June 18, 2015 Page 5 A’s Pull Away from Titans for Senior Baseball Crown By Joe Snyder Photo by Joe Snyder The Lennox Little League proved dominant in the Senior Little League (ages 15-16) as both teams involved in Saturday’s Carl Magee, Jr. District 37 Tournament of Champions was from that same league. In the end it was the Athletics that won the crown with a 10-4 win over their rival Titans at Jim Thorpe Park in Hawthorne. The A’s showed their depth in their title victory as manager Celso Castro, Jr. pointed out the total team effort in their victory. They had strong pitcher from starting and winning pitcher Michael Zambrano and reliever Victor Valdez in allowing four runs on six hits. The A’s surged out to a 5-1 second inning lead but the Titans, behind a solo home run by Luis Garcia and a run scoring double from Jesus Sanchez cut the A’s lead to 6-4 by the top of the fourth. That’s when the A’s added four runs to put the game away and Valdez hurled three innings of shutout ball. “It was a total team effort,” Castro said. “Everyone contributed.” The Titans attempted to get back into the game behind two solo homers and an RBI (run batted in) single for three RBIs. Other team members from the A’s included Adrian Orozco, Marco Cervantes, Salvador Mercado, Eduardo Flores, Manuel Bernardino, Julian Diaz, Isaac Munoz, Kealohi Noguchi, Johnny Pacheco, Victor Valdez, Devin Garza and Diego Alarcon. Wiseburn Captures 50-70 Championship The Wiseburn 50-70 (ages 11-13) team from Hawthorne won the Carl Magee District 37 Tournament of Champions crown by rolling over Lawndale 14-4 on June 7 at Jim Thorpe Park. In a tournament that featured just three Little Leagues, Wiseburn began with a 5-2 win over Lawndale on May 31. Lawndale opened the tournament with a 7-0 shutout of Tri Park. After falling to Wiseburn, Lawndale moved its way to the final with a 17-3 rout of Tri Park on June 1. Westchester Routs Holly Park The Holly Park Minor (ages 9-10) Little League Reds entered last Sunday’s first round of the Carl Magee, Jr. District 37 Tournament of Champions championship series with an unbeaten record but it came crashing down with a five-inning 13-3 mercy rule lost to the host Westchester Nationals at Carl Neilsen Youth Sports Complex. Holly Park entered the series with high hopes after a 9-6 victory over the Westchester Rockies on June 7 at the same place but had a rough time with the Nationals’ explosive offense. The Nationals balanced team had run-scoring doubles by Cooper Dolan, Kenny Ruiz and Anthony Temesbury for the onslaught. Pitchers Connor King (starter) and reliever Casey Richardson combined for a four-hitter and allowed just one earned run. For the Reds, they had two home runs from Joshua Johnson, one of those in their win over the Rockies, in their four games of the tournament. The Reds had fine pitching from Jamal Dean, who picked up the win against the Rockies and he was expected to start against the Nationals in last Tuesday’s deciding championship game. The Reds were unbeaten as the Nationals came out of the loser’s bracket with their loss to their rival Rockies. Molique Blue started and was the losing pitcher for the Reds in their loss to the Nationals. In the game, the Blues topped the Reds 6-3. Hines Steps Down at Hawthorne After 23 seasons as head coach for Hawthorne High’s baseball team, Jeff Hines decided to call it quits. Prior to last Friday’s 47th Annual South Bay All-Star Classic at El Segundo Recreation Park’s Stevenson Field, Hines, who co-coached the Red team with Mira Costa head mentor Cassidy Olson, announced that he would resign as the head coach for the Cougars due to wanting to spend more time with his family. Hines, however, will continue to teach at Hawthorne. Under Hines, Hawthorne made the CIFSouthern Section playoffs during most of the seasons but was eliminated in early rounds throughout most of the years. This year, the Cougars were mostly young and inexperienced at 9-14-1 overall and in last place in the highly competitive Ocean League at 1-8. Hawthorne, however, closed league with a 4-3 win at Centinela Valley High School District rival Lawndale on April 12. The Cardinals, five days earlier, came off a 1-0 upset win over league co-champion (with Santa Monica) El Segundo, behind junior pitcher Tyler Bonskey. That win knocked the Cardinals out of Southern Section Division III playoff contention. Hawthorne and Lawndale, which finished league at 2-7, had their season finale on April 14 at Hawthorne rained out and with the end of the season and neither team expected to make the playoffs, the game was canceled altogether. Hines, who graduated from Culver City High in 1980 and stood out as a pitcher on the Centaurs’ baseball team, began his stint with Hawthorne in 1992. His best seasons came in the 2001, 2002 and 2003 seasons when the Cougars, behind eventual Atlanta Braves draftee Larry Williams, had second place finishes in the Ocean League. In 2002 and 2003 seasons, Hawthorne reached the second round of the Southern Section Division I playoffs. • The Carl Magee, Jr. Senior Little League Baseball Tournament of Champions champion Lennox Athletics and runner-up Lennox Titans pose together after the A’s downed the Titans 10-4 for the title Saturday at Jim Thorpe Park in Hawthorne. others—including protoplanet Vesta, which Dawn visited for 14 months in 2011 and 2012. Craters abound on both bodies, but Ceres appears to have had more activity on its surface, with evidence of flows, landslides and collapsed structures. Additionally, new images from Dawn’s visible and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIR) show a portion of Ceres’ cratered northern hemisphere, taken on May 16, including a true-color view and a temperature image. The temperature image is derived from data in the infrared light range. This instrument is also important in determining the nature of the bright spots. Having arrived in its current orbit on June 3, Dawn will observe the dwarf planet from 2,700 miles above its surface until June 28. In orbits of about three days each, the spacecraft will conduct intensive observations of Ceres. It Looking Up Bright Spots Shine in Newest Dawn Ceres Images Based on press release from JPL, provided by Bob Eklund New images of dwarf planet Ceres, taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, show the cratered surface of this mysterious world in sharper detail than ever before. These are among the first snapshots from Dawn’s second mapping orbit, which is 2,700 miles above Ceres. The images, with a resolution of 1,400 feet per pixel, are available at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ news/news.php?release=2015-198 The region with the brightest spots is in a crater about 55 miles across. The spots consist of many individual bright points of differing sizes, with a central cluster. So far, scientists have found no obvious explanation for their observed locations or brightness levels. “The bright spots in this configuration make Ceres unique from anything we’ve seen before in the solar system,” said Chris Russell, principal investigator for the Dawn mission based at UCLA. “The science team is working to understand their source. Reflection from ice is the leading candidate in my mind, but the team continues to consider alternate possibilities, such as salt. With closer views from the new orbit and multiple view angles, we soon will be better able to determine the nature of this enigmatic phenomenon.” Numerous other features on Ceres intrigue scientists, as they contrast this world with will then move toward its next orbit of altitude 900 miles, arriving in early August. The Dawn mission has achieved several important “firsts” in space exploration. It is the only spacecraft ever to orbit two destinations beyond Earth and the only to orbit an object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The giant protoplanet Vesta was confirmed to be a fascinating world more closely related to the terrestrial planets (including Earth) than to typical asteroids. Dwarf planet Ceres, larger yet less dense, is believed to have a large amount of ice and may even have subsurface liquid water. Ceres was the first dwarf planet discovered and Dawn is now studying it in detail. Dawn’s mission is managed by JPL for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Dawn is a project of the directorate’s Discovery Program, managed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. UCLA is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. Orbital ATK Inc., in Dulles, Virginia, designed and built the spacecraft. The German Aerospace Center, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Italian Space Agency and Italian National Astrophysical Institute are international partners on the mission team. More information about Dawn is available at the following sites: http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov and http://www.nasa. gov/dawn • NASA’s Dawn spacecraft photographed these craters in the northern hemisphere of Ceres, at resolution 1,400 feet per pixel, as it orbited the dwarf planet at 2,700 miles’ altitude. Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA. Mike Zambrano of the Lennox Athletics throws to a Lennox Titan batter during Saturday’s Carl Magee, Jr. Memorial Little League Baseball Tournament of Champions final. The A’s rolled over the Titans 10-4.
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