UPSTART SCHOOL BOASTS TALENTED FRESHMEN.Byline: GERRY GITTELSON Watch out, girls' high school basketball teams. Here comes Golden Valley High. The first-year team is composed only of freshmen - the lone sophomore, Erica Gudino, has suffered a season-ending knee injury - but the girls are playing some serious basketball. Golden Valley is 11-1, including several victories over junior-varsity opponents, and the Grizzlies The name Grizzlies may refer to:
``The way we're playing now, we have a good chance to run the table,'' coach Troy Best said. Golden Valley is winning by an average of 20 points and has allowed just 22 points per game. The team has won three tournaments and owns two victories over Hart's freshman team. Golden Valley's only loss was to Valencia's JV team. Among the pivotal players is Meredith Mathis. She's averaging 15 points a game, and she connected on five 3-pointers during a 21-point, 15-rebound performance against Hart. ``She's playing incredibly right now,'' said Best, a former head coach for Canyon's varsity team In the United States and Canada and UK, varsity sports teams are the principal athletic teams representing a college, university, or high school or other secondary school. Such teams compete against the principal athletic teams at other colleges/universities, or in the case of . Other key contributors are Amber Henderson and Tera McKelvey. Things should get interesting next season. Golden Valley will join the Foothill League as a varsity team, although most of its players will be freshmen and sophomores. ``There just aren't many sophomores on campus right now, so the only way we're going to have juniors is if they transfer in,'' Best said. The Foothill League will have seven girls' basketball teams next season. In 2006-07, West Ranch of Stevenson Ranch Stevenson Ranch, California (in the 91381 ZIP Code) is a Los Angeles County, USA, unincorporated community west of Santa Clarita a few miles south of Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park. The Stevenson Ranch fountain was redone in 2007. is scheduled to join, and Burbank and Burroughs might switch to another league. --Brandon Fuselier, a linebacker for College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. , is hoping to continue his football career at a four-year school, although recruiters might shy away because the 6-foot, 230-pounder isn't tall enough. Fuselier is a ferocious fe·ro·cious adj. 1. Extremely savage; fierce. See Synonyms at cruel. 2. Marked by unrelenting intensity; extreme: ferocious heat. hitter who certainly could help most college teams if given an opportunity. West Texas A&M is among the universities that have expressed interest, although no official offers have surfaced. ``I definitely plan to continue playing football,'' Fuselier said. ``I'm not on a lot of recruiting lists, so I just have to (promote) myself. I guess it just all depends, but I plan to work hard.'' --Saugus High football standout Kody Kurowski, who spent the last few weeks of the season in a cast after breaking his leg, has switched to to a walking cast. The tight end/defensive lineman hopes the injury doesn't turn off college recruiters. He has received interest from UNLV UNLV University of Nevada, Las Vegas and South Dakota South Dakota (dəkō`tə), state in the N central United States. It is bordered by North Dakota (N), Minnesota and Iowa (E), Nebraska (S), and Wyoming and Montana (W). , and the 6-foot-4, 220-pounder could be the first Saugus graduate in many years to earn a scholarship directly out of high school. In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , Kurowski also is eager to return to his favorite sport: surfing. ``I plan on surfing on the first day I get my cast off,'' he said. --Since the departure of Hart's spirited Joe Bernardi, who moved with his family to Arizona and has committed to play football at Fresno State next season, no local is more supportive of fellow athletes than Saugus boys' basketball standout Shant Bicakci. He has been spotted at nearly every important Saugus football and baseball game Noun 1. baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League the past couple of seasons. --The Castaic Sports Complex plays host to free basketball clinics Noun 1. basketball clinic - a meeting at which basketball players receive special evaluation and instruction clinic - meeting for diagnosis of problems and instruction or remedial work in a particular activity for youths ages 6-17. The first is for children ages 6-9 (today, 9 a.m.), the second is for ages 10-13 (today, 10 a.m.), and the third is for ages 14-17 (next Sunday, 11 a.m.). Information: basketballteam(at)hotmail.com or (661) 312-5137. |
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