Share For Brunswick cross country coach Kerry Hunter, the numbers three, five and seven are important for the upcoming season.

The three is for the third-place finish the Brunswick girls team had at last year’s Division I state finals. The Blue Devils finished behind Magnificat and Brecksville.

The numbers five and seven are a give-and-take ratio which would make any coach envious. Of the seven girls who ran in the state meet for Brunswick last season, five are back for another season.

Hunter lost the services of the other two starters — Allison McDaniel and Alexx Muller — when they graduated last June. Hunte

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The good news from the latest round of standardized test scores is that California students are improving in reading and math.

The bad news is that this state remains a long way from meeting the congressional mandate that all students be at grade-level proficiency by 2014.

Another cause for concern in the results is that the so-called achievement gap remains as entrenched as ever. African American and Latino students scored significantly lower than white students statewide.

San Francisco was one of the bright spots overall – especially in math, with 65 percent at a proficiency level or better – and in narrowing the achievement gap specifically. It was the second straight year that the city showed progress in raising the scores of African American and Latino students.

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Benedictine will head into its final season as an independent as a more experienced squad having lost only five to graduation who saw considerable playing time last year.

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Starting in 2011, the Bengals will be part of the North Coast League Blue Division joining the likes of Akron Archbishop Hoban, Lake Catholic, Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin, Padua Franciscan and Walsh Jesuit. Benedictine has been an independent since 1972.

The Bengals are looking to improve on last year’s record of 3-7 as they lost four straight during the middle of the season against a very demanding schedule. Benedictine won two of its last three to close the season. B

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(08-16) 04:00 PDT Los Angeles —

There’s good news for parents who worry that their teenagers’ sex lives are affecting their school performance: A provocative new study has found that teens in committed relationships do no better or worse in school than those who don’t have sex.

The same isn’t true for teens who “hook up.” Researchers found that those who have casual flings get lower grades and have more school-related problems compared with those who abstain.

The findings, presented Sunday at a meeting of the American Sociological Association in Atlanta, challenge to some extent assumptions that sexually active teens tend to do poorer in school.

It’s not so much whether a teen has sex that determines academic success, the researchers say, but the type of sexual relationship they’re engaged in.

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