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GIRLS' SOCCER Flintridge Prep 1, Oakwood 0: Chardee Galan's first-half goal proved to be the difference in Thursday's nonleague match at Flintridge Prep. Galan's score came off an assist by Jessica Nishiguchi. Rebel goalkeeper Ayana Sumiyasu had one save. Flintridge Prep (5-0-1) will next play Villanova Prep at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Cate High in a pool-play match of the Laguna Blanca Tournament. Coach Tim Morphy's team has already clinched the top seed in its pool, and will play for the championship at 3 p.m. Saturday at Laguna Blanca.

Edgar Melik-Stepanyan Cerritos High boys' water polo Coach Roy Contreras wasn't going to fool himself or mislead his players. The Dons had the near-impossible task of facing La Canada in the first round of the CIF Southern Section Division III playoffs and Contreras understood that defeating the Spartans was probably too much to ask from his young team. La Canada easily dismantled Cerritos in the first half to take a eight-goal lead before inserting its reserves for the second half.

Today 3:30 p.m. Flintridge Prep boys’ water polo hosts Pasadena Poly. 3:30 p.m. Flintridge Prep girls’ tennis hosts Chadwick. 7 p.m. Flintridge Prep football hosts Malibu High. 7 p.m. St. Francis football visits El Rancho. 7 p.m. Crescenta Valley football visits Burbank.   Saturday TBA — Flintridge Prep cross country goes to Fresno, Calif., Woodward Park to race in Clovis Invitational. TBA — Crescenta Valley cross country goes to Fresno, Calif.

Charles Rich The La Canada High boys' water polo team accepted the top seed when the CIF Southern Section Division III playoff pairings were released Monday in Los Alamitos. Now, the Spartans are weighing the pros and cons of being the No. 1 squad. The Spartans had that honor last year, and it didn't do them much good after they fell to Peninsula in a semifinal match. This time, Naeve said La Canada (19-9) will be more prepared. The Spartans, who won the Rio Hondo League crown, will face Muir or Burroughs in a first-round match at 4 p.m. Friday at Pasadena City College.

Charles Rich In between teaching his students how to write an essay and discussing factual data on World War I, Jan Sakonju also managed to spend time manning the phone lines. It wasn't easy for Sakonju, who is a history teacher and the boys' water polo coach at Crescenta Valley High, but he managed to find a last-minute site for the Falcons to play their CIF Southern Section Division III first-round match against Cerritos on Friday. CV received three goals each from Nick Trimis, Chris Sherman and Austin Brown to earn a 13-7 win against Cerritos at Burroughs High.

BOYS' BASKETBALL DIVISION IIIA 1. Compton Centennial 2. North Hollywood Harvard-Westlake 3. Torrance Bishop Montgomery 4. LA CANADA 5. Lompoc Cabrillo 6. Orange Lutheran 7. Pasadena Marshall Fundamental 8. West Hills Chaminade 9. San Dimas 10. Costa Mesa DIVISION IVA 1. L.A. Verbum Dei 2. San Juan Capistrano St. Margaret's 3. FLINTRIDGE PREP 4. San Pedro...

Edgar Melik-Stepanyan Larry Naeve expected valiant and productive efforts, but the La Canada High girls' water polo coach got lackluster and ineffective performances from his players. Vying to make their first trip to the CIF Southern Section Division III semifinals in program history, the Spartans stayed with second-seeded Chino Hills Ayala for all of about five minutes before the Bulldogs put on a clinic and ran away with an 11-1 quarterfinal victory Saturday at Pasadena City College.

BOYS' BASKETBALL Division IIIA 1. Torrance Bishop Montgomery 2. Huntington Beach Ocean View 3. North Hollywood Harvard-Westlake 4. Compton Centennial 5. LA CANADA 6. Irvine Northwood 7. La Puente Bishop Amat 8. Riverside Banning 9. West Hills Chaminade 10T. Lompoc Cabrillo 10T. Oak Park Division IVA 1. Verbum Dei 2. North Hollywood Campbell Hall 3. San...

Mirjam Swanson GLENDALE -- Somebody, please, challenge this team. Obviously opponents didn't enjoy it much. But, at this point, even the members of the No. 2-seeded Hoover boys' tennis team are fed up with breezing through playoff matches against overmatched Montebello Schurr and Paramount. Breezing through like, well, Tornadoes. Hoover has pulled off back-to-back 18-0 shutouts, victories in which the entire roster was able to contribute. It might not be "some kind of record", as freshman No. 2 singles player Sam Tadevosian concluded, but it is true that no other team in the CIF Southern Section Division I draw has twice recorded the same lopsided results thus far. The only other shutouts belonged to Hoover's opponent today, Diamond Bar, which beat Fontana A.B. Miller, 18-0, in the first round, Anaheim Esperanza, which shut down Redlands in the second round, Rolling Hills Estates Peninsula, which blanked Santa Ana in the first, and Santa Monica, which didn't allow a set to Pico Rivera El Rancho in the first.

GLENDALE — The following are odds and ends from the area sports scene.   CAMPBELL SHINES AT DE BELL Glendale’s Chris Campbell took home medalist honors Monday at the local qualifying tournament for the Trusted Choice Big “I” Junior Classic. The event, held at De Bell Golf Course in Burbank, saw junior golfers from around Southern California attempt to qualify for the Big “I” Junior Classic State Tournament in Santa Cruz on July 7-8. Those who qualify there will move on to the national tournament in North Carolina on Aug. 3-7. Cambell won with a score of 76.   YOUNG FALCONS FLYING TO OMAHA Three members of the Crescenta Valley/Glendale-based Los Angeles Falcons Youth track and field team qualified over the weekend for the USATF Junior Olympics Track and Field Championships to be held July 22-27 in Omaha.