Prep Rally: Arcadia Invitational Set To Be A Celebration Of Top Sprinters

Hi, and invited to different version of Prep Rally. I’m Eric Sondheimer. It’s clip to put nan attraction connected way and section pinch nan Arcadia Invitational connected Saturday astatine Arcadia High.

Servite up for challenge

Loyola’s Zion Phelps, left, and Ejam Yohannes are fresh to execute astatine nan Arcadia Invitational connected Saturday.

(Craig Weston)

Fans will beryllium treated to rather a segment Saturday astatine nan Arcadia Invitational pinch Olympian Quincy Wilson coming to municipality pinch his squad from Maryland‘s Bullis School.

It’s Servite’s 4x100 relay squad that mightiness coming a reliable trial for Wilson and Bullis. The Friars’ Jace Wells, Jorden Wells, Kamil Pelovello and Benjamin Harris became nan first boys’ squad successful authorities history to break nan 40-second obstruction Saturday pinch a clip of 39.82 astatine nan Trabuco Hills Invitational.

Coach Brandon Thomas is producing awesome sprinters astatine Servite.

Two Loyola runners, Ejam Yohannes and Zion Phelps, are gearing up for nan 400 and 100 astatine Arcadia. Here’s a look astatine really some seemingly person travel retired of obscurity to go apical athletes.

Another jock to watch is Jaslene Massey of Aliso Niguel. She’s 1 of nan premier shotputters and discus throwers successful nan nation.

The nighttime information of nan invitational originates astatine 5. Here’s nan nexus for tickets.

Baseball

The Boras Classic originates Tuesday astatine Mater Dei and JSerra. No. 1 St. John Bosco and No. 2 Orange Lutheran are successful other brackets and could meet successful Friday’s final. But St. John Bosco is successful nan toughest bracket and faces an early trial from Norco connected Tuesday astatine 9 a.m. astatine Mater Dei, past a imaginable second-round crippled against Huntington Beach.

Orange Lutheran and St. John Bosco enjoyed a memorable three-game bid past week, pinch St. John Bosco winning two. Here’s a look backmost astatine nan strength of nan series.

The apical individual capacity of nan week belongs to Santa Margarita sophomore Tyler George, who threw 9 innings and made 104 pitches successful a 1-0 triumph complete Mater Dei. He struck retired 7 pinch nary walks. His play stats see a 7-0 record, 0.85 ERA and conscionable 2 walks successful 41 innings.

Justin Kirchner of Harvard-Westlake came done pinch a 13-strikeout no-hitter successful an 8-0 triumph complete Loyola.

Jayden Rojas of Bell created existent play successful an 8-7 triumph complete Miami’s Gulliver Prep. He deed a walk-off, three-run triple successful nan bottommost of nan seventh. Bell is disconnected to a 16-1 start.

Jake Ange of Thousand Oaks is up to 7 location runs. He had 2 expansive slams successful 1 crippled against Calabasas. He’s besides a starter for nan boys’ hoops team.

Los Alamitos has forfeited six Sunset League games because of a business akin to what respective schools saw during nan shot season, pinch a subordinate participating connected an extracurricular team, according to nan Orange County Register.

The 16-team section for nan Division 1 playoffs remains wide unfastened and should see 2 rising teams successful unbeaten Ganesha and 16-1 Linfield Christian, which upset La Mirada 2-1 past week.

Here’s this week’s apical 25 rankings by The Times.

Air Force man

6-foot-5 3rd baseman/pitcher Malakye Matsumoto has travel connected beardown this play for Sherman Oaks Notre Dame. He’s committed to Air Force.

(Eric Sondheimer / Los Angeles Times)

Malakye Matsumoto of Sherman Oaks Notre Dame was destined to extremity up astatine Air Force. His begetter and grandfather were successful nan Air Force and his uncle was successful nan Army. But he’s besides headed location for his blossoming shot skills. He’s hoping to beryllium connected nan aforesaid way arsenic Cy Young Award victor Paul Skenes, who came retired of El Toro and went to Air Force for 2 years.

Here’s the report.

Softball

Norco pitcher Coral Williams.

(Steve Galluzzo)

Norco mislaid its No. 1 ranking to unbeaten Murrieta Mesa weeks ago, but nan Cougars fto everyone cognize they are not going distant aft winning nan Michelle Carew tourney championship. Here’s the report.

Mesa is 16-0 and resumes action this week pinch a two-game bid against Murrieta Valley.

Chaminade pitcher Finley Suppan has been a large thief for her team. Here’s the report.

Lacrosse

Loyola’s boys’ team continues to beryllium classed No. 1 successful nan state.

Santa Margarita and Mira Costa are successful nan girls’ rankings.

Notes...

Evan Barry is nan caller boys’ hoops coach astatine La Habra. He’s been a longtime assistant. ...

The Jordan Brand Classic all-star crippled for elder hoops players will beryllium held April 17 astatine El Camino College pinch free admittance for fans. The girls’ crippled is astatine 5:30 p.m. and nan boys’ crippled astatine 7:30 p.m. ...

Former Long Beach Poly and USC moving backmost Hershel Dennis is nan caller coach astatine Bellarmine Prep successful Washington. ...

Former Carson shot subordinate and coach Arnold Ale is now coach astatine Westlake successful Saratoga Springs, Utah. ...

Jason Crowe Jr. of Inglewood was named co-MVP of nan McDonald’s All-American game, scoring 16 points and handing retired 5 assists. ...

Standout pitcher Jared Grindlinger of Huntington Beach committed to Tennessee, wherever his relative plays. Grindlinger, however, is expected to beryllium drafted this summer. ...

Erik Zimmerman has resigned arsenic boys’ h2o polo coach astatine Mater Dei. ...

Chaminade violative lineman Jackson Hill committed to UCLA. ...

All-American defender Brandon McCoy from Sierra Canyon announced he committed to Michigan.

From nan archives: Joel Schaeffer

Former Reseda shot coach Joel Schaeffer pinch his woman earlier his decease successful 2013.

(Schaeffer family.)

It’s been 13 years since erstwhile Reseda High shot coach Joel Schaeffer died successful 2013. He had been coach for 23 years and helped create nan school’s constabulary academy. Several of his assistants went connected to go coaches, and nan section was named aft him. He was known for “three yards and a unreality of dust” shot and ne'er apologized.

“One of nan astir important things I learned from coach was that I needed to cognize really important it was to thief these kids go young men,” erstwhile Reseda coach Alonso Arreola said successful 2013. “And that we had to find ways to usage shot arsenic a assets to execute that goal.”

Here’s a story from 2001 connected Schaeffer searching for answers aft a player’s death.

Here’s a story from 1997 erstwhile Schaeffer commented astir nan deficiency of salary for City Section coaches.

Recommendations

From Footballscoop.com, a communicative connected a mini agrarian Texas precocious schoolhouse deciding to build a $21-million sports facility.

From Chargers.com, a look astatine nan promising players successful girls’ emblem football.

From Andscape.com, a floor plan of Inglewood defender Jason Crowe Jr.

From The Los Angeles Times, a communicative connected really Westlake athletes are putting smiles connected nan faces of simple schoolhouse students.

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