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Sports March 1, 2007
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Westlake man wins soccer coaching award
      Westlake Village resident John Daykin was named Development Coach of the Year by the CalSouth State Soccer Association Feb. 17 at the Nike Awards banquet held at the Wilshire Grand Hotel in Los Angeles. He was selected from 7,900 licensed coaches registered with CalSouth, the United States Yout...
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Cutting-edge ballplayer
Westlake shortstop Cutter Dykstra is poised for a breakout season
By Stephen Dorman sdorman@theacorn.com
      Bigger, stronger, faster and, he hopes, better. Since the conclusion of his sophomore season, Westlake High's Cutter Dykstra has worked nonstop to perfect his skills on the baseball diamond.
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Hungry Dogs back up the bark
     WHO LET THE DOGS OUT?- The Hungry Dogs AYSO U-10 boys' soccer team went undefeated and finished in first place at the Riverside Locomotion Tournament on President's Day weekend. The Dogs' division consisted of 15 teams from all over Southern California, and they went on to beat the top-seeded team f...
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Newbury Park All-Stars shine
     POWER ON THE PITCH- The Newbury Park boys' U-12 'A' All-Stars claimed the first-place championship at the Riverside Locomotion Tournament during President's Day weekend. Newbury Park beat Culver City in the semifinal and Chino Hills in the championship match. In six games, Newbury Park allowed two g...
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Lancers refuse to go down without a fight
TOHS boys' basketball team concludes championship season
By Stephen Dorman sdorman@theacorn.com
      Ironically, the play that may have best depicted the toughnatured, never-say-die attitude of the 2006-07 Thousand Oaks High boys' basketball team was also the play that led to the squad's ultimate demise in the CIF-Southern Section Division IAA postseason.
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Lambo cracks Baseball America's top 40
By Stephen Dorman sdorman@theacorn.com
      Newbury Park High first baseman/pitcher Andrew Lambo is rated No. 35 in Baseball America's list of the top high school seniors in the nation. The rankings were compiled by Baseball America associate editor Alan Matthews. Lambo was also named a preseason AllAmerican by the publicati...
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NPHS Basketball Boosters hosting 3-on-3 tourney
      Newbury Park High School Boys' Basketball Boosters will be hosting its third annual Panther 3on3 Basketball Tournament at Panther Pavilion Sat., March 10, beginning at 9 a.m. The cost for teams to enter is $40. There is a maximum of four players per team. All participants will receive a T-shirt, a...
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Oaks Christian girls' soccer team back in CIF title game
Lions will play in fourth championship match in five years
By Thomas Gase tgase@theacorn.com
      This past week Martin Scorsese finally won an Oscar for his film "The Departed," a movie about two undercover cops. It's a flick the Oaks Christian girls' soccer team's playoff opponents can probably relate to. Like the characters in the award-winning movie, the Lions' foes have been disapp...
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Polo players perform well in Sunshine State
      The Ventura Premier Water Polo Club traveled to Coral Springs, Fla., to participate in the fifth annual South Florida International Tournament, Feb. 16-18. Twenty-four teams, including representatives from Hungary, Israel, Canada, Russia and Jamaica, joined a field of teams from across the Un...
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TOHS falls short in semis
      The Thousand Oaks High girls' soccer team's postseason run is over. TOHS was defeated by Temecula Valley 3-0 on the road Tuesday afternoon in the CIFSouthern Section Division II semifinals. The Lancers, champions of the Marmonte League, finished the season 21-5-3, and had been r...
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Boys of summer are back
     BILL SPARKES/Acorn Newspapers LET'S GET IT STARTED- Westlake sophomore Ben Conlin plays a little pitch and catch on Monday at WHS. Many area baseball teams begin preseason play Friday afternoon.
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