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3Monday • May 30, 2016 THE DAILY JOURNAL LOCAL

BURLINGAMEDisturbance.

A person was seen collapsedin front of a store on El Camino Real before2:30 p.m. Thursday, May 26.Reckles s driv er. A driver was seen run-ning multiple stop signs near HowardAvenue and El Camino Real before 6:17p.m. Wednesday, May 25.Homeless. A homeless woman was seenacting strangely and yelling profanitiesnear El Camino Real and Burling ame Avenuebefore 5:26 p.m. Wednesday, May 25 .Threats. Someone was getting threateningcalls from an ex-employee’s son on LortonAvenue before 3:19 p.m. Wednesday, May25.Burglary. A person broke into a homeunder construction and stole tools onCapuchino Avenue before 8:45 a.m.Tuesday, May 24.

Police reports

Need that vodkaSomeone stol e a bottle of vo dka and fledon a bicycle on Plaza Lane inBurlingame before 12:20 a.m.Wednesday, May 25.

Bike lanes are becoming permanentfixtures on Peninsula roads, but abike freeway to San Francisco? A

similar stretch o f high way was attempted inSouthern California in the 1890s. It didn’tget very far, but the fact that it got anywhereis surprising. Maybe not so surprisingwhen one considers how popular bicycleswere shortly before the automobile debutedand took over the roads.

The League of American Wheelman, estab -lished in 1880, had 100,000 members by1898. The league’s members included theWright brothers, John D. Rockefeller and“Diamond” Jim Brady. Ten years later, thenumber grew to 150,000, but the figure

soon dropped with the coming of the auto.The number of bike manufacturers plungedfrom around 300 to 100 between 1900 and1905 . League histo rians don’t blame the carfor all of the decline. The coming of theelectric streetcar also played a part.

In 1897, the future of the bicycle lookedso bright Horace Dobbins of Pasadenaincorporated the California CyclewayCompany which called for building a 10-mile, elevated wooden bike tollway fromhis city to Los Angeles. Construction start-ed two years later and about a mile and a half

was completed when the cycleway openedon New Year’s Day 1900.

The completed portio n was almost entire-ly of pine and was wide enough for fourcyclists to ride side by side. According to a1901 account in Good Roads magazine, thestructure was brightly lit with incandescentligh ts. There was a toll boo th at one end andriders were charged 10 cents for one way and15 cents roundtrip. The elevation at thehighest point was 50 feet. The full routewould have had a maximum grade of 3 per-cent and an average grade of approxi mately1 percent, according to Good Roads.

Dobbins ’ venture never made a profit. In a

few years, the cycleway was dismantled andthe wood so ld for lumber. The right-of-wayeventually became part of the PasadenaFreeway, which op ened dates in 1940 and isbilled as the nation’s first freeway. A bikepath about two miles long runs parallel tothe freeway.

The Peninsula also became swept up in t hebike g raze of the 1890 s. There were several

“wheelmen clubs,” including those in SanMateo and Redwood City. The Redwood CityTimes-Gazette covered the “great relay” raceof June 1895 that started at the MillbraeHotel and finished two miles south of Mountain View. Several clubs entered teamsof five riders who competed for a gold cup.In another story, t he paper reported that J. E.Edwards set a record for the San Mateo-SanCarlos run with a t ime of 12 minutes and 13seconds. The Times-Gazette also covered afive-mile race that drew “everybody” intown. The race was won by Carl Allen, whowon in 15 minutes, 20 seconds.

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Keith Cameron Green

1988 – 2016

Keith Cameron Green was born and raised in San Mateo,

California to Brian Keith Green and Colleen Kay Cudd on

July 19th, 1988.

Keith attended Baywood Elementary School, Borel Middle

School and graduated from Aragon High School.

Keith was an avid athlete and enjoyed participating in

baseball, basketball, football, tennis and many other sports.

He most recently fell in love with the game of golf.

Besides “styling footwear” and spending time with his “Boi’s”, his new passion was for the

culinary arts where he attended Le Cordon Bleu with plans to graduate in September.

The gift of Keith was that of a loving son, brother, grandson, cousin and friend but his

greatest gift was becoming a loving father to his beautiful daughters, Vivi and Nia . He loved

them with all of his being.

This beautiful man was taken from this earth much too soon and will be missed by all

who knew him.

Keith is survived by his daughters Vivienne Li and Nia of Hillsborough, his mother Colleen

Cudd of Vancouver Washington, brother Julian R. Green-Williams of Sacramento, sister

Mariah Green of Florida, grandmother Anthelena James Green of Ohio, his large extended

family and his many friends that loved him immensely.

Keith is preceded in death by his father, Brian, grandfather Joe “Buddy” Green and

grandparents Douglas and Carole Cudd.

A memorial service will be held June lOth, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. at the Central Peninsula Church

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By Austin WalshDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Due to claims the builder andcity staff offered insufficient

information regarding a proposalto construct a massive biotech-nolo gy office project in South SanFrancisco, officials delayed mak-ing a decision on t he developmenttargeting east of Highway 101.

The South San Francisco CityCouncil agreed during a meetingWednesday, May 25, to postponeconsidering approval of a p ropos-al by BioMed Realty to develop262 ,00 0 square feet of office spacespli t between two buildings at 475Eccles Ave., according to v ideo of the meeting.

Officials agreed they wanted tosee a more detailed analysis o f thebuilding design and potentialeffects of the project which could

bring as many as 900 new jobs tothe area near Gateway and OysterPoint boulevards.

Councilwoman KarylMatsumoto expressed discomfortwhen being asked to consider theproject, without being offered areport addressing specifics s uch astraffic mitigations, building mate-rials and more.

Adjacent to the Eccles site,BioMed Realty is also developingthe Gateway to t he Pacific project,which is slated to bring an addi-tional 500,000 square feet of accommodations to the city’s lifesciences industry.

In the application for theGateway project, Matsumoto said

a much more thorough and com-

prehensive vis ion of the develop-ment was offered to officials, andexpressed a desire for BioMedRealty and city staff to take a sim-ilar approach with the Eccles proj-ect.

“When BioMed came to us withthe other site, it was very inten-sive. We got to see things. It wasvery engagi ng. We were part of thediscussion, we weren’t just giventhese little renderings,” she said.“We were bypassed this time.”

Vice Mayor Pradeep Guptaagreed with Matsumoto’s concernsand directed the applicants andstaff to return at a later date with

more information.

“The council would like to lookat this project closer than we areable to do at this time,” he said.“In our eyes this is not a smallproject, it is a significant project.“

City Manager Mike Futrell saidofficials would be willing to comeback to the council with a moredetailed analysis of the project.

“I don’t believe there is anurgency to get this done tonight, ”he said.

He said he would like to see theitem brought before the council bythe end of July to allow BioMedRealty to begin searching for ten-

ants to occupy th e project.

“We’ll come back with a way tomove thi s forward,” he said.

Beyond the two buildings pro-posed to prov ide space for offices,along with research and develop-ment, in the Eccles development,BioMed Realty also expressedinterest to build a parking struc-ture with 551 spaces. An additio n-al 104 spaces would be offered inan at-grade lot, with the opportu-nity to build 50 more, accordingto a city report.

With as many as 900 workerspotentially visiting the site,Councilwoman Liza Normandyexpressed concerns regarding the

adequacy of the parking plan to

accommodate the demand.“I don’t want to assume 400

people are taking public trans-portation,” said Normandy alsoshared reservations regarding the

traffic flow patterns throughoutthe corridor east of Highway 101which houses a majority of thecity’s biotechnology companies.Caltrans and a nearby companywrote letters to city officials aswell expressing concerns aboutpotential traffic congestionpotentially b rought by the Ecclesproject.

Matsumoto also identified someof the issues regarding the poten-tial for traffic congestion on andaround the site.

“This becomes very importantto us on how we look at future mit-igations,” she said.

Improvements should also bemade to surrounding amenitiessuch as the Bay Trail, addedMatsumoto, to make th e area moreeasily accessible by bicycles andwalkers.

With the variety of issues need-ing to be addressed, Gupta encour-aged city staff and developers toreturn with a more vibrant andexpansive proposal for the proj-ect.

“It is an important project forthe council to look at, and a veryimportant part of the future direc-tion of Oyster Point,” he said.“I’m looking forward to dis-cussing this item with better dataand better information, so thecouncil can feel more comfort-

able.”

Officials delay biotech development decisionCiting insufficient proposal details, council requests issue return later

A proposal by BioMed Realty to develop 262,000 square feet of office space split between two buildings at 475Eccles Ave. in South San Franciso has been put on hold.

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LOS ANGELES — Standingbefore the Los Angeles UnifiedSchool Board, Susan Zoller deliv-ered a startling assessment: Morethan 100,000 students in the

nation’s second-largest districtwere now enrolled in charters,draining more than $500 millionfrom the budget in a single aca-demic year.

“The financial future of LosAngeles is difficult,” said Zoller, aconsultant hired by the district’sunion. Board member RichardVladovic leaned anxiously towardhis mic.

“We are bleeding,” he said.If current trends continue, the

district could be significantlydiminished in another 10 years —at least a third smaller than at the

start o f the century.In financially struggling urban

districts from LA to Philadelphia— and most notoriously, Detroit— the increasing popularity of charter schools, combined withfamily flight to the suburbs and

declining birth rates, have causedenrollment to plummet. Thechanges have unfolded slowly foryears and recently accelerated insome places.

“It’s come to a tipp ing po int formany of these districts likeDetroit,” s aid Ron Zimmer, an edu-cation professor at VanderbiltUniversity. “They just can’tfinance their school district thatwas meant for a much biggerenrollment than they currentlyhave.”

Charter schools arrived in the1990s and began attracting par-

e n t ss e a r c h -ing for an

a l t e r n a -tive tob i g - c i t ydi s t r i c t sthat hads t r a i n e dfor yearsto raiseperform-

ance among minority and low-income students and those who arelearning English. More than twodecades later, charter enrollmentcontinues to climb. Nationwide,more than 2.6 million studentsattended charter schools in 2014,

according t o the Nation al Alliancefor Public Charter Schools .

In districts with growing s tudentpopulations, such as Las Vegasand Orlando, Florida, that growthhelps ease potential overcrowd-ing. But in cities like LosAngeles, where the school-agepopulation has been shrinking,the continued flight from tradi-tional public schools has becomea mounting concern. In moststates, schools receive funding ona per-pupil basis, and the majorityof those dollars follow studentswhen they l eave for a charter.

Charter school advocates sayit’s only fair for local and stateproperty tax dollars to follow

children to the new schools, andthat parents aren’t to blame for adistrict’s failing finances.

“To the extent the district is notserving the needs of their stu-dents, this has been a trend line forsome time,” said Nina Rees, p resi-dent of the National Alliance forPublic Charter Schools.

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Man arrested afterhomeowner detains him

A man was arrested in PacificaSaturday morning after a home-owner caught the suspect breakin ginto his home, according topolice.

Police s aid officers resp onded at4:48 a.m. to the 700 block of

Arleen Way on reports of a possi-ble home invasion involving afirearm.

The suspect, 29-year-old TrevorJodsaas, allegedly kicked downthe front door and entered the resi-dence.

According to police, the home-owner was home and after a brief altercation was able to forciblyremove Jodsaas from his home anddetain him on the porch until offi-cers arrived. Officers arrived andarrested Jodsaas on suspicion of burglary, battery with seriousinjury, vandalism, being under theinfluence of a controlled substanceand possession of drug parapher-nalia. The homeowner was taken

to the hospital after the incidentfor injuries that were not consid-ered life threatenin g.

Three arrested fordischarging firearm

Three people, including twofrom Southern California, have

been arrested on suspicion of dis-charging a firearm in a city forallegedly firing a rifle in Pacificaearly Friday morning, police said.

Officers who heard someone dis-charging a firearm in the area of the Shelldance Orchard Gardens at2000 Coast Highway at about2:20 a.m. on Friday found anddetained three people who werehiding on the nursery’s property,according to police. A rifle waslocated near the spot where they

were detained, said.The three people admitted that

they had been drinking and firingthe rifle into the hillside, policesaid. The suspects were identifiedas 24-year-old CosmosRothenberg of Pacifica, 22-year-old Julia Barcia of Santa Barbaraand 28-year-old Iain Bartolo mei of Huntington Beach.

Sheriff’s Office has newinmate locator tool

The San Mateo County Sheriff’sOffice on Friday announced a newinmate locator tool available tothe public.

The tool will give the public the

ability to get real-time informa-tion on peop le who are in custody,according to t he sheriff’s office.

The tool will provide informa-tion such as facility location,pending charges, custody status,next co urt date and bail amount andwill be av ailable at www.smcsh er-iff.com.

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TAMPA, Fla. — Donald Trumpcalls his presidential campaign amass movement, b ut he must showhe can coax enough support fromvoters who twice delivered theWhite House to Barack Obama.

The billionaire businessmandepended almost exclusively onconservative and GOP-leaningwhites — a majority of them men— to secure the Republican n omi-natio n. Now he must lo ok ahead toa wider, more diverse voting pop-ulation in his likely general elec-tion matchup with Democraticfront-runner Hillary Clinton.

His ability to seize on marginalshifts in the electorate may deter-mine whether he can pull o ff a vic-tory once unthinkable. Trump’stask is critical to flipping backinto the GOP column some of themost contested states that Obamawon twice.

This challenge is perhaps best

evident in Florida, a culturally,racially and ideologically variedstate where Obama defeatedRepublican Mitt Romney four

years ago byfewer than75,000 votesout of more than8.4 millioncast.

That meanssmall shifts

anywhere in theelectorate couldmake a differ-

ence — from turnout changesamong whit e small-town and ruralRepublicans or urban, nonwhiteDemocrats to partisans, embit-tered by contentious nominatingbouts, choosing third-party candi-dates or declining to vote at all;and if Trump can’t close the gapsin Florida, he has little shot of winning key Rust Belt and GreatLakes states where Obama’sadvantages were greater.

“We still elect presidents usingthe Electoral College ... depend-ing on states that are made up of diverse electorates,” caution s GOP

poll ster Whit Ayres. “There aren’tenough angry white people to cre-ate a majority in the new Americaof 2016, (and) running up your

numbers with white males inMississippi doesn’t get you onemore electoral vote than MittRomney.”

One of Trump’s vanquished pri-mary rivals, Sen. Marco Rubio,told reporters this week Trump canwin Florida, which has gone with

the winner in every presidentialcontest since 1996, as long as hecan “contin ue to be Donald.” Thatbrash outsider pitch has sewn upsupport from white men like JackOliver, a 66-year-old constructionworker from West Palm Beach,Florida, and 84-year-old FrankPapa, a retired grocery managerfrom Clearwater, Florida.

Oliver cites Trump’s hard line onimmigration and calls him a leader“who will finally give a damnabout people like me.” Papa, aNew Jersey native, says Trump“speaks my language, talks andthinks like me.”

But Trump must expand hisreach. “If he can’t unify

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in Florida. He said Florida elec-tions have been close for decades,noting 41 million combined pres-idential votes have been cast since1992, with fewer than 131,000votes separating the combinedtotals of Democratic andRepublican nominees.

Trump gives lip service to theelectorate’s diversity, suggesting“the Mexican people” will “votefor me like crazy” and that he canwin 25 percent of African-Americans. The highest won byany GOP nominee since 1980 isabout 12 percent. He said recentlyhe could lure “40 percent” of vot-ers backing Clinton’s primaryopponent, Bernie Sanders.

Some nonwhite Floridiansmock Trump’s claims about hisown appeal.

“I haven’t heard any of my(black) friends say they ’ll vote forTrump,” s aid Tanish a Winns , 3 9, ablack Democrat in Lakeland,located along central Florida’s

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For now, Florida polls suggestTrump and Clinton are runningabout even, with about 15 percentundecided. But there are variablesthat should giv e Trump pause.

In 2012, nonwhites accountedfor almost a third of all votes castin Florida, compared to 28 percentnationwide. But populationgrowth, driven by Hispanics, sug-gests b oth n umbers could be high -er come November.

Obama beat Romney withFlorida’s black vote with 95 per-cent. The president won Hispanicsby a 60-40 margin, closer than his71-27 advantage nationally, withmany of Florida’s conservativeCuban-American voters account-ing for the difference.

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. —The Libertarian Party again nomi-nated former New Mexico Gov.Gary Johnson as its presidentialcandidate Sunday, beli eving he canchallenge presumptive Republicannominee Donald Trump andDemocratic front-runner HillaryClinton because of their poorshowing in popularity polls.

Johnson, 63, won the nomina-tion on the second ballot at theparty’s convention in Orlando,Florida, defeating Austin Petersen,the founder of The LibertarianRepublic magazine; and anti-com-puter virus company founder JohnMcAfee. The delegates selectedformer Massachusetts Gov.Willi am Weld to be hi s vi ce presi-dential running mate.

Johnson, the party’s nominee in201 2, to ld the delegates during hi sacceptance speech that his job

will be to get the Libertarian plat-form before the voters at a levelthe party has not seen.

“I am fiscally conservative inspades and I am socially liberal inspades,” Johnson told TheAssociated Press. “I would cutback on military interventionsthat have the unintended conse-quence of making us less safe inthe world.”

On fiscal matters, Libertarianspush for reduced spending andtaxes, saying the federal govern-ment has gotten too big across theboard. Johnson proposes elimi-nating federal income and corpo-rate taxes and replacing t hose witha national sales tax.

He would reduce domesti c spend-ing by eliminating the InternalRevenue Service, the Commerceand Education departments, theFood and Drug Adminis tration andthe Drug EnforcementAdministration.

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BEIRUT — Al-Qaida’s branch inSyria has recruited thousands of fighters, including teenagers, andtaken territory from governmentforces in a s uccessful offensive inthe north, illustrating how the

cease-fire put in place by Russiaand the United States to weakenthe militants has in many waysbackfired.

The branch, kn own as the NusraFront, has churned out a flood of videos — slickly produced in thestyle of it s rival, the Islamic Stategroup — that show off its recruit-ment drive. In one, young menline up for combat training. Inanother, a bearded al-Qaida fighterin a mosque urges a crowd of mento join jihad. A third shows an al-Qaida-linked cleric leading a grad-uation ceremony, handing outweapons to young men.

Since March, th e group recruited3,000 new fighters, including

teenagers, in comparison to an

average of 200 to 300 a monthbefore, according to RamiAbdurrahman, head of the SyrianObservatory for Human Rights , anactivist group monitoring theconflict. He cited contacts within

the Nusra Front. Other activistssaid hundreds living in camps fordisplaced people in the north have

jo ined the al-Qaida branch.But battlefield success and the

push for n ew recruits have brought

to the surface tensions within theNusra Front over the group’s futurepath, o bservers say.

A hard-line faction within thegroup wants to emulate al-Qaida’schief rival, the Islamic Stategroup, and declare an Islamiccaliphate in the areas under its

control, a step al-Qaida has longrejected because it does not wantto alienate its allies in th e Syrianopposition. On the other end of the spectrum, a Syria-mindedcamp within t he Nusra Front wantsto focus entirely on the campaignto oust Syrian President BasharAssad and to break ties with al-Qaida.

“There are leaders in Nusra whoare saying we are strongest, whyare we not ruling and why don’t wedeclare a caliphate?” said RadwanMortada, an expert on jihadigroups who writes for Lebanon’sAl-Akhbar newspaper. “There areothers who say the world will notleave us alone so long as we are

related to al-Qaida. So th e least we

can do ... is declare our dissocia-tion with al-Qaida.”

The Nusra Front has long beenone of the strongest factions inSyria’s opposition. It and otherSyrian rebels, including someallied to it, hold most of thenorthwestern province of Idlib

and parts of neighboring Aleppoprovince. When Russia and theUnited States brokered a cease-firebetween Assad and oppositionforces in February, the Nusra Frontand IS were excluded, allowingAssad’s troops and Russian andAmerican airstrikes to contin ue tohit th em. The hope in Washingtonand Moscow was that other rebelfactions would shun both extrem-ist groups.

Instead, the cease-fire falteredwithin weeks as Assad’s forcesfought rebels around the opposi-tion-held part of Aleppo, andpeace talks in Geneva stalemated.That boosted the Nusra Front’scredibility as the force that kept

up the fight against Assad.

Syria’s cease-fire strengthens al-Qaida branch

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Rebel fighters from the First Regiment, part of the Free Syrian Army, carrya Grad rocket in Aleppo’s Al-Haidariya neighborhood.

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BEIJING — China’s decision to allow allmarried couples to h ave two children is driv-ing a surge in demand for fertility treatmentamong older women, putting heavy pres-sure on clinics and breaking down past sen-sitivities, and even sh ame, about the issue.

The rise in in vitro fertilization po ints tothe deferred dreams of many parents who

long wanted a second child, but were pre-vented by a s trict population control policyin place for more than 30 years.

That, in turn, is shifting prevailing atti-tudes in Ch ina regarding fertility t reatments— formerly a matter of such sensi tivi ty th atcouples were reluctant to tell even their par-ents or ot her family members that th ey werehaving trouble conceiving.

“More and more women are coming to askto have their second child,” said Dr. LiuJiaen, who runs a private hospital inBeijing treating infertility through IVF, in

which an egg and sperm are combined in alaboratory dish and the resulting embryotransferred to a woman’s uterus.

Liu estimated that the n umbers of womencoming to him for IVF had risen by 20 per-cent since the relaxation of the policy,which came into effect at the start of theyear. Before, the average age of his patient swas about 35. Now most of them are olderthan 40 and some of the women are fastapproaching 50. “They have a very low

chance to get pregnant so they are in ahurry. They really want to have a child assoon as p ossible,” he said.

Chen Yun is 39 and was in t he hos pitalwaiting to have the procedure for the firsttime. She and her husband already hav e a 7-year-old son.

“We are coming to the end of our child-bearing years. It may be difficult for me toget pregnant naturally because my hus-band’s sperm may have a problem, so wewant to resolve this problem through IVF,”she said.

Finally allowed 2nd child, older Chineseparents turning to fertility treatments


POZZALLO, Sicily — Survivor accountshave pushed to more than 700 the number of migrants feared dead in Mediterranean Seashipwrecks over three days in the pastweek, even as European ships saved thou-sands of others in daring rescue operations.

The shipwrecks appear to account for thelargest loss of life reported in theMediterranean since April 2015, when asingle ship sank with an estimated 800 peo-

ple trapped inside. Humanitarian organiza-tions say that many migrant boats sinkwithout a trace, with the dead never found,and their fates only recounted by familymembers who repo rt their fail ure to arrive i nEurope.

“It really looks like that in the last periodthe situation is really worsening in the lastweek, if the news is confirmed,” said

Giovanna Di Benedetto, a Save t he Chil drenspokeswoman in Italy.

Warmer waters and calmer weather of latehave only increased the migrants’ attemptsto reach Europe.

The largest number of missing and pre-sumed dead was aboard a wooden fishingboat being towed by another smugglers’boat from the Libyan port of Sabratha thatsank Thursday. Estimates by police andhumanitarian organizations range fromaround 400 to about 550 missing in that

sinking alone.One survivor from Eritrea, 21-year-old

Filmon Selo mon, told The Associat ed Pressthat water started seeping into the secondboat after three hours of navigation, andthat the migrants tried vainly to get thewater out of the sinking boat.

“It was very hard because the water wascoming from everywhere,” he said.

More than are 700 feared dead inrecent Mediterranean crossings

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By Terry BernalDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

SAN JOSE — It didn’t end in fairytalefashion. Nonetheless, Carlmont playingin the Central Coast Section Division Ichampionship game was a fitting end toJim Liggett’s legend.

Saturday’s 11-6 loss to No. 1 seededSan Benito at PAL Stadium marked thefinal game of Liggett’s historic 41-yearcareer as Carlmont ’s head coach. Havingwon eight CCS title all time — the lastcoming in 2014 — Liggett accrued acareer record of 1,009 wins, 216 losses

and four ties. His wins total, whichreached the 1,000-wins plateau April 12against Capuchino, is a California state

record. And the Scots qualified for theplayoffs in each of his 4 1 seasons.

For Liggett, his suffering from anundisclosed ailment has made his finalseason a difficult one. For decades, thelegendary coach brought a bo yish vigorto the diamond day-in and day-out. It wasa persona he carried even into this year,but his mobility was rapidly hindered asthe farewell season progressed.

“It’s been difficult because I didn’tthink I would be at this stage in my con-dition,” Liggett said. “It’s been toughthat way when I can’t get on the field likeI usually do. So, t hat’s been difficult. But

we had a good group of girls and overallthey p erformed very well. ”

The 2016 season was the first in which

Liggett wasn’t a fixture in the third-basecoach’s box. He was reserved to coachingfrom a canvas chair, usually affixed at thefront of the dugout. It was from this vantagepoint he observed the season end Saturdayas freshman Kate Berce grounded out to SanBenito shortstop Callee Heen, giving theHaybalers their eighth all-time CCS crown,all coming in the past n ine years. The onlyyear San Benito didn’t win the title duringthat time was in falling in the 2014 cham-pionship game to Carlmont.

In a way, it was appropriate Liggett’scareer ended with a freshman at the plate.One of the keys to hi s success has b een in

integrating the best available players

Liggett takes final bow

TERRY BERNAL/DAILY JOURNAL

Carlmont head coach Jim Liggett, left, steps onto thediamond with assistance from freshman Ashley

Trierweiler following the final game of his 41-yearcareer in the Scots’ 11-6 loss in the CCS title game.See SCOTS, Page 14

Carlmont coach ends 41-year career with loss in CCS title game

HMB claims

2nd all-timesoftball titleBy Terry BernalDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

SAN JOSE — The Half Moo n Bay Cougarshave one more fireworks show to look for-ward to.

After an explosive display of offensewhile sweeping through the Central CoastSection Division II softball bracket, theCougars (24-4) received a deserved honorfollowing Saturday’s 9-2 win over No. 5-seed Notre Dame-Salinas (19-9-1) in the

CCS championship game at PAL Stadium.HMB’s first-year head coach Claire

Rietmann-Grout said she was informed afterthe game the Cougars will b e the grand mar-shals of the Fourth of July parade in Half Moon Bay. And for a core group that hasbeen playing softball together for over half their lives, the honor is a long time coming.

“This is a really special group,”Rietmann-Grout said. “They’ve been play-ing together since they were 7. To inherittalent — they love each other; they workhard — is very cool. ”

The title marks the second in program

By Nathan MollatDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

SAN JOSE — Menlo School baseball man-ager Ryan Cavan, who won a Central CoastSection title with the Knights as a player in2004, told his team before Saturday'sDivision II championship game that if theybeat top-seeded Carmel, he was joining thecelebratory dog p ile.

Cavan must really have wanted to relive hisyouth as he pulled out all the stops to try andhelp Menlo to its first section title s ince 2011.

He put forth an aggressive game plan andthe third-seeded Knights went out and execut-ed it to near perfection in a dominant 9 -4 winover the Padres.

“There's no tomorrow,” Cavan said of hisapproach Saturday at Municipal Stadium. “Itold th em if we won, I'd be there (for the dogpile).”

Cavan was super aggressive on the basepaths as th e Knigh ts swiped seven bases. Healso got the running game going when theKnights executed a pair of hit-and-runs. He

was having the Knights take bases wheneverand wherever they could.Menlo (24-7) scored early and often, stak-

ing surprise starting pitcher Chandler Yu to athree-run lead before he th rew his first pi tch.The Knights continued to add on all game,givi ng Yu — who was making h is secondstart of the week — some room for error.

Not that he needed it. Yu, who pitched fiveinni ngs and picked up the win in th e Knigh ts'10-7 win over Capuchino in the semifinals,was masterful Saturday. With five innings left


Half Moon Bay’s Angela Brazil hoists the CCSDivision II championship trophy Saturday afterthe Cougars’ 9-2 win over Notre Dame-Salinas.

By Jenna FryerTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

INDIANAPOLIS — A new erafor the Indianapolis 500 arrivedin the form of a most unfamiliardriver.

An American, no l ess.Alexander Rossi outlasted his

faster rivals — and his fuel tank— for a stunning victory Sundayin the historic 100th running of “The Greatest Spectacle InRacing.” The unlikely winallowed the long-sufferingAndretti family to celebrate inthe biggest race of their storied

careers and it left the top drivers

in the field fuming over Rossi’sgood fortune.

Rossi was a 66-to-1 long shotand certainly not the driver any-one would have picked to win.But the 24-year-old Californianused fuel strategy to outsmart ahandful of drivers who had themost dominant cars in the race.

Rossi stretched his final tankof gas 90 miles to cycle into thelead as ot hers had to duck int o th epits for a splash of fuel in thewaning laps. He was sputteringon the final lap, working hisclutch and getting screamed at by

team co-owner Bryan Herta to

conserve fuel, and he ultimatelyran out of gas after taking thecheckered flag.

His victory celebration cameonly after his Honda was towed tothe party. He sat in the car forsome time before climbin g out totake that sweet sip of milk.

“I have no idea how we pulledthat off,” he declared.

“I really was focused on takingit one lap at a time,” Rossi said.“The emotional roller-coaster of this race is ridiculous. There were

Nor Cal’s Rossi pulls off Indy 500 upset

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ChampsKnighted

DAVE BOUVIER

The Menlo Knights rush the field at San Jose’s Municipal Stadium after capturing the CentralCoast Section Division II championship Saturday with a 9-4 win over top-seed Carmel.

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By Janie McCauley THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

OAKLAND — After a record 73 wins and amemorable Game 6 comeback on the road, theGolden State Warriors’ goal o f getting back tothe NBA Finals and defending their titlecomes down to Game 7 at home against thepowerful Oklahoma City Thunder.

All along, t he Warriors have said the n umer-ous team milestones and personal accom-plishments they set during this special sea-son won’t matter a bit unless they repeat aschampions.

They need one more victory to become the10th team to rally from a 3-1 postseasondeficit.

“I’ve learned that our players are tough,they’re mentally t ough,” Coach of the YearSteve Kerr said Sunday, when hi s team took aday off from film and practice. “I don’t knowif I really l earned that. I already knew that. Butthey’ve firmly confirmed that. It’s been agreat comeback. Now we still have to play.We still have another game.”

Kerr just wanted his Warriors to grab backsome momentum from Kevin Durant and theThunder. Now, they have i t, all right, headinginto the decisive game of the WesternConference finals Monday night after win-ning two straight.

When his team won Game 5 on Thursdaynight, MVP Stephen Curry hollered “We ain’tgoing home!” — and Golden State wants nopart of the Thunder having the last say in theWarriors’ summer plans.

“We got a big one last nigh t to stay alive,and now we’ve got some momentum. But itcan work in reverse,” Kerr said. “One gamechanges everything, and we’ve got to comeout and play our game and play well to finishthe series out.”

Golden State hardly considers this a gim-mee just because the team is playing at deaf-ening Oracle Arena, where the Warriors havelost just three times this season. They havehad their problems against Durant, RussellWestbrook and the towering Thunder.

Oklahoma City is fueled by trying to reachits first NBA Finals since losing to LeBronJames and the Miami Heat in 2012. J ames andCleveland are waiting on Monday’s winner.

“It’s going to be a hard game. If we thoughttonight was hard, Game 7’s going to be even

tougher,” Curry said. “Everybody on bothsides of the ball is going t o leave it all out onthe floor. It’s win or go home. So we can’texpect just because we’re at home that we can

just show up and win.”As has been th e case all playoffs with Curry

ailing, Golden State got a huge performancefrom Klay Thompson. He made a playoff-record 11 3-pointers and scored 41 points i n a108-101 win at Oklahoma City on Saturdaynight, and will n eed an encore Monday.

“Lot of people probably counted us out,”Thompson said.

Kerr said last week that his group might bedifferent than the all the ot her teams that have

Warriors ready for Game 7 battle

By Will GravesTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PITTSBURGH — It wasn’t supposedto take the San Jose Sharks this longto reach their first Stanley Cup Final.

A near quarter-century wait to playon the NHL’s biggest stage for theSharks will finally end Monday nightwhen the puck drops for Game 1against the Pittsburgh Penguins.

The Sharks became one of the NHL’smost consistent winners sho rtly aftercoming in to th e league in 1991 . Yetspring after spring, optimism wouldmorph into disappointment. The nadir

came in 2014, when a 3-0 lead over

Los Angeles in thefirst round some-how turned into a 4-3 loss. The collapsesent the Sharksinto a spiral thattook a full year torecover from, onethat in some wayssowed the seeds fora breakthrough

more than two decades in the making .General manager Doug Wilson

tweaked the roster around fixtures

Patrick Marleau and Joe Thornton,

who remained hopeful San J ose’s win-dow for success h adn’t s hut complete-ly even as the postseason meltdownspiled up.

“I always b elieved that nex t year wasgoing to be the year, I really did,”Thornton said. “I always thought wewere a couple pieces away. Even lastyear not making the playoffs, I hon-estly thought we were a couple piecesaway, and here we are.”

The Penguins, like the Sharks, are astudy in near ins tant alchemy. General

Long road to Cup Final ends for rebuilt Sharks

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Steph Curry is fouled by Thunder center EnesKanter in Game 6 of the Western finals.

Game 7: Thunder at Warriors, TNT, 6 p.m.

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to p lay with — CCS rules allow a pitcher tothrow a maximum of 10 innings in a givenweek — Yu domin ated Carmel (22-8), thro w-ing just 66 pitches in five innings of work,scattering four hits and giving up a pair of runs.

“That (Carmel) offense right there is amuch better offense than two runs,” Cavansaid. “Yu is an abso lute beast. He's our

Madison Bumgarner.”Yu — who fini shed the seaso n with an 11 -

2 record — turned the ball over to reliever RJBabiera for the final two inn ings with a 9-2lead.

“I wanted to take control of the g ame, butI didn't have my (best) stuff,” Yu said.“(Scoring those early runs) definitelyhelped. I kn ew with a lead early in the game… I didn't have to worry about making theperfect pi tch (every time).”

With Yu locking down the Padres, theKnights' batting order came out focused anddisciplined. When the Carmel starting pit ch-er struggled to find the strike zone, theKnights remained patient and took advan-tage when he did make mistakes over theplate. The Knights banged out 12 hitsagainst four Carmel pitchers and also took

advantage of two Padres errors.

“All week long we've been working onballs in t he strikes zone, ” Babiera said, whotormented the Padres from his leadoff spotall game long. “We're looking for that one(pitch) right there. Our eye was insanelygood.”

Babiera set the t one for t he game. He wason base i n four of his five plate app earances,scored three runs and stole three bases.

But Babiera was hardly alone in having abig day. Senior shortstop Jared Lucian, theKnights' No. 3 hitter, went 3 for 4 with twoRBIs and two runs scored. In the No. 2 hole,Rylan Pade drove in a pair of runs with a sec-ond-inning single. David Farnham, the No.

6 hit ter, drove in a p air of runs, while CarsonGampell, Griff McGarry and Ben Somorjaihad an RBI apiece.

“That was the best game I've played in inmy four years,” Lucian said.

It all started with Babiera at the to p of theorder. His leadoff walk to start the game

jump-started a three-run firs t inn ing for t heKnights. After Babiera stole the first of histhree bases, Pade was hit by a pitch to putrunners on first and second. Lucian followedand dumped the first of many balls to rightfield for an RBI single. Gampell followedwith an opposite-field sacrifice fly to right.Yu walked and Farnham bloo ped an opp o-site-field single to right t o drive in Lucian.

The Knig hts added two more in th e second.Davis Rich, the No. 9 hitter, drew a leadoff walk and moved to third when the Padres

threw away Babiera's grounder to shortst op.

Babiera then stole second to get into scor-ing position and Pade drove them both inwith a sharp single to left.

In the third and fourth innings, Menloscored single runs. In the third, Farnhamtook a pitch in the head but stayed in thegame and came around to score on aSomorjai single to left. The fourth sawBabiera single, then was safe at second whenthe Carmel second baseman dropped the ballon a force out on a Pade grounder and scoredhis third run of t he game on Lucian's secondRBI on the day.

Menlo was finally shut out in the fifth, b utcame back with a two-spot in the sixth on

RBI singles from Farnham and McGarry.The Knights were retired in order for theonly time in the game in the seventhinning.

Carmel had Yu on the ropes in the bo ttomof the first, getting runners to second andthi rd with two outs . But Yu got a groundoutto end the inni ng and he settled in after that.In the second inning, a base-running mis-take cost the Padres a chance to get on theboard. Yu got through the third and fourthunscathed before Carmel finally brokethrough in the fifth with a pair of runs. Aone-out walk, a groundout and back-to-backsingles brought home the first runs of thegame for the Padres. They added two moreagainst Babiera in the seventh.

“This is t he best team I've ever coached,”Cavan said. “These guys will battle with

anyone.”


MENLO

S.F. doubles down

for win in DenverBy Pat GrahamTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DENVER — The Giant s were certain ly s ee-

ing double. Quite a few of them, too.Hunter Pence had three of a record-tyingeight doubles for San Francisco, and theGiants beat th e Colorado Rockies 8-3 Sunday.

Pence’s double in the eighth helped theGiants equal a markaccomplished four timessince the team moved toSan Francisco after the1957 season.

Denard Span’s solo shotinto the second deck forhis first homer since April4. The ball came off his batat 102 mph, one of Span’sharder hits, and would

have traveled 441 feet had it landed unimped-ed, according to MLB’s Statcast program.

Not bad for playi ng with a b ruised hip, an

injury t hat s idelined him Saturday.John ny Cueto (8-1) dealt with a s ore back

that surfaced after the first inning. He keptretreating to the clubhouse to get stretchedout and yet turned in a gutty six-inning per-formance in which he allowed two runs —one earned — and six hi ts.

Rockies starter Chris Rusin (1-3) allowedsix runs and 11 hits in five innings .

Handed a lead after Cueto’s solid perform-ance, the Giants bullpen made it hold up.The only run allo wed was a homer by CarlosGonzalez in the eighth estimated to havegone 456 feet had it landed unimpeded. Theday before, San Francisco’s bullpen squan-dered a late lead before the team rallied.

Bochy hasn’t said who will start Wednesdayafter RHP Matt Cain went on the 15-day dis-abled list with a strained right hamstring. The

top candidate is rig hty Albert Suarez.

By Rick EymerTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

OAKLAND — RichHill put a little fear intothe A’s bullpen whenthey saw the left-handerwalk off the field in themiddle of the seventh.Hill says there’s no thing

wrong.Billy Butler delivered a pinch hi t, two-run

single in the sixth and Oakland rallied for a4-2 vi ctory o ver the Detroit Tigers Sunday.

Hill, who left the game with a sl ight g roinstrain, went 6 1/3 innings to win his fifthstraight start. Hill (8-3) gave up two runs onfive hits, walking three and striking out nine.

A’s manager Bob Mel vin said Hill didn’twant to leave th e game, so he made the deci-

sion to replace him out of caution.Hill said he started feeling it i n the fourth

and never went away. He expressed confi-dence he would make his next s tart.

“I don’t think it’s anything si gnificant,”he said.

Victor Martinez, who had three hits, andJames McCann drove in runs for the Tigers,who lost for the second straight day, theirfirst losing streak in two weeks.

Mike Pelfrey (0-5) remained winlessdespite not allowing an earned run. An Ian

Kinsler fielding error produced a run andprolonged the inning for Butler.

Red-hot Butler sparks A’s win over Tigers Giants 8, Rockies 3

Hunter Pence

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Accepting New Clients

histo ry. The last time the Cougars broughthome the coveted CCS trophy was in 198 8,a generation before anyone on the 2016roster was b orn.

In fact, it was the first championship of anykind the Cougars enjoyed this season, after

settling for second place in the power-packedPeninsula Athletic League Bay Division, onegame behind league-champion Hillsdale.

The CCS Division II bracket initially looked

ticketed as a showdown finale between PAL

Bay Division powerhouses. But No. 1 seeded

Hillsdale fell to 15-time CCS champion NotreDame-Salinas in the semifinals, leaving HMB

as the last PAL team standing in the bracket.No. 2 HMB came back in each of its three

victories in the CCS playoffs, falling behindNDS 2-0 after one half inning of playSaturday. But the Cougars resp onded by scor-ing three in the bottom of the inning, thenwent on to b low the game open with four runsin the second and two more in the third.

“We know how to come back,” Rietmann-Grout said. “It’s normal. We knew we had

bats. They were confident. Our energy madethe difference too.”

Junior first baseman Ally Sarabia was thecatalyst in all three of the run-scoringinnin gs. HMB’s No. 3 hitter finished the day3 for 4 with four RBIs and two runs scored.

“When we’re down 2-0, we’re very comfort-able,” Sarabia said. “If anything, I would say itbrings us up a little bit because we know weneed to get it back. We just bring our bats andbring it out there. We leave it all on the field.”

But the at-bat that turned the tide in the firstinning was that of senior Olivia Hedding.After the Cougars got on the board on an RBIinfield single by Marissa Terra, Heddingcame to the plate with the bases loaded andtwo outs. She quickly fell b ehind in the count0-2, b ut went on t o foul off tough pi tch aftertough pitch. Finally, on the ninth pitch of the at-bat, Hedding got a fastball right downBroadway from NDS starting pit cher VanessaGonzalez and lined a two-run single to leftfield to give the Cougars the lead.

“I saw my team was struggling with the out-side pitch and I just decided I was going to hitevery outside pitch she threw until I found one Iliked,” Hedding said. “And that’s what I did.”

After sending n ine batters to the plate in thefirst, HMB saw the first four batters of the sec-ond inning reach base. Abby Donovan openedthe frame with a loud triple to center. Then after

Lily Moffitt got hit by a pitch, Sarabia pro-duced a two-run single. Terra and Hedding addedRBIs later in the inning to up the lead to 7-2.

Sarabia went on to cushion the lead with atwo-run triple in the third, scoring MailiieBowers and Moffitt.

HMB starting pitcher Grace Garcia did therest, going the distance for her 20th win of the season. During the regular season, Garciaand Sarabia shared pitching duties. In thepostseason, however, Garcia threw everypitch of HMB’s three victories.

“I think Grace did an amazing j ob, ” Sarabiasaid. “Me and Grace have p itched side by sidefor years, since we’ve been about 7-years old.I have complete faith in her. I know sheleaves it all on the mound. She loves thisgame and she works her butt off. So, I knewshe had what it t akes to do this. ”

Garcia retired the si de in order in the s ev-enth on three groundouts, with two sweepscoops at first base by Sarabia. The game’sfinal out came on a chopper to Brazil at thi rdbase, with a throw in the dirt that Sarabiapicked clean to incite the celebration in themiddle of the diamond.

“It was the moment we all built up and havebeen waiting for,” Brazil said. “I know that[Rietmann-Grout] ran to me first and jumped in.And next thing you know we’re all in the huddle

jumping around. It was just so exciting. ”


HMBRogers into her first Slam QF in Paris

PARIS — When Shelby Rogers finishedlast season at No. 146 , sh e set a rather mod-est goal for 2016: boosting her rankingenough to g ain direct entry into Grand Slamtournaments so she wouldn’t need to gothrough qualifying rounds.

She managed to accomplish that for theFrench Open — but barely. At No. 108, the23-year-old American was the last player

admitted to the field at the ti me of the rank-ings cutoff last month.

Maybe it’s time to aim higher.By beating a seeded player at Roland

Garros for the third time in a week, Rogersreached the first major quarterfinal of hernascent career with a 6-3, 6-4 victory overNo. 25 Irina-Camelia Begu of Romania onSunday. In the last 30 years, only fivewomen ranked lower than Rogers hav e madeit to the quarterfinals at the French Open.

She pushed Begu around the court, produc-ing a 9-3 edge in forehand winners whileusing th e same deep, flat gro undstrokes thatdictated points against her previous o ppo-nents, including No. 10 Petra Kvitova, atwo-time Wimbledon champion , and No. 17Karolina Pliskova.

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moments I was really stoked, really heartbroken, reallystok ed. I was like, ‘Wow, I’ll n eed to s ee a psychiatrist afterthis.”’

Rossi didn’t have the speed of Carlos Munoz, who wascharging hard over the final 50 miles. But Munoz also had tostop for gas and didn’t hav e a chance to race his teammate for

the victory, even though Rossi was running on fumes andcompleted the final lap at a snail’s pace of 179.784 mph.The Colombian settled for second in a 1-2 finish for

Andretti Autosport. He seemed devastated after his secondrunner-up fini sh i n four years.

Rossi is an IndyCar rookie who has chased a ride inFormula One since h e was 10. He left for Europe when h e was16 and never pursued a career in American open-wheel rac-ing. But stuck witho ut a ride this year, he made the decisionto return to the United States to race and became the ninthrookie to win the 500 and the first since Helio Castronevesin 2001.

Rossi understoo d full well that it was strategy th at got hi mthis win, and he knows what an Indy 500 victory means.

“I have no doubt it’s going to change my life,” he said.Although he’s a relief driver for Manor Racing in F1,

Rossi has no scheduled F1 races and IndyCar right n ow is hi stop commitment. He was lured back to America this year todrive for Herta in a partnership with Andretti Autosport.Herta was the winnin g car owner in 20 11 with Dan Wheldon,

the actual 100th anniversary of the first race in 1911, andnow can claim a win in the 10 0th actual race.

This Herta effort relied heavily on its alliance withAndretti, and the family was hoping Marco Andretti wouldgive them their first Indy 500 title since patriarch MarioAndretti won in 1969.


INDY 500

tried to come back from 3-1 down:because the Warriors won it all last y ear.

The Thunder certainly would have pre-ferred to close out the series at homeover traveling back across the countryto the Bay Area for the deciding game.

Yet they never expected it to be easyagainst the 2015 champs.

“This is what you dream about, get-

ting this opp ortuni-ty. We’ve got totake advantage of it,” Durant saidSunday. “Go up intotheir building, andit’s going to begreat atmosphere.... No matter whereyou play, you’vestill got to play.”

That’s partly because first-yearThunder coach Billy Donovan has talked

to his team about the mentality it takesto win in a hostile venue like raucous,sold-out Oracle Arena, and Oklahoma

City came in and did it in Game 1.Curry and the Warriors expect another

entertaining, great game.From an ankle injury that sidelined

him in the first round against Houston toa sprained right knee and puffy elbow,Curry has dealt with h is sh are of pain thispostseason. He has to push that aside forwhat he hopes is one more game thisseries and then a second straight trip tothe Finals and another championship.

“I actually kind of like it, because youunderstand the moment of the playoffsand just kind of gets you going ,” he said.“I’ll be ready to go and give it every-thing I’ve got for Game 7.”


DUBS

manager Jim Rutherford rebuilt theteam on the fly after taking over inJune, 2014 and with the team sleep-walking last December, fired respect-

ed-but-hardly-charismatic MikeJohnston and replaced him with thedecidedly harder-edged Mike Sullivan.The results were nearly in stantan eous.

Freed to play to its strengths insteadof guarding against its weaknesses,Pittsburgh rocketed through the sec-ond half of the season and showed theresilience it has s ometimes lacked dur-ing Crosby’s tenure by rallying from a

3-2 deficit against Tampa Bay in theEastern Conference finals, dominatingGames 6 and 7 to finally earn a sh ot atboo kending the Cup that was supposedto giv e birth to a dynasty but insteadled to years of frustration .

True catharsis for one side is fourwins away. Some things to look forover the next two weeks of what prom-ises to be an entertaining final.


SHARKS

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onto his varsity rosters, even if those play-ers were underclassmen.

Team captain Jacey Phipps was such aplayer. A freshman standout in 2013,Phipp s went on to a four-year varsity career.And amid the honoring of Liggett this sea-

son, somewhat lost in the fanfare was thefact it was the final season of Phipps’ finevarsity career.

“It’s been an honor just getting to be apart of his legacy,” Phipps said. “To get himhis 1, 000th win and just to be able to pl ayfor him four years, it’s been such a greatexperience. And I’m really glad I had theopportunity to.

“It’s kind of like pressure to come intosuch a [prestigious] school. It has such agood name for it for softball and so youknow if you make that team, and you makevarsity, you have to k eep up with t hem. Youhave to play up to their ability.”

Phipps — set to pl ay Division I softballnext s eason at San Jo se State — agreed thatshe was just a bab y when her career started.

“I was,” Phipp s s aid. “I was terrified and I

did not talk my freshman year. But to get[Ligget t] at least one CCS champion ship …was very meaningful. That was a very emo-tional time.”

This year, Carlmont carried just t hree sen-iors on roster — Phipps, Kelsey Ching andEmily Shipley — while seven players,including four of Saturday’s starters, wereunderclassmen.

“We always look for kids that can playwell defensively and mentally not make

mistakes,” Liggett said. “I think I can seetalent … and find a place for them. And notbe afraid to play young kids.”

The kids came out swing Saturday, but an

early 5-1 lead was not enough to hold off mighty San Benito (26-3), which posted a.410 team batting average this season.

No. 3 seeded Carlmont (24-5) s cored twicein the first inning. Freshman leadoff hitterAshley Trierweiler opened the game with aninfield single and Phipps reached on aninfield error. Then Ching doubled homeTrierweiler to get the Scots on the board.Mailey McLemore foll owed with a sacrificefly to give Carlmont a 2-0 lead.

After San Benito cut th e lead in half with arun in the bottom of the first — spurred byan infield error allowing leadoff hitterBrittnee Rossi to reach — the Scots scoredthree more in the second. Berce worked aone-out walk and moved to third beforeTrierweiler got hit by a pitch. Then Phippsproduced an RBI sin gle, with two runs scor-ing on the play as Trierweiler plated on anerror. Ching followed with her second RBIdouble of th e day to make it 5-1.

But the lead would not last as San Benitochipped away with individual runs in the

second and third, and went on to score inevery inning .

“They’re definitely really good hitters,”Carlmont startin g pit cher Abygail Lan said.“I felt like … if I had gotten the outside cor-ner I could have done a lot better. I mean, Iwas hitting the corner consistently. I justwasn’t getting the calls. But the batterswere definitely very goo d.”

Lan was at odds with the home plateumpire throughout, but the sophomoreshowed a different kind of composure byconti nuing to bo unce back when thing s did-n’t go her way. The Carlmont defense com-mitted four errors behind her.

“I really wanted to just pitch the game,”Lan said. “And I pitched it. And I reallywanted to win so I just kept bouncing back.

I’m a very greedy person, when it comesdown to it, in certain situations. ”

After the Haybalers took a 6-5 lead in thefourth, the Scots bounced back to tie it inthe top of the fifth on a double steal, withMcLemore swiping home. But San Benitokno cked Lan out o f the game with a two-runrally in the bottom of the frame, withCarlmont turning to freshman right-handerSanni Karhiaho to finish the game.

The depth of Carlmont’s pitching took a

hit earlier in the season when McLemore,the Scots’ opening-day starting pitcher,injured a quad muscle during a game inMarch and was unable to p itch for th e rest of the year. As a freshman in 2 015, McLemoreposted a 10-3 record with a 2.22 ERA inpart-time duty. After the injury this season,however, the bulk of the pitching fell toLan.

“It was definitely something I didn’texpect going into the season,” McLemoresaid. “How to deal with it? I tried to con-tribute as much as I could without being able

to throw.”As a right fielder, McLemore went 2 for 4

Saturday. Trierweiler, Ch ing and Berce addedtwo hits apiece.

With the emotional loss, the showing of tears of many of the players following thegame had as much to do Liggett’s final cur-tain — along with the retirement of long-time assistant coaches Ron Perris (1986-2016 ) and Walt McElroy (1990 -2016) — asit did the end of the team’s seaso n.

“It was a big deal,” McLemore said.“Everybody wanted to g o out t here and makea statement, show him we could do it. Leavea positive last memory for him out there.”

Even in losing, the team did just that.Liggett was assisted to the field by his pl ay-ers for the postgame ceremony, walking

with a cane and leaning on Scots Trierweilerand Jamie Madigan, just as four decades of players leaned on the beloved coach timeand again.

“We of course wanted to get this one,”Phipp s said. “But you can’t win them all andwe gave it our all.”

Yet one more resounding lesson learnedfrom the greatest softball coach inCalifornia h istory.

Godspeed, Ligg.


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Carlmont senior Jacey Phipps runs up to slapa ball to left field Saturday in the final at-batof her four-year varsity career.

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NEW YORK — John ny Depp’s“Alice Through the LookingGlass” bombed over th e MemorialDay weekend with just $28.1 mil-lion through Sunday in NorthAmerican th eaters, whil e “X-Men:

Apocalypse” debuted on top withan estimated $65 million.

The anticipated showdown of the two big-budget films turnedout to be little contest for 20thCentury Fox’s latest “X-Men”installment. Both films were lam-basted by critics, and neither drewthe audience many expected overthe ho liday weekend.

Disney’s “Alice Through theLooking Glass” had more than badreviews to deal with. On Friday, asthe film was hitting theaters,Amber Heard, Depp’s wife, was

granted a restraining order afteralleging the actor previouslyassaulted her. She appeared in LosAngeles Superior Court on Fridaywith a bruise on her right cheek.Some fans called for a boycott of “Alice Through the LookingGlass.”

Paul Dergarabedian, senior

media analyst for comScore, saidit was difficult to quantify howmuch the fortunes of Disney’s“Alice Through the LookingGlass” turned Friday afternoonwhen news of Heard’s allegationsspread.

“I think the reviews had more todo with the film’s performancethan any personal drama forDepp,” Dergarabedian said.

Before Heard’s court appearanceon Friday, Tim Burton’s “Alice inWonderland” sequel had beenexpected to open above $60 mil-

lion. Disney estimates that thefilm, which cost $170 million toproduce, will gross $35.6 millionover the four-day weekend.

It’s a staggering fall for a sequelthat returned Depp — one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, albeitwith a recently checkered box-office history — as the Mad

Hatter. “Alice in Wonderland,” fea-turing then -novel 3 -D, made morethan $1 billion worldwide in 2010after opening with $116 milliondomestically.

“It’s a disappointing result,”said Dave Hollis, distributionchief for Disney. “We haveembarked on a branded tent-polestrategy that makes big bets. Butwhen you make big bets, there aretimes when you have results thatare disappointing. ”

Hollis declined to speculate onthe impact the allegations against

Depp had on the film’s opening.It’s a rare blip for Disney, which

is already crossing $4 billion inticket sales in 2016 — a recordpace buoyed by hits like“Zootopia,” “The Jungle Book”and “Captain America: Civil War.”

The flop of “Alice” made “X-Men: Apocalypse” look compara-

tively steady. But the seventh “X-Men” installment opened wellbelow the $90.8 million debut of 2014’s “X-Men: Days of FuturePast” or the $132.4 million bowof February’s “X-Men” spinoff “Deadpool.”

Still, the film, made for $178million, has already made $185.8million internationally. Fox hadlooked to keep expectations incheck for the film, directed byBryan Singer. It stars “X-Men”regulars Michael Fassbender,Jennifer Lawrence and ot hers.

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1. “X-Men: Apocalypse,” $65 mil-lion ($55.3 million international).2. “Alice Through the LookingGlass,” $28.1 million ($65 millioninternational).3. “The Angry Birds Movie,”$18.7

million ($31.8 million interna-tional).4. “Captain America: Civil War,”$15.1 million.5. “Neighbors: Sorority Rising,”$9.1 million.6. “The Jungle Book,” $7 million($5.3 million international).7. “The Nice Guys,” $6.4 million($2.8 million international).8. “Money Monster,”$4.3 million.9. “Love & Friendship,” $2.5 mil-lion.10. “Zootopia,” $831,000.

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MONDAY, MAY 30

Memorial Day Tribute. 11 a.m. StateRoute 92 and Skyline Blvd. 5070, SanMateo. Come to pay tribute to themen and women who served andsacrificed for our country. For moreinformation call 437-1977.

Heroes Forever. 11 a.m. 1300 SneathLane, San Bruno. Honor our fallenheroes and observe Memorial Daywith Golden Gate National Cemetery.For more information call 355-5533.

20th Annual Memorial Day Serv ice.

1 p.m. Cypress Lawn Cemetery, 1370El Camino Real, Colma. An annualevent to salute those fallen heroeswho sacrificed their life defendingour freedom. For more informationemail [email protected].

TUESDAY, MAY 31

Menlo Park Kiwanis Club Speaker.

Allied Arts Guild, 75 Arbor Road,Menlo Park. Marc Berman serves as

the development director for theSilicon Valley Education Foundation.He will discuss ‘Challenges Facing theCalifornia Legislature’ and will fieldquestions about issues confrontingPalo Alto and the district he hopes torepresent. For more information, visitmenloparkkiwanisclub.org.

Teen Study Night.

2:30 p.m. BelmontLibrary, 1110 Alameda de las Pulgas,Belmont. For more information [email protected].

Healthy Food, Healthy You.

6 p.m.840 W. Orange Ave., South SanFrancisco. This is a five-part series onhealthy eating. Each class will focuson a different aspect of choosing orpreparing foods that are affordable,fresh, and delicious. For more infor-mation email [email protected].

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1

Downtown San Mateo Tween

Scavenger Hunt.

10 a.m. San MateoPublic Library, 55 West 3rd Ave., San

Mateo. Tweens can pick up theirDowntown San Mateo ScavengerHunt packet. For more information,contact [email protected].

Computer Class: Facebook.

10:30a.m. Belmont Library, 1110 Alamedade las Pulgas, Belmont. For more infor-mation email [email protected].

Teen Gaming.

3:30 p.m. BelmontLibrary, 1110 Alameda de las Pulgas,Belmont. For more information [email protected].

Synthetic Turf Alternatives

Discussion.

6:30 p.m. 620 Foster CityBlvd., Foster City. PhD David Teter willpresent about synthetic turf alterna-tives. For more information call 286-3395.

Needles and Hooks: Knitting and

Crocheting Club.

6:30 p.m. to 8:30p.m. Belmont Library, 1110 Alamedade las Pulgas, Belmont. Knit, socializeand share techniques with others.Welcoming knitters of all skills. Formore information [email protected].

Peninsula Clean Energy Program

Workshop. 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.Millbrae Library, 1 Library Ave.,Millbrae. Learn about energy optionswith higher renewable content atcompetitive rates for residential andcommercial customers. Free. For moreinformation, visit peninsulacleanen-ergy.com.

THURSDAY, JUNE 2

Mobile Spay/Neuter Clinic.

8 a.m. to9 a.m. 1150 El Camino Real, San Bruno.Pet owners with limited financialmeans can bring their pets and helpeliminate the possibility of accidentallitters. For more information call 340-7022.

ESL Conversation Club.

10 a.m. to 11a.m. Belmont Library, 1110 Alamedade las Pulgas, Belmont. Drop into thisrelaxed setting to practice speakingand reading English. For more infor-mation email [email protected].

Asian Senior Club.

10:30 a.m. to11:30 a.m. Martin Luther King Center,725 Monte Diablo Ave., San Mateo.Light refreshments served. Caregiversfor members also welcome. $20annual membership. For more infor-mation call 522-7470.

LGBTQ History Month: Transgender

Awareness.

6 p.m. South SanFrancisco Main Library, 840 W. OrangeAve., South San Francisco. In celebra-tion of LGBTQ Pride Month, learnmore about what it means to identifyas transgender, and how to be a goodally. A transgender identified librarianwill be present to answers questionsand provide referrals. For more infor-

mation email [email protected].

MyLiberty San Mateo Meeting.6:30p.m. 1304 W. Hillsdale Blvd., SanCarlos. In preparation for the June 7elections we need to get the wordout supporting the conservativesrunning for office. For more informa-tion [email protected].

Finding Your Why - Building a

Business Vision. 6:30 p.m. 1044Middlefield Road, Redwood City. Formore information, [email protected].

24th Assembly District Candidates

Forum on Education. 6:30 p.m. St.Francis of Assisi Church, 1425 BayRoad, East Palo Alto. Free, open to thepublic, non-partisan. Text VOTE to209-6143 to get an event reminder.For more information [email protected].

Mind Meditation.

7 p.m.

Burlingame Library, 480 PrimroseRoad, Burlingame. For more informa-tion email [email protected].

Movies on the Square. 8:45 p.m.2200 Broadway, Redwood City.Experience Redwood City’s high defi-nition surround sound 25-foot out-door theater. Movies are shown inhigh definition Blu-Ray and SurroundSound when available. For more infor-mation go toredwoodcity.org/movies.

FRIDAY, JUNE 3

Renaissance Entrepreneurship

Center’s 2nd Annual Passion to

Profit.

9 a.m. to 3 p.m. 350 TwinDolphin Drive, Redwood City. $25.Lunch and refreshments provided.For more information or to registervisit rencenter.org or call 321-2193ext. 1103.

Coloring and Coffee for Adults.

10a.m. to noon. Belmont Library, 1110Alameda de las Pulgas, Belmont. Colora page or two and enjoy somerefreshments and conversation.Coloring sheets and colored pencilswill be provided. For more informa-tion email [email protected].

Free First Friday. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.2200 Broadway, Redwood City.Admission is free to the San MateoCounty History Museum.

Music on the S quare.6 p.m. to 8 p.m.2200 Broadway, Redwood City. Freelive concerts each week. For moreinformation go toredwoodcity.org/musiconthesquare.

Creative Arts Workshop. 6 p.m. to8:30 p.m. 150 San Mateo Road, Half Moon Bay. For more informationemail [email protected].

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sonab le burden to builders — incorporatingthese technologies has become increasing-ly easier as infrastructure like solar panelshave decreased in price.

What’s on the roof?If the new amendments are approved, all

new construction would be required to haveat least a modicum of solar panels.

New single-family homes must install aminimum of a 1-kilowatt s olar photovo lta-ic system; multi-family buildings withbetween three and 16 units must h ave a min-imum 2-kilowatt system; multi-familybuildings with 17 or more units must have aminimum 3 kilowatt system.

For construction of new non-residentialbuildings, those less than 10,000 squarefeet must have at least a 3-kilowatt systemand larger structures must include at least a5-kilowatt s ystem.

While the l ow kilo watt requirements maynot produce a substantial amount of energy,staff noted it could incentivize owners tocustom fit t heir properties with more panelsto maximize the cost effectiveness of thesystem.

As an alternative, any new constructioncould skip solar panel installation if theyinstead provide a solar hot water systemthat can collect at least 40 square feet,according to the report.

Cool roofs, which are lighter in color toreflect sun resulting in les s energy needed tocool buildings, are required on all newmulti-family and commercial development swith low-sloped roofs. Single-familyhomes are not included, according to thereport.

If you build it, they will parkThe city seeks for new commercial and

multi-family buildings to support theincreasingly popular gas-free vehicles byincorporating electrical grids that couldsupport charging infrastructure, as well asinstall a hig her percentage of stations.

San Mateo’s proposal is to have 10 per-cent of the total parking spaces EV readyand at least 3 percent of them in stalled withchargers. This is above th e state’s minimumof 3 percent for multi-family and 6 percentfor commercial projects, according to thereport.

Staff noted a large barrier to in stalli ng EVchargers in existing developments occurswhen adequate electrical capacity i sn’t builtinto the project from the onset.

Kleinbaum noted the proposed amend-ments were a follow-up to the adoption of the city’s Climate Action Plan and workedon by consultants as well as the city’sSustainability Commission.

“We did not develop these policies in avacuum. We worked really clo sely with th eSustainability Commission,” Kleinbaumsaid, adding the go als were to develop clearpoli cies that would not h ave too much of animpact on development.

Kleinbaum said staff met with stakehold-ers and several developers, such as BayMeadows master developer Wilso n Meany,that shared concerns about the EV portionof the code. In a letter to the city, WilsonMeany expressed significant support for

sustainability measures, but noted thefinancial impacts and questioned whetherthere was an exist ing market demand for thehigh number of EV spaces. They suggestedincentivizing, instead of mandating, andnoted transit-oriented projects that incor-porate other sustainability measures shouldbe consi dered.

Some of the issues revolved aroundPacific Gas and Electric’s p olicies concern-ing installing oversized equipment forexpected, but not yet used, energy capacity— EV readiness but not actual installation.

Kleinbaum said the city is continuing towork with PG&E, and noted the new staterequirement could also have an effect.

Prior to anything becoming a require-ment, the California Energy Commissionhas a 60-day public comment period afterwhich it will issue a ruling on San Mateo’sproposed amendments. If approved, theordinance could go into effect Jan. 1, 2017.

Councilman Rick Bonilla, a strong pro-ponent of sustainable building design, said“I suppo rt everythin g we can do to make thehousing of the future in San Mateo as effi-cient as possible.”


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existing facilities to capacity withstudents.

The San Mateo-Foster CityElementary School District is one of the few along t he Peninsula experienc-ing enrollment growth, according to arecent demographer’s report whichfound the escalating cost of livingthroughout San Mateo County hascaused many families to p ull their chil-dren from school i n favor of relocatingto a more affordable area.

San Mateo, Foster City, Belmontand San Carlos are among the onlycities locally where student enroll-

ment is increasing, according todemographer Tom Williams, thoughgrowth rates are less rapid than theyhave been in the past.

Interest in purchasing CharterSquare was included in the district’scampaign to p ass Measure X, th e $148million bond approved by voters inthe fall election to build new class-rooms and school facilities.

Weeks prior t o Election Day, schoo l

officials announced they had engagedin an exclusive negotiating agreement

with Westlake Realty regarding talksto acquire the sit e.

Assistant Superintendent MollyBarton said at the time the exclusivediscussions marked the most progressthe district had made toward purchas-ing the site, and expressed cautiousoptimism regarding the opportunityto finalize a sale.

District officials have pursued buy-ing the shopping center for years,spanning back to the campaign forMeasure P in 2013, when voters shotdown the initial bond measuredesigned to paid toward addressingcampus overcrowding .

Amidst the pursuit of Measure P,Tong had expressed a disinterest inselling the shopping center to theschool district but, in the years since,his posit ion has changed.

He said he currently remains open t othe opportunity to sell the site to thedistrict, citing the need to address thecramped classroo ms an d campuses.

“It add

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