{"id":37059,"date":"2014-01-10T23:27:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T06:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=37059"},"modified":"2014-01-13T08:03:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T15:03:20","slug":"sweet-600-for-la-canadas-hofman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=37059","title":{"rendered":"Sweet 600 for La Canada’s Hofman"},"content":{"rendered":"
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La Canada’s Tom Hofman celebrates win #600<\/p><\/div>\n

(La Canada) –\u00a0La Canada\u00a0jumped out to a 20-5 lead to open the game and never trailed in a 73-62 home win over La Salle Friday night.\u00a0The win was number 600 for La Canada Coach\u00a0Tom Hofman\u00a0who is in his 28th year as the Spartans\u00a0head coach.<\/p>\n

“It shows I’m getting old,” Hofman joked.\u00a0“When you’ve been at one place this long it’s because there have been great kids.\u00a0 It’s a great community and just great kids. There have been other things that have\u00a0come up over the years but I always wanted to stay at La Canada High School.”<\/p>\n

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KoKo goes for two!<\/p><\/div>\n

***Hofman was honored after the game and presented with a plaque recognizing his 600 victories.<\/p>\n

***Hofman’ s career record is 600-186 overall and 237-33 in the Rio Hondo League.<\/p>\n

***Hofman has won two CIF titles with the most recent coming in 2011.<\/p>\n

***Koko Kurdoghlian led the Spartans and was the game’s leading scorer with 20 points including nine in the first quarter.<\/p>\n

***La Canada led 22-9 after one and 59-44 at the half.<\/p>\n

***La Canada had three other players in double figures as well as Grant Arthur had 14, Jacob Brown scored 12 and Kevin Depriest added 11.<\/p>\n

***Conor Williams was the scoring leader for La Salle with 17.<\/p>\n

***La Canada hit 13 threes while La Salle hit just four.<\/p>\n

*** \u201cThis team is really young but they’re getting better every day. That’s what’s invigorating,\u201d Hofman said.<\/p>\n

***La Canada’s biggest lead was 19 in the third quarter. La Salle got as close as eight in the fourth.<\/p>\n

***Actress Marlee Matlin was on hand to see Hofman’s milestone. Her daughter is on the cheerleader squad.<\/p>\n

***La Canada improved to 10-5 overall while La Salle dropped to 5-11. The Spartans open Rio Hondo League play Wednesday at South Pasadena.<\/p>\n

LS 9\u00a0 20\u00a0 15\u00a0 18\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 62<\/p>\n

LC 22\u00a0 23\u00a0 14\u00a0 14\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 73<\/p>\n

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(La Canada) –\u00a0La Canada\u00a0jumped out to a 20-5 lead to open the game and never trailed in a 73-62 home win over La Salle Friday night.\u00a0The win was number 600 for La Canada Coach\u00a0Tom Hofman\u00a0who is in his 28th year as the Spartans\u00a0head coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37059"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37094,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37059\/revisions\/37094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}