CHATTER: FOOTHILL FOOTBALL: DIV. IV?Byline: Gideon Rubin Special to the Daily News Persistent rumors have Foothill League football moving from the Southern Section's Div. II to Div. IV. The league would move to a smaller division despite winning two of the past three section titles in Div. II because the Southern Section wants to consider geography in divisional realignment re·a·lign tr.v. re·a·ligned, re·a·lign·ing, re·a·ligns 1. To put back into proper order or alignment. 2. To make new groupings of or working arrangements between. . Moving to Div. IV would place the 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, schools in the same division with the Ventura County-based 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. and the Channel League, which has schools in Ventura and Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. counties. Canyon coach Harry Welch, whose team won the Div. II championship in December, likes the idea. His team had to travel to San Clemente San Clemente (săn klĭmĕn`tē), city (1990 pop. 41,100), Orange co., S Calif., on the Pacific coast; inc. 1928. Camp Pendleton, a large U.S. marine base, adjoins the city, which is chiefly residential. for a second-round 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 . ``The current alignment is absurd,'' Welch said. ``I think anything (the Southern Section) can do that would encourage rivalries and reduce times spent on the freeways is a good thing.'' Leagues have turned in realignment requests, and recommendations - based on enrollment, competitive equity and geography - will be made later this month, said Rob Wigod, the Southern Section's football administrator. The section's council will make final decisions in April. --Jonathan Himebauch, who guided Harvard-Westlake to a 5-5 record in his only season as head football coach, resigned Friday to become San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. State's offensive coordinator An offensive coordinator typically refers to the coach on a football team in the National Football League or College football who is in charge of the offense. This position aids the head coach by designing and scripting plays, delegating work to offensive position coaches during . --Kennedy High of Granada Hills will retire Washington Nationals' outfielder Terrmel Sledge's number at its annual alumni game Saturday at 10 a.m. Sledge graduated from Kennedy in 1995. Heather Gripp contributed. ATHLETES OF THE WEEK CRAIG PARTOVICH Senior, Montclair Prep of Panorama City Partovich, nominated to compete in the McDonald's All-American game, led the Mounties boys' basketball team to two important Olympic League victories. Partovich scored a season-high 30 points in last Tuesday's 65-48 victory over Calvary Chapel Calvary Chapel is a non-denominational, Protestant fellowship of churches which began in 1965 in Southern California. The term "fellowship of churches" is used in contrast to a denomination. of Downey as Montclair Prep overcome the absence of injured Anthony Green. He scored 25 in Friday's 63-49 victory over Crossroads of Santa Monica. KRISTYN ROSS and MARIA APABLASA Senior and Junior, Louisville of Woodland Hills Ross scored two goals to pass Marisel Pasos as the all-time scoring leader for Louisville's girls' water polo team in last Tuesday's 10-1 rout of Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks. Ross added seven more to her total in Thursday's 18-1 romp over Flintridge Sacred Heart of La Canada Flintridge, pushing her career mark to 210. Apablasa had four assists Thursday to set Louisville's single-season record with 42. UP & COMER GERALD FIGUEROA Royal of Simi Valley The sophomore first-year starter capped a 28-7 regular season with a 3-0 record in Saturday's Marmonte League wrestling finals at Simi Valley, where he was one of four individual league champions and seven finalists for the Highlanders. CAPTION(S): 4 photos, 7 boxes Photo: (1) CRAIG PARTOVICH (2) KRISTYN ROSS (3) MARIA APABLASA (4) GERALD FIGUEROA Box: (1) ATHLETES OF THE WEEK (see text) (2) UP & COMER (see text) (3) RANDOM NUMBER (4) THEY SAID IT (5) THINK YOU KNOW (6) DAY PLANNER (7) TRIVIA ANSWER |
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