EL SEGUNDO HERALD July 29, 2021 Page 5
Film Review
By Ryan Rojas for cinemacy.com
With the recent week’s news of Sir
Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos becoming
the first American Billionaires to enter the
legal atmosphere of space, the reality of
humans colonizing other planets is becoming
more and more a reality. But what exactly
will that future look like? What obstacles
will the first people who live on Mars
endure, and what flaws will we bring with
them? One such vision comes in the new
sci-fi film from IFC Midnight, Settlers (in
theaters today), which feels surprisingly less
fictitious and more inevitably real of what
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The El Segundo Little League 10u All-Stars celebrated their Section 4 Championship.
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All-Stars Go on the Road
By Gregg McMullin
El Segundo seems like a ghost town this
week, with many Babe Ruth All-Star teams
playing in far-away places like Bakersfield,
Fallon, Nevada, and Price, Utah. For the
first time in league history, El Segundo will
send each of their Babe Ruth League 13,
14, and 13-15 All-Star teams to the Pacific
Southwest Regional Tournaments in the same
year. The 10u Little League team is playing
in the Little League Southern California 8-10
Baseball Championship in Imperial Beach or
just south of San Diego. And, the El Segundo
Girls Softball 10u All-Stars just finished an
impressive All-Star season.
Little Leaguers Win Section 4
El Segundo Little League can add another
banner to its already impressive 37 Little League
Championship banners. The thirty-eighth
one came in the championship game of the
Section 4 Tournament hosted by Westchester
Little League.
After defeating Torrance Little League 10-0
and Del Rey Little League 13-3 to advance to
the championship game, they faced Del Rey
LL again. This time it was much closer with
so much on the line, including a berth to the
Southern California 8-10 Baseball Championship.
Pitching controlled the game by both
squads, but a late-inning rally propelled El
Segundo to a 4-3 win.
The championship game would prove to
be more of a challenge for El Segundo after
scoring in double figures in six of their eight
tournament games this summer. Del Rey’s
pitching confounded El Segundo hitters into
striking out seven times in the first three innings.
Del Rey’s John Knudsen gave his team
a shot of adrenaline when he clobbered a
two-run 230-foot home run to give his team
a 2-0 lead. In the fourth inning, El Segundo
broke through to score a run when Declan
McRoberts singled and later scored on Lucas
Keldorf’s RBI single to close the gap to 2-1.
Trailing 2-1 in the fifth inning El Segundo
scored three runs. Max Baker singled, and
McRoberts walked, and with two outs, Keldorf
slammed a two-run double into the right-center
gap to make it 3-2. Quinn Boehle followed
with an RBI double giving El Segundo a 4-2
lead. Del Rey countered with a run in their
half of the fifth inning to make it 4-3. In the
sixth, Del Rey wasted a leadoff single and a
walk to set up a tense moment for the locals.
Declan McRoberts came on in relief and got
the next three hitters to preserve the win and
send El Segundo to the Southern California
State Tournament.
El Segundo joined Orcutt National Little
League, Temecula Little League, Park View
Little League (Chula Vista), Sherman Oaks
Little League, Claremont Little League, Scripps
Ranch Little League, Santa Margarita Little
League, Fontana Community Little League,
and East Hills Little League (Yorba Linda)
at the tournament hosted by Imperial Beach
Little League. It started last Saturday and will
run through Monday, August 2.
In the opening game, El Segundo faced
Sherman Oaks and used another late inning’s
rally to pull off a 5-4 win. Sherman Oaks
had been undefeated through their District
and Section tournaments, while El Segundo
has been on a winning streak since dropping
their opening round game in their District
tournament.
With two juggernauts facing off against
each other, Sherman Oaks jumped out to a
4-1 lead. In the fifth inning, Logan Meyer
and Max Baker reached base. With one out
Quinn Boehle hit a two-run triple to make it
4-3. Brody Brooks followed with a towering
230-foot home run that landed on the roof of
See Sports, page 11
‘Settlers’ Review: A Sci-Fi Adventure
That Questions the Colonizing of Space
Settlers, courtesy IFC Films
may be to come.
Settlers tells the story of mankind’s earliest
people on the Martian frontier. Reza (Jonny
Lee Miller), Ilsa (Sofia Boutella), and Remmy
(Brooklynn Prince) are a tight-knit family of
three living on a compound in Mars. It’s clear
that they love each other, showing concern
for each other’s safety at every moment, and
soon enough it’s clear why: when masked
intruders arrive brandishing weapons and
disrupting the family unit, their dynamic is
destroyed. The trespasser’s message becomes
clear soon enough: who is the real intruder
Cece Rios and the Desert
of Souls by Kaela Rivera
By Cathie Hinkle, Library Assistant,
El Segundo Public Library
In this page turner of a book, Cece had a
brush with the female witch Tzitzimitl (burga)
when she was a little girl that changed her way
of thinking about dark magic forever. Cece,
who her family and town believe is cursed,
thinks differently about magic, but this way
of thinking is not accepted by those around
her. After her sister, Juana, is kidnapped by
El Sombreron during a festival, we join Cece
on a life changing journey as she decides,
rather impulsively, to rescue her sister by
becoming a bruga herself.
On her journey to Devils Alley to become
a bruga, Cece encounters life and death situations
and becomes friends with criaturas
(Coyote, Little Fox and Kit Fox). The friendships
that are forged with these characters
are not only heartwarming, but they also test
Cece’s strength. We see her character truly
develop as she struggles with fear, guilt and
what family truly means. High stakes and
dark themes make this middle grade book
a must read that captures the imagination.
Highly recommend for readers who enjoyed
Aru Shah and the City of God, Amari and
the Night Brothers and Paola Santiago and
the River of Tears. If you are interested in
checking out Cece Rios and the Desert of
Souls please visit www.elsegundo.library.
org or stop by during library hours, 9am to
9pm, Monday through Thursday, and 10am
to 5pm, Friday and Saturday.
These titles also count for our Summer Reading
Challenge, going on now until August 7th.
For more information or to sign up, please
visit our website www.elsegundolibrary.org.
For more reading suggestions or help with
school reading assignments, please stop by
the adult or youth service desks, we’d love
to help you find your next great read! •
Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls by Kaela Rivera
Cathie Hinkle
See Film Review, page 8