DAY IN SPORTS: EAGLE ROCK JUST SQUEAKS BY TAFT.Byline: Daily News The Eagle Rock boys' tennis team left no room for error Thursday against No. 5 Taft of Woodland Hills in the second round of the City Section championship playoff bracket. No. 2 singles player Luigi Aquino defeated Taft's Kevin Ismaili 7-5 to clinch the 15-14 1/2 victory for the fourth-seeded and host Eagles, who advance to Monday's semifinal match at 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:
Joseph Tchan of Taft, one of the City Section's best singles players, swept all four of his singles sets. - Lauren Gustus In other boys' tennis: --Granada Hills 19 1/2, Marshall 10: The third-seeded Highlanders (12-2) swept all of their doubles sets against visiting Marshall of 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. (11-4) in a City championship bracket match. In prep softball: --Granada Hills 1, El Camino Real 0: Kat Walsh pitched a no-hitter, striking out 13, and Kelly Zakosek hit the game-winning single in the eighth inning as host Granada Hills (22-5, 8-2) defeated West Valley League champion El Camino Real (9-1 in league) for the first time since the 1995 City Section playoffs. The loss didn't affect the Conquistadores' playoff seeding, however. ECR ECR Efficient Consumer Response ECR European Congress of Radiology ECR Electron Cyclotron Resonance ECR El Camino Real (Kings Highway; California) ECR Electronic Cash Register ECR East Coast Radio (South Africa) earned the third seed and will open the championship-bracket playoffs Tuesday against Fremont of Los Angeles. Valley Mission League champion San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. was seeded fourth and hosts Lincoln of Los Angeles on Tuesday. Granada Hills, seeded fifth, opens at home against South Gate. Other area teams in the top bracket include No. 7 Verdugo Hills of Tujunga, No. 8 Kennedy of Granada Hills, No. 10 Sylmar, No. 11 Birmingham of Lake Balboa, No. 15 Canoga Park and No. 16 Cleveland of Reseda. Eagle Rock, which went undefeated in Northern League play, had to forfeit six games for using an ineligible player and was left out of the playoffs. - 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. In prep baseball: --San Fernando 8, Sylmar 0: Steven Pujol pitched six innings, striking out five, to earn his seventh victory of the season for host San Fernando (14-11, 9-2), which will host Kennedy of Granada Hills on Wednesday for the Valley Mission League title. --Westlake 14, Agoura 10: Cody Cipriano went 4 for 5 with three runs and four RBI RBI abbr. Baseball runs batted in Noun 1. rbi - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season" run batted in in the 15-hit attack for visiting Westlake (15-6, 9-3), which moved a game ahead of Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. in the Marmonte League The Marmonte League is a high school sports league primarily made up of schools from Ventura County. The Marmonte Leauge is part of the CIF Southern Section. Click here to view the league schedule. . In boys' golf: --Foothill final: Valencia junior Brandon Christianson completed a 72-73-145 effort at Wilson Golf Course to win the two-round Foothill League final one day after his 71.5 league average earned him MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. recognition for a second consecutive season. Christianson, Hart of Newhall's Joe Greiner (76-73-149), Matt Ryan
Matt Ryan (born on November 12, 1983 in Sharon, Ontario, Canada) is a centerman for the Manchester Monarchs, the AHL affiliate of the Los Angeles (78-72-150) and Anthony Pauling (72-81-153), and Burroughs of Burbank's Jeff Looby (77-76-153) qualified for the Southern Section individual playoffs. --Marmonte final: Thousand Oaks junior Kyle Thurston won a second consecutive individual championship and Westlake captured a 12th consecutive team title in the four-round competition at par-71 Sunset Hills Country Club. Thurston finished 73-72-72-69-286 to win by five shots over Jameson Lovell 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. . Brett Perry (third at 293) and Tom O'Hara Tom O'Hara was the first native of the U.S. state of Illinois to break the four-minute barrier for the mile run. He accomplished this feat in 1963 when he ran the mile in 3:59.4. He also held the record for fastest mile in indoor track, which was set when he ran the mile in 3:56. (sixth at 305) led Westlake. Also: --Olsson interview: Former Saugus High girls' basketball coach Eric Olsson is scheduled to interview for the vacant coaching position at Clovis West High this weekend. Olsson was the Daily News Coach of the Year in 2002 and led Saugus to the Southern Section Div. I-A quarterfinals in 2003, then retired at the end of the season. Clovis West, one of the top programs in the Central Section, will submit its choice to the school board Wednesday and introduce their new coach at a news conference Thursday. - Ramona Shelburne PRIME-TIME PLAYERS Prep baseball --Josh Vick (Faith Baptist) four-hitter, 13 Ks --Luke Salas (Agoura) 3-4, 2 2B, 2 RBI --Adam Schneider (Agoura) 2-3, 2 HR, 5 RBI Boys' golf --Brett Kanda (Flintridge Prep) 4-under-par 70 --Kyle Thurston (Thousand Oaks) 3-under 69 --Nick Geyer (Viewpoint) 1-under 70 CAPTION(S): box Box: PRIME-TIME PLAYERS (see text) |
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