Page 6 January 21, 2016 TORRANCE TRIBUNE Up and Adam North, West Leading Way in Girls Basketball By Adam Serrao No, North and West are not the names of another Kim Kardashian and Kanye West offspring. They are, however, the names of two of the most talented girls basketball teams in all of the area. In a ranking done of the Torrance areas top 10 girls basketball teams, the Warriors and Saxons placed second and fifth, respectively. North High doesn’t care about the rankings, though. That much showed in last Friday night’s meeting between the two teams. The contest was close throughout, as it should be when two powerhouses and interdivision rivals go head to head. Ultimately, though, it was the Saxons who overcame a horrific second quarter and pulled off the 46-43 victory on the road at West High. In front of a huge crowd of hundreds of people packed into the West High gymnasium, both North and West High came out firing to start the first quarter. Kalei Atkinson scored the first points of the game for West to get her team off to a strong start and wound up leading the way on the night with a team high 10 points. After one quarter of play, the Warriors led by one point but more importantly, managed to keep North’s star player, Brittany McPherson in check. It was McPherson who managed to score the only point of the second quarter for the Saxons as West High’s defense was on display in full force. While North was stuck on 15 points for what seemed to be an eternity, the Warriors were racking up the baskets. By halftime, the score was 27-15 in favor of West and it looked like they were on the verge of running away with things. That was until North head coach Lauren Kamiyama took her team into the locker room at the half and made some adjustments. Adjustments that got her team right back into the game. Not only did the Saxons defense finally show up, holding West to just five third quarter points, but McPherson also got going as North went on a 7-0 run to open the second half of play. By the end of the third quarter, the Saxons had stormed all the way back from a 12 deficit to trail by only three going into the final minutes. That’s when McPherson got aggressive and put the team on her back. The Junior guard took 15 free throws in the fourth quarter alone and finished with a game high 17 points. The Saxons outscored West 17-11 in the final quarter of play to come all the way back and take a miraculous and heart pounding 46-43 win. North (7-9, 2-0) remains undefeated in league play this season, having already beaten two rivals in South and West High. The Saxons have played some tough competition already this season and Kamiyama has the team clicking on all cylinders right when it matters the most. The Warriors (13-5, 2-1), on the other hand, suffered their first league loss of the year to North. Losing doesn’t come often for head coach William Atkinson and his group of girls, so expect the Warriors to get hot down the stretch and come out champing at the bit when they get a rematch with North High in their first game of February. South High The Lady South High Spartans are right behind North and West in the race for the Pioneer League championship this season. Bobby Imamura has his girls off to a remarkable 15-3 record to begin the year, but a league play loss to the Saxons has put the team in a tough position heading into the stretch run. Since the teams 66-51 loss at the hands of North, the Spartans have been playing great basketball. A 44-39 win over St. Paul got the team back on the right track and two straight league victories over the Torrance Tartars and the Centennial Apaches pushed South’s win streak to three in a row. The Spartans may need a little luck to notch an unlikely Pioneer League title over two powerhouses like North and West, but their pristine record should certainly be good enough to get Imamura’s team into the playoffs where we all know that anything can happen. Torrance High This year’s Torrance Tartars have been having a slightly rough go of things since league play and rivalry play started this season. A team that racked up a few nice wins in their nonleague schedule has seemingly fallen flat against division opponents recently. A 70-35 loss at the hands of West High followed by a 41-38 defeat at South High and a 59-43 loss to league opponent Leuzinger has the Lady Tartars in the cellar of the Pioneer League standings looking up. Head coach Rick Momohara is only starting to make his mark on the team, so despite their record this season, look for the Tartars to learn from their recent trials and rebound nicely in the years to come. • Going Back to Cali By Adam Serrao If you had to start all over from scratch and pick an NFL team to root for, which would it be? For the first time in two decades, that decision will be made just a bit easier. The St. Louis Rams will move back to Los Angeles for the 2016 season, ending a 20 year drought of football in one of the biggest markets in America. Naturally, this doesn’t mean that you have to become a Rams fan, but for the first time in a long time, the opportunity is there to get in your car, drive down the freeway, and tailgate outside of what will be one of the most immaculate NFL stadiums in the league come its completion in what is scheduled for 2019. After more than 30 months of deliberation, teasing, and over-thinking things, the league’s owners voted 30-2 to send the Rams back to California. Ultimately, it was Stank Kroenke and his plan for a $1.86 billion stadium in Inglewood that paved the way. “It’s been a long road, but we made it,” the billionaire Kroenke said at his and the new teams press conference at the Great Western Forum last Friday afternoon. “We’re happy to be here. It’s quite a privilege. We’re looking forward to moving ahead on this. Coming in here and being received like this is wonderful.” The press conference turned into a boisterous rally near the site of the team’s future home in Inglewood, where Kroenke was serenaded by chants of, “We love Stan.” Meanwhile, in St. Louis, they were burning jerseys and taking down banners at the ‘old’ Edward Jones Dome. Kroenke is only looking forward now, though. The 300-acre development that he smartly bought years ago at the former site of Hollywood Park will not only fatten Kroenke’s pockets even more so, but will also give football fans in Los Angeles a one of a kind experience not available to most other fans across the nation. “We’re going to bring Super Bowls here,” Kroenke told the media at his press conference turned rally. “We’re going to bring events like the Final Four. The Final Four hasn’t been here in decades. They’ve already talked to us.” Naturally, the location will be featured as a football stadium, but may just surpass the Staples Center as the premier venue in Southern California. Buy your land in Inglewood now while you still can. Kroenke’s new stadium will seat 70,000 people with the ability to expand and sit 80,000. While the stadium is being built, the Rams will play in the L.A. Coliseum. The mayor of Inglewood, James Butts, has said that he has already written a letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell requesting the presently unnamed stadium in Inglewood be home to Super Bowl LV in February 2021. So, will the Rams be the only team coming to Los Angeles anytime in the near future? That fact is still unknown, but the San Diego Chargers have the option to move to Los Angeles and share the stadium with the Rams. Chargers owner Dean Spanos certainly doesn’t like the idea of sharing and wants to put his own stamp on the L.A. area. Unfortunately for him, he didn’t have the money or the smarts of Kroenke to plan ahead. Now, if he brings the Chargers to L.A., it will be as almost a little brother to Kroenke and the Rams. The Chargers have until March of this year to decide on a move if they want to join the Rams for the 2016 season and until next January, at the latest, to make a decision to come to L.A. at all. Should they decline and stay in San Diego, the NFL will give the organization $100 million to build a new stadium. While the idea of a Carson stadium is dead and there will certainly not be three teams in L.A., the Raiders also still have a shot at moving to Inglewood. If the Chargers choose to stay in San Diego and the city gives them a new stadium, the Raiders will then have the option of joining Kroenke and the Rams in Inglewood. It seems to be the wish of Raiders owner Mark Davis to stay in Oakland, building a new stadium there (also with $100 million from the NFL), but the city of Oakland doesn’t seem to be keen on the idea of shelling out the money that it would take to do so. Rams head coach and ex USC player, Jeff Fisher, seemed to have mixed feelings about the move. “We’re leaving a great fan base,” he said. “We’re leaving some people who are very, very disappointed. I personally want to thank those people, the St. Louis Rams fans, who got to watch them win a Super Bowl.” It’s always hard saying goodbye, but what can be better than moving to bright, sunny Southern California? A location that will inherit a team that is seemingly on the rise. With one of the best defenses in the league, the Rams also feature star running back Todd Gurley and speedster Tavon Austin on offense. If they go out and get a quarterback, Los Angeles could be looking into buying playoff tickets at the Coliseum in the team’s first year of inception. It’s hard to believe, but as this NFL season quickly comes to its completion, the anticipation for next season has already begun. In less than one year, fans from around all of Los Angeles will have the ability to root for and see a hometown team in person for the first time in 20 years. Distant memories of the old Rams and Raiders teams that played here in the past are either dim in your mind or completely non-existent to begin with. Kroenke and his new Los Angeles Rams are moving out to Los Angeles to enliven those memories and give us all the opportunity to root for a hometown football team once again. • Film Review from page 4 his monologuing is met with raised eyebrows and wry confusions, setting up the level of competency of all involved. The pact is legitimized by – you guessed it – a blood oath (though they compromise in not spilling any actual blood, in this secret meeting at Tommy Barnes’ poker table in his “man cave”). The faces and talents enlisted here are truly where the comedy shines. It has the taste of 21 Jump Street comic-firing and timing of everyline a-joke (and mostly bulls eye’s at that), uses some familiar faces and some not-so, in playing a winning hand. Kyle Gallner as Huck is a Jeremy Renner meets Rick Grimes a la The Walking Dead, where Adam Nee as Tom is as much as stand-out in a role that he knows so well. The geek-beloved Matthew Gray Gubler as Joe Harper, along with Hannibal Burress as Ben Rogers add a deep bench to the effort, with Burress (and “Greg…Knife”) nailing every one of his scenes. Melissa Benoist and Eric Christian Olsen also star as little-used Becky Thatcher, Tom’s new partner on the day of the planned heist and Sid Sawyer, beloved detective who plays it maybe a bit too straight. Written and directed by brother filmmaking team Aaron and Adam Nee, Robbers went through many years of development (including an idea of it being a TV show) before finally having its world premiere at the LA Film Festival in 2015. One wonders what following that version of Huck, Tom, and company may have been like, and what many adventures they may have spun in and out of in sit-com fashion. But its final format of a ninety-five-minute feature film feels like the best use of its talent, sparing any over-indulgence in what could have flopped as a gimmick and succeeds as a send-up that breathes fresh life into an American classic. Band of Robbers is now playing at the Laemmle Playhouse 7 and On Demand. • PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION GREETINGS: TO: Justin T. Travis You are hereby notified that a cause of action is being brought against you in the District Court of Lea County, Cause No. D-506-DM-2015-00488 in which Kimberly A. Duran, is the Petitioner, and you are the Respondent. Unless you enter an appearance in this cause of action within thirty (30) days from the last date of publication of this Notice of Pendency of Action, the Plaintiff Petitioner may request the Court to issue a default judgment against you. Petitioner/Plaintiff’s address is: 25 N. 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