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an RBI single to cut the lead to 4-2. Cooper
Sutherland drilled a two-run pinch-hit double
to right-centerfield that tied the game. Later
in the inning, Romero was hit by a pitch to
force in a run. A balk brought home the fifth
run of the inning and a 6-4 lead.
Burner came in to silence the Chiefs over
the final two innings and the Eagles advanced
to the second round on Tuesday to face topseeded
Arcadia. The winner would advance
to Friday’s quarterfinal game at a site TBD.
Ian Bonham avoids getting hit by a pitch. He ended up walking and scoring the tying run in the sixth inning against Santa Fe. Ethan Burner’s RBI single in the sixth helped ignite a big five-run
Cooper Sutherland belts a sixth inning two-run double to tie the game against Santa Fe in the first round of the CIF playoffs
Softball: Eagles Hold
on for 8-5 Win
The Eagles faced a young Segerstrom
Jaguar team in the first round of the CIF-SS
Division 4 playoffs. The upstart Jaguars, who
have just two seniors on the roster, gave El
Segundo all it could handle but the Eagles
held them off with an 8-5 win.
Trailing 1-0 in the first inning, the Eagles
scored five runs highlighted by back-to-back
triples from Kaili Reitano and Laila Phillips.
The Jaguars responded in the second inning
by scoring two runs -- one on an RBI single
by Aidee Mendoza and the other due to a
bases-loaded catcher’s interference call. In
the fourth inning, the Jaguars crept closer
on an RBI double by Alexandra Molina to
make it 5-4.
El Segundo came up with a run in the
fourth inning when Kaila Little tripled to lead
off the inning and scored on a long fly ball
by Katie Croxall. In the fifth inning, Sophia
Marrero reached on an error and Reitano
singled. Both had courtesy runners inserted
and Leah Abitante and Kelly Carignan each
wound up scoring to give the Eagles an
8-4 lead. Segerstrom would score once in
the seventh inning to make it close, but the
Eagles held on for the 8-5 win.
El Segundo 23-6 and ranked fifth, played
host to Dos Pueblos (Goleta) 19-6 on Tuesday.
The winner would play in the quarterfinals
today at a site TBA.
Boys Volleyball Season
Ends in Second Round
For the eighth consecutive season, the
Eagles advanced to the CIF-SS playoffs. The
Eagles, who have two CIF championships to
their credit, defeated Bishop Montgomery
25-13, 22-25, 25-22, 25-15 in the opening
round of the CIF Southern Section Division
2 playoffs.
The Eagles overwhelmed the Knights
with their passing and finishing off points.
inning that led to the Eagles’ 6-4 triumph.
The play of Robby Pedersen, Mike Lynch
and Nakoa Parrish up front dominated the
front line. Kainalu Kekekia and Ethan Frank
blasted away at the net while Casey Lund
helped lead the team in digs.
The relatively easy win rewarded the Eagles
with a match with Beckman (Irvine), the 24th
ranked squad in the nation and the secondseeded
team. It was the classic David versus
Goliath matchup. The Eagles did what they
could, but fell in three games 10-25, 18-25
20-25. The Patriots haven’t lost a game in
eight straight matches and have a string of
25 games going.
The Patriots are a big, physical team that
pounds the ball at the net. Though Pedersen
and Parrish held their own, the Patriots had
just too much for El Segundo. Still the
Eagles took on Goliath with a sense of
pride and extended long rallies with digs
by Lund and Logan Sharp. In game three,
Pedersen and had three blocks for points while
Parrish had two more. It rattled the Patriots,
who gathered themselves and finished off
the Eagles.
Allison and Schodorf Lead
Eagles in CIF Swim Finals
El Segundo’s long history of competing
in the CIF swim finals continued. Nicholas
Allison won the 100-yard backstroke and
placed ninth in the 100 butterfly. William
Schodorf finished second in the 500-yard
freestyle and fourth in the 200-yard freestyle.
Danny Gonzales swam the 200-yard
intermediate. Slate Davis finished fourth in
the 100-yard freestyle while Hirota Inoki
finished sixth. The boys team of Inoki, Allison,
Schodorf and Davis finished second in the
200-yard freestyle relay and third in the 400-
yard relay. The boys team finished fourth
overall out of 32 teams -- a mere two points
less than third place Walnut High School.
Dylan Chen placed fourth in the girls 50
freestyle and seventh in the 100 freestyle,
Bailey Davis scores the Eagles’ first run on a wild pitch in El Segundo’s
dramatic 6-4 win over Santa Fe in the first round of the CIF playoffs.
while Gabriela Crother-Collado finished
seventh in the 500-yard freestyle. The team
of Chen, Crother-Collado, Avery Torres
and Victoria Rodriguez placed first in the
consolation race of the 200-yard freestyle
relay. Chen, Crother-Collado, Christina
Mullane and Christina Grenke competed in
the 400-yard freestyle.
Names in the News
Future volleyball stars Kate Summers and
Sydney Neely placed second in the AAU
Southern Pacific Regional Championships in
the Beach Volleyball 10u division in Hermosa
Beach on Sunday April 29. Despite being
the youngest pair in the grouping, Kate (8)
and Sydney (9) played tough and battled
to get to the championship round to take
home the silver medals. “We had so much
fun playing together and I am so excited we
got second place and I hope to play in the
championship game in the next tournament,”
said Kate Summers.
Move over Keith Erickson (UCLA 1964
and 1965 NCAA National Champions)
and Steve Obradovich (USC 1977 NCAA
National Champions). You can add another
El Segundo athlete to play in the NCAA
Men’s Volleyball Championships. Joe Kelly,
a former standout for the Eagles, is playing
for Princeton University (18-12) where he
helped lead the Tigers to the Final Eight.
The Tigers fell to Pepperdine in five games
23-25, 25-19, 16-25, 25-22, 8-25. •
Former El Segundo High standout Joe Kelly helped Princeton University get to the Final Eight of the NCAA Men’s Volleyball Championships. Kate Summers and Sydney Neely placed second in the AAU Southern Pacific Regional Championships in Beach Volleyball 10u division.