CHATTER: BIRMINGHAM WILL GET EX-TAFT GUARD ASGHARI.Byline: Vincent Bonsignore Staff Writer Mustafa Asghari, who was removed from the Taft High of Woodland Hills basketball team last week, has enrolled at Birmingham of Van Nuys and is expected to play Friday. Asghari, one of the region's top point guards, was averaging 26 points and nine assists when he was removed. Taft coach Derrick derrick: see crane. Derrick famous hangman; eponym of modern hoisting apparatus. [Br. Hist.: Espy, 170] See : Execution Taylor said the decision to take him off the team was made because of philosophical differences. Asghari, a senior, moved into Birmingham's boundary this week with his mother, enabling him to start playing with the Patriots immediately. Interestingly, Birmingham will play Taft on Wednesday. ... It's not quite the prodigal son prodigal son, in the New Testament, parable of Jesus about heaven and the sinner who repents. A young man leaves home and becomes a wastrel; repentant, he returns to be received with joyful welcome. returning, but the return of former Saugus High ice hockey ice hockey: see hockey, ice. ice hockey Game played on an ice rink by two teams of six players on skates. The object is to drive a puck (a small, hard rubber disk) into the opponents' goal with a hockey stick, thus scoring one point. standout Joey Howard to play for the Junior B Valencia Flyers this week is pretty big stuff. The Flyers compete in the Western States Hockey League and play at the Ice Station in Valencia. ``This kid is a very, very talented hockey player,'' Valencia general manager Larry Bruyere said. Howard was playing with a Junior A hockey team in Topeka, Kan., this year after graduating from Saugus as the Foothill League's Most Valuable Player and leading scorer. He was having a solid year until Topeka put him on the disabled list after he suffered a back injury working out with the Flyers during Christmas break. While Howard was rehabilitating, Topeka picked up two impact players from Canada and were contemplating trading Howard's rights to another Junior A team. But Howard, after consulting with his family, asked for his release so he could sign with the Flyers. ``We're delighted that he's here with us,'' Bruyere said. And just in time, too. Valencia plays host to the powerful Phoenix Polar Bears The Phoenix Polar Bears are a member of the Western States Hockey League. The Polar Bears are a Tier II Junior Hockey Club based out of Phoenix, Arizona. Their host facility is the Desert Schools Coytotes Center in Chandler, Arizona. this weekend. ... Mission College has hired two soccer coaches. Birmingham boys' coach E.B. Madha will coach the men, and 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. girls' coach Shannon Higgins will coach the women. Because the seasons don't overlap, Madha and Higgins will be able to keep their high school jobs. Mission College athletic director Athletic director (commonly, "athletics director") is a position at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, which oversees the work of the coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic John Klitsner said the school is interviewing baseball and softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' coaches Jan. 25. |
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