PVP-PANORAMA No. 303 • 06/10/23

PANORAMA PANORAMA

CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND

Baseball

• All four Peninsula Leagues and Junior League held championship games and Closing Day ceremonies last week.

Post-season baseball with the King of the Hill tournament, Tournament of Champions and summer All-Star competition will be up next for Peninsula baseball teams.

There is only one edition of Panorama left before our summer break so stay active and keep playing hard.

Dolphins Rally For The Win . . . Junior League baseball held its championship game at George Allen Field.

Championship Performances . . . Playoffs and championship drama hit Peninsula Little Leagues on Closing Day of the spring baseball season.

Trophy Time . . . Championship teams all over the Peninsula celebrated the end of a long baseball season on Closing Day.

Valmonte Garden Blooms For Summer

In Season

• After our recent rains the Valmonte Farm and Garden is experience exceptional growth and beauty, making it a great place to visit this summer.

garden is open to the public the first Saturday of every month from 10 am to 1 pm.

Competitive Debate And Speech Takes Practice And Training

• Summer camp provides extensive support and experience to verbal competition.

By Timothy Niemann

The Debate Intensive, one of the nation’s top summer debate camps, will be held in Southern California for the eighth time this summer.

The Debate Intensive (TDI) hosts four different sessions, ranging from one to five weeks in length. The sessions will be held at CSU Dominguez Hills and CSU Los Angeles. The TDI has specifically structured sessions for debaters of all levels in order to make them the best debaters they can be.

debaters of all skill levels” said Scott Wheeler, Camp co-director and director of the Peninsula High speech and debate program. “For experienced debaters, camp is a way to improve their skill set over the summer. Specific skills can be isolated and developed with directed practice, he said.

“Past campers have improved a lot in a short amount of time, catching up with or surpassing debaters who don’t go to summer camp. For

proceed at the appropriate pace. Most days have practice debates which start out being between students in the same lab but become interlab debates as the camp progresses,” Wheeler said.

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TDI students have won state and national championships, and its students have had major success at the Tournament of Champions, debate’s most prestigious tournament.

“At TDI, each and every student receives plenty of attention from debate experts as the camp has a student-faculty ratio of 4:1. Because of the time devoted to its students, as well as its approach to teaching, The Debate Intensive has been one of the most successful debate camps at producing highachieving debaters,“ Wheeler said.

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The camp offers both a residential and commuter option for all its sessions.

Campers spend every day, except Sunday, working on debate-related activities. Most of the time, students work on labs, in which they work on exercises according to their experience level. At other times students will participate in practice debates, attend lectures and work one-onone at mentoring sessions.

“Debate camp is an important opportunity for improvement for

new debaters, there’s no way to overstate the value of starting in an environment where you can be focused exclusively on debate,” Wheeler said.

The camp revolves around four intensives: investigations of government policy, ethical philosophy, theory of argumentation, and critical theory.

“Students are constantly focusing on specific skills to develop throughout their time at the camp, ”Wheeler said, added, “Students’ time is divided into lab, practice debates, intensives, electives, and mentor.

“Lab is like homeroom. Students are grouped according to ability and

TDI students have won state and national championships, and its students have had major success at the Tournament of Champions, debate’s most prestigious tournament.

Wheeler encouraged anyone interested in debate to sign up for The Debate Intensive.

“If you’ve ever had an interest in debate or if your son or daughter has, just do it!” He said, adding, “Starting with a summer camp where debate is all they do may seem drastic, but it’s a surefire way to make sure they have a positive experience where they are set up to succeed.”

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• One more edition of Panorama before we go on summer break.

Another publishing season is about to wrap up, but first we have the King of the Hill tournament, Tournament of Champions and a little summer All-Star baseball action before we put the camera down and rest our skinny shoulders.

A couple remindersd: We here at Panorama headquarters are not in charge of the Peninsula home run list, scores or standings. The leagues provide that

information on their websites, though sometimes its timing, placement and accuracy can change season to season. It’s been 16 seasons for us.

Also, the old Panorama cameraman says we take pictures of batters putting the ball in play. No foul balls, even though it may look like a hit.

Also, no pictures of warm-ups or practice. We take pictures of competition. We take pictures for publication. We take pictures of people being active in their community. And we take pictures of people who are, of course, extremely famous. Next edition June 24!

PV Breakers Take West Championship . . . The 8th Grade PV Breakers team won the 14U West Championship at the West Coast Elite SoCal Slam. Pictured from the left: Daniel Hong, Avaneesh Kishore, Porter Johnson , Jackson Reese , Grant Beshear, Tallis Westernoff and Tyler Smildzins . Coach Frank Salceda.

Silver Spur Minors Battle . . . The Tigers and Pirates compete in Silver Spur Little League Minor Division playoff action at Ernie Howlett Park.

Yankees Dominate . . . Palos Verdes Yankees scored more runs than any other team on the Peninsula and finished the regular season in first place before losing to the Red Sox in the Intermediate Division championship game.

Majors On The Move . . . The Padres and Tigers played out the doubleelimination tournament until the Padres won the final game Monday night.

Trophy Season Hits Baseball

Little League

• All four Peninsula Little Leagues held Closing Day ceremonies and championship games last week.

An abundance of trophies were awarded to league regular season champions as well as playoff tournament champions.

Many of these teams will go on to represent their leagues at the King of the Hill tournament and Disctirct 36’s Tournament of Champions.

Red Sox Break Yankee Spell . . .

The

Tigers Shake Things Up . . .

The Palos Verdes Tigers finished the regular season in last place, but had a great playoff run before taking the Majors doubleelmination tournament to a Monday night final game with the Padres.

Padres Run Out Competition . . .

The

Verdes Padres outlasted the Tigers and the rest of the competitive Major Division teams to win the championship game.

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Palos Verdes Red Sox defeated the first-place Yankees in the Intermediate championship game.

The Expos Are Fired Up . . . The Expos and Braves battled for first place all season before the Expos got a 5-2 win the Intermediate championship game.

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Mariners Up Early With Speed . . . The Rolling Hills Mariners jumped out to an early lead and never looked back to defeat the Braves, 7-2, and win the Intermediate Division championship game.

Undefeated May . . . The Rolling Hills Minors Dodgers finshed the regular season with five straight wins and went undefeated in the playoffs including a 5-4 win over the Guardians in the Championship game.

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Meet The Mets In First . . .

Lunada Bay catcher Byron Dehn gets a hit during the Mets win over the Bananas in the Major Division championship game.

Minors Power . . . The Palos Verdes Red Sox finished the regular season in first place in the largest division on the Peninsula and won the Minors Division championship game.

Peninsula Little League 2023 Home Run Leaders

Palos Verdes Little League

PENINSULA LITTLE LEAGUES 2023 FINAL STANDINGS

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Lunada Bay Little League

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Rolling Hills Little League

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Pirates . . . The Palos Verdes Pirates finished the regular season in sixth place, but then had a great playoff run and lost to the firstplace Red Sox by one run in the Minors championship game.

Tigers

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first baseman

makes a leaping catch for an out during Major Division playoff action.

Valmonte Teams Battle . . . The Cubs and Dodgers finished the regular season in first and second place in the toughest division on the Peninsula, but were unable to get into the Major Division championship game at Palos Verdes Little League.

Can Leap . .

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Palos Verdes Peninsula Girls’ Softball League 2023 All-Stars

12U Gold

Brooklyn Brow

Kara Cohu

Zoe DeWein

Makayla Gregory

Ruby Hall

Audrey Jane Handjian

Sadie Horn

Paige Kelly

Alessandra Martorana

Joya Meagher

Clara More

Kallen Pope

Ashley Russell

Manager: Kyle Horn

Coaches: Greg DeWein, Ryan Kelly and Jeff Ottaway

10U Gold

Cate Boyd

Brooke Cohen

Maya Cohen

Etta Deane

Rosie DeWein

Brooklyn Farrokh-Siar

Emerson Hirson

Harly Possemato

Emily Ro

Abigail Russell

Kaia Tamilin

Ava Yoon

Manager: Ryan Deane

Coaches: Marcus Boyd, Andy Tamilin and Josh Yoon

10U Silver

Rocklyn Choice

Phoenix Cruz

Kiley Dillon

Caroline Emerick

Danika Farrokh-Siar

Addison Gibson

Madison Gimlin

Lillian Lawrence

Reese McCauley

Kareena Pradhan

Kara Stender

Misaki “Mimi” Tanihara

Everly Wang

Manager: Kenneth Gimlin

Coaches: Andy Gibson, Erin Lawrence and Ross Lawrence

8U Gold

Olivia Babb

Evelyn Eum

Talia Imposimato

Josette Lawrence

Lucy Lutkenhouse

Penny Lutkenhouse

Margo Meagher

Colette Moon

Charlotte Rhein

Kaitlin Rodenkirch

Eleanor Wang

Ellie Yamauchi

Molly Zinser

Manager:

Sean Lutkenhouse

Coaches: Eddie Eum and Paul Moon

PANORAMA Thanks the Palos Verdes Peninsula Gils’ Solftball League

Dolphins Rally Late For Championship Win

Junior League

• The Chadwick Dolphins came back in the seventh inning to defeat the Red Sox in the Juniore League championship game, 3-2, at George Allen Field.

One Last Photo Op . . . The CIF Division 5 Champions Peninsula High varsity baseball team received congratulations from the District School Board last week.

Red Sox Dominate Season . . . The Red Sox were the regular season championship winners finishing in first place in Junior League standings with an 16-2 record.