CITYWIDE — Now that spring break has broke, local teams return to full slates of games this week. The baseball and boys’ volleyball squads at Santa Monica High School return to Ocean League play today with baseball hosting Inglewood and volleyball traveling to rival Culver City.
BROADWAY — As a teenager, Liz Crosson contrasted her suburban lifestyle in Northern California with back country adventures in the wilderness. She still remembers her first backpacking trip to the Central Coast of California during her time as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley.
CITY HALL — City Hall will have no part in surf instruction on Santa Monica’s beaches this year after city officials recommended against contracting with a local firm that came in second in a formal bidding process, despite the fact that the first-place candidate dropped out.
SAMOHI — The game may have been delayed 90 minutes, but it didn’t seem to matter to the boys from Santa Monica. Samohi’s baseball team shrugged off the delay to power past Eastern High School, 7-2, on Tuesday at home.
WESTWOOD — When UCLA hosts Oregon during a three-game set at Jackie Robinson Stadium beginning today, a pair of brothers with ties to Santa Monica Little League will face off in a sibling rivalry.
Former Samohi standout Tyler Skaggs will begin the season at AA Mobile, the Arizona Diamondbacks announced this week. Skaggs, who was originally selected by the Los Angeles Angels with the 40th pick in the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft out of Santa Monica High School, was in major league camp for
St. Monica’s Vincent Flores makes a play on a grounder against St. Paul on Wednesday at Marine Park. St. Monica lost a close one, 2-1, in eight innings.
SAMOHI — Santa Monica’s boys’ volleyball team may have slipped a bit since opening the season ranked No. 1 in CIF-Southern Section Division 4, but they haven’t tumbled too far.
Santa Monica High School freshman Denise Reynoso attempts to score as Beverly Hills’ Shyra Costas makes the tag on Wednesday at Beverly HIlls. Samohi would win the game 12-0, improving its record to 3-0 in Ocean League play.
SAMOHI — It was just one game, but it looks like Samohi baseball is ready for the Ocean League. The defending league champs got a gem of an outing from starting pitcher Adam Padilla and an offensive explosion in the fourth inning to dispatch Hawthorne, 9-0, at home.
