DAY IN SPORTS: HART FALLS TO NATION'S NO. 1 TEAM.Byline: Daily News Ashlee Trebilcock scored 33 points but Hart High of Newhall lost 62-51 to Piedmont, ranked No. 1 in the country by Student Sports and USA Today USA Today National U.S. daily general-interest newspaper, the first of its kind. Launched in 1982 by Allen Neuharth, head of the Gannett newspaper chain, it reached a circulation of one million within a year and surpassed two million in the 1990s. , at the Nike Tournament of Champions in Chandler, Ariz. Trebilcock scored 17 of Hart's 21 first-half points in the White Division game, but she was called for traveling when a basket would have trimmed the Indians' deficit to two points with 1:51 to play. Piedmont, from the Bay Area, then scored the game's final seven points. Courtney Paris Courtney Paris (born September 21 1987 in San Jose, California) is the junior starting center for the University of Oklahoma women's basketball team. Her twin sister, Ashley Paris, is also a Sooner. , a 6-foot-4 center rated by some publications as the nation's top recruit, scored 22 points for Piedmont. She and her twin sister, Ashley (12 points), are daughters of former San Francisco 49ers Hart (6-2), the Daily News' top-ranked team, plays St. Mary's of Stockton today. St. Mary's is ranked fourth in California. - 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. --Chatsworth 57, Royal 50: Luiza Osborne converted all 10 of her free- throw attempts in the fourth quarter and finished with 13 points to lead Chatsworth at the Nike Tournament of Champions. The Chancellors (8-1) play Canyon of Anaheim today, with the winner advancing to Thursday's final. BOYS' BASKETBALL ST. GENEVIEVE TOURNAMENT --Faith Baptist 71, St. Genevieve 68 (OT): Dillon Weerasinghe scored eight of his game-high 32 points in overtime for Faith Baptist of Canoga Park (3-4) in a pool-play game. Weerasinghe pulled down 16 rebounds, and Jeff Braswell added 14 points. MISSION PREP TOURNAMENT --Calabasas 65, Mission Prep 54: Drew Housman scored 26 points as Calabasas (6-3) opened an 11-point first-half lead en route to a victory over the tournament host. LOCAL NOTE SOFTBALL --College Commitment: 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. pitcher Suzanne Cominski has committed to Harvard. ``I was always looking at the Ivy League, and I loved it (at Harvard),'' said Cominski, who scored a 1,480 on her SAT and carries a 4.4 GPA GPA abbr. grade point average Noun 1. GPA - a measure of a student's academic achievement at a college or university; calculated by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number attempted . ``I'm really excited.'' CAPTION(S): box Box: PRIME-TIME PLAYERS |
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