Canoga Park Gives Kreider His 1st Break

Until last week, Canoga Park High’s David Kreider had not left the playing field during a game.

Kreider starts at quarterback and cornerback, is the team’s kicker and punter, and he returns punts. Until last week, he also returned kickoffs. “Coach wanted to start giving me more of a rest,” Kreider said.

Kreider (6 feet, 170 pounds) has proved his worth to Coach Rudy Lugo. The senior accounted for all of his team’s points in a 13-12 victory over Poly last week, and he has scored 44 of Canoga Park’s 58 points.

Canoga Park is 3-1.

Passing: Montclair Prep, known in the past as a run-oriented team, has been passing. Sophomore quarterback Darryl Dent has thrown for 465 yards in four games, averaging 24.5 yards for his 19 completions. . . . Village Christian quarterback David Treanor threw 15 interceptions last year, one every 9.2 attempts. He has thrown none in 36 attempts this season.

Rushing: Poly’s ground attack, which was averaging 255 yards after the first three games, was held to less than half that average (125 yards) last week by Canoga Park. Furthermore, the Parrots gained only 130 yards--their worst output since Fred Cuccia took over the program in 1989.

Miscellaneous: The winning teams in four Valley Pac-8 Conference openers last week averaged fewer than 15 points a game. The losers averaged 10. Three of those games were won by six points. . . . Poly ran nine plays in the first half against Canoga Park last week. . . . St. Genevieve made its first extra point last week. . . . Kilpatrick (0-4) has lost its past three games by a total of six points.

Jeff Nadeau, Monroe’s leading scorer with four touchdowns, scored on a 90-yard kickoff return against Van Nuys. It was the third time that Nadeau has scored on a punt or kickoff return.

Entering last week’s game, Taft had not scored against San Fernando in nine consecutive quarters dating to 1989. Taft scored twice in the first quarter en route to a 21-0 lead at halftime. Tradition held, though. San Fernando roared back for a 24-21 victory. Taft has beaten the Tigers once in the teams’ past 16 games.

Girls’ volleyball: Senior Jill Enright of Royal set a school record with 29 service points, six on aces, in a five-game Marmonte League victory over Newbury Park last Tuesday.

Water polo: Harvard-Westlake has piled up 55 goals and given up six in Mission League victories over Notre Dame and Loyola.

Statistics through Tuesday