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meetings and engage air traffic controllers to
educate them on the massive overflight problem.
Is the City properly handling its relationships
with companies/agencies that impact
the community such as Chevron, DWP,
Hyperion and the City of LA?
CP: No agency has more immediate impact
than the City of LA. The horrific approaches
along Grand from the beach are embarrassing
and a blight on our community. How do we
introduce our city with a driveway that looks
like that? Why aren’t we able to make joint use
of the drainage property at Center and Grand?
Imperial Highway has a terrifying bike path,
which you will need after your axle is torn
off by potholes.
Should the Council make decisions that
maximize improving the environment even
if it means spending more money?
CP: The City can, and should, find items
that it can tangibly improve. The most immediate
concern the voters discuss is air quality.
Ensuring that the AQMD is active and, if need
be, supplemented is a priority. Our children
don’t need volatile organic compounds from
LAX in their lungs any more now than they
did when the City confronted the airport
about those 30 years ago.
On City financial and/or in-kind support
of El Segundo Unified School District and
your opinion of the current joint-use agreement
and arrangement regarding the new
aquatics facility:
CP: If the pool is going to work for the
benefit of the citizens of El Segundo and
their students, it needs a commercial marketing
agent to ensure it is utilized as intended.
The pool was presented as a showpiece for
aquatic events. If it is going to come close to
self-sufficiency, it needs to have commercial
engagement.
What is one item we didn’t ask about that
you feel is important to address?
CP: The City was founded by motivated,
practical doers. It has taken us longer to build
a working pool than it did to build a working
refinery. And they used mules. We need
to be firm in our defense of our core values
and nimble in our pursuit of the future’s opportunities.
Tell us something about yourself that
people may be surprised to know:
CP: I am a four-day champion on
Hollywood Squares! •
Bruins ace Jon Olsen, who threw an upper
80s fastball towards the plate in the first inning.
Nootbaar’s mighty swing sent the ball
rocketing back at Olsen, who had no chance
of catching the ball. The ball appeared to
catch Olsen just below the eye and he went
down to the ground immediately and lay
motionless for what seemed minutes. Olsen
would be sent to the hospital for evaluation
as well as symptoms related to a concussion.
During the game, Nootbaar made it a point
to ask UCLA coach John Savage how his
pitcher was. “It’s a pretty scary situation
when you see a line drive like that. … It’s
probably one of the worst I’ve seen in my
career,” Savage said.
Jake Palmer (2017) played in a school
record 129 consecutive games and batted
.434 before being recruited by UC Irvine.
He starts in the outfield for the Anteaters
now and in his first 15 games, he’s third
on the team in hitting (.319) and leads the
team in walks. UC Irvine started off strong
and is 10-6 overall thanks in part to Palmer.
Spencer Palmer (2017) hit .426 and led the
Eagles with 17 doubles and six home runs.
He’s now the starting first baseman for the
El Camino Warriors. He leads the Warriors
with a .481 batting average aas well as home
runs (4) and RBIs (24).
Spencer Long (2017) was a four-year
letterman for the Eagles. He is a two-way
player for his El Camino college team. He’s
playing second base and hitting .268, and
is also 2-2 as a pitcher while averaging a
strikeout per inning.
Dean Abramson (2014) and Joey Garza
(2015) are playing their colligate baseball
at Occidental. Abramson is one of the
most versatile players on the team. Against
Dickinson, he started the game and pitched
the first two innings before the Oxy starting
catcher had to leave the game due to an
injury. Abramson is also the team’s backup
catcher, so he moved behind the dish where
he caught the next seven innings. He also
had an RBI single, a sacrifice bunt and got
hit by a pitch in his team’s 6-4 win.
Joey Garza is the rare college athlete who
plays two sports like he did in high school.
He is a linebacker for the Tigers in the fall
and has 68 tackles in 19 games over three
seasons. As an outfielder for the Tigers, he
is hitting .348, is third on the team in RBIs
and leads the team in slugging percentage
with a .528 average.
Eagles Starting Season Strong
The El Segundo Eagles baseball team has
started out the season on a positive note,
running its record to 6-2 heading into the
annual doubleheader with Mira Costa that
took place yesterday. The Eagles got by
Narbonne 1-0, defeated Redondo 6-5 in
eight innings, fell to Torrance 2-0 and just
defeated West Torrance 6-0.
El Segundo is playing well right now and
looks solid defensively. Cameron Dornblaser
threw a gem, pitching seven innings of shutout
ball while giving up just two hits and striking
out five. The Eagles were challenged
offensively and managed only four hits, but
they made good use out of one of them. After
Benny Casillas reached base on a walk and
stole second, Hunter Lynch’s single drove
home the only run of the game.
The Eagles rallied from a 5-2 deficit to
defeat the highly touted Redondo Seahawks
6-5 in extra innings. El Segundo trailed 3-1
in the fifth inning when the team got on the
board on an RBI single by Ethan Burner.
In the inning, the Eagles took advantage
of an error that allowed Ian Bonham to
reach base and eventually score. Redondo’s
Christian Dicochea hit a solo home run off
Eagle starter Quinn Kirsten to make it 5-2
in the sixth inning.
The Eagles staged a miraculous comeback
in the bottom half of the seventh. Bonham
reached on an error and scored on an RBI
double by Mateo Camano to make it 5-3.
Burner flared a single beyond the reach
of the Seahawks’ first baseman to move
Camano to third base. Then Benny Casillas’
fly ball scored Camano. With two outs
and Burner on third base, Redondo pitcher
Gabe Pech uncorked a passed ball and Burner
slid under the tag of catcher Mason Grace to
tie the game at 5-5. Burner pitched a scoreless
eighth inning to set up Hunter Lynch’s
biggest hit of the year. He hit a 1-1 fastball
over the centerfield fence to lift the Eagles
to a 6-5 victory.
The Eagles got a strong pitching performance
from Jaime Galicia, but fell to Torrance
2-0. Galicia gave up two earned runs in the
second inning and the Tartars made the lead
stand up. The Eagles’ best opportunity to score
came in the fifth inning. Casillas tripled to
start the inning and Ian Bonham drew a walk
two batters later. Casillas was thrown out
at the plate on a comebacker to the mound
and Camano struck out to end the inning.
The Eagles would not threaten the rest of
the way and fell to the fifth-ranked Tartars.
The Eagles played a clean game behind
the five-hit shutout pitching of Cooper
Sutherland and defeated West Torrance 6-0.
El Segundo took advantage of five walks,
scoring on two of them, and three errors
that led to two more runs. In the first inning,
Camano walked and later scored on a passed
ball. In the third inning Burner reached on
a throwing error, Matt Romero singled and
they both scored on Casillas’ two-run double.
In the fourth inning, the Eagles loaded the
bases and Romero hit a sacrifice fly to make
it 4-0. Galicia then hit a two-run double to
make it 6-0 and cap the scoring. West Torrance
loaded the bases in the seventh on
three infield hits. Then Sutherland induced
a shallow fly ball, a strikeout and a pop fly
to end the game.
El Segundo faced a hot-hitting Mira Costa
team last night (weather permitting) and then
host Ocean View, another perennial CIF power,
on Saturday at 11 a.m. weather permitting. •
Jaime Galicia stretches for a throw just beating West Torrance’s Grant Decatrel for an out.
Ryan Sullivan slides safely into second base on a steal attempt against West Torrance.
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