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NORTH HOLLYWOOD — The schedule makers did Burroughs High no favors this season. For the second week, the Indians were on the road, and for the second time fell short, losing to Harvard-Westlake, 27-15, in a nonleague game Friday night at Ted Slavin Field on the Harvard-Westlake campus. And though the Indians are winless, there is at least something positive to build upon for the upcoming games. “These games are only going to make us better,” Burroughs Coach Keith Knoop said.

•  WHEN : 7 p.m. Thursday. •  WHERE : Chaminade High. •  RECORDS : The Eagles are 1-0; the Bulldogs are 0-1. •  LAST WEEK : Burbank lost to Torrance, 7-0; Chaminade defeated Royal, 35-27. •  OUTLOOK : The Bulldogs played well for the most part last week in their opening-season loss. The defense stepped up and stopped Torrance for almost the entire game. However, the Tartars were able to score the game’s only points in the final minute of the game.

While I find your prescriptions for graduation awards both reasonable and perhaps, in some ways, favorable to the current system ("Time to change who is honored come graduation," July 19), I feel that they are based on loose, even faulty, premises, which require further clarification. First of all, it is clear from my experience that overachievers in academics are rarely one-trick ponies. Your editorial seems to suggest that it is book worms and nerds who covet the top honors and, thus, spend all of their time doing school work.

STUDIO CITY — There's nothing that could take away the sting of losing a playoff match and the season coming to an end for the Burbank High girls' water polo team Friday. But if it's any consolation, the Bulldogs played perhaps their finest contest of the season and pushed No. 5 Harvard-Westlake to the limit in losing a CIF Southern Section Division IV second-round match, 11-8, on the road. The Burbank players might also find solace in the fact that they were the only team in program history to win a regular-season league championship, host a postseason match and win a postseason match.

LAKE BALBOA - The Bellarmine-Jefferson High softball coaches wanted the team to play a tough nonleague schedule in order to have it prepared for Santa Cruz League and CIF Southern Section competition. That's why the coaches scheduled Harvard-Westlake, even though the Wolverines play in Division III and the Guards play in Division VI. Last season, a game between the two squads ended in a tie. However, Bell-Jeff faced Harvard-Westlake on Tuesday to open its season depleted. Several Guards are banged up with injuries and their star pitcher is academically ineligible.

Amid all the Mission League magnificence, playoff pitfalls and postseason pinnacles that have summed up the last four seasons of Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy soccer history, Breeana Koemans was there. Through all the tribulation and triumph, injury and absence, brilliance and bitterness that made up the 2012 Tologs season, No. 10 was there. She was a complete package on the field, possessing ability in both feet to score from near and far, a pinpoint passer, a vocal leader, a physical presence and a statistical splendor.

Four roads will be repaved A project to improve portions of hillside streets that began last week is scheduled for completion May 28. The $778,000-resurfacing of Harvard Road, De Bell Drive, Walnut Avenue and Lockheed View Drive involved working with operators of the Castaway, DeBell Golf Course, Wildwood Canyon Park and Starlight Bowl to maintain access during construction. It includes concrete repairs, asphalt grinding and roadway repaving with rubberized asphalt.

SPECIAL PARKING PRIVILEGE REVOKED WHAT HAPPENED The council rescinded special parking on Third Street and Harvard Road near Burbank High School. WHAT IT MEANS The council had approved special parking at the high school due to construction. With other off-street parking now available to teachers and students, angled parking on Third Street and preferential parking on Third Street and Harvard Road is no longer needed. VOTE The council voted 5-0 to approve rescinding the parking.

Burbank High School officials will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 3:30 p.m. Monday to recognize the school's newly furnished library and thank the Burbank IKEA store for its sponsorship. IKEA donated needed furniture, including computer tables, after the library was remodeled and there was no money left to furnish the facility's loft area and reading nooks. The ceremony will be followed by a tour of the library. Refreshments will be offered. The school is at 902 N. 3rd St. The library is on the corner of 3rd Street and Harvard Road.