area pitches - colored cleats. In a two-day span, golden-painted shoes were spotted on San Fernando midfielder Emanuel Tovar, while two Crespi players - Tim Clunen and Ryan Baker - were seen in fluorescent yellow boots. Maybe it makes them faster. CAPTION(S): Photo, Box Photo: Birmingham's Jose Freire Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News Box: DAILY NEWS TOP 10 |
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