I sat in her office for two hours, soaking in her words of wisdom. She had a gift for making you feel immediately at ease. She also had an incredible ability to stare down doubt. That stare could quiet a room. It could tell you something about yourself.
It's time for the CIF state championships in basketball and soccer (first time for soccer) in Sacramento on Friday and Saturday. Basketball will be played at Golden 1 Center. Soccer is at Natomas High.
When it comes to improved teams, the girls' basketball team at St. Monica Academy in Montrose has had a big turnaround under first-year coach Vic Karapetian. The team is 15-3 and 10-1 in the Heritage League after going 1-26 in league play the previous two years. There are no seniors on the roster, and three freshmen have been making major contributions. Karapetian had previous success coaching at AGBU and Mesrobian. Mary Tomooka and Victoria Grigsby, the freshman backcourt duo, have been key players.
Chatsworth girls basketball coach Kaio Lewis was confronted by the relative of a Chatsworth player on Friday night after his team's game at Taft, people with knowledge of the incident not authorized to discuss it publicly told The Times. It became a physical and verbal altercation that is now being investigated by the L.A. School Police Department.
I wasn't trying to get kicked out, Ralph told reporters after the game. I know where I was on the court. But I also think that at that time what I said was warranted, and the action I took was warranted. And I'll stand behind that. You want to kick me out for it, they can kick me out.
Alcorn State's -396 scoring differential (outscored by 14.2 points per game) is a result of scoring 67.6 points per game (339th in college basketball) while allowing 81.8 per contest (347th in college basketball). The 67.6 points the Braves average are 16.1 fewer than the Delta Devils give up.
The Alcorn State Braves (12-10) will host the Florida A&M Rattlers (7-15) after winning five home games in a row. In its previous game, Alcorn State fell to UAPB on Saturday, 64-60. Kiarra Henderson scored a team-high 20 points (and added five assists and eight rebounds). Florida A&M was victorious in its previous game against Texas Southern, 86-73, on Saturday. Tahnyjia Purifoy was its top scorer with 19 points.
