SAMOHI — It may be early, but Santa Monica’s boys soccer team is thinking big. Just two years removed from a California Interscholastic Federation state title and coming off a third-round playoff loss last season, Head Coach Serafin Rodriguez sees the upcoming season with optimistic eyes.
Santa Monica’s Luke Zelon may have just wrapped up the football season a few weeks ago, but the versatile player still has his mind on the gridiron. He isn’t sizing up an opponent or working on game plans, but his choice of where to play next year is still a work in progress.
Santa Monica is compact, densely populated and dotted with 12 schools. Roughly, there’s 9,000 students. All but a small number of those kids get driven to school every day.
PALMDALE — The football season has come to an end for Santa Monica (4-7 overall). Samohi lost to Palmdale 45-26 in the first round of the Western Division California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section Toyota Football Championships on Friday.
DOWNTOWN — Two men believed responsible for stabbing a 17-year-old Inglewood resident following a Santa Monica High School football game earlier this season plead guilty to misdemeanor battery and promoting a criminal street gang.
PALMDALE — Sometimes, a playoff game comes down to one player. Tonight when Santa Monica travels to Palmdale in the first round of the Western Division California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section Toyota Football Championships there is one such figure who has grabbed the attention of Samoh
OCEAN PARK BLVD. — First the bad news about the local public schools. A financial predicament is about to become even more problematic for the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, which is projecting an operating deficit of $10 million this year and is sure to feel a big hit from an estimate
PREP SPORTS ROUNDUP BORON — Pacifica Christian’s girls volleyball team is one step closer to a championship. The Seawolves defeated Boron High School on Saturday in three sets to advance to the semi-finals of the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section Division 5AA playoffs.
HAWTHORNE — When the Samohi Vikings traveled to Hawthorne on Friday, they had prepared for a do-or-die situation. The Vikings needed a win over the Cougars in order to secure the third and final seed in the playoffs from the Ocean League.
SAMOHI — The girls on Santa Monica’s basketball team will get an opportunity to take it to their teachers next week. Head Coach Marty Verdugo has organized an exhibition against the school’s faculty as a warm-up to the season, which begins late this month.
HAWTHORNE — A spot in the playoffs has come down to this one simple fact for the Vikings: Win against Hawthorne on the road tonight and they’re in. After starting the season 1-4, it looked like Santa Monica had little chance of making the playoffs.
SAMOHI — This year’s Vikings softball team will have the feel of a big-time college squad. Santa Monica High School will be flush with future Division I college players when they take the field in February.
