Page 4 July 26, 2012 Joe’s Sports Adam Pro Sports Holly Park Gets Eliminated Clippers or Lakers? By Joe Snyder a good game.” By Adam Serrao with the Phoenix Suns to capitalize on The Holly Park Junior Little League All- Tri Park started out well with leads of It seems kind of silly to be continuously what might have been the biggest deal of Star baseball team found the next level, the 2-0 and 4-2 entering the bottom of the fifth talking about basketball even though we’re the summer thus far. The Lakers also added California Section 4 Tournament, a little bit inning before Santa Monica, the District 25 in the midst of what is turning out to be a free agent forward Antawn Jamison to the too much as it was eliminated by host North champion, tied the game and then scored great baseball season for the West Coast of mix to bolster their bench and rounded out Venice 11-6 on July 16. North Venice, which three more in the bottom of the sixth. Tri the United States. Both the Dodgers and the their starting five by deciding not to use the was the visiting team in the game, started Park had a very balanced offense, according Angels are looking like they will at very least amnesty clause on Metta World Peace. As this out fast by scoring four runs in the top of to Covos, but he credited his son Daniel and get one of the two wild card spots available article is currently being written, there is no the first inning. catcher Hector Garcia for strong defensive for this year’s playoffs if they don’t both end new news with Dwight Howard. The Lakers Holly Park, however, bounced back with plays. Pitcher Andrew Cabrera went four up making runs at first place spots. So why have been leading the charge to acquire the two runs to cut North Venice’s lead to 4-2. innings, allowing two runs. “I give credit does the center of attention seem to stay on big man from Orlando, but as everyone now The bottom of the first started on a double to Santa Monica,” Covos said. “They did a basketball even though the season is over and knows, the process has become entirely too by Juan Oviedo. Aubrey Robinson followed very good job.” the Miami Heat have already been crowned complicated to even talk about anymore. So with a base hit to score Oviedo. Issac Galen District 36 champion Manhattan Beach, champions? Well, besides the fact that the from this point forward, let’s make believe then singled, bringing home Robinson. which made it to the World Series two baseball season is an excruciating 162 games Dwight stays in Orlando at least to start off North Venice, though, went on to score in years ago and the Western Regional finals long and it is only just about halfway done, the season. every inning, including two more in the top last season, won the tournament over Santa the moves being made in basketball right So with all of the moves made, which of the second, for a 6-2 lead. North Venice Monica on July 17. now will shape the entirety of next season. team will be better this season? Well, with ended up scoring in every inning. Summer Youth Sports Clinics In other years, that still may not be enough the addition of Steve Nash, the combination Holly Park got close with three runs in The Hawthorne Parks and Recreation De- to take baseball off of the front pages dur- of Nash and Bryant will give the Lakers a the bottom of the third, but North Venice partment Summer Youth Sports Clinics are ing summertime, but the difference this year superior backcourt over Chris Paul and Jamal kept pulling away. Down 9-5 entering the still going on, as they last through August 31. has been that both L.A. teams have been the Crawford. Crawford can score points, but he bottom of the fifth, Isaiah Flowers blasted a Going on this week is Goal Time: Competitive center of attention in the offseason. Both the shoots a poor average and is certainly no Kobe solo home run but North Venice would add Soccer Drills for those eight to 10 years old, Lakers and the Clippers have made moves to Bryant. With Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum, single runs in the top of the sixth and sev- but next week (next Monday through August bolster their respective rosters, with maybe the Lakers have more skill and athleticism enth. “North Venice played a very consistent 3) will be Offense: Intermediate Basketball even more moves to come before play gets in their front court than the Clippers’ duo game,” Holly Park manager Kevin Dawson Training for youth from six to 15 years old. back underway. Up to this point, though, of Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan. Sure, said. “They hit the ball very well. We made From August 6-10 will be One-on-One: which team has had the more impressive Griffin is explosive and a human highlight too many mental errors.” More Fundamentals of Indoor Soccer for those offseason? reel, but he has virtually no outside shot. The North Venice was the District 25 champion from ages 11 to 13. More soccer for 13 to The Lakers have been the center of attention one area where the Clippers may outdo the and went on to lose to District 36 champion 15-year-olds will happen from August 20-24. in Los Angeles for so long that it becomes Lakers is in bench depth. Even there, however, Manhattan Beach in the finals a day later. It will be a Soccer Workout: Conditioning easy to forget just how well the Clippers the Lakers have improved over last year by Tri Park Ralls and Training. The final class for eight- to did last year. Not only did the team make adding Antawn Jamison. Jamison’s career The Tri Park Senior Little League All-Star 15-year-olds is called One-on-One: Become the playoffs for the first time since the 2006 averages of 19.5 points and 7.9 rebounds baseball team failed to make the Section 4 a Complete Basketball Player. season, but they also finished only one game per game will do much to improve a toxic championship series after falling to Santa Sign-ups are still available. For further back of the Lakers in the Pacific Division bench of a year ago. Monica 7-4 on July 16 at Marine Park in information, call at (310) 349-1640 or (310) standings. Seems Chris Paul really can make The Lakers won’t be the better team just Manhattan Beach. “It was a tough loss,” Tri 349-1655. • a difference to a ball club. Maybe that’s why because they have the better players. The Park manager Armando Covos said. “It was David Stern did all that he could to keep him team is constructed in a way that it has not from going to the Lakers in order to even out been in previous years and that alone will the amount of “power teams” in the NBA. benefit them down the stretch and into the Sports Shorts with Blake Griffin, Chauncey Billups and general and in the process lessen the loadplayoffs. Nash will become the new floorEither way, it worked and Paul teamed up company to make a run at the playoffs. for Kobe offensively, giving the Lakers a Babe Ruth 14U Boys Baseball Takes Southern injured early in the season and took away the season. Chris Paul is a good opposite tofresher Kobe late into games and late intoThe Clippers’ problem was that Billups got California State Championship a scoring starter and bench depth from the Nash, but the Clippers don’t have an elite team. So in the offseason the Clippers have shooting guard like Kobe and they don’t have made some moves to bolster not only their an inside presence like the Lakers. Maybe if starting rotation, but also their bench. Odom returns to his Sixth Man of the Year First on the list of things to do for the form, the Clippers will be able to challenge Clippers was to re-sign Billups--a good the Lakers for supremacy. Grant Hill has move, as he acts not only as a good veteran traditionally been an excellent defender, but at presence in the locker room, but also as a age 39 he just doesn’t have the knees to keep clutch scorer and a pseudo-coach on the up with a player of Kobe’s caliber anymore. floor. In addition to Billups, the Clippers Nash’s ability to space the floor will turn also picked up 39-year-old veteran Grant the Lakers into a team that fans throughout Hill, Lamar Odom and Jamal Crawford to Los Angeles have not seen before. His skill round out their efforts to revamp a bench set perfectly complements the Lakers roster that was probably the reason that they were and adds offensive potency to a defensively ousted from the playoffs in the second round. capable team--in turn widening the talent gap From the outside, it looks like the moves that between the two clubs. This year, the Clip- the Clippers made may not only get them pers will be good. They may even compile further in the playoffs next season, but may a better record than they did last year. But The Westchester Babe Ruth 14 years and under baseball team took the Southern California State Baseball championship also put them a step ahead of the Lakers in the Lakers will be better. Look for a West- after defeating La Crescenta 7-5. The team is made up of members from Inglewood, Hawthorne and Lawndale (as well as overall talent. ern Conference Finals matchup between the Culver City, Santa Monica, and Beverly Hills area. The team will now travel to Surprise, Arizona on July 31 to compete for Enter Steve Nash. The Lakers acquired Oklahoma City Thunder and Steve Nash’s the United States Pacific Southwest Regional title. The Westchester Babe Ruth Team includes Avery Allen, Christian Amador, Jordan Caines, Reggie Castro, Anthony Chavez, Grant Craddolph, Angel de la Torre, Lawrence “LJ” Gilliam, AJ Inatsugu, their new point guard in a sign and trade Los Angeles Lakers. • Carlos Jacobo, Matthew Kanfer, Matthew Kaplan, Ethan Lazar, Mario Morales, and Jason Zeidman. The team is managed by John Lopatto, and coached by Barry Craddolph and Alex Galaviz. Photo by Lawrence Gilliam. “The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning “All I’ve done is run fast. but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering I don’t see why people should make much fuss about that.” but fighting well.” - Fanny Blankers-Koen (Dutch sprinter who won four gold medals at - Pierre de Coubertin (primarily responsible for the revival of the the 1948 Summer Olympics) Olympic Games in 1894)
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