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Beverly High
Prom 2014
Ella Neman, Eli Rezvani, Jenny Zatikian, Jordan Rodd, Sacha Smith, Arya Gharibian, Chanel Taghdis, Brandon Aminpour,
Dani Shouhed, Josh Azizi, Shadi Aslemand, Eli Forouzan, Jessica Bird, and Moshe Molayem
(Left to right, back to front) Ben Cohen, Jackson Martin, Danny Tehranfar, Josh Nierob, Mathew Mokhtarzadeh,
Bernardo DiPietro, Ryan Rutigliano, Eli Sachs, Maxwell Martin, Maziar Saghian, Adam Steinberg, Nathan Katz, and
Gabriel Bogner
Jenna Falk, Ignacio Gonzalez, Jesse Edelman, Maxwell Martin, Simone Kochav, and Mathew Mokhtarzadeh
sports scores &
BHHS pitchers toss
no-hitters against
Morningside, Inglewood
Norman boys’ track team wins three-way
meet.
By Steven Herbert
Aleks Recupero and Shyra Costas combined
on a no-hitter in Beverly High’s
16-0 victory over Morningside in an Ocean
League softball game at Beverly Hills April
10 shortened to 4½ innings because of the
10-run rule.
Recupero (3-6) struck out six and walked
one batter over the first three innings. Costas
struck out five of the six batters she faced in
the final two innings.
Alex Denton and Emma Carruth both
had two hits and drove in two runs for the
Normans, who scored eight runs in the first
inning, one in the second, two in the third
and five in the fourth.
Page 6 • Beverly Hills Weekly
Beverly Hills 15, Inglewood 0
Recupero (4-6) pitched a no-hitter, striking
out 15 and walking five, in an Ocean League
game at Inglewood April 22 shortened to six
innings because of the 10-run rule.
Carruth went three for four with two doubles,
driving in five runs. Costas had three
hits, including two triples, and drove in two
runs. Freshman Lena Shapiro had three hits,
including a triple and drove in a run.
The Normans scored once in the first,
twice each in the second, third and fourth
and eight times in the sixth.
Anthony Lofaso, Amelia Wohl, Deven Martin, Charlotte Frøyland, Danielle Nisim, Evan Rennie, Savannah Forno, and
Román Zaragoza
Boys’ Track and Field
Beverly Hills 91, Culver City 58,
Hawthorne 4
Austin Greer won the discus throw with
a throw of 131 feet, 7 inches and the shout
put with a put of 44-6½ to help the Normans
to the victory in a three-way Ocean League
meet last Thursday at Culver City.
Beverly Hills (3-1 in league competition)
athletes won both hurdles races. Sebastian
Torres won the 110 meter high hurdles in
18.0 seconds and Harry Green the 300 intermediate
hurdles in 45.79.
Also winning individual events for the
Normans were long jumper Lucas Brito (19-
6½); 1,600 meter runner Will Ezzard (four
minutes, 42.26 seconds); 800 meter runner
Aaron Karlin (2:13.50); and 400 meter runner
Max Walder (51.57).
Girls’ Track and Field
Culver City 94, Beverly Hills 59,
Hawthorne 3
The Normans won four field events in a
three-way Ocean League meet last Thursday
at Culver City.
Asia Meadows leaped 31-11 to win the
triple jump; Sara Neiman cleared 4-6 to win
the high jump; Nia Nutall won the discus
throw with a throw of 73-1½; and Cari
Downey-Wade won the shot put with a put
of 25-6½.
Boys’ Tennis
Beverly Hills 9, Santa Monica 9
(Beverly Hills wins on games, 81-73)
Ethan Kunin and Adriano Saitta both won
two of three singles sets for the Normans and
Beverly Hills No. 3 doubles teams of Jack
Harris and Jeffrey Lee also won two of three
sets in an Ocean League match Monday at
Santa Monica.
The match was tied 6-6 entering the final
round. Kunin and Saitta both won their sets
as did the Normans No. 2 doubles team of
Justin Dubin and Davis Freeman.
Johnny Barcohana and Saitta won secondround
singles sets for Beverly Hills. The
Harris-Lee team won its second-round set
6-1.
Kunin, the Jonah Malkin-Emilio Yera
and Harris-Lee doubles teams won for the
Normans in the first round, which ended in
a 3-3 tie.
Beverly Hills was ranked third in the
Southern Section Division 2 poll released
Monday.
Steven Herbert has covered Beverly Hills
High School sports for the Beverly Hills
Weekly since 1999. He has also covered
college and professional sports for The
Associated Press, Los Angeles Times and
Washington Post. He can be reached at
(310) 275-7943 or by email at stvherbert@
aol.com.