HOT OFF THE PRESS: NOT A GOOD IDEA TO JUMP INTO THINGS.Perhaps it's not always such a hot idea to storm the field, no matter how big the football victory. That's a lesson Jackie Lauver learned the hard way after breaking her ankle while jumping the fence with her classmates Classmates can refer to either:
-- Ivan Orozco Ex-Canyon assistant Blade makes sharp move Perhaps it was a tough decision this past summer for former Canyon High football defensive coordinator A defensive coordinator typically refers to a coach on a football team in the National Football League or college football who is in charge of the defense. This position aids the head coach a great deal in many ways by delegating play calling to other coaches and allowing the head Scott Blade, who's married with three young daughters, to move all the way to Nashville for his first head coaching job. But it's been worth it. Blade, 33, has never been happier, leading Hillsboro High to a 10-0 regular-season record and a No. 2 ranking in its region this week heading into the first round of the Tennessee 4A playoffs, which is the state's second-largest division. ``I really like it here,'' Blade said. ``I like everything about it, even though Nashville is so different than L.A., especially the weather. I'd never felt humidity like here.'' Blade isn't the only former Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, local who has made an out-of- state impact. Ex-Hart receiver Taylor Embree, who moved to Kansas for his senior year, has emerged as quite a player for Blue Valley West High in Stilwell. Embree has 27 receptions for 354 yards and five touchdowns despite missing nearly three full games for Blue Valley West (5-4), which begins the playoffs this week. ``Taylor is an outstanding player,'' Blue Valley West coach Scott Wright Scott Wright (born 2 October 1974) is a British actor, best known for his two year stay in ITV1's Coronation Street, playing Sam Kingston from 2000 to 2002, who famously stripped in the Rovers Return. said. ``We knew he was great as a junior at Hart, and he'd probably have a lot more receptions for us if he didn't miss those games and we didn't have a great corps of receivers who also have a lot of catches.'' Embree, who's 6-foot-3, is being heavily recruited and might commit soon to Missouri or Kansas. -- Gerry Gittelson Crespi baseball player transfers Dylan Jones Dylan Jones attended Central St Martins university in London and studied graphic design, he now works for GQ Magazine and is the editor of it in the UK. He is credited with taking the magazine in a more political direction, recently featuring Conservative party leader David Cameron on the , a sophomore who is considered one of the Southland's top young baseball talents, has arrived at Valencia High after transferring from Crespi of Encino. He's the only 10th-grader who has made Valencia's varsity team In the United States and Canada and UK, varsity sports teams are the principal athletic teams representing a college, university, or high school or other secondary school. Such teams compete against the principal athletic teams at other colleges/universities, or in the case of . In other baseball news, Newbury Park High's Andrew Lambo, the reigning Daily News Player of the Year, pitched five scoreless innings for the Reds scout team In sports, the scout team, also referred to as a practice team or practice squad, is a group of players on a team whose task is to emulate future opponents for the featured (or starting) players. in a 3-0 championship victory Monday over a team from Houston in the Perfect Game World Wood Bat Association World Championships in Jupiter, Fla. Lambo batted .529 in 17 tournament at-bats as the Reds team finished 8-0. -- Gerry Gittelson and Heather Gripp Little golfer carries big stick at SCPGA event Jered Stone, a 15-year-old from Tarzana who's 5-foot-4 and 110 pounds but can drive a golf ball 300 yards, was the youngest top-20 qualifier at the SCPGA amateur tournament in Beaumont last month. Stone, a sophomore at Montclair Prep of Panorama City who plays 36 holes per day during the summer, finished 13th, which means he automatically qualifies for next year's tournament. -- Gerry Gittelson Volleyball friends are foes tonight Former local volleyball standouts and club teammates Taryn Robertson of UC Irvine and Angela Hupp of Cal State Northridge square off for the first time in college at 7tonight in Irvine. Robertson played at Valencia High and Hupp played for Paraclete of Lancaster. -- Erik Boal Benefit breakfast, 5K event planned A pancake breakfast in support of longtime Canyon Park High football coach Rudy Lugo, who's battling cancer, is scheduled for 7-11:30 a.m. at the school. Information: (818) 999-9547 or jean.stanwood.lkx3@statefarm.com. Also, the second annual Run For Her & Stay Strong Friend Walk 5K, an event founded by Calabasas High 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' alumna Kelli Sargent in honor of her mother, Nanci, who's battling cancer, is Nov. 12 in 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. . All Proceeds benefit the Cedars-Sinai Women's Cancer Research Institute (WCRI WCRI Waterloo Co-Operative Residence Incorporated WCRI Women's Cancer Research Institute ) at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute. -- 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. |
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