Temple City

Erik Boal A weathered yellow and green sign hangs on the fence next to the third-base dugout on Temple City's baseball diamond, and listed on it are all the years the Rams have captured the Rio Hondo League crown. The most recent year printed on the sign is 1989, but that isn't the last time Temple City won the league title. That year was 1991, but Ram Coach Barry Bacon has said that he won't include that season to the long list of championships until he can add 2003 along with it. -- BOX SCORE -- -- La Canada 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 -- 3 2 3 Temple City 1 0 4 0 0 0 x -- 5 7 2 -- -- La Canada IP H R ER BB K Stoner 6 7 5 3 1 4 -- -- Temple City IP H R ER BB K Tucker 7 2 3 1 4 6 -- -- WP-- Tucker (7-1)

LA CA—ADA FLINTRIDGE ? It started as it was supposed to. A thunderous kill by Temple City High's Donald La was answered by one from La Cañada's Mike Gaudino. It looked as if it'd be the back-and-forth slugfest most thought it would be. Eight points later, the game, and match, took a stunning turn, as the Spartans ? led by Gaudino's match-high 27 kills ? rolled over visiting Temple City, 25-17, 25-21, 25-18, in Friday afternoon's Rio Hondo League boys' volleyball match at La Cañada High.

Edgar Melik-Stepanyan The La Canada High girls' water polo team isn't at Temple City's level just yet. It might take a couple of years, but the Spartans still have to work on several areas of their game before they can contend with the Rams. Spartan Coach Sean Hulsey had hoped his team would be able to knock off the No. 1-ranked team in CIF Southern Section Division III in Thursday's Rio Hondo League final, but that was only wishful thinking.

Charles Rich Rafael Moran nearly let his guard down. Moran, the first-year La Canada High boys' soccer coach and an admitted excessive critic, didn't let up Friday when presented a chance to offer a brief state-of-the-team address at the midway juncture of Rio Hondo League competition. Moran had finished watching the Spartans post a 3-1 victory against host Temple City in a chippy league match that featured seven cards. The Spartans (9-2-2, 4-0-1 in league)

LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE — The Flintridge Prep boys' water polo team got a boost from two familiar faces on Thursday. Battling Temple City, the Rebels were joined in the pool by recent graduates Max Armand and Daniel Madore, who accounted for four of the team's goals. Unfortunately for the Rebels, it wasn't enough firepower, as they were only able to muster two additional goals, falling, 8-6, in a home Mid-Valley Polo Summer League match. The duo, both former standouts, are playing with the current team as they stay in shape for an upcoming under-18 tournament during the upcoming weekend.

LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE ? If it?s a harbinger of things to come, the members of the St. Francis High boys? volleyball team have a long season ahead of them. The Golden Knights raised the curtain on a new season Monday night with the results not being anything near to what they desired. St. Francis showed its lack of experience and communication throughout a 25-18, 25-16, 25-17 nonleague home loss to Temple City. It also didn?t help the Golden Knights that they played without three players, all of whom missed the match for reasons that veteran St. Francis Coach Mark Frazee declined to reveal.

NORTH GLENDALE — Police are investigating whether four Tujunga residents and four Temple City residents arrested this week are responsible for a string of burglaries in the city's northern neighborhoods. On Sunday, Glendale police arrested Tujunga residents David Silva, 19, Christopher Abegglen, 25, and a 15-year-old Tujunga resident after a neighbor on the 3800 block of Los Olivos Lane called in suspicious people lurking by a neighbor's home that had been reported burglarized the day before, said Sgt. Tom Lorenz.

PASADENA - Despite a game-high 20 points from Jedrick Eugenio and a wonderfully facilitated game from Harrison Jung, the Flintridge Prep boys' basketball team fell to Temple City, 52-49, in a summer league game at Maranatha High on Thursday. The Rebels opened up the fourth quarter with a bang as Scott Tsangeos and Eugenio each hit three-pointers to give Prep its first lead of the second half, 44-43. Felix Awajo answered for the Rams with a three of his own, but after two made free throws from Eugenio, the game was tied at 46 with 3:07 left.

LA CRESCENTA — The math didn't look good for the members of the Crescenta Valley High boys' volleyball team Friday night. With the Falcons in a two-game hole against visiting Temple City in a nonleague match, they needed to quickly solve the problem in order to complete a stellar comeback. In a short period of time, the Falcons gathered themselves and recorded the necessary 65 points to earn the victory. Crescenta Valley won possibly its biggest match to date with Pacific League action set to begin next week, as it rallied past Temple City, 16-25, 24-26, 25-19, 25-12, 15-5.

Beloved mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, friend Caroline Sue Purviance (Nielsen), 61, was taken from us the evening of February 13th 2013. Sue was born in Monrovia on February 2nd 1952. She graduated from Monrovia High School in 1970. She attended Citrus College and became a Licensed Vocational Nurse in 1976. In 1973 she married William Purviance. They lived in Arcadia where they had their first daughter, Katy, then in Temple City, where they had their only son, Billy. The family moved to Saugus in 1982 where they had three more children, Lila, Lisa, and Laura.

SOUTHEAST GLENDALE - Having already breathed life into its program, fan base and community with its best start since 2005, the Hoover High football team, in just two games, had already made the 2012 season a memorable one. With one more victory on Thursday night, though, the Tornadoes would've garnered the greatest start to a Hoover season since 1958. Unfortunately for Hoover, in a game that seemingly descended into a contest in which the team that made the least amount of mistakes would likely not lose, the Tornadoes brought to light woeful days of recent memory as they fell to a previously winless and scoreless Temple City, 15-14, at Moyse Field.

The following are previews of the area's upcoming high school football games this week. With the Hoover High football team having won its first two games of the season for the first time since 2005, second-year Tornadoes Coach Andrew Policky said he was surprised to find out the last time Hoover opened a season with three victories in a row was 1958. “I was shocked because I thought the program had done that before back in the 60s or 70s,” said Policky, whose team will face visiting Temple City in a nonleague game at 7 p.m. Thursday at Glendale High's Moyse Field.

La Cañada Flintridge has become one of several cities to put elected officials on an advisory committee set up to study alternatives closing the so-called Long Beach (710) Freeway gap, flouting a request to send planning commissioners instead. The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Agency had requested member cities appoint planning officials to the Stakeholder Outreach Advisory Committee to provide more depth of talent and expertise, but city councils have instead sent members of their own, who they say will better represent the political views of their constituencies on such a controversial project.

PASADENA - Despite a game-high 20 points from Jedrick Eugenio and a wonderfully facilitated game from Harrison Jung, the Flintridge Prep boys' basketball team fell to Temple City, 52-49, in a summer league game at Maranatha High on Thursday. The Rebels opened up the fourth quarter with a bang as Scott Tsangeos and Eugenio each hit three-pointers to give Prep its first lead of the second half, 44-43. Felix Awajo answered for the Rams with a three of his own, but after two made free throws from Eugenio, the game was tied at 46 with 3:07 left.

WOODLAND HILLS - There's help coming for the Renaissance Academy basketball team. In all likelihood, the Wildcats are not going to have to play a regular season game with just six players when competition begins in the winter. But that's what Renaissance Academy was burdened with in Sunday's quarterfinal game of the 17th annual War on the Floor Tournament at Los Angeles Pierce College. Four of its players had never played on the varsity level during the 2011-12 campaign, and of the two who had, one was at Temple City before transferring to Renaissance Academy.

Realtors call it the “popular tri-city area,” a region that proudly boasts its own “tri-city airport” and fundamentally healthy economies. The FBI likes the moniker so much it dubbed a robber who hit 10 banks in Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena this summer the “Tri-Cities Bandit.” In these tough economic times with no end in sight, government officials of the three cities, which have a combined population of nearly 450,000 - big enough...

LA CRESCENTA — The math didn't look good for the members of the Crescenta Valley High boys' volleyball team Friday night. With the Falcons in a two-game hole against visiting Temple City in a nonleague match, they needed to quickly solve the problem in order to complete a stellar comeback. In a short period of time, the Falcons gathered themselves and recorded the necessary 65 points to earn the victory. Crescenta Valley won possibly its biggest match to date with Pacific League action set to begin next week, as it rallied past Temple City, 16-25, 24-26, 25-19, 25-12, 15-5.

 Antoinette M. Petrecca Born January 15, 1922 in Pennsylvania, passed away March 7, 2011, in Santa Anita Convalescent Hospital, Temple City, CA. She is survived by her sister Catherine M. Scribner of Glendale, Ca and nieces and nephews. Arrangements handled by Crippen Mortuary of La Crescenta, CA.  

MEN'S GOLF Vaqueros take second in conference match: Glendale Community College got a two-over-par 74 from Brennan Amirkhizi on Monday in a Western State Conference match at Saticoy Country Club in Ventura County. The Vaqueros placed second with a 390, behind College of the Canyons (382). Aaron Fernandez carded a 77 for the Vaqueros, who got a 78 from Danny Fernandez and a 79 from Michael Timpson. Chris Ramirez and Jin Park each had 82s for Glendale. BOYS' VOLLEYBALL St. Francis 3, Temple City 0: Chris Thompson finished with 21 assists and Wesley Coffey added 11 kills Monday for the visiting Golden Knights in a 25-23, 25-15, 25-12 season-opening nonleague match.