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DAY IN SPORTS: COLSTON LENGTH-OF-COURT DRIVE BEATS BUZZER FOR ECR WIN.


Byline: Daily News

Rai Colston was determined not to let his teammates down Wednesday.

The 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:
  • There is an El Camino Real in California; see: El Camino Real (California).
 High of Woodland Hills senior drove the length of the court, scoring on a contested layup with two seconds remaining to give the Conquistadores a 74-72 victory over Monroe of North Hills in a Cleveland tournament quarterfinal game in Reseda.

Monroe was playing without Cal Poly-bound Dawin Whiten, who was out because of an illness.

In other boys' basketball:

--Agoura 66, Rio Mesa 58: In the Cleveland tournament, Agoura rallied from an eight-point fourth-quarter deficit, outscoring Rio Mesa of Oxnard 27-11 in the final 12 minutes.

Agoura advances to Friday night's 9 p.m. semifinal against El Camino Real.

In girls' basketball:

--Royal 75, Pacifica 30: Kelly Winther scored 18 of her 22 points in the first half and added nine assists, eight rebounds and four steals for Royal of Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969.  in a Gold Coast tournament game at Rio Mesa.

--Cleveland 54, Bell 44: Sophomore Bryana Williams scored a career-high 34 points and added 16 rebounds for Cleveland of Reseda (2-2) in a Garfield/Wilson tournament game in 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. .

In boys' soccer:

--Calabasas 7, Oak Park 0: Sophomore Jason Lent had three goals and an assist as host Calabasas (3-0-1) recorded its fourth consecutive nonleague shutout of the season.

In girls' tennis:

--City Invitational in·vi·ta·tion·al  
adj.
Restricted to invited participants: an invitational golf tournament.

n.
An event, especially a sports tournament, restricted to invited participants.

Adj. 1.
 tournament: Top-seeded Canna canna [Lat.,=cane], any plant of the genus Canna, tropical and subtropical perennials, grown in temperate regions in parks and gardens for the large foliage and spikelike, usually red or yellow blossoms.  Furata of Granada Hills advanced to Friday's 2 p.m. semifinal round with a 6-0, 6-0 victory over North Hollywood's Aexlle Klincke at the 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).  Sports Center.

Furata will face Westchester of Los Angeles' Simmone Greene, a fourth seed who defeated Adriana 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
 of El Camino Real 6-1, 6-3.

In the other half of the bracket, second-seeded Desiree Stone of North Hollywood advanced to a 2 p.m. Friday semifinal with a 6-1, 6-3 victory over Ashley Macias of El Camino Real.

In doubles, Granada Hills was well represented as Alex Margolin/Roxanne Plata advanced to the semifinals with a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Highlanders teammates Julie D'Yachenko/Jessica Linder.

The tandem will play Cody Clark/Lauren Plugatch at 2 p.m. Friday.

Local note:

--Moving on: Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties.  quarterback Jerad Romo has orally committed to play football at Southern Methodist and will make it official Wednesday, the first day NCAA NCAA
abbr.
National Collegiate Athletic Association
 Division I programs can sign community college players.

PRIME-TIME PLAYERS

Boys' basketball

--Ben Hawkinson (Agoura) 22 points

Girls' basketball

--Brynn Cameron (Newbury Park) 31 points

--Kelly Winther (Royal) 22 points

Boys' soccer

--Harrison Hill (Oaks Christian) 2 goals

--Luis Santillan (Canoga Park) 2 goals

--Liam Leonard (Oaks Christian) 2 goals

--Kyle Doty (SC Christian) 2 goals

Girls' soccer

--Caroline Galambos (Westlake) 5 goals

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