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    Before the Marshall High football team could even settle into Saturday night's game against St. Genevieve, it was down by two scores.   The Valiants went up by two touchdowns less than two minutes into the game, which was played at Sun Valley Poly High , and it only got worse as the Eagles fell, 49-6.   “It took all 11 guys on every side of the ball to lose this one,” Marshall Coach James Zall said.

GLENDALE — The following are updates on local athletes at the collegiate level. Danny Casey (Glendale Community College, 2009) Concordia baseball senior : Casey and the Cinderella Concordia squad culminated the greatest season in program history with a 9-3 victory over Lubbock Christian on Friday night in Lewiston, Ida. in the championship game of the NAIA World Series in front of reported 3,075 fans. "Everybody thought we couldn't do this," said Casey of his Eagles squad, the only team in Idaho that was never ranked in the NAIA Top 25. "We beat every team.

TEMPLE CITY — In the 10th contest of the season, the Crescenta Valley High boys' basketball team seemingly put together a complete game. It's something Crescenta Valley Coach Shawn Zargarian had hoped to see before the start of Pacific League competition next month. He was encouraged after what he saw Monday night. "I liked everything about our team," Zargarian said after Crescenta Valley coasted to a 75-34 victory against Gabrielino in an opening-round game of the La Salle/Temple City Holiday Basketball Classic at Temple City High.

LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE - With the St. Francis High basketball team assured to finish in sixth place in the ultra-competitive Mission League, co-Coach Ray O'Brien said he still likes the Golden Knights' chances to be a part of the CIF Southern Section Division III-A playoffs next week. Though the Golden Knights will not grab one of the four automatic playoffs spots from arguably one of the most difficult leagues in Southern California, O'Brien said he will petition to the CIF office in the next several days and make a case that the Knights belong in the 32-team playoff bracket.

Estancia High junior Bridget Gleason shot 1-under-par 34 over nine holes to lead the host Eagles to a 213-340 Golden West League girls golf victory over Westminster Monday at Costa Mesa Golf & Country Club. Gleason had eight pars and one birdie to earn medalist honors for the Eagles (12-2, 4-0 in league). Lina You (40), Lauren Cushing (44), Taylor West (47) and Lauren Donner (48) also scored for Estancia. UCI Midnight Magic BASKETBALL: The UC Irvine men's and women's basketball teams will be previewed Saturday night at 9 p.m. during "2005 Midnight Magic in the O.C."

The Estancia High girls volleyball team hadn't beaten Costa Mesa High since Jim Huffman took over as the Eagle head coach three years ago, going 0 for 4. The current group of Estancia players had never tasted victory against Mesa. The Eagles put an end to both streaks Wednesday night with a 25-21, 25-23, 25-20 victory at Estancia High in the Golden West League opener for both schools. "It feels awesome because they are our rival school and we've always wanted to beat Mesa," junior outside hitter Jaye Hellmich said.

GLENDALE — It's quite possible that Brett Kanda once had two eagles during the same round. He couldn't recall. Now, he won't have to wonder anymore. Kanda posted eagles on the 10th and 15th holes during the second of two rounds of stroke play Friday in the 108th annual Southern California Golf Assn. Amateur Championship at the Victoria Club in Riverside. "I don't think I'd ever had two eagles in the same round before," said Kanda, who birdied those two holes during the first round and is the lone local resident to compete in the event.

First-year Estancia High coach Brian Barnes, and many of his players, learned much from their varsity football debut last week. But they will have to learn about tonight's opponent, Huntington Park from the CIF Los Angeles City Section, as the game unfolds. Kickoff is 7 p.m. at Orange Coast College. "I haven't heard anything about them," Barnes said of the Spartans, who are opening their season after a 9-2 campaign in 2004 that included an Eastern League championship.

Coach Brian Barnes said his Estancia High football players are tired of waiting for their first victory of the season. Apparently, Buena Park, which plays host to the nonleague clash with the Eagles Friday at 7, reached that point last week. The Coyotes ended their 15-game losing streak with a 7-6 double-overtime triumph over Century in their opener Friday night. Though the Estancia losing streak spans only the first two games of this season, Barnes believes it needs to be brought to a halt.

The Estancia High football team is averaging roughly the width of the football each time it runs this season. Indeed, 47 rushing yards on 113 carries, five inches per attempt, is hardly a foundation on which to construct a winning season. But the Eagles are coming off consecutive games with positive rushing yards and first-year Coach Brian Barnes said progress is better than the alternative when it comes to forging some semblance of a running game.

LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE - Battling through the stacked Mission League has been no easy task for the St. Francis High boys' volleyball team, evidenced by the Golden Knights' absence from the playoffs in recent years. It was no easier this year, but the Golden Knights stamped their ticket to the postseason as they solidified themselves as the No. 3 team in league with a home sweep, 25-23, 25-22, 25-15, over Chaminade. Getting the win Tuesday was imperative for St. Francis, as it will be down three starters when it travels to Sherman Oaks Notre Dame for a make-up match Monday.

Tucked on a corner in Eagle Rock, across a side street from a pink diner with its own towering billboard, the brown bungalow doesn't look like much. Its roof is beginning to tatter, there's nearly no parking, and the few tables outside are made from old doors painted and put on their sides in one last stop before the scrap yard. (Actually a nice, colorful touch.) Larkin's, which bills itself as “a contemporary soul food joint,” is like visiting Grandma's house, with its scuffed wood floors and cozy rooms and big windows, and its smells of cornbread and frying chicken.

BOYS' VOLLEYBALL St. Francis 3, Chaminade 0: Charles McCarthy had 15 kills and Chris Thompson added 31 assists Friday to power the visiting Golden Knights to a 25-23, 25-20, 25-23 Mission League victory. Kevin Ernest added seven blocks for St. Francis (6-2, 3-2 in league). BASEBALL Webb 4, Flintridge Prep 3: The visiting Rebels fell Friday in a Prep League contest after giving up the winning run in the seventh inning. Steve Fleming, Alex Sierra and Dylan Arya each drove in a run for Flintridge Prep (1-5, 0-2 in league)

LOS ANGELES - The Renaissance Academy boys' basketball team finally found an opponent that could hang with it in the playoffs on Saturday night - for all of one quarter, at least. Winners of their first three CIF Southern Section Division 6 playoff games by an average margin of 64 points, the top-seeded Wildcats pulled away from host fourth-seeded L.A. Adventist Academy in the second quarter of the semifinal contest, leaving the Eagles as just the latest foe steamrolled, 69-44, on Renaissance's rampage to its first CIF title appearance since 2007.

To say the Renaissance Academy basketball team has encountered minimal resistance on its surge through the CIF Southern Section Division 6 playoffs might still be an understatement. The top-seeded Wildcats' greatest challenge in blowout wins over St. Monica Academy, Bethel Christian and Arshag Dickranian - games in which their average margin of victory has been a laughable 64 points - has been staying focused and engaged. That looks to be about to change, however, when the Wildcats meet host L.A. Adventist Academy at 7 p.m. on Saturday in the semifinals.

LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE - With the St. Francis High basketball team assured to finish in sixth place in the ultra-competitive Mission League, co-Coach Ray O'Brien said he still likes the Golden Knights' chances to be a part of the CIF Southern Section Division III-A playoffs next week. Though the Golden Knights will not grab one of the four automatic playoffs spots from arguably one of the most difficult leagues in Southern California, O'Brien said he will petition to the CIF office in the next several days and make a case that the Knights belong in the 32-team playoff bracket.

Sam Catalfamo, 16, of La Crescenta, will be recognized for achieving the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest rank in Boy Scouts, at an Eagle Court of Honor at 6 p.m. Jan. 29 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in La Crescenta. For his Eagle project, Catalfamo planned and coordinated the construction of a 16-foot mounting block and ramp for disabled riders at Move A Child Higher, a Pasadena program that offers equine therapy to disabled children and disabled American veterans.

LOS ANGELES - The only time the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy soccer team succeeded in finding the back of the net against Chaminade on Thursday night, the resulting goal was waved off. When Hanna Armendariz' shot that seemed to have given the Tologs the lead 17 minutes into the Mission League match was nullified by a late offsides call, the reversal of fortune looked like little more than a temporary setback for a Sacred Heart team that...

Rather than cleaning house to begin the new year, Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie issued a resounding vote of confidence in Coach Andy Reid and his staff on Tuesday afternoon, just two days after the final day of the 2011 NFL regular season that saw the team come up shy of making the playoffs, and miles short of its lofty championship aspirations. While frank during Tuesday's press conference about his disappointment over the heavily hyped Eagles' letdown 8-8 season —calling it without question the most disappointing in his 18 years of ownership — Lurie's first postseason address to the media held good news for Reid, a former Glendale Community College player.

Boy Scout Troop 127 named five of its Scouts Eagle Scouts. All children of first generation Armenian and Lebanese families, the Eagle Scouts are Christopher Raffi Ovanesian, Sasoon Amerian, Allan Robert Issai, Shunt Yervant Manoel, and Steven John Ayoob. All five young men are Glendale students. Each Scout earned 21 merit badges by providing service to the community and outdoors in addition to taking on leadership roles and organizing a service project. Ovanesian's project included donating four picnic tables and building two picnic benches for Brand Park.