HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS: EAGLE ROCK PUSHES INTO SEMIFINALS THIS TIME EAGLE ROCK 22 1/2, CLEVELAND 7.Byline: ERIK BOAL Special to the Daily News After receiving its highest seed in program history, Eagle Rock High's boys' tennis team was awarded a first-round bye in the City Section playoffs. That didn't did·n't Contraction of did not. didn't did not didn't do mean the third-seeded Eagles rested on their laurels until Wednesday's match against visiting Cleveland of Reseda. In an attempt to avoid a quarterfinal quar·ter·fi·nal adj. Of or relating to one of four competitions in a tournament, whose winners go on to play in semifinal competitions. n. 1. quarterfinals A quarterfinal round. 2. A quarterfinal match. exit for the second year in a row, Eagle Rock coach Eric Jacobson Eric Jacobson is a puppeteer and Muppet performer, who has been the primary replacement puppeteer for Frank Oz's characters since 2001. Jacobson initially started playing Bert in 1997, but officially joined the cast as Bert, Cookie Monster, and additional Muppets in 2000. put his team through two grueling gru·el·ing also gru·el·ling adj. Physically or mentally demanding to the point of exhaustion: a grueling campaign. gru days of competition to prepare for the 11th-seeded Cavaliers. The result was a convincing 22 -7 victory and a berth in Monday's semifinals at 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 Complex in Encino. "Having lost last year really helped us out this year," said Jacobson, whose team brought a 14-0 record into last year's quarterfinal match against Taft of Woodland Hills and was beaten 15 -14. "We were able to point to that for motivation. "Taft was a good team, but we wanted to right the wrong from last year. We prepared much more intensely Monday than we did last season, and we felt it was within us to win the match." Eagle Rock (15-1) - which plays No. 2 Granada Hills ort 10th-seeded Venice - put the pressure on Cleveland (7-8) by building a 12-4 advantage in singles. The Cavaliers' only singles victories came from Andrew Ong. J.C. Leonardo, playing singles for the first time, contributed three points for the Eagles, who won twice in the opening round of doubles competition to clinch Clinch, river, c.300 mi (480 km) long, formed by the junction of two forks in SW Va., and flowing generally SW across E Tenn. to the Tennessee River at Kingston. the victory. Chris Trinh and Joseph Valentino swept their three doubles sets for Eagle Rock. "I stressed to all of them to play like there's no tomorrow, or else their season is over," Jacobson said. "This is a tremendous achievement for a little school like Eagle Rock." Top-seeded Palisades Palisades, cliffs along the west bank of the Hudson River, NE N.J. and SE N.Y., extending from N of Jersey City, N.J., to the vicinity of Piermont, N.Y., with a general altitude of from 350 ft to 550 ft (107–168 m). of Pacific Palisades will face fourth-seeded Taft of Woodland Hills in the other semifinal at the Balboa Sports Complex. CAPTION(S): box Box: OTHER MATCHES |
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