PREP BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS: TAFT OVERCOMES FOUL PLAY.Byline: Daily News Taft survived 28 team fouls and a furious fourth quarter comeback by visiting Sylmar for a 65-59 victory in a city championship first round game. Sylmar (12-12), which was called for 21 fouls, cut Tafts' 12 point halftime lead to just three when Louis Darby (10 points) followed his own rebound with 32 seconds remaining. But Mustafa Asghari hit a pair of free throws and Gregg Guenther Gregg Guenther, Jr. (born January 29, 1982 in Calabasas, CA) is a National Football League tight end for the Cincinnati Bengals. College career Guenther played basketball and football at the University of Southern California. (12 points, 19 rebounds) added another to clinch the game for the Toreadors (20-2). ``Fouls are part of the game, but we were committing riduculous fouls out in the open court where the man couldn't even hurt us,'' Taft coach Mark Durcher said. ``But we hung tough even with Gregg and Ron (Gray) in foul trouble and Collins Ezevka (12 points) played his best game of the year.'' Gary Miereanu In other City games: --Palisades 53, Monroe 41:. Guard Ramall Goodrich led the Vikings with 21 points, including three 3-pointers in the fourth quarter as Monroe (19-7) got as close as eight points with 1:09 to play. Viking leading scorer Robert Palafox had just 12 points, half on 3-pointers. Alfredo Cuevas turned in five steals, four rebounds and three points, The three points on a 3-pointer that kept the 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). lead to eight points. Mark Bosteder --Crenshaw 83, Eagle Rock 36 Tommy Johnson
Tommy Johnson (1896 – November 1 1956) was an influential American delta blues musician who recorded in the late 1920s. led host Crenshaw cren·shaw also cran·shaw n. A variety of winter melon (Cucumis melo var. inodorus) having a greenish-yellow rind and sweet, usually salmon-pink flesh. [Origin unknown.] (17-2) with a game-high 25 points. Junior guard Alex Cabagnop led Eagle Rock (15-10) with 18 points. Alex Valladares In girls' basketball, City Section City bracket play: --Crenshaw 85, Taft 43: The Crenshaw defense held Taft to just 18 second-half points, including four in the third period. The Cougars scored 25 points in the third period. Denisha McCoy scored 14 points for Taft and Oreeille Revish added 10. Alex Valladares --Chatsworth 44, Locke 40: Ashley Shelton scored 12 points to lead Chatsworth to a first-round playoff victory. Chatsworth freshman Summer Johnson scored 11 points off the bench. Chatsworth went on a 15-4 run to open the third quarter and tied the score 40-40 with 22 seconds left in the game. Pam Clark put Chatsworth ahead 42-40 and Sheltons' two free throws put the game out of reach with 4 seconds left. Aaron Levine --Gardena 57, ECR ECR Efficient Consumer Response ECR European Congress of Radiology ECR Electron Cyclotron Resonance ECR El Camino Real (Kings Highway; California) ECR Electronic Cash Register ECR East Coast Radio (South Africa) 53: Christina Aguinaga scored 16 points, but it wasn't enough for the host Conquistadores (18-7). El Camino Real El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road or The King's Highway) was the name of a series of pre-automobile highways linking the various New World colonies of Spain:
ECR led at 17-16 after one quarter when Karen Shun Shun In Chinese mythology, one of the three legendary emperors, along with Yao and Da Yu, of the golden age of antiquity (c. 23rd century BC), singled out by Confucius as models of integrity and virtue. made a basket from halfcourt at the buzzer. Shun finished with 10 points and was ECR's second-leading scorer. Tremesha Watts scored 13 points and Francessca Castillo added 12 more to lead Gardena. Bryan Rodgers --Grant 66, Fairfax 65: Alexis Weatherspoon got her own rebound and scored with four seconds remaining to give the host Lancers lanc·er n. 1. A cavalryman armed with a lance. 2. A member of a regiment originally armed with lances. 3. lancers (used with a sing. verb) a. A kind of quadrille. b. their 13th consecutive win. Weatherspoon and Leslie Mui combined for 34 of Grant's 42 second-half points to help the Lancers grab back a lead they had not enjoyed since the first quarter. Farfax went on a 11-3 run to take a nine-point halftime lead. Grant's Krystal Clay scored 14 points in the first half to keep Grant (20-6) in the game. Steve Collins
Steve Collins, nicknamed The Celtic Warrior, is a former boxing champion. He was born Stephen Collins on 21 July, 1964, in Cabra, Dublin, Ireland. In the City Invitational in·vi·ta·tion·al adj. Restricted to invited participants: an invitational golf tournament. n. An event, especially a sports tournament, restricted to invited participants. Adj. 1. bracket: --Reseda 51, North Hollywood 44: Andrea Bermas scored a game-high 15 points and Kristin Armendariz added 14 points to lead No. 15 Reseda to the upset victory in a first-round game at No. 2 North Hollywood. The Huskies (16-10) were tied 39-39 after three quarters as Kaipresha Price scored nine of her team-high 15 points in the first half. Nicole Nakagawa sank a 3-pointer to start the fourth quarter and put the Regents (12-13) ahead for good, 42-39. George Vranau In boys' So. Sec. Div. I-A --Thousand Oaks 72, Loara 71: A Clutch 3-point basket by Thousand Oaks' Tim Chevalier with 10 seconds remaining gave the Lancers (17-4-4) the final margin of victory. Loara had one chance to score, but Dan Melton's half-court shot at the buzzer fell short. The trio of Chevalier, Ben Olson For the American soccer player, see . Benjamen James Olson (born February 23, 1983 in Thousand Oaks, California) is a redshirt junior quarterback for the 2006 UCLA Bruins football team. , and Kahil Fennell combined for 51 of Thousand Oaks' total 72 points. Loara's Dan Melton mel·ton n. A heavy woolen cloth used chiefly for making overcoats and hunting jackets. [After Melton Mowbray, an urban district of central England.] had 25 points and 11 rebounds. Tim Tanner So. Sec. Div. II-A: --Servite 60, Burroughs 54: Rodel Lizan and John Morris combined to hit six straight free throws in the final minute and a half as the Friars (16-11) surprised the host Indians. Burroughs (17-7) had rallied from a 13-point fourth quarter deficit to tie the game at 54-54 with 2:15 left. Justin Ambos scored 10 of his game high 24 in the fourth quarter to lead the comeback attempt. Bob Timmerman In Div. II-AA: --Moorpark 65, Canyon Anaheim 57: For most of the game Todd Tomlinson couldn't buy a basket. When it mattered most, however, Tomlinson couldn't miss. The senior guard made a crucial 3-pointer with 1:09 left in the game to stretch a dwindling dwin·dle v. dwin·dled, dwin·dling, dwin·dles v.intr. To become gradually less until little remains. v.tr. To cause to dwindle. See Synonyms at decrease. lead and converted 12 of 14 free throws in the fourth quarter to lift the Musketeers (18-9) past the host Comanches (14-12) in Anaheim. Moorpark, which trailed for much of the first half and the start of the third quarter, used an 18-0 run to turn a 24-20 deficit into a 38-24 lead. Canyon rallied and closed to within four twice, but Tomlinson made sure they would get no closer. Jim Inghram So. Sec. Div. III-AA: --Harvard Westlake 70, La Canada 51: Russell Lakey led Harvard Westlake past La Canada with 21 points, six rebounds, three assists and five steals, including three points in the first quarter. The Wolverines (22-5) established tempo early establishing a 12-point first quarter lead with a full-court press full-court press n. 1. Basketball An aggressive defensive strategy in which one or two players harass the ball handler in the backcourt while the rest of the team maintains a close man-to-man or zone defense. 2. and pressure defense. The Spartans (15-13) pulled to within eight late in the first half on two free throws by Mark Moore Mark Moore (born March 10 1964, in London) is a British dance music record producer and DJ. He was founder of the pop band S'Express, and runs the London nightclub night " Electrogogo". . Eric Geffner responded in the second half however scoring 11 of his 15 points in the third quarter to ice it for the Wolverines. Rob Moscato Moscato can have several meanings see:
--Centennial 51, Chaminade 49: Chaminade's run for a third conseecutive CIF (1) (Common Intermediate Format) A standard video format used in videoconferencing. CIF formats are defined by their resolution, and standards both above and below the original resolution have been established. The original CIF is also known as Full CIF (FCIF). championship ended on a buzzard-beater by the visiting Apaches (18-11), who pulled out the second-round win. Jordan O'Gilvie put the Eagles (17-9) into a position to win on its final drive by nailing two 3-point baskets in the final two minutes of the game and by tying the score at 49, but Ellis Myles popped the ball out of O'Gilivie's hands with nine seconds to play when O'Gilvie tried to break a fullcourt press. Myles then sealed the win with the layup at the other end. Scott Borchart had 15 points and Tito Hill had added 11 for the Eagles. Aaron Levine --Notre Dame 57, Verbum Dei 46: Cody Pearson scored a game high 24 points, grabbed 17 rebounds and dished dished adj. 1. Concave. 2. Slanting toward one another at the bottom. Used of a pair of wheels. Adj. 1. dished - shaped like a dish or pan dish-shaped, patelliform concave - curving inward out six assists to lead the sixth-ranked Knights (22-6) over the Eagles. Micheal Luderer put the Knughts ahead to stay 31-30 with 2:39 left in the third quarter after making a steal. George Vranua In Div. V-AA: --Buckley 70, Montclair Prep 66: Colin Ward-Henniger scored on a rebound lay-up with 13.3 seconds remaining to give Buckley one of the biggest wins in school history. Ward-Henniger (23 points), Alex Clancy and David Gale combined for 57 points for the Griffins (21-2). Buckley kept Montclair Prep off balance the whole game by nailing 10 3-pointers. Jack Pollon |
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