Page 4 April 24, 2014 Lawndale Splits Games with North By Joe Snyder Under first-year head coach Jeff Prihode, Lawndale High’s baseball team has shown some progress and it paid off with an 11-inning 2-1 win over North Torrance in both teams’ Pioneer League opener on April 16 at Lawndale. The Cardinals (1-1 in league and 5-8 overall after falling at North 3-1 on Friday) started slowly as the Saxons scored in the top of the first, but Lawndale came back with a run in the bottom of the sixth to tie the game and won it in the bottom of the 11th when George Escobedo scored on a throwing error by North relief pitcher Ryan Vlach. “It was a team effort,” Prihode said. “These guys kept grinding. It was a great team win. The kids never gave up.” Behind some strong pitching by starters Jesse Garcia from Lawndale and the Saxons’ Jacob Peck, both teams were locked in a 1-1 tie. There were also several strong defensive plays, including an outstanding throw from Cardinal left-fielder Amando Novela that gunned down a North baserunner at second base. Finally in the bottom of the 11th with one out, Escobedo singled and went to second on a throwing error. He went to third on Garcia’s sacrifice fly before scoring on the North pitcher’s miscue. The Saxons scored on three consecutive singles from Daniel Cobos, Peck and Gota Tamasaki. North (8-9, 1-1) continued to lead 1-0 until the bottom of the sixth when Salvador Mercado scored an unearned run on an error. Both Lawndale runs were unearned. “We’re trying to piece it together,” North head coach Chris DeMaria said. “I give Lawndale credit. They deserved to win.” Garcia was relieved by Tyler Bonsky in the ninth. Bonsky shut down the Saxons, allowing just one hit over three innings. The Cardinals resume Pioneer action with very stiff tests. This week, Lawndale faces South Torrance, visiting the Spartans on Wednesday and hosting South Friday. Lawndale then is at El Segundo next Wednesday. All games begin at 3:15 p.m. REDONDO PROVES TOO MUCH FOR LEUZINGER Leuzinger High’s baseball team began its final season in the rugged Bay League with five-inning mercy rule losses to Redondo last week. At Redondo last Thursday, the Sea Hawks hammered the Olympians 21-1. At Leuzinger last Friday, the Olympians were again crushed by Redondo—this time by a score of 12-1. At Redondo, Steven Ortiz scored Leuzinger’s only run driven in on an RBI single by Johnny Sanchez. Duncan McKinnon, a junior transfer from Gardena Lawndale’s D’Lano Beckles (right) attempts to keep up with two other runners in the 400-meter run in last Saturday’s South Bay Track and Field Championships. Photo by Joe Snyder. Lawndale batter Eddie Zambrano prepares to attempt a bunt during last week’s Pioneer League baseball action. Photo by Joe Snyder. Serra, sparked the Sea Hawks by going three for three with one RBI and two runs scored. On Friday, Redondo, which is 12-8 overall and 2-0 in league, scored seven runs in the top of the first inning and never looked back. Sergio Hernandez drove in Angel Vital with a base hit for the only Olympian run. McKinnon was two for two with three RBIs and two runs scored for the Sea Hawks. Leuzinger (3-16, 0-2) hosted the Manhattan Beach school Mira Costa on Wednesday and will visit the Mustangs Friday at 3:15 p.m. The Olympians are at Palos Verdes for a 3:15 p.m. league contest next Wednesday. INGLEWOOD SWEEPS MORNINGSIDE Inglewood High’s baseball team began Ocean League play on the right note with two wins over cross-town rival Morningside two weeks ago. At Sentinel Field on April 8, Inglewood hammered the Monarchs 15-5. At Morningside on April 10, the Sentinels finished off the Monarchs 9-4. On April 8, Temo Ojeda sparked Inglewood by going four for four with three RBIs and four runs. Gerardo Huerta was two for two, drove in two runs and scored one. Ivan Medina went two for four with two RBIs. Winning pitcher Anthony Pozos pitched a complete game five-hitter with 11 strikeouts for the Sents. At Morningside, Pozos and Huerta each went two for three with one RBI and two runs. Winning pitcher Abel Monoz pitched six innings, allowing four runs (none earned), and three hits while striking out 10 batters. Reliever Omar Sandoval hurled one scoreless inning, allowing one hit. Inglewood hosts Santa Monica today and visits Culver City next Tuesday in 3:15 p.m. Ocean games. Morningside visits Beverly Hills today at 3:15 p.m. and hosts Santa Monica next Tuesday at the same time. CARDINAL TRACKSTERS HAVE SOME GOOD SPOTS Lawndale High’s boys’ track and field team competed in last Saturday’s South Bay Championships at West Torrance High. The Cardinals had a few bright spots, including finishing with their 4x400-meter relay team of Justin Edgurs, Kupam Cooksey, Damian Peters and Hasani Barrett taking third at three minutes and 30.31 seconds. Also doing well was Marco Estrella in the boys’ 800-meter run. He placed fourth, clocking 2:08.39. Currently, Lawndale is 1-2 in the Pioneer League, but Barrett feels it can do better. “We’re expecting more,” he said. “We’re hoping to dominate our league and move on from there.” • Looking Up NASA Cassini Images May Reveal Birth of New Saturn Moon By Bob Eklund NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has documented the formation of a small icy object within the rings of Saturn that may be a new moon, and may also provide clues to the formation of the planet’s known moons. Images taken with Cassini’s narrow angle camera on April 15, 2013 show disturbances at the very edge of Saturn’s A ring—the outermost of the planet’s large, bright rings. One of these disturbances is an arc about 20 percent brighter than its surroundings, 750 miles long and six miles wide. Scientists also found unusual protuberances in the usually smooth profile at the ring’s edge. Scientists believe the arc and protuberances are caused by the gravitational effects of a nearby object. Details of the observations were published online today by the journal Icarus [http://dx.doi. org/10.1016/j.icarus.2014.03.024]. The object is not expected to grow any larger, and may even be falling apart. But the process of its formation and outward movement aids in our understanding of how Saturn’s icy moons, including the cloudwrapped Titan and ocean-holding Enceladus, may have formed in more massive rings long ago. It also provides insight into how Earth and other planets in our solar system may have formed and migrated away from our star, the Sun. “We have not seen anything like this before,” said Carl Murray of Queen Mary University of London, the report’s lead author. “We may be looking at the act of birth, where this object is just leaving the rings and heading off to be a moon in its own right.” The object, informally named Peggy, is too small to see in images so far. Scientists estimate it is probably no more than about a half mile in diameter. Saturn’s icy moons range in size depending on their proximity to the planet—the farther from the planet, the larger. And many of Saturn’s moons are comprised primarily of ice, as are the particles that form Saturn’s rings. Based on these facts, and other indicators, researchers recently proposed that the icy moons formed from ring particles and then moved outward, away from the planet, merging with other moons on the way. “Witnessing the possible birth of a tiny moon is an exciting, unexpected event,” said Cassini Project Scientist Linda Spilker, of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. According to Spilker, Cassini’s orbit will move closer to the outer edge of the A ring in late 2016 and provide an opportunity to study Peggy in more detail and perhaps even image it. Write a Lunar Eclipse Poem and Win a Prize Were you excited to see the lunar eclipse on the night of April 14? Enough to write a poem about it? Why not try one and email it to the Astronomers Without Borders (AWB) AstroPoetry Contest? This international astronomy-outreach organization is presenting the contest as a feature of Global Astronomy Month, April 2014. The contest has separate divisions for children grades one to six, young adults grades seven to 12 and adults. For contest rules and the entry form, see: http://astronomerswithoutborders. org/gam2014-programs/ program-schedule-2014.html?id=1467 In addition to the contest, you can also send your poem to the AWB AstroPoetry Blog, where we post poems daily. Your blog poem can also include a picture, if you have one. See the blog at: http://astronomerswithoutborders. org/blog/astropoetry-blog.html Send your poem (and picture if you have one) for the blog to: astropoetry@astronomerswithoutborders. org Unhurt By Shadow How bright the full moon Coming out of her eclipse Unhurt by shadow. Poem from the book First Star I See Tonight: A Celebration of Wonder, copyright 2007 by Robert L. Eklund. Book available from Xlibris. com or Amazon.com. •
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