VOLLEYBALL ROUNDUP: SLOW START, FAST FINISH FOR CHATSWORTH.Byline: Daily News Sometimes it takes a little while for the Chatsworth High girls' 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. team to get going. But once it starts, watch out. University High found that out the hard way Monday in a second round City Championship 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. match at Chatsworth High as the Chancellors withstood an early University push in game one to roll to a 25-19, 25-3, 25-16 victory. The win puts Chatsworth into Wednesday's quarterfinals against Venice. Chatsworth was tied 19-19 in the first game, then rolled off six successive points to take control. In the second game, Jessi Halpert's effective serving led Chatsworth on an 18-0 run to win 25-3. ``We do that sometimes, start kind of slow and sort of let a team hang around for a little bit,'' Chatsworth OH Bea Ramos said. ``Sooner or later we get it together and start playing our game. That happened tonight, but thankfully thank·ful adj. 1. Aware and appreciative of a benefit; grateful. 2. Expressive of gratitude: a thankful smile. we got on track and put it away.'' Chatsworth (13-3) is in the quarterfinals for the first time in three years, riding the talent of 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. Jakie Tomas, Ramos, and rising standouts Chelsea Duran and Lauren Cornwell to rebound rebound (rē´bownd), n/v 1. a recovery from illness. n 2. an outbreak of fresh reflex activity after withdrawal of a stimulus rebound adjective from an off-year last season. Duran is a sophomore OH and Cornwell a junior MB playing her first season of volleyball. ``We had some young players coming into the program and I felt if they developed the way I thought they might, we'd have a chance to be a pretty good team,'' Chatsworth coach Bud Dow said. ``And they certainly stepped up in a big way for us.'' Chatsworth has played Venice five times this season in tournament play and is 2-3, so there is familiarity with the next opponent. ``We just have to play our game,'' Ramos said. ``But we're obviously happy about getting this far.'' - Vincent Bonsignore CHAMPIONSHIP BRACKET In programming, brackets (the [ and ] characters) are used to enclose numbers and subscripts. For example, in the C statement int menustart [4] = ; the [4] indicates the number of elements in the array, and the contents are enclosed in curly braces. --Granada Hills 3, Taft 0: Abby Dreyfuss had seven kills and Sarah Mohageri had 10 digs for seventh-seeded and host Granada Hills in a 25-19, 25-18, 25-18 victory over its West Valley League rival. Teammates Ashley Streid had 11 blocks and Stephanie Takamatsu added 20 assists. ``It's like we're climbing a ladder. We're getting better with each ball and each point,'' Granada Hills coach Melinda Moulden said. ``The girls are pushing themselves.'' Granada Hills (11-4) advances to Wednesday's quarterfinals against second-seeded Narbonne of Harbor City (13-2), which defeated Marshall of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. 25-11, 25-20, 25-10 on Monday. --San Pedro 3, Birmingham 0: Visiting Birmingham of Lake Balboa Balboa, town (1990 pop. 2,751), Colón prov., in the former Panama Canal Zone, on the Gulf of Panama. The port for Panama City, Balboa was the administrative headquarters of the Panama Canal Zone. It was also the site of a U.S. navy base (closed 1999). was unable to stop Courtney Lyons, who had eight assists, four digs and three aces, or Samantha Taylor Samantha Taylor (born 1958) was the host of the CBC Television music video program Video Hits from 1984 to 1989. She was born in Toronto, Ontario, as Myroslava Lastivka Lydia Luciw. Her family moved to Pennsylvania when she was three. , who added nine kills, eight digs, and five aces in a 25-9, 25-12, 25-14 loss to third-seeded San Pedro (12-3). Birmingham, seeded No. 14, finished the season 8-7. --Venice 3, Van Nuys 0: Kelley Lieske had seven kills and four blocks and Laura Garcia added 11 digs and five aces for host Venice (13-2). |
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