WITHOUT STAR, H.-W. FALLS FLACKS' EJECTION IS TURNING POINT IN WOLVERINES' LOSS IN DIV. I QUARTERFINAL CORONA DEL MAR 11, HARVARD-WESTLAKE 8.Byline: Ramona Shelburne Ramona Shelburne is an American sports journalist currently writing for the Los Angeles Daily News. Shelburne was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She attended El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, California where she was a class valedictorian. Staff Writer By the end, all Brian Flacks could do was watch from the pool deck and try to keep from getting cold. It wasn't the way Harvard-Westlake's best all-around player wanted his high school career to end. Flacks, who has committed to 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 , picked up his third ejection with about two minutes remaining in the game. The host Wolverines looked lost without their star player after that, losing 11-8 in a contentious double-overtime match to Corona del Mar Del Mar is the name of several places in the United States of America:
``When he fouled out today, that's when the glue started to come undone,'' Harvard-Westlake coach Larry Felix said. ``He's the guy, the calming effect out there. Once he was gone, we fell apart.'' After the game, Felix credited Corona del Mar for the way they played, but insinuated that he was annoyed by the large difference in ejections called against Harvard-Westlake (22) to Corona del Mar (6). ``CDM 1. CDM - Content Data Model 2. CDM - Code Division Multiplexing beat us today. They deserved it, but 22-6, something's got to be said about that,'' Felix said. Corona del Mar scored nine of its 11 goals off of 6-on-5 situations. For Harvard-Westlake's senior class, it left an unsatisfying taste in their mouths. Afterward, Flacks and his best friend Justin Rappel sat quietly next to each other on a bench, looking downcast down·cast adj. 1. Directed downward: a downcast glance. 2. Low in spirits; depressed. See Synonyms at depressed. downcast Adjective 1. . ``It hurts more because we were at home. We'd only lost two games in this pool in my four years here until today,'' Flacks said. ``I was ready to win a CIF (1) (Common Intermediate Format) A standard video format used in videoconferencing. CIF formats are defined by their resolution, and standards both above and below the original resolution have been established. The original CIF is also known as Full CIF (FCIF). championship this year.'' Ramona Shelburne, (818) 713-3617 ramona.shelburne(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: Harvard-Westlake coach Larry Felix, far left, and players watch during an 11-8 double OT playoff loss to Corona del Mar. Michael Owen Baker/Staff Photographer Box: BOYS' WATER POLO |
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