Category Archives: Beverly Hills High
Softball: Santa Monica in Div 4 playoff main draw; Culver City and Beverly Hills in wild card game
Ocean League champion Santa Monica earned a berth in the main draw of the Southern Section Division 4 playoffs while Culver City and Beverly Hills will play in the wild card game.
Schedule is below:
Southern Section Division 4 Softball Playoff
Wild card games, Tuesday, May 14th at 3:15 p.m.
A – Coachella Valley at Los Amigos
B – Palm Springs at Hesperia
C – Ventura at San Marcos
D – Beverly Hills at Ocean View
E – Serrano at Jurupa Valley
F – West Valley at Indio
G – Westminster La Quinta at Whittier Christian
H – Westminster at Cerritos Valley Christian
I – Apple Valley at Temescal Canyon
J – Gabrielino at Culver City
First round, Thursday, 3:15 p.m.
Winner wild-card A at #1 Segerstrom
Winner wild-card B at Santa Monica
Winner wild-card C at South El Monte
La Sierra at Paloma Valley
Winner wild-card D at Rancho Alamitos
La Quinta at Beaumont
Winner wild-card E at Maranatha
Monrovia at #4 Dos Pueblos
Hawthorne at #3 Loara
Arroyo at Patriot
Winner wild-card F at Oak Hills
Winner wild-card G at Heritage
Winner wild-card H at Hemet
Winner wild-card I at Palm Desert
Garden Grove at Temple City
Winner wild-card J at #2 Buena
-Ed Gonzalez
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Boys Volleyball: Today’s first round playoff schedule
Below is today’s first round boys volleyball playoff schedule involving westside teams. All games are at 7 p.m. unless otherwise indicated.
LA CITY SECTION
Division 1:
Grant at Palisades
Division 2:
Kennedy at University
Arleta at Venice
SOUTHERN SECTION
New CIF Southern Section spring poll released
The latest CIF Southern Section poll is out with little change in the rankings.
Sant Monica schools continue to make their mark in the boys’ volleyball Division 3 poll with Crossroads holding the five spot and Santa Monica at number seven. Brentwood sits just outside the Division 3 rankings and St. Bernard missed being in the Division 5 poll.
In baseball, Malibu remains in the number two position in Division 6 after sweeping Santa Clara and Windward breaks into the rankings at tenth.
Beverly Hills is the only westside team to be ranked in boys’ tennis at number three in the Division 2 poll.
Baseball: Culver City needs extra innings to sweep Beverly Hills
Culver City won in thrilling fashion Thursday afternoon after rallying back in extra innings to defeat Beverly Hills 7-4, sweeping their opening series of Ocean League play.
A walk sent Timothy Stewart to first base, where he visited briefly, after a Max Akita bunt advanced him to second. Stewart stole third, then eventually made his way home after a bad throw by the Normans catcher that sailed over the head of their third baseman that made the game 5-4.
Akita advanced to second base on the error, then scored when Juan Alcala singled to right field. Alcala came home after a double by Michael Netzel making the score 7-4 and capping their rally in the 10th inning.
The Centaurs started the game with a run by Jay Sterner produced from a Stewart double to left field. Daniel Hennessy joined the action in the fifth inning with a double to center field bring home Darion Sylvester and Netzel.
Nate Matthews
Girls Basketball: Beverly Hills blowout loss knocks them out of the playoffs
Jessica Melamed gets blocked by Miranda Martinez of El Dorado at home Sat. Feb. 16, 2013. The Normans would go on to lose 68-25. Photo by Paul Alvarez Jr.
This was not the performance Beverly Hills wanted coming off a 68-40 victory against Santa Maria in the first round of the CIF playoffs.
The Normans were outplayed in every aspect by El Dorado in rout to a 68-25 hammering on Saturday night.
“I’m not happy the way we played today,” head coach John Braddell said.
His unhappiness showed when Beverly Hills turned the ball over on back to back possessions to walk into halftime with a 44-19 deficit.
“We had too many turnovers in the first half,” Braddell said “That killed us.”
It didn’t get better for the Normans, who only mustered four points for the entire third quarter, which came off of free throws.
The struggles continued after a sequence of turnover, missed lay-up, turnover, and missed lay-up ensued after the Normans scored the first basket of the fourth quarter.
Chants of HAWKS echoed through swim gym despite this being a home game for the Normans, it felt as if El Dorado was right at home.
Jazz Anderson had 10 points for the Normans, but played limited minutes in the second half. Brooke Salas had 24 points and 6 steals for El Dorado.
Girls Basketball Playoff Roundup: Windward breaks the triple-digit mark in victory
It was no surprise that Windward had little trouble in their opening round game against Costa Mesa, but the Wildcats crossed the triple-digit mark in a 100-21 to begin the Division 4AA playoffs.
Jordin Canada nearly had a triple-double with 26 points, nine steals and eight assists. Courtney Jaco also scored 26 along with eight rebounds and Kristen Simon had 17 points and 11 rebounds as top seeded Windward was never challenged in the game.
St. Monica’s second-half defense gets them past St. Matthias
St. Monica shut out St. Matthias for the first 11 minutes of the second half in a 52-18 blowout victory in the Division 4A opening round.
Boys Basketball: Wednesday’s Southern Section first round playoff results
Below are the results of the CIF-SS Boys’ Basketball tournament featuring westside schools.
Division 3AAA
Beverly Hills 62, Santa Barbara 48
Division 4AA
Windward 66, Ribet Academy 55
La Verne Lutheran 83, Milken 36
Division 4A
St. Anthony 95, St.Bernard 58
Crossroads 67, Sage Hill 46
St. Monica 71, University Prep 54
Brentwood 72, Malibu 45
Division 5AA
Village Christian 85, Pacifica Christian 41
Mission College Prep 80, Wildwood 44
Division 5A
Holy Martyrs 47, Le Lycee 21
Shalhevet 61, Bloomington Christian 44
