DESERT CHRISTIAN AND NEWBURY PARK TEAMS RANK HIGH IN GPA RACE.Byline: Darnell Felton Daily News Staff Writer Desert Christian's girls' cross country team and Newbury Park's girls' volleyball and boys' cross country teams scored the highest collective grade point averages among area fall-sport teams. Each finished in the top 10 in the state. Lancaster-based Desert Christian was second in girls' cross country with a 3.90 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 , .02 less than Sequoia High of Redwood City Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. . Lancaster is tied for 32nd at 3.57, and Paraclete and Newbury Park are tied for 39th at 3.51. Newbury Park's runners, with a team GPA of 3.62, finished tied for third in the state, and the volleyball team finished eighth with a 3.69 GPA, two posts higher than 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. rival Royal's 3.66. In volleyball, Cornerstone Christian was 13th with 3.64, and Lancaster was 19th at 3.59. In boys' cross country, Crespi followed Newbury Park in a tie for sixth with 3.60. Palmdale was tied for 17th at 3.45. Additionally, 1,758 student-athletes who maintained a minimum 3.5 during their season of competition were honored as Scholastic All-CIF award winners. Adult volleyball: The Conejo Recreation and Park District Sports Office is accepting applications for the Adult Winter/Spring Volleyball league. The coed volleyball league plays Sunday and Wednesday evenings, Feb. 7 through May, at the 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. and Bouchard Community Center. League fees are $191 for in-district and $229 for out-district teams (includes a $36 refundable forfeit fee). The league is open to ages 16 and up and offers B, C and D divisions. Register at the Crowley House/Sports Office. Information: (805) 495-4674. Softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' : The Ballistic, an 16-and-under traveling softball team, is holding its annual tryouts for the upcoming season. Tryouts take place Saturday from 9-11:30 a.m. The Ballistic competed in more than 100 games last year throughout various cities and states, including the AFA AFA In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Afghanistan Afghani. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. Nationals in Barrington, Ill. Information: Carlos at (805) 522-4766, Scott at (818) 888-5636 or Kit at (818) 526-3718. Diving: Dive Thousand Oaks has openings for both the boys' and girls' diving teams. The age limit is 7-17. High school students can get a jump on the season. Divers learn the fundamentals of spring board diving with competitions in age groups. This is a year-round US Diving program. Information: Bill Douglas at (805) 499-6547. Little League: Registration for the spring season continues Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the 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. Little League complex on Royal Avenue at Darrah Street. Registration continues every Saturday and Sunday in January. For those unable to register during weekend hours, registration is also available at Play It Again Sports Play It Again Sports is a chain of sporting goods stores selling new and gently used sporting goods franchised by Winmark Corporation. Minneapolis native Martha Morris started the store in 1983, soon growing to several stores. 2691 Cochran St. in Simi Valley during normal business hours BUSINESS HOURS. The time of the day during which business is transacted. In respect to the time of presentment and demand of bills and notes, business hours generally range through the whole day down to the hours of rest in the evening, except when the paper is payable it a bank or by a . For the first time, new Senior Division rules allow 16-year-olds (16 before July 31, 1999) to play Senior level baseball. Tryouts for 7-12 year-olds are scheduled for Jan. 30-31 and the senior division (13-16) is scheduled for Feb. 6-7. The season opens March 6. Information: Debbie Hanna at (805) 581-0587. Soccer: Kalifornia Indoor Soccer
Information: (805) 484-7384. |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion