EL SEGUNDO HERALD May 28, 2015 Page 5 CITY OF EL SEGUNDO CITY COUNCIL Volunteers Needed! The City Council is currently accepting applications for the following Committees, Commissions and Boards (CCB) positions. Immediate Openings Economic Development Advisory Council Three positions Community Cable Advisory Committee Four positions Capital Improvement Program Advisory Committee Five positions Terms Expiring Soon Recreation and Parks Commission One Position expires May 30, 2015 Environmental Committee Two Positions expires June 30, 2015 Library Board of Trustees One Position expires June 30, 2015 Planning Commission One Position expires June 30, 2015 Senior Citizen Housing Corporation Board Two Positions expires June 30, 2015 If you are interested in applying, please pick up an application in the Council Office or log onto the City’s website at www.elsegundo.org For more information, call 310 524-2302 or email mjennings@elsegundo.org El Segundo Public Library Events Summer 2015 AUTHOR FAIR 2015 SUMMER READING PROGRAM Registration begins June 11th, 9:00a.m. El Segundo Public Library Co-sponsored by the Friends of the Library 41 Authors for Adults and Children • Author Panels • Author Signings • Raffle Prizes • Storytellers • Live Music & Entertainment Sunday, June 7th 11:30a.m. – 4:30p.m. 111 West Mariposa at Main Str eet • 310-524-2722 Moye Leads Eagles to CIF Championship By Gregg McMullin Photos by Gregg McMullin, unless otherwise specified The El Segundo high school boys’ volleyball team completed what they set out to do; win a CIF championship. It wasn’t easy and at times looked like their dreams would disappear but they persevered and fought through adversity in the CIF finals to win it all. The Eagles needed an epic comeback and climbed on Stephen Moye’s back to defeat Quartz Hills 21-25,22-25, 25-23, 25-16, 15-10. It marked the school’s second CIF Southern Section division championship, the first coming in 2010. To get to t he finals the top seeded Eagles had little trouble dispensing of Mission Prep, Paramount, San Gabriel and Paloma Valley; each were defeated in straight sets. In fact you have to back to the Eagles’ last Ocean League match with Santa Monica to find a game they lost. But the Eagles found themselves in an unfamiliar scene before their comeback championship win. Quartz Hills played anything like the underdog and at times looked like the team that had lost just two matches all year long. The Rebels took control of the first game after the Eagles raced to a 4-0 lead. But a momentum swing favored Quartz Hills before El Segundo made a run at the Rebels and trailed 23-21. The Rebels took advantage of an unforced error and went on to win the first game. In the second set El Segundo found itself trailing 7-1 early before battling back, making it 9-8 after Moye’s kill. Perhaps jitters got to the Eagles but unforced errors proved to be too costly and Quartz Hill took the second set 25-22. “We weren’t playing our game and we made too many mistakes against a good team,” said assistant coach Tim Hovland. If this were a movie you couldn’t have scripted a better scenario. This was the favorite getting pummeled and staggering to stay in the game. The Eagles were certainly on the ropes but heart, determination and a steady dose of Moye, Brandon Kurke, Nick Rable, Joe Kelly and Nolan Sharp gave El Segundo the infusion they need to overcome such dramatic odds that had stacked against them. “They’re an impressive team. We weren’t expecting a team like Quartz Hill that strong or that big,” said El Segundo coach Anjinho Bacil. “They were pretty good. They’re much better than a sixth seeded team.” Facing a sweep and their dreams of a championship season vaporizing the Eagles fought back from an 8-4 deficit and tied the third game at 13 apiece with Nick Rable’s kill that capped a long rally. El Segundo went on a 6-0 run after once again trailing 22-18. Moye’s fourth kill of the set gave the Eagles life, the set and forced game four. Moye, just a junior, seemed to will his team back into the match. The fourth set Clippers Are Still the Clippers By Adam Serrao Los Angeles has always seemed to be a Lakers town. One of the greatest franchises in NBA history, the Lakers have always had the glitz, glamour, and high-profile fans that a franchise like the Clippers typically has not. One of those fans is former Laker great Magic Johnson. Magic said it best when speaking of the Clippers recent epic meltdown in the conference semifinals versus the Houston Rockets: “I thought the Spurs taught the Clippers how to win after a tough 7 game series,” he said. “I was wrong. The Clippers are still the Clippers.” A team that in its history has never been to the Western Conference Finals or beyond, the Clippers were so close and were even picked by many to win the title this season. Yet, another meltdown has not only ended their season prematurely, but has also inserted a number of question marks into the team’s extremely grim-looking future as well. Answering the question of what happened to Clippers isn’t an easy thing to do. When dealing with a loss, everyone needs someone or something to blame. For the Clippers, however, the blame is multi-layered. Go back, if you will, to when Donald Sterling was ousted from the team. Sterling has nothing to do with how the Clippers lost this year, but in his place, newly appointed Clippers owner Steve Ballmer does. Ballmer, a former Microsoft CEO, doesn’t know much about basketball, so when Doc Rivers wanted both head coaching and GM duties, he simply gave him both responsibilities. That was the Clippers first problem. Rivers is a really good coach. If you give him good players, he knows how to motivate his team to get the job done. He has never, however, been a great GM and outside of the Clippers best three players, the roster, that Rivers helped put together, is clearly not a championship type roster. Chris Paul, Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan are all great players and are all deserving of highly lucrative contracts. Unfortunately, those three players simply can’t get the job done all by themselves. That’s precisely what Doc asked them to do. After a long and tiring seven game series against last year’s world champs, the San Antonio Spurs, it became clear that the core of Doc’s team quite simply tired out. You can actually even locate a specific point in time when they did. Game 6 against the Rockets, up by 19 points in the third-quarter, the Clippers simply needed to hold the ball and watch time run off of the clock. They couldn’t do it. Paul, Griffin, Jordan and the rest of the team were just too tired. James Harden and his Houston Rockets squad turned on the jets and never looked back. The Rockets wound up winning Game 6 by a final score of 119-107. Game 7 wasn’t any better. A game where the Clippers lost by a total of 13 points (113-100) saw the tired team trail by as many as 20 in the fourth quarter to become only the ninth team in NBA history to blow a 3-1 advantage in an NBA playoff series. See Clippers, page 6 See Eagles, page 6
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