SAUGUS' HILTON ABLE TO HIT A TON; SENIOR LEADS CENTURIONS INTO PLAYOFFS.Byline: Patrick Hipes Daily News Staff Writer It's been a very good year for Saugus High volleyball volleyball, outdoor or indoor ball and net game played on a level court. An upright net, 3 ft (or 1 m) high, the top of which stands 8 ft (2.43 m) from the ground for men, 7 ft 4 1/8 in (2. player Tom Hilton. The 6-foot-2, 155-pound Hilton has started on the Centurions basketball team, he was elected king of his senior prom For the formal end-of-school-year dance, see . Senior Prom is a still-classified U.S. Air Force program to develop a stealth unmanned aerial reconnaissance vehicle (and possibly as a cruise missile), designed to be launched from a DC-130, B-52, or B-1. , complete with a plastic crown, and is co-captain of the Saugus volleyball team that finished 13-1 and won its first Foothill League title with a spotless spot·less adj. 1. Perfectly clean. See Synonyms at clean. 2. Free from blemish; impeccable. spot  less·ly adv. 9-0 record.
He is a main reason why Saugus made the Southern Section Division I volleyball playoffs. The Centurions host Righetti in a wild-card game tonight at 7, the winner to play at powerhouse A fourth-generation language from Cognos that was introduced in the late 1970s for midrange computers. It supports both character-oriented, terminal-based applications as well as Windows clients. Applications developed under PowerHouse can be imported into Cognos' Axiant client/server environment. Royal on Friday. ``You wish you could clone clone, group of organisms, all of which are descended from a single individual through asexual reproduction, as in a pure cell culture of bacteria. Except for changes in the hereditary material that come about by mutation, all members of a clone are genetically him,'' volleyball coach Bobbie Estes said. Hilton has a concern, however. Why did the Southern Section committee make a league champ play a wild-card game? ``We had a pretty good record,'' Hilton said. ``I kind of feel we got a bad deal.'' The team had done everything it had to do. It beat Quartz Hill, at the time ranked in the Southern Section polls. It beat Canyon not once, not twice, but three times - a team that until this season had been Saugus' largest obstacle to the elusive Foothill crown. A lack of quality boys' club teams in the 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, area have given others the perception teams like Saugus and Canyon cannot play with the big boys. But players like Hilton are helping to change the image. ``It's tough in our league to come to a high point,'' he said. ``But we really get at each other at practice. We are all working hard to get to the next level.'' Hilton, who's father is a minister and mom is a travel agent, didn't start playing theo sport until he was a sophomore, when Estes corralled him into the program because he was tall and could jump. He developed quickly as an outside hitter and by the start of the season he was not only elected one of three team captains but filled in occasionally at setter setter: see sporting dog. setter Any of three breeds derived from a medieval hunting dog that would set (lie down) when it found birds so that it and the birds could be covered with a net. Setters have long hair on the ears, chest, legs, and tail. . ``He's become an amazingly better setter,'' Estes said. ``He's always had nice hands and he said the other day that he'd wished he'd been setting for three years rather than three months.'' It was enough time for University of La Verne The University of La Verne is a private university in La Verne, California (about 35 miles east of Los Angeles) with a main campus, seven satellite campuses throughout central and southern California, a law school, and two military regional campuses at Point Mugu Naval Air Station volleyball coach Don Flora to see him, however. The school, which ended last season ranked No. 2 in the nation in Division III
Division III (or DIII) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States. , has accepted him and he's awaiting the paperwork on the financial package. Flora wants Hilton as the Leopards' setter. It's a task Hilton's ready to take on. ``(Coach Estes) says I'm kind of like a diamond in the rough,'' said Hilton. ``She said with the right college coach and if I'm not afraid to work . . . I'm not afraid to work hard.'' It's that kind of attitude that has helped Hilton shine on and off the court. He is the person Estes goes to for answers about the team and the team goes to him for answers about her. ``Tom is our mediator mediator n. a person who conducts mediation. A mediator is usually a lawyer, or retired judge, but can be a non-attorney specialist in the subject matter (like child custody) who tries to bring people and their disputes to early resolution through a conference. ,'' Estes said. ``He mends our fences. He's come from a long line of communicators and that's the gift he gets from his dad. He's a terrific kid.'' Said Hilton: ``I picked up a lot of what I do from my family. It is a great balance and they're always on me to do my best.'' It's worked. And now he's ready to try something new. ``I think I'm ready I'm Ready is the double platinum second release from R&B singer Tevin Campbell. I'm Ready yielded the biggest R&B hit of his career the #1 R&B smash "Can We Talk", and produce 3 more successful hits in "I'm Ready", "Always In My Heart" and "Don't Say Goodbye Girl". to leave high school,'' he said. ``I'm glad I can walk away with a great ending like volleyball. I think I'm ready to test myself at the next level.'' Southern Section volleyball playoffs Division I wild card Who: Santa Maria-Righetti at Saugus When: Tonight, 7 CAPTION(S): Photo, Box PHOTO Tom Hilton wears many crowns for Saugus, including a plastic one as king of the senior prom. Myung J. Chun/Daily News BOX: Southern Section volleyball playoffs Division I wild card (See text) |
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