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CHATTER: WATTS GAMES CONTINUE THIS WEEKEND.


The Taft of Woodland Hills boys' volleyball team kicked off the 41st annual Watts Summer Games This article is about the Epyx video game series. For the international multi-sport event, see Summer Olympic Games.
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 in impressive fashion Sunday by winning the 20-team tournament at South Torrance High.

Several other area teams will have an opportunity to win titles today as competition continues in boys' basketball and girls' soccer, in addition to the girls' volleyball tournament at South Torrance.

Cleveland of Reseda, a City Section semifinalist this past season, joins Sylmar and Royal of 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.  in the quarterfinals of the girls' soccer tournament held at Columbia Park
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 in Torrance.

Cleveland, which defeated Magnolia of Anaheim and Indio and earned another victory by forfeit in pool play, will face South Torrance at 9a.m.

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 of La Canada Flintridge would have been the top seed for today's competition following shutout victories in pool play over Venice, Garey of Pomona and Royal, but after the second day of competition was moved from Sunday to Saturday, the Tologs were forced to withdraw from the tournament because of eight student-athletes taking the ACT test.

Cleveland, Sylmar, Royal and South Torrance will be joined in the quarterfinals by Foshay Learning Center of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Garfield of East Los Angeles East Los Angeles, uninc. city (1990 pop. 126,379), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles, in an industrial area. It has a large Mexican-American population. There is a performing arts center and a cultural center. A junior college is there.  and Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. , along with another at-large qualifier.

The semifinals are scheduled for 11 a.m. and the championship is at 1 p.m.

The Van Nuys boys' basketball team will face Pasadena in the semifinals at noon at Fairfax High, following the other final-four matchup between Fairfax and Lynwood.

The championship game is scheduled for 2 p.m.

Scheduling conflicts forced two-time Watts girls' volleyball champion Thousand Oaks and City power Taft to withdraw from today's tournament.

The girls' volleyball tournament is usually held the first weekend of the Watts schedule, but when it was moved to the second weekend, the Lancers' bid to become the first team to three-peat since South Torrance in 2001-03 was denied by several players having already committed to play in club tournaments.

Crespi seeks title, bid to national event

Following its victory at the Pierce College tournament last weekend, the Crespi of Encino football team will look to add another championship to its resume at the adidas 7-on-7 tournament today and Sunday at Loyola Marymount's Leavey Field.

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, who reached the Southern Section Pac-5 Division final last year, headline the 14-team event, with the twofinalists securing berths in a national tournament, July30-31 in Atlanta.

Also scheduled to compete are: AB Miller of Fontana, Bishop Montgomery of Torrance, Clovis West, Crenshaw cren·shaw   also cran·shaw
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, Garfield of East Los Angeles, Malibu, Ponderosa of Shingle Springs, Redondo Union of Redondo Beach, Santa Margarita, Serra of Gardena, South Gate, Upland and Washington of Los Angeles.

Competition starts at 10:30a.m. today and runs until 7 p.m., then resumes from 10a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.

--Erik Boal
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