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By virtue of winning the Ocean League the Santa Monica High baseball team will host a first round CIF playoff game on Thursday, May 16 at 3:15 pm against Knight High. The Santa Monica High softball team, also Ocean League champions, will host the winner of a wild card game Thursday. The wild card games were played Tuesday. Culver City’s softball team hosted Gabriello on Tuesday....
Next: Showdown With Santa Monica Talent alone is not enough to make it to the Big Dance. It takes leadership, understanding, preparation, practice, patience and execution to secure such a date with destiny. Defending Ocean League baseball champions Culver City High walked the walk once again by high-stepping Morningside High with two more league victories last week by scores of 16-0 and 11-1. And this week, for the fourth year in a row, they will have faced arch rival Santa Monica in a two-game...
Culver City lost to Santa Monica Tuesday, 3-1 in a game between two teams undefeated in Ocean League baseball. The teams played again on Thursday and at press time in the 6th inning Santa Monica lead by a score of 5-2. A detailed account of both contests will appear in next week’s Observer....
The Ocean League showdown baseball game between Santa Monica and Culver City Highs played Tuesday at Culver will be shown on Time Warner Cable television Friday and several times thereafter. The delayed telecast will be a showcase for both programs. Parents and volunteers last weekend helped prepare the field. Both teams began the week with 8-0 league records. They played a second game Thursda...
Education and baseball are inseparable positive forces at Culver City High. When the 2013 baseball season began in late February, varsity baseball Coach Rick Prieto emphatically stressed, “I think our best asset is our players, their character and their academics. We're 3.5 across the board in our program academically. “ I'm very proud of that, very much so because that's where it all starts. Everything is secondary after that. Then the students come out and dedicate themselves to our program wi...
The late and greatly admired John Wooden, affectionately known as Coach, not only lived but also wrote the definitive book on success. He stated, “Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.” The Culver City High baseball team respectively began to defend its Ocean League title with a two-game sweep of Beverly Hills, a 5-0 shutout in their home opener on Tuesday and a 7-4 victory in 10 innings Thursday at La Cienega Park, Bev...
The game of baseball is no different than the game of life in that history has a way of repeating itself. In fact, in baseball it’s expected. And for the Culver City High baseball team it stretched along Artesia Blvd. from Manhattan Beach two weeks ago to North High in Torrance last Wednesday, a foreboding location for their final non-league game before the 2013 Ocean League play began on Tuesday. The Centaurs again took a one-run lead into the bottom of the sixth inning on the road and once a...
A Torrance Press article from 1957 reports: “The City of Torrance has virtually grown up around the US Steel Torrance Works.” 56 years later and just around the corner from where the former plant stood, the Culver City High baseball team visited the historically well-tempered Torrance High Tartars in their picturesque yet intimidating ball park, using the game as a forging process to further test and strengthen the Centaurs’ program. The final result was a hardened Culver City squad that held...
By Fred Alteiri Special to the Observer The 2013 spring equinox, appropriately bookended by two Culver City High varsity baseball road games, literally means ‘equal night’ and occurs when the sun’s path crosses the plane of the earth’s equator. The Centaurs took their successful act on the road after beginning the early season with an impressive 8-2 winning record based largely on what Coach Rick Prieto prescribed as good ‘home-cooking’. Moving into Phase Two, the coach has scheduled f...
The Culver City High Baseball Express continues to gather steam as it speeds along toward its first Ocean League contest in early April. The Centaurs played host to two teams for three games in Week #4 of non-league action. They took care of a stubborn Lawndale High team on Tuesday, March 12 with another late-game two run rally to post a 4-3 victory. And on Saturday Centaur Coach Rick Prieto’s squad twice shut out Lennox Academy doubleheader. The final scores of 21-0 and 15-0 are numbers the s...
Classic Greek mythology reveals that the Centaurs originated from clouds. So it was very apropos when omniscient gray clouds made their entrance just as the Culver City High baseball team took the home field against Palisades on Tuesday, March 5. Fittingly, the Centaurs responded to the elements with a very convincing 10-1 victory. Starting pitcher Jay Sterner recorded two innings of perfect ball and four strikeouts. Balancing his efforts were the Culver City bats as senior centerfielder Tim Ste...
Baseball is a team sport and is often noted for its mystical association with the world of numbers. So far the 2013 Culver City High baseball team is performing as a very good team while displaying an aptitude for creating very good numbers. In the second week of action the Centaurs played three games in four days and won two. They took the high scoring offense from their Opening Day 12-0 shutout victory over Hoover on the road to Venice High on Wednesday, February 27, and scored another 12...
Opening Day holds a special place in the annals of baseball lore and the Saturday morning non-league game between Glendale Hoover High and Culver City, last year's Ocean League champions, only reinforced the tradition. It was 10 a.m., the sun was out in Culver City, the temperature was a perfect 65 degrees, there was a slight breeze out of the northwest and the bleachers behind home plate were filling up. Two hours later to the minute the blue and white clad Culver City faithful were rewarded...
By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor Twelve players from Culver City High’s 2012 Ocean League baseball championship team have graduated. As a result, Coach Rick Prieto is using the Centaurs’ summer league contests to inspect young players who hope to form the nucleus of next season’s team. The Centaurs annually participate in the South Bay Summer League against strong opposition. So far Culver has a 4-7 record, good for fourth place. “We’re holding our own,” said Prieto. “We’re giving our returning players and incoming freshmen an opportunity to...
The honors keep on coming in for the Culver City High baseball team. Rick Prieto has been named Ocean League Coach of the Year the week after pitcher Tyler Mark was named the league’s Most Valuable Player. The honors were easy to understand since the Centaurs went a perfect 10-0 in league games for the first time in school history....
Culver City High senior pitcher Tyler Mark has been named Ocean League Player of the Year. Mark, who made all-league in four straight seasons, led the Centaurs to a 10-0 league record, the first time in school history a Culver High baseball team has gone undefeated in league games. Mark had a 9-2 record and 2.13 ERA. He was also a prolific hitter, batting .338. Also named to the all-league first team were Culver’s Brian Ibarra, Jon Kocker, Skyler Blocker and freshman Jay Steiner. Adrian Perez a...
In evaluating Culver City High baseball in 2012 Coach Rick Prieto says “it was a good season.” Despite being eliminated in the second playoff round by Paramount High the Centaurs had of their best seasons ever. They went undefeated in the Ocean League for the first time in school history, reversed last year’s final week pair of losses to similarly unbeaten Santa Monica and shut out their first round playoff opponent, Eastside of Lancaster. In discussing Culver’s 3-0 loss to Paramount, a team th...
The Culver City High baseball season, one of the most memorable in school history, is over. The Centaurs lost their second round CIF playoff game, 3-0 to Paramount High Tuesday afternoon. Last year Culver eliminated Paramount in the second playoff round. Both of the Centaurs’ playoff games resulted in shutouts. Culver defeated Eastside of Lancaster, 1-0 in the first round. Rick Prieto had one the better teams in his long reign as the Centaurs’ coach. Culver finished with a 20-9 record. The tea...
As the Ocean League champion, Culver City High will begin the CIF baseball playoffs in a home game Friday at 3 pm. The Centaurs will host an opponent to be determined following a wild card round earlier in the week. By defeating defending champion Santa Monica, 7-6 and 1-0 last week the Centaurs completed a 10-0 league season. It’s the first time in school history Culver City has gone undefeated in the league. In the final league game Jay Steiner pitched the shutout. Culver had six hits, i...
A year makes a big difference. One year ago, after Culver City and Santa Monica Highs each won their first eight Ocean League baseball games they settled the league championship in two contests. Santa Monica won both games and Culver settled for second place. On Tuesday, in this week’s similar showdown, Culver City won Tuesday’s game on Santa Monica’s field, 7-6. The teams were scheduled to play Thursday at Culver City, but the result wasn’t known at press time. Tuesday’s outcome assures t...
The busiest week of the high school baseball season is underway for the Culver City Centaurs. Due to a rainout last week, a makeup game this week and a Saturday tournament game Coach Rick Prieto’s team will play four times – and right in the midst of a league championship showdown with Santa Monica the following week. On Tuesday Culver hosted Morningside. On Thursday culver will play at Morningside. On Friday Culver will make up the rained out game at Inglewood. On Saturday Culver will com...
One more strike and Brian Ibarra would have had a no-hitter on April 19. However, with a 1-2 count a Hawthorne High batter singled and the Culver City High righthander settled for a one-hitter in a 5-1 victory. After the single Jay Steiner came in to get the final out. However, Ibarra’s performance highlighted a grand week for the Centaurs, who had defeated Hawthorne, 13-1 two days earlier. As a result Culver City stayed even with defending Ocean League champion Santa Monica, which also has a 4...
There have been two chapters in Culver City High’s 2012 baseball season, non-league and tournament games for Coach Rick Prieto to evaluate his talent, and the start of Ocean League competition. Last week a third chapter was added – a showcase game in a college stadium between two of Southern California’s premier teams. Culver City lost to nationally-ranked Harvard Westlake of North Hollywood, 3-0 at USC’s Dedeaux Field. But the experience of competing on that level was a highlight of the Cen...
After struggling in non-league play during the holiday period the Culver City High baseball team drew this evaluation from Coach Rick Prieto. “We had good pitching and defense but could not execute offensively,” he said. The Centaurs lost a home doubleheader to Capistrano Valley Christian, then lost to St. John Bosco, 4-1. Daruan Sylvester had two hits in one of the games against Capistrano Valley Christian and Jay Steiner pitched 4 2/3 innings without a decision. In the loss to St. John Bos...
Wisely, Culver City High schedules challenging non-league baseball games to prepare for the Ocean League. The strategy worked last season when the Centaurs didn’t win the league championship but proceeded to win three playoff games, including two in Orange County. Culver won eight of its first 10 games this season, including a pair of routs over Beverly Hills in league games. Then the Centaurs lost three of four against formidable non-league foes. The losses were 9-6 to Palos Verdes and a d...
