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JC Football: SMC’s Rico Wright commits to Gannon University (PA)

Ed Gonzalez — Sun, 19 May 2013 23:58:11 +0000

Santa Monica College defensive back Rico Wright has committed to Division II Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania for the upcoming 2013 season The 5’10, 180 lbs sophomore from Mira Costa High was a two-year starter for the Corsairs, leading them to back-to-back conference titles for the first time in thirty years. Wright had 57 tackles

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Boys Volleyball: Palisades upset by Granada Hills in D1 finals; Venice and LACES lose in D2 and D3

Ed Gonzalez — Sun, 19 May 2013 18:49:58 +0000

Things did not Things did not go the way Palisades wanted to against Granada Hills the second time around. After beating the Highlanders earlier this season and in last year’s finals, the Dolphins had another lackluster playoffs performance getting swept for the LA City Division 1 title (25-20, 25-19, 25-20) at the Roybal Learning Center.

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Baseball: Windward runs their way right out of the playoffs.

Wayne Neal — Sun, 19 May 2013 15:12:00 +0000

Windward came up a run short in their first round game of the CIF Division 6 playoffs, losing to The Webb Schools 4-3 on Friday afternoon despite some terrific pitching by senior Kirav Patel. Junior Max Schrage hit a RBI single that brought in Tanner Savitsky. A few pitches later, Tyler McMorrow hit a two-run

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Boys Volleyball: Palisades’ Randy Stoklos resigns as coach after losing in the City Finals

Ed Gonzalez — Sun, 19 May 2013 02:09:54 +0000

Palisades boys volleyball head coach Randy Stoklos announced his resignation after one season during the post game interview minutes after his team was swept 3-0 by Granada Hills in the LA City Division I finals at Royal High. “It had nothing to do with the outcome of this game right now, but I’m not going

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Swimming: Palisades sweeps Boys and Girls City Titles [updated]

Ed Gonzalez — Sat, 18 May 2013 19:11:04 +0000

With a trio of dominating performances, Palisades’ Allie Vituous, and Mardell Ramirez each won four events, while Brandon Yong won three at the LA City Swimming Finals to lead the Dolphins to sweep both the boys and girls team titles on Friday. Palisades’ strength could be felt in every race at East Los Angeles College

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Softball Roundup: Westchester rallies to advance to D-2 semis

Ed Gonzalez — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:44:21 +0000

Fresh off an opening round upset of Wilson, Westchester had two rally twice in order to knock off 15th seed Maywood 8-7 to advance to the LA City Division II semifinals. Veranae Woods had three RBI’s and Sharnitra Woods scored and drove in a run for the Comets. Westchester trailed 2-0 in the first and

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Baseball Roundup: Santa Monica’s lack of offense sends them out of the playoffs

Ed Gonzalez — Fri, 17 May 2013 17:02:03 +0000

Santa Monica managed only two hits and once again could not get past the first round as they lost at home to Knight 8-3, knocking them out of the Division 3 playoffs. Despite struggling at the plate, the Vikings took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the fourth when Mason Landis scored from third

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Girls Basketball: John Skinner resigns as head coach at St. Monica

Ed Gonzalez — Thu, 16 May 2013 23:06:44 +0000

St. Monica girls basketball head coach John Skinner resigned yesterday. He led the Mariners to its first CIF-Southern Section title in school history when they defeated Camino Real League-rival St. Paul 46-45 for the 4-A championship. St. Monica advanced to the state playoffs where they were knocked out by St. Bernard in the Division 4

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Football: Culver City adds Paramount to its non-conference schedule

Ed Gonzalez — Thu, 16 May 2013 20:05:22 +0000

Culver City has added Paramount High to its schedule of non-conference opponents for the 2013 football season. They replace West Adams who went winless in 2012 and was defeated by the Centaurs 51-0. Paramount finished in a tie for first with Downey in the San Gabriel Valley League. The Pirates were 8-3 and lost in

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JC Football: SMC’s Butler offered by Texas State

Ed Gonzalez — Thu, 16 May 2013 19:20:27 +0000

Santa Monica College DB Dejuan Butler becomes the third Corsair to be offered a scholarship by Texas State this month. The freshman for Taft High in Woodland Hills, had 35 tackles and two interception for the Corsiars last season. This comes after Texas State had early offered SMC’s defensive back Qujuan Floyd and offensive lineman

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