Canyon Shut Out by Foothill Tiebreaker

A tiebreaking procedure implemented Thursday eliminated the Canyon High girls’ soccer team from consideration for one of the Foothill League’s three automatic Southern Section playoff berths.

The Cowboys (11-3-4, 5-1-4 in league play) finished in a three-way tie for second with Saugus and Valencia but lost out when their head-to-head records against those teams were factored, Coach Gregg Cohen said.

Cohen, whose team was undefeated against league champion Hart and second-place Saugus, said he does not anticipate Canyon receiving an at-large berth in the Division II playoffs.

Melissa Cleal, a senior halfback and forward on the El Camino Real High girls’ soccer team, has signed a letter of intent to play at Cal State Northridge in the fall.

TRACK AND FIELD

Juniors Marcus Bivines and Brandi Prieto and sophomore Clinte Motley of Cal State Northridge have been selected Big Sky Conference athletes of the week for setting school indoor track and field records in the Flagstaff Invitational at Northern Arizona on Saturday.

Bivines was chosen the men’s track athlete of the week after running 6.68 seconds in the 60-meter dash.

Prieto was chosen the women’s field event athlete of the week after bounding 41-6 in the triple jump.

Motley earned the men’s field event award by leaping 51-7 3/4 in the triple jump.

FOOTBALL

Eric Frey, an All-Marmonte League middle linebacker from Thousand Oaks High, has received an appointment to the Naval Academy. Frey, 6 feet 2 and 235 pounds, was selected to the All-Ventura County second team by The Times.