SC Sports by La CIma Magazine S2017

Southern

California Long Beach Dew Skateboarding Tour

Do the Dodgers Have a Fighting Chance to make it to the World Series?

Live Horse Racing

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Table Of Contents Live Horse Racing Page: 4 Long Beach Dew Tour Page: 10 Do the Dodgers Have a Fighting Chance to make it to the World Series? Page: 13 The Next Big Thing, Brandy Hernandez Feature Page: 16 Dream Big, Big league Dreams Page: 18 Enter The World of Footgolf Page: 22 Fellow Roadrunner Sets Up Her Future, Carligh Cruz Feature Page: 24 Staff Page: 26

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR The purpose of this magazine is to highlight the many different sports played and enjoyed by many individuals throughout the Southern California area. Some sports highlighted in this magazine already have worldwide recognition, but some are more niche, and less in the mainstream world of sports. The term “sport� can cover a wide range of competitive activities and hopefully through this magazine will be able to help portray the large spectrum of different sports Southern California has to offer.

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Live Horse Racing

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he last two horse races of the season kicked off during the Fourth of July festivities. The weather was less than desirable with temperatures in the low 90s, but that did not stop people from gathering on closing day. Horse racing is enjoyed by anyone of any age, plus the Santa Anita Race Track is a family friendly location. The horses are a big hit with everyone especially with small children. The racehorses are paraded through the Paddock Gardens before every race, where guests can view them up close. This is the time to snap photos of all the racehorses before show time.

When getting to see the racehorses up close, it is inevitable not to witness some unruly behavior from a few horses. Some need two trainers to contain the behavior in the stables, especially since they are quite strong and in certain cases defiant.

Autumn racing begins September 29, check the website for full details and special events. The entrance price starts at $5 with access near to the track. Horseracing is typically a sport where wagering is encouraged and celebrated, and Santa Anita Park is not one to part away from that tradition. Try a something new it may evolve into a hobby.

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Long Beach Dew Tour Skateboarding Do the dew #TEAM ELEMENT

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As the Long Beach Dew Tour commenced on June 15th, the three-day event of street skateboarding invited many of the best street skateboarders from around the world like Chris Cole, Current Caples, Chris Joslin, Nyjah Huston, and more. Once arriving inside the Dew tour facilities tents are placed in rows around the perimeter representing the skate teams including Element, Blind, Zero, Darkstar, Flip, Santa Cruz, and countless more. There’s also merch from the skate brands that the skaters represent and free prices like hats, bags, and pins.

Pre-game day of the Dew tour mini competitions were held before the actual competition began. The Amateur street competition was the first to kick off on pre-game day with competitors including, Alex Midler, Mauricio McCoy, Jack Olson, Ivan Monteiro, and many more. Everybody had gnarly run, but at the end of the day Alex Midler came on top with first place, leaving Mauricio McCoy in second and Jack Olson in third. The professional street skaters appeared to be excited and eagered to make it to the street finals. Professional skateboarder Curren Caples was thrilled to be skating this year in the Long Beach Dew Tour alongside his friends. He has expectations high expectations about himself and also is looking out for new pro skateboarders who are making a name of themselves, like Yuto Horigome, straight out of Tokyo, Japan, now making it to the street league. “The Japanese kid I just met him for the first time he’s one to watch out for” said Caples.

As the weekend went underway the staff started setting up early in the morning constructing then placing the stages in their area for the pro athletes can compete and practice. Local artists from Long Beach were roaming around the Dew Tour grounds like Andy Jenkins from the Green Label Gallery, Steven Harrington, Andy Mueller. Every artist has a specific role at the event, displaying their art to people and giving out pointers to upcoming painters that wanted to get into the industry.

It lasted half the day for everybody to set up because competitions started at noon, and gates opened at 11:30. Shortly when the Dew Tour gates finally opened, groups of skateboarders entered the grounds passed Lagoon Park to support pro skateboarders they look up to. Even though it was a family event; spectators were inside smoking weed in corners, while security guards and police patrol did nothing about it.

First day of Dew Tour competitions, Skaters had that 10-minute practice run to let steam out and enjoy before they battle. The 2 groups consisted of 6 skaters and each run was called “Heat”. The pro athletes rallied every single obstacle including the tech, gap, and rail sections of the Dew Tour grounds so they can get the uppermost overall score. Most of the pro skaters were tired and sweating tremendously because of the apocalyptic heatwave ramming Long Beach but that didn’t stop them from trying.

At the end of the day only 11 athletes made it to Sunday’s semifinals. Only 6 will covet the spots to Sunday’s final and close the ceremonies. For Saturday’s event Pro skateboarder Shane O’Neil received first place, Nyjah Huston got second place, Rookie Yuto Horigome got third, and Kelivin Hoefler making it to fourth in the pro street semifinals.

Saturday evening after the Dew tour was over, the Lagoon Park was hosting a small free show dedicated to the Dew Tour, Rapper Cam’ron kicked off the show performing a dozen songs and a few hit singles to an elated crowd. The park outside Dew tor grounds was overflowing with hundreds of visitors from all over Long Beach, and from Los Angeles. After Cam’ron’s set was over Metro Boomin came out to perform his set list and the crowd went wild, surpassing excitement from previous performer Cam’ron. The crowd overall had an amazing evening with people being inebriated, getting high, and skateboarding.

from different competitions. The Pro Bowl final winners and first place was Cory Juneu, second was Heimana Reynolds, Clay Kreiner finishing third. The AM street final first place winner went to Tyson Bowerbank, Maurio McCoy finished second, Jack Olson ending in third. Overall, The Pro Street final was the important finals that the crowd needed to experience. It was an intense run; the skaters were getting heated in the heat. The only skater that seemed to be focused and prepared was Pro rookie skateboarder Yuto Horigome from Japan. He’s attendance was a bless because he was already

signing autographs to young skateboarders and not speaking any English he has come a long way straight out of Japan to make a name for himself.

In the last Heat run, the last competitors were battling for first place. Nyjah Huston was losing his temper at the end; he decided to go all out and attempted a 360-laser flip to put him in first place but filed and didn’t land the trick. He left the stage angry and threw his board hitting a metal pole.

The winner for the Pro Street competition was kelvin Hoefler getting first place, Nyjah Huston earning second place, and Yuto Horigome landing in third place.

The Final day of the Dew Tour was the most challenging for the Pro street skaters. There were other sideline winners on the side

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Do the Dodgers Have a Fighting Cha

It’s no secret the Dodgers are a playoff team, winning four of the past five Western Division titles. Even so, the Dodgers haven’t won a National League Championship Series since 1988, when under the management of Tommy Lasorda, the Boys in Blue went on to win the National League Championship Series in game seven with Orel Hershiser shutting out the New York Mets six to zero. Hershiser’s performance won him the NLCS Most Valuable Player award, and sending the dodgers to the World Series.

Where Hershiser and the Dodgers beat the Oakland Athletics in game five of the World Series, making the Dodgers the only baseball club to earn more than one World Series in the 1980’s, Winning the championship title in 1981, and again in 1988. Since then, the Dodgers have struggled to win the race for the National League Pennant, getting beat out by the St. Luis Cardinals in 2013, as well as in 2014. In 2015, when the Dodgers faced the New York Mets, the Dodgers chances of winning a World Series were knocked out of the park when the Mets beat the

Dodgers in game five of the National League Championship Series. Last year, when the Chicago Cubs and the Dodgers faced off in the NLCS, the Cubs beat the Dodgers in game six and went on to win the World Series championship for the first time since 1945.

Now the Dodgers are back on the trail with another chance to win the coveted World Series Championship, and Dodger fans are jumping out of their seat in anticipation. Since the Dodgers have recently won so many Western Division Titles to many True-Blue Dodger fans, it’s not a question if the dodgers will win the world series, It’s how soon. With the Dodgers, or any baseball club, it’s the culmination of many different and imperative factors that add up to a world series win, and it’s more than an impeccable offense and defense, it’s also requires a strong management team, a good clubhouse chemistry, as well as an extreme desire to be the champion of Major League Baseball. All of which the Los Angeles Dodgers seem to have in spades.

The only other obstacle would be to actually beat the opposing teams, all of whom are painstakingly practicing being the best, the dodgers just have to want to be better.

The 2017 season has been nothing short of extremely exciting.

The season opened with a bang, as

Clayton Kershaw made his seventh straight opening day start is he was holding his ground as one of the fiercest pitchers in all of baseball, tying Dodger Great Don Sutten for most consecutive starts, as well as tying Sutten and Don Drysdale for most overall opening day starts in Dodger History. Joc Peterson Knocked a grand slam out of the park, the first time a Dodger hit a grand slam on opening day since Raul Mondesi hammered a grand slam in 1999. Yasmani Grandal, the switch hitter, smacked two home runs out of Dodger Stadium, from both sides of the plate, for the first time in Dodger History. Later in the season Kenley Jansen Pitched an immaculate inning against the Miami Marlins. The Dodgers also swept the 2016 World Series champions, the Chicago Cubs, for the first time since 2012. Clayton Kershaw has reached the 2000 strikeout mark, and Cody Bellinger has been an unstable force with 15 home runs since the Dodgers’ May series with the Cardinals. Now that the season passed its halfway mark, a good prediction of whether or not the Blue Crew will be a storm to be weathered is to examine the way the defense and offense has played in the year so far. Which in the case of defense, is the pitching staff and the outfield.

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ance to make it to the World Series?

By Eric Munoz

Pitching can be divided up into two different categories, the “starting pitcher” and the “Bullpen.”

As its name would suggest, the starting pitcher begins the game, and the bullpen consists of every pitcher after the starting pitcher gets relieved.

When it comes to the starting rotation of pitchers for the Dodgers the only real stand out player is Clayton Kershaw, with many other starters still finding their bearings on the pitching mound. However, with the help of catchers like Austin Barnes And Yasmani Grandal, it is definitely an accomplishable task. The Dodger bullpen has the responsibility of cleaning up after the starting pitcher, and if the closers like Kenley Janson can keep throwing strikes, that won’t be a problem either.

The next component to the defensive side of baseball is the outfield, and the Dodgers outfield is a unstoppable force. The Dodger outfield has players like Yasiel Puig, who would sooner throw himself into the wall (or in the case of Joc Pederson, a human skull) then see a ball fall onto the field, or into the stands.

The Dodgers also have Chris Taylor and Cody Bellinger lining the outfield ready to run and dive for any fly ball dropping into the green. That’s not even to mention ground balls hit to the bases either, because there are even more gunners guarding the bases, such as first baseman Adrian Gonzales and Second baseman Chase Utley both of which are great hitters and complete monsters on the field.

Not to mention the utility players the dodgers have on their roster such as Taylor and Bellinger. The other side of the coin of baseball is the offense, and its the dodger offense that leaves much to be desired, however with power hitters such as Taylor, Turner, Grandal, Utley and the Dodger rookie superstar Bellinger, the Dodgers lineup still strikes fear into many starting pitchers eyes.

The Dodger Management team is also a factor in the way the dodgers have been playing this season, Manager David Roberts seems to have culminated a real family oriented team, with the pitching coach Rick Honeycutt and the hitting coach Turner Ward the patriarchs of their respective sides of the club. The Cohesiveness of the coaching staff is evident in the way the players interact on the field, with their being an obvious ambiance of camaraderie.

When any of the dodgers earn a run, it always seems like the Dodgers’ dugout are the biggest cheerers in any stadium. That’s what makes the dodgers so fun to watch, because of how much they want to win the next world series, and every time a pitcher takes the mound or a batter enters the batter box. The enthusiasm really emanates from the dugout and when the dodger fans see that enthusiasm, whether or not they are at dodger stadium or not, really resonates with the dodger fans in the stands. Most Dodger fans believe that the Dodgers will win a world series because the dodger players themselves feel they can win a world series.

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The Next Big Thing, Brandy Hernandez

By: Malena Lopez

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hat started off as a family game in the pool, turned into a competition that led

to multiple championships and shelves stocked up with trophies.

20-year-old Brandy Hernandez made waterpolo her passion and gained a second family in the process.

Hernandez is going on nine years of playing the competitive sport however, she was not on a actual team until freshman year of high school. Since the beginning of time, becoming a freshman in high school has always had teenagers feeling excited and nauseous at the same time. Hernandez came into high school intimidated about not knowing anyone but was determined to make an impression on the water polo coaches. While at tryouts, Hernandez saw what she was going up against and knew that is what she wanted to be a part of, since then her passion for the sport only grew.

Hernandez not only gained a neat

hobby, but she also gained a second family. Being that she put in several hours in the pool she had more than enough bonding time with her team

to the point where she no longer saw those girls as her teammates, but rather her sisters.

“We spent so much time with each other at school, tournaments and practice that we just naturally became so close” said Hernandez. “When one of us were in a pickle, we were right besides one another to help.”

Here came junior year and things were looking better for Hernandez, she only grew stronger and she started to gain the attention of recruiters.

Then the unfortunate happened. Hernandez was in a car accident and the

outcome was a dislocated collarbone.

This incident happened the weekend before her first game of the season and because of that she had to sit out the remainder of the season.

This not only affected her physically and emotionally, but also her team due to the lack of motivation she had to get back on track.

Within this time Hernandez became distracted and was rethinking her passion.

She caught herself and her negative thoughts and dove back in the water with her collarbone still not fully healed.

“I knew that if I stayed out of the water any longer, I would not have wanted to go back in even when I was allowed to.”

Hernandez continued her passion, kept moving forward and was ready her senior year and soon after that went straight to the Rio Hondo College pools ready to play.

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their way to my games whether it’s super early in the morning or it is on a hot sunny day, they were there.�

Hernandez has always had a great support system standing besides her, even more so now that she is playing college ball. With college being a bit more competitive than high school, she and her team have seen a few losses in their season but of course that had no real impact on her nor the team. In her eyes, it is a shame to notice mistakes that were made throughout the game that can not be fixed, but knowing that she and the team did what they could and more, that is what really counts.

This is now going to be her third year of playing for Rio and is still going strong. Hernandez is currently studying to major in sociology and is planning on transferring as soon as possible. She is making decisions day

by day and does not have her heart set on a specific four year yet but is hoping that her passion for water polo follows her once she transfers.

Until then, best of luck to Brandy Hernandez and her team at Rio Hondo College.

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Dream Big

By Anamaria Aparicio

Many people around the country have dreamed about what it feels like to play baseball in the big leagues. They way it feels like when they take their first step on that field, the lights hitting you, and the way people cheer for the sport. Big League Dreams give people that opportunity to know what it is like. Their baseball fields are meant to be a replica of the stadiums such as Boston’s Fenway Park, New York’s Yankee Stadium and Chicago’s Wrigley Field. Although you may not get the same chanting as you would at a usual baseball game, the feeling of stepping on that field and the lights hitting you is something you can experience.

Big League Dreams admission fee is three dollars Monday through Thursday for people thirteen and older. Friday through Sunday has an admission fee of five dollars. They offer little league games as well as a softball league for adults of all skill levels. The softball leagues are all men and coed teams. Players pay two fees. A player fee is thirty dollars that everyone on the team must pay. A Team fee is $395 that is divided within the team.

A team must have a minimum of twelve players which means each person ends up paying around thirty-two dollars for the team fee. In total a person pays around

sixty-two dollars to play the nine games in a season and the playoffs.

But, Softball isn’t the only league that is offered at Big League Dreams Park. They also offer an indoor soccer league for those who are interested. Soccer leagues have a player fee as well of thirty dollars and a team fee of $325. Their teams must have minimum of nine players which means their team fee is around thirty-six in total. Although depending on the amount of players there are, their fee can be less.

Big League Dreams also offers batting cages for those who were to practice on their swing before a game or for leisure

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Fellow Roadrunner Sets Up Her Future

By Maddy Gastelum

Rio Hondo graduate, Carleigh

Cruz, is off to bigger and better things as she prepares herself for Hope International University’s volleyball programs, indoor and beach volleyball, as the newest member of the teams! Carleigh started out her volleyball career like any other young girl, “My mom wanted me to play a sport and keep me busy as I was growing up.” Of course she started with the basic sports that everyone played as a child but volleyball fascinated her from a young age, starting with the 2008 Beijing Olympics. This is what started the

fire within her to play and pursue the sport on a more passionate level.

Carleigh grew up in her home in Buena Park and went to high school at Loara High in Anaheim.

Quickly she tried out and made the volleyball team as an entering freshman for the frosh-soph. Her first year there was one of her favorites Carleigh says, “I learned a lot in that first season and I worked really hard because I wanted to be the best player I could.” After her freshman year Carleigh worked really hard and kept up with her workouts in preparation for her upcoming sophomore year because she had big things in mind!

Carleigh knew that her freshman year was a big developmental step in her game and she had her eyes set on the

varsity libero position because the girl on varsity was graduating that year leaving a spot for her to step in. Coming into the next year Carleigh had high hopes and big shoes to fill, that summer league she worked and secured her position. She was a frosh-soph varsity team hopper and she was so excited for that season. Those next three years her game was able to grow along with her strength and confidence as well. She remembered during those seasons that she was increasing in her skill level but more importantly her mental game by learning the game and the ins and outs quickly. Going into her senior year her team was able to take First team all league and knock out the competition, along with that they were able to lead far in their CIF league. Once her high school senior season had come to a close she was left to decide whether or not she would leave to go and play. Her decision was made to stay at home and continue her volleyball career by playing the two years at a JC and then moving on from there.

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choices in mind she chose to go to Rio Hondo Community College because she enjoyed the company of the girls she had met and loved the coaching staff. With the help of Head Coach, Teddi Esko, Carleigh was able to become the team’s main libero.

Once her indoor season had finished she decided to join the Rio Hondo Beach Volleyball team for their first year as an organization in the league. She pioneered Rio Hondo’s reputation out on the sand with partner Paula Alferez. The dynamic duo were able to beat out the competition and fight for a spot in the State Championship tournament. After her freshman year Carleigh came back to Rio for her Sophomore year ready to play. During her indoor season Carleigh was able to lead the team with her serves and great digs averaging 2 per game along with several assists. The Lady Roadrunners finished out their 2016 Indoor season with an even 11 wins and 11 loses. Once her last indoor season has past Carleigh moved her sights to the sand with hopes to go to state once again with her same beach partner.

With her strong accomplishments from her previous seasons, Carleigh’s skill has caught the eye of the head coach at Hope International University who was looking to start her Beach program. The Lady Roadrunners faced a hard season on the sand and Carleigh was unable to accomplish her goal for state, but she did reach her goal of moving on to the

next level. Carleigh will be one of the first of five to play in the first season of Hope International University’s beach volleyball program for the 2018 season. Along with playing for the beach program she will also be on the indoor team. She has high hopes for her future and can’t wait to see what she can accomplish in her volleyball career.

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