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Vol . 10, Issue 4 ·  November 28, 2007
 
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Taste 2007 check presentationWell, 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

Austin Trinkle

   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

2007 Boys BB CIF champs   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.

 

LOS AL HIGH SPORTS:  Seven Griffins sign letters of intent for Division I college sports

Letters of intentSeven 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 

Arizona fans storm field after win over OregonFormer 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.

 
Jeremy Childs   
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 StateDaily Vidette, IL - Oct 31, 2007

 

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ALUMNI WATER POLO:   Hutten leads UCI to near win at MPSF championship match

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 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

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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

 
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.


alum Ashley Tarutis24th 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.

ALUMNI SOCCER:  Suits, UCLA try to stay alive in NCAAs; Grimaldi is ESPN Academic AA

Niccole GrimaldiDanny 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.

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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


San Gabriel River wetlandsSeal 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

 
NON-SPORTS STUFF: South Coast NCL raises over $100,000 at 34th annual Tournament Day
NCL President Alyson Emery Zahn and her husband, John 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.


Tracey McDannel - 150pxWedding - 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.

 

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

 
 
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, ...

 

 
LOCAL BUSINESS:  Shops at Rossmoor hold
Grand Opening; Sprouts begins OC invasion
 

Sprouts StoresSprouts -- 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
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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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