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football program. You’ll be missed.
Boys Water Polo
El Segundo finished second to Santa
Monica in the Ocean League and advanced
to the CIF Southern Section playoffs for
the seventh consecutive season. The Eagles
played host to Bay League third place finisher
Peninsula in the first round. The Eagles came
out strong and held a 4-2 advantage after the
first period. But the Panthers would wear
down the Eagles, score eight unanswered
goals and defeat El Segundo 8-6.
The Eagles had a great season and members
of the team were honored for their play. Team
MVP was Mason Jaeger, while the Eagle
Award went to Cameron Dornblaser. Top
Offensive Player was Jaden Van Der Woude
and Top Defensive Player went to Danny
Gonzalez. The Eagles were represented on the
All-Ocean League teams that included Jaden
Van Der Woude being named Ocean League
Most Outstanding Player. Brian Schodorf was
named to the All-Ocean League first team
while Caden Kastigar and Kalan Smith were
named to the second team.
Girls Volleyball
Advanced to Playoffs
The Lady Eagles defeated Hawthorne
25-9, 25-12, 25-11 that helped buoy their
hopes of advancing to the CIF playoffs for
the fifth consecutive year. They finished 6-4
in Ocean League play and advanced to the
CIF Southern Section Division 4 playoffs.
In the first round Pasadena Poly, which
reached the CIF finals, defeated El Segundo
in three games.
The Lady Eagles were led this past season
by Adri Hebert, Michelle Dell, Katie Latta,
Haylee Brooks, Lexi Tecun, Kailea Lee
Jadyn Williams, Sophie Davis and Libero
Jamyson Williams
Community Comes
Together for Drake
The El Segundo community came together
to support Drake Walker -- an El Segundo
hometown hero, athlete and a very special
7-year-old boy with a warm and embracing
smile he offers with his eyes. He is not only
my hero, but a hero to all of us for his brave
outlook. You see, Drake has been diagnosed
with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, a
highly aggressive and inoperable brain tumor.
A Cornhole Tournament was held with the
proceeds benefitting Drake and his family.
The Tossers defeated Team Robinson 21-8
to capture the tournament championship.
Cross Country Teams Win
League and Girls Make History
The El Segundo cross country program
held the first-ever El Segundo X-Country
Invitational at The Lakes golf course to
open a very successful season. The Lady
Eagles were invited to run in the Bob Day’s
Sweepstakes Invitational normally reserved
for CIF champions. Both cross country teams
were invited to compete in the Nike Hole
in the Wall XC meet. The meet was held at
Lynwood High School in Seattle, Washington.
It is considered one of the top high school
cross country meets in the Northwest with
teams from Washington, Oregon, California
and Alaska competing. The Eagles were successful
in both races where the girls won the
Division 2 race over the 40 teams entered. The
Eagles placed all five top scorers in the top
10 runners in their division. James Matlosz
won the race, Sophia Zago finished third,
Nikki Fulcomer fifth and Gabby Lee rounded
out the scorers with a seventh place finish.
The boys team placed fifth out of 53 teams.
The second-ranked El Segundo girls cross
country team won their fourth consecutive
Ocean League title and sixth overall. The
others were 1979, 2011, 2015, 2016 and
2017. Gabby Lee, a four-varsity runner, led
the Eagles by finishing second. The pack
running strategy worked for the Eagles with
Zago (3), James Matlosz (4) and Fulcomer
(5) rounding out the top five. Tyler Matlosz
ran a PR race finishing 10th while juniors
Letina Daniel and Leah Guziak each ran
their best races of the season and finished
in the top 15.
The boys cross country team finished third
and were led by Arend Verfaillie’s 10th place
finish. Calvin Liang finished 15th, while
up-and-coming junior runner Niall Glynn
ran a personal best. Freshman sensation
Ryu Iguchi paced the freshman team to an
Ocean League title.
At the CIF Southern Section finals, the
Lady Eagles finished third for the second
consecutive year. Fulcomer ran perhaps her
best race of the season and that helped propel
her team to the podium. James Matlosz,
Gabby Lee, Zago, Tyler Matlosz, Daniel and
Erin Rifkin each ran calculated races and
joined Fulcomer on the podium.
The Lady Eagles would travel to the California
CIF State meet for the third consecutive
year. This season, the team put together an
incredible effort and finished third for their
first appearance on the podium. Fulcomer and
James Matlosz finished simultaneously with
the former edging out her teammate. Zago
had a strong day and finished as the third
Eagle. One of the biggest surprises of the
day came from freshman Tyler Matlosz,
who finished fourth and really cemented the
team’s place on the podium. She had a stellar
season, ranking as the all-time fastest freshman
girl in school history. Four-year senior
runner Lee rounded out the top five Eagle
runners with a PR performance.
Remembering Chuck Shaffer
The El Segundo High School athletic department
and our community came together
to pay tribute to local legend Chuck Shaffer.
Chuck was so beloved and adored over the
past 36 years volunteering for the football,
baseball and basketball programs that his
passing after a long illness sent shockwaves
through our community. He was so popular
and liked that if there were a Mount Rushmore
of El Segundo High School icons,
you can bet Chuck’s face would be chiseled
alongside John Stevenson, Urho Saari, Keith
Erickson and Kemer Brett. Chuck, thank you
for always being there for us.
There you have it -- another great year in
sports revisited. This should be another special
and exciting year in sports before we say so
long to the last year of this decade. So, get
out and support our community’s athletes
in 2019. On behalf of Herald Publications,
have a safe and prosperous 2018! •
Film Review
Cold War Review: A Masterful
Triple Threat
By H. Nelson Tracey
for www.cinemacy.com
There is nothing more satisfying than
watching a film from a master director. In the
case of Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski, it
was his 2014 Foreign Oscar winner Ida,that
added him to my list of top directors. So
when Cold War released, it wasn’t a question
of if but when I could fit it into my queue,
and I’m happy to say that the film lives up
to its predecessor as a brilliant companion
to Pawlikowski’s previous work.
Shot in a visually distinct, entirely black and
white square ratio, we’re transported to 1949
Poland within seconds. The war in Europe is
over, yet the division between East and West
lingers when we meet our first protagonist,
Wiktor (Tomasz Kot). An accomplished musician
and conductor, Wiktor is part of a program
that recruits young village peasants to study
traditional Polish music in order to participate
in a newly formed musical conservatory. The
goal is earnest preservation of Polish heritage
through music and dance. Yet as their notoriety
grows, they face increased pressure to transition
to propaganda-based entertainment over the
traditional music of which they are passionate.
The resulting tension affects numerous countries…
and by tapping into the ultra-specific,
it successfully creates something universal.
This is only the starting point. The 90-minute
runtime is packed tightly with narrative beats.
The larger journey begins when Wiktor takes
a liking to one of the conservatory’s brightest
stars, Zula (Joanna Kulig). Despite their
different roles in the conservatory, they fall
passionately in love. Over the course of a
few years, their love story intertwines with
the European conflict at hand, and their opposite
personalities make for both passion
and often conflict.
What makes Cold War so riveting is the
film’s delivery of material. Cinematographer
Lukasz Zal (who co-shot Ida and was nominated
for the cinematography Oscar), gets to
use the camera as the ultimate storytelling
device. Most films are lucky to have one or
two unforgettable shots that get burned into
the retinas. Cold War has at least a dozen.
Some are like magic tricks in their simplicity
or creative reveal of key information. Others
are more stunningly beautiful in an Ansel
Adams, magnificently black and white styling.
None are mundane or incidental. I won’t
spoil these wondrous photographic moments,
as they are worth the admission alone.
These combined forces of story, photography
and the angelic quality of the Polish
music are what make Cold War a must-see,
especially on a big screen. Pawlikowski
claims he did not set out to make another
film so similar to Ida in aesthetic, and yet
the two are as perfect as companion pieces
come. They entirely stand on their own,
but are complementary as a pair. Whatever
Pawlikowski decides to do next, consider my
ticket already purchased. In the meantime,
I’ll be soaking up the emotional experience
of Cold War for many days to come.
Cold War is rated R for some sexual content,
nudity, and language. 88 minutes. Now
playing at Laemmle Royal. •
Cold War, Courtesy of Amazon Studios.
H. Nelson Tracey.
Community Briefs from page 3
(SpaceX) Falcon 9 Evolved Expendable
Launch Vehicle, after three previous launch
attempts on Dec. 18, Dec. 20 and Dec. 22
were thwarted by weather or technical issues.
GPS III’s “Vespucci” separated from its
upper stage at 10:59 a.m. EST (15:50 UTC,
7:50 a.m. Pacific), approximately two hours
and eight minutes after launch. Engineers
and operators at Lockheed Martin’s Waterton
facility will now begin on-orbit checkout and
tests estimated to complete in six months.
Operational use is expected to begin in
about a year.
Vespucci will be vectored to augment the
current GPS constellation comprised of 31
operational spacecraft. GPS satellites operate
in medium earth orbit at an altitude of approximately
20,200 km (12,550 miles) in
six planes. Each satellite circles the earth
twice per day.
The GPS III Vespucci team is led by
the SMC’s Global Positioning Systems
Directorate, located at Los Angeles Air
Force Base in El Segundo. Lockheed Martin
Space Systems Corporation is the prime
satellite vehicle contractor. The launch was
led by Space and Missile Systems Center’s
Launch Enterprise Directorate, and was on
the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle at Cape
Canaveral AFS.
– Source: Abridged from Space &
Missile Systems Center Press Release •
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