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July 22, 2009 YOUTH BASEBALL: St. Hedwig advances to Super-Regioonals
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| LAYB PONY C (13) ALL-STARS—(top row, l-r) Ryan Pratt, Ryan Kaufman, Nikki Sablock, AJ Zunino, Chad Benfanti, Michael DiMatteo, Curren Maingot. Bottom row: Christopher Fono, Evan Giacomini, Jonah Siong, Blake Panarisi, Eric Shea, and Darren McCaughan. Coaches (not pictured) Manager: Adam Zunino, Doug Shea & Jack Glaser. | ||||||
March 1, 2009 YOUTH SOCCER: AYSO BU12 Patriots win Area, take third at Sectionals
Front row: Robert Anton, Spencer Ulbrich, Sean
Pak, Austin Vargas, Bernard Raminfard, Joey Aldea, Austin Wry
The local AYSO Region 159 BU12 Patriots, which
took first place at the Area E soccer playoffs earlier this year,
came away with a third place trophy at the Section 11 League tournament
which concluded March 1. The Patriots, coached by Terry Aaker, finished
second in their pool, and then downed Chula Visto 4-0 to claim the
third place trophy. The Patriots were the only regular season Region 159 league champ to win an Area E title, but two Region 159 all-stars teams also won championships -- the Girls U10 (cpoached by Ted deGracia) and the Boys Under 14 (coached by Nina DiMatteo).
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November 21, 2008 YOUTH SOCCER: Beach GU13 claims Silver West crown
(FRONT) Syndney Woods, Madison Sacuy, Allie Emmons,
Samantha Moreno, Phoebe Conrad, Kelly Peterson, The Beach Girls U13 White team has clinched the Coast Soccer League Silver West bracket championship. The U13 White team currently has a record of 12-0-1 with one smoke-postponed game left to be played -- against second place Fram (of Palos Verdes). Because it affects other standings, the game against Fram will be played on Dec. 13. Through their first 13 games Beach has outscored its opponents 42-4. So far in League Cup, Beach has reached the Sweet 16 Round -- downing a gold team, West Coast United (a Cal-South National Cup semi-finalist last season) in penalty kicks last Sunday, after playing to a 0-0 tie. After a Thanksgiving break (?) at the Nomads Tournament they resume League Cup play on December 6 against South Bay Force Black. Locals on the team include Phoebe Conrad and Allie Emmons (Los Alamitos), Lauren Iris, Janae Megorden, Kelly Peterson, Mallory Strawther and Sydney Woods (Rossmoor), Lisa Fast and Ashley Sholmire (Seal Beach), Alex Bachman and Katie Ha (Cypress). | ||||||
November 4, 2008 YOUTH WATER POLO: United 15s one of 12 teams to advance to National Speedo Cup tourney
“All 15 boys are just so honored to be able to represent the Southern Pacific Zone and excited to play in the U of M’s pool which was the training pool for Olympic star, Michael Phelps” said Head Coach Trevor Wawrzynski, who together with Coach Takeshi Inoue will accompany the team to Michigan. Pictured above: Front row (l-r) Brett Gonzales,
Luke Czaus, Kenneth Keller, Connor Lees, Michael Stone, Justin Cowan,
Hutter Lott, Douglas Brown;
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August 20, 2008 YOUTH WATER POLO: Los Al 14 Girls win gold at National Water Polo Junior Olympics this summer
The 14s (shown left, click for larger photo) defeated a tough Navy team from Annapolis, Maryland, in the championship match. Pictured in the photo are: Pictured are (bottom, l-r) Hannah Reutershan, Stephanie Mutafyan "MVP", Melissa Thorn, Risa Burke; (middle) Samantha Preston, Nicole Quinn, Sara Prechtl, Becca Corb, Katherine Palaeologus; (back row) Coach Bob Corb, Coach Bahram Hojreh, Coach Daniel Palaeologus
The Los Al Girls 12&U team placed 6th out of 18 teams at the National . National Junior Olympics Water Polo Tournament, Back row: Cathryn Lynch, Caroline Thorn, Tess Burney, Sydney Blubaugh, Sarah Camburn, Megan Anderson Front row: Erika Pauley, Jenny Lee, Sarah Siepker, Karley Kraft not pictured: Mara Salisbury, Savannah Vukelich, Lauren Michel, Nidhi Kakulawaram On the boys side, Griffin senior Forrest
Watkins earned honorable mention All-American at this summer’s
National Junior Olympic Water Polo Championships. He, and fellow
Griffins Michael Delaney, and Ryan Fattal played for Riverside which
went into the tournament seeded 23rd, but pulled off a sixth place
finish
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May 29, 2008 YOUTH SOCCER: Hot Shots Take Area E and Cypress Memorial Day Tournament titles
Members of the team are (pictured, front row,
l-r) (front row, l-r): Madelyn Meza, Ashley Outlaw, Rachel O’Sullivan,
Emily Lewis, Maria Clarke, Katelyn Ramos, & Lauren Jones. OTHER YOUTH SPORTS LAGSL GU14s win in Thousand Oaks |  |
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March 3, 2008 NJB CHAMPIONSHIPS: 'Heels, Lakers, and Wolverines claim NJB titles
In the Division 1 (Grades 7-8) championships,
the North Carolina Tarheels capped an undefeated season by beating
the Clemson Tigers 44-29. The win gave the 'Heels a 12-0 on the
season. The Tarheels members are Marshaun Daniel, Kian Farjami,
Alonzo Hall, Ryan Judge, Darren Krishna, Jack Morrow, Jason Perdue,
Spenser Sayre.
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March 5, 2008 YOUTH BASKETBALL: Hedwig 7th-8th Girls win Parochial League season, reach playoff finals; Boys take third.
After claiming the regular season title with
an unblemished 8-0 record, the St. Hedwig Girls Basketball team
(7th–8th The Girls team includes: Front Row (l-r): Julea
Lipiz, Mary Trotter, Bree Christoffels, Jenny Morrell, Izzy Serrano,
Back Row (l-r): Elizabeth Chelling, Kori Meacham, Assistant Coach
Eric Senske, Chaynna Reyes, Julia Clarke, Rachel Curtin, Meggan
Seyfried, Makela Matheson, Samantha Hernandez, and Coach Lindsey
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March 1, 2008 YOUTH LACROSSE: Beach LAX takes 3rd place at OC Lacrosse Assn.
In the 3d place game, Beach got strong play in goal from Molly Wheeler and great defensive work from Emily Goldenberg and Sophia Aragon. Aragon, Crowell and Hirsch were named to the OCLA all-league team. Coach Vicki Gradman has built the team over two season into one of the top squads in Orange County, even though the program is only in its second season and had to beat several veteran programs to get to its playoff game. The victory was even more impressive because the Beach team is made up equally of 6th, 7th and 8th graders while St. Mary's "A" and several other teams were mostly 8th graders. Beach Cities Youth Lacrosse also has a 3-5th grade girls team and a boys 7-8th grade team that are looking for players. No prior experience is needed. Interested players should contact Randy A. Platt, (raplatt@socal.rr.com), for the girls youth team and Glenn Styron (lblaxdaddy@yahoo.com), for the boys team. Registration for the middle school girls team will open in August. Interested players should contact jerry.hirsch@gmail.com |
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February 28, 2008 YOUTH LACROSSE: Fighting Irish win Beach Cities Grade 5-6 Division
Members of the Fighting Irish youth lacrosse champs (front, l-r) Tyler Miller, Patrick Baikie, Jordan Bahn and Cullen Smith; (back row) Jackson Browner, Logan Hamilton, Jackson Stergios, Cody Miller, and Will Brines. Also earning some glory for the green (albeit somehwat muddy) this past week was the Fighting Irish youth lacrosse team (show right) which captured the Beach Cities Grades 5-6 title. The team finished the season undefeated and never trailed in a game all season. The Irish defeated the Terps in the finals, 11-6. |
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February 25, 2008 YOUTH BASKETBALL: St. Hedwig Girls Grades 7-8 and Boys Grades 5-6 teams win Parochial League championships
No, this is not another Where's Waldo photo. Pictured above are all the St. Hedwig School's boys and girls' basketball teams, including the Girls 7th-8th grader and Boys 5th-6th grade teams which went undfeated en route to winning the Parochial Athletic League titles. The 7th & 8th grade boys team finished second place in league, and the 5th & 6th grade girls team finished fourth place in league. The teams are shown above with the Celtic Cheerleaders. Over 70 students participate as basketball players or cheerleaders for St. Hedwig. |
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February 21, 2008 YOUTH BASEBALL: LAYB begins 50th season Although rain may cause postponement, the Los Al Youth Baseball league is scheduled to officially open its 50th Season — and its new parking lot — this Saturday at its fields. Since there is no mention of it on the league website -- www.layb.org -- they are probably unaware of the significance The league, which began as the Rossmoor Little League in 1958, held its first opening day that season with Andy Messersmith (who would go on to pitch for the Dodgers and be instrumental in bringing free agency to professional baseball) striking out 14 batters en route to a 2-0 win. The league was begun by Rossmoor parents who hadn't even lived in their brand new homes a year. They played their their games on land donated by developer Ross Cortese, at the corner of Montecito and Bradbury (where the current Rossmoor Townhomes are). Among the VIPs in attendance on opening day are former major leaguer (St. Louis browns) and Hollywood Stars player Chuck Stevens, as well as KFOX DJ Gary Fuller, and League President Lee Milligan read a letter of congratulations from U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower. The team sponsors for that first season included:
The league, which would and change its name to the Rossmoor-Los Alamitos Little League, moved over to the base for some games in 1961 went there full-time in 1963. Over the years it has gone through a number of changes - including a merger in 1999 with the Pony League and another name change to its current Los Al Youth Baseball. Now that facility is one of the best youth baseball facilities around and home to over 700 local youth baseball players.
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February 19, 2008 CLUB SOCCER: Long Beach, Cypress clubs to hold tryouts Two local soccer clubs will start holding tryouts this weekend. The Long Beach Soccer Club, under the guidance of new director of coaching Mauricio Ingrassia, will hold tryouts on Saturday, February 23, at George Allen Field at Long Beach State... The Cypress Futbol Club will hold the first of a week's worth of tryouts on Sunday, February 24. |
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February 18, 2008 CLUB SOCCER: Cypress teams make good showing at youngers State Cup Two Cypress Futbol Clubs teams made good showing at recent State Cup tournament action which has been underway from Lancaster to Camarillo. CFC's Boys Under 12 team will make one more trip to Lancaster this Saturday for its championship game versus Chivas FC. So far in the tournament Cypress has gone 7-0 in the tounament, and outscored its opponents 23-2. Girls
U13 State Cup - Cypress Elite survived two rounds in bracket
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February 8, 2008 YOUTH SOCCER: AYSO region 159 Boys Under 10 takes Area E all-star crown; advances to Sectionals in San Marcos
Shown in the photo (right) are (front, l-r) Will Schmidt, Cameron Fono, Anthony Mejia, and Neil French; (middle) Jacob Gasser, Hayden Smith, Steven Markarian, Scott Anderson and Jonathan Van de Velde; (top row) Coaches Jim Poyar, Bob Poyar, Joe KLoteras, and Chris Koteras. The Boys Under 12 and 14 all-star teams, as well as the Girls under 10 and U14 all-stars, advanced to the semi-finals but fell in that round. |
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| Jan. 28, 2008 YOUTH LACROSSE: Beach jumps out to 4-0 mark The Beach Cities Youth Lacrosse middle school
girls team has jumped off to a 4 and 0 start in its first four league
games and sits in first place in the Orange County Lacrosse Assn.
middle school girls league North Division. Beach plays rival Hewes
White, the top team from the Hewes Lacrosse Club, in Tustin on Feb
2 in a game that will likely to determine the league winner. Hewes
White recently beat Beach 9-7 in a non league game. It was Beach's
only loss this season. For those who follow high school lacrosse,
Hewes White is the feeder team into perennial CIF champion Foothill
High School.
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YOUTH BASEBALL/SOFTBALL INFORMATION: I know we missed the boat on all the signups. But here are some links in case you're intyerested.
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| Jan. 8, 2008 SURFING: Seal Beach's Waring reaches round four of Billabong World Junior Championships
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| December 13, 2007 YOUTH VOLLEYBALL: 12 year old Justine Wong-Orantes becomes one of youngest to ever earn AA beach VB ranking
Justine, who had just turned 12 years old a week earlier, and Jane went 8-0 for the day en route to capturing the championship, defeating Tamao Nakayama and Jennifer Lee in the final 21-12, 21-16. This is Justine's 4th season playing beach volleyball. Croson was named one of the top freshmen by Student Sports magazine and earned second team Dream Team honors from the LB Press-Telegram.
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November28, 2007 YOUTH SOFTBALL: LAGSL 12s and 14s each bring home titles at Long Berach Turkey tourney The Los Alamitos Girls Softball League 14u and 12u teams swept their individual divisions and brought home the 1st place trophies over Thanksgiving weekend at the 2007 Long Beach fastpich Turkey Tournament. Each team had to battle through 2 pool play games, and four single single elimination bracket rounds to earn the championship. Teams from Los Alamitos, Long Beach, Cypress, Huntington Beach, Buena Park and Garden Grove competed in the tournament. Below are the two combines teams. We have no idea who the 12s are but the 14s (standing in back, l-r, are) Linsday Kiker, Andriana Nikolau, Alyssa Lilley, Lexi Rountree, MK Trotter, Katelyn Morello, Alex Finie, Megan Carroll, Megan Torres, Vanessa Seawright, Caroline Mucho, Kaitlyn Sutherland and Jessica Marsh. Assistant Coach Dave Seawright is on the far left, head coach Gary Marsh is in the Dodger hat third from the right, and assistant coach Tim Lilley is wearing the Dodger hat on the far right. If someone can give me the names of the 12s we
can still put them in here.
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November 27, 2007 Los Al GU10 squad takes 3rd place at Cerritos Turkey Tourney
LOS AL UNITED GU10 - (front, l-r) Annie Alvarez,
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