CHATTER: HURRICANE KATRINA DELIVERS FOOTBALL PLAYERS TO SEVERAL AREA PROGRAMS.Byline: Erik Boal Special to the Daily News In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. , several area schools
welcomed student-athletes who evacuated with their families from the New
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The No. 2 Valencia football team has benefited from brothers Stephen and Ryan DuBose, and Darrion Weems has contributed to third-ranked Taft of Woodland Hills' 4-0 start. Oaks Christian of Westlake Village has welcomed Joshua and Jason Miguel, cousins of Lions defensive back Marshall Jones. The Miguels attended St. Augustine High in New Orleans and were to begin their season Aug. 27, two days before Katrina arrived. Joshua Miguel, a 17-year-old receiver/defensive back, is a senior who had been expected to start for St. Augustine. Jason Miguel is a 14-year-old sophomore. Both are talented athletes, but Oaks Christian coach Bill Redell Bill Redell (born April 17, 1941 in Red Bluff, California) is an American football coach and member of the College Football Hall of Fame. Redell serves as head coach at Oaks Christian High School in Westlake Village, California, since 2000, and has formed them into one of said it will be difficult for them to contend for starting positions. His team has strong depth at their positions. Jared Miles, a Katrina refugee who played one game for Camarillo, returned Tuesday to the Gulf Coast and will live with Willie Brooks, his football coach at Helen Cox High in Harvey, La. Miles, a junior, started at left tackle for Camarillo in last week's 19-8 victory over Buena. He was an honorary captain for the game and was presented the game ball from teammates afterward. --UCLA senior Jordan Harvey Jordan Harvey (born January 28, 1984 in Mission Viejo, California) is an American soccer player, who currently plays for the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer. was selected National Player of the Week by Soccer America after scoring twice and anchoring the backline backline the upper outline of the body's silhouette viewed from the side. in Pac-10 shutouts of No. 3 Cal and Stanford. Cal State Northridge midfielder Daniel Paladini joined Harvey on the magazine's Team of the Week. --Former College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. standout Tyrell Smith is making an impact in his first football season at Division II Minnesota State. Smith, a JC All-American receiver at Canyons, has 35 receptions for 505 yards and four touchdowns, leads the team in punt returns (11.5 average, with a school-record 88-yard return for a TD) and has rushed for 90 yards. --USC freshman Amanda Fink, a Calabasas High graduate, ran her winning streak Noun 1. winning streak - a streak of wins streak, run - an unbroken series of events; "had a streak of bad luck"; "Nicklaus had a run of birdies" to seven matches Thursday at the Riviera/ITA Women's All-American Championships, defeating New Mexico's Maja Kovacek 6-3, 6-4. Fink, the 2004 Daily News Girls' Tennis Player of the Year, will face Stanford's Theresa Logar today in the round of 16 at the Riviera Tennis Club in Pacific Palisades Palisades, cliffs along the west bank of the Hudson River, NE N.J. and SE N.Y., extending from N of Jersey City, N.J., to the vicinity of Piermont, N.Y., with a general altitude of from 350 ft to 550 ft (107–168 m). . --Three local baseball players have made college commitments: Notre Dame High of Sherman Oaks' Paul-Michael Klingsberg (Pepperdine), Chaminade of West Hills' Kyle Thompson (Stanford), and Quartz Hill's Matt Hutchison (UNLV UNLV University of Nevada, Las Vegas ). ... Chaminade's Zach Evans will play basketball at Bucknell. ... Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks' Jen Clark and Royal of Simi Valley's Devin Noe will play women's soccer at Nevada. Scott French, Gerry Gittelson and Sean Martin contributed. Erik Boal, (818) 713-3607 erik.boal(at)dailynews.com |
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