EL SEGUNDO HERALD December 26, 2019 Page 11
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meeting, Samo won the match in five games.
This time the two teams battled to five games
again, but El Segundo came away losing 23-
25, 25-23, 16-25, 25-17, 11-15 and entered
the CIF playoffs as the second-place team.
After dispatching Bishop Montgomery
in the first round of the CIF-SS Division 2
playoffs, the Eagles fell to Beckman in the
second round. The loss ended their season
with an impressive 15-10 overall record.
Softball
The Lady Eagles had one of the program’s
most successful seasons. They won the Ocean
League, won 25 games, had an 18-game win
streak (which is the longest in the program’s
history) and reached the CIF Southern Section
championship game for the third time in
12 years and the sixth time El Segundo had
advanced to a softball CIF final. Unfortunately,
the Eagles 41-year drought between their last
CIF championships continued when they fell
to second-seeded Godinez in the finale.
Baseball
The Eagles were invited to the big dance,
the CIF Southern Section Division 2 playoffs,
after winning the Ocean League. After
The El Segundo high school’s soccer team won their second consecutive CIF and Southern California Regional Championship. The El Segundo high school’s girl’s basketball team won their first league championship.
The Eagles won the Ocean League and defeated the top ranked team in their division in the second round of the CIF playoffs. The Lady Eagles won 25 games, won the Ocean League and played for a CIF title.
Sophia Caravello helped her team to the CIF-SS Division 4 playoffs. The fourth seeded Eagles finished in a tie for the top spot in the
Ocean League.
Some of El Segundo’s student athletes signed their Letters of Intent to further their education and play a sport.
dispensing of self-entitled Santa Fe in the
first round, they faced a way too confident
top-seeded Arcadia team in the second round.
They upended the Apaches 3-2 in 11 innings
to advance to the third round against Santa
Margarita, where the dance ended and with
it the season. El Segundo traveled to Santa
Margarita to face quite possibly their toughest
opponent this past season. You could call this
season’s version of the Eagles a Cinderella
story. The clock struck midnight on the Eagles
and their glass slipper shattered when Santa
Margarita dealt the Eagles a 4-0 loss.
Not many thought they would win the program’s
37th league title or even 15 games on
the season. But nobody told the 18 members
of the team or their five coaches. The Eagles
wound up winning the Ocean League and
for good measure ended the season with a
21-9 record. It marked the fortieth time in
the last 59 years that the Eagles have won
20 or more games in the same season.
We’ll look back at the rest of 2019 next
week. So from all of us at the El Segundo
Herald, have a Merry Christmas and Happy
Holidays to all of you. •
“The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.
We can help write that story by setting goals.”
– Melody Beattie