End of West Valley Basketball/Soccer regular seasons

Maybe one day there will be a West Valley sports Web site that gives you updated standings and statistics on a day-to-day basis. The model for this Web site would be the Northern California site marinhoops.com, which covers one nine-team athletic league (in Marin County, 20 miles north of San Francisco) and has box scores posted on the Internet hours after the games are played. Its reliability and detail are amazing.

At the moment, I don't think I bring enough on-line savvy to the table to put together something like that, and so I'm abandoning my standings updates (which I composed simply by visiting maxpreps and, to a lesser extent, the Daily News and copying the information into my blogspot) to focus on writing features or columns. I enjoy typing up things like standings and schedules, but I can often get lost in such activities, ignoring more creative endeavors in the process.

Anyway, I'll sum up my latest visit to the above-mentioned Web sites, which I'm making only to get myself current.

• In boys hoops, Taft finished with two wins by a combined 66 points to finish the league season undefeated. Cleveland finished 8-2 and Birmingham 6-4; El Camino Real (3-7), Granada Hills (2-8) and Chatsworth (1-9) round out the league.
• In girls hoops, Taft (8-2) beat ECR (7-3) to take second place in the conference, while Chatsworth (9-1) finished in first. Getting repeatedly beaten by those three schools were Granada Hills (3-7), Birmingham (2-8) and Cleveland (1-9).
• In boys soccer, maxpreps says Birmingham (8-1-1) won out to hang on to its half-game lead over ECR (7-1-2) for the conference title. After that came Taft (6-4), Chatsworth (2-5-2), Granada Hills (2-8) and Cleveland (1-7-1).
• Might want to check back with the Daily News, as their guy Erik Boal has covered the hell out of girls soccer and they ought to have a better read on this. Also maxpreps tends to miss a soccer game here and there. Given what I've read of the two combined, I think the standings ought to read, from top to bottom: ECR (6-1-3), Chatsworth (5-2-3), Granada Hills (4-2-4), Taft (4-3-3), and then Cleveland and Birmingham in I'm not sure what order.

So them's your standings. Congrats to league champions. Spring sports are just around the corner; for now, it's playoff time.