CITY SECTION TENNIS: ON TAP: VALLEY VOLLEYS.Byline: Rich Hammond Rich Hammond Los Angeles Daily News sports writer. Instrumental in bringing the Los Angeles Kings hockey organization closer to the fans. He is the atypical "what a guy" to Kings fans everywhere. Rich Hammond on himself. Staff Writer Today's match will settle it all: best in the league, best in 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. and best in the City Section. West Valley League rivals Granada Hills High and 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:
``It's kind of special, just to have an all-Valley final,'' El Camino Real coach Marvin Jones Marvin Jones may refer to:
Jones' top-seeded Conquistadores and the No. 2 Highlanders split two league matches this season, with El Camino Real winning the first 4-3 and losing the second 5-2. The question is how the round-robin playoff scoring system will impact the outcome, if at all. El Camino Real's strength is in singles and Granada Hills is stronger in doubles. Depending on who is asked, the playoff system, which has 12 singles matches and nine doubles matches, either favors the team with stronger singles players or makes no difference. ``We have to play strong in doubles and get some singles points here and there,'' Granada Hills coach Ron Wood said. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. if the format will give (El Camino Real) an advantage or not. I know we are very evenly matched teams.'' Wood has two seniors, Yury Tsirulsky and Eric Weiss, among his top four singles players, but sophomore Nima Roshan and junior Vlad Kinevsky are No. 1 and No. 2, respectively. Following the first loss to El Camino Real, Weiss was moved from doubles to strengthen the Highlanders' singles unit. ``It should be a great match,'' Wood said. ``We will both be excited, because neither school has ever won a title. We know we can beat them and they know they can beat us.'' |
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