SOPHOMORE CENTER PUTS MOORPARK ON TOP : `MOP' HINOJOSA LEADS THE GIRLS' BASKETBALL TEAM TO A 10-1 RECORD, IMPRESSING RIVALS.Byline: Dave Desmond Daily News Staff Writer Everyone on the Moorpark High School Moorpark High School, located in Moorpark, California, is a public high school in the Moorpark Unified School District and currently has an enrollment of 2,478 students.[1] girls' basketball team gets a nickname. It's almost mandatory. So, when coach Brent Milburn saw Damaris Hinojosa last season, he figured he had the perfect label for his versatile freshman center: ``Little Penny,'' after Orlando Magic The Orlando Magic is a professional basketball team based in Orlando, Florida. They play in the National Basketball Association (NBA). History Early years The Orlando Magic officially entered the NBA as an expansion franchise in 1989. superstar Penny Hardaway Anfernee Deon "Penny" Hardaway (born July 18 1971, in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American NBA basketball player specializing as a point guard and shooting guard. He is currently a member of the Miami Heat[1], who signed him August 9, 2007. . ``I didn't really go for it,'' said Hinojosa, now a 16-year-old sophomore. ``I still 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 relation I was to him.'' Instead, Hinojosa has become known as ``Mop,'' thanks to what she calls her sometimes ``wild and frizzy'' hair. But it has another meaning, perhaps. Hinojosa and the Musketeers have mopped the court with opponents, many of whom see a lot more of Hardaway in Hinojosa than she sees in herself. ``That girl can flat-out play,'' said Louisville High School Louisville High School may refer to:
Over the past few seasons, Moorpark has been a program on the rise. Sisters Tina and Tracey Milburn, the coach's daughters, captured headlines and awards as the Musketeers became a force in the Frontier League The Frontier League, based in Troy, Illinois, is a professional, independent baseball organization located in the Midwestern United States and Western Pennsylvania. It operates mostly in cities not served by Major or Minor League Baseball teams and is not affiliated with either. . Hinojosa might have put them over the top. Despite a sixth-man role last season, the 5-foot-11 Hinojosa averaged 10 points a game and became what is believed to be only the second freshman girls' player in Ventura County history to earn All-Southern Section honors. Moorpark enjoyed an undefeated 1995-96 regular season and advanced beyond the first round of the Division III
Division III (or DIII) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States. playoffs for the first time in school history. The Musketeers fell to eventual state champion Bishop Montgomery in the quarterfinals and finished 24-1. During that season, observers quickly saw Hinojosa as an up-and-coming star, but the spotlight shone most brightly on the Milburns, leaving the young center to develop in relative shadows. With Tina Milburn now graduated, Hinojosa has embraced her new marquee status. She has almost doubled her scoring average to 18 points and is pulling down 10 rebounds per game in leading Moorpark to a 10-1 record entering the week. ``She has matured a lot since last season,'' Brent Milburn said. ``She's developing into a leader and everybody certainly respects what Damaris can do on the floor.'' It would be tough not to recognize her talents. Hinojosa, a 3.8 student who hopes to attend UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , scored 68 points in three games of the Fillmore tournament earlier this month and claimed the event's Most Valuable Player honor. The following week, she was an all-tournament selection at Rio Mesa High School's Gold Coast Classic. It's all very flattering flat·ter 1 v. flat·tered, flat·ter·ing, flat·ters v.tr. 1. To compliment excessively and often insincerely, especially in order to win favor. 2. to Hinojosa, but the recent flood of awards is causing problems in the sophomore's household. ``I've got all these awards on the walls,'' she said. ``But I'm running out of room. I've had to start putting some of my old trophies in boxes to make space.'' Can't have a cluttered room. After all, she is the Mop. |
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