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By Fred Altieri Sports Reporter The road to success is a hard drive. The Culver City High girls basketball team over several seasons had won its last 50 of 51 Ocean League games after defeating El Segundo, 53-42, in the 2016-17 league home-opener at Del Goodyear Gymnasium on Wednesday, January 11. Two days later on Friday the 13th the Centaurs lost for only the second time in the past six seasons by getting roughed up at Lawndale High, 45-38. That leaves them tied for third in league play at...
Home field advantage Centaur-style is the order of things so far for Culver City High baseball 2016. Flashing classic home white uniforms with 'Centaurs' splashed in blue cursive across their chests, the boys have yet to yield a run in all three games played at Centaur Field this season. Their latest victim: Garfield High as Culver shut them out 9-0 on Saturday, March 12 before a very lively home crowd that included a number of professional baseball scouts. Centaur right-handed ace Nolan...
The Culver City High baseball team began the 2016 season in fine fashion by winning consecutive shutouts at home. The Centaurs beat Marshall High 11-0 in their home opener on Saturday, February 27. Three days later they took care of Roosevelt High 4-0. Nolan Martinez started and pitched four solid innings against Marshall. He struck out the first seven batters, nine in the first three innings and allowed only one hit, a double in the fourth inning. Max Sterner pitched two scoreless innings in...
The 2015-16 Culver City High girls basketball season ended at Redondo Union High in the 3rd Round of the 2016 CIF Division 1AA Playoffs as the Centaurs lost 71-30 to the perennially ranked Sea Hawks on Wednesday, February 24. The Centaur girls were overwhelmed by Redondo's tight defense and well-balanced offense from the opening tipoff. Culver kept the contest close for the first eight minutes of the game as Kailey Tooke scored six of the team's seven first quarter points. Eight minutes later...
The rebirth of the composure and character was defined for Culver City High girls basketball on Saturday night, February 20, at Del Goodyear Gymnasium. The Centaurs rallied from behind to upset Long Beach power Millikan High, 72-69 in the second Round of the 2016 CIF Division 1AA Playoffs. Kailey Tooke, Culver's leading scorer for the past two seasons, had her finest game as a Centaur. It wasn't that she scored an unprecedented 46 points or dominated the backboards, it was her manner and...
The Culver City High girls basketball team won its final two games last week to secure the league championship for the fifth straight season. The Centaurs defeated Beverly Hills and Santa Monica to complete a 9-1 league record. The girls are 18-7 overall. Culver City's first round Division AA playoff opponent was scheduled to be Arcadia High on Thursday night. The result was not determined at press time but a detailed story is planned for next week's edition. Seniors Kailey Tooke is a four-year...
With two league games remaining the 2015-16 Culver City High girls basketball team is favored to take its fifth consecutive Ocean League title. They took control of the league last week with consecutive convincing home wins over two rivals: El Segundo and Santa Monica. As expected, visiting El Segundo gave the Centaurs all they could handle before Culver won the game going away in the second half, 55-43, on Wednesday, February 3. Two nights later celebrating Senior Night at Del Goodyear...
It's been a challenging year so far for the 2015-16 Culver City High girls basketball team. They fought through a tough preseason and incurred their first Ocean League loss in five seasons a few weeks ago at El Segundo High. The young team has clearly been struggling to establish its identity. Regardless, the Centaur girls are quietly on a six-game winning streak. Following two non-league wins they have swept their last four Ocean League contests and are back into a first place tie with El...
The 2015-16 Culver City High boys basketball team just may have turned the corner in Ocean League play. The Centaurs have won two out of three games after having suffered three tough league losses opening the season. The Centaurs' most impressive win of the year came at Lawndale High on Friday, January 29. It was a tight-scoring affair that got sabotaged when Culver scored 32 points in the third quarter to blow the game wide open for a very satisfying 79-61 win. Ten Centaurs scored as they...
It was a most remarkable run that ultimately ended eight miles due west at El Segundo High. That's where the Culver City High girls basketball team saw their 41-game Ocean League winning streak come to an end as the Centaurs lost to the Eagles, 55-46, on Friday, January 15. The winning streak began in January 2012 with an opening league victory over Morningside High and continued through last Wednesday, January 13, 2016 when Culver calmly dismantled Lawndale High, 52-29, in this season's league...
By Fred Altieri Sports Reporter The future looks bright, tall and fast. The 2015-16 boys basketball season has been a successful launch for 9-6 Culver City High as they prepare for their Ocean League home-opener this week against Lawndale High. After a fast and furious 96-90 win at North Torrance High last Friday, January 8, the Centaurs are suddenly drawing attention on the Westside, in the South Bay and beyond under head coach Adam Eskridge and his staff. "This is my fourth year as the team's...
By Fred Altieri Sports Reporter No one said it was going to be easy. The Culver City High girls basketball program has enjoyed unprecedented success, league titles and a CIF Division II Championship during the past four seasons. However, this year's 2015-16 team has entered a different kind of world: the one called "rebuilding." Head coach Julian Anderson, blessed with a steady influx of talent, has fostered and elevated the program's winning ways since 2009-10. Seven years later the team is...
By Fred Altieri Sports Reporter Truman Capote might as well have written the final chapter of the 2014-15 Culver City High girls basketball story. Leveraged and borrowed and reconstructed words and phrases from his 1956 classic short story "A Christmas Memory" help wrap up a meaningful season and some distinctive careers. "Just tonight the final score dissolved into distant memories. And when it happened the Culver basketball girls knew it. The scoreboard saying so merely confirmed a departure,...
By Fred Altieri Sports Reporter It was 'Showtime' - Centaur style, a game that would have made the fabulous Laker teams of the 1980's proud. There was even a little bit of magic involved. "Every blue moon you come across a game where everything is perfect. And I think no matter what it was a sign when Katie took a shot, it bounced up into the rafters and dropped in the basket. I told Mark: "There's no way we're losing the game today." It was a clear sign that it was one of those days." Culver...
By Fred Altieri Sports Reporter The Culver City High girls basketball team will host Quartz Hill High in the first round of the CIF Division 1AA Playoffs this Saturday night, February 21, at 7 pm in Del Goodyear Gymnasium. The Centaur girls, last year's CIF Division 2AA champions, earned that right by sweeping the Ocean League for the fourth consecutive year. This past week's victories at home over Hawthorne, 56-47, and Beverly Hills on Senior Night, 60-41, extended the team's current league...
By Fred Altieri Sports Reporter The practical simplicity of Ocean League scheduling insures that the Culver City High girls and boys basketball team seasons synchronize once league play begins. The girls are usually scheduled to play at 6 p.m. and the boys immediately follow at 7:30 every Wednesday and Friday throughout the league season. Their victories synched up for the first time this year on Friday, Jan. 23, as both teams won at Hawthorne High... both in tightly fought contests. The...
By Fred Altieri Sports Reporter "... and keeps on ticking." Over the course of the past three years the Culver City High girls basketball team has attained that favorable standard. The Centaurs have won 32 consecutive Ocean League games after beating new-members Lawndale and El Segundo in the opening week of the 2015 league competition. The winning streak began with a league home-opener against Morningside High in January, 2012. Last Wednesday's road victory at Lawndale, considered a contender...
By Fred Altieri Sports Reporter The Culver City High boys basketball team has completed its pre-season schedule leading up to 2014-15 Ocean League action that begins this week. The Centaurs will travel south to take on Lawndale High, then will host El Segundo on Friday night, January 16, in Del Goodyear Gymnasium. The Centaurs capped off their final pre-season week against three high schools from Torrance. They beat West High, 59-48, before losing to Torrance, 51-46, and North High, 84-63, in a...
By Fred Altieri Sports Reporter "... We sittin' in here, I'm supposed to be the franchise player and we in here talkin' about practice. I mean listen, we talkin' bout practice. Not a game, not a game, not a game. "We talkin' bout practice. Not a game, not a, not a, not the game that I go out there and die for and play every game like its my last. Not the game. We talkin' bout practice, man. I mean how silly is that? We talkin' bout practice..." Allen Iverson's universally misunderstood but...
By Fred Altieri Sports Reporter It's becoming a tradition that the Culver City High boys basketball team opens its season in the Mira Costa High Tournament in Manhattan Beach. The Centaurs didn't make it to the championship game as they had last season but they did win their last two games of the tournament including a strong finish on Saturday afternoon, December 6, against Banning High, 59-31. This 2014-15 edition is noticeably different than last season's team that had nine seniors on the...
By Fred Altieri Sports Reporter Centaur basketball fans... we have a liftoff. It's T+5 and counting for the Culver City High girls basketball team as they have successfully completed stage one of the 2014-15 season by beating View Park High, 56-47, in the championship game of the Inaugural Culver City / St. Mary's Tip-Off Classic on November 29 at home in Del Goodyear Gymnasium. The Centaurs won all five of their tournament games in six days with relative ease though View Park gave them a slight...
By Fred Altieri Observer Reporter The Inaugural Culver City / St. Mary's Tip-Off Classic is now officially under way as it initiated a very busy 2014-15 girls basketball season for co-host Culver City High. The current CIF Division 2AA champion Centaurs christened the occasion with a first-round win against Crossroads School of Santa Monica, 38-25, on Monday, November 24. Equally notable is the girls team having accepted an invitation to the McDonald's Classic in early December. Head coach...
By Fred Altieri Observer Reporter Culver City High was blessed the day Michelle Curry enrolled at the school in August of 2013. Mutually, she has been accepted, rewarded by and impressed with the school. The time spent in her first and only year at Culver has flown by in meteoric fashion but what a lasting impression she will leave. Not only was Michelle the most dominant athlete in her sport, she is one of the most skilled athletes on campus and certainly should be the clear favorite for the st...
By Fred Altieri Observer Reporter Even great dreams and journeys must come to an end. And the campus of Chaminade High in West Hills was that final stop for the Culver City High girls basketball team as the Centaurs lost in the CIF State Division 2 semifinals to the Eagles on Tuesday night, 76-46. The Centaurs brought an 18-game winning streak into the contest against a squad that is realistically and was officially a CIF Open Division team during the recent Southern Section playoffs. Why and...
By Fred Altieri Observer Reporter Centaur Blue and White were the colors flying high over City Hall on Monday night as Culver City High student/athletes were honored not once but twice by local officials. Parents, family and friends packed the chamber to witness the ceremony. Members of the Centaur girls basketball team and their coaches were recognized for having won their league and CIF division championships while one of their classmates was recognized for having attained scouting's highest...
