Falcons a swimming success

• April 6 — After Troy Mulcahey, the eventual All-Area Baseball Player of the Year, pitches six scoreless innings, Elliott Surrey provides two spotless innings of relief and the game-winning hit to score Tyler Pollak for a 1-0 win against West Torrance in the championship game of the Babe Herman Tournament.

Surrey is named the tournament MVP.

• April 8 — The girls' track and field team competes in the Arcadia Invitational. Anneke Kakebeen turns on the jets in the final leg of the Seeded 4x1,600 Relay to help Crescenta Valley finish fifth in 21 minutes 49.55 seconds in the second-to-last event of the night.

"I thought we ran a good race, it's our best [4x1,600] we've run this year," Crescenta Valley Coach Mark Evans said of the team that also included Claudia Pham, Diane Lombardi and Cali King. "They came out with medals, so they're excited."

Crescenta Valley was around the eighth-to-10th-place range for much of the race before Kakebeen made a strong move down the stretch.

• April 9 — The girls' track and field team picks back up in the Arcadia Invitational with the boys. On the girls side, Cali King, Tiernan Hebron, Diane Lombardi and Anneke Kakebeen place 12th in the Women's Distance Medley in 12 minutes 46.68 seconds.

Andrew Roide of boys' squad places eight in the high jump with a leap of 6 feet 6 inches.

• April 12 — Despite a doubles sweep from Jeremy Cho and Tim Chong, the boys' tennis team is swept by Burbank, 10-8, in a Pacific League match. It's symbolic of an overall frustrating year for the Falcons' boys' squad, which finishes 4-13 overall and 2-10 in league.

• April 21 — The boys' and girls' swim teams come out on top in a Pacific League Meet against Burbank. The boys win 115-54 and the girls roll 124-46 to improve to 9-0, 5-0 in league and 6-2, 5-0 in league, respectively.

For the girls, Iva Icheva wins the 50-yard freestyle race in a CIF automatic qualifying time of 24.82 seconds and the 100 freestyle in a CIF-qualifying time of 53.96. She also works with Sabrina Hatzer, McKenzie Hobby and Adrienne Ingalla to take the 200-medley relay in a CIF-consideration time of 1 minute 59.14 seconds. She grouped with Ingalla, Hatzer and Heather Abrams to take first in the 200-freestyle relay with a CIF-consideration time of 1:45.72.