With a trio of new coaches and a dozen new players, the Palisades High girls basketball program is off to a fresh start. The sister-brother tandem of Ronda and Sheldon Crowley are heading the varsity and junior varsity squads while Torino Johnson is coaching the frosh/soph squad, which was absent last year under former coach Kevin Hall. To prepare for the season, Palisades’ varsity team participated in a fall league at Santa Monica College and psoted an 8-2 record, losing close games to Venice and Santa Monica while beating the likes of St. Monica, Torrance and Malibu. ‘If the girls perform like I believe they can, we should finish first or second in league,’ Sheldon Crowley said. I expect us to be a well-balanced team that is able to run, able to shoot and able to hit the outside shot. And I think we’re capable of scoring well over 40 points a game, but that remains to be seen.’ The Dolphins are hosting the Palisades Beach Invitational this week at the PaliHi gym. They played St. Bernard in the first round of pool play Wednesday night, they play Inglewood tonight at 6 p.m. and they play New Roads Friday at 7:30 p.m. The final round will be on Saturday. Leading Palisades will be senior forward Jasmine English, junior center Lupe Maciel, junior guard/forward Megan Coulter, sophomore guard/forward Elane Roepke, junior forward Tylisha Trapp and junior guard/forward Zedra Slaton. Palisades hosts Washington in a nonleague game at 4 p.m. next Tuesday and travels to Woodland Hills Taft for a nonleague game Thursday. The Dolphins are scheduled to play in two tournaments over winter break, the Tournament of Champions in Chandler, Arizona, December 19-23 and the West Coast Jamboree in Antioch, California, December 26-30. While the varsity team is hosting its own tournament, the Pali junior varsity team is participating in the Washington High JV Shootout against Washington, Carson, Compton Centennial, Venice, South Gate and Jordan.
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