CHATTER: SUNSET SIX STRIVES FOR SUCCESS.Byline: Lee Barnathan Staff Writer The Marine League owns City Section football. Same with the Western League in boys' basketball and the West Valley League in girls' soccer. The Northern League dominates cross country. The Sunset Six League owns the Invitational Division. Since the City releagued two years ago, no Sunset Six team - Grant, Poly, North Hollywood, Canoga Park, Verdugo Hills and Hollywood - has won a City title in any sport. In most sports, the league's champion gets a double-digit seeding in the playoffs. Everyone else who makes the postseason gets placed in the Invitational bracket. True, the league has had championship success. Poly has won the last two Invitational girls' soccer titles, and North Hollywood is the defending boys' volleyball Invitational champion. In the past, Verdugo Hills has played for 3-A softball titles, too. While a good argument might be made about the wisdom of a 1999 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. - schools that had no realistic hope of winning any kind of championship now do - some coaches, such as Grant boys' volleyball coach Howard Cahn and North Hollywood baseball coach George Vranau disagree. Grant surprised defending City champion Taft in four games. Now, Cahn finds himself entering league play and he wants better competition. The baseball coaches feel the same way, especially since Hollywood dropped the sport this year. ``It puts us at a disdavantage,'' Vranau said. ``That's three games we lose off our schedule. The fact their program folded indicates the level of weakness some of the schools have.'' City commissioner Barbara Fiege has yet to hear one complaint from any Sunset Six League coach, 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 , principal, parent or player. ``They have some strengths, maybe not as many strengths as the other seven leagues,'' Fiege said. ``Canoga Park has done well in football, Grant and North Hollywood do well in basketball, Poly has done well in boys' volleyball and Verdugo Hills is strong in softball.'' The City is committed to a four-year cycle, so there won't be any review until the end of the third year, 2002. ``I know we're stuck, and I know it's not a good thing,'' Vranau said.... Celebrity hoop watch: Steve Martin Noun 1. Steve Martin - United States actor and comedian (born in 1945) Martin plays at Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. . LaToya Jackson plays at Monroe. Keith Jackson For the former professional American football player, see Keith Jackson (football player). Keith Jackson (born October 18, 1928, in Roopville, Georgia) is a former American sportscaster, known for his long career with ABC Sports television, his coverage of college football plays at Cal State Northridge.. . . Wanted: An athletic director at Crespi to replace Richard Fong, who resigned after four years, effective the end of the school year. Must be willing to put up with, as Fong put it, ``the nonsense'' of 14-16-hour days, six-to-seven-day work weeks and the continuous flow of bad news. Applicant also must be willing to follow in some big footsteps. Fong counts among his accomplishments: starting a random drug-testing program for the athletes, bringing back wrestling after a 10-year absence and securing funding for a full-time on-campus athletic trainer An athletic trainer is an allied (non-physician) health care provider capable of performing immediate and emergency injury management, injury assessment, and rehabilitation. . Apply to principal David Doyle David Doyle can be
Where are they now: Canyon volleyball player Jeff Hubbard Jeff Hubbard is the current 2006 World Tour bodyboarder champion from Kauai, Hawaii. His style is characterized by aerial tricks, and recognized by constantly pushing the boundaries of the sport. (Class of 1993) now installs systems for DirecTV.. . . There is City baseball parity (or is it parody, since El Camino Real El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road or The King's Highway) was the name of a series of pre-automobile highways linking the various New World colonies of Spain:
adv. 1. In an easy manner. 2. In a convenient manner. Adv. 1. handily - in a convenient manner; "the switch was conveniently located" conveniently 2. ?), but the bottom line is: Chatsworth against Kennedy at Dodger Stadium • • [ in May (with sentimental pick North Hollywood playing for the Invitational title). ATHLETES OF THE WEEK DAMIAN FANTE Senior, Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. baseball The center fielder helped the young Lancers lanc·er n. 1. A cavalryman armed with a lance. 2. A member of a regiment originally armed with lances. 3. lancers (used with a sing. verb) a. A kind of quadrille. b. pull off one of the season's biggest upsets by picking the perfect time to hit his first varsity home run. His three-run home run in the eighth inning of Wednesday's game against neighboring rival and Marmonte League power Westlake gave Thousand Oaks a 10-8 victory after trailing 7-0. Fante went 3 for 5 with five 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 in the game. All three of his hits were for extra bases. He also went 2 for 4, including a triple, with two RBI in a 7-6 victory over Garfield in the Redondo tournament on Saturday. Fante is batting. 363 with a team-high 14 RBI. TORI ROCCO ROCCO Robust Checksum-Based header Compression Sophomore, Valencia softball Rocco outpitched Chaminade's Christina Lupacchini in Thursday's 2-1 nonleague victory, propelling the surprising Vikings to an 8-1 start. Rocco (6-1), a right-hander, retired the last nine batters on the way to a three-hitter with three strikeouts. She has an 0.43 ERA, five shutouts (including a perfect game), 29 strikeouts and 15 hits allowed in 49 innings. UP AND COMER ED WHITE Harvard-Westlake Middle School Hoop Scoop has White ranked as among the top three eighth-grade basketball players in Southern California after he averaged 18 points, eight rebounds, six assists and two steals per game. Nominate outstanding junior varsity and middle school athletes by calling (818) 713-3611. HEAD TO HEAD SARA Sara or Sarah, in the Bible, wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac. With Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah, she was one of the four Hebrew matriarchs. Her name was originally Sarai [Heb.,=princess]. GONZALES Paraclete, Pitcher NICHOLE RAWSON Highland, Pitcher Gonzales, a junior, and Rawson, a senior, are a pair of hard-throwing right-handers who keep batters ofalance with speed, movement and control. Rawson plays on a Bulldogs team known for offense, but she keeps things close until Highland gets its offense going. Rawson, who is headed to Marist, is 3-2 after Highland's 3-0 loss to Hart on Tuesday. Rawson pitched well enough to win, the only damage being Sara Dean's two-run double after an error put runners at second and first. After splitting pitching duties her first two years, Gonzales is now the Spirits' lone hurler, and she's responded with an impressive 5-2 start, although she dropped a doubleheader to Notre Dame Saturday to stop a win streak at five games. Tuesday, 3:15 p.m.. at Highland. CAPTION(S): 5 photos, 5 boxes Photo: (1) DAMIAN FANTE, Senior, Thousand Oaks baseball (2) TORI ROCCO, Sophomore, Valencia softball (3) ED WHITE, Harvard-Westlake Middle School (4) SARA GONZALES, Paraclete, Pitcher (5) NICHOLE RAWSON, Highland, Pitcher Box: (1) STATILICIOUS (2) ATHLETES OF THE WEEK (see text) (3) UP AND COMER (see text) (4) HEAD 2 HEAD (see text) (5) ON DECK: Highlights of the coming week |
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