EL SEGUNDO HERALD August 6, 2015 Page 5 Winter Teams Made the Post Season Playoffs By Gregg McMullin It was a real successful season for the El Segundo high school basketball, soccer and girls’ water polo teams. Athletic Director Steve Shevlin said he couldn’t have been prouder of each of the Sophomore Gio Miglietti was a huge contributor for the Eagles’ Amanda Gamboa, on the attack, was a key player for the Eagles. historic run. Photos by Gregg McMullin. teams that reached the CIF Southern Section play- offs in their respective divisions. Moving to the Ocean League proved to be a challenge, with only the boys’ soccer team bringing home a league title. Boys’ Soccer The boys’ soccer team made school history by not only winning the school’s first Ocean League title but won a school record 18 games and advanced to CIF Southern Section quarterfinals for the first time in school history as well. Head coach Andrew Kelly’s Eagles had one of the South Bay’s stingiest defenses. The Eagles finished 18-3-3 and in those games they gave up 24 goals including five in their 5-2 loss to Segerstrom in the playoffs. Zach Keller showed why he was one of the best in The Dodgers Are Dealing By Adam Serrao If you’re a Los Angeles sports fan, then you’d probably say that this year’s Major League Baseball trade deadline went by much like this year’s National Basketball Association trade deadline: without much movement. As we all remember, the Lakers struck out on free-agents all summer long once again. At first glance, it would appear that the Dodgers did the same. Big name players like Cole Hamels, Johnny Cueto and David Price all found their homes with teams not dressed in the Dodger Blue. The Dodgers, meanwhile, remained relatively quiet. While the big name players came off the board, however, and many Dodger fans became disappointed, the front office put a trade into the works that just might get the Dodgers over the hump and into the World Series this year after all. Los Angeles only made one trade at this year’s deadline, but it was a big one. All of the talk surrounding the Dodgers camp was that they were in desperate need of arms for their bullpen and certainly arms for their injury-decimated starting rotation. Well, the Dodgers didn’t go out and get an arm. They went out and got four of them. A three-team, 13-player deal constructed by the Dodgers front office added four above-average pitchers to a staff in desperate need of reinforcements. With Hyun-Jin Ryu and Brandon McCarthy already lost for the season due to arm injuries, the Dodgers made a blockbuster deal that brought in Mat Latos and Alex Wood for the starting rotation and Luis Avilan and Jim Johnson for the bullpen. In addition, L.A. also received Jose Peraza, who should be a nice prospect, possibly replacing Jimmy Rollins at shortstop next season. The reason why the trade works so well for the Dodgers is because they gave up basically nothing to bolster two extremely important parts of their team (and their farm-system). Gone in the trade are oft-injured reliever Paco Rodriguez (who’s currently on the 60-day disabled list) and Cuban prospect Hector Olivera. While the Dodgers spent $34 million just to sign Olivera to an eventual $62.5 million contract, he is 30 years old and has yet to play in a Major League game; and with Justin Turner, Jimmy Rollins and Howie Kendrick all taking up spots, the injury-plagued infielder really had no position to play this year on the Dodgers big-league club. Now, of course, with the Dodgers having to eat a big portion of the Olivera contract while also taking on four new salaries, money is always a factor. As we’ve learned over the past few years with this Dodgers front-office, though, money is never a factor. Andrew Friedman must be having a great time at his new job with the Dodgers. While he does the wheeling-and-dealing and sets up remarkable 13-player trades like the one he just did, the owners of the team throw stacks of cash in his direction while basically saying, “Yeah, go out and spend it all.” Alex Wood is just the kind of young pitcher that the Dodgers need. At 24 years old, Wood has a lifetime 3.10 ERA and isn’t eligible to become a free agent until 2020. He’ll be a controllable asset for a long time for the Dodgers. Latos, on the other hand, will become one of the best fifth starters in the entire league with the Dodgers. He’s only 27 years old and while he has had some injury history, he’s been great since returning from the DL. A 2.96 ERA will prove that. See Dodgers, page 14 See Winter Teams, page 14
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