April 23, 2015 Page 5 St. Mary’s Girls, Lawndale Boys Have Strong Showings in Meets By Joe Snyder Photos by Joe Snyder Most of the local prep track and field teams had a busy week as they competed in dual meets, then two big invitationals. Last Friday and Saturday featured a prestigious Mt. San Antonio College Relays in Walnut and Saturday was the South Bay Championships at West Torrance High. Most of the top athletes, however, were at Mt. SAC, which was fielding its last invitational at its 67-year-old Hilmer Lodge Stadium, which, after this season, will be closed for major renovations. That included the girls from St. Mary’s Academy in Inglewood where they had some very good showings. Leading the way was Aliyah Hale, who helped the Belles’ 4x200- meter relay win the prestigious invitational race at one minute and 39.19 seconds. Other runners included Kyra Anderson, Anaiah Brown, and Briana Shufford, who held off second place Arcadia (1:39.42). Hale also finished third in the 300-meter hurdles clocking 42.65 seconds. St. Mary’s 4x100 squad of Brown, Hale, Shufford and Keyshawna Myles was sixth in 47.45. Over at West High, Lawndale’s boys had a very good showing by finishing fourth, as a team, with 116 points. The Cardinals placed behind the champion and host Warriors with 191.5 points to 170.5 for second place Mira Costa and 121 for third place Redondo. Lawndale had one meet champion in Bryant Perkinson in the triple jump at 42 feet, three inches. The Cardinals also had second place finishes from Jalen Walker (high jump, 5-8), Bryant Perkinson (long jump, 20-9) and their 4x400 relay team of David Broaster, Hasani Barrett, Nathan Sanders and Kiyaam Cooksey timing 3:26.35. Lawndale’s 1,600 relay squad fell only .06 of a second behind winner Los Angeles Washington (3:26.29). Cooksey was third in the 300 intermediate hurdles in 40.81. He placed behind champion Justin Alexander (L.A. Crenshaw, 38.96) and runner-up Maurice Jones (Carson, 40.46). Walker also placed fourth in the long jump with a leap of 20-4 and basketball standout D’lano Beckles was fifth in the high jump at 5-8. Redondo’s Drew Decurtis (5-9) won that event. Matthew Alvarado placed fourth overall in the 800 at 2:01.75. Hawthorne also had a few athletes involved in the South Bay meet. Its best showing came in the non-scoring co-ed 800-meter sprint medley relay that took fourth in 1:44.56. Runners were Faith Placie, Jahleel Enriquez, Diamond Allen and Kishawn Berry. West Proves Too Much for Leuzinger Leuzinger High’s baseball team began the Pioneer League against a highly regarded West Torrance High squad last week and suffered a pair of lopsided losses. In a five-inning mercy rule game on April 15 at Leuzinger, the Warriors, who came into the league opener ranked second in the CIF-Southern Section Division IV, blanked the Olympians 17-0. Last Friday at West, the Warriors rolled over Leuzinger 13-1 in a game stopped in the bottom of the sixth due to the 10-run-plus mercy rule. In the second game, West, which improved to 18-5, started out by scoring five runs in the bottom of the first inning but the Olympians (2-12 overall, 0-2 in league) were able to hold them to just four more runs through the next four innings. Leuzinger had some opportunities to make Hawthorne High’s Kishawn Berry completes the anchor leg in the co-ed 800-meter sprint medley relay at Saturday’s South Bay Track and Field Championships. The Cougars finished fourth at the event in 1:44.56. it a respectful game leaving the bases loaded, twice, and in the top of the third where the Olympians had runners at first and third with no outs but were unable to push a run. “This game should have been a little closer,” Leuzinger head coach Robert Romero said. The Olympians scored their only run in the bottom of the first on a base hit from Angel Vital. Leuzinger scored one run in the bottom of the first and one in the top of the second inning on April 15. The Olympians play a Torrance team that won the CIF-Southern Section Division IV championship last season but is rebuilding with a miserable 3-16 record, including 0-2 in league with a pair of losses to rival South Torrance last week, this week. Leuzinger visited the Tartars Wednesday at Torrance Park’s Kendall Field and will host Torrance Friday at 3:15 p.m. The Olympians, then, will visit another top Pioneer contender, South, which lost to the Tartars in last year’s Division IV final at UC Riverside and is rated fourth in the division this year, next Wednesday at the same time. SaMo Sweeps Hawthorne Hawthorne High’s baseball team began the Ocean with two losses to Santa Monica last week. At Santa Monica on April 14, the Vikings downed the Cougars 6-2. At Hawthorne last Thursday, Santa Monica outlasted the Cougars 6-5. Hawthorne, which fell to 7-8-1 overall, hosted Beverly Hills last Tuesday and visit the Normans at La Cienega Park today at 3:15 p.m. The Cougars will host powerful El Segundo (ranked second in the CIF-Southern Section Division III) in Ocean play next Tuesday at the same time. • Keyshawna Myles of St. Mary’s Academy completes her anchor leg of the girls’ 4x100-meter relay at Saturday’s Mt. San Antonio College Relays. The Belles finished sixth in the event at 47.45 seconds. Leuzinger High’s Francisco Rubio gets a base hit in Friday’s Pioneer League baseball game against West Torrance. The Olympians fell to the Warriors 13-1. Leuzinger hosts Torrance Friday at 3:15 p.m.
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