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Well, we got a little
sidetracked on a couple other projects -- and
ended up getting way behind, so to catch up, we're
going to make this short and sweet. For the
latest and most complete details, go to www.golosal.com.
Today, the Los Al
softball and boys volleyball teams play CIF
playoff games at home.
The No. 6 Griffin Boys
volleyball team plays a quarterfinal match
against Loyola at 7pm in the Los Al gym. The
Griffins played perhaps their best game of the
year in sweeping Huntington Beach on Tuesday
night. Loyola and Los Al have split the two
matches they played earlier this year.
Loyola fans always travel well,
and they've already gotten two busloads of fans to
make the trip. Plus their cheerleaders know
how to get their fans into it -- so aspiring local
cheerleaders, who want to know how to actually
lead a crowd in cheers, would do well to attend
the game.
Los Al Girls
softball hosts Corona at 3:15 at Los
Al. The Griffins, the No. 2 team in the
Sunset League, take an 18-11 record into the match
against Corona, the No. 2 team from the Mountain
View League. Corona is 22-9
overall.
After a rough start, the
softball squad has turned things around and now is
playing as well as anybody. The team's
potent attack is led by Brittany
Spaulding whose 15 home runs is tops in
Orange County. Reportedly, one of thoser
homers went onto Los Al Boulevard. In 11
years of doing this little publication, I have
never heard of or seen any other Griffin player do
that.
Track and Field is
sending four individual athletes -- Wes Feighner,
(400 meters), Alexa Ward (pole
vault), Brianna
Dixion (high jump), and Chris Yates (shot
put) -- and the boys 4x400 relay team of Feighner,
Myles
Andrews, Garrett Verdone,
and Jake
Strange to the CIF Division I finals this
weekend.
Griffin soph Jonathan Kim won
the CIF Regional Individual Boys Golf Championship
last Monday at Sea Cliff in Huntington
Beach.
Girls Lacrosse
reached the Orange County championships for the
second straight year, and Los Al swimmers had good
showings at the CIF meets. For the
latest info on these and other Los Al High teams,
check out our GoLosAl.com site.
FREE PLUGS
DEPARTMENT: The Los Al
Performing Arts groups have combined to support
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same
time help beautify the campus via an
engraved bricks campaign. Details and order forms
are available here.
Okay, we'll get more
community news next week. Remember the CIF
playoff games today. Now on to the good
stuff.
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BOYS VOLLEYBALL: No. 6 Griffins host Loyola
in CIF quarterfinal match Friday
night
The Los Al Boys volleyball
team plays a quarterfinal match against Loyola at 7pm
Friday in the Los Al gym.
The No.
6 ranked Griffins played perhaps their best game of the
year in sweeping Huntington Beach (26-24, 25-23, 26-24)
on Tuesday night before a loud spirited crowd of
900 at the Oilers gym.
Los Al got on the board early
as setter junior Sean Senozan (43 assists) went early
and often to middle blockers Michael Strawther and Matt
Markel who delivered.
That opened the
game up for the outsides and Kyle McElderry responded
with 14 kills and junior outside Brian Miller, playing
perhaps his best game of the season, added ten kills.
The Griffins rallied from five points
and six points back in the final two games to win the
games and match.
Los Al
helped itself by committing only eight service errors,
one of its best showings this season, and its passing
off of serves was also among its best efforts. Libero
Dewy Thomason was superb and McElderry and Miller turned
in very solid showings as well.
Loyola
and Los Al have split the two matches they played
earlier this year.
Los Al is now 23-9
overall, the most wins ever by a Griffin boys team.
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LAHS
BASEBALL: Griffins open CIF playoffs by
downing Poly 2-0; Wright improves to
9-0
Junior left-hander Beau Wright
improved his record to 9-0 by pitching a two-hitter with
eight strikeouts for the top-seeded host Los Alamitos
(25-3) as they got past the ominous first round let-down
and defeated Long Beach Poly 2-0 in a first-round CIF
Division I playoff game.
Senior Zack Hannaford scored on a
single by senior Brian Tripp in the third inning and
Tripp scored later in the same inning on a wild pitch
for the Griffins.
Los Al, the Sunset League champions
and the No. 1 Ranked team in CIF Division I, will now
face Canyon of Anaheim in a second round game next
Tuesday. The home site will be determined by coin flip.
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ALUMNI SOFTBALL: Nelson leads Florida to No. 1
ranking, SEC title, top seed in NCAA
tourney
 Florida
Gator pitcher Stacey Nelson (LAHS '05/Rossmoor)
has added some big credentials to the campaign to get
her named the national college softball player of the
year.
In
the past few weeks the former Griffin has led her
Florida Gators team to a 62-2 record, the Southeastern
Conference championship, the No. 1 ranking in the
nation, the top
seed in the NCAA tournament which begins this
weekend, and was named the SEC Player of the Year, as
well as being made a first team All-Regional selection.
Nelson, who although only a junior is the
winningest pitcher in Florida history, is 40-2 on the
season.
Florida opens NCAA
tournament play against Georgia Tech this
afternoon
Meghan
Mawn(LAHS '07/Long Beach, shown left) was named the
Mid America Conference - Freshman
of the Year. Mawn set the conference
ablaze during her rookie campaign, hitting .412 in MAC
games this season, placing her third in the league for
batting average. Mawn has reached base safely in each of
her last 10 games, helping to increase her on-base
percentage to .474 for the year. She sits in fifth place
in the conference for the category.
Nelson is not the only former Griffin
pitcher to earn post-season honors Former Griffin Brooke Viola, now pitching for
Niagara, earned second team all MAAC honors for her
work this season. Niagara finished the season at
27-21.
Jordan
Wheeler (LAHS '07), a freshman outfielder at No. 15 Northwestern, is one of four
freshman starters for Northwestern, which has the
No.l 11 overall seed in the NCAA tournament. The
Wildcats are 37-13 overall, but have gone 19-4 since the
four freshmen settled into the starting lineup.
Northwestern opens up against Western Illinois this
afternoon.
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ALUMNI BASEBALL: Marmion earns all-Orange
Conference honors; Chapman opens with 2
wins
 Los
Alamitos grad Tyler
Marmion (left, a sophomore at Cypress JC) was named to
the Orange
Empire Conference's first team all-league squad.
Defensively,
Marmion led the conference in assists (79) and
offensively, he hit .321 in conference with 12 RBI with
a .426 on base percentage.
The Chapman
Panthers' baseball team, 35-3 and ranked No. 1 in
Division III since Week 2 (and with four former Los Al
players on its roster), is the top seed at this week's
West Region championships. However, for the first time
in six years, the Panthers will have to go on the road
to capture another regional title.
The
three-time defending West Region champs traveled to
Abilene, Texas and began postseason play on Wednesday by
beating Laverne 4-3, with former Griffin Ryan Prechtl
banging out two hits. On Thursday, Chapman
defeated McMurry 5-3 in 12 innings.
Chapman
plays Trinity today in a semi-final match and a win
would put them in tomorrow's championship
game.
NCAA
Regional website
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ALUMNI FOOTBALL: Cason, Scandrick selected in NFL
draft 
Los Al High
School was one of two high schools in nation to have
two former players selected in the recent NFL
Draft.
Ex-Griffins
Antoine Cason was picked by San Diego in the first round
as the 27th overall pick while Orlando Scandrick was chosen in
the fifth round by the Dallas Cowboys.
Scandrick was the 143rd pick overall, and the 10th
highest Boise State player to be drafted.
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LOS ALAMITOS REC
DEPARTMENT
Online Scores &
Results
The city of Los Alamitos Rec
Department is now posting rec league standings and stats
on line. Check out these for adult slo-pitch
softball, adult
soccer, and adult
basketball.
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See you on the fields (or the
courts, the pitch, etc.)
Sincerely,
Larry & Nancy
Strawther
Big
Kahuna & Boss Kahuna, Local
Sports
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