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From Page 9. stressed Pesetski, "because we have some excellent competition in the Frontier League as well." Agoura, 2-5, is looking forward to having Brian Scott back in its lineup. Scott returns after a hand injury. Newbury Park coach Dennis McKeown has no question about which team is the favorite. "Thousand Oaks would have to be the favorite," he said.

"You might even put the word 'prohibitive' in front of that." McKeown's Panthers are 0-3 so far this season, but the coach feels his team is making progress. "I think we're playing better ball as time goes on," he pointed out. "We're some of the problems we have right now. We addressing need to rebound better defensively and have better shot selection. We need to be a little more patient on offense and second stop giving up shots on defense." There are four tion bracket games at 3 and consolagames Thursday with p.m.

4:30 p.m. and championship bracket contests at 6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. The consolation trophy winner will be decided Friday at 4:30 p.m., followed by the onship third-place contest game at 6:15 p.m. and the champiat 8 p.m.

Running concurrently with the Lancer varsity tournament is the Thousand Oaks junior varsity tourney at Newbury Park High. The jayvee tournament has the same format as the varsity's, with first-round games. Tuesday and Wednesday Agoura meets Buena at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday followed by El Camino and Newbury Park at 8 p.m.. Wednesday, Camarillo and Ventura start things off at before 6:30 p.m.

the Thousand Oaks-Notre Dame game at 8 p.m. From Page 9. Lancers Blue out of giants, it's made bums and it's out of executives, made crybabies out of persons," Blue told the judge. very "Chemical strong dependency can be just as deadly as Blue said he regretted his actions had betrayed the "trust and respect of my friends and my family. I regret that it this tragic to make took something me realize there was something lying dormant in me that was so terrible." Blue's lawyers told the judge that Blue was the only one of the players to cooperate in the drug probe with authorities and said that even a short prison term chances of playing baseball in 1984.

would damage Blue's Raider wrestlers sixth-place finish SAN JOSE Six Moorpark College wrestlers placed in the California Community College Championships Saturday to lead the Raiders to a sixth-place team finish. Moorpark had a score of points and finished behind champion Palomar College with 93, Cypress College with College of the Sequoias with Chabot College with and Diablo Valley College with Hueneme freshman Ernie Neri was the state champion at 118 pounds, finishing with a 4-0 record and defeating Alan Paradise of College of the Sequoias 9-8 to win the title. A third-place finish went to 126-pounder Lakers finally Coach Pat Riley says the Los Angeles Lakers have been searching for a new identity since the loss of All-Star guard Earvin "Magic" Johnson. They may have found it in Sunday's 122-115 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers. "We were trying to find the right combination.

The one we used tonight worked," said Riley. Without Johnson to direct the Lakers' celebrated "Show Time" offense, the consistency has been missing. Thanks to fast-rising James Worthy's 28 points, a strong lift from sixth-man Michael Cooper and Calvin Garrett's emergence, the Lakers are back in first place in the National Basketball Association's Pacific Division. Now 16-7, the Lakers wrested the division lead away from Portland, 18-9, by percentage points. 0 0, 95 Richard Carr, shown putting up a shot in a victory over Dame earlier this year, is Notre one of the reasons the Thousand Oaks basketball team is favored to win its High own tournament this year.

(News Chronicle photo by Jeff Davis) finish season with at state tourney Aaron Jackson who decisioned Walt Keller of COS 15-6 to take a 4-1 record. The Raiders had two fifth-place finishers in Frank 142-pounder Tom Brekke and 167-pounder Barajas, who both had 3-2 records. Brekke won a 5-2 victory over Dave Love of San Jose City College and Barajas outdueled Palomar's Mike Rowden 4-1. Heavyweight Alan Pacious' 1-3 record was good only for eighth place in the tournament. Dan Martin at 158 pounds and Joe Hernandez at 134 pounds did not place.

The top six in each weight class receive AllAmerica status. find an identity Worthy matched his career high, hitting 11 of 16 floor shots as the Lakers shot a sizzling 57 percent from the field. Cooper added 16th in his sixth-man role and Garrett, the newcomer from the Houston Rockets, added 15, including four in a row during the decisive fourth quarter. The victory snapped a five-game Portland winning streak. "This was a very big win for us," said Riley.

"Portland is a very physical team. We tried to play them very physical. We were ready tonight." Jamaal Wilkes added 20 points and Bob McAdoo 17. The Lakers, after leading by as much as 12 in the second quarter, were overtaken in the third. Riley praised Worthy for "playing up to his capabilities.

He's been working very hard and we knew he would start playing up to the form The Pack isn't backing Starr as they fire him GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) defensive Bart who backfield coach Ross Starr, had been asso- Fichtner, linebacker coach ciated with the Green Bay Pack- Kiffin, offensive Monte line coach Ernie ers for 27 years as a player, coach McMillian, offensive backfield and executive, was fired as head coach Bill coach today. coach Dick Rehbein and Meyers, special teams defensive Starr, 49, had one year remain- line coach Richard "Doc" Urich. ing on his contract. He led Green Parins said a commitBays to an 8-8 National Football tee would be screening set up to find a League record this season.

The successor to Starr, who his Packers' 23-21 loss to the Bears in with began Chicago Sunday career Green Bay as a quartprevented them erback. from making the playoffs as a wild-card entry. The Packer president told Robert Parins, the club presi- reporters that "we would not be dent, also said the entire coaching here this morning" when asked if staff was being dismissed. Starr would have been retained Other members of the coaching had the Packers beat the Bears. staff were offensive coordinator On Dec.

24, 1974, Starr was Bob Schnelker, defensive coordi- hired as the Packers' head coach nator John Meyer, offensive back- and general field coach John Brunner, receiv- Dan Devine. During his manager, succeeding nine-year ers coach Lew Carpenter, tenure, the Packers were 52-76-3. NEWS CHRONICLE, Thousand Oaks, Monday, December 19, 1983-Page 11 Raiders take care of Chargers to make sure they can stay home By The Associated Press The Los Angeles Raiders, secure in the knowledge that they're in the best position playoffs, possible entering the National Football League can begin gearing up for the Bowl tournament. Super The Raiders trounced the San ers 30-14 Sunday in a Diego Chargregular-season finale to assure themselves the home-field throughout the American Football Conference advantage segment of the playoffs. Not only do the AFC Western Division champion Raiders know they'll be playing both Coliseum, conference if playoff they're games successful at the Los Angeles in the first that is, they know they'll first face the Pittsburgh Steelers either Dec.

31 or Jan. 1. The Raiders tied with Miami for the best record in the AFC with 12-4 marks, but Los Angeles gets the home-field advantage by virtue in of its 27-14 victory over the Dolphins early the season. "I think we're gradually getting ready for the playoffs," said Los Angeles running back Marcus Allen, who scored two touchdowns against the Chargers. "We're not quite there yet, but we're getting there." The Raiders dominated the up 480 yards in total offense to 312 for San Chargers, rolling Diego, which finished its season with a 6-10 record and missed qualifying for the playoffs for the first time since 1978.

Allen, who scored on an eight-yard run in the first quarter and a 5-yard run in the final period, gained 72 yards on 16 carries and caught five passes for 49 yards. Diego quarterback Ed Luther eludes the grasp, of Raider defensive end during Sunday's regular-season finale. Luther managed to Greg Townsend buried 30-14 by the playoff-bound Raiders. (AP pass but the Chargers were complete the photo) Worthy He's just working hard operation." Worthy underlast season. Los Angeles quarterback Jim Plunkett completed 21 of his 30 passes for 332 yards and one touchdown, a four-yard toss to Cliff Branch early in the fourth quarter.

Branch caught six passes for 93 yards, and tight end Todd Christensen had eight receptions for 136 yards. Christensen finished as the NFL leader in receiving, catching 92 passes for 1,247 yards this season. Chris Bahr was perfect on three field goal attempts, hitting from 21 and 32 yards in the second quarter and 28 yards in the third period to round out the Los Angeles scoring. "This was a good, solid game for us," said coach Tom Flores of the Raiders. "Our defense played solid.

Our offense played well. And we came up with some big plays." Veteran San Diego quarterback Dan Fouts didn't play because of a bruised joint in his throwing shoulder. Reserve Chargers' signalcaller Ed Luther completed 20 of 36 passes for 236 yards. Luther fired a 40-yard scoring strike to Bobby Duckworth gave San Diego a 7-0 lead after just 6:20 of play. The Raiders tied the score on Allen's first touchdown run just 2:14 later and went ahead to stay on Bahr's first field goal at 1:09 of the second quarter.

San Diego got its other touchdown late in the third period on a two-yard run by Chuck Muncie. That made it 16-14, but the Raiders scored touchdowns on their next two possessions to put the Chargers away. "The Raiders are a fine football team," said San Diego coach Don Coryell. "I'm sure they'll be playing for the AFC title and the Super Bowl. They have a good chance to win it." that's he showed last season.

and not thinking his went knee surgery during Riley said Cooper, though he is not starting, "probably should. In my opinion, I think the most important element on the team is the sixth man. He is one of the best sixth men of all time. McAdoo and Garrett fit into this mold very well also. They do an excellent job of coming off the best and hitting the outside jumper." Yankees, Angels swap pitchers NEW YORK (AP) The New York Yankees acquired right-handed pitcher Curt Brown from the California Angels Monday in exchange for Mike Browning, also a righthander.

Brown, who had a 3-4 record and a 4.08 earned run average for Edmonton in the Pacific Coast League last season, was assigned to the Yankees' Columbus affiliate of the International League. He had a 1-1 record and a 7.31 ERA with the Angels in 1983. Browning pitched for Nashville of the Southern League and Columbus last season. He had a 5-1 record and a 5.23 ERA for Nashville and a 5-7 record and a 4.64 ERA with Columbus. Warrior jayvees reach quarters The Westlake High boys junior varsity soccer team won twice Saturday to move into the quarterfinals of the Simi Valley Junior Varsity Tournament.

Mike Robledo scored three goals and Brandt Wynalda added two as the Warriors opened with a 5-4 victory over Hart. Robledo and Wynalda tallied a goal apiece on assists from Imad Ibraheim as Westlake came back to blank Harvard 2-0. Goalie Bob DeSpain registered the shutout. ROTATE AND SPIN BALANCE $16.99 complete with most this cars ad pick- -ups OFFER GOOD THRU 12-24-83 with this ad. J.P.'S RUBBER DUCK TIRE AUTO CENTERS 2 1000 E.

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