Mountain Views News          Saturday, November 20, 2010

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 Mountain Views News Saturday, November 20, 2010 

Sterling Schuster Signs to Play At Loyola Marymount

THIS GIRL HAS A KICK! 

La Salle’s Rachel Albright

Story & Photo by John Blackstock

 La Salle High School’s softball 
sensation, Sterling Schuster, 
signed a letter of intent to attend 
Loyola Marymount University on 
a full athletic scholarship.

Schuster led the Lancers to the 
CIF-SS Division VI championship 
last season and hopes to take the 
Lancers there again this May. She 
leads the team in RBI’s as will 
most likely end her high school 
career with the all-time RBI 
record. 

After considering Boston College 
and Emerson College, she chose 
Loyola Marymount because she 
can play Division 1 softball at a 
great university and study film 
and film production in the center 
of the film industry. “LMU is 
strong in both softball and film. 
What better place to play and 
study film? It’s the best of both 
worlds,” she says.

 At La Salle, Sterling played 
volleyball for two years and has 
been a part of the Lancer television 
station (LTV), since her freshman 
year. Sterling will again attend the 
Student Television Network National 
Conference in Florida later this year. 
But what she enjoyed and remembers 
most was playing in the CIF softball 
finals with all the seniors when she was a 
freshman. “They were great teammates 
and taught me a lot about leadership,” 
she said. Just two years later Sterling led 
the Lancers to another championship. 


La Salle senior, Sterling Schuster, signs a letter of intent to play softball for Loyola 
Marymount University. Her mother, Daina and father, Mark are by her side.


SIERRA MADRE LITTLE LEAGUE SPRING BASEBALL 2011

Registration for Sierra Madre Little League is now open to Sierra Madre boys and girls ages 4 thru 12. You must pre-register 
on-line at www.smll.org before attending an Age and Residency Verification event. 

Age and Residency 
Verification 
events will occur 
on Wednesday, 
December 1, 
2010 from 6:00 
PM to 8:30 PM, 
and Saturday, 
December 4, 2010 
from 9:00 AM to 
Noon at the Sierra 
Madre Community 
Center. 

Bring proof of 
age and residency 
December 1st or 
4th. For additional 
information on 
Sierra Madre 
Little League 
and residency 
boundaries, please 
see our website: 
www.smll.org. 

 For additional 
information or 
questions contact: 

Steve Tanner, 626-355-1249, stanner@arguscg.com or Brenda Wendt, 626-355-6027, brendaawendt@aol.com. 

Photoa by Linda Ott-Albright

Pasadena, CA – La Salle High 
School sophomore, Rachel Albright 
is the field goal and PAT 
kicker for the Lancer JV football 
team. Rachel is an outstanding 
soccer player and joined the 
football team after 3 games while 
she waited for CIF approval. The 
transition to football was “scary, 
yet exciting,” said the 15 year old 
starter. She laughs as she says the 
hardest part of joining the team was putting on the football 
uniform. “All those pads!” she exclaimed. “But I’m glad 
I have them. The guys on the other teams just see me as 
the kicker. I don’t think they all realize I’m a girl. I’ve only 
been tackled once and it wasn’t too bad.” Rachel’s football 
career began with an impressive 35 yard field goal against 
Don Bosco High School. After their JV win over Cantwell-
Sacred Heart, and subsequent Del Rey League Championship, 
her season stats were: 19 for 28 PATs (.678) and 3 FGs 
(35, 25 & 30 yards.) An attempted field goal in the Cantwell 
game was blocked, but resulted in a touchdown connection 
from quarterback Austin Wallis, to Diran Johnson. She also 
added kick-off’s to her resume, recording 128 yards against 
Mary Star of the Sea.

 In addition to football, she plays soccer and softball for the 
Lancers, and Travel Softball where she is a starting pitcher 
and outfielder for the American Athletics San Gabriel 
Valley (AA’s SGV) 18U. She is also an avid photographer. 
She occasionally takes photos of the varsity football games 
and says she can’t wait to play football at the Varsity level 
next season. 


Eryn Blakely, a sophomore on 
Alverno’s Cross Country Varsity team, 
qualified for the CIF-Southern Section 
Cross Country Division 5 Girl’s Final 
on Saturday, November 20 at Mt. San 
Antonio College in Walnut. Blakely 
qualified by placing 4th in Heat #3 of 
Division 5 Girls at the CIF-SS Prelims 
at Mt. Sac on Saturday November 13th. 

 When the starting gun went off at 8:52 
AM for Heat #3, the day was warm and 
sunny, unlike the overcast and cool 
afternoon when the Jaguars competed 
three weeks ago on the rugged and 
hilly 3-mile course at Mt. Sac. The 
third of 3 heats for Division 5 Girls had 
78 runners from 13 qualifying schools 
(enrollment of less than 500 students) 
within the CIF-Southern Section 
jurisdiction that includes public and 
non-public schools in the counties of 
Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Los Angeles (non 
LA Unified School District), Orange, 
San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, 
Santa 
Barbara 
and

Ventura.

 Alverno’s 
Varsity 
team 
qualified 
for the 
CIF-
Southern 
Section 
Division 
5 Prelims 
from the Horizon 
League. Running 
for the squad were 
Eryn Blakely, Audrey 
Davy, Jessica Lopez, 
Ashley Haylett, Bianca 
Melkonian, Miranda 
Akkari and alternate 
Adrianna Martinez 
running for and injured 
Francesca Rueda 
who was not able to 
participate.

 The first mile pace was 
fast. After the 1-mile 
mark and heading into 
the switchbacks, the 
race’s leaders were Eryn 
Blakely and Mission 
Prep’s (San Luis 
Obispo) senior Annie 
Mooney at a 6:13/mile 
pace. “At the top of 
the switchbacks, Mooney and St. Margaret’s 
(San Juan Capistrano) sophomore Emily 
Venable took off,” Blakely said. Coming 
down the National Guard Chute, Blakely 
was now in third place. Another Mission 
Prep runner, junior Rachel Frye matched 
Blakely stride per stride until the grassy 
area after Reservoir Hill. 

Blakely’s 4th place-finish with a time of 20:24 
at 6:48/mile pace was slightly slower than 
her previous run of 20:09 at a 6:43/mile 
pace at the Mt. Sac Invitational Division 5 
Varsity race 3 weeks ago.

 Running her last X-Country race for 
Alverno, senior Audrey Davy placed 20th 
with a time of 22:26. Joining her in giving 
their all one last time for Alverno were 
seniors Bianca Melkonian (27:21 @ 9:07/
mile pace) and Miranda Akkari (27:34 
@ 9:11/mile pace). Frosh runner Jessica 
Lopez (26:00 @ 8:40/mile pace), sophomore 
Ashley Haylett (26:45 @ 8:55/mile pace) 
and sophomore Adrianna Martinez (28:47 
@ 9:36/mile pace) rounded out Alverno’s 
runners.

 It has been a long cross-country season, 
beginning with the Don Bosco Invitational 
on September 11th at Santa Fe Dam. For one 
Jaguar runner, Eryn Blakely, the season is 
not over. Photos & Story by Lara Laramendi


ALVERNO’S BLAKELY QUALIFIES FOR CIF-SOUTHERN SECTION X-COUNTRY FINALS


Heading into the switchbacks, the leaders of the race 
after a bit more than 1 mile @ a 6:13/mile pace, Alverno’s 
sophomore Eryn Blakely & Mission Preps’s senior Annie 
Mooney.

The Alverno HS Varsity X-Country Team, CIF-SS Division 5 
Qualifiers. Front row – Ashley Haylett, Eryn Blakely, Reagan 
Dowd (JV team). Back row – Coach Alex Fanara, Jessica Lopez, 
Miranda Akkari, Bianca Melkonian, Audrey Davy, Francesca 
Rueda, Adrianna Martinez and Coach Ken Berry.


With Bobby Eldridge 
Stop hitting your chip shots thin-topped and to the Right:

FOUR SECRETS TO HITTING SOLID CHIP SHOTS

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I want to start this lesson 
out with WHY you hit your 
chip shots thin or topped and 
to the right. The club head 
has to swing back and UP 
on the inside. The inside I’m 
refrrening to is the direction 
at which the club head has 
to swing away from the golf 
ball. It can not travel straight 
back away from the golf ball. 
With that being said this is 
where some of you run into 
trouble. You either swing 
the club head straight back 
or TOO much inside and not 
up. Want to hear something 
exciting? If you swing the 
club head back on the correct 
arc it will go up correctly. If 
you swing the club head too 
much inside it will not go 
up. Finally, if you swing the 
club head inside too much 
it will swing outside in the 
downswing at strike the golf 
ball on the upswing. Today 
I am going to teach you how 
to swing the golf club back 
down and strike the golf ball 
on the downswing for a more 
solid golf shot.

 

 The correction is simple. 
Below are the four secrets.

Secret #1-The golf ball has 
to be in the center of your 
stance at address. 

Secret #2-Your weight has to 
be 75% on your left foot and 
it must stay there during the 
backswing. 

Secret #3-The handle of the 
golf club must be across from 
your belt buckle at address.

Secret #4-The downswing 
is more of a chop with a 
VERY LOW FOLLOW 
THROUGH. Make sure after 
impact that the leading edge 
stays close to the ground.

Golfingly yours, Bobby 

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