Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy

Edgar Melik-Stepanyan FLINTRIDGE SACRED HEART ACADEMY -- The Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy girls' basketball team knew its handicap on the hardwood Monday: turnovers. As much as the Tologs try, they can't avoid it. Once again, turnovers haunted them in a nonleague loss to Immaculate Heart. The Pandas forced 30 turnovers as they defeated the Tologs, 64-45, at Flintridge Sacred Heart. "Our turnovers killed us," said Flintridge Sacred Heart Coach Ron Sarber, whose team dropped to 1-2. "We got a little lazy on defense in the third quarter."

LA CAÑADA FINTRIDGE — With the formidable nonleague portion of their schedule just about complete, the members of the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy are about ready to move on to bigger things. Winning a fifth consecutive Mission League title would be one of them. The Tologs received 28 assists and eight digs from senior setter Sam Orlandini and 12 kills and nine digs from senior outside hitter Katie Condon to post a resounding 25-14, 25-14, 25-15 nonleague home victory against Marlborough on Friday night.

GLENDALE ? Questions abound concerning their respective lineups. Talk to Crescenta Valley High and Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy girls? golf coaches Ken Johnson and John Milligan and they offer opposite viewpoints about their programs. Crescenta Valley won its first-ever Pacific League championship last. The Falcons will bring back senior standout Christine Cho, the league?s reigning most valuable player who advanced into the Southern Section Individual Finals, and sophomore Katie Park.

GLENDALE ? The following are updates on local athletes competing at the collegiate level: Lauren Bustos (Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy, 2006) freshman defender/midfielder, Fordham University women's soccer ? With the help of Bustos, a two-time All-Area Girls' Soccer Player of the Year, the Rams are off to a good start this year. Bustos, who led Flintridge Sacred Heart to four consecutive appearances in the CIF Southern Section Division I playoffs, was selected to the all-tournament team after Fordham notched a 2-1 victory against Columbia University on Sunday at the NYC Nike Classic at St. John's University's Belson Stadium.

SOUTH PASADENA — Cross-court passes were intercepted by the members of the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy basketball team and converted into points. That told Flintridge Sacred Heart second-year Coach Gino Pacella that the Tologs were getting somewhere after not playing up to par during the first several weeks of the summer season. Flintridge Sacred Heart played aggressive defense, inducing 31 turnovers, en route to a convincing 38-18 victory against Westridge on Monday afternoon in a South Pasadena High Summer League contest.

LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE ? In short, the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy basketball team wasn?t ready. It showed from the opening tip and lasted until the final horn mercifully sounded following a fourth quarter that featured a running clock and no hope of overcoming a 51-point deficit. Flintridge Sacred Heart suffered an 84-33 loss to Fillmore on Saturday night in a pool-play game of the second annual La Cañada High New Year?s Ball Tournament. It was Flintridge Sacred Heart?

GLENDALE — Finding a group of golfers to compliment their top players in the lineup will be the key for a pair of local high school girls’ golf coaches. While there may be some choices, it’s been a big concern for Ken Johnson and Bill Sanchez, who serve as coaches at Crescenta Valley High and Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy, respectively. The recent fires that ravaged the area meant many of the athletes couldn’t take to golf courses to practice. It’s also led to Johnson and Sanchez not being able to find ample time to round out their lineups.

A championship-caliber team needs an enforcer — a strong personality and physical presence that keeps teammates in line and opponents in fear. For the decorated Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy soccer team, that role belongs to Tera Trujillo. "She's probably as tough and as competitive a kid as we've ever had," Sacred Heart co-Coach Frank Pace says of the junior midfielder/defender. "She's got what we call a warrior mentality. She is a warrior. …She defines fun as measuring your best against the other team's best.

DOWNEY — There was a feeling-out period for both teams to begin Friday night’s CIF Southern California Regional Championships Division III girls’ soccer title game between Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy and Francis Parker. But there was nothing ginger or tentative about the 63 minutes of physical, grinding soccer that followed the game’s only three goals scored. At times simply a stalemate between Sacred Heart’s uncharacteristic, long-kicking, frenetic style and Francis Parker’s methodical, bruising approach, the latter 3/4 of the match saw the Tologs toughen up and hang on for a 2-1 victory at Warren High in Downey, clinching the first-ever regional crown in program history.

LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE - Missing a second consecutive meet wasn't what James Knowles had in mind. With his right hamstring healthy, the St. Francis High track and field standout showed he's ready to defend his Mission League championships in a pair of hurdle events. Despite the cool temperatures, Knowles took to the course and heated up, as he captured the 110- and 300-meter hurdles in a Mission League dual meet against Harvard-Westlake on Wednesday afternoon. Knowles clocked 14.16 seconds in the 110 before finishing in 39.09 in the 300 for the Golden Knights, who suffered a 79-48 defeat.

LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE - It's evident by the scores and the results this season that the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy water polo team is improving. But after a 14-8 Mission League loss to visiting Sherman Oaks Notre Dame and a performance that showed both how far the Tologs have come and how far they still need to go, first-year Sacred Heart Coach Andrea Artukovich insisted her team go even farther on Tuesday. "If they had energy to swim afterward, they could've worked harder [in the match]

Between the championship exploits of Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy soccer and Flintridge Prep boys' basketball, the ascent to state heights by a host of Glendale Community College teams and several local names popping up on the national level, 2011 had plenty of stories worthy of top-10 consideration. The final voting recognized the Tologs' first-ever CIF Southern Section Division triumph as the tops among them all, but there were many worthy contenders that made the cut and plenty more that didn't.

LOS ANGELES - Saturday's match wasn't a Mission League affair that had title implications. It wasn't a CIF Southern Section Division I playoff contest that could've ended its season. For the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy soccer team, it was another nonleague contest. But for its opponent, St. Lucy's, it was an opportunity to knock off the top-ranked team in the nation by ESPN HS. That's exactly what the Regents did, shocking the Tologs with a 1-0 victory at Occidental College's Patterson Field, the team's first home loss since February, 2008.

SAN MARINO - Whatever it was that plagued the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy girls' basketball team in its opening game was remedied when the Tologs took the court against Bernstein High Wednesday. Sacred Heart took an early lead and used a half and full-court press to add to it in a 79-14 victory in its second game of the San Gabriel Valley Classic at San Marino High. It was a healing process for the Tologs, who fell to San Marino, 45-32, in their first game of the tournament and season Tuesday.

SAN MARINO — Given the opportunity, the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy girls' basketball team would take a mulligan on its first game of the season. The Tologs came into the game with a clear size advantage over a smaller San Marino squad, but it didn't show on the scoreboard. Sacred Heart's offense never got going against a quick, relentless San Marino defense Tuesday and, as a result, fell to the Titans, 45-32, in a San Gabriel Valley Classic game at San Marino High. "We usually score 70 points or 65 points a game," said Tologs senior center Lana Haddad, who finished the game with 14 points, nine rebounds and four blocks.

PASADENA - Inspired perhaps by playing the role of underdogs or simply competing against a nonleague rival, the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy volleyball team came out with a strong first-game effort Monday night that instilled doses of fear and anger into host La Salle. And although they remained competitive throughout, the Tologs were not able to withstand the Lancers in a 24-26, 25-20, 25-16, 25-16 nonleague loss. "We got too overly excited and we allowed them to creep back in," Flintridge Coach Anne Arlie said.

A championship-caliber team needs an enforcer — a strong personality and physical presence that keeps teammates in line and opponents in fear. For the decorated Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy soccer team, that role belongs to Tera Trujillo. "She's probably as tough and as competitive a kid as we've ever had," Sacred Heart co-Coach Frank Pace says of the junior midfielder/defender. "She's got what we call a warrior mentality. She is a warrior. …She defines fun as measuring your best against the other team's best.

GLENDALE — As any squad still playing in mid-March can likely boast, the Oaks Christian High girls' soccer team appears to be playing its best soccer of the season. But is the Lions' best good enough to beat a much-lauded Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy team also hitting on all cylinders? That question will be decided today at 10:30 a.m. at Warren High in Downey in the finale of the CIF Southern California Division III Regional Soccer Championships. The defending-champion Tologs enter with a 23-1-1 overall mark, while the Lions are an impressive 25-2-1.

DOWNEY — A victory away from concluding a dream season, the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy soccer team awoke too late to avoid a nightmare. Stunned by the fleet feet of Oaks Christian striker Ally Courtnall, stalled by admitted oversight and further hindered by absences and injury, the Tologs fell short of repeating as champions in the CIF Southern California Division III Regional Championships, losing Saturday morning's final to Oaks Christian, 3-1, at Warren High. "We underestimated them completely," said junior Tera Trujillo, who split time at defender and midfielder, scoring the Tologs' lone goal in the 67th minute as the only answer to the Lions' first-half scoring blitz.