CHATSWORTH CAN'T RESPOND AS WESTCHESTER ERUPTS\WESTCHESTER 84, CHATSWORTH 69.Byline: Gary Washburn Daily News Staff Writer By the time it was over, the game was really over. But Chatsworth High School boys' basketball coach Fluke fluke, parasitic flatworm of the trematoda class, related to the tapeworm. Instead of the cilia, external sense organs, and epidermis of the free-living flatworms, adult flukes have sucking disks with which they cling to their hosts and an external cuticle that Fluker still had to send his team out to play for 15 more minutes. A bad stretch is an understatement. This was downright sickening. A 48-4 (yes, 48-4) Westchester run in the second and third quarters made this first round City Section 4-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 a rout as the Comets cruised to a 84-69 win Friday at Westchester High. Chatsworth (10-10) actually led 19-14 when Keith Stevens Keith Henry "Rhino" Stevens (born 21 June 1964) is an English former professional footballer. He spent his entire first-class playing career with Millwall, making his debut in a Third Division fixture against Oxford United in April 1981, when still only 16 years old. hit two free throws with 7:12 left in the second quarter. Then it seemed as if Rod Serling Rodman Edward "Rod" Serling (December 25, 1924–June 28, 1975) was an American screenwriter, best known for his live television dramas of the early 1950s and his science fiction anthology TV series, The Twilight Zone. walked into the gym at that moment. The Comets (22-6) began with a 16-0 run to forge ahead 30-21. Oke Ogoke (23 points) then hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer for a 35-23 halftime lead. Westchester then scored the first 27 points of the third quarter to go ahead 62-23. Chatsworth missed 18 consecutive shots during that stretch, while Comets sophomore point guard Tony Bland Anthony David ("Tony") Bland (21 September1970 - 3 March 1993) was a supporter of Liverpool football club injured in the Hillsborough disaster. He suffered severe brain damage that left him in a persistent vegetative state whereby the hospital, with the support of his parents, - a Toby Bailey John Garfield "Toby" Bailey (born November 19 1975 in Los Angeles, California, United States) is an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball at UCLA and was one of the stars of their 1995 National Championship team. look-alike - was busy conducting a dunkathon. "It was like we were in 'The Twilight Zone twilight zone - [IRC] Notionally, the area of cyberspace where IRC operators live. An op is said to have a "connection to the twilight zone". ,' " Fluker said. "I was waiting for the announcer to say 'Do not adjust your dial.' " Bland, a 6-foot-3, All-City candidate who's already garnering the attention of several Division I schools, scored 21 points while forward Donnell Meekins added 18. The ironic twist was that Westchester was a very guard-heavy team that thrived on quickness, outside shooting and a press. The Comets had no one to match up with 6-foot-8 Chatsworth center Eddie Miller Eddie Miller can refer to different people:
Point guard Jerome Joseph took the entire team on his back, scoring 25 points. But the team couldn't stay close because it missed so many shots. "We just couldn't hit anything," Joseph said. "It's disappointing to go out like this knowing we played such a bad game." Joseph ends his career never having taken Chatsworth past the second round of the playoffs. He watched as four fellow starters left because of ineligibility and he gathered a bunch of rookies against a far superior team. Stevens, a sophomore, had 21 points for Chatsworth. "I wish we would have had a real chance with a full team," Joseph said. "We missed 25 points and 15 rebounds out there. It would have been nice to see how we would have done with Eddie out there." |
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