DAILY UPDATE.HIGH SCHOOLS Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Junior forward Chris Tyars has emerged as a boys' basketball standout. Tyars led the Antelopes in scoring in Thursday's 72-50 loss to Quartz Hill and was the team's leading rebounder in a 78-73 victory Jan. 18 over Lancaster. ``He's really stepped up,'' Antelope Valley coach Ed Campbell said. ``He draws some of the toughest (man-on-man) defensive assignments when we go to box-and-one and triangle-plus-two (defenses) and he does a really good job.'' - Gideon Rubin Highland The girls' soccer team will play host to Quartz Hill in a critical Golden League game Saturday at 5 p.m. Highland is seeking its first win over Quartz Hill since 1997, and a victory would give the Bulldogs (5-1) a half-game lead over the Rebels (5-0-1) atop the league standings. A loss would drop them 1 1/2 games back with only three games remaining. Quartz Hill won the Jan. 6 meeting 4-2, and Highland has since won seven in a row. - Ramona Shelburne Ramona Shelburne is an American sports journalist currently writing for the Los Angeles Daily News. Shelburne was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She attended El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, California where she was a class valedictorian. Lancaster The girls' basketball team seeks to bounce back bounce v. bounced, bounc·ing, bounc·es v.intr. 1. To rebound after having struck an object or a surface. 2. from its disappointing loss Monday night to Palmdale with two games against Littlerock. The Eagles will travel to Littlerock on Thursday night, then play host to the Lobos on Friday. Tipoff for both games is 7:30 p.m. Lancaster coach John Gallen said he wanted his team to cut down on the miscues that cost his team against Palmdale. ``You can't make as many mistakes as we did and expect to beat a good team,'' Gallen said. - Ramona Shelburne Littlerock Senior 160-pound wrestler Johnny Garso finished first at last weekend's Antelope Valley tournament, the Lobos' first individual tournament champion in at least two years. Garso won all eight of his bouts Bouts is the name of
``It was awesome,'' Littlerock coach Stuart Young For the former BBC chairman, see Stuart Young. Stuart Young (born December 16, 1972 in Hull, Yorkshire, England) is an English football (soccer) player. He last played profesionaly as a striker for the Australian A-League club Perth Glory where he joined in 2005 and said. ``He had a real tough guy from the Lakewood (in the title match), and he won the match on a throw.'' - Gideon Rubin Palmdale The boys' soccer team plays seven games in 14 days on Thursday, when it faces visiting Antelope Valley at 6 p.m. The stretch is critical for Palmdale (10-5-5, 2-2-1 Golden League), which is among five teams in contention for three automatic playoff play·off also play-off n. Sports 1. A final game or series of games played to break a tie. 2. A series of games played to determine a championship. Noun 1. berths. ``We're still in the running for a league title, so this is really a make-or-break stretch for us,'' Palmdale coach Jeremy Kriss said. - Gideon Rubin Paraclete Senior midfielder
In association football, a midfielder is a player whose position of play is midway between the attacking strikers and the defenders (highlighted in blue on the diagram). Alex Flores Flores, town, Guatemala Flores (flōrəs), town (1990 est. pop. 2,200), capital of Petén department, N Guatemala. Flores was built on an island in the southern part of Lake Petén Itzá and on the site of the scored 10 minutes into the second half to break a scoreless tie Friday in the boys' soccer team's 5-0 Olympic League romp over Crossroads of 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. . ``Once we scored the first goal, they just kept coming,'' Paraclete coach Rick Sheldrick said. ``It was just a matter of putting the ball in the net and getting our confidence up.'' - Gideon Rubin Quartz Hill Senior Garret McDaniel's versatility has been valuable for the boys' soccer team. In his first game after he was moved from center midfielder to sweeper, McDaniel scored Friday as Quartz Hill (14-3-3, 2-0-3) edged Antelope Valley 1-0 in a Golden League clash. ``He's an excellent player,'' Quartz Hill coach Steve Smith said. ``I could play him anywhere.'' - Gideon Rubin |
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