Page 4 July 28, 2016 Thunder Rolls over Heat in Lawndale Action Holden Douglas of the Thunder gets inside as he attempts a basket in last Saturday’s Lawndale Parks and Recreation age 13-14 basketball action against the Heat. The Thunder rolled over the Heat 53-21. reason why. They ended up having to turn around and return home. A few days later, it was due to lack of games in the District 37 and Section 4 Tournaments. Castro originally heard that the team had to play a minimum of six district and section games but that official later heard from the president of the Western Regional office that it had to play 12, disqualifying the team from the divisional. Lennox played eight District 37 and Section 4 contests combined, winning them all. “This was disheartening for the kids,” Castro said. “All of the tournament games we played, we won. We played eight games in 11 days. To have this happen at the end, it was sad for the kids.” Lennox was plagued by the lack of total teams in, not just District 37, but the entire Article and Photos by Joe Snyder The Thunder 13 and 14-year-old team is off to a big start. It improved its Lawndale Parks and Recreation Summer Basketball League play to 2-0 after rolling to a 53-21 victory over the Heat last Saturday at the Diane Bollinger Gymnasium on the campus of Rogers Middle School. The Thunder took command from the start. It led 12-2 after the first quarter and 31-14 at halftime. The Thunder continued to take control with leads of 43-18 after three periods. In the fourth quarter, the Thunder held the Heat to just three points while scoring 10 for the final 32-point win. Issac Berdesquez sparked the Thunder with a game-high 25 points. Holden Douglas added 13 points. The Heat, in fact, was held to just seven second half points. A week earlier, the Thunder recorded a 43-38 win over the Lakers. “We just got a good team this year,” Thunder coach Chris Mahgua said. “We’re hoping to win our second straight title. We won it last year.” In another 13 and 14-year-old game, the Clippers topped the Lakers 26-20. For the 11 and 12-year-olds, the Celtics doubled up on the Clippers, 22-11. The Lakers crushed the Cavaliers, 64-17. The Whites outlasted the Thunder, 30-27. In eight to 10-year-old division, the Thunder stifled the Celtics,18-6. The Heat defeated the Blues 18-6. Team Marshall rolled over Team Ky 17-1. Team Scott downed Team Morales 25-10. Lack of Tournament Games Costs Lennox On July 2, the California District 37 and Section 4 champion Lennox 50/70 (ages 11-13) Little League Baseball team was headed to Ventura for a 2 p.m. first round game in the California Division IV (Southern California Sub-division) game. The team left Lennox at around 8 a.m. About 15 minutes later as the team was on the 405 freeway, near the 10 in Culver City, manager Celso Castro, Jr. received a call from a tournament official that the squad was disqualified but did not say any Section 4 that includes 25 (Los Angeles Westside area), 27 (Torrance, L.A. Harbor area) and 36 (South Bay beach cities, El Segundo and Palos Verdes Peninsula). Outside of Lennox, Hawthorne Wiseburn, Del Aire Aviation and Compton also had the 50/70 Little League in District 37, which was added to Little League Baseball in 2012. The 50/70 is also termed at the Intermediate Division, with the Minors being age 9-10, 10-11 Division, Majors (ages 10-12), Juniors (ages 13-14), Seniors (ages 15-16) and Big League (ages 16-18). Lennox won its fifth consecutive district crown over Wiseburn on June 22 at Jim Thorpe Park in Hawthorne. Lennox, then, recorded wins over Manhattan Beach, Culver City and Riviera from South Torrance to capture its fifth straight section crown. It was seeking to win its third straight sub-division (North Southern California) crown before the stunning news happened when the team was already on the road headed for Ventura, the site of the tournament. “We had all of that happening then we get disqualified,” Castro said. Lennox enjoyed a lot of success in the 50/70 division, including winning both District 37 and Section 4 titles in all five years of existence. The previous two years, however, were the best. In 2014, Lennox went on to win the Western Regional title, but fell in the World Series. Last year, Lennox won the Southern California championship. It made it to the Western Regional in Nogales, Arizona but lost to Tucson, Arizona in the finals. According to Castro, Lennox returns most of its players on that all-star team. All he hopes is that Lennox can play enough district and section games to qualify for the division and, go even further than that. Needed, however, are more district and section Little League Baseball teams so that Lennox can play the minimum games or, possibly, more. Castro, however, is expected to move up to the Junior division as a manager. • Issac Berdesquez is in the clear as he scores in last Saturday’s Lawndale Parks and Recreation basketball game against the Heat. 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