Page 4 November 27, 2014 With Football Teams Out, Local Basketball Teams Start By Joe Snyder All of the local football teams ended their season with Lawndale being the last one out when it lost to Palos Verdes High 35-28 in the first round of the CIF-Southern Section Western Division playoffs on November 14 at Mira Costa High. All of the other local prep football squads failed to make the playoffs. Inglewood placed third, behind champion Palos Verdes and runner-up Redondo, in the Bay League but with six leagues and 16 berths, along with the Sentinels finishing with a 4-6 overall record, it did not make the playoffs. Morningside was last in the Bay after after a 4-1 non-league record; Leuzinger took fifth in the Pioneer League but had its best season in seven years at 4-6 overall after winning its league finale at home over Compton Centennial 39-20 on November 7, and Hawthorne (3-7 overall, 1-4 in the Ocean League) was fifth in Ocean play. With football behind, it’s basketball time. On the boys’ side, Inglewood and Lawndale are currently playing in the prestigious Redondo Pacific Shores Tournament where they opened against each other last Monday. The Cardinals are optimistic about not only winning the Ocean League, but have a shot at their first ever CIF-Southern Section crown. Lawndale will be led by a pair of six-feet-10 players in Brodricks Jones and Chimezie Metu. Another key returning starter for the Cardinals, who won Pioneer League crowns the past two seasons but are in the Ocean this year, is six-foot-two guard D’lano Beckles. All are seniors. The Cardinals play in two other highly regarded classics in the St. Hope Elite Tournament in Sacramento (December 19-23) and Under Armour Classic at Torrrey Pines in Del Mar (San Diego area). Lawndale starts Ocean play at home against Culver City on January 14. The Sentinels, who finished second behind champion Beverly Hills in Ocean play last season and are in the Bay this year, have four returning starters led by Terrell Gomez and Darae Elliot. Last season, Inglewood advanced to the CIF-Southern Section Division IAA semifinals where they lost a 48-47 heartbreaker at eventual champion Long Beach Poly. Look for the Sents to be in a close battle with Redondo for this year’s Bay League title. Inglewood will also play in the Nike Invitational at Clovis West High from December 17-20. The Sentinels begin Bay in what could already be a showdown at Redondo, which is expected to be ranked one of the top teams in California, on January 13. Morningside opens its season on Friday at home against Verbum Dei from southeast Los Angeles Friday at 7 p.m. Although young, the Monarchs should also contend in the Bay this year. Hawthorne begins its season on Monday at 4:30 p.m. in the First Annual West Coast Shores Classic against Marina High from Huntington Beach at West Torrance High. The Cougars struggled in recent years and have just one returning starter in six-foot senior guard Marquell Gray. Head coach David Gray will be looking at six-foot-two junior forward Ksaun Curry and six-foot-six Chigbo Anikwem to contribute for Hawthorne. The Cougars continue to remain in the Ocean, which should feature very good competition between always strong Santa Monica, Centinela Valley School District rival Lawndale and Beverly Hills appearing to be top contenders. Hawthorne also plays in tournaments at Lakewood Artesia (December 8-13) and Westminster (December 15-20). The Cougars begin league at Santa Monica on January 14. Leuzinger moves from the Bay to the Pioneer and begins its season next Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. against Agoura Hills Oak Park in the Rose City Roundball Classic at Maranatha High in Arcadia. That tournament runs through December 6. On the following week, the Olympians, who were fifth in the Bay last year after several successful earlier seasons, will play in the Beverly Hills Tournament where they begin with a tough one against Santa Monica on December 8. Leuzinger also plays in a prestigious Max Preps Holiday Classic in Palm Springs from December 26-30. The Olympians open Pioneer at South Torrance on January 9. Top returning players for Leuzinger include Erick Campos, Darrian Williams and Davonte Carr. Head coach Ali Parvaz feels that the Olympians should contend in the Pioneer as North Torrance appears to be the team to beat. Girls Begin Season Girls’ basketball season also began this week. Leuzinger started the Culver City Tournament last Monday against Venice. The Culver Classic runs through Saturday. Hawthorne and Lawndale begin their first tournaments on Friday. The Cougars will take on South Torrance Friday at 9 a.m. at Downey and the Cardinals will face Norwalk in the South El Monte Tournament. Inglewood starts on December 8 at 4 p.m. at St. Anthony in Long Beach and Morningside opens with a non-league game at Lawndale on December 12 at 6 p.m. • billion miles from home—but its rest is nearly over,” says Alice Bowman, New Horizons mission operations manager at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md. “It’s time for New Horizons to wake up, get to work, and start making history.” Since launching in January 2006, New Horizons has spent 1,873 days in hibernation— about two-thirds of its flight time—spread over 18 separate hibernation periods from mid- 2007 to late 2014 that ranged from 36 days Looking Up New Horizons Set to Wake Up for Pluto Encounter Based on press releases from ESA and NASA, provided by Bob Eklund With the Philae lander’s mission complete, Rosetta will now continue its own extraordinary exploration, orbiting Comet 67P/Churymov– Gerasimenko during the coming year as the enigmatic body arcs ever closer to our Sun. Last week, ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft delivered its Philae lander to the surface of the comet for a dramatic touchdown. The lander’s planned mission ended after about 64 hours when its batteries ran out, but not before it delivered a full set of results that are now being analyzed by scientists across Europe. Rosetta’s own mission is far from over and the spacecraft remains in excellent condition, with all of its systems and instruments performing as expected. “With lander delivery complete, Rosetta will resume routine science observations and we will transition to the ‘comet escort phase’,” says Flight Director Andrea Accomazzo. “This science-gathering phase will take us into next year as we go with the comet towards the Sun, passing perihelion, or closest approach, on 13 August, at 186 million kilometres from our star.” Wakeup Call for New Horizons NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will come out of hibernation for the last time on Dec. 6. Between now and then, while the Pluto-bound probe enjoys three more weeks of electronic slumber, work on Earth is well under way to prepare the spacecraft for a six-month encounter with the dwarf planet that begins in January. “New Horizons is healthy and cruising quietly through deep space—nearly three to 202 days long. In hibernation mode much of the spacecraft is unpowered; the onboard flight computer monitors system health and broadcasts a weekly beacon-status tone back to Earth. On average, operators woke New Horizons just over twice each year to check out critical systems, calibrate instruments, gather science data, rehearse Pluto-encounter activities and perform course corrections when necessary. New Horizons pioneered routine cruiseflight hibernation for NASA. Not only has hibernation reduced wear and tear on the spacecraft’s electronics, it lowered operations costs and freed up NASA Deep Space Network tracking and communication resources for other missions. Tops on the mission’s science list are characterizing the global geology and topography of Pluto and its large moon Charon, mapping their surface compositions and temperatures, examining Pluto’s atmospheric composition and structure, studying Pluto’s smaller moons and searching for new moons and rings. New Horizons’ seven-instrument science payload includes advanced imaging infrared and ultraviolet spectrometers, a compact multicolor camera, a high-resolution telescopic camera, two powerful particle spectrometers, a space-dust detector (designed and built by students at the University of Colorado) and two radio-science experiments. The entire spacecraft, drawing electricity from a single radioisotope thermoelectric generator, operates on less power than a pair of 100-watt light bulbs. Distant observations of the Pluto system begin Jan. 15 and will continue until late July 2015; closest approach to Pluto is July 14. • An artist’s concept of the New Horizons spacecraft as it approaches Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, to examine Pluto’s atmosphere in detail. The spacecraft’s most prominent design feature is a nearly 7-foot (2.1-meter) dish antenna, through which it will communicate with Earth from as far as 4.7 billion miles (7.5 billion kilometers) away. Credit: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/ Southwest Research Institute (JHUAPL/SwRI) “Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.” - oprah winfrey
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