LOCAL NOTES\Mariners' hockey . . .Byline: Vincent Bonsignore and Bryan Winchell New supporter: Mariners coach Sean McGillivray has been talking all season about moving his team up from junior-B status to a junior-A league. And after coming to 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. to play two games against the Mariners, Jackson Hole Jackson Hole, fertile Rocky Mt. valley, c.50 mi (80 km) long and 6 to 8 mi (9.6–12.8 km) wide, NW Wyo., partly in Grand Teton National Park. Jackson Lake, 39 sq mi (101 sq km), a natural lake through which the Snake River flows, was dammed in 1916 to control coach Mike Sullivan, whose team plays in the American Frontier junior-A Hockey League, or ASHL ASHL Adult Safe Hockey League (Canada) , is convinced Ventura has the type of program to make the move. "They have a junior-A organization," Sullivan said. "The only thing they lack is a superstar, and they'll get that if they become a junior-A team." The Mariners are attempting to join the ASHL, and Sullivan, who is a member of the league's board, said McGillivray gave him every reason to believe they have the program to do it. "When we look at an organization, we not only look at the team's on-ice performance but the whole organization," Sullivan said. "And everything here has been first class." Sullivan, though, said it was this trip that has given him confidence in the Mariners' move to junior-A status. "I'm a believer in 'Seeing is believing,' " Sullivan said. "I wouldn't say so many good things about them if I hadn't come here and seen it for myself. But this is not a fly-by-night organization. Sean tells you he's going to do something, and he does it." Roadblocks: The Mariners' move to the ASHL has one major roadblock: travel. Ventura would be the only team in California in a league that has teams in Wyoming, Colorado and Montana. Normally, teams in the league travel to away games by bus. However, because many of the players are still in high school and couldn't afford to miss a week of school for a bus trip to California, the ASHL would need to set up a deal with an airline. "If we could do that, that would be a deciding factor," Sullivan said. Also helping matters would be if the Mariners could get another team - like the Anaheim Junior Mighty Ducks
Mighty Ducks is a half-hour Disney animated series aired on ABC and The Disney Afternoon in the fall of 1996. Twenty-six episodes total were produced. - from the area to join the league with them. "It would make sense to have two teams out here, so each team could play four games when they came here," Sullivan said. Soccer . . . Make-up games: The Royal soccer teams had their games with 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. rained out Wednesday. The games will be made up Monday, with the boys at Thousand Oaks and the girls at Royal. The boys freshman-sophomore team will play at 2:30, the junior varsity junior varsity n. Abbr. JV A high-school or college team that competes in interschool sports on the level below varsity. Noun 1. at 4, and the varsity at 5:30. The girls varsity will play at 2:30 and the junior varsity at 4. Sailing . . . Westlake Yacht Club: The Westlake Yacht Club will kick off its 27th sailing season with the 1996 Mid-Winter Warm-Up Regatta regatta: see rowing; sailing. A high-end Unix-based pSeries server from IBM. Introduced in late 2001, the model p690 incorporates mainframe class self healing capabilities and partitioning to the pSeries (RS/6000) family for the first time. on Sunday at Westlake Lake. Registration is from 10:30 a.m. to noon on race day and a skippers skippers larvae of Piophila casei, the cheese or ham fly. The larvae skip around on the cheese that they inhabit in a quite repulsive way. meeting will be at noon. An entry fee of $5 will be charged. All classes of boats are invited to participate. The regatta will have three races, weather and wind conditions permitting, and will start at 12:30 p.m. All members of the Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, Yacht Association affiliated clubs may participate. Contact Wilma Rosenberg at (818) 889-3204 or (818) 889-4820. |
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