Golden Valley

SUN VALLEY — John Jordan couldn't have made a more astute observation about his team after it completed the first month of the season. The 20-year St. Francis High basketball coach said that for the Golden Knights to achieve success, they must consistently make their outside shots. St. Francis wasn't close to being consistent Friday during it's 60-40 loss to Golden Valley in a pool-play contest of the Village Christian Tournament. The Golden Knights (3-7) made just 13 baskets against a bigger Golden Valley squad that sealed off the lane.

LA CRESCENTA — Apparently, Crescenta Valley High track and field Coach Mark Evans taught his two sons the proper way to put together a quality program. Chris Evans and younger brother Rob have learned well from the pointers given by their father. For the first time in their respective coaching careers, the Evans brothers coached against their father. The younger Evanses got the best of the first matchup, as Golden Valley swept a nonleague dual meet Thursday afternoon at Crescenta Valley.

BURBANK — For the Crescenta Valley High girls’ basketball team, the most promising thing about its summer-league debut on Tuesday at Burroughs may not have been the 52-14 victory it posted over Golden Valley, but the way in which it achieved the win. The Falcons showed a renewed aptitude in some aspects of the game that didn’t always come easy to them last season, exhibiting a pass-first outlook to uncover easy shots and out...

SOUTHEAST GLENDALE — The Hoover High football team expected to see a wide-open Golden Valley passing attack in Friday’s season opener, and they saw it — but the Tornadoes couldn’t stop it. The Tornadoes also knew they would be facing a team that had strong athletes, notably in the receiving corps, and they still could do nothing to prevent their opponents from a stellar night. What Hoover Coach Dennis Hughes and his staff didn’t expect was a 13-penalty Tornadoes performance that frustrated the coaches more than any Golden Valley athlete.

Scoring 14 runs will do more than please Flintridge Prep baseball Coach Robert “Buzz” Cook. That’s what happened when Prep took on Chadwick earlier this week, defeating the Dolphins, 14-8. The feelings didn’t last, though, as the Rebels only mustered two runs the next day against Golden Valley in a 12-2 nonleague loss. There’s still a sore spot that’s perplexed Cook throughout much of the first month of the season: deficiencies on defense.

BURBANK - Having played more than 20 games over the last four weeks, there's been little time for the members of the Crescenta Valley High boys' basketball team to practice. During that stretch, Crescenta Valley Coach Shawn Zargarian estimated that the Falcons have practiced a couple of hours per week while traveling from the San Fernando Valley to San Diego to participate in games. "I like where we are at right now, but we still need a lot of practice and instruction," Zargarian said after Crescenta Valley rallied for a 61-56 victory against Golden Valley in a Burbank High Summer League contest Thursday afternoon.

Today 3:15 p.m. Crescenta Valley boys’ volleyball visits Burbank. 3:15 p.m. Flintridge Prep baseball hosts Chadwick.   Saturday TBA — Crescenta Valley softball plays in Ayala Tournament. TBA — Crescenta Valley boys’ track visits Azusa-Pacific University for the APU Distance Meet. 10 a.m. Flintridge Prep baseball visits Golden Valley. 2:45 p.m. Los Angeles Futbol Club plays the Nomads Soccer Club at Kinsell Field in San Diego.

SOUTHEAST GLENDALE — A week after a humbling loss, they played better. A week after opening their season with a performance that drew the ire of their head coach, they made their coaches proud. But despite their improvements from the previous week, the members of the Hoover High football team still couldn’t get past their nonleague opponent. South Pasadena stopped the Tornadoes on a two-point conversion attempt with 1:09 to play, holding on for a 21-19 victory Friday at Moyse Field.

TODAY BOYS? BASKETBALL ?Hoover vs. St. Francis in Burbank Summer League, 4 p.m. ?Glendale vs. L.A. Poly in Burbank Summer League, 5 p.m. ?Crescenta Valley vs. Royal in Burbank Summer League, 7 p.m. ? FRIDAY FOOTBALL ?St. Francis, Glendale and CV in St. Francis Passing League Tournament, TBA ? BOYS? BASKETBALL ?Flintridge Prep in Concordia University Tournament, TBA ? GIRLS? VOLLEYBALL ?

BOYS' BASKETBALL Flintridge Prep 70, La Salle 67: Robert Cartwright scored a career-high 33 points and Chadd Cosse added 19 for the Rebels (3-2), who are ranked second in CIF Southern Section Division 5-AA, in a nonleague win over the Lancers (4-1), who are ranked sixth in Division 4-AA, on Tuesday night. Brea Olinda 74, Hoover 64 : Francis Roncal scored 19 points for the Tornadoes in a nonleague loss on Monday. Teo Davidian added 16 points for Hoover (2-3), which also got 14 from Arvin Atakhanian.

BURBANK - Having played more than 20 games over the last four weeks, there's been little time for the members of the Crescenta Valley High boys' basketball team to practice. During that stretch, Crescenta Valley Coach Shawn Zargarian estimated that the Falcons have practiced a couple of hours per week while traveling from the San Fernando Valley to San Diego to participate in games. "I like where we are at right now, but we still need a lot of practice and instruction," Zargarian said after Crescenta Valley rallied for a 61-56 victory against Golden Valley in a Burbank High Summer League contest Thursday afternoon.

LA CRESCENTA — As the old saying goes, you can't teach speed. Mark Evans would humbly beg to differ. The veteran Crescenta Valley High cross-country and track and field coach and his son, Chris, who coaches varsity cross-country track at Golden Valley, are currently showing a group of youth athletes that through learning and perfecting proper technique and maximizing their economy of movement, one can indeed become faster in ways...

SOUTHEAST GLENDALE — In competing against live competition for the first time this spring, the members of the Crescenta Valley High football team couldn’t have asked for a better beginning. With a new coach in Paul Schilling and virtually a new cast of starters, the Falcons marched all the way to the semifinals of the inaugural Spring Passing Classic on Saturday afternoon at Glendale High’s Moyse Field. Crescenta Valley’s bid to reach the championship contest fell short with a 25-13 loss to Pacific League rival Muir.

LA CRESCENTA — Apparently, Crescenta Valley High track and field Coach Mark Evans taught his two sons the proper way to put together a quality program. Chris Evans and younger brother Rob have learned well from the pointers given by their father. For the first time in their respective coaching careers, the Evans brothers coached against their father. The younger Evanses got the best of the first matchup, as Golden Valley swept a nonleague dual meet Thursday afternoon at Crescenta Valley.

TODAY BOYS? BASKETBALL ?Hoover vs. St. Francis in Burbank Summer League, 4 p.m. ?Glendale vs. L.A. Poly in Burbank Summer League, 5 p.m. ?Crescenta Valley vs. Royal in Burbank Summer League, 7 p.m. ? FRIDAY FOOTBALL ?St. Francis, Glendale and CV in St. Francis Passing League Tournament, TBA ? BOYS? BASKETBALL ?Flintridge Prep in Concordia University Tournament, TBA ? GIRLS? VOLLEYBALL ?

CANYON COUNTRY — Hoover Coach Chris Long told his players after their game Friday night at Harry Welch Stadium that they have to build the program brick by brick. After allowing perennial last-place Foothill League team Golden Valley to score a school-record amount of points, the Tornadoes are still at the ground level. Not much went right for Hoover in its 48-6 loss to the Grizzlies in Long’s debut. The offense sputtered, special teams faltered and the Tornadoes defense suffered.

Perhaps the score wasn’t the most important thing in Crescenta Valley’s 52-14 victory over Golden Valley on Tuesday. The Falcons took a 16-0 run to start the game, keeping the Grizzlies from making a field goal in the first 11 minutes, on their way to drubbing Golden Valley for their first victory of the summer at the John Burroughs 2008 Summer Jam. This was also the first game for the varsity Falcons squad, who lost four players...

BURBANK — For the Crescenta Valley High girls’ basketball team, the most promising thing about its summer-league debut on Tuesday at Burroughs may not have been the 52-14 victory it posted over Golden Valley, but the way in which it achieved the win. The Falcons showed a renewed aptitude in some aspects of the game that didn’t always come easy to them last season, exhibiting a pass-first outlook to uncover easy shots and out...