STATWATCH : Conference Calls Paying Off for Grant

Grant High (15-2 overall) has won 28 consecutive Valley Pac-8 Conference basketball games dating to a loss to North Hollywood in the conference opener in the 1988-89 season. The Lancers won nine in a row to close out that season, were 10-0 in 1989-90 and are off to a 9-0 start this season.

In addition, Grant has outscored conference opponents, 619-365, this season. The Lancers have averaged 68.8 points a game and have allowed just 40.5. Except for a 48-42 win over North Hollywood, the Lancers have won each conference game this season by 10 points or more, including two by 50 or more and two others by 30 or more.

Milestones: Crescenta Valley Coach John Goffredo needs two victories to reach the 200-win plateau. Goffredo, only the second coach in the school’s 28-year basketball history, has compiled a 198-117 record in 12 seasons. None of his teams have won a league championship, but the Falcons have reached the playoffs 10 times.

Royal’s Greg Gray has 160 assists, breaking the school’s single-season record of 156 set by Greg Laranjo last season.

Shooting: Hart squandered an 11-point third-quarter lead in a 59-57 loss to Alhambra last week that snapped the Indians’ 10-game winning streak.

Hart led, 51-40, with three minutes left in the period but scored only six points and made just three of 13 shots the remainder of the game.

Simi Valley made 27 of 31 free throws in a 64-49 loss at Channel Islands on Friday. . . . Camarillo, which had shot 51% from the field in vaulting to the top of the Marmonte League standings, hit only 38% and 25% of its shots in a pair of losses last week.

Scoring: Reseda junior swingman Marquis Burns has ripped up the Northwest Valley Conference, averaging 22.7 points in seven games--19.7 overall. Burns, a 6-foot-4 swingman, recorded a high of 33 points against unbeaten Cleveland in a 98-85 loss two weeks ago. He has reached double figures in all 17 of Reseda’s games.

Royal’s five Marmonte League wins have been by a total of 25 points, and the Highlanders’ four losses have been by a total of 24 points.