Page 4 May 15, 2014 Onuohah and Hawthorne Tracksters Improve i n Ocean Final By Joe Snyder The once proud Hawthorne High track and field program is still struggling but is slowly progressing after a few fine showings in last Thursday’s Ocean League Championships at Culver City High School. The Cougars’ top highlight was accomplished by senior Precious Onuohah, who captured the 400-meter run at 59.96 seconds and was clocked in 26.51 in the 200. Onuohah qualified for Saturday’s CIF-Southern Section Division III Prelims which start at 8 a.mEstancia High in Mission Viejo. “It was a lot of pressure,” Onuohah said. “I wanted to run for my school. I am looking for a 57 at CIF.” Onuohah will look to bring down her time enough to qualify for the Southern Section Divisional Championships at Cerritos College on May 24. Also advancing to the Division III Prelims on the boys’ side was senior Jason Santana in the 800 meters after a third place finish in 2:01.7. Santana, who was the top cross country runner on Hawthorne’s first squad in five years and a key player on the Cougars’ Ocean League Championship boys’ soccer team, also competed in the 3,200 but failed to finish. Inglewood’s boys were led by Martin Brown Gaines, who won the 300-meter intermediate hurdles with a time of 42.07 and placed second in the 110 high hurdles in 17.4 Tajh Henderson placed third in the 100-meter dash, clocking 11.31, and the 200 (23.23). Eddie Reyes was fourth in the 100 at 23:29. Both, however, keyed the Sentinels to the league title in the 4x100 relay, clocking 44.71. Brown Gaines, Henderson (100 and 200) and Inglewood’s relay all advance to the Southern Section Division III Prelims on Saturday. Morningside failed to qualify any athlete to the Prelims. The Monarchs’ top performances were by Diamond Alexander in the girls’ high jump as she tied for fifth place with Beverly Hills’ Kenya James with a leap of four feet, two inches; and Clarence Jackson, who was sixth at the 800 clocking 2:20.96. COOKSEY KEYS LAWNDALE Kiyaam Cooksey of Lawndale captured the 400-meter run in 52.85 seconds and anchored the Cardinals’ 4x400 relay team to victory, timing 3:31.53. Cooksey and the relay squad both advanced to Saturday’s CIF-Southern Section Division III Prelims at Estancia High. If any place in the top nine overall, they will vie in the Divisional Championship Meet at Cerritos College on May 24. COUGARS SWEEP INGLEWOOD Hawthorne High’s baseball team moved into a strong position at making the CIF-Southern Section Division III playoffs after sweeping Inglewood last week. At Hawthorne on May 6, the Cougars downed the Sentinels 8-3. At Sentinel Field last Thursday, the Cougars blanked Inglewood 4-0. Last Thursday, Andrew Banuelos pitched a no-hitter and threw to just one batter above the minimum of 21. Javier Martine had two doubles and drove in one run for Hawthorne, which improved to 13- 8-1 overall and 4-4 in the Ocean League. It was the Cougars’ fourth consecutive league victory after opening the league with four straight losses to top teams Santa Monica and Culver City. Hawthorne will seek to finish in third place with two games against Morningside from Inglewood this week. The Cougars visited the Monarchs last Tuesday and will host Morningside today at 3:15 p.m. in their Ocean Finale. ANIMO ROUTS FIREBAUGH The Animo Leadership High baseball team picked up a key 12-1 victory at Firebaugh High on May 6 in Lynwood. Already leading 4-0 through four innings, the Aztec-Eagles turned the game into a rout with seven runs in the top of the fifth. Winning pitcher Fabian Vital pitched a complete game with 12 strikeouts. At bat, Vital went three-for-four with four runs and two runs batted in. Daniel Comenero was three-for-five with three RBIs and two runs, and Alex Munoz went two-for-three, drove in two runs, and scored two. The Aztec-Eagles, who improved to 7-1 in league, closed the Harbor League against Environmental Charter at Jane Addams Field in Lawndale on Wednesday. Animo is expected to begin the CIF-Southern Section Division VII playoffs next week. LEUZINGER GETS SWEPT BY FIRST PLACE PENINSULA Although continuing to lose every Bay League game lopsidedly, Leuzinger High’s baseball team is showing good effort, including against first place Peninsula last week. On May 7 at Peninsula in Rolling Hills Estates, the Olympians were crushed 19-0, but at Leuzinger last Friday, the Olympians showed signs of improvement in an 8-1 loss. Sergio Hernandez went two-for-three and drove in a run and Johnny Sanchez was two-for-three with a run. Edgar Gutierrez went the distance, despite the loss. Leuzinger closes the season at West Torrance today at 3:15p.m. HAWTHORNE FALLS TO SAMO Hawthorne High’s softball team was still unable to top first place Santa Monica in an 11-7 Ocean League loss last Thursday at Memorial Park in Santa Monica. On May 6 at Hawthorne, the second place Cougars (15-9, 6-2) routed Morningside 15-0. • Hawthorne’s Jason Santana runs in the 3,200-meter run at last Thursday’s Ocean League Track and Field Championships. Santana placed third in the 800 in 2:01.7 to qualify for Saturday’s CIF-Southern Section Division III Prelims. Photo by Joe Snyder Hawthorne’s Precious Onuohah won the girls’ 400-meter run at 59.96 seconds and finished third in the 200 clocking 26.51 at last Thursday’s Ocean League Track and Field Championships. Onuohah qualified for Saturday’s CIF-Southern Section Division III Prelims in both events at Estancia High in Mission Viejo. Photo by Joe Snyder Inglewood High’s Tajh Henderson and Eddie Reyes finished third and fourth, in order, in the 200-meter dash at last Thursday’s Ocean League Track and Field Championships. Photo by Joe Snyder. Looking Up By Bob Eklund Beautiful streamlined islands and narrow gorges were carved by fast-flowing water pounding through a small plateau region near the southeastern margin of the vast Vallis Marineris canyon system. Images captured on 7 December 2013 by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express show the central portion of Osuga Valles, which has a total length of 164 km. It is some 170 km south of Eos Chaos, which lies in the far eastern section of Valles Marineris. Osuga Valles is an outflow channel that emanates from a region of chaotic terrain at the edge of Eos Chaos to the west. Such landscape is dominated by randomly oriented and heavily eroded blocks of terrain. Another example is seen at the bottom of this scene, filling the 2.5 km-deep depression into which Osuga Valles empties. Catastrophic flooding is thought to have created the heavily eroded Osuga Valles and the features within it. Streamlines around the islands in the valley indicate that the direction of flow was towards the northeast (photo, at bottom) and sets of parallel, narrow grooves on the floor of the channel suggest that the water was fast-flowing. Differences in elevation within the feature, along with the presence and cross-cutting relationships of channels carved onto the islands, suggest that Osuga Valles experienced several episodes of flooding. The perspective view, which is oriented with the direction of the water flow towards the top of the image, shows the details of the grooved valley floor and the channels carved into the islands more clearly. Close to the northern-most (photo, far right) part of the channel, two large irregular-shaped blocks appear to have broken away from the surrounding terrain, but do not seem to have experienced as much erosion as the rounded islands. The floodwater eventually emptied into the deep depression of chaotic terrain at the bottom of the main images, but it is not yet known whether the water drained away into the subsurface or formed a temporary lake. ASTROPOETRY CONTEST EXTENDED UNTIL MAY 31 The deadline for submitting entries to the Astronomers Without Borders (AWB) annual astropoetry contest has been extended to May 31. AWB is an international organization dedicated to increasing awareness of the universe among all peoples. See their website at: www.astronomerswithoutborders.org View from space showing Osuga Valles, an outflow channel thought to be eroded by catastrophic flooding on Mars. Poems submitted to the contest can be in any form, but they should relate in some way to stars, planets, sun, moon, space exploration, or the night sky. Poems should be submitted on the special entry form provided. For the 2014 contest details and a link to the submission form, see: http:// astronomerswithoutborders.org/gam2014- programs/astroarts/1467-astropoetry-contestfor gam2014.html Here’s the first-place winning poem from the 2013 contest, Young Adult Division: I Look Up at the Sky By Ziqi Lu, Xinxiang city, Henan Province, China I look up at the sky Starlight, slowly pour like the firefly Together we feel the night feel the starlight The sun shines bright The moon light, warm and soft But the many many starlight They are lovely and I like • Beauty from Chaos on Mars
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