PERFECTION, THEN FRUSTRATION.Byline: Gideon Rubin Staff Writer FOUNTAIN VALLEY Fountain Valley, city (1990 pop. 53,691), Orange co., S Calif.; inc. 1957. Chiefly residential, Fountain Valley also has diverse manufactures, including apparel, computer equipment, semiconductors, and medical equipment. A U.S. navy helicopter facility is there. - Garrett Williams sat in the bleachers In The Bleachers is a podcast and website that focuses on Division I-A college football. It is recorded and aired weekly during college football season and features college football experts from the Big Ten, Big East, SEC, ACC, Pac 10, and Big 12 conferences. wearing a tee shirt his mother had printed for him earlier in the week that read ``40-0'' on the front, ``And I didn't go'' on the back. For that reason, Williams, a Quartz Hill wrestling standout, was the talk of the Southern Section Masters meet in Fountain Valley, which he couldn't compete in after missing the required weigh-ins at last week's Southern Section Inland Division championships at Ayala High of Chino Chino (chē`nō), city (1990 pop. 59,682), San Bernardino co., S Calif.; founded 1887, inc. 1910. It is the business and processing center of a diversified farming (notably dairying) area. Hills. Williams, who'd already qualified for the 160-pound division semifinals, arrived at the weigh-in at Ayala 45 minutes late because his coach got lost on the way. He needed just one victory in three possible matches to qualify for the Masters meet, where the top 32 wrestlers See
After word got out that Quartz Hill coach Todd Doyle resigned as a result of the incident, several Golden League coaches called the Southern Section office, making unsuccessful appeals for an at-large berth to Masters on Williams' behalf. Williams, however, has no complaints about the ruling. ``A lot of people in my family and coaches from other schools are taking it really hard, but I'm just trying to keep a positive attitude about it because obviously it wasn't meant to be and there's nothing I can do about it,'' Williams said. ``It's a rule and you've got to follow the rules. They were just doing their jobs. It's not really their fault.'' Lancaster coach Pat Hayhurst, Williams' eighth grade math teacher, was among those who contacted Southern Section assistant commissioner Rob Vigod. ``I think they ought to have some provision for this kind of thing,'' Hayhurst said. ``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. what the answer is, but to leave this kid out (of the Masters meet), to me it's just not right. --Quarterfinal qualifiers: Harvard Westlake of North Hollywood qualified two wrestlers for today's championship quarterfinals, 160-pounder Jeremy Stuart (44-3) and 215-pounder Kenji Porter (41-2). ... Highland High of Palmdale sent six wresters to Masters, but heavyweight heavyweight - High-overhead; baroque; code-intensive; featureful, but costly. Especially used of communication protocols, language designs, and any sort of implementation in which maximum generality and/or ease of implementation has been pushed at the expense of mundane Jess jesse, jess a leather strap placed around each shank of a hawk used for hunting, for the attachment of a leash. Garcia (31-8) was the only one who advanced to the quarterfinals. ... Royal High of 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. 152-pounder Eric Blackwell (40-5) was the only other area wrestler who qualified for the quarterfinals. Gideon Rubin (818)713-3607 gideon.rubin(at)dailynews.com |
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