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 Well,
it's been a while since our last issue,
but we got knee deep into a passel
of The
Taste For Los Al -- final tally:
we raised $234,000 -- complete
details here -- and then after
that, I didn't have the energy to
look at all the emails and info people
had sent me. A clip on the event
is also supposed to be available on
Time-Warner Cable's on-demand station.
The clip has also been airing on
the SoCal Report segment on the Headline
News Network (Channel 43 in Los Al/Rossmoor).
It airs at :25 and :55 past each hour.
LAHS
40th ANNIVERSARY
SUPER-REUNION:
Since 1) so
many people consider
the Taste as a
"mini-Los Al
HIgh reunion,"
and 2) next
September marks the
40th year
anniversary of the
opening of the Los
Al High campus, we
figured why not make
it even more of a
reunion? So we
have begun working
with some of the
many Los Al High
reunion committees
and make next year's
Taste a "super
reunion."
Our tentative date
is October 18.
If you're a Los Al
grad, tell your
reunion honchos to
get in touch with us
for more info.
Because
our issues have been
getting bigger and
clogging up some
corporate email
servers, we figure
the solution is --
(drum roll, please)
-- shorter emails.
So we are going to
try to make this
email version much
shorter, but the
complete longer
issue is available
at our website -- www.localsports.biz.
High school results
are available at www.GoLosAl.com
-- this is our new
effort in
coordination with
some of the high
school athletic
booster clubs.
The goal is: 1)
establish a single
easy-to-remember
gateway for all
things Los Al.
If a club doesn;t
have a webpage we'll
provide a basic one,
and if they already
have their own,
we'll make it easy
to link to; and 2)
provide a
marketplace for
local merchants who
can reach their
target audience
while helping LAHS
activities at the
same time. (It's a
work in progress, so
bear with us.)
Okay,
on to the good
stuff.
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PREP
WATER POLO: Griffins
gain redemption, capture
CIF Masters Tournament
One
week after a heartbreaking
loss in the CIF boys water
polo semifinals,
the Los Al Griffins gained
some redemption by winning
the second annual CIF Masters
Tournament.
The masters tournament field
is comprised of all the
division champions in the CIF
Southern Section playoffs and
high ranked teams as well.
Los Al began the tourney with
a 10-9
win over CIF Division I champ
and No. 1 seed Newport Harbor
on Friday.
In the semi-finals
against Agoura,
Austin Trinkle scored the
winning goal on a
three-quarters length of the
pool shot with a half second
left to give Los Al an 8-7
upset win. Trinkle then
scored three goals in the
final period as Los Al
captured the title with a
10-9 win over El Toro on
Saturday evening at the
William Woolett Aquatics
Center at Heritage Park in
Irvine.
Los Al finished with a 25-9
record.
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LAHS
WINTER SPORTS:
Griffin basketball ,
soccer teams begin 2007-08
seasons
The Los Al winter sports
season is now officially
underway with the boys soccer
and boys and girls basketball
teams posting wins, while the
girls soccer squad fell in
its season debut.
Boys
soccer opened its season on
Monday with a 3-1 win over
Long Beach Poly, getting
goals from Kevin Venegas,
Bill Hoffman and Josh Dobson.
The Griffins resume
non-league play against
Nogales at Laurel High on
Wednesday. JV
and Frosh-Soph games will be
played at Los Al High.
The boys basketball squad
(which is also a two-time
defending league as well as
CIF champ, shown left after
last year's win) opened its
last night with a
70-46 win over Bell in the
first round of the Cerritos-Gahr
tournament. Sophomore
transfer Tim Chung led Los Al
with 18 points. The
Griffins play Cerritos on
Wednesday night, with their
next opponents being
determined by their pool play
finish.
The
Los Al girls soccer squad,
also the defending Sunset
League champs, weren't as
successful in its 2007-08
debut against Santa
Margarita. A defensive
mistake in clearing the ball
led to an easy Eagles goal
and while Los Al controlled
the ball for most of the
entire second half, they
couldn't convert their
opportunities. The match was
the first of two games this
week against ranked teams.
Los Al is ranked No. 5 and
Santa Margarita No. 10 in the
CIF Coaches Division I
pre-season poll which really
means nothing, but gives
writers like us something to
put in their stories.
On Thursday Los Al
will host No. 8 Long Beach
Wilson in what is always a
very tough match.
The Griffin wrestling team
kicks off its season on
Thursday with a meet against
Lakewood.
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AL HIGH SPORTS: Seven Griffins sign
letters of intent for Division I college sports
 Seven
more Los Al athletes
officially signed letters of
intent to play college sports
next season at a signing
ceremony on Nov. 14. Those
signing were Griffin
volleyball players Katie
Crosby (Rossmoor,
Arizona State), Christine
Douglas (Cypress,
Concordia), and Kelby
Carey (Seal Beach,
Quinnipiac University),
softballers Jacquie
Ristow (Seal Beach,
Tennessee Tech) and Molly
Khalil (Seal Beach,
Dartmouth), rower Taylor
Vella (UCLA) and
baseball pitcher Kyle
Simon (Rossmoor,
Arizona).
OTHER
COMMITTMENTS: Kaylee
Miller also just
committed to play
water polo at UC Davis
next year.
Los Al
lineman Darrin
Koontz has committed
to play his college football
at Boise State University.
Koontz had his season
end prematurely this year
when he injured his knee in
Los Al's tough loss to
Newport Harbor.
Among
the schools checking out 6-10
Los Al senior basketball
center Corbin
Moore is UC Berkeley
Girls
volleyball junior defensive
specialist Kelly
Holford has reportedly
committed to the University
of Washington girls
volleyball program.
Washington is the No. 1 team
in the Pac-10 this season.
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ALUMNI
FOOTBALL: Cason wows
national TV audience;
Childs breaks Boise
receiving mark
 Former
Griffin Antoine
Cason (LAHS '04) came
up big in front of a national
audience when he returned an
interception and a punt for a
touchdown as Arizona beat
then No. 2 Oregon 34-24
on Nov. 15 and ignited a
massive post-game celebration
in Tucson (shown right).
For his efforts Cason
was named National defensive
player of the week.
Cason has also been
named one of three
finalists for the Jim Thorpe
award - which goes to the
nation's top defensive back.
The winner will be
announced on ESPN on December
6.
 Former
Los Al receiver Jeremy
Childs (LAHS '05) has broken
the Boise State single season
receiving record.
Childs set the new
mark late in the first
quarter of Boise's
39-27 loss to No. 10
Hawaii last Friday night,
catching a 19-yard pass to
convert third-and-9.
One
reason Hawaii quarterback was
able to pick apart the Boise
defense in the second half
was the loss of both Bronco
starting cornerbacks,
including former Griffin
Orlando
Scandrick who
broke his thumb.
Former
Griffin Cortes
Rice (LAHS '05) and
his brother Rafael Rice
support each other at
Illinois State. Daily
Vidette, IL -
Oct 31, 2007
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ALUMNI
WATER POLO:
Hutten leads UCI to near
win at MPSF championship
match
Former Griffin water
polo star Timothy
Hutten (LAHS '03,
left) has put together a
great season for himself,
leading UC Irvine to the
finals of the Mountain
Pacific Sports Federation
water polo tournament.
Hutten scored four
goals but it wasn;t enough
as the Anteaters fell 10-6
to No. 2 USC in the
championship game.
On
Friday against
UCLA Hutten's goal in
late second overtime sent
the match into sudden
death in which UCI
prevailed 10-9.
Former Griffin
teammate Scott
Davidson (LAHS '05)
led
UCLA with three goals.
In Saturday's
semifinal, Hutten led all
players with five goals in
the 13-12 victory over UC
Berkeley.
Hutten
had scored seven against
the Bruins in a 12-11
overtime loss in
September, then scored a
school-record nine goals
to help the fifth ranked
UC Irvine Mens water polo
team down
UC San Diego 18-6 on
Wednesday, Nov. 14.
Hutten entered the
tournament leading the
MPSF in goals per game
(3.71 with 63 scores in 17
contests), and proceeded
to score 12 in three MPSF
Tournament games.
UCI's
New
University student
newspaper ran this
nice article on Hutten.
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ALUMNI
BASKETBALL:
Stanford coach calls
Fields "most
improved"; Mallari
wins tourney MVP
Landry
Fields (left, LAHS
'06) scored 16 as Stanford
defeated Northwestern 71-60
on November 15, and had 17 in
an 82-70
win over Concordia on
Nov.. 6. Fields
had 8 points in Stanford's
73-53 win over Colorado State
on Saturday.
Cardinal
Basketball coach Trent
Johnson called Fields the
"most
improved player" on
the Cardinals this year.
Good news, bad news:
Good news is
ex-Griffin Cameron
Jones (LAHS '07) is
already seeing some floor
time for Northern
Arizona University.
Bad news is he saw
some against the No. 4 ranked
University of Kansas last
week when the Jayhawks
dismantled the Lumberjacks 87-46
on Nov. 21.
The score was 44-10 at
halftime. Jones
led NAU with eight points.
Jones went 3-for-4 in
NAU's 76-69 loss to Arizona
on Nov. 15.
Alex
Mallari was chosen MVP
and named to the
All-Tournament team for
Chabot Junior College which
won the Napa Valley College
men's preseason basketball
tournament this past weekend.
Mallari had eight points in
the championship game
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ALUMNI
VB: Urango,
Moss ready for NCAAs;
Tarutis finishes No. 2
all-time for Irish assists
USC (with freshman Geena
Urango - LAHS
'07/Rossmoor) has been
awarded the No. 5 seed and
will be a host team for the
first two rounds of the 2007
NCAA Women's Volleyball
Tournament. The Trojans, who
finished the season with a
25-4 record and third-place
finish in the Pac-10
Conference at 14-4, will face
Pepperdine (18-10) on Friday
(Nov. 30) at 7 p.m., preceded
with a first-round match at 5
p.m. between Long Beach State
(25-6) and UNLV (24-5). The
winners of both matches will
play a second-round match on
Saturday (Dec. 1) at 7 p.m.
with the winner of that
contest advancing to the
regional tournament in
Gainesville, Fla. Nicole
Vargas (Seal Beach/St.
Joseph/s HS) is the setter
for Long Beach.
Urango,
USC, dominate UCLA
Urango
tied for fifth in Pac-10
stats for serving aces
 24th
ranked Duke -- with
ex-Griffin Rachael
Moss (LAHS
'06/Cypress) -- will also
play host for its first
two rounds of tournament
action. Duke,
the pool's #2 seed will play
Big South Conference winner
Liberty while No. 7 ranked
Cal, the pool's top seed,
will play Patriot League
winner American. The
winners will advance to the
Round of 16 at Madison,
Wisconsin.
Former Griffin Ashley
Tarutis (shown right,
LAHS '04/Long Beach) ended
her career at Notre Dame as
the No. 2 all-time assists
leader. Tarutis
had 56
assists for the Irish in
a 3-1 win over Tennessee
last Friday, one game after
notching 58 assists in a
four-game duel with No. 17
Louisville. She now has 1,178
dimes on the season.
Tarutis had 1,150
assists as a freshman, 1,573
as a sophomore, and 860 last
season. Her
10.28 assists/game average is
eighth on the all-time list.
Cypress College freshman
setter Courtney
Fresenius was awarded
Orange Empire Conference
All-League team Honorable
Mention for her efforts this
past season. Fresenius
(LAHS '06/Seal Beach)
collected 407 assists against
conference opponents for 9.25
a game while also collecting
37 kills.
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ALUMNI
SOCCER: Suits, UCLA
try to stay alive in NCAAs;
Grimaldi is ESPN Academic
AA
 Danny
Suits
(LAHS '06) played all 90
minutes in the UCLA
Bruins 1-0 win over New
Mexico in the first round
of the NCAA Mens Soccer
Tournament.
The Bruins seek
revenge against Santa Clara
in a Wednesday night second
round match. Go
to UCLA soccer website
Oklahoma
State senior defender Niccole
Grimaldi (LAHS '04, shown
right) has been named a second-team
ESPN The Magazine Academic
All-American for women's
soccer. Grimaldi
also made the Big
12 all-academic team for
the third straight year.
Hayley
Bolt
(LAHS '05) was named to the Big
West All-Conference team
for the second year.
Mandy
Trojan
(LAHS '06) earned honorable
mention All-Big Sky
Conference honors for her
goalkeeping at Sac State. Trojan
finished second in the
conference in goals against
average (0.73), shutouts (8)
and shutouts per game (0.47).
Her eight clean sheets were
the most in program history.
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YOUTH
SOCCER: Wethe, Ward and
Franco help teams to
Premier, Regional success
Wolfpack
Girls Under 19 team (with Los
Al senior Annie
Wethe), reached the
finals of the Super Y
National club championship in
Tampa Florida last week but
lost in a shootout.
Wolfpack is now ranked
No. 3 in the nation in the
GotSoccer website rankings -
Wolfpack finished
first in the CSL GU19
Premiere League Standings
and also won the California
North-South GU19 premier
playoff.
The
Glendora Futbol Club, with
Los Al High soccer players, Shannon
Ward (front row left) and
Andi
Franco (back row, second
from left) also won the GU16
Premier League State
Championship, as well as
the Far West Regional League
Championship. The State
Championship came with a hard
fought 1-0 win over So Cal
Blues, on November 11th.
The Far
West Regional League
Championship came with
wins over So Cal Blues,
Slammers, Real So Cal and
others, and qualifies the
team to compete in the
Region IV Championships in
Hawaii, next June.
 AYSO
GU10 team wins hardware at
Cerritos Turkey Tourney
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The Los
Al United squad (shown right)
coached by John DeMaria
finished in third place at
the annual Cerritos Turkey
Tournament held over
Thanksgiving weekend. Click
here for larger photo.
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LOCAL
PEOPLE:
Mauricio Ingrassia and
Rich Foster get nice
write-ups in local papers
Big
West notebook: Ingrassia took
the right turn
Orange
County Register, CA -
Oct 17, 2007
When Mauricio
Ingrassia was a
student soccer player at Cal
State Fullerton and in
need of some extra cash, he
heard that his former high
school, Los Alamitos, was
looking for an assistant at
$1,500 for the season.
Little did he know
that his phone call would
lead to a career. Read
here
 Seal
Beach resident Rich
Foster has been a
12-year President of US Water
Polo, a man in great part
responsible for getting
womens water polo in the
Olympics, a volunteer worker
near the Arctic, an attorney
and an aspiring biographer of
Mark Spitz. Press-Telegram
columnist Doug Krikorian
writes about our local
man of many talents
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NON-SPORTS
STUFF: South Coast NCL
raises over $100,000 at
34th annual Tournament Day
The
South Coast Chapter of the
NCL -- National
Charity League (or as its
called by its local dads,
"No Cash Left")
raised more than
$100,000 during its 34th
annual Tournament Day Oct. 22
at the Long Beach Hilton
Hotel. Among
the attendees were Rossmoor-avians
Alyson
Emery Zahn, the NCL
president, and her husband
John (both shown right) who
volunteered as one of
Tournament Day's Magicians of
the Court.
The event combines morning
golf with a silent auction,
lunch and a fashion show,
although this year for the
first time the golfing was
held five days earlier - at
Little Rec Golf Course.
Winners of the
"lowest foursome"
award went to Dee Crossen,
Lisa Holloway, Peggy Holloway
and Pat Mullen.
Lots of locals came
away with event and auction
prizes which included Naples
Canal; cruises, jewelry, a
skybox for 14 at Staples
Center. . .well, you get the
idea. Read
on for more local
name-dropping.
 Wedding
- McDannel/Forsyth -- Gresham
Outlook, OR -
Oct 15, 2007 -- This
issue's occasionally
obligatory local wedding
announcement - that of former
Los Al student Tracey
McDannell -- is spelunked
from the webpages of the
Gresham Oregon Outlook -
(that's in the East Portland
area.)
Tracey is
a 1992 graduate of Los
Alamitos High
School and a 1996
graduate of the University of
California/Santa Barbara with
a degree in law and society.
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Long
Beach Press-Telegram, CA -
Nov 8, 2007
Over a hundred years ago, the
Bixby family and a couple
business partners owned all
of not only what would become
Long Beach, but Los Alamitos,
Rossmoor and Seal Beach as
well. The
last remaining undeveloped
chunk of that once sprawling
ranch - the wetlands by the
Marketplace - has finally
been sold. Read
on
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COMMUNITY
STUFF
Rossmoor
The Rossmoor Homeowners
Association is officially
ending its year-long 50th
Anniversary celebration with
its First Annual Holiday
Lights Home decoration
Contest -- which isn't really
the first annual because they
did it for years back in the
50s and 60s -- that's before
text messaging for you young
'uns. More details are
available at the RHA website (click
here -- then look on page
8).
Los
Alamitos
Los
Al appoints new interim city
manager
OCRegister, CA -
Oct 16, 2007
Seal
Beach
Seal Beach
settles in behind completed berm
OCRegister
- Santa Ana,CA,USA
- Nov. 26, 2007
Developer
banks on Seal
Beach
Orange
County Register, CA -
Nov 21, 2007
New
fishing boat store to open this
weekend
Orange
County Register, CA -
Nov 2, 2007
Stunt
plane's beach landing wasn't in
plan
Daily
Breeze, CA -
Oct 20, 2007
The pilot of a two-seater stunt
plane made an emergency landing
Friday on the sand in Seal
Beach, police said.
Seal
Beach Pier Project Requires
Commission Approval
The
Log Newspaper, CA -
Oct 17, 2007
In the coming weeks, Seal
Beach city officials will
begin the application process
for a state permit that would
allow workers to continue ...
Leisure
World residents to lose
neighborhood market
Orange
County Register, CA -
Nov 7, 2007
Seal
Beach Market to close in
January
Orange
County Register, CA -
Nov 2, 2007
Seal Beach Market, a
grocery store that caters mostly
to residents at the nearby
Leisure World gated retirement
community, ...
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LOCAL
BUSINESS: Shops at
Rossmoor hold
Grand Opening; Sprouts
begins OC invasion
 Sprouts
-- which will be coming to
Rossmoor in the Spring --
opens Irvine store -- OC
Register, CA - Nov.
19, 2007
LB
Press-Telegram:
Shops at Rossmoor open
Senior
citizen's bank to set up at
Shops at Rossmoor
Orange
County Register, CA -
Oct 31, 2007
By JORGE BARRIENTOS Home
Savings of America, a bank
designed for senior citizens,
will be at the Shops at
Rossmoor in Seal Beach,
officials announced today. ...
Trend
awarded second consecutive
environmental conservation
award
What
They Think - Lexington,KY,USA
LOS ALAMITOS CA,
(October 29, 2007) - For the
second year in a row, the
California Integrated Waste
Management Board has awarded
Trend Offset Printing with a
WRAP (Waist Reduction Awards
Program) award for excellence
in waste prevention,
recovery, reuse and recycling
activities.
Security
Solutions Awarded Project for
the Installation of New IP ...
Web
Services Journal, NJ -
Oct 18, 2007
Based in Los Alamitos,
Ca., Security Solutions has
had numerous successes with high
end clients requiring
integration of multiple
technologies to a single ...
Clean
Energy, a Seal Beach company
bets on natural gas
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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
Phone:
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Fax:
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