Football: Westlake transfer is ineligible for now

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Michael Bercovici, a junior quarterback who transferred from Westlake Village Westlake to Woodland Hills Taft on Monday, was not cleared to play for the Toreadors on Friday because City Section Commissioner Barbara Fiege is still determining whether he has a valid change of residence while reviewing whether there was athletic motivation in his transfer.

It’s the latter that could leave him ineligible for this season. Westlake officials are not expected to challenge his transfer, but they have to answer questions from Fiege, and when it comes to asking about the quarterback competition he was in with junior Nick Isham, it might become clear that Bercovici had lost out on winning the starting job, then suddenly left.

-- Eric Sondheimer