Monday, May 21, 2012
The post-season continues for Chelsea Kruthers and Lexi Shaw.
With temperatures soaring high, the San Juan Hills High girls track and field team took their best on Saturday to Mt. Sac for the CIF Championships. At the end of the day, Chelsea Kruthers and Lexi Shaw both earned ALL-CIF honors, placing second in their respective individual events. Kruthers battled it close with the all-time national high school record holder Amy Weissenbach from Harvard Westlake in the Division III 800 Meter Race. Chelsea crossed the line with a time of 2:10.7, which qualifies her for the next round of CIF competition at Masters this coming Friday at Cerritos College. Shaw raced a new personal best in the 300 hurdles with a time of 44.62, placing second in Division III, securing her the alternate position for …
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Senior Chelsea Kruthers, the Sea View League champion in the 800, will be honored on May 29 as the league's top athlete.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Cost of the Saturday test is $85.
St. Margaret's Episcopal School student Ryan O'Hare thought he was a perfectly heathy teen until he was diagnosed with Wolf-Parkinson-White syndrome because of a heart screening offered to athletes at his school. After the screening by Heartfelt Cardiac Project, a Laguna Beach-based charity, O'Hare spent many months receiving tests and evalutions from various cardiologists, and eventually underwent a procedure to correct the defect in his heart. O'Hare's parents, Mark and Rita O'Hare, said they couldn't stress enough what they learned from the experience. "We feel that every responsible parent and spouse should have their children and loved ones screened," they wrote in a letter now published on the nonprofit's website. Another heath …
Another San Juan Hills team is headed for the CIF post-season playoffs.
San Juan Hills High has another team headed for the CIF post-season playoffs: the boys varsity baseball team. Getting there wasn’t easy. The team, (18-11) had to travel to Ventura and play a wild card game against Buena High and earn the right to enter the playoffs. They won, 6-4 According to the Ventura County Star, for the Stallions, this game was all about the first inning. San Juan Hills scored all of its runs in its first ups, five before the Bulldogs managed to make the first out. "You can't spot a team six runs in the first inning in a playoff game and expect good things to happen," Buena head coach Mark Magdaleno told the Ventura County Star. "That first inning definitely was a momentum changer and it was tough to get the momentum …
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Some schools, such as El Toro, were solidly in the playoff field. Others have to play wild card games today to get into the playoff bracket. One local school is seeded in the top four.
They're longshots to begin with, and their chances of winning a Southern Section baseball title won't be helped by having to play a wild card game today just to get into the first round of the playoffs. But that's the task facing teams such as JSerra, San Clemente and Capistrano Valley in Division 1 and Trabuco Hills and San Juan Hills in Division 2. For them, the do-or-die playoffs begin today, which will put extra strain on pitching rotations that must win five games to win a title once the first round begins on Thursday for some times and Friday for others. The playoff pairings for the seven divisions were released on Monday by the Southern Section office, and there was only one south Orange County team that was seeded into one of the …
Friday, May 11, 2012
The Stallions lose out to West Ranch High School in the second round of championship playoffs.
The Stallions boys volleyball team went down Thursday night in second-round CIF play-off action. This is the first season the boys from San Juan Hills High have made it to post-season play. On Tuesday, they bested the boys from Beckman High and earned the right to travel to Stevenson Ranch (near Magic Mountain). The teams were evenly matched and split the first two games, according to the Newhall Signal. West Ranch head coach Nate Sparks told that paper his team just wanted it more. The tipping point came in the third game, the paper reported. "The Wildcats scored three straight points to finish it off when San Juan committed a back-row violation," wrote the Signal. More like a bad call, said Dave Schickling, parent of SJHHS's Ryan …
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Officials fence off the dugouts, saying they may not have been built properly.
By Brittany Christensen EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is written by a student journalist from San Juan Hills High's The Express newspaper. Worried about student safety, Capistrano Unified School District officials fenced off the baseball dugouts at San Juan Hills High on April 23, just before one of the more important games of the season – and they have remained off limits ever since. The Stallions have their last game of the season Thursday. Officials have been curious about the dugouts since December, according to Principal Tom Ressler, but left them alone until shortly after the pool dedication ceremony, when Interim Deputy Superintendent Tim Holcomb ordered the dugouts closed until further notice. Later, workers hammered out two holes in…
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
After dropping the first set, the Stallions win three in a row to advance to the next round.
The 2011 boys golf CIF championship banner is looking a little lonely up there by itself in the "Saddle Dome" at San Juan Hills High. Might a 2012 boys volleyball banner join it? It's a possibility, now that the Stallions have passed their first-round opponent in Beckman High of Irvine Tuesday night at home. After a strong start with four unanswered points in the first game, Beckman returned, chasing on the Stallions' heels and coming from behind to win the first set of the match. But the San Juan Hills boys took the next three sets in a row to make a definitive statement that they do indeed belong in post-season play. Final scores, 24-26, 25-16, 25-22 and 25-20. Coach Justin DeBlasio said the Patriots' play threw the team off a bit. "They…
The sixth annual race was a popular place to be on Sunday.
Dana Point was turned into a race course for cyclists on Sunday for the sixth annual Dana Point Grand Prix of Cycling. In between adult and kid's races, eating and vendors selling their wares, a few accidents also occurred. In fact, a few were carted off on gurneys. However, according to Lt. Joe Balicki of the Orange County Sheriff's Department, there were "no serious injuries reported."
Monday, May 7, 2012
Girls take second place overall in the Trinity League. Next stop: CIF.
JSerra Catholic High School swimmers put up some top times at Friday's Trinity League Swimming Championships at the Santa Margarita Aquatics Complex. Lion swimmers broke seven varsity Trinity League records in the finals, won 10 league titles and qualified four All American automatic times, seven All American consideration times, 17 CIF Automatic Times, 13 CIF Consideration Times and 88 seasonal best times during the season’s dual meet and championship competitions. Varsity freshmen KatieMcLaughlin (200 free, 100 fly) and Kaitlyn Albertoli (50 free, 100 free) earned the co-swimmers of the year following their performances on Friday, which included breaking two league records each in addition to helping smash two league relay records along …
OC Mom
8:28 pm on Sunday, May 13, 2012
I'm frustrated for the parents who gave $20,000 and followed the districts instructions only to have this dugout remain unusable. If this doesn't sum up how ridiculous many of these regulations are I don't know what does. Many parents do their part in our district only to encounter these kinds of problems. Nice article Britanny. Keep up the good work. more ›