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EL SEGUNDO HERALD February 1, 2018 Page 5
The EAGLES are
Going to Fly
this Weekend!
Watch Out Patriots!
CHUCK
MICKEY & CHASE,
LET’S HAVE A ROCKIN’
SUPERBOWL WEEKEND!
GO PATRIOTS!! WOOT, WOOT!!
I LOVE YOU! XO
DEBBIE - AKA– MOM
TO JOHN & Y & F
SURPRISE! :-o
HAPPY SUPER BOWL
WEEKEND!
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HOPE YOUR TEAM WINS
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May you catch every fly
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may you always throw it back
with love and wisdom
Love, Mom
Eagles Putting Up an
Ocean League Fight
By Gregg McMullin
With just a week left in the Ocean League
schedule, the El Segundo High School teams
are fighting for position to be one of those
that advance to the postseason CIF Southern
Section playoffs. The girls water polo team
defeated Santa Monica to take a commanding
league lead. The girls basketball team
played well against Santa Monica to provide
some hope. The boys team is playing
with inspiration even with the adversity of
playing shorthanded. The boys soccer team
fell to Samo, but rallied to defeat Culver
City. Meanwhile, the Lady Eagles are still
in contention.
Girls Water Polo Edge
Closer to League Title
El Segundo had a big week with two Ocean
League victories including a 9-4 win over
Santa Monica and an 8-6 win over Culver
City. With the wins, the Lady Eagles are in
the driver’s seat to win an Ocean League title.
Against Samo, the Lady Eagles struck first
with barrage of first quarter goals. Jenna Olson
got the scoring started with two goals and
Claire Lindsey contributed a goal at the end
of the first period to give El Segundo a 3-1
lead. The second quarter was a defensive battle
as neither team was able to score a goal. The
third quarter featured Emily Wilkinson, who
put away two goals including a great shot
from the post on a power play.
El Segundo led 5-2 going into the fourth
quarter. With the team playing with high
energy and excitement, the Lady Eagles
kept up the intensity. Olson contributed two
more goals, while Maya Weiss and Wilkinson
scored one goal apiece. Sophia Caravello
provided her team with great defense and
made a statement who the top goaltender is
in the Ocean League with 14 saves in goal.
It was the first time the Lady Eagles had
beaten Santa Monica since 2012.
Against Culver City in the first round of
league play, El Segundo won handily 13-2.
This time around, Culver had a different game
plan. It was a back-and-forth battle and El
Segundo could not put a shot away. With four
minutes left to play, the Lady Eagles were
trailing 6-5. After a timeout to regroup, Jenna
Olson came out and put away a great outside
shot to tie the score 6-6. Then freshman Christina
Mullane took over with two unanswered
goals to secure an 8-6 victory. Caravello made
11 stops in goal, including three in the fourth
period, to help secure the win.
Girls Basketball
The Lady Eagles pulled off an upset and
put themselves in contention for a playoff spot
with their 41-37 win over Santa Monica. El
Segundo led from the beginning and played
a more patient game on offense while the
defense forced turnovers.
After jumping out to a 6-0 lead, the
Lady Eagles ended the first quarter with a
14-9 cusion and led throughout the second
quarter before a tying three-pointer at the
buzzer by Samo’s Lilly Auerbach. El Segundo
outrebounded a more physical Santa
Monica team.
To start the third quarter, Makaela Bordieri
sank a 15-footer and then hit long-range
three-pointer to give her team a five-point
lead. Bordieri ended up scoring nine of her
team’s 12 third quarter points. Reese Jones’
three-point play to start the fourth quarter gave
the Lady Eagles a cushion her team needed.
Hannah Chang sank a 12-footer to stop a
6-1 run by the Vikings. Bordieri controlled
a rebound and put-back to give her team a
39-37 lead with a little more than a minute
remaining. Kailea Lee’s two free throws
extended the lead to 41-37 with 41 seconds
left and El Segundo held on for the win.
Bordieri had a career-high 17 points to
lead her team while Lee had 11 assists
-- another career high. Remicia Germeille
played brilliantly and had three steals and
four defensive rebounds.
Brady’s Bunch of Rings
Back at Big Bowl
By Adam Serrao
The sun sets in the west, the moon rises at
night, and Tom Brady is in the Super Bowl. Few
things in the world are seemingly as automatic
as Brady and the Patriots playing for a
championship at the end of a season. Come
this Sunday, they’ll both be right back where
they seemingly belong. You can love him,
hate him or even refuse to have an opinion
about him, but as Brady readies to play in
the eighth Super Bowl of his career, you
certainly have to respect the way that he
plays the game of football.
Even if you love to root against Brady
and the Patriots – which most football fans
who don’t cheer for the Patriots do – you
have to admit that New England being in
the Super Bowl at least makes the game a
bit more interesting to watch. What can be
better than rooting against the guy who will
likely go down as the greatest quarterback
to ever play the game, not to mention his
head coach who thrives on being unlikeable?
The good news, too, is that New England has
never dominated its opponents in the biggest
game of the season. In his seven championship
games so far, Brady is 5-2. Were it not
for some miracle plays by Eli Manning and
the New York Giants, he could very easily
be 7-0. Just as easily, though, Brady could
have been 0-7. The total difference in scoring
between the Patriots and their opponents in
seven Super Bowl games is just 12 points.
New England has put up 169 points, while
their opponents have combined for 157. That
alone should provide enough foreshadowing
to tell that this weekend’s Super Bowl LII
will likely be a close game, no matter what
outcome arises.
Philadelphia doesn’t figure to be a walk
in the park for the Patriots either. Despite
losing their MVP-caliber starting quarterback
in Carson Wentz, backup Nick Foles has
come on as of late and is leading the team
in quite a similar fashion. “They’ve got a
great defense,” Brady explained of Philly.
“As good as we’ve faced all year. They’ve
been playing well all year and that’s why
they’re in this game – and that’s why we’re
in this game. It’s going to be a great game.”
Brady would likely change his opinion about
the game should the Patriots lose, but losing
isn’t necessarily something that comes easily
to New England.
The Eagles defense will be tasked with
stopping Brady and his teammates on Sunday.
That same group ranked fourth in the league
in total defense (306.5 yards per game) and
points allowed (18.4) this season. Great defenses
have fallen to Brady before, though.
Just two weeks ago, he and head coach Bill
Belichick dispatched the Jacksonville Jaguars
and their top-ranked defense this season. Even
still, it’s not the team on the other side of
the ball that the Patriots concern themselves
with and that in itself could be the reason for
the team’s prolonged success. “I think they
have their strengths, but we have ours,” Brady
continued on. “It’s going to come down to
who plays the best and that starts with being
who’s the most prepared.”
No other quarterback in NFL history has
ever played in eight Super Bowls. This
weekend, at the ripe young age of 40, Brady
will become the first ever and maybe the
last ever to do so. Perhaps the most important
thing that has fueled the quarterback’s
decade-and-a-half-long run is preparation.
The drama and controversy that has been
mixed in between has certainly made it easier
to root against Brady and the Patriots, but
when it comes down to X’s and O’s, New
England naturally has a distinct advantage
no matter how old the quarterback or how
athletically gifted the team.
Now, as Brady prepares for his third Super
Bowl appearance in the last four years, the
outcome of the game has almost been painstakingly
decided before it has even been played.
See Eagles, page 15
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See Brady, page 12