EL SEGUNDO HERALD June 1, 2017 Page 5 Davis & DeRosa Physical Therapy, Inc. Davis & DeRosa Physical Therapy, established in 2003, provides a quaint boutique practice located in El Segundo, California. The 4,000 square foot facility is a well known practice offering its patients private, personal treatment by a licensed therapist at every visit. Patients are guaranteed one-on-one attention for their 45-minute treatment. THE PRACTICE SPECIALIZES IN DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT FOR: Chronic Neck and Back Pain Pre and Post Surgical Rehabilitation Sports Injuries Work Injuries Neurological Disorders Foot and Ankle Disorders (including orthotics) Osteoporosis and other Age Related Disorders Balance and Vestibular Disorders Injury Prevention Troy Davis Owner, PT, DPT • Chris DeRosa Owner, PT, OCS Leo Valenzuela, PT, DPT • Lianne Nakazaki, PT, DPT Garret Wong, PT, DPT, OCS • Tami Chang, PT • Kim Klein, PT William Quibell, PT, DPT • Richelle Mae Milina, PT, DPT, OCS 325 Main Street El Segundo, CA 90245 310.648.3167 www.davisandderosa.com Burkley Brandlin Swatik & Keesey LLP AT T O R N E Y S AT L AW Lifetime El Segundo Residents Living Trusts/Wills, Probate, Employment Law, Personal Injury Trust and Estates Litigation, Business Litigation, Civil Litigation 310-540-6000 *AV Rated (Highest) Martindale - Hubbell / **Certified Specialist Estate Planning, Trust & Probate Law, State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization Eagles Baseball Run Ends Story and Photos by Gregg McMullin The El Segundo High School baseball season has officially come to an end with a 3-1 loss to Walnut in the CIF Southern Section Division 3 quarterfinals. The loss closes the books on one of the most successful seasons for the program in recent memory. The Eagles would end up 27-7 overall, Ocean League champions and ranked fifth. The 27 wins are the most by an Eagle squad in over 25 years. It also marks the most wins by a first-year coach in the history of the school in any sport. The Eagles had cruised to a first round victory over West to face Troy in the second round. Troy was thought to be a challenge since it was the Freeway League champion. The Eagles pounded out 15 hits, had two stolen bases and two sacrifice flies while taking advantage of four walks, four errors and a hit-by-pitch to easily advance 13-6. The Eagle sent Jimmy Galicia to the mound to silence Troy’s strong hitting team. All the junior right-hander did was give up four runs on five hits while striking out seven in six innings. When he appeared to get in trouble, he got out of the jam with the strikeout or the defense playing behind him came through with brilliant plays. El Segundo took charge in the first inning when CJ Shevlin singled and scored on Jake Palmer’s RBI double. Nico Celestial then singled home Palmer to make it 2-0. Troy answered with a run in the top of the third inning. In their half of the third, the Eagles batted around and scored five runs to take a 7-1 lead. Celestial and Spencer Palmer each singled, followed by a towering three-run home run by Sean Emery to make it 5-1. Matt Romero doubled, Brendan Casillas walked and Kobe Estrada’s deep sacrifice fly made it 6-1. Spencer Long popped up, but it was misplayed to score Casillas and make it 7-1. In the fifth inning, the Warriors made it close by scoring three runs on three hits and took advantage of two walks. Jordan Yokoyama’s RBI single made it 7-4. The Eagles answered with three runs of their own. Shevlin hit a sacrifice fly, making it 8-4, followed by consecutive RBI singles by Jake Palmer and Celestial to give the Eagles a 10-4 lead. In the sixth inning, Emery pounded a double off the centerfield fence. Romero reached on an error and Casillas drove them in with his eighth double of the season. Spencer Long then drove in Casillas with his 12th double of the season to make it 13-4. The Warriors would score two runs on three hits in the final inning for a 13-6 final score. El Segundo advanced to the CIF-SS quarterfinals for the sixth time since the last time the Eagles won a CIF championship in 2005. They would face Walnut--a team they had already faced and defeated 7-3 on April 3. In that contest, Justin Mostert threw a complete game in giving up three runs (two earned) while scattering seven hits as the offense pounded out 10 hits. When Superteams Meet By Adam Serrao A long and boring NBA regular season and playoff schedule has finally culminated with the matchup that basketball fans have been anticipating since the Finals ended one year ago. That’s when LeBron James brought home the first championship trophy ever for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Now, LeBron will be arriving to play in his seventh straight NBA Finals as the Cavaliers return for the third time in a row. James’ opponent is back and recharged too. The Golden State Warriors bring their fully loaded arsenal of offensive weapons back for an encore to the encore-only this time, they’re even more loaded with the second best player in the league on their side as well. All eyes are on the NBA’s biggest star as the Finals begin this Thursday in Oakland, California at Oracle Arena, the home of the Warriors. LeBron James and the Cavaliers have “flipped the switch”--and after a horrific second half of the regular season, they have turned things up a notch to once against destroy the rest of the Eastern Conference in the playoffs thus far. Now, all talk of LeBron being as good as Michael Jordan and all talk of the Eastern Conference being an inferior conference gets tossed out of the window. In the NBA Finals, no one cares about Jordan or the Eastern Conference anymore. James has a maximum of seven games to beat the Warriors and once again prove that he is one of the greatest NBA players in the history of the sport. One of LeBron’s biggest criticisms throughout his career has been that he has continuously joined forces with other elite players to create “superteams” and, in doing so, has accumulated wins because of all of the talent with which he has teamed. Well, Kevin Durant thought to himself, “If LeBron can do it, why can’t I?” Now the Warriors, who were already one of the best teams in the league without him, get to add the second best player in the league to try to bring back the Larry O’Brien trophy to Oakland and bring King James’ reign to an end. All of the pressure seems to be on Durant’s and Golden State’s shoulders. If the Warriors can’t beat Cleveland for the second year in a row, this time with the addition of Durant, then the argument for James as the greatest player ever will basically be set in stone. At the age of 32, LeBron is playing the most efficient basketball of his entire career. The superstar is scoring more points, getting to the free throw line more often, committing fewer turnovers, averaging more assists and playing better defense than he has ever played in his time in the NBA. All of this has come while James has lackadaisically frolicked through a regular season and Eastern Conference playoff schedule, seemingly adding just enough energy necessary to get the job done. James is a beast. There’s no doubting that. He’s Gulliver on the island of Lilliput playing basketball against the Lilliputians. Now, however, LeBron will run up against his greatest challenger ever and face off against the juggernaut that is Golden State. Both Tyronn Lue of the Cavs and a duo including Mike Brown and Steve Kerr of the Warriors will certainly be looking for ways to expose their opposition leading up to and throughout the seven-game series. For the Warriors, it’s pretty easy. Stop LeBron James and you stop the Cavaliers. Sure, players like Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love have shown the ability to have good games and carry the team at times in the past. With no LeBron, though, Cleveland’s overall team efficiency plummets like it did in their 111-108 loss to the Celtics almost two weeks ago. That means that a barrage of Durant, Klay Thompson, Andre Iguodala and maybe even Draymond Green will be necessary to bother James enough for Golden State to get the series win. For the Cavs, they’ll have to find a way to expose the Warriors in the paint and on the boards. That means Love and Tristan Thompson will have to outmuscle and outhustle Green, Zaza Pachulia and JaVale McGee down low in order to gain the advantage. On the surface, that doesn’t seem like too hard of a task. The Warriors, though, are an extremely deep team both on the offensive side of the ball and defensively. Golden State finished second in the regular season behind only the San Antonio Spurs, allowing only 104 points per 100 possessions. In the postseason, they have gotten even better, allowing just 101.7 points per 100 possessions. Statistics from the past don’t matter See Superteams, page 14 Kobe Estrada hit a bullet back up the middle that was snagged for the last out of the Eagles’ season. See Eagles, page 8
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