DAY IN SPORTS: BIG NIGHT IN NORCAL.Byline: Daily News Jarrel Smith is a well-known boys' basketball player 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. , but the Birmingham High of Lake Balboa talent is fast becoming a recognizable force in Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern as well. Smith scored a career-high 45 points, making all 14 free-throw attempts, to lead Birmingham (8-4) to a come-from-behind 84-77 victory Tuesday over Oakland Tech (8-3) in the semifinals of the Cordova Cordova, Spain: see Córdoba. Classic in Rancho Cordova Rancho Cordova (răn`chō kôrdō`və), uninc. residential city (1990 pop. 48,731), Sacramento co., N Calif. A suburb of Sacramento, it experienced rapid growth in the late 20th cent. , near Sacramento. After scoring 26 points in Birmingham's 73-61 opening-round win Monday over Capital Christian of Sacramento, Smith and teammate Kenny Davis (17 points) sparked the team's rally from a 38-35 halftime deficit. Birmingham will face tournament host Cordova or Encina A Unix-based TP monitor from Transarc Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA that is layered over OSF's Distributed Computing Environment (DCE). IBM acquired Transarc in 1994 and based its CICS/6000 TP monitor on Encina. of Sacramento tonight at 7:30 in the championship game. In other boys' basketball: FATHER LOPEZ TOURNAMENT --Campbell Hall 68, Tampa Jesuit 35: Tampa Jesuit (7-3), ranked No. 7 in Florida's Class 3A, built a 7-0 lead against Campbell Hall of North Hollywood (9-0), the sixth-ranked team in the region. Campbell Hall Then ran off 19 consecutive points to run away with the opening-round victory in the eight-team tournament at Father Lopez High in Daytona Beach, Fla. Jrue Holiday led Campbell Hall with 18 points and seven assists, including 15 points and three assists in the second quarter to help his team outscore Verb 1. outscore - score more points than one's opponents outpoint beat, beat out, vanquish, trounce, crush, shell - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard Tampa Jesuit 26-10. Campbell Hall, which received 16 points from Conor Turley, will play Holy Cross of Louisville, Ky., in one semifinal today at 1:30 p.m. PST PST Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, see there . Holy Cross is ranked No. 4 in its division in Kentucky. LA SALLE/TEMPLE CITY TOURNAMENT --La Canada 60, Gabrielino 41: Facing its first halftime deficit of the season, La Canada (12-0) - ranked No. 7 by the Daily News - outscored Gabrielino of San Gabriel (7-5) by a 36-14 margin in the second half to advance to the semifinals. Rhett Anderson had 18 points and 12 rebounds, Philip Anderson contributed 13 points and Craig Ballard added 11 points and six assists for La Canada, which will face Rio Hondo League rival and host Temple City today. |
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