AWARDS BANQUET: 12/3/09 Raquel Hefflin was the Girl’s Most Valuable Runner, while Ali Hatcher was the Boy’s Most Valuable Runner. Matthew Derakhshesh was this years Scholar Athlete with the highest GPA 4.5 for a graduating senior. Many other awards were given to our outstanding student athletes. Congratulations everyone!
HEFFLIN TAKES 10th Place at CIF Prelims, Varsity Girls Take 8th Place. Nov. 15, 2009 CIF Prelms @MT SACRaquel Hefflin took 10th place in the CIF Prelims setting a new school record of 18:48 over the tough MT SAC course, running with some of the top girls in CIF. She missed making the CIF finals by four places and 8 seconds, but ran among the power runners of the CIF. She is the first girl at Beverly to break the 19 minute barrier for the course. How fast was her time? She would have been our fourth fastest on the Varsity boys team. The Varsity girls were in a heavily seeded heat that had 6 ranked CIF teams, so the 8th place finish was very respectable. Sydney Gray, Gitla Shooster, Brianna Simmons and Erica Hendry all ran personal bests and all made or moved up the Beverly all time list on the course. Daniella Vinoles and Lily Ting also had PR’s and just missed by seconds making the all time lists. The boys Varsity took 13th as a team in their CIF Prelim heat. Ali Hatcher at 17:16 and Josh Galen at 17:29 were our top finishers.
Results: Varsity Girls: 10. Raquel Hefflin 18:48 (school record); 41. Sydney Gray 20:04 (#5 all time), 47. Gitla Shooster 20:13 (#6 all time); 48. Brianna Simmons 20:20 (#7 all time), 74. Erica Hendry 21:51 (#27 all time), 77. Daniella Vinoles 22:02, 78. Lily Ting 22:06.
Team: 1. Redondo, 2. Canyon Anahem, 3. Thousand Oaks, 4. Ventura, 5. Edison (HB), 6. University (Irvine), 7. Beaumont, 8 Beverly Hills, 9. Hemet, 10. Sunny Hills, 11. Pacific, 12. Palm Springs, 13. Garden Grove…
Varsity Boys: 58. Ali Hatcher 17:16, 65. Josh Galen 17:29, 81. Gabe Laemmle 18:14, 90. Chanan Batra 18:49, 91. Sam Capogrosso 19:14; 100. Eli Flesh 19:29
GIRL’S VARSITY WIN 5TH STRAIGHT OCEAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP; RAQUEL HEFFLIN TAKES 1ST PLACE; GRAY, SHOOSTER & SIMMONS GET ALL LEAGUE HONORS; CIF NEXT. November 5, 2009 @Kenneth Hahn Park – 3 Mile.Raquel (“Rocky”) Hefflin captured her second straight individual ocean league championship breaking her own school record on the 3 mile Kenneth Hahn Park course running 20:11.39, as Beverly won it’s fifth straight ocean league cross country team title. Sydney Gray (3rd place in 20:56.60), Gitla Shooster (4th place in 21:10.44) and Brianna Simmons (5th place in 21:25.47) also took All League honors. Gray’s time moves her to #2 all time for Beverly on the course, while Shooster’s time moves her to #3 all time on the course. Simmons moves into #6 all time. An amazing achievement for our first 4 girls.
Girls Varsity top 10: 1. Raquel Hefflin BH 20:11.39; 2. Amanda Botfeld SAMO 20:47.44;3. Sydney Gray BH 20:56.60; 4. Gitla Shooster BH 21:10.44; 5. Brianna Simmons BH 21:25.47;6. Smilte Sivilpaite SAMO 21:29.90; 7. Emily Berkin SAMO 21:59.24; 8. Esme Levy SAMO 22:01.20; 9. Matisse Ventura SAMO 22:15.06; 10. Katya Mukhina SAMO 22:20.52. Other Beverly Runners: 11. Erica Hendry 22:25.48; 13. Daniella Vinoles 23:20.87; 15. Natasha Gerente 26:13.18. Team Results: 1. BH 24; 2. SAMO 32; 3. Morningside 94; 4. Culver City 101.
BOY’S VARSITY FINISH 2ND TO SAMO, BUT GAIN CIF BERTH. Arch rival Santa Monica once again took the Ocean League title, with Beverly in second place. Ali Hatcher took 4th place in 17:48, a second off his personal best, while Josh Galen took 5th place in 18:06 and Gabe Laemmle took 7th place in 18:33 for All league honors. While Hatcher is already on the all time list, Galen missed making the Beverly all time list by just 7 seconds.
Boys Varsity top 10: 1. Nick Salazar SAMO 17:00; 2. Jamie Levinson SAMO 17:24; 3. Andrew Capron SAMO 17:29; 4. Ali Hatcher BH 17:48; 5. Josh Galen BH 18:06; 6. Logan Weinberg SAMO 18:26; 7. Gabe Laemmle BH 18:33; 8. Eric Staugaard SAMO 18:39; 9. Sam Nussbaum BH 18:40; 10. Sam Capagrosso BH 18:52. Other Beverly Runners: 11. James Karlin 18:53. Team Results: 1. SAMO 20; 2. BH 35; 3. Culver City 80; 4. Inglewood 107; 5. Morningside 118.
Chanan Batra of Beverly Takes 1st Place in Boys Freshman Race! Chanan Batra of Beverly took the Boys Freshman crown as league champion in a time of 18:15.92 (which would have placed him in 6th place on the Boys Varsity race!). Only 2 of our Varsity Boys ran faster. The boys freshmen took 2nd as a team to SAMO, but Eli Flesh in 6th place in 19:41.58 and Brendan Taglianetti in 7th place in 19:47.91 also obtained all league medals. Zachary Fouladian finished in 10th place in 21:33.39.
Beverly’s Girl’s JV Takes 2nd to SAMO as Ting and Rothman get All League Medals. Although Beverly took 2nd to Santa Monica in the Girl’s JV race, Freshmen Lily Ting in 5th place in 23:01.20 and Marissa Rothman in 7th place in 23:13.32 took All League medals. Emmanuelle Hodara of Beverly finished in the top ten with an 8th place finish in 23:21.84.
Boys JV Take a Distant 2nd to SAMO. Santa Monica dominated the Boys JV race taking the first 14 places. Beverly’s Matthew Darakhshesh was the first Beverly runner in 15th place in 20:45.06. Beverly finished in second place as a team ahead of Culver City and Morningside.
