Page 4 December 18, 2014 Hawthorne Falls to Mira Costa; Routs Middle College By Joe Snyder Photos by Joe Snyder After losing a hard-fought 1-0 home nonleague match to Mira Costa last Thursday, Hawthorne High’s boys’ soccer team bounced back to roll over CIF-Los Angeles City Section school Middle College 7-0 on Friday at Hawthorne. Against Middle College, whose mascot like Hawthorne is the Cougars, Hawthorne led 2-0 at halftime then blew the game open with five second-half goals. Hawthorne, which is 3-2-1, had three goals from Luis Espinoza. Edgar Navarro, Jonavany Jiminez, Luis Coronado and Brandon Donis each added one goal. Efren Herrera had two assists and Manuel Flores contributed one assist. A day earlier, Hawthorne took on a Mustang team that was led by premiere junior goalkeeper Justin Fairchild. The Cougars had their chances on him but he made several big saves and kept Mira Costa (4-0-1) unbeaten with a 1-0 victory. Both teams were scoreless and Hawthorne goalkeeper Fernando Portillo did everything he could to keep it that way until the 60th minute when junior midfielder Ricky Angioilini booted the ball into the net from about 10 meters out off an assist by senior midfielder Max Stainmetz. That goal was all that the Mustangs needed as Fairchild and his defense did the rest. “We had our opportunities against Costa,” Hawthorne head coach Yuri Najarro said. “We knew about their goalkeeper. He is an outstanding player.” Fairchild recorded six saves, some of those where he had very quick responses to keep the ball from entering the net. Last season, the Cougars tied with Santa Monica for the Ocean League championship, each with 7-2-1 league records, and Najarro expects Hawthorne to be more challenged. “The league is tough,” Najarro said. “Santa Monica, Culver City, Beverly Hills, El Segundo and Lawndale are all very good. That’s why we’re scheduling very good teams like Mira Costa.” Last Saturday, the Cougars hosted crosstown rival Leuzinger but results were unavailable. Hawthorne visited a usually very tough Long Beach Millikan team last Tuesday and begins the highly regarded South Torrance Christmas Classic against Channel Islands from Oxnard today at 3 p.m. The 32-team tournament runs through next Monday and, a day later, Hawthorne moves on to face another usually outstanding program from Sierra Vista High from Baldwin Hills next Tuesday at 12:30 p.m., then, on the same day, face Monrovia at 6:30 p.m. in the Don Lugo Tournament in Chino Hills. That classic runs through December 27. The Cougars will host small schools power Animo Leadership High from Inglewood on January 9 before beginning Ocean play with a bang with a road game at always powerful Santa Monica on January 14. Animo Tops Leuzinger, Redondo The Animo Leadership boys’ soccer team picked up two road victories at Lawndale Leuzinger and Redondo last week. At Leuzinger on December 9, the Aztec-Eagles outlasted the Olympians 3-2. At Redondo on Thursday, Animo shut out the Sea Hawks 1-0. Against Leuzinger, Andy Gonzalez scored two goals and Nathan Yipez added one. Jose Ortiz and Juan Aragon each scored for Leuzinger, which is 1-1-1. Against Redondo (0-3-1), Yipez scored in the 65th minute. Goalkeeper Omar Dargon made five saves in shutting out the Sea Hawks. Animo improved to 3-1. Cougars Win Two at Artesia Hawthorne High’s boys’ basketball team split their four games in last week’s Artesia Tournament in Lakewood. The Cougars began the classic with a 76-68 win over Corona on December 9. After losing the next game to Claremont last Thursday, Hawthorne topped San Pedro 64-53 last Friday. Against the Pirates, the Cougars (3-5) were led by Michael Blackwell with 17 points. Leading San Pedro was Danny Guerrero with a game-high 20 points. Marquell Gray scored a personal high 43 points in Hawthorne’s win over Corona. Gray chipped in 36 of those points in the second half. Corona led by 10 points at halftime, but the Cougars, head coached by David Gray, switched to a press defense that forced numerous turnovers. Gray also played a big part of Hawthorne’s defense with five steals. In Gray’s outstanding performance, he converted on 15 of 18 field goals, including making five of six from the three-point line. He made eight of nine free throw attempts. The Cougars lost the fifth place final to Costa Mesa 66-59 on Saturday. Gray led Hawthorne with 26 points in that contest. Costa Mesa started fast on the Cougars with a 21-10 first quarter lead and extended it to Hawthorne High’s Edgar Navarro controls the ball in last Thursday’s non-league boys’ soccer match against Mira Costa. The Mustangs shut out the Cougars 1-0. 18 (52-34) after three periods. Hawthorne rallied with 25 points to 14 for Costa Mesa in the fourth quarter but the big deficit was too much to dig out of. The Cougars are currently playing in the Westminster Tournament where they began on Monday against Corona del Mar, a team that was a victim of legendary head Santa Ana Mater Dei coach Gary McKnight’s 1,000th coaching win at 67-44 last Friday at Corona del Mar in Newport Beach. McKnight is in his 33rd season with the storied Monarch program that already has 15 California state championships on his record. He has just 87 total losses. Last season, Mater Dei, led by now University of Arizona freshman Stanley Johnson, won the state Division I crown and was the top ranked squad in the United States. • Hawthorne’s Manuel Flores takes control of the ball as he is being pressured by Mira Costa’s Chris Vazquez in last Thursday’s nonleague boys’ soccer match. 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