GIRLS' BASKETBALL: CITY SECTION: ENVIRONMENT, NOT LOSS, ANGERS CHATSWORTH NARBONNE 75, CHATSWORTH 43.Byline: 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. Staff Writer HARBOR CITY - Nothing like a little controversy to spice up a 32-point game. Chatsworth girls' basketball coach Raquel Alotis isn't making any excuses for her team's 75-43 loss to Narbonne of Harbor City on Friday night. But when she was presented with an opportunity to speak with City Section Commissioner Barbara Fiege after the game, she took it. Alotis was frustrated the Chancellors were the only team in the City Section to be playing at Los Angeles Harbor College Los Angeles Harbor College (LAHC) is one of two community colleges serving the South Bay region of Los Angeles. LAHC serves mainly students from Harbor City, Carson, San Pedro, Gardena, Lomita, Wilmington and the Palos Verdes Peninsula. , the practice facility of Narbonne. The other three semifinal games were played at Los Angeles Southwest College  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . . ``It's not the difference in the game, and we're not saying that,'' Alotis said. ``But I've been in the City Section for five years (and) there's never been any semifinal game anywhere else than Southwest. (Fiege) said that if a semifinal couldn't be hosted at Southwest, it only need be an alternate site, and Narbonne got to choose the site because they are the No. 1 seed. ``All I'm saying is that they should treat the Valley the same way they treat 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. . And that goes for us, for Sylmar next year or 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:
Fiege, for her part, maintained that ``Southwest had given them as much as they could,'' with regard to hosting games, and that the change of venue A change of venue is the legal term for moving a trial to a new location. In high-profile matters, a change of venue may occur to move a jury trial away from a location where a fair and impartial jury may not be possible due to widespread publicity about a crime and/or defendant(s) only became necessary because the L.A. Southwest men's and women's basketball Women's basketball is one of the few games which developed in tandem with men's. It became popular, spreading from the east coast of the United States to the west coast, in large part via women's colleges. teams are in their own playoffs. But other than the longer drive and hostile crowd for what essentially was a home game for Narbonne, the change of venues didn't have much bearing on the game. Narbonne jumped to a 19-7 lead after the first quarter and extended it to 40-20 by halftime. Still, Narbonne (21-6) kept up its full-court press full-court press n. 1. Basketball An aggressive defensive strategy in which one or two players harass the ball handler in the backcourt while the rest of the team maintains a close man-to-man or zone defense. 2. and left all of its starters in until late in the fourth quarter. USC-bound senior Jamie Funn, who scored 16 points, and junior Camille LeNoir, who finished with a game-high 19 points, were the last Narbonne starters to exit the game with 2:32 remaining. TODAY'S GIRLS' BASKETBALL PLAYOFF GAMES City Section semifinals Sylmar vs. Carson at L.A. Southwest College, 2 p.m. Southern Section All games 7:30 p.m. Division I-AA quarterfinals Palmdale at Long Beach Wilson Division I-A quarterfinals Los Alamitos at Hart Saugus at San Clemente Capistrano Valley at Royal Division III-AA semifinals Alemany vs. Artesia at Cerritos HS Division III-A semifinals Chaminade vs. Bishop Amat at Harvard-Westlake Division IV-A semifinals Oaks Christian vs. Brentwood at Crossroads HS Bell-Jeff vs. Windward at Brentwood HS CAPTION(S): box Box: TODAY'S GIRLS' BASKETBALL PLAYOFF GAMES (see text) |
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