SOCCER BEAT : SCORING HAS BEEN JUST RIGAMATIC.Crescenta Valley The Crescenta Valley is a small inland valley in Los Angeles County, California. Its name derives from its crescent-like shape, with the convex portion facing roughly northeast and the concave portion southwest. forward Stephanie Rigamat scored 42 goals this season, more than any other player, boy or girl. It helped her earn a scholarship to UC Irvine. Last year, she scored 39 goals. It didn't matter if the Falcons were playing top teams or bad teams. Or if she was marked by one or two defenders. Rigamat scored. The Falcons host Hart in Saturday's Southern Section Division I first-round playoff match at 3 p.m. Typically, a midfielder would pass the ball to an open space on the outside, and Rigamat would use her speed to reach the ball before the defense. After that, ``I usually try to keep it close (to the body) and cut to the middle,'' she said. ``The goalie usually comes out. When she goes for the slide, I go around her.'' Spartans close gate on their goal Throughout the season, La Canada boys' coach Louie Bilowitz has said his team isn't that good. The team scored just 45 goals - 100 fewer than this time last year - while starting four freshmen and three sophomores. But the team finished 15-1-3 and won a share of the Rio Hondo Rio Hondo may refer to:
``They didn't know they weren't supposed to win,'' he said. ``It's a major surprise to me and it's a major credit to them.'' The key was defense, where senior goalie Matt Cardis and seniors Kevin Neumeier and Ryan Zimmerman held all opponents to just 13 goals this season. Meanwhile, forward Bryan Jackson scored 13 and midfielder Chris Cuellar added eight goals and 11 assists. ``It was rewarding for our team to end up as league champs,'' said Cardis, who likely will be a league Most Valuable Player. ``We should have lost. We were down the whole game.'' The Spartans host Morningside today in a Division IV first-round match. In low spirits Adv. 1. in low spirits - in a dejected manner; "when she came back Sophie and Esther were sitting dejectedly in the kitchen" dejectedly over lower bracket For the Reseda boys, it was elation elation /ela·tion/ (e-la´shun) emotional excitement marked by acceleration of mental and bodily activity, with extreme joy and an overly optimistic attitude. . For many area girls' teams, it was frustration. Several Reseda players were at the City Section seeding meeting at Hamilton High School Hamilton High School may refer to:
``I'm speechless,'' forward Alex Acevedo said. ``I've waited a few years for this. I'm so happy.'' The girls' coaches at Birmingham, Kennedy and Monroe weren't pleased when the 3-A bracket was drawn and they were placed in the lower bracket. ``I think the real power is in the Valley,'' Kennedy coach Bob Gramacy said. ``Monroe, Kennedy, Birmingham and Cleveland are the powers and you're going to have each other wiping each other out by the second round.'' Young scorers Several players figure to break out next year and be scoring stars. Look for these up-and-comers to provide offensive scoring power throughout the valley. One is Campbell Hall Campbell Hall can refer to:
Village Christian's Saro Amirian is just a sophomore, but his hard shot has netted him a team-best 19 goals so far. Coach Bob Rennie said the 5-6, 140-pound Amirianhas as hard a shot as he has ever seen. Calabasas freshman Itzik Rappoport was brought up from the junior varsity junior varsity n. Abbr. JV A high-school or college team that competes in interschool sports on the level below varsity. Noun 1. and has four goals in five matches. Etc. ODP ODP - Open Distributed Processing honorees: Birmingham freshmen John Wall and John Ortega Seaman John Ortega (born in 1840 in Spain), was the first Hispanic sailor to be awarded the United States' highest military decoration for valor in combat — the Medal of Honor — for having distinguished himself during the South Atlantic Blockade by the Union Naval have been invited to try out for the U.S. Olympic Development Program's under-15 regional team. If they fare well, they could be asked to join the under-16 national team. Both are 14. Kim Taylor, an eighth-grader who has applied to Chaminade, and Sara Leibowitz of La Reina La Reina (Spanish: "The queen") is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It consistently ranks in the top five communes with the best quality of life in the Metropolitan Region. made the ODP under-15 state team. Notre Dame's Sarah Morgan made the ODP under-17 state team. Tigers denied: San Fernando's boys team was denied a place in the City Section playoffs after commissioner Barbara Fiege decided an error on the part of the referees allowed a 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). player who had been red-carded back into the match. Fiege said she couldn't punish the team for that. CAPTION(S): Photo, 2 Boxes Photo: no caption (Stephanie Rigamat) Gus Ruelas/Daily News Box: (1) BOYS' SOCCER SCOREBOARD (2) GIRLS' SOCCER SCOREBOARD |
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