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The Culver City high school varsity baseball team appears to be peaking at the right time. The Centaurs are 11-4 with an eight-game winning streak. During that streak they have outscored their opponents 66-8 and all cylinders are clicking. Eight players are batting over .300 and two of those players, Justin Roulston and Alonso Reyes are batting over .500. Both of those players will be playing college baseball for Long Beach State next year. The team is moving in the right direction at the right...
Culver City high school spring sports teams hope to continue their winning ways after taking some time off for spring break. Baseball, softball, boys' and girls' lacrosse, boys and girls track and field, boys volleyball and tennis will restart their seasons this week and next week. The baseball team is 7-4 overall and 4-0 in league play. They travel to Windward for a 3 p.m. game (today) Thursday and they play a double header on Saturday against Paramount at home at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. They hit th...
Tennis has always been a popular sport in Southern California mainly because of the weather but when the pandemic appeared a few years ago the sport took off like a rocket ship especially in the Culver City parks. Parks like Lindberg, Culver West, Fox Hills and Vets have some of the best tennis instructors in the city. One of those instructors is Mike Lanahan. "The pandemic gave tennis a boost that it not had in years," said long time tennis instructor and coach Lanahan. "Not since Billy Jean...
Angel City Football Club’s immediate attention was to it’s very first road match last Wednesday, March 30, when they played the Portland Thorns FC at Providence Park. They lost the game to Portland 3-0. The first year NWSL franchise suffered its first loss, a 3-1 Saturday afternoon lesson courtesy of the OL Reign at Cal State Fullerton, to fall into a tie for third place in Division. The Thorns are coming off a 1-0 shutout over the league’s other newcomer, San Diego Wave FC. Another large crowd...
Angel City Football Club's immediate attention is to its very first road match this Wednesday, March 30, to battle the Portland Thorns FC at Providence Park. The first-year NWSL franchise took its first loss, a 3-1 Saturday afternoon lesson courtesy of the OL Reign at Cal State Fullerton, to fall into a tie for third place in Division: West of the Challenge Cup. The Thorns are coming off a 1-0 shutout over the league's other newcomer, San Diego Wave FC. Another large crowd at Titan Stadium saw...
Spring and hot weather are in the air and for several Culver City high school athletic teams that means they are heating up with the weather. The boy's baseball team, girl's lacrosse and boy's lacrosse are in first place in their leagues and tennis has an 8-4 overall record. Boys' volleyball is struggling this year with a 2-8 record but the girls' softball team is hoping to get pass the .500 mark in the next few weeks. The softball team has an overall record of 8-11 and they play a very...
The four Culver City high school track and field teams continue to prove that they are some of the best in Southern California. In the dual meets, the tri meets and the prestigious invitational meets, the Centaur frosh/soph boys and girls and the varsity boys and girls are turning in some impressive performances every week. On Saturday, April 9, some of the varsity girls and boys will running in one of the top track and field meets in the nation, the Arcadia Invitational. On Friday and...
Boldly emblazoned on the AngelCity.com website: "Day 1: It all starts now." The countdown is over as Angel City Football Club is ready to make its debut on the pitch this Saturday, March 19, against the San Diego Wave FC. Both Southern California teams are the latest franchises will begin competing in the National Women's Soccer League this season. It can't be overstated that their presence, rivalry and progress will be vital to the health and future success of NWSL. "Soccer is absolutely...
Angel City Football Club has landed! ACFC and San Diego Wave Fútbol Club's long-awaited debut was a big hit with the packed crowd at Cal State Fullerton's Titan Stadium, Saturday night. The result was a well-deserved 1-1 draw in the opener of the National Women's Soccer League 2022 Challenge Cup. The play was physical, highly skillful, and very competitive from the opening whistle. The future looks bright for both franchises as they expand the number of teams in the league to an even dozen....
Culver City high school spring athletic teams will once again leap into action during the next week. The boys' and girls' lacrosse teams, girls' softball, baseball, boys' volleyball and boys tennis will all continue to play at a high level but the highlight of the week will be the track and field teams competing in the prestigious Mustang Relays at Mira Costa high school on Saturday. The meet starts at 10 a.m. The All-Day meet will feature some of the top track and field teams in Southern Califo...
The good news for LAFC is that they are tied for first place in the Western Conference three matches into the 2022 MLS season. The better news is that first-year head coach Steve Cherundolo appreciates the results but knows the team needs to be better after they clean-sheeted Inter Miami, 2-0, in a sloppy game exacerbated by the very muggy and windy conditions at DRV PNK Stadium in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. "First away game of the season. It's always important to come away with three points. We...
Major League Baseball maybe on strike but Culver City's varsity baseball team swung into action a few weeks ago. This week they continue their pre-season schedule against some of the best teams in the South Bay. All three teams that they will play this week are from Torrance. The 3-2 Centaurs lost to Torrance last Tuesday 3-1 and on Friday they play North Torrance at home at 3:30 p.m. and Saturday they battle West Torrance at home at 11 a.m. Both North and West Torrance are ranked as two of the...
A dramatic equalizer in the waning minutes by LAFC against the visiting Portland Timbers felt like a victory at Banc of California Stadium on Sunday night. The game-tying tap-in by defender Mamadou Fall from a brilliant run and pass by forward Brian Rodriguez during second half stoppage time gave the Black and Gold a much-deserved 1-1 result. "It's great," said Steve Cherundolo, now with one win and one draw after his first two matches as LAFC's head coach. "I love it and relish that it's a...
Vela! Vela! Vela! Los Angeles Football Club extended their opening game unbeaten streak to five as a healthy Carlos Vela returned to form and scored a hat trick to shutout the visiting Colorado Rapids, 3-0, to begin the 2022 Major League Soccer season . The win marked Steve Cherundolo’s debut as LAFC’s head coach. “I’m very pleased with the result. It’s important after preseason to start the season off with a win,” said Cherundolo. “This one goes to the players, staff, fans, front office, every...
Track and Field is back in a big way in the form of the Culver City High School Invitational meet on Saturday at the Culver City high school track. The meet starts at 10 a.m. and over 20 schools will be running and jumping on Saturday. Culver City will be trying to improve on their inspiring start of the season last Saturday when they dominated all four Divisions against Torrance and Palisades high schools. The Girls varsity and freshmen/sophomore teams and the boys' varsity and...
Picture perfect conditions at Riviera Country Club once again set the tone at the Genesis Invitational on Thursday in Pacific Palisades (97th edition of the Los Angeles Open). Losing no time drafting off the L.A. sports momentum in wake of the Rams' Super Bowl victory, 23-year old Joaquin Niemann from Chile shot a record-tying opening round 63 (-8), to take a three-stroke lead over a low-scoring field. "It's got to be one of my best days on the golf course, especially in a place like this with...
Making it to the third round of the CIF Division 2A girls' playoffs was a great accomplishment for the undersized Culver City high school girls basketball team. They made it that far because they displayed true grit and determination and a group of dedicated seniors. Although they lost to Santa Margarita last Saturday in the quarterfinals 58-42, making that far was a great achievement. Having what head coach Julian Anderson described as a roller coaster season, but in the end, it was all down hi...
Chants of "Ole, Ole, Ole, Joaquim Niemann!" could be heard moments after the 23-year-old Chilean golfer holed his final shot at the renowned Riviera Country Club to win the 2022 Genesis Invitational in Pacific Palisades. Niemann's historic two-stroke wire-to wire victory over Cameron Young and Collin Morikawa was only the fourth time in the tournament's history that a player lead after all four rounds. The late great Charles Sifford of Los Angeles was the last golfer to accomplish the feat in...
Last week four Culver City high school varsity teams entered the prestigious CIF Southern Section playoffs and only one team made it through the first round, girls' basketball. Boys' basketball, girls water polo and boys' soccer were eliminated last week. The girls head basketball coach Julian Anderson said he had a special group of girls in September of last year. "It feels good, making it to the second round of the CIF playoffs," said Anderson in a phone interview last Tuesday. "This...
Priceless! The Los Angeles Rams 23-20 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, was well-worth the six-year effort since owner Stan Kroenke brought the team back to Southern California. It was worth more than the multi-billion dollars he has invested into the Los Angeles area. It was for the players, the coaches, the front office and more importantly... for the fans who have waited since 1967 for the team to win its first Super Bowl in Los Angeles. "It's...
The second season started this week for four Culver City high school varsity teams. Making the CIF playoffs is what high school teams play for because once you are in anything can happen. Just ask the NFL's Cincinnati Bengals. Every team that is invited to the Big Dance is hoping to be in the spotlight when it comes down to the final game in their division. The boys' basketball team hopes to catch lighting in a bottle when they start their Division 1 playoff run on Friday at home against...
There will be two big games played in Los Angeles this weekend. The Rams with battle the Bengals in the Super Bowl at 3:30 p.m. at SoFi Stadium in the biggest game on Sunday and UCLA will travel to lock horns with USC at the Galen Center on Saturday at 7 p.m. Obviously you really can't compare the Super Bowl with a college basketball game but to UCLA and USC fans it's their super game every time the two schools play each other. This will be the first of two meetings that will feature an intense...
The only question remaining is: Can the Los Angeles Rams deliver the Lombardi Trophy for the very first time to the City of Angels? Head coach Sean McVay and the Rams will get their second shot at the Super Bowl in four years with their focus clearly on the prize. Favored by 4.5 points heading into Super Bowl LVI, only the Cincinnati Bengals led by their rising star quarterback Joe Burrow stand in the Rams' way of hoisting the Lombardi Trophy in their state-of-the-art house, SoFi Stadium. The...
The football stars are aligning over Southern California. As if by cosmic design the Los Angeles Rams will be participating in their second Super Bowl in the last four years. And it doesn't get any sweeter than beating the archrival San Francisco 49ers, 20-17, in the NFC Championship game at SoFi Stadium last Sunday to get there. The Rams will now face the AFC Champion Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday, February 13, in the same Rams House in Inglewood for the NFL's crown jewel, the Vince Lombardi...
When you play in the super competitive Bay league you expect challenges. That’s what happened to one of the best Culver City boys’ soccer teams in the last 10 years. With one game to play at press time the Centaurs are hoping to advance to the prestigious CIF playoffs next week. Culver City placed third in the Bay league with a 2-2-1 league record. Their overall record is 6-5-4. If this was a regular high school soccer season the Centaurs would be a lock to make the playoffs but because of the...
