CITY SECTION ROUNDUP: DICKSON RUNS GRANT TO WIN.After an offseason of bouncing between high schools in two states, Grant High of Van Nuys running back Anthony Dickson looked right at home in leading 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. to a 26-13 victory over host Manual Arts in their nonleague season opener Friday afternoon. Dickson, a junior, had 161 yards on 14 carries and scored three touchdowns. He had a slow start, losing 1 yard on his only carry of the first quarter, in which Grant had three yards of total offense. After playing at Grant last season, Dickson moved to Arizona, returned to the Valley - but in the 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). area - before relocating to the Grant district. Last season, he rushed for 1,378 and 19 touchdowns as a sophomore at Grant. Despite the meager mea·ger also mea·gre adj. 1. Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty. 2. Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble: the meager soil of an eroded plain. 3. offense in the first quarter, Grant was not shut out thanks to Dickson, who returned a kickoff 90 yards for a score. Dickson, who scored on runs of 53 and 5 yards, had an 87-yard kickoff return for a score called back because of a holding penalty. The Lancers (1-0) scored on a 90-yard, six-play drive to open the second half. Grant followed the score with quarterback Dashawn Smith's 2-yard run to put the Lancers up 18-7. Smith finished 8 of 14 for 112 yards, including a 25-yarder to Matthew Morris Mr Matthew Allan Morris, MP is an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Morris has represented Charlestown for the Australian Labor Party since 2003.[1] Notes 1. ^ Mr Matthew Allan Morris, MP. that set up the quarterback's scoring run. Dimitry Afanasyev had three sacks, and Gabriel Stastilli added two for Grant. - Julio Cortez --Chatsworth 43, Reseda 0: Chatsworth senior tailback tail·back n. Football The back on an offensive team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage. tailback Noun Brit a queue of traffic stretching back from an obstruction Robert Landrum rushed for 129 yards on 13 carries and scored two touchdowns as the visiting Chancellors won their season opener. On its first possession, Chatsworth quarterback Sean Brubaker connected with Alain Karatepeyan on a 40-yard scoring pass with 9:07 left in the first quarter. Brubaker was 6 of 12 for 111 yards. Karatepeyan had 11 solo tackles to lead the Chatsworth defense, which helped force Reseda into committing five turnovers. Chancellors running back Art Cisneros added touchdown runs of 1 and 5 yards, and Joe Romero returned an interception 40 yards for the final score. Reseda quarterback Jose Rocha ran for a team-high 69 yards on 17 carries to lead the Regents. - P.C. Shaw --Eagle Rock 26, Canoga Park 13: The host Eagles overcame a slow start and scored 19 unanswered second-half points in its nonleague victory over the Hunters. Two of Eagle Rock's three third-quarter touchdowns came from special teams. After Canoga Park tied it 7-7 on a 9-yard touchdown catch by Leon Sheldon, the Eagles' Luis Estrada returned the ensuing en·sue intr.v. en·sued, en·su·ing, en·sues 1. To follow as a consequence or result. See Synonyms at follow. 2. To take place subsequently. kickoff 93 yards for the score. On the next Hunters possession, the Eagles' Gilbert Jaramillo blocked a punt to set up a 2-yard scoring run by John Paul The name John Paul might refer to: Full name
The Eagle Rock defense was led by Ryan Paul, who had three sacks. Canoga Park was held to 31 yards rushing and had three turnovers. The Eagles led 7-0 with 46 seconds left in the first half when Celis connected with Estrada (3 catches, 78 yards) on a 58-yard scoring play. - Alex Valladares --Los Angeles 41, Hollywood 0: The Sheiks lost three fumbles, threw three interceptions and gained 68 yards of total offense in the lopsided lop·sid·ed adj. 1. Heavier, larger, or higher on one side than on the other. 2. Sagging or leaning to one side. 3. loss at 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. Jonathan Teeter led the Sheiks with 37 yards on 13 carries. Dominique Willis was 4 of 8 for 28 yards with an interception for Hollywood. Franklin Molina's only two pass attempts were intercepted by Carlos Marroquin and Lee Whyms. - Jack Pollon --Fairfax 33, Monroe 6: After the Vikings of North Hills scored in the second quarter, visiting Fairfax of Los Angeles answered with 33 points. Derrick derrick: see crane. Derrick famous hangman; eponym of modern hoisting apparatus. [Br. Hist.: Espy, 170] See : Execution Hill led Fairfax with 162 yards on 22 carries, including touchdown runs of 15 and 8 yards. The Monroe offense was led by Kevin St. Clair, who rushed for 102 yards on 16 carries. He scored the Vikings' lone touchdown on a 75-yard run in the second quarter. Rashaad Richards was 3 of 9 for 45 yards. Jason Meza replaced Richards in the fourth quarter and was 1 of 5 for 10 yards. - Dale Legaspi --Palisades 28, Cleveland 14: The Dolphins' Damian Bryant rushed for 295 yards on 40 carries and scored three touchdowns in the victory over the visiting Cavaliers of Reseda. After an abysmal a·bys·mal adj. 1. Resembling an abyss in depth; unfathomable. 2. Very profound; limitless: abysmal misery. 3. Very bad: an abysmal performance. first half in which Cleveland managed 62 yards of total offense and trailed 14-0, the Cavaliers scored on two plays in its first possession of the second half. The first play was a 26-yard run by quarterback David Contreras, and the second was a 65-yard touchdown run by running back Or-Bedrick Revish that cut Palisades' lead to 14-7 with 7:14 remaining in the third quarter. Revish rushed for 125 yards on 11 carries for the Cavaliers. Contreras was 5 of 16 for 83 yards, including a 49-yard touchdown pass to receiver Kianush Miaki, his only catch, with 1:49 remaining in the the game. - Mark Bosteder --Poly 7, Van Nuys 3: Durrell Marzett scored the game's only touchdown on a 56-yard catch on a triple pass play to lead host Poly of Sun Valley. On the triple pass, Poly quarterback Ricky Munoz threw a screen pass to Mark Diaz, who fired the ball downfield down·field adv. & adj. Sports To, into, or in the defensive team's end of the field. Adj. 1. downfield - toward or in the defending team's end of the playing field; "he threw to a downfield receiver" to a wide open Marzett. The game was marked by penalties and turnovers for both teams. Van Nuys had 14 penalties for 90 yards, and Poly was penalized pe·nal·ize tr.v. pe·nal·ized, pe·nal·iz·ing, pe·nal·iz·es 1. To subject to a penalty, especially for infringement of a law or official regulation. See Synonyms at punish. 2. 10 times for 75 yards. Poly also had a 95-yard kick return by Marzett to open the second half called back because of a clipping (1) Cutting off the outer edges or boundaries of a word, signal or image. In rendering an image, clipping removes any objects or portions thereof that are not visible on screen. See scissoring. See also WCA. penalty. ``We moved the ball well, we just had some big plays called back because of penalties,'' Poly head coach Dan Neal Dan Neal (born August 30, 1949 in Corbin, Kentucky) was a former American Football player who played offensive line for eleven seasons between 1973 and 1983 for the Baltimore Colts and the Chicago Bears. said. Nick Torres led the Van Nuys defense with two interceptions and a sack. - Rob MacIntyre --North Hollywood 20, Granada Hills 14: Senior tailback Justin Tyler scored the winning touchdown from 3 yards out on fourth down with 56 seconds left as the host Huskies held off the Highlanders. Tyler ran for 79 yards on 21 carries, and his winning score capped a 19-play, 10:46 drive that was one of only two second-half possessions for North Hollywood. Granada Hills then drove from its own 19 to the Huskies' 26 but failed on fourth-and-7. The drive took 18 plays and included two fourth-down conversions. Granada Hills senior running back Joel Fitzgerald carried 12 times for 111 yards and had scoring runs of 5 and 60 yards. North Hollywood's Juan Rodriguez was 7 of 12 for 70 yards and a touchdown. He added a 1-yard touchdown run and 2-point conversion pass to Jorge Puerto to give the Huskies a seven-point lead at halftime. - Shawn Clingan CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Los Alamitos' Rasheed Prescott takes down Hart's Sean Norton as Norton tries to gain yardage yard·age 1 n. 1. An amount or length measured in yards. 2. Cloth sold by the yard. Noun 1. during the first half of their game at Veterans Memorial Stadium Veterans Memorial Stadium is the name of several different facilities:
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