Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy

LOS ANGELES — If there’s one thing Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy basketball Coach Gino Pacella could wish for, it would be a veteran center with a strong inside presence. Pacella might some day have his wish granted. In the meantime, he’ll spend the next few days thinking about what he witnessed Thursday night — an all-around complete game by Erin Teter of Notre Dame Academy that eventually put an end to the Tologs’ season. Teter finished with a game-high 21 points and grabbed 12 rebounds to lift host Notre Dame to a 63-48 victory against Sacred Heart in a CIF Southern Section Division IV-A first-round game.

GLENDALE ? When the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy and Beckman High girls? soccer teams meet in a CIF Southern Section Division II semifinal match today, there likely won?t be any secrets. Flintridge Sacred Heart and Beckman have grown accustomed to playing each other during the past two seasons. They met in the opening round of the playoffs last year and again this season in a tournament title match. There will be more at stake in the budding rivalry when the second-seeded Tologs (19-1-3)

PASADENA — It was a shooting performance the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy girls' basketball team would rather soon forgot. Missed opportunities combined with careless plays were enough to do in the Tologs in a nonleague road loss to La Salle, 40-34, on Saturday night. "I am at a loss for words," Tologs Coach Richard Caballero said. "We created openings, but if they don't execute I can't control that. "I can only ask so much of them, but this is real disappointing.

An active contributor down the stretch of the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy girls? volleyball team?s playoff run last year, Camille Coffey was more than just along for the ride. But as a freshman on a team with strong senior leadership, Coffey?s role in powering the Tologs through the difficult CIF Southern Section Division I-A playoffs all the way to an appearance in the 2007 title match was in most ways a complimentary one. With that invaluable experience behind her, Coffey has now been handed the keys to one of the most powerful offenses in the division.

It is rare that a student-athlete has an opportunity to spend their entire high school career growing and improving as an integral part of an elite varsity squad. By next year, Sam Orlandini, currently a junior in her third year as a varsity starter for the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy volleyball team, will bear that distinction. Orlandini, however, hasn't needed to wait for her senior year to make her mark on this storied program. The 2006 season has truly been a breakout year for the Sacred Heart setter, one in which she has come into her own as the catalyst and facilitator of the Tologs' potent attack.

LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE ? When the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy girls? water polo team jumped out to a quick one-goal advantage in its Mission League opener on Thursday, it appeared the Tologs might give Sherman Oaks Notre Dame a run for its money. But the Knights gathered themselves to reel off eight straight goals and cruise to a 19-4 victory at Flintridge Prep. ?The first quarter they handled stuff well and then the conditioning of our younger players might have hurt us,?

It would seem an ideal scenario for Elle Navarro to mark the end of her high school softball career and create a few more fond memories in the process. Tonight's San Gabriel Valley All-Star game will be the final time the recent graduate of Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy will strap on the cleats and play an official high school game of the sport in which she has been a two-year varsity starter for the Tologs. "This will be my first [All-Star game] and it should be a fun one," Navarro says of the exhibition scheduled for 6 p.m. at Arcadia High, which pits senior players from San Gabriel Valley and Foothill-area private schools against their public school counterparts.

As the story goes, Frank Pace wasn't quite sure if Cissy Butler wanted to be the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy goalkeeper. Coach Mark Halpert didn't even know he had a backup goalie, much less a starter, hidden away in the dorms of Point Loma Nazarene University. In reality, it all happened by accident. Butler never really wanted to be a high school goalie. But after a rough start, Pace, the Sacred Heart co-coach, knew his team had a keeper. Butler never really wanted to play college soccer, either.

GLENDALE — After ultra-successful runs to respective league titles and CIF playoff prominence, the area’s top two girls’ soccer programs — Crescenta Valley High and Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy — both find themselves in similar positions entering the 2009-10 campaign. Both lost stellar seniors to graduation, but both return teams brimming with talent. Thus, as questions abound as they always do at the season’s onset, the burning quandary is whether the Tologs and Falcons can duplicate or perhaps even surpass last season’s success.

BOYS' BASKETBALL FIRST TEAM Scott Burton, senior, St. Francis, guard SECOND TEAM Chris Johnson, junior, St. Francis, guard GIRLS' BASKETBALL HONORABLE MENTION Connie Peterson, junior, Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy, forward Nicki Witt, sophomore, Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy, guard GIRLS' WATER POLO FIRST TEAM KC Stumbaugh, senior, Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy, hole/set...