CHATTER: LANCASTER FIRES BOYS' BASKETBALL COACH.Byline: Vincent Bonsignore and Gerry Gittelson Staff Writers Jesse Parker, who led Lancaster High to four consecutive Golden League titles from 2001-04, has been fired as boys' basketball coach. ``Basically the school decided to go in another direction,'' said Lancaster vice principal Todd Zucker. Parker will be replaced by former Canyon coach Dave Humphreys, who spent the past four seasons working as an assistant at various programs. Zucker said Humphreys' hire is pending school board approval. ``I think it's a great opportunity,'' Humphreys said. ``Last year was a little bit of a down year for them but all in all I think I can win,'' Humphreys said. ``They have the athletes, and I believe in what I can do on the court. We'll run more of a college-type offense.'' Parker declined comment. ... SlamBall, the popular extreme basketball league Noun 1. basketball league - a league of basketball teams basketball team, five - a team that plays basketball league, conference - an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members in which players fly through the air using a trampoline-based court, is expanding overseas. Former Calabasas standout Michael Goldman Michael Goldman (born 1955) is an American politician of the Charter Party of Cincinnati, Ohio. He worked as a playwright in New York and apprentice screenwriter in Los Angeles, producing plays in Cincinnati and Boston. and ex-Birmingham of Lake Balboa Balboa, town (1990 pop. 2,751), Colón prov., in the former Panama Canal Zone, on the Gulf of Panama. The port for Panama City, Balboa was the administrative headquarters of the Panama Canal Zone. It was also the site of a U.S. navy base (closed 1999). standout Stanley Fletcher are among the players heading to Europe. Fletcher and Goldman, two stars of SlamBall, will join 13 other league stars at the Fitness Festival in Rimini, Italy, May 25-28, which kicks off a 23-city European tour this summer. Goldman sat out last season with a knee injury but said he is close to 100 percent and can't wait to get back on the court. ``It's every kid's dream,'' Goldman said. ``Who doesn't want to jump 20 feet in the air and throw down ridiculous dunks over other players?'' ... Sherman Oaks Little League standout Marti Sementelli is going for strikeout strike·out n. Baseball Abbr. K or SO An out made by a batter charged with three strikes and credited to the pitcher who threw the strikes. Noun 1. No. 500 in her six-year career Saturday when her Major Division Cardinals play the Red Sox at 9 a.m. The 12-year-old Sementelli has dominated every level at Sherman Oaks Little League, compiling com·pile tr.v. com·piled, com·pil·ing, com·piles 1. To gather into a single book. 2. To put together or compose from materials gathered from several sources: a 42-7 overall record with 495 strikeouts. And that's not including her All-Star numbers. Sementelli has 67 strikeouts in 35 innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. this year, and has gotten plenty of help from teammates Alex Sawelson, who is hitting .400 with two home runs and 10 RBI RBI abbr. Baseball runs batted in Noun 1. rbi - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season" run batted in , and Ryan Collins, who is hitting better than .400. |
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