CITY DECIDES SAN FERNANDO CAN KEEP TITLE.Byline: Nevin Barich Nevin Barich (born August 6, 1979) is a former American sports journalist now working as the Senior Editor of The National Notary, a trade magazine based in Los Angeles with a circulation of more than 300,000 nationwide. Staff Writer After some last-minute turmoil, the San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. boys' soccer team kept its league title heading into the playoffs. The Tigers remained the Valley Mission League champions and were given the No. 4 seed Monday night at the City Section playoff selection meeting at Hamilton High, despite an appeal from Sylmar that San Fernando used an ineligible player during the last three weeks of the regular season. Sylmar coach Emmanuel Martins, whose team finished second in the Valley Mission and was seeded eighth, submitted to the City Section Monday lineup cards from an outside men's soccer league. He said it showed San Fernando's Juan Seras played in the league for three games during the second half of January. City Section rules state no player may participate in an outside league during the course of the season. However, City Section director Barbara Fiege said Martin's evidence did not prove Seras, who according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. San Fernando 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 Robert Storaker didn't join the team until Jan. 16, actually played in more than one outside game. City Section rules also state if a player participates in no more than one outside league game during the season, the team will not be reprimanded as long as the player serves a two-game suspension. ''San Fernando will not have to forfeit any games,'' Fiege said. ''They admit the player played in one game before joining the team but then was kept out for two games as a precaution.'' Martins was upset about the decision. < ''I'm very, very disappointed at the whole system,'' Martins said. ''Everybody is being taken with these loopholes and forgetting about the whole purpose of this thing. At the beginning of the year, (the City Section) gave a 15-20 minute presentation on winning with honor and pride. I think they have everything but that going on right now.'' CITY SECTION BOYS' SOCCER PLAYOFFS (all games 3 p.m. Friday) No. 32 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. at No. 1 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:
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