Page 4 March 24, 2016 Lawndale Dominates Leuzinger Lawndale batter Jimmy Gregory swings at a pitch in last Thursday’s non-league cross town baseball rivalry against Leuzinger. Gregory also pitched the Cardinals to a 16-0 shutout of the Olympians. The Cardinals visit North Torrance in non-league play today at 3:15 p.m defending CIF-Southern Section Division III champion Redondo (also the top ranked squad in the division with an 8-0 record this year), Manhattan Beach Mira Costa and Rolling Hills Estates Peninsula. The Cardinals visit North Torrance today at 3:15 p.m. Lawndale, then, is at home against Morningside of Inglewood next Tuesday at the same time. Leuzinger hosted rival Hawthorne last Monday. The contest is a make-up from the March 1 rainout. Hawthorne Sweeps Dominguez Hawthorne High’s baseball team improved its Article and photos by Joe Snyder A sweep over cross town rival Leuzinger last week is a potential confident builder for Lawndale High’s baseball team. At Lawndale on March 15, the Cardinals had little trouble in a 19-1 rout of the struggling Olympians. At Leuzinger last Thursday, Lawndale continued its dominance by shutting out the Olympians 16-0. At Leuzinger, the Cardinals started quickly with seven first inning runs. From there, Lawndale never looked back. The Cardinals, who improved to 3-3, were led by senior third baseman Michael Zembrano. Zembrano had three hits in four at-bat. He drove in three runs and scored twice. Jacob Dempsey was threefor four with two runs batted in. Senior Tyler Bonskey, a returning all-Ocean League player, had two hits and drove in two runs. Winning pitcher Jim Gregory went the distance with a two-hitter. “We feel very confident,” Zembrano said after Lawndale’s easy victory. “We have a lot of weapons.” Two days earlier, Lawndale was led by Dempsey, who had four hits and drove in six runs. “We’re still struggling,” Leuzinger head coach George Pech said. “We have young players coming up. This time we have more players. I feel that in a couple of years, we should pick up.” The Cardinals have a pair of stiff non-league tests this week. Last Tuesday, Lawndale hosted Bay League power Palos Verdes. The Sea Kings figure to be in thick of the Bay race with unbeaten record to 4-0 after sweeping Dominguez High from Compton last week. At Hawthorne on March 15, the Cougars pulled away for a 16-5 win. At Dominguez, the Cougars downed the Dons 11-6. In the first game between the two squads, Hawthorne led 6-5 entering the bottom of the fifth inning. That’s when the Cougars scored five runs, then added five more in the bottom of the sixth for the final score. Junior Kealoha Noguchi, senior Andy Monarrez and sophomore Danny Villlareal each drove in three runs. Noguchi went three-for-five and scored three runs. Monarrez was two-for-four and scored twice. Villareal collected two hits in four atbats and scored three runs. Junior Peter Girgis went two-for-three with two runs and one run batted in. Junior pitcher Charles Phelps pitched five innings, allowing two earned runs on two hits. He struck out six batters and walked one. Last Thursday, Hawthorne also had a balanced offensive attack. Phelps was three-for-four with two runs. Brandon Brown and Andres Cordova each had a hit, drove home two runs and scored once. Cordova had a double. Noguchi and Monarrez each had run scoring hits. The winning pitcher was Bernardo Robles. He pitched five innings, allowing three runs (none earned). He struck out six and walked two. The Cougars trailed 3-2 through three innings before taking the lead for good with four runs in the top of the fourth. Hawthorne added two more runs in the fifth and three in the seventh. Hawthorne had two non-league games against Morningside this week. After hosting the Monarchs last Tuesday, Hawthorne visits Morningside today at 3:15 p.m. Morningside Splits with Centennial Morningside High’s baseball team is 2-2 after splitting a doubleheader at Centennial High on March 12 in Compton. After being routed by the Apaches 13-2 in the first game, the Monarchs came back with a 5-3 win in the night cap. Morningside hosts Hawthorne today at 3:15 p.m. The Monarchs have two games against Lawndale next week. Morningside visits the Cardinals next Tuesday and hosts Lawndale next Thursday. Both of these contests also begin at 3:15 p.m. Animo Humiliates Aviators The Animo Leadership High baseball team improved to 3-4 by rolling over host Hawthorne Math and Science Academy 26-4 in Mulholland League play last Thursday at Holly Park in Hawthorne. Already leading 15-4 through four innings, the Aztec-Eagles exploded for 11 sixth inning runs. Animo was led by senior Adam Miranda who went four-for-six with eight runs batted in and three runs scored. Junior Steven Franco was three-for-three with five RBI’s and five runs. Senior Cesar Rocha collected three hits in five at-bats, driving in three runs and scorinig four. Senior Ernesto Lucas was three-for-four with four runs and three RBI’s. Winning pitcher Erik Lopez pitched six innings, allowing one earned run on three hits. He struck out one batter and walked four. • Leuzinger pitcher Cesar Bernal prepares to throw in last Thursday’s baseball game against Lawndale. Inglewood High’s Chancellor Hunter goes up for a basket above Chino Hills’ Elizijah Scott in last week’s CIF-Southern Section Open Division boys’ basketball action. The Huskies proved too much for the Sentinels 112-78. Science Mission Directorate in Washington. “The quest to understand the interior of Mars has been a longstanding goal of planetary scientists for decades. We’re excited to be back on the path for a launch, now in 2018.” NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, will redesign, build and conduct qualifications of the new vacuum enclosure for the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS), the component that failed in December. CNES will lead Looking Up NASA Targets May 2018 Launch of Mars InSight Mission By Bob Eklund NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission to study the deep interior of Mars is targeting a new launch window that begins May 5, 2018, with a Mars landing scheduled for Nov. 26, 2018. InSight’s primary goal is to help us understand how rocky planets—including Earth—formed and evolved. The spacecraft had been on track to launch this month until a vacuum leak in its prime science instrument prompted NASA in December to suspend preparations for launch. InSight project managers recently briefed officials at NASA and France’s space agency, Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES), on a path forward; the proposed plan to redesign the science instrument was accepted in support of a 2018 launch. “The science goals of InSight are compelling, and the NASA and CNES plans to overcome the technical challenges are sound,” said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA’s instrument level integration and test activities, allowing the InSight Project to take advantage of each organization’s proven strengths. The two agencies have worked closely together to establish a project schedule that accommodates these plans, and scheduled interim reviews over the next six months to assess technical progress and continued feasibility. The cost of the two-year delay is being assessed. An estimate is expected in August, once arrangements with the launch vehicle provider have been made. The seismometer instrument’s main sensors need to operate within a vacuum chamber to provide the exquisite sensitivity needed for measuring ground movements as small as half the radius of a hydrogen atom. The rework of the seismometer’s vacuum container will result in a finished, thoroughly tested instrument in 2017 that will maintain a high degree of vacuum around the sensors through rigors of launch, landing, deployment and a two-year prime mission on the surface of Mars. “The shared and renewed commitment to this mission continues our collaboration to find clues in the heart of Mars about the early evolution of our solar system,” said Marc Pircher, director of CNES’s Toulouse Space Centre. The mission’s international science team includes researchers from Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. •
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