Hyman H. Haves, a lifelong activist, passed away peacefully on May 3 with his family by his side. He was 94. Born on February 24, 1916 in New York City, Haves graduated from Hillhouse School in New Haven. Admittedly an optimist, Haves was proud of his lifelong quest for fairness and understanding among people, and found that his work with B’nai B’rith satisfied his social conscience. After he graduated from high school in 1932, he joined the B’nai B’rith young program Aleph Aadik Aleph (AZA), and participated fully, even hitchhiking in 1936 to AZA’s national convention, held at the Presbyterian Conference Grounds (now Temescal Gateway Park) in Pacific Palisades. At 22, Haves became the New York City Director of B’nai B’rith, despite his lack of a college degree. He then entered World War II, serving as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Corps 528th Squadron, 380th Bomb Group. He was a combat navigator and acting Jewish chaplain in the South Pacific campaign. After the war, Haves moved to Los Angeles to be a fundraiser and community organizer for what is today’s Los Angeles Jewish Federation Council. He returned to Connecticut briefly, where he served as the first state Anti-Defamation League director, before coming back to Los Angeles in 1956. In 1949, Haves married Sara Jane Ostrowsky, who died in 1960. They had two children, Maeera of Southampton, New York and the late Randy Haves. Haves then married Ethel Linn in 1965, and established their home in Brentwood and later Pacific Palisades. Ethel died on May 22, 2009.’ A much-sought-after lecturer in the 1950s, Haves served on the American Speakers Bureau, lecturing on human relations at Yale, Connecticut State College and the Universities of California. He also spent six years as national finance director for the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith. After Haves retired, he and Ethel were among the first residents in the Palisades Highlands. He began playing an active role in the community at large, serving as the first president of the Highlands Presidents Council and working with various homeowners associations on common issues. On January 25, 1978, Haves was honored in the Congressional Record by Senator Abraham Ribicoff. In retirement, Haves never lost his vigorous defense of human rights as he followed the local issues in Pacific Palisades. He was a master at communication, and up until his final months enjoyed mailing letters to the editor of the Palisadian-Post that were banged out on his trusty typewriter, decrying injustice wherever he saw it. He is survived by his daughter Maeera and her three children Solange, Zoe and Jean Etienne; Randy’s wife Barbro, and their children Sam and Max Haves; stepdaughters Jerri Linn (husband Terry Sozanski) and Laurie Linn Ball (husband Tom Ball). In memory of Haves, contributions can be made in his name to Wilshire Boulevard Temple Camps, 3663 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90010.
Kathleen Margaret Selman, a longtime Pacific Palisades resident and Theatre Palisades supporter, passed away on April 30. She was 92. Born in Lancashire, England, to Henry and Mary Bond, Kathleen served in the British Army intelligence during World War II. She met Maxwell Selman, now deceased, in London in 1946. After they were married, they lived in Germany from 1947 to 1955 and then moved to the United States and to Pacific Palisades in 1958. Kathleen served as a clerk at the Los Angeles Superior Court in Malibu for many years. She is survived by two sons, James of Topanga and David (wife Wendy) of Scottsdale, Arizona, and grandsons Maxwell and Rowan.
Eugene Dennis Marsden, a 58-year resident of Pacific Palisades, passed away on May 10. He was 79 years old. Born in Cambridge, Wisconsin, on June 5, 1930, Gene moved to California in 1948, and attended UCLA. He served as an officer in the U.S. Army from 1953 to 1956, then enjoyed a 32-year career with General Telephone, retiring in 1988. He then operated Marsden Brothers Rose Parade Seating until it was sold in 2006. Gene is survived by his wife of 60 years, Margot Marsden; sons Dennis (wife Ruth), David (wife Julia) and Jeff (wife Karen); his sister Sally Klapper; sister-in-law Kathleen Mardsen; and six grandchildren. A Mass of Christian burial will be held at 10 a.m. on Monday, May 17 at Corpus Christi Church, 887 Toyopa Dr. Burial will follow at Holy Cross Cemetery, 5835 W. Slauson in Culver City. Donations may be made in Gene?s memory to the Michael J. Fox Foundation or the American Parkinson Disease Association.
The Rev. Charles Scott home on Via de la Paz was completed in 1923. The exterior of the house, as seen from the street, has remained basically unchanged over the years. Photo by Rich Schmitt, Staff Photographer
In these daysof million-dollar homes, imagine drawing up plans for your new house at the kitchen table. This was exactly what happened when Rev. Charles Scott, a Methodist minister and the founder of Pacific Palisades, hastily drew up a floor plan for his family home over breakfast one morning as his wife looked on apprehensively. ??Conceived for both a growing family (the Scotts had six children) and the official parsonage, the house on Via de la Paz, midway between the commercial center and the ocean bluffs, was considered spacious compared to the few dwellings that other founders built. The first private house was built at 819 Hartzell in Founders Tract I (the Alphabet streets). ??During construction of their home, which began in 1922, the Scott family lived in a cottage on the Assembly Grounds in Temescal Canyon for a year. When they moved to the undeveloped Via neighborhood, their two-story English cottage-style home was one of just a sprinkling of homes in the infant community. The Scotts owned a pony and cart, which carried the children on excursions up the street and down to the Assembly Grounds, where the action was. The pony was kept staked out on the vacant land across the street. ??The home was designed with the needs of the large family in mind: the four boys bunked together in one of the upstairs bedrooms, the two girls in the other. Charles and his wife Anna occupied the bedroom, which featured a bank of windows offering panoramic views of Temescal Canyon and Santa Monica Bay. Ever the responsible parents, the Scotts liked to keep an eye on their offspring through a peephole drilled from their room into the children’s rooms. ??Anna Scott, a deeply religious woman who had met Charles while both were students at USC in the first decade of the 20th century, was a woman before her times. She appreciated the value of natural foods and exercise. She and Charles believed in the nutritional value of vegetables and coarse-grained cereals from the gristmill. Mrs. Scott even wrote an article for Bernarr MacFadden’s magazine, ‘Physical Culture,’ espousing the cause of wholesome food. ??The Scotts made time for family devotions at breakfast time, followed by Bible readings. ??’There was always a big pot of cereal which had cooked all night in the deep well of the electric stove in the kitchen by the time the children came down for breakfast,’ recalled the Scotts’ elder daughter Martha, who up until her death in 2008 provided a valuable history of her family’s years in the house. ??’For both Dr. and Mrs. Scott, religion provided a deep-seated faith, a special buoyancy of body and mind,’ she recalled in ‘Pacific Palisades: Where the Mountains Meet the Sea,’ the book by Betty Lou Young and Randy Young. ??’Both were physical-culture enthusiasts, exercising each morning and allowing the children a bedtime romp through the house’in the buff’to be sure they would sleep soundly.’ ??Dr. Scott’s dream of a burgeoning community slowly faded as property sales began to slump as early as 1924. Most of the Association’s assets were taken over by the Pacific Land Corporation under the guidance of Robert Gillis. When the Methodist Church responded to the crisis by offering to transfer Scott to Hawaii, he decided instead to go into real estate, encouraged by his relationships with Gillis, Alphonso Bell (who developed Bel-Air) and the Janss brothers (who developed Westwood Village). ??In 1927, Scott left Pacific Palisades to move closer to downtown, and his house was given to Dr. Oren Waite, director of education for the Association. ??Despite Waite’s valiant efforts to keep up the quality of the summer Assembly programs in Temescal Canyon and guiding the Association through the difficult times of the late 1920s and 1930s, the Association went bankrupt in 1934 and Dr. Waite accepted another assignment and moved from the house. ??A series of owners and renters moved in and out of the house over the succeeding decades, including actress Beryl Mercer, who owned a large piece of property in Las Pulgas Canyon and made her home there. She rented the house on Via de la Paz to a friend who, in turn, rented out rooms. The next owner was Sam McKee, who operated a piano school on Sunset in Hollywood. When he died, he left the property to the Methodist Church, which rented it to various tenants for short periods of time. Eventually, the house, which at this time was in poor repair, was put on the market. The Schleed family, who lived across the street, bought the house and brought the kitchen up to date and converted the laundry room to a breakfast room. In the dining room, they added French doors, finished the walls with French padding and built a deck off the back. ??Susan Schleed’s philosophy was to keep the original atmosphere of the house as much as possible, a sensibility that the current owners, Jan and Jack Chatten-Brown, appreciated when they bought the house in the summer of 1983. ??At that time, both were working downtown; Jan was Ira Reiner’s special assistant for environmental quality in the City Attorney’s office, and Jack was a deputy district attorney, a career he enjoyed for 34 years until he retired this January. ??With two small boys, the Chatten-Browns had been planning to move to Hancock Park from the Hollywood Hills, where they had lived for 10 years. ‘We wanted a place with sidewalks, where the kids could walk and ride their bikes,’ Jan says. ‘But Cato Fiksdal [L.A. County Agricultural Commissioner] suggested that we take a look at his town of Pacific Palisades, where the kids could walk to school. For years, whenever we came through the McClure Tunnel and saw the ocean, we’d say ‘This is paradise.” ??Ironically, in 1974, when Jan was working in the California Attorney General Environmental Unit, she represented the state in an amicus case in the No Oil battle, insisting that a full EIR should be required of Occidental. But she never had come out to look at the proposed site’right below the end of Via de la Paz, along Pacific Coast Highway. ??The Chatten-Browns came to look at the Scott house and, Jan recalls, ‘I found it really appealing. I loved the views and I found a great window to put the Christmas tree.’ ??The Schleeds agreed to the sale, but insisted that the Chatten-Browns wait until after the Fourth of July parade to move. They complied. ??The Chatten-Browns valued the intent of the house and have retained the integrity of the living and dining rooms. Enthusiastic cooks, they remodeled the kitchen 15 years ago, which had already been updated from the original. ??The boys, Josh (30) and Justin (33), both graduated from Palisades Elementary, just down the street. Josh went on to Paul Revere, while Justin attended Walter Reed. They both graduated from Harvard-Westlake. Justin, an emergency department doctor, lives with his wife Jessica and son Sebastian in Northern California; Josh, a lawyer, lives with his wife Amy in San Diego. ??Now with their sons married and living away, the Chatten-Browns are reluctantly leaving Pacific Palisades and moving to La Jolla to be closer to Josh and Amy. ??Reflecting on their history in the house, they say that one of the annual highlights was the Fourth of July’a day that began with the 10K run up and back to Will Rogers, followed by brunch at their house, the parade and snacks for a late lunch, and then a barbecue and the fireworks show at dusk. ‘We were never away for the Fourth,’ Jan says. ??’Funnily enough, we will be moving to a community with a Fourth of July parade, where we can walk to the village and where, like in Pacific Palisades, we’ll have a beautiful view of the Pacific Ocean.’
Sam Wasserman follows through on the game-winning hit in the sixth inning of Monday’s 4-3 victory over Hamilton. Next up for Palisades is the Division I playoffs, which begin next Wednesday. Photo by Rich Schmitt, Staff Photographer
It was not easy, but the Palisades High varsity baseball team closed out the regular season with a 4-3 victory over Hamilton to put the finishing touch on yet another Western League title. Coach Mike Voelkel crunched the numbers Tuesday night and had his team ranked seventh. He obviously did his homework because that’s just where a nine-member selection committee seeded the Dolphins the following day. “We have no control over where they place us but I do think that our tough nonleague schedule and our head-to-head results against other City teams work in our favor,” Voelkel said Tuesday. “Being a league champion should factor into the criteria also.” Palisades (17-10) will take on 10th-seeded Bell (24-7) in the first round at 3 p.m. next Wednesday at George Robert Field. Coincidentally, it is the only first-round game featuring two schools from outside the San Fernando Valley. Bell enters the playoffs having won 8 of its last 10 games. Just as Palisades posted a 11-1 mark in the Western League, the Eagles went 11-1 to win the Eastern League. They have tournament victories over three Western League opponents: Venice, Hamilton and Westchester. Regardless of how far the Dolphins advance, Voelkel is proud of what his team has accomplished to this point: “We were not the favorites going into the season but we grew a lot as a team and had some individuals who came up big for us in key situations along the way.” Freshman Sam Wasserman has played with poise all season and he did so again Monday, delivering a clutch single to left field with one out in the bottom of the sixth inning to snap a 3-3 tie after Ryan Kim drew a lead-off walk and pinch runner Adam Levin moved to second on Chase Holmes’ sacrifice bunt. For one of the few times all season, ace pitcher Julian Achez was not sharp, but he still led 1-0 when he was lifted after loading the bases with no outs in the top of the fourth inning. Thanks to some gutsy pitching by reliever Hunter Varnum, the Yankees managed only one run. In the next inning, however, Hamilton scored twice more to take a 3-1 lead. The Dolphins answered right back in their half of the frame when Dylan Jeffers’ two-out single to center scored Julian Harrison and Cary Jacobson. Last Thursday, Phillip Joseph pitched four innings of solid relief as Palisades beat Hamilton 6-3. Pali scored four times in the top of the first inning to take command. Achez hit a towering home run over the left field fence in the third inning and Josh Korn scored from third on a balk in the fifth. Should the Dolphins get past Bell they would likely travel to second-seeded Banning in the quarterfinals next Friday, unless the Pilots are upset by the winner of this week’s wildcard game between No. 18 Sun Valley Poly and No. 15 Reseda Cleveland. Last spring, Palisades drew the sixth seed but was upset 1-0 in the first round by 11th-seeded Banning. * * * * * * The junior varsity finished 15-4 and went undefeated in the Western League with Monday’s 12-0 win at Hamilton. Freshman Harrison Simon pitched a two-hitter and Jason Barnett went 3-for-3 at the plate. Last Thursday, Travis Traweek had 11 strikeouts in a one-hit shutout of the Yankees and Sage Lewis homered in the first inning. * * * * * * The Palisades High baseball program will be conducting American Legion tryouts next Saturday, May 22, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at George Robert Field. Tryouts are open to ages 15 (incoming freshmen) through 17 and players must bring their own cleats, bats and gloves. Softball Having finished fourth in the Western League, Palisades was seeded 11th out of 20 teams in the City Invitational playoffs and travels to sixth-seeded Narbonne for a first-round game today at 3 p.m. If victorious, the Dolphins would likely travel to third-seeded Fremont in the quarterfinals next Tuesday. Hannah Fagerbakke was voted first team All-Western League after batting over .600. Catcher Karina Perez and shortstop Jenna Paul made the second team. sports@palipost.com
Spencer Pekar and the Palisades High tennis team will try to repeat as City Section champions Thursday afternoon in Encino. Photo by Rich Schmitt, Staff Photographer
It is no big shock that the Palisades High boys’ tennis team has advanced to the finals of the City Championship draw. The ease with which it did so, however, is a bit surprising, even as loaded in talent as the Dolphins are. Palisades dusted off eighth-seeded Marshall 28-1 1/2, nearly duplicating the 29 1/2-0 score by which they beat the Barristers in last year’s playoffs. The Dolphins then downed fourth-seeded Granada Hills 27-2 1/2 on Tuesday to move within one victory of defending their title. Palisades is the top seed and will be the heavy favorite Thursday when it faces second-seeded Eagle Rock at Balboa Sports Center in Encino. The match will begin at 1 p.m. Eagle Rock beat third-seeded Van Nuys 22 1/2-7 in Tuesday’s other semifinal. Palisades crushed Granada Hills 26 1/2-3 last spring to earn its 17th boys’ crown under current coach Bud Kling. sports@palipost.com
JV teammates Ryan Angelich (left) and Danny Bailey celebrate a goal against Loyola. The Dolphins finished undefeated and won the City Section varsity title. Photo by Rich Schmitt, Staff Photographer
Lacrosse at Palisades High has grown in leaps and bounds the last few seasons and not just at the varsity level. A testament to the overall strength of the program was the junior varsity boys’ performance in the City Section Tournament last Saturday at Birmingham High. The Dolphins’ JV accomplished the remarkable feat of winning the City varsity title to cap an undefeated season and serve notice that Palisades could be the team to beat for many years to come. Palisades’ varsity team earned a berth in the tougher Southern Section playoffs, thus leaving the chore of defending the City title to the JV. No problem. Led by standout freshman attacker Daniel Gurvis, sophomore attackers Luke Rivera and Ryan Angelich, freshman midfielders Blake Bryant and Jack Jordan, sophomore midfielder Hunter Venturelli and freshman defenders Chris Groel and Spencer Sawaii, Palisades blanked L.A. Jordan, 14-0, in the semifinals. Then, in the finals, the Dolphins outscored host Birmingham, 13-8, to finish with 17 wins (most by lopsided margins) and zero losses. “This was a landmark year for the entire program,” said Rick Groel, who coached the JV along with Gus Campos. “I like coaching the JV because winning is not our only priority. Our goal is to get the kids ready for varsity and that means teaching fundamentals and making sure they learn how to play the game properly.” Rounding out the squad were sophomore midfielder Jack Gelber, freshman midfielder Dylan Coleman, freshman attacker Kyle Angelich, junior defender Roger Arauz, freshman midfielder Danny Bailey, sophomore defender Dylan Hellberg, sophomore midfielder Daniel Hernandez, freshman midfielder Nick Jaffe, sophomore midfielder Nick Kane, junior midfielder Julian New, freshman attacker Jack Wyman, sophomore midfielder Oliver Scott, junior goalie Bryan Maclean and freshman goalie Josh Roback. “These guys had a great year and, more importantly, each of them improved over the course of the season,” Groel said. “That’s what it’s all about to me–seeing them get better. With just a handful of seniors graduating, next year is looking pretty good too.” Just how dominant was Palisades’ JV team? Including the playoffs, the Dolphins posted seven shutouts and outscored their opposition by a staggering 230 to 31 margin. Meanwhile, Palisades’ varsity boys and girls both made their first appearance in the Southern Section playoffs and both reached the semifinals. The boys, coached by Scott Hylen, Tommy Johnson, finished 17-3 and earned the No. 6 seed in the postseason tournament. The Dolphins edged Newbury Park, 4-3, in the first round, then routed Chaminade of West Hills 9-3 in the quarterfinals before losing to second-seeded Mira Costa in the Final Four. The girls’ team, coached by Juliet Mittlemann, Alison Brittain and Kristina Villamil, had an 11-game winning streak and was unbeaten against City opponents. The Dolphins outscored host La Canada, 9-8, in the quarterfinals of the Southern Section playoffs and gave Cate of Carpinteria all it could handle before falling, 10-9, in the semifinals. sports@palipost.com
Senior Josh Kanan and the Dolphins spiked South East in the second round of the City Section Division I playoffs Tuesday. Photo by Rich Schmitt, Staff Photographer
Having achieved its first goal–winning the Western League championship–the Palisades High boys’ volleyball team now has its sights set on a bigger one–the City Division I championship. The third-seeded Dolphins took their first step towards that goal Tuesday night but got a tougher match than expected from 14th-seeded South East in the second round of the playoffs. Palisades had a bye in last Thursday’s first round. The Dolphins prevailed, 25-14, 25-20, 26-24, led by senior hitter Kene Izuchukwu’s 14 kills on 26 attempts. Junior Denton Van Duzer added 11 kills and junior Isaac Margulies had 23 digs for Palisades, which swept despite committing 16 service errors. “I told our guys beforehand that every match could be our last,” Coach Chris Forrest said. “I wasn’t going to call a timeout that last set, even when it got tight. I wanted them to figure it out for themselves and luckily they did.” Next up for the Dolphins is a quarterfinal match against sixth-seeded El Camino Real of Woodland Hills on Thursday at 7 p.m. The Conquistadores swept Sun Valley Poly in the second round. The semifinals are next Tuesday night and, barring an upset, Palisades will have to travel to second-seeded Van Nuys. The Division I final will be Saturday, May 22, at Roybal Learning Center in Los Angeles.
Jackie Carr hits a home run for St. Matthew’s in the Pacific Basin League softball championship game last Friday. The Falcons lost 15-5. Photo: John Beaver
The St. Matthew’s softball team nearly won its seventh consecutive Pacific Basin League championship last Thursday, falling to Windward 15-5 in the finals. Still, it was yet another stellar season for the Falcons, who finished in a three-way tie for first place while posting a 9-3 overall record. In the quarterfinals, St. Matthew’s routed Willows 22-4 behind a 14-hit attack led by Jackie Carr (a home run, a double and a single) and Joe Kremer (two doubles and a single). In the semifinals, St. Matthew’s rallied from a 3-1 third-inning deficit to beat Brentwood 16-3. Elena Barberia delivered a key bases-loaded single to open the floodgates, Lauren Kearley had three hits and Carr pitched a four-hitter. Windward had lost to St. Matthew’s 11-6 in the regular season, but scored seven runs in the sixth inning to exact revenge in the championship game. Carr had three hits, including her second home run of the playoffs, and Kremer added two doubles and a single. Rounding out the Falcons’ squad were Courtney Carswell, Kristen Goldberg, Brooke Reese, Charlotte Notaras, Lindsay Kornfeind and Sarah Hurst. Tennis Cameron Schiffer and Thomas Adair won three matches to capture the Pacific Basin League doubles title. Schiffer, a 7th-grader and Adair, a 6th-grader, beat Crossroads’ Will Newirth and Ben Weisman, 6-1, in the quarterfinals, beat Wildwood’s Griffin Maduzia and Adam Gelbert, 6-3, in the semifinals and beat Ellie Konberg and Julian Albou of Wildwood, 6-4, in the finals. Track & Field St. Matthew’s tied for second place in the girls’ competition and finished fourth in the boys’ competition at the Pacific Basin League Championships at West L.A. College. The girls finished with 20 points, just two behind winner Windward thanks to three first-place finishes. Jo Kremer won the 1600 meters in 6:09.2, Claire Chapus cleared 4′ 2′ to win the high jump and the 4 x 400 relay team of Emma Sanderson, Alex Jackson, Mackenzie Howe and Kremer won in 4:41.4. Kremer took second in the long jump (13′ 10″) and third in the high jump (4′ 0′) while Howe was second in both the high jump (4′ 2″) and 400 meters (63.8 seconds) and Jackson was third in the 800 meters (2:50.2). The 4 x 100 relay team of Josephine Washburn, Mackenzie Howe, Lily Donnell and Brianna Kupfer was runner-up in 62.2 seconds. Other contributors for the Falcons included Amy Nadal, Juliette West, Milan Agnone, Pippa Thomas, Liza Wong, Jules Barlow, Libby Glenn, Hannah Bowlin. Tyler Newman led the boys team by scoring in three individual events. He won the high jump (4′ 2″) and took third in both the long jump (15′ 11′) and 400 meters (59.5 seconds). Marko Trapani was third in the high jump (3′ 10″), Matt Douglas was ran 2:24.1 in the 800 meters and the 4 x 400 relay team of Hudson Ling, Nick Moreno, Newman and Kelly Harlan won in 4:22 flat. Also competing for St. Matthew’s were Henry Prentice, Jack Newman, Michael Mapes, Hank Algert, Alec Graham and Lochlan Montgomery. Golf St. Matthew’s took third place with a team score of 231 in the Pacific Basin League Coed Championships last Saturday at The Lakes in El Segundo. Brandon Kupfer was the Falcons’ low scorer with a 36, followed by Alex Kahn (37), Peter St. John (38), Matthew Koh (39), Preston Clifford (40), Nick Moreno (41) and Clay Davis (41). Individually, Elizabeth Edel carded a 47, Alexander Brown a 51, A.J. Peyrot a 52 and Zac Christian a 54. Kupfer’s 36 earned him a tie for seventh place in the tournament. Volleyball With five 6th-graders on its 7th-grade team, St. Matthew’s reached the Delphic League finals, falling to Harvard-Westlake 25-17, 21-25, 15-11, in the championship match. Game 2 was tied 9-9 when Hunter Price made a diving dig to set up a Matt Douglas kill, giving the Falcons a lead they would not give up. The deciding third game was tied five times before the Wolverines pushed ahead. Matt Douglas, the setter, played a strong match along with Quinn McGinley, Price and Matt Kaufman. Matt Ursin-Smith, Colin Enzer, A.J. Peyrot and Hank Algert were in the back row, Kia Torab made a key serving run in the second game while Grady Miller and William Ruppenthal also contributed. The 8th-grade team lost in the semifinals to Harvard-Westlake, 25-23, 25-17. Setter Brandon Kupfer came back from a shoulder injury to lead the team. Preston Clifford, Tyler Newman and Drake Mumford were strong at net. Clay Davis, Andrew Jones, Alex Kahn, Eric Roosendahl and Kieran Sheridan also contributed to the Falcons’ success. sports@palipost.com
Savannah Schy, a freshman at Brentwood School, won the 100 and 200 junior varsity races at the Olympic League finals last week.
Savannah Schy, a 14-year-old freshman at Brentwood School won the 100 and 200-meter junior varsity races at the Olympic League finals last week. She will also be an alternate on the Eagles’ 4 x 100 relay team at the CIF Preliminaries Meet. Schy, who previously attended Village School, won the 100 in 13.95 seconds and won the 200 in 29.43 seconds. She was the California State Level 4 Gymnastics champion in 2005), led the Brentwood 4 x 100 relay to the middle school league title last year and has competed in every Optimist/YMCA Track Meet since she was 6 years old. Schy also won the Presidential Fitness Award in 7th and 8th grade, putting her in the top 15 percent of all students her age nationally. * * * * * * Palisades High sophomore John Lemoine scored in regulation and again in overtime as the Santa Monica Rugby Club’s U16 boys’ squad reached the semifinals of the Southern California playoffs two weeks ago, losing to the San Diego Young Aztecs on penalty kicks. Lemoine scored the Dolphins’ try and the sides traded scores from then on as regulation ended in a 26-26 tie. Lemoine scored again in overtime, which ended deadlocked at 31. San Diego rallied from a 3-2 deficit after four shootout rounds to win 43-40. * * * * * * Redshirt sophomore Cole Cook pitched his first shutout of the season as Pepperdine routed West Coast Conference rival St. Mary’s 12-0 last Saturday afternoon in Moraga. Cook, a former All-City pitcher at Palisades High, notched his fourth complete game of the season, throwing 109 pitches (70 of them strikes), allowing seven hits and striking out six batters. * * * * * * Four Palisadians were among the 800 runners from 16 states who participated in the XTERRA Malibu Creek Challenge Trail Run last Sunday. Tricia Baak, 41, completed the 22K course in two hours, 37 minutes and 47 seconds (ninth in her age division) while Craig Fischer, 48, finished in 2:53:07 (20th in his division). Mary Colburn of Culver City set a new women’s course record, crossing the finish line in 1:43:56 and Emilio Perez of Riverside clocked 1:38:29 to win the men’s race. In the 6K race, Cindy Suby, 37, was second in her division in 36:29 while Matt Haggenmiller, 36, was 10th in his division with a time of 37:43. Camron Shahmirzadi of Woodland Hills won the men’s 6K in 25:22 and 15-year-old Megan Huebner won the women’s race in 30:43.
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