HIGH SCHOOL NOTEBOOK

The Reseda girls’ team held its first tournament last week, with Coach Mike Wagner calling the eight-team event a success and another step in improving the Regent program.

“It’s got nothing to do with wins and losses,” said Wagner, in his third season at Reseda. “It’s a process of building a program.”

Reseda (6-8) has 40 players on the varsity, junior varsity and first-year freshman-sophomore teams.

Wagner said 50 players were cut during tryouts.

“Certainly, it helps when you have the numbers,” Wagner said. “But things are going well, and overall, I’m really happy with our direction.”

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To be a scorekeeper for Taft High, you have to make the grade--at least a B.

Seeking a junior varsity player to man the scorer’s table for Taft’s varsity girls’ basketball game at El Camino Real on Wednesday, Toreadors first-year Coach Larry Dill posed a question to his lower-level players.

“OK, who’s getting an A in math?,” he said.

Only freshman point guard Nikkole Johnson answered, saying, “I’m getting a B.”

“Good enough,” Dill said.

But no matter what Johnson did, she couldn’t have gotten the Toreadors’ scores to add up to a victory. Taft fell to El Camino Real, 57-41, in the West Valley League opener.

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Taft has suffered other losses recently.

Stacy Cravin, a 6-1 freshman, backed up junior center Tiniesha Brooks, and Dill hoped she was to be the Toreadors’ post player of the future.

Cravin, however, moved to Texas last week.

The Toreadors also will be without 6-foot junior reserve forward Gillian Guenther for two weeks. Guenther fell off a motorcycle and injured a knee, according to Dill.