BASEBALL: Normans Go 3-1 In Arcadia Tournament

While most of the community’s attention has been directed toward the girls’ basketball team’s playoff games, the BHHS baseball team began its season earlier this month with three wins in the Arcadia Elks Club’s tournament.

The Normans’ season officially began with a 10-5 win over El Monte, followed by a 5-4 loss to Alhambra. Beverly Hills rebounded with two straight wins over Hoover (7-3) and Temple City (9-7).

Up next, Beverly Hills hosts  Crossroads and Norwalk.

Crossroads opened its season with a 10-2 win over defending CIF Division 6 champion Oxford Academy of Cypress.

Yesterday’s game against Kalani of Honolulu was an intersectional game at La Cienega Park. The Normans face Norwalk at 3:15 p.m. today at the park. They host Lynwood’s Firebaugh on Tuesday and Sherman Oaks’ Buckley Wednesday, both in non-league games at La Cienega park.

In other early season games involving Ocean League teams, Inglewood also has a 3-1 record with wins over Animo Leadership (4-0), Math and Science Academy (5-2) and Chadwick (6-4), while Santa Monica is a surprising 0-4, after dropping games to Moorpark (7-0), Rio Mesa (5-4), Cleveland (8-1) and Burroughs (8-6) in the Easton Tournament.


LACROSSE: BH Drops  Its First Three Games

The Beverly Hills boys’ lacrosse team is 0-3 after a rough start to the 2010 season.

The Normans lost their opening game to Loyola 17-3, with Jonathan Park’s one goal and Mikey Cole adding two goals for Beverly Hills. Beverly Hills dropped its second game 16-0 against Palisades High School.

The Dolphins jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the first quarter and led 11-0 at halftime. That was followed by a 16-2 home loss to Palos Verdes.


TENNIS: Morgan Helps Lead Howard To Four Wins

The Howard women’s tennis team remained perfect in action and ran its winning streak to four matches with a 7-0 victory over local rival Towson.

The Lady Bison started the match by sweeping the doubles positions.

Brittney Morgan (freshman, BHHS) and Alyssa Works were victorious at the No. 1 slot, 8-2 while Ashley Moore and Michelle Brown downed the Towson duo of Laura Cloonan and Andrea Samlin, 8-2 at the No. 2 spot.

Michele Gee and Anne Akhimien were victorious at No. 3 doubles for the sweep.

Morgan also contributed to the Bison's win with an easy 6-1, 6-1 win over Cloonan. As a freshman, Morgan has a record of 4-1 in singles and 5-0 in doubles. Her only loss came March 11 to Alice Chen of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 4-6, 4-6


GOLF: Cole Leads TCU To Ninth Place Finish

The TCU Horned Frogs, led by Eli Cole of Beverly Hills, concluded their second tournament of the spring season following a ninth-place showing at the John Hayt Collegiate Invitational at the Sawgrass Country Club in Jacksonville, Fla.

The Frogs posted a three-round score of 901 (298-302-301) following a team score of 301 on the final nine holes of action.

North Florida captured the team championship with a 54-hole score of 876 while LSU (888), Duke (889), Alabama (895) and Tennessee (898) rounded out the top-five.

Cole, Travis Woolf, and Johan de Beer all tied for the highest finish for the Frogs as the TCU teammates all posted a 9-over-par score of 225 en route to finishing 21st overall.