SAUGUS BOYS SEEK GLIMPSE OF PLAYOFF PARADISE; TEAM TO FACE S.V. IN FIRST ROUND.Byline: Scott Magoloff Daily News Staff Writer From being on the early fringe of basketball oblivion o·bliv·i·on n. 1. The condition or quality of being completely forgotten: "He knows that everything he writes is consigned to posterity (oblivion's other, seemingly more benign, face)" , the Saugus High boys' basketball team has earned entry into basketball heaven. Paradise may be short-lived, however, as 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. 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. , ranked No. 2, awaits the Centurions in a Southern Section Division 1-A first-round game on Friday. That Saugus (13-12, 5-5) made the playoffs at all is reason enough to rejoice, as an 0-3 start to its Foothill League season left it questioning whether it had what it takes to reach the postseason. A win over league co-champion Valencia gave Saugus its first Foothill victory. It went 4-2 the rest of the year. Then three straight losses by Canyon (5-5) to end the season (the first against Saugus) helped the Centurions make the playoffs. The two teams finished tied for third, but Saugus won the second tiebreaker tie·break·er n. An additional contest or period of play designed to establish a winner among tied contestants. Also called tiebreak. tie , which compared records against the league co-champions. The Centurions and Cowboys split their head-to-head meetings, which stands as the first tiebreaker. ``I'm pretty happy,'' Saugus coach Jeff Hallman said. ``It's easy to look back and be critical of things, but going into the year, I didn't think we'd go into the playoffs. But we're not done yet. We want to come out and play well on Friday.'' Hallman stressed that he wanted his players focused on playing their game well despite Simi Valley's record. But he also recognized that finishing third in the Foothill League was an accomplishment, considering his team only won three of 15 summer-league games. For Hallman, in his fifth year as head coach, Friday will mark a return to the postseason. He took his first two Saugus teams into the playoffs, being eliminated in the first round each time. Hallman has been there before, but the seniors were freshman when the last Centurions team made the playoffs. ``I'm excited - big-time,'' senior point guard Doug Summerhays said. ``I've played in a volleyball playoff game Noun 1. playoff game - one game in the series of games constituting a playoff game - a single play of a sport or other contest; "the game lasted two hours" playoff - any final competition to determine a championship (last year) and it was a different atmosphere. It's like being in a whole other place. You can feel the electricity; I love the feeling of it.'' Inspired play from Summerhays, forwards Jerome Edwards, Nic Echevestre, Kurt DeMaio, along with freshman Marc Holmquist, have fueled the Centurions' run to the playoffs. Saugus is 1-4 in its last five playoff play·off also play-off n. Sports 1. A final game or series of games played to break a tie. 2. A series of games played to determine a championship. Noun 1. appearances, but this year's team has won the most regular season games in Hallman's five years. ``I just want to show people that we can play, that Saugus hasn't been a fluke fluke, parasitic flatworm of the trematoda class, related to the tapeworm. Instead of the cilia, external sense organs, and epidermis of the free-living flatworms, adult flukes have sucking disks with which they cling to their hosts and an external cuticle that all year,'' Summerhays said. ``We have to play each minute like it's our last. We have nothing to lose; nobody thought much of us to begin with.'' While Hallman has not seen Simi Valley play this year, he has some idea what he is up against. ``I know they're talented, deep and big,'' he 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. any place you could find where we match up favorably fa·vor·a·ble adj. 1. Advantageous; helpful: favorable winds. 2. Encouraging; propitious: a favorable diagnosis. 3. . ``Obviously, you hope for a better draw, but you take what you can get.'' CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Jeff Hallman's Saugus team faces Simi Valley in the playoffs. David R. Crane/Daily News |
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