SBBA 2023: Team Mexico wins D-League fnals

By Jim Kalin

The SBBA (Saint Brendan Basketball Association) 2023 season concluded Saturday, March 25 with the division playoff semifinals and title games. That was nine games in one day! Doesn’t get any better for youth basketball fans.

Championship Saturday began early with the first of two Bobcat Division (ages 8-9) semifinal games. The eventual champions were Salt & Straw, coached by Ben Gellar. Their leading scorer for the season was Justice Johnson. He ended with 155 points.

The Cobra Division (ages 10-11) title game followed next. The champions here were The Burns, coached by Kyle Ross and Andrew Wright. The team’s leading scorer was Liam Duerler, who ended his

Hollywood Schoolhouse

Miles Hoffman

6th Grade season with 133 points.

About 82 percent of the 6th grade class (including me) got into their first choice school for next year!

We are so excited about this new journey into middle school.

At Hollywood Schoolhouse, one of my favorite times of the year is Dream Week. We participate in all sorts of activities like cooking, line dancing and building our own mini arcade systems using cardboard.

Team Mexico , coached by Nick Padua, won the D-League (ages 12, 13, 14) title. Nick’s team also won the D-League title last season.

Team Mexico’s leading scorer for the season was Coltrane Ragsdale, who ended with 256 points. Coltrane is 13 and returns next year.

Some schoolmates recently performed “We Are Monsters.” There was even a stage crew program for students to build sets behind the scenes.

We just finished a huge Black History Month project, and let me tell you, it was hard work. We each chose an important African American figure to focus on. We researched, wrote a five-paragraph essay and made a very detailed drawing using shading techniques we learned in art class. We wrapped it all up with haiku poems written about our heroes.

In science, we are doing a lot of interesting projects including each making our own water filters out of plastic bottles.

The 2023 Gus Deppe H.E.R.O. Award winners were also announced after the con-

Melrose Elementary

By Stella Coppola

5th Grade

Hoppy April, readers! It’s surely a fun month at Melrose. For starters, our 2nd Grade students spent a fun-filled, athletic day at Dodgers Stadium learning the engineering of baseball and cheering for our Los Angeles team. That wasn’t the end of the fun at Melrose, all of our grades got the best picture books of 2022-23 and made movie / book trailers. Yep, it was time for the California Young Reader Med-

Girls’ soccer at LCHS score #1 out of 30 teams

By Suzan Filipek

cluding championship games. Those winners were Micah Minton, Alligators Division, Davis Bolden, Bobcats Division, Rex Wright, Cobras Division, and Joe Fiedler, D-League Division.

al book trailers. All grades made creative, fun trailers with iMovie director, Mr. Frank.

Now I have some very big for my dedicated readers. On Fri., April 7, I’ll turn 11! I’ll spend two days at Disneyland. Then, I’ll have a red carpet pizza party!

Now back to school events. Our 5th grade finally had a not-so-black-and-white chess tournament. Other grades have asked for their own tournament. Lastly, we had our very first annual Pokémon tournament led by our Pokémon master principal, Matthew Needelman! And trust me - it was awesome.

Marlborough

By Avery Gough 11th Grade

After spring break ends on April 7, and classes resume on the 10th, the senior class only has a few weeks until school ends. On April 24, parents and seniors meet to review graduation details and practice the class song.

The varsity girls’ soccer team at Larchmont Charter High School at Lafayette Park, the Timberwolves, won the recent city championship in Division 4. Their coach, David Brown, was awarded coach of the year for the same division of the CIF (California Interscholastic Federation). After they finished #1 out of 30 teams, they lost the state girls’ soccer quarterfinals which happened soon afterwards, Brown told us. The 19-member Ocean League’s mix of top scorers and newcomers is its secret sauce, said Brown. Read more about the team at issuu.com/ larchmontchronicle/docs/ lc_02_2023/19.

As senior year and college applications approach for juniors, Marlborough holds an annual workshop, which allows students to ask their college counselors questions, begin personal statements and more.

The Spring Choral Concert on Fri., April 21 is titled “From Land to Sky, where Dreams can Fly,” evoking a theme of being grounded and yet having great imagination and ambition. Performers from our high school’s Chamber Choir, middle school choir, Melodic Mustangs and Vocalist In-Residence Program participants will all be featured. Our WEBCCAM (improv.) Comedy performance will be on the Wed., April 19.

Marlborough’s annual Celebration of Innovation is on the Thur., April 27. It showcases the talent of the robotics, coders, researchers, etc. in the Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation.