Schy Sets Pace for Brentwood

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.