MOORPARK FALLS APART IN LOSS BUENA KNOCKS THE MUSKETEERS OUT IN SECOND ROUND BUENA 47, M'PARK 39.Byline: GERRY GITTELSON Staff Writer VENTURA -- The Moorpark High girls' basketball team picked the wrong night for a total breakdown. A season filled with promise ended with an uninspired 47-39 loss Wednesday at Buena of Ventura in the second round of the Southern Section Div. I-AA playoffs. The Musketeers (24-4) forgot how to play defense or rebound rebound (rē´bownd), n/v 1. a recovery from illness. n 2. an outbreak of fresh reflex activity after withdrawal of a stimulus rebound adjective , didn't take care of the basketball and, worst of all, couldn't put the ball in the basket. Leading scorer Laura Barker barker a term for an animal that does not usually bark which makes a violent respiratory effort, often during a convulsion, accompanied by a sound which roughly resembles a dog's bark. , who entered with an 18.9 scoring average and was coming off a 27-point performance, managed just two points and committed four fouls in 30 forgettable for·get·ta·ble adj. Fit or apt to be forgotten: a movie with very forgettable characters. Adj. 1. forgettable - easily forgotten unforgettable - impossible to forget minutes. "We had a good plan. We just didn't execute and didn't do the things we had to do," Barker said. "We tried hard but we didn't rebound, our shots weren't falling, and we couldn't get through our screens." Eighth-seeded Buena (23-5) is a good program -- the Bulldogs have won five titles since 1984 and have qualified for the section quarterfinals or better five times over six years -- but Moorpark made the Bulldogs look like the Sparks. "You don't have to tell me," Moorpark coach Adam Wohlstattar said. "We just didn't play well." The lone bright spot for Moorpark was Tiffany Tiffany, Tiffanie (UK) a semi-longhaired version of the Burmese cat. It has a fine, silky coat in many colors. Hurd, who scored 22 points -- all following a scoreless first quarter -- including five 3-pointers. No one else managed more than six points, and that just wasn't enough to get things done, as Barker was smothered smoth·er v. smoth·ered, smoth·er·ing, smoth·ers v.tr. 1. a. To suffocate (another). b. To deprive (a fire) of the oxygen necessary for combustion. 2. by 5-foot-4 Amelia Mathis, who saw to it that Barker barely saw the basketball. "She was very quick, and she did a great job," Barker said. "I didn't have a good day, and anytime any of us saw some daylight, we just chucked it up." Buena's Jessica Jameson constantly was open underneath, scoring 21 points, including three rebound baskets. "We just weren't rebounding tonight. I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. why," Hurd said. Down by 14 with one minute remaining in the third quarter, Moorpark got as close as five in the final minute, but by that time the Musketeers were out of gas. The loss was Moorpark's second to Buena this season, but the first was more competitive, a 61-59 double-overtime defeat in a tournament game in December. Moorpark managed just 5 of 10 free throws, compared to 12 of 21 for Buena. Moorpark entered Wednesday's rematch REMATCH Cardiology Clinical trials–Randomized Evaluation of Mechanical Assistance Therapy as an alternative in Congestive Heart failure–related to use of a portable, electric left ventricular-assist system–LVAS–eg, HeartMate® with six consecutive victories, all by 15 points or more. Wohlstattar didn't cast blame on Barker or anyone else. It was a team loss. "Laura might not have been scoring points, but her intensity was there," he said. "Some things don't show up on the scoreboard, but she made some good plays. They were hanging all over her, and Tiffany had the hot hand." Buena won its fifth in the a row. The Bulldogs face top-seeded Long Beach Poly (language) Poly - 1. A polymorphic, block-structured language developed by D.C.J. Matthews at Cambridge in the early 1980s. ["An Overview of the Poly Programming Language", D.C.J. Matthews, in Data Types and Persistence, M.P. Atkinson et al eds, Springer 1988]. 2. (28-1) on Saturday in the quarterfinals. gerry.gittelson@dailynews.com (661) 257-5218 CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Moorpark High's Megan Natelson goes in for a layup against Buena on Wednesday in the Musketeers' loss. (2) Moorpark's Molly molly see mare hinny. Carson, center, shoots through Buena's Julie Meurung, left, and Veronica Urango. Gene Blevins/ Special to the Daily News |
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