CITY SECTION: TAFT CRIES FOUL.Byline: Chris Branam Daily News Staff Writer This is the good news Taft High boys basketball coach Mark Drucker had for his players Saturday afternoon: The Toreadors received the eighth seeding in the City Section 4-A playoffs and will host a first-round game. Here's the bad news: If Taft wins, it will most likely face top-seeded and nationally ranked Westchester in the second round. This is the first City Section playoff meeting he has attended and he definitely was not impressed by the politics. ``There's so much inequality in the meeting,'' Drucker said. ``The consistency is not there. I felt we should have been a seventh-seed, at least. It's the City vs. the Valley.'' Drucker's comments echo what many area boys coaches have been saying for years. League champions from the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. receive no respect. Case in point: 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. High finished second to Westchester in the Coastal Conference, was seeded fifth and will nonetheless travel to unseeded North Hollywood for a first-round game. Chatsworth (14-10) will play third-seeded Washington. Grant (17-8), which tied for the East Valley League title with North Hollywood, will play fourth-seeded Crenshaw cren·shaw also cran·shaw n. A variety of winter melon (Cucumis melo var. inodorus) having a greenish-yellow rind and sweet, usually salmon-pink flesh. [Origin unknown.] . Cleveland (16-9) will play sixth-seeded Manual Arts. Taft (15-5) will host 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). in its playoff opener Friday. As expected, 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 were made No. 1 seed in the 3-A division. The Tigers, ranked No. 2 by the Daily News, finished the regular season 23-2, were the North Valley League champions and will host Venice. In other boys 3-A pairings, fourth-seeded Birmingham (15-9) hosts Jordan, seventh-seeded Sylmar (15-9) hosts Franklin, Poly (10-14) travels to face second-seeded Narbonne and Reseda will play at third-seeded Hamilton. The North Hollywood girls benefited from a coin flip with co-Mid-Valley League champion Grant and were awarded the No. 3 seeding in 4-A. North Hollywood, which was seeded fifth last year and lost to Banning in the second round, will host Locke. The 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. (20-4) were seeded fifth and will host Westchester. 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:
The Eagle Rock girls received the No. 2 seed in 3-A after going 13-1 and winning the Northern Conference. The Eagles are 19-7 overall and will host co-East Valley League champion Sylmar (10-9) in a first-round game. Granada Hills (15-4) was seeded fourth in girls 3-A. The Highlanders, who won the North Valley League, host Huntington Park Huntington Park, city (1990 pop. 56,065), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential and industrial suburb of Los Angeles; founded 1856, inc. 1906. Its varied manufactures include metal, glass and rubber products and industrial equipment. . Unseeded Birmingham (13-7) will travel to eighth-seeded Gardena.The Poly girls (8-11), who tied Sylmar for the East Valley League title, are unseeded in 3-A but will host fifth-seeded Franklin. |
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