Sports
Beach Cities Sports
Tennis
Manhattan Beach’s first live music tennis tournament, “What’s That Racquet?” will be held Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Live Oak Park. Cost of the coed doubles charity tournament is $50 per team with proceeds benefitting the Jon Wilhite Recovery Fund. Wilhite, of Manhattan Beach, was the lone survivor in the auto accident [...]
Venice Lifeguards win three straight
Kicking off a weekend of competition at the beach, the Venice team lifeguards captured its third consecutive Bud Stevenson Intracrew Medley relay, holding off teams from Dockweiler and Manhattan Beach in the 48th annual International Surf Festival.
Thousands of participants and spectators converged on South Bay beaches for the weekend of competition that began with the [...]
Walsh returns to AVP competition
Kerri Walsh couldn’t wait any longer. The burning desire to play beach volleyball was even too much for the new mother to overlook, despite her original plans of foregoing the 2009 season.
After a grueling year of domestic and international competition that was highlighted by the team’s second consecutive Olympic gold medal, Walsh and long-time partner [...]
Beach Sports
Running
Registration is open for the 16th Annual Village Runner 4th of July 5K Run/Walk. The race begins at 8 a.m. in front of Village Runner, 1881-A Catalina Ave., Redondo Beach. The event also includes the Little Moon Firecracker Dash for kids. Cost is $25, kids’ dash $15. Add $5 after June 27. Medals awarded to [...]
Zukerman pleases coach with 5K victory
By 7:30 a.m. Saturday, at least one hundred people stood on the sand on the north side of the pier, some eating free bagels and bananas, others doing yoga as children dig holes around them.
Jeff Atkinson doesn’t have time to schmooze with all the people who came to participate in his 8th annual Manhattan Beach [...]
Ocean racing featured in the South Bay Dozen
Many of the area’s top male and female ocean racers will be competing for prizes and money at the 4th Annual South Bay Dozen presented by Hennessey’s and the Jimmy Miller Foundation. Action begins at 8 a.m. Sunday at Torrance Beach.
Nearly 100 entrants of all ages participated in last year’s event where Brian Murphy and [...]
Locals dominate AAU event
Budding stars of beach volleyball showed their stuff when the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) held its California Regional Championships recently at Dockweiler Beach. The annual event drew a record number of participants, including an all-time high with eight pools in the U14 Girls Division.
In the Girls U16 competition Jojo Schnabl (Hermosa Beach) and Rebecca Strehlow [...]
North wins back-to-back titles
For the second consecutive season, the third time proved to be the charm for North High’s softball team, using the formula to win the Division IV CIF Southern Section Toyota Championship Friday with a 5-3 victory over Pioneer League champion El Segundo.
Although El Segundo (28-4) defeated North 4-0 and 4-3 in league games, the Saxons [...]
Rockers take center stage in Live Oak hoops tourney
The local rock group Three Heads has used its power-pop harmonies and group chemistry over the last several years to develop a cult following — mostly female — and become one of the Beach Cities’ brightest hopes for a breakthrough band.
So they were only doing what comes naturally Saturday afternoon when the Three Heads team [...]
Costa, Redondo race for title
Mira Costa’s Savannah Pio sprints past Chloe Curtis of Redondo for a five-second victory in the second Bay League meet. The rivals go head-to-head in the Bay League finals today. Photo by Ray Vidal
Chasing down Redondo’s Cody Schmidt and Mira Costa’s Savannah Pio will be the formidable task when many of the area’s top runners [...]
