CHATTER: A SEEDY SEEDING.Byline: Chris Branam Daily News Staff Writer Some football coaches in the City Section complained about how the playoff play·off also play-off n. Sports 1. A final game or series of games played to break a tie. 2. A series of games played to determine a championship. Noun 1. seedings were determined last month. What a shock. It's become an annual issue for the section when the playoffs roll around in every sport, especially football. The coaches simply don't like it that the people who determine the seedings - and potential future matchups - are fellow coaches. Isn't it easy for coach A, who is a league representative and voting member, to have a special interest in where his team ends up? One prominent area football coach said it was silly that coaches whose teams are in the playoffs create the brackets, and he's right. Not many of the complainers openly questioning the integrity of the league representatives make the matchups. But it seems it would remove the shadow of special interest if the City Section could create a playoff committee that didn't include coaches whose teams were in the playoffs. It also seems that these coaches simply didn't get it right when they made the Championship playoff bracket. Three of the top four seeds - No. 1 Granada Hills, No. 2 Venice and No. 4 Sylmar - have all lost. The highest remaining seeds both come from the Southern Pacific - No. 3 Dorsey and No. 5 Banning. . . . Was it good news or bad news for the Harvard-Westlake girls' 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? The Wolverines' five-game escape over Notre Dame Academy Notre Dame Academy may refer to:
``It was a lot of fun to play in a match like this,'' Wolverines junior Kelly Junior Kelly (born September 23, 1969 in Kingston, Jamaica[1]) is a reggae singer known for his commitment to the faith of the Rastafari movement. References 1. ^ [1] Ayers said. . . . With Granada Hills getting knocked off in the City Championship football playoffs, only one undefeated team from the region remains. Any guesses? The answer: Boron boron (bōr`ŏn) [New Gr. from borax], chemical element; symbol B; at. no. 5; at. wt. 10.81; m.p. about 2,300°C;; sublimation point about 2,550°C;; sp. gr. 2.3 at 25°C;; valence +3. , which improved to 12-0 on Friday and is the favorite to win the Southern Section Division XIII title. The Bobcats, already miles from nearly every school in the area, still have their longest road trip this week. Boron travels to Mammoth mammoth, name for several large prehistoric elephants of the extinct genus Mammuthus, which ranged over Eurasia and North America in the Pleistocene epoch. . . . . Louisville hired Kevin Wiser as its interim girls' basketball coach last week. Wiser is taking over for Royals coach Paula Getty-Shearer, who took a one-year leave of absence to be with her husband Dennis, who underwent a bone marrow transplant bone marrow transplant: see bone marrow. in April. Shearer was 63-34 in four seasons. Wiser's daughter Megan was an All-Mission League selection last year. . . . By eliminating Venice in the second round of the City Championship playoffs last week, Taft ended the high school career of quarterback J.P. Losman, who is headed to UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX . Losman was gracious gra·cious adj. 1. Characterized by kindness and warm courtesy. 2. Characterized by tact and propriety: responded to the insult with gracious humor. 3. in defeat. ``We believed if we got past this game we were going all the way,'' he said. ``In our mind, this was the championship game. I wish Taft the best of luck. I think they are going to win (the title) now.'' . . . Fencer Derek Snyder became the second Chaminade High athlete this year selected for Sports Illustrated's ``Faces in the Crowd'' feature when he appeared in the Nov. 30 issue. Baseball player Chris Martinez was a Face in the Crowd A Face in the Crowd (1957) is an epic motion picture starring Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, and Walter Matthau, directed by Elia Kazan. The screenplay was written by Budd Schulberg, based on his own short story "The Arkansas Traveler". in June after he set a state single-season record with 20 home runs. He's in charge: Cleveland has a new football coach: Bill Paden, who has been the school's track and field coach the past four years. Paden replaces Joe Santellano, who resigned two weeks ago. The Cavaliers were 20-43 under Santellano, including 2-8 this past season. Staff writer Chris Cocoles contributed to this report. |
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