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FRIDAY Football (3 p.m.) Garden Grove at Ocean View (scrimmage) Football (7 p.m.) Marina at Los Osos Edison at Kamehameha (HI) MONDAY Girls' Tennis (3 p.m.) Garden Grove at Edison Girls' Volleyball (3:30 p.m.) Cypress at Marina (scrimmage) TUESDAY Girls' Tennis (2:45 p.m.) Mater Dei at Marina Girl's Tennis (3:15 p.m.) Santa Ana Calvary Chapel at Ocean View Field Hockey (3:15 p.m.)

The following information was taken from police reports: Galleria I Parking: A North Hollywood man reported Monday his 1999 Volkswagen Jetta was stolen. 900 block of Beulah Street: A Glendale man reported Monday his 2002 Suzuki GSXR 600 motorcycle was stolen. 100 block of South Chevy Chase Drive: A Glendale woman reported Monday a man touched her buttocks and ran away. Pacific Avenue and Pioneer Drive: A 19-year-old Sun Valley man and an 18-year-old Glendale man were arrested Monday on suspicion of possessing a 25-inch baton.

For the first time since 1990, an AYSO Region 88 Glendale/La Crescenta All-Star team has won the AYSO Section one championship. The U14 boys Section One All-Star Team played five games over two days in the Section One All-Star Tournament held in Riverside March 8-9 and finished as the undefeated champions. The U14 boys? team previously defeated Arcadia in the Area C tournament to qualify for the Section One tournament as the Area champions. In their first game of the tournament, the team dominated play against a tenacious La Quinta team but was forced to settle for a 2-2 tie. The all-stars then beat Hacienda Heights and Bullhead City, Arizona, by scores of 4-0 and 4-1, respectively.

GLENDALE — The following are CIF playoff previews pertaining to area high school teams. BOYS' WATER POLO Crescenta Valley vs. Palm Springs at Palm Springs Swim Center, 3:15 p.m. today: The top-seeded Falcons began their playoff journey Wednesday with an 18-1 victory against Los Altos in a CIF Southern Section Division V first-round match at Pasadena City College. Alan Dearman paced the Falcons (24-4) with five first-half goals. Now the Falcons, who won the Pacific League championship, will make a 120-mile trip to Palm Springs for their quarterfinal match.

LA CRESCENTA - Though Crescenta Valley High boys' basketball Coach Shawn Zargarian would like his team to begin quarters strong, he wasn't about to complain about how the Falcons finished them Friday night. Fourth-seeded Crescenta Valley used two lengthy scoring runs to end the second and third quarters to pave the way for a 74-56 home win against Colton in a CIF Southern Section Division IA opening-round contest. “We'd like to see them start off the quarters better, but both of the runs were substantial,” said Zargarian, whose team will next meet 13th-seeded Warren - a 58-51 winner against La Quinta La Quinta - in a second-round road game at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

DOWNEY - With only a one-point halftime lead, the members of the Crescenta Valley High boys' basketball team felt like they needed to make some adjustments. The adjustments worked and the Falcons turned their CIF Southern Section Division I-A second-round game into a 12-point victory. "We stressed a couple of things," Crescenta Valley Coach Shawn Zargarian said after fourth-seeded Crescenta Valley posted a 67-55 road win against 13th-seeded Warren. "We needed to play at our pace because we were playing too fast in the first half and we were not able to execute.

Reed McMackin and Patrick George defeated Gary Singer and Chris Massey from Big Canyon Country Club and Santa Ana Country Club, respectively, 1 up, in the championship flight's match-play final of Santa Ana Country Club's 57th Invitational tournament Saturday. McMackin and George hail from Shady Canyon Golf Club and Dove Canyon Country Club. Big Canyon members Dick Pickup and Joe Moody claimed the Santa Ana flight while Mark Turkel and Bob Penewell, both from Newport Beach Country Club, teamed for second place.

Hamlet Nalbandyan GLENDALE -- A look at today's CIF Southern Section first-round baseball games: Crescenta Valley at Camarillo, 3:15 p.m.: If there is any second-place team in Division I that deserved a home game, the Crescenta Valley High baseball team would probably be it. The Falcons finished second in the Pacific League at 13-2, one game behind the division's top team in Arcadia High. But since only league champions got first-round home games, the Falcons are forced to go on the road, visiting Pacific View Leauge champion Camarillo High.

Erik Boal By drawing Crescenta Valley in the first round of the CIF Southern Section Division II playoffs, La Canada High girls' tennis Coach Joe Thompson got his wish in terms of a geographically friendly opening-round draw. And by knocking off the Spartans, 16-2, on Thursday at home, Falcon Coach Tom Gossard saw his team move one step closer to fulfilling his wish of playing in the quarterfinals for the first time in school history. CV won the first 11 sets of the match, and aside from an Allison Sanders victory in singles and a Linda Yu and Amanda Yue triumph in doubles, proved to its intercity rival that it was every bit as good as the No. 5-ranked team should be. "The best team definitely won [Thursday]

Hamlet Nalbandyan The Hoover High boys' basketball team has grown accustomed to playing on the road. Eight games into the 2002-03 campaign and the Tornadoes haven't been anywhere near the Hoover gym. Heck, they haven't been anywhere near the San Fernando Valley, participating in the Cerritos/Gahr and Fullerton tournaments. But as evidenced by Saturday night's 38-34 loss in the championship game of the Fullerton Tournament against host Fullerton High, Kirt Kohlmeier's squad is doing just fine.