•Oct. 12, 2010 — The Hoover High girls' tennis team completes the two-match Pacific League season sweep of archrival Glendale, 10-8, at Glendale. In the first meeting on Sept. 16 at Hoover, the Tornadoes posted an 11-7 win. In the final meeting between the two squads, Hoover turns to singles player Christine Adzhemyan for a crucial 6-4 win and the doubles team of Zar Chavdarian and Lilit Manukyan notches a 6-3 victory.
The girls' volleyball team comes through with a 19-25, 25-11, 25-16, 31-29 Pacific League victory against Glendale.
"I'm not sure how we [kept our nerves under control]," said Knight, who gets six of her 12 kills in the fourth game. "We just kept on telling each other to calm down, calm down and take it easy. Lots of deep breaths, that was it. There was really nothing to it."
Hoover goes 4-12, 3-11 in league for sixth place.
•Oct. 28, 2010 — The girls' tennis team completes its strange season with 9-9 (81-79) home win against Burbank in a Pacific League home match that takes more than four hours to complete.
However, Hoover is eliminated from playoff contention as it loses a tiebreaker in the two head-to-head matchups with Burbank, which grabs the final playoff spot from the league. In the first meeting Oct. 13 at Burbank, Hoover suffered a 10-8 loss, thus losing the tiebreaker based on sets won between the two teams in both meetings.
Hoover finishes 6-8, 5-7 in league for fifth place.
"I knew going in that it would be exactly like this," Hoover Coach Julie Hoppe said. "I knew it would come down to the wire, either at 10-8 or 9-9."
•Nov. 4, 2010 — At the Pacific League cross-country finals at Crescenta Valley Park, Hoover's girls' team takes fifth with 155 points. Frances Ramas leads the Tornadoes with a 22nd-place mark of 21 minutes 53.88 seconds.
