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Golf coursenot a sure

shotPlan referred to Parks and

Recreation Commissionby Lauren McSherry

Plans to redesign the Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course ran into a sand trap Monday night,

as the City Council discussed a host of uncertainties surrounding the proposal. Among the unknowns: flood-control projects along San Francisquito Creek, the closing of Palo Alto’s landfill and even the hazy future of the Palo Alto Air-port.

In the end, the council voted 6-3 to refer the matter to the city’s Parks and Recreation Commission for fur-ther study, with council members John Barton, Bern Beecham and Dena Mossar dissenting.

Last year the council directed staff to investigate redesigning the golf course to make room for more athletic playing fields. That staff report was released last week. Like Mountain View and Los Altos, Palo Alto is facing a severe playing field shortage.

“The problem has only gotten worse and is at a critical stage,” Parks and Recreation Commissioner Jeanette Marquess told the council.

Undecided land-use issues weighed heavily in the council dis-cussion of the redesign project’s feasibility.

Mossar noted the San Francisqui-to Creek — which originally flowed through the middle of the 170-acre golf course site — was redirected in the 1920s. One flood-control solu-tion for the Joint Powers Authority (JPA) could be to realign the creek again to eliminate a sharp bend. But it will likely be several years before the JPA — locked in its own efforts to deal with the federal government — will be able to act, she added.

Public Works Director Glenn Roberts told the council the possi-bility of moving the creek had not

Residents’ Association.Kathy Durham — who has served

as the association’s president for five terms — eked out a one-vote victory, keeping her from being booted off the board of directors at the annual election Saturday. Run-ning for vice president, she received 82 votes; her opponent got 81.

The push for a leadership change was apparently fueled by grumbling about the lack of neighborhood rep-resentation during Mayfield nego-tiations and the perceived failure of association leaders to protect some neighborhood streets from cut-through traffic.

The neighborhood encompasses roughly 880 households west of El Camino Real, and about 100 people attended the election. Absentee bal-lots were accepted.

Durham announced during Sat-urday’s meeting she was stepping down as president but would be running for the seat of vice presi-dent.

The political upheaval came in the wake of the candidacy — also for vice president — of Fred Balin, a resident known for his fervent opposition to the Mayfield agree-ment.

War and peaceniksSeveral hundred antiwar protestors rallied in downtown Palo Alto Saturday afternoon to mark the third anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq. After listening to music and speakers, the protestors walked down University Avenue chanting “U.S. out of Iraq, Bush Out of Washington!”The event was sponsored by the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center and co-sponsored by many groups, including Multifaith Voices for Peace and Justice and American Muslim Voice. It was one of many such rallies held around the country.

Old wounds from the city’s controversial Mayfield Agreement with Stanford University reopened last Saturday as a group of neighbors attempted to oust a longstanding leader from the College Terrace

Neighborhood leadernarrowly escapes coup

Complaints about Mayfield agreement may have worked against College Terrace’s Durham

by Lauren McSherry

Brain drain in planning department?The e-mail prompted an accusa-

tion from Planning and Community Environment Director Steve Emslie that Kott violated their trade organi-zation’s code of ethics by his criti-cism of a colleague.

In the past two years, the plan-ning department has lost numerous top personnel to resignations and retirements. All told, they “repre-sent nearly 90 years of institutional

knowledge,” according to a city manager’s report.

The new plan, from Emslie and City Manager Frank Benest, calls for combining Kott’s position and that of the top planning manager into a new “chief planning and transpor-tation official,” thereby folding the transportation and planning divi-sions together. The department, un-der the proposal, would also hire a

new “deputy director.”The city manager’s report argued

the new organizational plan would “improve reporting relationships” and “increase policy collaborations and community outreach.”

In the e-mail, Kott called the plan “ghastly.”

“The bureaucratic overkill in the proposal may be worthy of a place

Reorganization proposal draws sharp response from former employees

by Bill D’Agostino

The City of Palo Alto’s planning department is suffering from low mo-rale, “brain drain” and an “inability to recruit talented, national-class” employees to replace those who recently resigned or retired, according

to an e-mail from a former top employee.That correspondence, from former Chief Transportation Official Joe Kott,

was sent to the City Council last week in response to a planned reorganiza-tion of the department. (continued on page 7)

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M oments before taking the stage Saturday afternoon to address the antiwar

rally in Palo Alto, Karen Meredith of Mountain View was asked if she ever got tired of speaking out against the war in Iraq. She looked out over the several hundred people gathered in Civic Center Plaza.

“On days like this, I don’t feel so alone,” she replied. “Some days, I feel alone.”

Meredith lost her son, Lt. Ken Ballard, to the fighting in Iraq. Now, as a member of Gold Star Families for Peace — families who lost a member in Iraq — she speaks often against the war. Last August she went to Crawford, Tex., with Cindy Sheehan and others to camp out near President Bush’s ranch.

On stage, Ballard told the crowd that her son was supposed to come home from Iraq in the spring of 2004.

“They had even turned in their weapons,” she said. But his unit was extended another 120 days.

On Memorial Day, 2004, there was a knock on her door. When she saw the military uniforms, she knew what it was about.

“I didn’t even hear, ‘We regret to inform you. ...’ That knock on the door on Memorial Day ended everything for me,” she said. “Ken was never coming home.”

Meredith pulled what looked like a necklace from under her pullover shirt — her son’s dogtags. “They’re what I have left of him,” she said.

Meredith said she still cries every time she hears “Taps.”

“I stood over Ken’s grave at Ar-lington National Cemetery, and I have to speak because he can’t.”

Saturday’s rally marked the third anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq.

Three years ago, people heard impassioned speeches about how going to war in Iraq would be a ter-rible mistake.

Three years later, many of the same people stood in the same plaza hearing similar speeches, but this time also commemorating the sol-diers and Iraqis who have died.

“We have gotten into a war that seems to have no end to it,” Palo Alto City Councilman Peter Drek-meier told the crowd. “We don’t want to leave and leave a civil war in its aftermath” — which some fear may have already begun.

“Thank you Palo Altans for car-ing and not being apathetic,” City Councilwoman LaDoris Cordell said.

“We are now in the majority posi-tion in this country,” Paul George of the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center told the crowd, citing opin-ion polls showing a majority of Americans think the war was mis-take.

“The children killed in Iraq are our children,” the Rev. Diana Gib-son of Multifaith Voices for Peace and justice said. “We don’t bless this war, we don’t condone it. We oppose it. We want peace and we want to stop this war now.”

“This war is immoral, unjust and un-American,” Samina Faheem of Palo Alto, head of American Mus-lim Voice, told the crowd.

Saturday’s rally was the first large one the center has organized since the one three years ago. The peace movement has been careful to not alienate supporters of the troops in Iraq while protesting the war.

The rally three years ago was much larger. Even though sentiment against the war is building, it was perhaps easier to get people to dem-onstrate against something about to happen than to try to stop a war that is dragging on.

In many ways, the rally was an echo of three years ago with a sunlit crowd holding placards aloft, par-ents with small, happy children in tow, the Raging Grannies singing satirical lyrics to familiar tunes that make one smile, and an earnestness and purpose.

After 90 minutes of speeches and music, the crowd headed down Uni-versity Avenue, chanting, “U.S. Out of Iraq! Bush Out of Washington!”

During the rally, someone ran up a “U.S. Out of Iraq” placard on one of the tall flagpoles on Hamilton Avenue fronting City Hall. But you had to look hard to see it. The small placard looked insignificant atop the tall flagpole. ■

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Upfront

SCHOOLS

W hile Palo Alto’s public schools are among the highest-achieving sites in

the state, for the last few years they have not performed at the top of their class on standardized tests. A report released Tuesday, however, revealed that is no longer the case, and district administrators say it’s about time.

All of Palo Alto Unified School District’s 17 campuses scored at the top of the top — or “well-above aver-age” when compared to schools with similar demographic characteristics — on last year’s state assessments, according to an Academic Perfor-mance Index report released by the California Department of Education Tuesday.

Fifteen Palo Alto campuses are now considered in the top 10 per-cent of all schools statewide. Barron Park and Juana Briones elementary schools scored in the top 20 percent of all schools statewide.

In a separate ranking system, in which similar schools are grouped into sets of 100 and compared with one another, 14 of Palo Alto’s schools ranked in the top 10 percent of their sets. Gunn High School ranked in the top 20 percent of its group.

There were 8,700 schools ranked.

In 2004, several sites — including Barron Park, Juana Briones, Escon-dido, Fairmeadow, Palo Verde and Walter Hays elementary schools — fell in lower deciles and were considered either “well-below av-erage,” “below average,” and “av-erage” when compared to similar schools.

Bill Garrison, the district’s direc-tor of testing and assessment, said the new rankings reflect where the schools should have been all along. The state has altered the way it de-termines the statewide and simi-lar schools rankings and the new process is likely more accurate, he said.

“We always thought we were among the top schools among the similar schools. This new way of calculating apparently recognizes that,” he said.

The Academic Performance In-dex, or API, is the cornerstone of California’s accountability model and used to track year-to-year growth as determined by annual standardized tests. API scores range from 200 to 1,000, with the state’s performance target resting on a score of 800.

This week’s report set new API benchmarks for most schools, but because all of Palo Alto’s schools have met and exceeded the 800 tar-get, the focus is on the statewide and similar schools rankings that were also included in the report.

“This is one more assessment we use as board members to evaluate how we’re doing,” said Board of Education Vice President Camille Townsend. “I get a sense this is a good base line, but we try to scru-

tinize each student even more care-fully than that.”

To calculate the similar schools rankings, the state groups schools into sets of 100 based on similar characteristics. The schools are then scored from 1 to 10, lowest to highest, based on their current API scores. Elementary, middle and high schools are calculated separately.

In the past few years, the charac-teristics used to make sets of 100 included: student mobility; ethnic-ity; school socioeconomic status; teacher qualifications; number of English learners; average class size; and whether the school operates on a year-round, multi-track program.

Six more characteristics were added this year to improve the ac-curacy of the measure.

The new characteristics include: enrollment spans for grades two, six, seven to eight, and nine to 11; num-ber of students in Gifted and Tal-ented Education (GATE) programs; students with disabilities; students reclassified from English learners to fluent or proficient in English; migrant education students; and students in full-day-reduced size classes.

“I would say (the new process is) more accurate because we’re all nines and 10’s, and that’s where we should be,” Garrison said. “The way they were doing the similar schools rankings before was not that accu-rate.”

While there is much overlap-ping among Palo Alto’s sites, each school is compared to 99 different schools.

Locally, Gunn and Paly were both compared to Alameda, Los Gatos, and Mountain View high schools; Terra Linda and Redwood high schools in Marin County; Aragon and Burlingame high schools in San Mateo County; and Irvington High School in Fremont.

At the middle-school level, Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School was compared to Alvarado Middle School in Alameda County, Hill Middle School in Marin County, and Sunnyvale Middle School in Santa Clara County.

Addison Elementary School was compared this year to Brookvale El-ementary School in Fremont, Pio-neer Elementary School in Contra Costa County, and Skyline Elemen-tary School in San Mateo County.

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THE GREATEST NEED? . . . Is this what you had in mind when you donated $14,000 to the Kenner Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund, Palo Alto? Fund di-rector Michael Gaffney e-mailed the Weekly from Louisiana last week to say he was considering using the donations “to pur-chase and distribute uniforms to public high-school kids who have not been able to buy their uniforms since the storm due to Hurricane Katrina.” In Septem-ber, when Palo Alto “adopted” Kenner — a similar-sized city and the home of the New Or-leans airport — a City of Palo Alto press release noted that contributions would be given to “local families who have lost everything.” Palo Alto officials also said a 500-unit, mostly Latino apartment complex, subsidized by the Department of Housing and Urban Develop-ment was a potential target for the funds. On Saturday, the New York Times reported: “A huge apartment complex that housed mostly Hispanic residents sits moldering, roofs torn off and walls tipped in.” Last Friday, the Weekly reported the fund was mired in controversy, and that none of the $40,000 raised for the fund, including $14,000 from Palo Alto residents and city employees, had yet been spent. Gaffney’s e-mail was received after the story went to print. A federal grand jury is currently investigating the city’s post-Hur-ricane spending and is asking the mayor and council members about the relief fund.

LIBRARY IN THE ROTH BUILD-ING? . . . Could the Downtown Library be moved to the Roth Building? That possibility was floated last week by the task force that is studying what to do with the City of Palo Alto’s outdated police headquarters. One scenario the group is con-sidering is to move the Down-town Library, located across the street from the current police headquarters on Forest Av-enue, and use both sites for the headquarters. And one possible site for the library’s relocation is the city-owned Roth Building, located a few blocks away on Homer Avenue. Currently, that ramshackle 17,000-square-foot

building is set aside for the pro-posed Palo Alto History Mu-seum. Two years ago, the City Council gave the history mu-seum first rights to the building. However, the project’s coordi-nator, Karen Holman — who’s also a planning commissioner — would not say if the muse-um’s plans could accommodate a library, or even what the cur-rent status of the project’s fund-raising is. The museum’s found-ers need to raise $5.5 million for major renovations.

HEADLINE BACKLASH . . . The tendency of the Palo Alto Daily News to run sensational headlines can bite back. The newspaper printed a front-page story last Saturday about the antiwar rally and march to be held in Palo Alto that day under the headline, “Anti-war protes-tors to storm city.” During the peaceful event, which was attended by several hundred people and temporarily closed several downtown blocks, a Daily News reporter tried to in-terview Paul George, director of the Peninsula Peace and Jus-tice Center, which organized the event. George complained about the headline and declined to be interviewed. Later, Larry Bensky of Berkeley, host of KPFA radio’s show “Sunday Sa-lon,” held up a copy of the Daily News and sardonically asked the people at the rally if they intended to storm the city. Ac-cording to Webster’s New World Dictionary, the word “storm,” when used as a transitive verb, is defined as “to attack or di-rect something at (someone) in a vigorous or angry outburst” or “to capture or attempt to capture (a fortified place) with a sudden, strong attack.”

PLANNING TALK . . . Want to know what’s developing in south Palo Alto? On Thursday, March 23, the Palo Verde Resi-dents Association is hosting a meeting with Palo Alto Planning and Community Environment Director Steve Emslie, who’ll talk about the city’s develop-ment process and new projects in south Palo Alto. The meeting will held at 7 p.m. at the Unity Church at 3391 Middlefield Road, in the Y.E.S. Room. ■

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W ith new technology emerg-ing at break-the-bank speeds, the Palo Alto Uni-

fied School District faces a multi-million-dollar struggle to keep its classrooms, libraries and offices up to date, according to a new report by school officials.

It would cost the district about $10 million every six or seven years just to refurbish basic hardware and wiring, Superintendent Mary Fran-ces Callan told school board mem-bers last week.

Barb Mitchell, elected to the board in November, called for better management of technology planning and funding and pro-posed a budget line-item for the issue.

“Given the need — we’re look-ing at 4,000 computers district-wide if we want to refurbish those every four years — we really need to step up to the plate and get a line item for technology in the district’s bud-get,” Mitchell said at a board meet-ing last week. “The fact that there is no line item leaves the district out of the game.”

The district will begin reviewing its budget this spring.

The district’s five-year technol-ogy plan expires this year, and administrators have until April to update a new tech roadmap. Many projects in the current plan, ap-proved in 2001, have been com-pleted including the creation of video-production rooms at all five secondary schools and a district-wide community eNews system.

Unfinished projects will be given new deadlines that stretch out to 2012.

Major priorities include: replac-ing old hardware; developing an on-line curriculum database by grade; training non-teaching staff in tech-nology; bringing a tech coach to elementary schools; and creating a system for students to use their own computers at school.

The Palo Alto Unified School District is already a recognized leader in technology-based educa-tion. A year ago district officials hosted a National School Boards Association (NSBA) conference — one of three nationally — that attracted hundreds of educators who wanted to know what class-rooms are like in the heart of the Silicon Valley.

Apple Computers, Dell, Black-board and Google all played parts in the conference.

The Palo Alto district was named a host site because of its significant developments in technology in the last five years, including:

● Offering 70 technology work-shops for teachers in the 2004-2005 school year.

● Completing wireless networks for all secondary schools and some elementary schools.

● Installing online library cata-logs in 2001.

● Launching a district-wide in-tranet in 2003, linking teachers to professional-development opportu-nities, classroom resources, person-nel forms and messages from the superintendent.

● Installing InClass, a private system that allows teachers to post online assignments, announce-ments, calendars, discussion boards and tests and surveys for students.

But Palo Alto educators realize there is more work to be done.

The new technology plan has five categories: professional devel-opment, hardware/software, curri-cula, data management and com-munication.

Some of the largest projects planned for the next five years in-clude replacing the district’s old hardware, expanding wireless cov-erage at elementary schools and securing technology-savvy staff members to provide on-site support services.

Major challenges include fund-ing and the rate at which older equipment expires. Currently, 80 percent of the district’s computers are at least four years old, accord-ing to Marie Scigliano, the director of technology.

“We have some real needs. It’s a matter of getting resources,” Scigli-ano said.

In the past four years, the dis-trict has received nearly $40,000 in grants from the federal Enhanc-ing Education Through Technology program, according to the technol-ogy report. However, recent state budget cuts have impacted district technology projects and staff. Scigliano said some positions have been scaled back or eliminated, including lead technology teachers who would meet once a month to discuss new software and strategies for keeping the district up to date.

For more information or to view the technology report, visit www.pausd.org. ■ Staff Writer Alexandria Ro-cha can be e-mailed at [email protected].

Schools race with technologyJust replacing old computers and software could cost millions

every half dozen years, district officials warn school board membersby Alexandria Rocha

like San Jose, but hardly the path-breaking organization Frank Ben-est inspired some of us to want to advance,” Kott wrote.

Former Planning Manager John Lusardi also sent an e-mail to the City Council, saying the plan “offers no vision for the department.”

Emslie, who worked in San Jose before coming to Palo Alto in 2002, said he could not directly respond to Kott’s e-mail because doing so would breach the code of ethics of their professional organization, the American Institute of Certified Planners. The code says members shouldn’t criticize the work of col-leagues, Emslie said.

One section of the code, posted online, states: “We shall describe and comment on the work and views of other professionals in a fair and professional manner.”

“I can tell you I disagree (with Kott and Lusardi),” Emslie said. “I don’t think they have the informa-tion to be able to make a statement like that.”

Kott, Emslie added: “has to sub-scribe to the same ethical standards, which I don’t feel he has done.”

Kott responded that Emslie’s

comment about him was “absurd and without merit” and an “attempt to chill freedom and expression through intimidation.”

“There’s nothing unethical about having an opinion,” Kott added. Asked if he was surprised, he said: “No. It’s definitely in character.”

The institute’s code also states: “We shall not file a frivolous charge of ethical misconduct against an-other planner.”

The top officials who have left, or will soon leave, the planning depart-ment are:

● Kott, who’s now working in the private sector, for a San Francisco consulting firm;

● Lusardi, who’s now working for a city in Arizona;

● Chief Planning Official Lisa Grote, who left to work for San Ma-teo County;

● City Traffic Engineer Ashok Aggarwal, who retired;

● City Transportation Engineer Carl Stoffel, who also retired; and

● Chief Building Official Fred Herman, who is retiring in June.

Many current employees in the department, contacted by the Week-ly, did not wish to comment for this story — including some who said they were scared for their jobs.

The proposed reorganization would allow for “better integrated

land-use policies,” Emslie argued. “I think it’s a way of leveraging our capacity for dealing with the com-munity’s concerns as we grow into the future.”

Last week, the council voted 5-3 to hold off on the changes, decid-ing instead to ask the Planning and Transportation Commission to first take a look at the plan. The commis-sion is now scheduled for a hearing on it in late April.

The council’s move has placed the hiring of the new deputy director position on hold, Emslie said. Cur-rently, Andy Coe is working as the interim deputy director. He is Stan-ford University’s former Director of Community Relations and does not have planning experience.

“There’s a lot that we do that isn’t quite technical work,” Emslie said. The staff report noted that one goal of the new plan would be “consis-tent statements of policy by all staff members to all residents and appli-cants.”

Two other positions remain un-filled. The resignations and retire-ment have been hard on Emslie personally, he said, forcing him and his staff to hold off on longer-term planning.

“You don’t get to set the agenda,” Emslie said. “The agenda gets set for you.” ■

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Adams to leave TheatreWorksTheatreWorks Managing Director Randy Adams will leave the or-

ganization June 30 after 21 years, the professional theater company announced.

He intends to focus his future work on the creation of new plays and musicals, he stated in the company’s press release.

TheatreWorks Founder and Artistic Director Robert Kelley will continue leading the group, and a national search is underway for a replacement.

Together, Adams and Kelley led the company from a $300,000 organization to its current $7 million annual operating budget. Under their leadership, the company earned hundreds of awards for its pro-ductions, built the audience to more than 100,000 patrons annually, developed a widespread donor base and created the company’s nation-ally recognized New Works Initiative Program, which has attracted authors and composers of national stature, including Wendy Wasser-stein, Stephen Schwartz, Marsha Norman, Joe diPietro and others.

TheatreWorks Board President Derry Kabcenell said of Adams’ imminent departure: “It has become clear that Randy’s and Theatre-Works’ interests are on somewhat divergent paths. We accept Randy’s decision, while acknowledging his tremendous service to the company over the past 21 years. For the next phase of TheatreWorks’ evolu-tion, we will be seeking a leader whose experience will advance the company’s reputation for innovative productions, New Works and community engagement, while meeting the many challenges of man-aging a large arts organization.”

Kabcenell acknowledged that the company is expecting to report an operating loss at the conclusion of its current fiscal year, despite a critically successful season.

“With all artistic endeavors that risk new works and new ventures, there are financial challenges. Fortunately, the company has reserves that ensure its commitment to adventuresome theater,” he said.

TheatreWorks employs a staff of 36 and stages its productions at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto and the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. It will launch its 37th season in June. ■

Man robbed at knifepoint in Palo Alto

A man walking through the parking lot behind the Fuki-Sushi Res-taurant at 4119 El Camino Real was robbed just before noon Monday, according to Palo Alto Sgt. John Costa.

The victim was confronted by a man who “brandished a knife with a long blade” and surrendered an unknown amount of cash, Costa said.

The man with the knife was black, about 40 years old, 6-feet tall with a stocky build, Costa said. He was last seen running toward El Camino Real. ■

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PAUSD appoints Fairmeadow principal

Interim Principal Judith Barranti has been appointed principal of Fairmeadow Elementary School on East Meadow Drive in Palo Alto, Superintendent Mary Frances Callan announced at last week’s meet-ing of the Palo Alto Unified School District board.

Barranti had been serving as interim principal following the promo-tion of former Principal Scott Bowers to assistant superintendent of human resources for the district.

Barranti has taught elementary, middle and high school for 13 years and served as assistant superintendent for education services in the Milpitas Unified School District. She then served as superintendent of the Hollister School District. ■

—Don Kazak

Palo Alto Foundation CEO to step down

The Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health is losing its chief executive officer and president, Stephen Peeps.

Peeps, 53, has announced he is stepping down from his role after nine years with the foundation. Peeps is one of the Foundation’s fund-raising veterans. He was the first employee hired at the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health in 1997.

When the foundation launched in 1997 the endowment was $65 million; currently the endowment stands at $94 million. It has 50 employees.

The foundation is a fundraiser for Lucile Packard Children’s Hos-pital and the pediatric foundations of Stanford University School of Medicine. Its mission is to fund efforts that promote, protect and sustain the physical, mental, emotional and behavioral health of chil-dren. ■

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A THIRD SIGONA’S ... The old-fashioned fruit stand in the high-fashion Stanford Shopping Center is ready to spread its wings to add a third location to its existing two. Sigona’s Farm-ers Market, a breath of fresh produce among the upscale boutiques in the Stanford mall, is looking for an additional location. Its first market, which opened

in 1984 on Middlefield Road in Redwood City, just south of Woodside Road, continues to thrive, as does the 8-year-old Stanford store. When might a third Sigona’s show up? “When the time is right. It could happen anytime between now and a year from now,” co-owner John Sigo-na said. “We’re hoping to stay in the area. We’re waiting for some-thing spectacular to show up.” Sigona, who owns the market with his two younger brothers, is emphatic about keeping the indoor/outdoor European-style market layout for the next store. “That’s our core belief: provide a friendly, family marketplace with the freshest produce around,” he said. Despite that core belief, it turns out one of Sigona’s most talked about items is a special blend of candy that fits right in with the pricey stores around them at Stanford. “We call it

‘apricot chocolate bark’ and it’s made for us exclusively by a guy who’s a candy maker in Aptos. He used to work for us when he was younger,” Sigona said. Pointing to a small display of chocolate chunks near the cash register, he said, “We’re going to sell 50 to 60 pounds of it this month alone,” he said. At $25 a pound, that’s a sweet feat.

EDGEWOOD STORES GET THE WORD ... The half-dozen stores and restaurant hanging on at Edgewood Plaza shop-ping center in Palo Alto got the word this month that they must move within the next year. John Tze of Sand Hill Properties, the new owner, confirmed that any-one whose leases don’t expire on their own has been notified that Sand Hill is exercising a one-year-notice option in longer leases. Most of the leases expire

on their own, he noted. Sand Hill’s plans include razing the ex-isting buildings and redeveloping the center, although some resi-dents have asked about historic status for the Eichler-designed buildings. The configuration of the center is considered out of date, lacking the amenities that made Eichler homes famous. The stores still there include a golf shop, a wig shop, a liquor store, a dry cleaners and a five-and-dime store, plus a Mexican restaurant. The news also means the center is not a possibility for a new site for the Cookbook Restaurant, forced out last year from Town & Country Village shopping center. ■ Heard a rumor about your favorite store or business mov-ing out, or in, down the block or across town? Daryl Savage will check it out. She can be e-mailed at [email protected].

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ce “My goal is not to relive the past but to point out . . . what I thought were missteps of the past,” Balin told the Weekly in reference to the Mayfield deal. “An overwhelming majority of people who voiced an opinion were not adequately repre-sented.”

The Mayfield Agreement allows Stanford to build 250 housing units near the College Terrace neigh-borhood, which is surrounded on three sides by Stanford land. The neighborhood is bordered by the university’s campus on one side and research park on two sides. The city adopted the agreement last May.

Some College Terrace residents felt the city should not have approved the agreement, claiming traffic from the new housing would negatively impact them, among other problems. A city fact sheet, however, states the project will reduce traffic impacts as com-mercial development is replaced with housing.

Before Saturday’s election, a

group of 39 residents were ru-mored to have organized privately to remove Durham from associa-tion leadership. Some canvassed the College Terrace last Friday and distributed fliers supporting Balin as a write-in candidate.

Although the document’s rheto-ric did not openly criticize Durham, subtle jabs were directed at her han-dling of the Mayfield Agreement.

The flier’s authors, two longtime College Terrace residents, high-lighted Balin’s advocacy in response “to potential adverse impacts in the Mayfield Development” and “pro-posed zoning changes in the Re-search Park.”

Durham’s relationship with the city of Palo Alto — she is a part-time employee of the city traffic division — may be one factor that counted against her candidacy.

A set of principles drafted by the group and endorsed by Balin rec-ommended board members “reveal any potential conflict of interest . . . including those with the City, other governmental agency, Stanford, or any individual or group that has a financial or political stake in an

issue with regard to College Ter-race.”

The circulation of the principles motivated board candidates to ask for a bylaw review this year, board member John Mark Agosta said.

Ironically, the move to unseat Durham overshadowed the election of a new association board presi-dent. Greg Tanaka, who is relatively new to the College Terrace neigh-borhood and the Palo Alto political arena, easily won the seat.

At the meeting, some character-ized the election as an example of how the association is one of the city’s most democratic neighbor-hood groups.

“We do not have an entrenched group which perpetuates itself, which is the case of other neighbor-hood organizations,” Durham said.

Paula Sandas, the outgoing vice president, praised residents for their participation.

“This is democracy in action right here in our neighborhood,” she said. “Keep up the spirit.” ■ Staff Writer Lauren McSherry can be e-mailed at [email protected].

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been considered in the staff’s report on the golf course.

“The creek solution could have a major impact on the redesign,” Councilman Jack Morton said.

Morton also raised the issue of the city landfill, which borders the Bay and is across Embarcadero Road southeast of the golf course. The city plans to close the landfill within four or five years and con-vert it to park land.

Councilman Bern Beecham asked about another unknown — plans for the Palo Alto Airport. Santa Clara County notified the city last fall it no longer wishes to operate the air-port when the current lease expires in 2017.

“There may be a lot more land that comes up,” Beecham said.

Mossar objected to investing more staff time on the golf course.

“If we’ve got hundreds of thou-sands of dollars to put toward fur-ther study, why don’t we put them toward finishing the feasibility study for the creek?” she asked.

But Mayor Judy Kleinberg, de-fending the referral to the commis-sion, questioned assumptions in the staff’s golf-course report.

“I think some of the assumptions that were used were conservative, and I would like to see some other perspectives and examinations,” said Kleinberg, who has pushed for the golf course project the past few years.

The report outlined four sce-narios involving different numbers of playing fields. Criteria in the re-port included protecting wetlands, preserving flood-control options and providing sufficient parking while retaining the space required for an 18-hole, regulation-size golf course.

The least expensive, least dis-ruptive scenario involved building one new soccer field. The project would impact four holes and cost up to $5.1 million, according to the city manager’s report.

The most expensive scenario in-cluded rebuilding the entire golf course and adding four soccer fields and one baseball diamond, estimated at $20.5 million.

“The financial impact over all scenarios remains significant,” the city’s planning director, Steve Emslie, observed.

The city also has some outstand-ing debt related to the golf course, costing about $500,000 annually until 2018 to pay off, the staff re-

ported. If the city rebuilds the course it could be required to buy out tenant contracts, costing an ad-ditional $5 million to $10 million at the most.

The golf course generates $3.2 million in revenue annually, but breaks even after operating costs and debt repayment are factored in, staff said.

A final unresolved factor is that a private company, VillaSport Ath-letic Club and Spa, has expressed interest in a public-private partner-ship with the city to develop indoor sports facilities at the golf course. The facility would not be a bur-den to taxpayers, and the company would be willing to invest in build-ing and managing the facility, a representative from the VillaSport told the council.

The golf course is dedicated parkland, which generally requires voter approval to change its desig-nation. But a partnership between the city and VillaSport could be compatible with the parkland or-dinance “depending on the way it was structured and the way services were offered,” Emslie said. ■Staff Writer Lauren McSherry can be reached at [email protected].

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Jennifer and Warwick Stir-ling of Menlo Park, a daughter, March 3.

Manlynh and David Rum-mler of Menlo Park, a daughter, March 7.

BIRTHS

Edna Lee ChinEdna Lee Chin died March 7 at

the age of 89. She was born in Los Angeles in

1917 and attended Jefferson High School. Afterwards, she attended Los Angeles City College and busi-ness school.

She married Sherman Lee in Troy, Ohio. After World War II,

they returned to California and re-sided in Palo Alto for 40 years.

As an active member at Wesley United Methodist Church, she sang in the choir for more than 10 years and also spent many years volun-teering with the American Field Service, Kaiser Hospital and Lock-heed Blood Bank.

About 11 years after her hus-

band’s death, she remarried a child-hood neighbor, Abraham Chin, and moved to Los Angeles. They spent about five years together until Chin died. She then moved back to the Bay Area to be near her family.

She is survived by her daughters, Pamela Wong and Georgia Lee of Palo Alto; her son, Christopher Lee of Corrallis, Ore.; her grandchil-

dren, Alex Wong of Brooklyn, N.Y., Megan Wong of Palo Alto, Clair Cadena of Eugene, Ore. and Kay Cadena of Portland, Ore.

A memorial service will be held at noon March 22 at Wesley United Methodist Church, 470 Cambridge Ave. in Palo Alto.

Donations may be made to Com-munity Bible Church, 6133 Bristol Parkway, Suite 270, Culver City, CA 90230 or Heifer International at www.heifer.org.

Juliana Ordonez EbangiJuliana Ordonez Ebangi died of

complications from Alzheimer’s disease March 10. She was 68.

She was born June 17, 1937 in the Philippines. Her husband, Fred R. Ebangi, died in 2000.

She is survived by her children, Hope Ebangi of Santa Cruz, Calif. and Christine Ebangi of Oakland, Calif.; her stepchildren, Petra Eban-gi of Mountain View, Tony Ebangi of Marina, Calif., and Mario Ebangi of Auburn, Calif.; and family mem-ber Jutta Kiel of Santa Clara, who cared for her in the last years of her life.

In lieu of flowers, the family re-quests donations in her memory be made to the Alzheimer’s Associa-tion, 2065 W. El Camino Real, Suite C, Mountain View, 94040.

A private interment will be held at Gate of Heaven Catholic Cemetery in Los Altos.

Nasus (Susan Beth) Raze Nasus (Susan Beth) Raze, a resi-

dent of Palo Alto for about three and a half years, died from leukemia on March 1 at the age of 54.

She was born on Sept. 24, 1951 in Englewood, N.J. and attended San Francisco State University, where she got her bachelor's of arts degree. She continued her education at Uni-versity of California at Berkley for her master's in library science.

She worked for the San Mateo County Department of Education, Hewlett-Packard Company and the Art and Art History Library at Stan-ford University.

She is remembered by loved ones as a wonderful mom, a caring friend, and a person of courage, hu-mor, brilliance and beauty.

She is survived by her son, Dun-can Huth of Palo Alto; her sister, Linda Raze County of Fairfax, Ca-lif.; and the Huth, Raze and Schwe-ber families.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Lymphoma and Leukemia Society, for which she participated in the “Light the Night” walk.

A memorial service and celebra-tion of her life was held at her home March 5. The service was lead by rabbis of Congregation Beth Am.

Lucy Frances ReichLucy Frances Reich, 99, a long-

time Palo Alto resident, died peace-fully at her Santa Cruz home March 8 with her family at her bedside.

Born March 20, 1916 on the Bay family farm in Muskingum County, Ohio, she graduated from Cumberland High School in 1934 and attended many reunions over the years. She was a 1936 gradu-ate of Meredith Business College in Zanesville, Ohio. She later at-tended Golden Gate College in San Francisco for additional accounting courses.

Her career spanned more than 50 years, working for various firms in Ohio and California, including the Palo Alto Times. She was a member of the California Society of Enrolled Agents. In her retirement years, she did volunteer tax work.

Her family will forever remem-ber her love for gardening and her talents for knitting, cross-stitching and cooking. She enjoyed her many journeys throughout the United States and Canada.

She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Brenda and Ron Harris of Albuquerque, N.M.; her sons and daughters-in-law, Donald and Bernice Reich of Watsonville, Calif., and Robert and Suzanne Reich of San Jose; sisters Patricia Eldridge of Palo Alto and Eleanor Shaffer of Los Banos, Calif.; and five grandchildren, seven great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

Services were held March 20 at Alta Mesa Memorial Park. The fam-ily requests that any remembrances be made to Hospice Caring Project of Santa Cruz County.

ALFRED F. KENRICK

P A I D O B I T U A R Y

Alfred F. Kenrick, a 42-year resident of Palo Alto, died March 13 surrounded by his family.

Born in Haddon Heights, New Jersey on April 22, 1928, he was raised in Deposit, New York, lettering in football, basketball and baseball at Deposit Central High School. He earned a B.S. in electri-cal engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1949, and

attended Harvard Business School. He served as a second lieuten-ant in the U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict.

While stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas in 1949 he met Mae Belle Meinen in church one Sunday after she noticed a fine tenor voice in the row behind her. He left for Korea shortly after their first date and proposed marriage to her by mail. They married, upon his return, in Goodland, Kansas on December 16, 1951.

Mr. Kenrick began his career with General Electric Co. in Schenectady, New York and soon was transferred to California, where he was involved in selling the first nuclear power plant to Japan. He later worked at Applied Technology, Inc. in Palo Alto and, in 1968, was among the five engineers who founded California Microwave, Inc. a satellite communications equipment company in Sunnyvale.

While raising his four children in Palo Alto, he was involved in scouting, Little League coaching and Y Indian Guides. He was a member of the Palo Alto Rotary Club, serving as President in 1987-88. He was particularly proud that Palo Alto Rotary raised $125,000 that year in support of Rotary International’s campaign to eradicate polio around the world. He also was a member of the Palo Alto Club, the Acorn Club, Piledrivers and was an active lifelong mem-ber of the Christian Science Church.

For many years he raised canaries in an aviary he constructed in his back yard. He loved to ski, golf, dance, windsurf in the bay, play the piano, travel with his wife and spend time with his twelve grandchil-dren. For years he regularly exercised with the "dawn patrol" at the Palo Alto Family YMCA, and he was an avid fan of Stanford football.

Mr. Kenrick is survived by Mae, his wife of 54 years; four chil-dren and their spouses, Chris Kenrick (Mark Chandler) of Palo Alto, Chessa (Randy) Lutter of Bethesda, Maryland, Al (Helena) Kenrick of Palo Alto and Steve (Karen) Kenrick of San Jose; his sister, Barbara Miller of Tucson, Arizona and his grandchildren, Julia, Elissa and William Chandler of Palo Alto, Willem, Mark and Peter Lutter of Bethesda, Maryland, Johanna, Mikaela, Josefin and Matilda Kenrick of Palo Alto and Daniel and Nicholas Kenrick of San Jose.

A memorial service will be held Saturday, April 8 at 2 p.m. at the First Church of Christ, Scientist, 661 Bryant St., Palo Alto.

ALFRED CARL ESCHERICHOCTOBER 10, 1911 - MARCH 13, 2006

P A I D O B I T U A R Y

Alfred Carl Escherich (Al) was born in Huntington Park, CA, the son of Carl and Elsa (Falk) Escherich. He graduated UCLA in 1933 with a degree in Economics. He paid his way through college during the Great Depression working in his father’s construction business. He was always grateful for the education he received and made every effort to insure that his children, grandchildren, and, now, great-grandchildren would have oppor-tunities for higher education. As a Field Examiner, then Principal Examiner, and, finally, Supervising Insurance Examiner for the California Dept. of Insurance, Al traveled extensively in the ‘30’s & ‘40’s throughout the United States examining insurance com-panies for the state. He retired from the department in 1978 after 41 years.

Al was a devoted father and husband, raising his sons, Peter and Lon, as a single father for a number of years. Al loved California’s natural beauty and passed this love on to his sons through camp-ing and hiking, not only with Troop 57’s many camping trips but through family trips into California’s parks and back country.

On August 28, 1964, Al married Frances Eller Holichek and began the wonderful life he and Fran enjoyed together for almost 42 years. Al and Fran traveled throughout the world and the United States, re-visiting the cities were Al had worked as a Field Examiner and covering much of the globe over the course of their marriage. Among many memorable trips, Fran particularly remembers one to the Middle East that took them to Israel, Jordan, and Egypt, and another to the Far East. Their love of travel has been passed on to their children who treasure the opportunities they have had to travel with Fran and Al in their later years.

Al was a committed gardener who loved to propagate new plants, whether flowers, shrubs, or vegetables. He often brought clip-pings home and enjoyed starting seedlings in his side-yard pot-ting shed. Al was particularly adept with Cymbidium orchids and the annual display was something he and Fran looked forward to every year.

Al and Fran were very involved with the First Congregational Church of Palo Alto and spent many hours assisting with events, activities, and numerous committees over the years.

Al was preceded in death by his parents, Carl and Elsa Escherich and his brother, Roland Escherich. He is survived by his wife of nearly 42 years, Frances Eller Escherich; his sister, Dorothea Escherich Proctor and her husband George, of Santa Rosa; his son, Peter Escherich and his wife Susan, of Alexandria, VA; his son, Lon Escherich and his partner Luan Tran, of Portland, OR; his step-daughter, Lindsay Holichek of Laramie, WY; two granddaughters, Margaret Escherich Hazel and her husband Nick, of Eugene, OR; and Alison Escherich Engleman and her husband, Bill, of Philadelphia, PA; and two great-grandchildren, Lucien Hazel (Luc) of Eugene and Abigail Engleman (Abby) of Philadelphia. Luc and Abby were joyous additions to the family in 2005.

A memorial service was held at the First Congregational Church of Palo Alto on March 16, 2006, at 2:00 pm. Internment was at Alta Mesa Memorial Park on March 17, 2000, attended by his family. The family suggests that memorial contributions be made to the First Congregational Church’s Organ Building Fund.


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B rad Lehman and Cooper Miller had just finished an exhausting football season that ended in the Central Coast Section playoffs and were ready for a break. But there would be none. Basketball season beckoned and there

were league and Central Coast Section titles to defend. Little did the two Palo Alto High seniors realize that the season held much more than that.

At the first basketball team meeting in October, head coach Peter Diepenbrock addressed his players and pointed out some of the basics — like making sure they bring their gear to practice.

“I talked about the season and how we’d like it to be,” Diepenbrock said. “I definitely pointed out the fact that we had a special makeup. We had seniors with a lot of experience and we had some new players I had never coached before. We talked about winning league and probably about winning CCS.”

Diepenbrock and his players even joked about making up a T-shirt that said something like “Back to ARCO Again,” the arena in Sacramento where Palo Alto had been beaten in the 2005 CIF NorCal title game.

There was no talk, however, about winning a state championship.“That was too grandiose,” Diepenbrock said.But then Diepenbrock wanted to hear from his players and what they thought

about the 2005 season and what they wanted from 2006.

“That’s when Jeremy (Lin) stood up and said ‘I want to win a state champion-ship,’” recalled Diepenbrock, who wasn’t too surprised with the pronouncement. “I’m a big dreamer, as well. And I’m very sensitive to never discourage a high school player’s dream or aspirations.”

At that point, the ball got rolling. It rolled through the SCVAL De Anza Di-vision and finished with another championship. It rolled through the Central Coast Section, finishing with a second straight title. And it rolled right through the Northern California tournament, with Palo Alto winning its first title in 13 years.

And it rolled right into the CIF Division II state championship, where the team’s dream was realized last Friday night with a 51-47 victory over Mater Dei of Santa Ana at ARCO Arena in Sacramento. Four busloads of Paly fans, cheer-leaders and the school band made the two-hour trip and shared the excitement.

“We’ve been talking about this since our freshman year,” said Paly senior Brad Lehman. “We had big hopes . . . and we made them come true.”

Palo Alto did that with a perfect game plan, a choking pressure defense, unre-lenting hustle and undeniable desire. It paid off with a season-ending 24-game winning streak to cap a 32-1 record, establishing a school record for most single-season wins.

This team just didn’t want to loseThe Palo Alto High boys’ basketball team achieves its season-long goal

by riding a remarkable 24-game winning streak and capturing the CIF Division II state championship

by Keith Peters

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Palo Alto senior Kevin Trimble (left) pulled down five key rebounds while (top right) 6-0 senior Kheaton Scott (34) took it to Mater Dei’s 7-foot-1 Alex Jacob-son by scoring 11 points and grabbing six rebounds.

Steve Brown (above) got the best of 6-9 Travis Wear (24) of Mater Dei and got plenty of sup-port from his teammates (right) throughout the thrilling victory by Palo Alto in the Division II state finals last Friday in Sacramento.

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Palo Alto head coach Peter Diepenbrock (above) pointed his team in the right direction with a perfect game plan, then savored his special season that included becoming a father for the first time. “The best part is that I get to be reminded of both every day for the rest of my life,” he said.

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Moreover, Palo Alto won its first state title since the 1993 team went 31-0 to capture the Division III crown with a 20-point win over the Morningside Monarchs. On Friday, the Vikings prevented the Mater Dei Monarchs from winning their sixth state crown.

Mater Dei came in ranked 11th nationally by USA Today. The Monarchs came in with a 7-1 center, three starters eventu-ally headed to Division I schools on scholarship, eight players standing 6-7 or taller and bringing a reputation as a big-time basketball school -- as evidence of nine appearances in the state finals and an $18 million gym.

None of that mattered to Palo Alto.“It’s high school basketball,” Diepenbrock said. “It’s about

competitive desire and the will to win.”Diepenbrock saw this desire in his team’s only loss, a 54-49

setback last December to five-time Division V state champion Price in the Mission Prep Shootout in San Luis Obispo.

“That Price game had a huge impact on me,” Diepenbrock said. “We were down 10 and we ended up losing. But watch-ing this group play in the final minutes and how they reacted in the locker room really made me realize that this is a very, very difficult group to beat. It was how well they played in the final minutes.

“I remember looking over at the Price head coach and he’s reacting like ‘Is it over yet?’ We were making a furious final rally at the end. That made a strong impression on me — the desire of this group to win. That manifested itself so many times after that, and is probably why they didn’t let it (a loss) happen again . . . it’s a group that refused to lose.”

That’s why Palo Alto took the court on Friday in the proper mindset. One game from a state championship? Hey, this team was not going to lose.

Diepenbrock gave his team the tools and the players con-structed the perfect ending to a remarkable season.

“They said there was no way they could win in ‘93,” Lehman said of the obstacles the Vikings faced then against a heavily favored Morningside team. David Jefferson, a member of that undefeated team, was a constant reminder that the bite of an underdog can be painful. “He said ‘you guys can do the same thing.’ We did.”

It started with Paly’s game plan.“He (Diepenbrock) talked about how important the pace

of game would be,” Lehman explained. “We had to bring the shot clock down and control things. We set the tempo pretty well.”

The five-time state champion Monarchs, ranked fourth in the state, came in averaging 79.7 points a game. Diepenbrock knew they liked to run and didn’t want to get in a footrace with them. Paly came in allowing just 41.7 points a contest. Some-thing had to give, and it wasn’t the Vikings’ defense.

“This was just an incredible defensive performance,” Diepenbrock said afterward. “We kept them out of their tran-sition game for the most part. This wasn’t one of our best of-fensive games, but our defense was outstanding.”

Palo Alto held Mater Dei to its lowest point total of the season while becoming the first team from California to beat the Monarchs this season.

“Peter did a great job preparing the kids for this game,” said assistant Bob Roehl, no stranger to state championship games. He coached the Menlo School boys to the Division V state title in 1989. “They knew where to be and what to do . . . We just flat out-played them.”

Bottom line, the Vikings were able to play their game while preventing the Monarchs from playing theirs.

Palo Alto held Mater Dei to just 29 percent from the floor, including a 27 percent effort from three-point range on 6-of-22 shooting. Paly wasn’t much better at 37 percent from the floor (including five of 13 from three-point range), but those numbers were overshadowed by the Vikings’ effort.

Mater Dei’s 6-7 junior standout Taylor King, who already has committed to Duke for the 2007 season, came in averag-ing 26.6 points and 12.3 rebounds with the ability to score from anywhere inside the halfcourt line. While he did knock down four three-pointers while finishing with 23 points and 11 rebounds, he was held to just 3-of-12 shooting in the second half and just five points in the fourth quarter --- two coming after Paly already had clinched the victory.

With Paly leading 44-42 after King made a three-pointer with 2:43 to play, Steven Brown and Kheaton Scott forced King into bad shots. King didn’t score again until just 1.4 seconds remained.

Before then, Lin banked in an NBA-distance three-pointer as the shot clock expired for a 47-42 lead. Mater Dei’s Danny Campbell scored his only points of the game with another trey to close the gap to 47-45. After turnovers by both teams, Lin scored on a driving layin for a 49-45 lead with 30 seconds to play.

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Palo Alto senior Brad Lehman battled Mater Dei’s Kamyron Brown on even terms with Lehman scoring 10 points and grabbing five rebounds. Brown, meanwhile, turned the ball over six times.

Palo Alto’s Cooper Miller (20), Jeremy Lin (4) and Steven Brown got to celebrate after their final game of the season, but Mater Dei’s Kamyron Brown (34) could only walk away frustrated after losing in the state finals for a second straight year.

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When the Monarchs missed on their next possession, Lehman went high for the rebound and was fouled. He made one of two for a 50-45 lead with 15.3 seconds left and the Vikings knew victory was just moments away.

An inconsequential layin by King was followed by a free throw by Scott and the Palo Alto celebration was on.

And there were so many things to celebrate.The 6-1 Scott (“He’s really only 5-11,” Roehl admit-

ted), was matched against 7-1 Alex Jacobson in what appeared to be a mismatch until Scott won the opening tip and outplayed the junior throughout. Jacobson exited with two fouls in the second quarter and never was a factor as he scored just four points and had just one blocked shot. Scott, meanwhile, scored 11 points and grabbed six rebounds.

Cooper Miller and Brown were equally outstanding on defense while forcing the Monarchs into 17 turn-overs. Brown added seven points and eight rebounds.

Fellow senior Kevin Trimble came off the bench for five big defensive rebounds and Lehman tossed in 10 points and five rebounds.

When Lin left the game with four fouls at the 5:19

mark of the fourth quarter and Paly clinging to a 40-38 lead, Lehman took control of the offense. He knocked in a baseline jumper for breathing room at 42-38. When Lin returned with 3:21 to play, Mater Dei had only closed to 42-39.

And then there was Lin, headed for Harvard in the fall. Coincidently, 1993 team leader David Weaver graduated from Harvard. Lin controlled the pace of the game throughout in addition to scoring 17 points, grab-bing eight rebounds and playing through leg cramps.

The idea of facing a heavily favored team like Mater Dei was just more of a challenge for Lin.

“We weren’t worried about what they were going to do,” Lin said. “We just worried about ourselves . . . We knew what type of team we are and we’re tough to beat.”

By the end of the game, Mater Dei knew what Lin meant as he and his teammates celebrated.

“This has been my goal since last year,” said Lin, who missed the NorCal playoffs with a fractured ankle. “It was my fault we didn’t advance. Our goal this season was we wanted to go all the way to the top, and that was a state championship.” ■

The Palo Alto fans were out in full force last Friday night in Sacramento to support only the second state championship basketball team in school history. Paly’s cheerleaders also made the trip, then com-peted at Nationals on Saturday at Disneyland and brought home a third-place trophy.

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The Palo Alto High boys’ basketball team had good reason to whoop it up following their 51-47 victory in the Division II state championship game, which capped a 32-1 season and 24-game winning streak that gave the Vikings a 63-3 record over two seasons and the senior class a proper sendoff.

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Thursday“Expecting Isabel” by Lisa Loomer takes a comedic look at a couple trying to become parents through everything from fertility drugs to adoption. The play opens at Bus Barn Stage Company at 97 Hillview Ave. in Los Altos tonight with a preview performance at 8 p.m. and runs through April 15. Tickets are $20-$32; call (650) 941-0551.“Love Songs in Traffic,” a new musical presented by Palo Alto High School students, is playing at the Haymarket Theater at the school at 50 Embarcadero Road through March 25, Wednesday through Saturday. Tickets are $10 general and $5 for students. Call (650) 329-3857 or go to www.paly.net/art/theatre/.

“Tales of the Lost Formicans,”a play by Constance Congdon that examines American life in the ‘burbs through the eyes of aliens, previews tonight at 8 p.m. at the Pear Avenue Theatre at 1220 Pear Ave., Unit K, and then runs through April 9. Show times are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sundays. Tickets are $10-$20 ($25/$20 for the opening gala). Call (650) 254-1148 or go to www.thepear.org.Foothill College photography students host “Faces of the Bay Area,” an exhibit running through March 30 at the Krause Center for Innovation at the college at 12345 El Monte Road in Los Altos Hills. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. Call (650) 949-7082 or go to www.foothill.edu.“Anna in the Tropics” by Nilo Cruz runs through April 2 at The-atreWorks, looking at life in a Flor-ida cigar factory. Shows are Tues-day through Sunday at the Lucie Stern Theatre at 1305 Middlefield Road in Palo Alto; tickets are $21-$51. Call (650) 903-6000 or go to theatreworks.org.

Friday“Night Watch,” a thriller written by playwright Lucille Fletcher, is being presented by a group of Menlo-Atherton High School students at Dragon Productions’

theater at 539 Alma St. in Palo Alto, with 8 p.m. shows on three weekends through April 8. The students say they were unable to stage the play at school because of scheduling problems. Tickets are $8 and available at the door. For more information, call (650) 473-9225 or go to www.geocities.com/kyblanck/nightwatch.

SaturdayWest Bay Opera hosts its 50th anniversary gala at 6 p.m. at the Garden Court Hotel at 520 Cow-per St. in Palo Alto. The black-tie event includes performances by West Bay singers, caviar tasting, a gourmet meal and a live and silent auction. There will also be a drawing for a diamond and yellow gold necklace (raffle tickets are keys — one unlocks the jewelry box). Tickets are $150; call (650) 424-9999 or email [email protected].

High school senior Julie Chen will solo with the Nova Vista Sympho-ny at an 8 p.m. concert, playing Dvorák’s “Violin Concerto.” Held at Smithwick Theater at Foothill College at 12345 El Monte Road in Los Altos Hills, the concert will also include the “May Night Over-ture” by Rimsky-Korsakov and Tschaikovsky’s “Fifth Symphony.” Tickets are $15 general, $12 for seniors and $8 for students. Call (408) 530-0700.Broceliande, a group playing Celtic tunes from the British isles together with medieval and Re-naissance court and countryside music, will perform at 8 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto at 505 E. Charleston Road. The music includes vocals and such instruments as Celtic harp, mandolin, harmonica, flutes and whistles. Suggested donation is $15. Call (510) 569-0437 or go to www.broceliande.org.

Sunday“Show Boat” comes to the Moun-tain View Center for the Perform-ing Arts at 500 Castro St. at 2 p.m., presented by the Lamplight-ers Music Theatre. The San Fran-cisco group is also performing the show in San Francisco, Walnut Creek and Napa this spring. Tick-ets are $32; call (650) 903-6000 or go to lamplighters.org.The El Camino Youth Symphonyholds an annual benefit concert at 7:30 p.m. at Spangenberg Theater at 780 Arastradero Road in Palo Alto, featuring Robert Chen, con-certmaster of the Chicago Sym-phony Orchestra. The program will be Brahms’ “Violin Concerto,” Rossini’s “William Tell Overture” and Stravinsky’s “Firebird Suite.” Tickets are $30/$20; call (650) 327-2611 or go to www.ecys.org.Filmmaker Paul Freedman will speak about his recent experi-ences filming the harsh conditions in war-torn Darfur and also show film clips from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Los Altos Lutheran Church at 460 S. El Monte Road. Call (650) 960-1124.The Palo Alto Chamber Or-chestra presents its last of three Sunday evening Bach birthday concerts at 7:30 p.m. at Valley Presbyterian Church at 945 Por-tola Road in Portola Valley. The program includes “Suite No. 2 for Unaccompanied Viola in D Mi-nor, BWV 1002.” Tickets are $12 general and $10 for seniors and students. Call (650) 856-3848 or go to www.pacomusic.org.

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History

A new exhibit at the Cantor Arts Center gives a glimpse of what American childhood was like in the 19th century.

Dance

Partner dancing? Twirl the girl? That may be embarrassing for sixth- and seventh-graders, but a group of East Palo Alto kids is tak-ing on ballroom dance.

Movies

Reviews of “The Inside Man,” “Thank You for Smoking” and “CSA.”

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Phil Lowery and Stacey Helley get a kick out of “Show Boat” as part of San Francisco’s Lamplighters Music Theatre, which is bringing the classic musical to the Moun-tain View Center for the Perform-ing Arts this Sunday.

Oh, baby: “Expecting Isabel,” which opens at Bus Barn Stage Company on March 23, follows a couple’s bumpy journey toward parenthood. Pictured are Tom Gough, Gemma Barozzi and Christina Kramlich Bowie.

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MoviesMovie reviews by Jeanne Aufmuth, Tyler Hanley, and Susan Tavernetti

16 Blocks (PG-13) ✭✭1/2 Century 16: 11:50 a.m.; 2, 4:20, 6:55 & 9:10 p.m. Century 12: Noon, 2:35, 5, 7:30 & 10 p.m.

Aquamarine (PG) Century 16: 11:55 a.m.; 2:20 & 4:40 p.m. Century 12: 11:50 a.m.; 2:30, 4:50, 7:10 & 10:10 p.m. (Not Reviewed)

Ask the Dust (R) ✭ Century 16: 11:20 a.m.; 1:50, 4:35, 7:15 & 9:45 p.m.

Brokeback Mountain (R) ✭✭✭✭ Century 12: 12:20, 5:10 & 10:05 p.m. Aquarius: 3:30, 7 & 9:45 p.m.

Curious George (G) ✭✭ Century 16: 11:25 a.m.; 1:20 & 3:15 p.m. Century 12: 12:40, 2:55 & 5:05 p.m.

Eight Below (PG) ✭✭✭1/2 Century 16: 11:35 a.m.; 2:15, 4:50, 7:25 & 10 p.m. Century 12: 11:30 a.m.; 2:15, 4:55, 7:45 & 10:30 p.m.

Failure to Launch (PG-13) ✭1/2 Century 16: 11:20 a.m.; 12:40, 1:45, 2:55, 4:10, 5:15, 6:45, 7:35, 9 & 9:55 p.m. Century 12: 11:35 a.m.; 2, 4:30, 7:05 & 9:40 p.m.

Find Me Guilty (R) Century 16: 11:45 a.m.; 2:35, 5:20, 7:45 & 10:25 p.m. (Not Reviewed)

The Hills Have Eyes (R) ✭✭1/2 Century 16: 12:30, 3, 5:25, 8 & 10:30 p.m. Century 12: 11:40 a.m.; 2:20, 4:45, 7:20 & 9:50 p.m.

Joyeux Noel (R) ✭✭✭ Aquarius: 4, 6:30 & 9:15 p.m.

The Libertine (R) CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: 2:15, 4:50, 7:40 & 10:15 p.m. (Not Reviewed)

Match Point (R) ✭✭✭✭ Century 16: 5:10, 7:50 & 10:20 p.m.

The Pink Panther (PG) ✭✭1/2 Century 16: 12:10, 2:25, 4:45 & 7 p.m. Century 12: 12:25, 2:40, 5:15, 7:40 & 9:55 p.m.

The Shaggy Dog (PG) Century 16: 11:40 a.m.; 12:45, 1:55, 3:10, 4:15, 5:35, 6:50, 7:55 & 9 p.m. (Not Reviewed) Century 12: 12:30, 3:05, 5:25, 7:50 & 10:20 p.m.

She’s the Man (PG-13) Century 16: Noon, 2:40, 5:05, 7:40 & 10:10 p.m. (Not Reviewed) Century 12: 12:15, 2:50, 5:30, 8 & 10:25 p.m.

Syriana (R) ✭✭✭ Century 16: 7:05 & 9:50 p.m.

Transamerica (R) ✭✭✭1/2 Century 12: 3 & 7:55 p.m. CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: 2:35, 5, 7:30 & 10 p.m.

Tsotsi (R) ✭✭1/2 Guild: 4:45, 7 & 9:15 p.m.

Ultraviolet (PG-13) Century 16: 9:15 p.m. Century 12: 7:35 & 9:45 p.m. (Not Reviewed)

V for Vendetta (R) ✭✭✭1/2 Century 16: 11:30 a.m.; 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, 4:30, 5:30, 6:30, 7:30, 8:30, 9:30 & 10:30 p.m. Century 12: 11:45 a.m.; 1:15, 2:45, 4:15, 5:45, 7:15, 8:45 & 10:15 p.m.

The World’s Fastest Indian Century 16: 10:05 p.m.(PG-13) ✭✭✭

MOVIE TIMES

★ Skip it ★★ Some redeeming qualities ★★★ A good bet ★★★★ Outstanding

Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (266-9260)

Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Moun-

tain View (960-0970)

Century Park 12: 557 E. Bayshore Blvd., Redwood

City (365-9000)

CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: 3000 El Camino Real,

Palo Alto (493-3456)

Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (266-9260)

Stanford: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (324-3700)

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SpectrumEditorials, letters and opinions

Editorial

By the numbersEditor,

In her Palo Alto Weekly Guest Opinion (March 15), Paula Simp-son said, “Dare I say it once again? Palo Alto has five libraries and money enough for two and a half.”

Seems that Simpson does dare, and often, and because of her dar-ing that two-and-a-half number now has entered Palo Alto’s my-thology. One should therefore take a careful look at how it was arrived at.

The only backup for her claim that Simpson appears to have de-tailed is that Palo Alto has per-capita library costs of $79.09 vs. $45.51 for Menlo Park. She has then argued that this was due to dis-economies accruing to Palo Alto because it has five branches vs. Menlo Park’s two.

However, she is grossly misinter-preting what those numbers mean.

Palo Alto also has about twice the population of Menlo Park, so assuming that Simpson’s per capita numbers are correct, we get totals of $4.6 million spent in Palo Alto vs. $1.4 million spent in Menlo Park. That translates to about $915,000 per branch in Palo Alto vs. $700,000 per branch in Menlo Park.

Simplifying somewhat, this means that if we were running li-braries at the same efficiency in both locations, Palo Alto could af-ford six-and-a-half branches, rather than the two-and-a-half branches Simpson has repeatedly said is all we can afford.

By omitting the difference in populations, her calculations are on the low side by a factor of well over two. Paula thus reached and has endlessly promoted a very wrong conclusion that is likely to have an unfortunate impact on public policy.

Walter SedriksWaverley Street

Palo Alto

Controversy continuesEditor,

Paula Simpson’s Guest Opinion of March 15 in response to mine of March 1 illustrates why her ten-ure as library director has been so filled with controversy.

She argues against the Link+ in-ter-library loan system saying that it will cost money. Well, duh. This is the classic question of renting or buy-and-maintain for infrequently used items. Library after library has proven the savings from “rent-ing” are tremendous.

This is but one of many instanc-es where Simpson cited costs while ignoring savings to block ideas she personally opposed. However, costs have been no object when she wants something.

For example, there was a recent-ly completed $45,000 consultant study on RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) that could have — and should have — been handled by a few telephone calls (or a web search): The RFID installation at the Santa Clara library reportedly produces no savings despite its huge cost — too many books are mishandled.

The prestige of “bleeding edge” technologies is an extravagance that Palo Alto can’t afford.

When Simpson talks about what the library budget can support, re-member that this is relative to her priorities, not the residents’. For example, in moving staff to the Downtown Library, she decided to take space away from the users so that part-time staff could have in-dividual (rather than shared) work areas.

When the Friends of the Palo Alto Libraries offered to buy a portable (trailer) to avoid having to move staff from Main to the Downtown Library, she “larded it up” with staff amenities (larger, new instead of used, ...).

Doug MoranMatadero Avenue

Palo Alto

ARB adviceEditor,

This letter is in response to the article of March 15 regarding the planned Classic Communities development in Midtown. Judith Wasserman, an Architectural Re-view Board member, said she pre-fers architecture with “integrity” stating, “(developers) should re-member they are in the 21st Cen-tury and not design buildings that look like they are 100 years old.”

She fails to see that all of the “contemporary” designs are de-rivative too. Frank Lloyd Wright designed modern homes 100 years ago. Boxy commercial buildings came during the post-war boom.

For Wasserman to suggest that the design for the housing develop-ment along Bayshore Drive is 21st Century is ridiculous. There are very few architects that are design-ing truly unique buildings. Frank Gehry is one of them.

Most architecture is historically

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A disgraceful record of street repair

City auditor’s long-delayed audit of city street maintenance discloses wasteful, careless practices

with poor inter-departmental coordination

P alo Altans who complain that city streets are getting worse are right, according to a just-released “Audit of Street Main-tenance” by City Auditor Sharon Erickson.

She disclosed an appalling $28.7 million backlog of repair and maintenance work that has built up over years.

“This is not a new problem,” Erickson noted at the outset of her 80-page, highly detailed report. She said city staff has been warning for years that annual maintenance budgets werenít keeping up with needed work.

She made 21 specific recommendations, including four that stand out: (1) unify street-work street supervision under the Public Works Department, requiring permits from both private contractors and other city departments and setting up unified street-work inspec-tions; (2) have post-trenching repairs done by one entity (either a city crew or contractor) for consistency and quality; (3) implement a five-year moratorium on street cuts in newly resurfaced streets except for emergency or necessary work; and (4) create seven zones and schedule major resurfacing or repair work by zone far in advance so other work there could get done first.

But Public Works Director Glenn Roberts and Assistant City Man-ager Emily Harrison, while accepting most of the recommendations, object to the big ones, despite repeated meetings with Erickson. The single-oversight role and the moratorium are not practical, they said in a response at the end of Erickson’s report.

Thus the tough issues are tossed to the City Council, with an initial exploration of the differences explored Tuesday night at the council’s Finance Committee.

The problem cuts deep. Not only is there a huge backlog, but there are no funds readily available to throw at it. This means some repairs needed today will not get done for years. Even with funds, the same pave-and-trench-again pattern would continue, damaging the newly done street surfaces. Serious deficiencies need to be resolved in how the city plans, coordinates, monitors, inspects and repairs cuts.

Erickson’s report confirms complaints by citizens over many years that streets are redone by Public Works and within weeks the new pavement being trenched into by the city’s Utilities Department. Lax supervision of street repair work by private contractors, or even city crews, has sometimes required the Public Works Department to have to re-do repairs completely.

Sometimes cuts in recently resurfaced streets are unavoidable — as in emergency repairs, or when a non-city utility needs to hook up a residence or make a repair to a telephone or cable service. A quickened pace of underground utilities upgrading has exacerbated conflicts.

But the pattern has become predictable. One resident, who com-plained of utilities crews digging up streets soon after they were resurfaced, actually predicted trenching on Walter Hays Drive after it was slurry sealed last October. Within 11 days "the street was dug up and covered with steel plates," Erickson noted.

The city hasn’t even been able to keep track of all the big steel plates city or private contractors have put down. An audit-prompted inspection in November found 141 plates — 81 had been picked up by December.

Citizens have been assured repeatedly that coordinating street work is a priority, but there is little evidence of that. Every branch of utilities can schedule street cuts without having to coordinate with anyone. Quarterly coordination meetings are poorly attended.

Ironically, Palo Alto was an early adopter of a “pavement manage-ment system” to minimize conflicts. But only one person knows how the system works. Worse, Palo Alto opted out of a Bay Area street-maintenance planning system now used by 109 other cities, resulting in “no data available” for Palo Alto in regional reports — one reason why Palo Alto officials might not have realized how bad our streets were getting until it’s almost too late to do anything about it.

Bigger questions include whether there is adequate oversight at the highest levels of the city administration — as well as how pen-etrating the council members have been in asking hard questions of staff. Did past councils just not believe staff warnings that annual maintenance budgets weren’t adequate?

Now Palo Altans face another long haul to bring Palo Alto back up to par in another area, and this new council will have to show if it has the stuff to make it happen.


Is child care important enough for a new ‘impact fee’?by Jeff Blum

I a m n o stranger to controver-

sy, either as an attorney or as a member of Palo Alto’s Human Rela-tions Com-mission.

My latest controversial issue to ponder is whether Palo Alto should charge an impact fee to developers and use the money generated to subsidize child care for service providers and the work-ing poor.

If that’s not controversial enough, how about considering whether we should impose a local sales tax to generate funds for the same pur-pose? I assume this would require a two thirds vote to pass.

Approximately 63 cities and counties — including San Fran-cisco, Concord, Santa Cruz, and Santa Monica — impose an impact fee on developers to help increase availability of child care.

Palm Desert is considering im-posing such a fee. The plan would only use fees to build new child-care facilities or expand existing ones. Fees could not be used for subsidies to individual families. Palm Desert estimates that in the

next 20 years it will need 750 ad-ditional child-care spaces.

San Francisco’s director of policy and planning for the Department of Children, Youth and Their Fami-lies, estimates that San Francisco has created or enhanced 8,000 spaces since their fee was passed in the late 1980s.

How bad is the need? Palo Alto currently has a waiting list of ap-proximately 120 for subsidized child care, but that’s a tiny slice of the problem.

Palo Alto’s Child Care Advisory Committee in a Jan. 23, 2006, re-port estimates that Palo Alto cur-rently has a shortage of about 2,875 spaces, implying that 41 percent of parents who potentially need child care do not have the option of choos-ing a licensed child-care space in a center, after-school care program or Family Child Care Homes setting.

The advisory committee estimates that a total of 821 child care spaces are required for new growth from 2003 to 2025. This is more than the demand Palm Desert projects for its city in the next 20 years.

What about the tax approach? As-pen, Colorado added 45 percent to its local sales tax. A portion of the added $1.63 million a year in rev-enue is used for affordable housing and child care — including child-care resource and referral services, grants to nonprofit centers for im-provements, and child-care tuition

assistance for low-income working families.

Palo Alto’s City Council is hy-persensitive to the issue that it is not business friendly enough. It is equally evident that no one likes new taxes.

It is difficult for me to assess whether Palo Alto is hostile to busi-nesses. Several major businesses and hotels have closed up or moved elsewhere in the past few years, af-ter complaining about how expen-sive doing business is in Palo Alto. However, land remains expensive, in short supply, and in high demand, and many developers still line up to build commercial or housing proj-ects in Palo Alto.

What about those pesky taxes? Lord knows and the argument goes, we pay plenty of those already.

Maybe my timing in bringing up this child care/impact fee subject is bad. The Universal Preschool Initia-tive, Proposition 82, is on the June ballot. However, the initiative may not pass — and even if it passes it will not solve our long-term child-care shortages.

Proponents of Proposition 82 in-dicate that the benefits of universal preschool would be enormous. It would aid our educational system, which lags compared to numerous other countries.

Detractors say many of the people who will be recipients of the Propo-sition 82 funds already can afford preschool or would be better off in private programs. Another concern is that the proposition may cause many qualified preschool teachers (those who are not credentialed but who will be required to become cre-dentialed) to lose their positions.

Complicating the outlook for Proposition 82’s success is the recent news that Rob Reiner, the author of the proposition, may have improp-erly used $23 million of taxpayer’s money for ads to promote the initia-tive. A state audit being conducted will not be completed until after the June ballot.

The long waiting list for subsi-dized child-care spaces in Palo Alto is what troubles me the most now. The people needing these spaces include the working poor and the teachers, police officers, firefight-ers, and other people our communi-ty relies on to provide us with vital services. ■ Jeff Blum, a family law attorney practicing in Redwood City, is a member of the Palo Alto Human Relations Commission. He can be e-mailed at [email protected].

Guest Opinion

StreetwiseHow do you feel about teens playing poker?Asked at Midtown Shopping Center. Question and interviews by Ben Lincoln. Photographs by Marjan Sadoughi.

Jon HarveyGraduate studentMarshall Drive

“It would depend on the amount of money. Nickels and pennies are prob-ably okay but large sums of money are bad. I lived in England and there it is legal for teens to gamble in small amounts, and I think that is reason-able.”

Jaye RoybalRetiredColorado Avenue

“I wouldn’t want my kid to do it, but I don’t think you can stop them. Games should be set up at community cen-ters so they can still get the thrill of gambling and the money aspect can be limited. Gambling is foolish.”

Marcia BaughRetiredGary Court

“They’re going to find some way to gamble. Whether it’s use of substanc-es, there is no way to stop it. I think teens see what adults do, and we push our kids these days to grow up faster, so they try to act like adults.”

Neil SalemFinancial consultantAddison Avenue

“I don’t think it’s a wise thing for teens to be doing. They can’t handle the responsibility. It should be regulated online. It’s an issue that parents should start taking up more with children.”

Robert JensenCoffee shop workerWolfe Road, Sunnyvale

“Poker is okay; gambling is a different story. I didn’t know it was happening. As far as losing money, you got to learn sometime. The stock market is gambling; they’re learning how to gamble.”

The long waiting list for subsidized child-care spaces in Palo Alto is what troubles me the most now.


derivative. The best thing that the Architectural Review Board could do is to pick a design that people like and can live with for 50 years.

Kathy McGuireSand Hill Circle

Menlo Park

Pre-emptive problemEditor,

I am deeply concerned that our president would even hint at the idea of a pre-emptive strike against Iran. If the subject is mentioned, I’m afraid that is code for bypassing di-plomacy.

Thank goodness this approach is no longer generating enthusiasm from either party.

Ellen NachtriebSanta Rita Avenue

Palo Alto

Forcing democracyEditor,

President Bush would have us all believe that his policy on pre-emp-tive war is the way to go and has been a success. In fact this has been a disaster.

By not studying Iraq, its history, its language, its religions and not making the looting in Iraq a crime and punished, the so-called “sav-iors” became the true enemy to hide from and be afraid of.

Then, the forcing of democracy down the throats of religious societ-ies has been a farce.

Margot JohnstonAllen Court

Palo Alto


Measure B Transportation Improvement Program

An Open Letter from the Measure B Citizens Watchdog Committee

Vasona Light Rail

Bicycle Program

85/101 (N) Interchange

Palo Alto Transit Center

Measure B, a transportation improvement program approved by voters in 1996, requires the CitizensWatchdog Committee to issue reports to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and all county

taxpayers regarding the status of the program. This report summarizes the current status of the program,including accomplishments to date and plans for the future.

The Board of Supervisors is responsible for delivering the Measure B Program. The Santa Clara ValleyTransportation Authority has constructed light rail, Caltrain and highway projects. The cities and the Countyhave fixed potholes, and the County Roads Department has built improvements to expressways. With lessthan a year of sales tax collection left in the program, virtually all transportation projects promised to countyvoters in 1996 have or will soon be completed, most ahead of schedule and under budget. Just as the signsthroughout the county attest “We Deliver”.

In the past year, the Measure B Program has completed:• The 237/880 interchange, allowing for a direct connection of carpool lanes in both directions• New light rail service allows the public to travel from Campbell to Mountain View and East San Jose, making the entire light rail system more accessible to riders• A bicycle and pedestrian under crossing of the Caltrain tracks at Homer Avenue in Palo Alto• Signal Synchronization projects on Oregon-Page Mill, Almaden, and Foothill Expressways

Projects Previously Completed:• Route 85/87 Interchange• Route 85/101 South Interchange• Route 152/101 Interchange• Widening I-880 from Route 101 to Montague Expressway• Tasman and Capitol Avenues light rail service• Widening Route 101 from Morgan Hill to San Jose• Caltrain improvements at Lawrence, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, and Sunnyvale stations• $90 million program to fill potholes and maintain streets in all 15 cities and the County

Measure B created an independent Citizens Watchdog Committee (CWC) comprised of 17 private citizensto review the Measure B Program. Its members are from diverse community organizations and all five supervi-sorial districts. Ongoing oversight by the CWC includes monitoring our annual independent audit of the entireMeasure B Program and advising the public on Program progress by making reports available to the public.

If you are interested in learning more or applying to serve on the CWC please visit the Measure B website athttp://santaclaracounty.org/measureb or contact the 1996 Measure B Transportation Improvement Program at(408) 299-5140.

Sincerely,

Henry Servin, Chair, Measure B Citizens Watchdog Committee

Projects to be completedin the coming year:

• 85/101 N Interchange in Mountain View• Route 85 Noise Mitigation• Route 152 widening in Gilroy• Auxiliary lane on Route 17 from Camden to Hamilton• A bicycle and pedestrian bridge at River Oaks over the Guadalupe River in North San Jose• Signal Synchronization on Central Expressway and the upgrade of software and hardware in the Traffic Operations Center

Creation and Composition of theCounty Measure B ProgramIn 1996, the voters in Santa Clara Countyapproved Measure A, an advisory measure thatspelled out a specific package of transportationimprovements for the county. On the sameballot, Measure B authorized the enactmentof a 1/2-cent sales tax for general Countypurposes, for a nine-year timeframe. The Boardof Supervisors is responsible for implementingthe projects as described in Measure A. To thatend, the Board created the County Measure BTransportation Improvement Program that isadministered in the Office of the CountyExecutive. Through agreements, the Santa ClaraValley Transportation Authority (VTA), Caltrans,the County Roads and Airports Departmentand local cities manage construction of specificMeasure B transportation projects.


Spectrum Stratford School is openinga new preschool and elementary

school in Palo Alto!To learn more about Stratford or to schedule a tour,

please call (650) 493-1151 or email [email protected].

www.stratfordschools.com

Permanent presence?Editor,

President Bush talks about ul-timately withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq and leaving the country in control of the Iraqi government. If this is really his intention, why is the United States building the biggest embassy in the world in Baghdad and several permanent military bases?

The implications of this con-struction are disturbing.

Hershey JulienJames Road

Palo Alto

Nuclear worldEditor,

While armchair warriors cast their jaundiced eye on Iran and threaten it with “dire consequenc-es,” the Bush administration has just signed a “sweetheart nuclear deal” with India to encourage it to proliferate.

In the meantime, the United States is also planning to prolif-erate by building more terrifying weapons that will take our fragile planet to the abyss. Another nation that has a large cache of nuclear weapons, largely ignored by the in-ternational community, is Israel.

The United Kingdom, for all of its “high moral” posturing, has been complicit in providing Israel with its illegal weapons of mass destruction. Last week the BBC revealed that in 1960 the U.K. government supplied Israel with hundreds of chemical shipments, which included plutonium — nu-clear-bomb-making material.

According to de-classified mate-rial, the secret deals were made in complete violation of international law.

Jagjit Singh Louisa Court

Palo Alto

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‘Winningnever

gets old’Pinewood girls capture

their second straightCIF championship

by Nathan Kurz

S ami Field-Polisso pumped her fist and let out a scream after getting bumped and convert-

ing a tough layup. Pacific Hills had tried to turn the Division V state championship game into a street fight, but this moment epitomized Pinewood’s typical response.

Field-Polisso and the Panthers had too much poise and too much polish to succumb to those tricks.

Behind Field-Polisso’s standout play and leadership, Pinewood cap-tured its second consecutive state title with a 58-52 win over its West Hollywood opponents on Saturday at ARCO Arena in Sacramento.

“Winning never gets old,” Pine-wood coach Doc Scheppler said. “There’s been a positive aura about this team the last two weeks. We found a way to get easy baskets when we needed them.”

The Panthers (24-9) became the first team since the California In-terscholastic Federation established Division V in 1988 to beat the same team twice in as many years in the state finale.

Pinewood won its third state title in as many tries because Field-Polisso, who led the Panthers with 14 points and seven assists, con-trolled the tempo and carved up the Pacific Hills’ defense.

The main beneficiaries were se-nior Hannah Lippe, who added 14 points, and sophomore Aly Gep-pert, who chipped in with 11 points, 18 rebounds and three blocks.

Field-Polisso keyed a decisive 11-2 run to close the third quarter with four consecutive assistsóincluding two back-door layups to Lippeóas Pinewood again pulled away from Pacific Hills with a second-half barrage. The Panthers took con-trol of last year’s 61-39 state finale victory with a 17-0 run in the third quarter.Pinewood’s (L-R) Hannah Lippe, Liz Altmaier, Sami Field-Polisso (3) and Miriam Zouzounis joined with

their teammates to show off their CIF Division V state title trophy following a 58-52 win over Pacific Hills.

by Rick Eymer

There’s some history between the Stanford and Oklahoma women’s basketball teams

and some of it is still fresh in the minds of several players.

There was a bit of history be-tween the Cardinal and Florida State, too, but history did not re-peat itself on Monday night.

Third-seeded Stanford took care of business with a convincing 88-70 victory over the sixth-seeded Seminoles in the second round of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament at the Pepsi Center in Denver as Candice Wiggins put

on a show that nearly duplicated last weekend’s the show-stopping dunks of Wiggins’ good friend Candace Parker over at Tennes-see.

Wiggins and Parker refer to each other as ‘ice’ and ‘ace’ to separate themselves from their teammates during their national team train-ing and playing days. Nicknames don’t do either of them justice as any one watching Sports Center can attest.

Stanford’s Candice scored 23 of her 34 points in the second half, igniting a couple of scoring runs that simply overpowered Florida

State.The Seminoles beat Stanford,

73-50, in their only other meeting in 1984. Payback took 22 years.

“She said she felt a little anx-ious,” Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said. “I told her ‘Can-dice, the pressure is on me; I’ve got great players so you just relax and play and have fun out there.’ “

Boy, did Wiggins ever have fun.The Cardinal (25-7) will take

on the Sooners (31-4) in the Sweet Sixteen on Saturday in San An-tonio and payback may be on the minds of many.

It really started when Oklahoma

beat Stanford, 102-98, in overtime on Dec. 27, 2000. That the game was high scoring was secondary to VanDerveer, who lost her fresh-man guard, Susan King, to a torn ACL in her right knee on what may have been a flagrant foul as King went up for a breakaway layup.

A little more than two years later Stanford beat Oklahoma at Maples Pavilion, 58-38, and then ended the Sooners’ season on March 22, 2004 with an overwhelming 68-43 win in an NCAA second-round game in Tempe, Ariz.

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CARDINAL CORNER . . . There will be plenty of room for improve-ment when Stanford women’s swim coach Lee Maurer begins her second season in 2006-07. Maurer’s debut season produced a fifth-place finish at last week-end’s NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships in Ath-ens, Ga. The positives for the Car-dinal included extending its string of finishes among the top six teams at the meet to the entire 25 years of the event. Stanford also held off Pac-10 rival USC, which finished sixth. Auburn won its fourth NCAA title in the past five years with 518.5 points, defeating second-place Georgia (515.5) in the second-closest NCAA Cham-pionships ever. The meet came down to a thrilling 400 free relay finale where Arizona recorded the fastest time ever in the event (3:12.77) for a victory that kept the Bulldogs from moving past the Tigers. Stanford’s 400 free relay clocked 3:18.84 to win the con-solation finals, but Brooke Bishop led off her 100 free leg in a per-sonal best of 48.38 to move her to second all-time at Stanford. Other individual highlights for Stanford during the three-day meet: senior Kristen Caverly took third in the 400 IM on Friday with a personal best of 4:09.70 that moved her to third all-time at Stanford. Senior Dana Kirk also finished third in the 100 fly (52.63) the same day, while Bishop took third in the 50 free on Thursday in a personal best of 22.17 (ranking her third all-time in school history) and grabbed fifth in the 100 back with PR of 53.50. In diving, Cassidy Krug had her best NCAA meet with a seventh-place finish on the 1-meter board. She scored 343.65 points . . . Tanner Gardner finished in eighth place at the 2006 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships and earned his first All-America honor. Gardner becomes just the 12th Cardinal wrestler to earn the hon-or and the first since Matt Gentry in 2004. Former Stanford baseball standout Joe Borchard was trad-ed by the Chicago White Sox on Monday to the Seattle Mariners. Borchard had 12 career homers and 30 RBI with the White Sox.

COACHING CORNER . . . Palo Alto is looking for a boys’ varsity water polo coach and girls’ varsity volleyball coach for the fall school. Those interested should contact Earl Hansen at [email protected] or at 329-3886.

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How Sweet 16 it is for the Stanford womenCardinal advances in NCAA tournament to face Oklahoma after Wiggins stars in win over Florida State


Field-Polisso, a junior point guard, then iced the game with a three-point play that put Pinewood ahead by 14 points with 2:03 re-maining.

Usually a shooting guard, Field-Polisso wasn’t always making those kinds of plays. She was thrust into the point guard role over the sum-mer when junior Tika Koshiyama-Diaz tore her right ACL in June.

Though her rehab went slower than expected, Scheppler received a surprise boost a week before the Central Coast Section playoffs kicked off in late February.

“Tika called me and said ‘Doc, guess what? The physical therapist said I can play next week,’” Schep-pler said. “I looked up (at the sky) and said ‘thank you!’”

While Koshiyama-Diaz’s return for CCS two weeks ago stabilized the Panthers, Field-Polisso already has become accustomed to the pass-first mentality customary for any floor leader.

That explains why Pinewood, which struggled early in the sea-son against top-flight competition, won its playoff games by an average margin of more than 20 points.

Now her teammates treat her like a true point guard.

“Sami has such great vision,” Lippe said.

But Pinewood is far from a one-player team. Lippe provided a stabi-lizing force throughout the playoff run. Geppert was a monster on the boards. Sophomore Grace Beck and senior Liz Altmaier contributed timely scoring. And Koshiyama-Diaz provided a moral boost by re-turning from injury.

“I believe so much in this group,” Scheppler said. “When you’re around this group, it’s a special thing.”

Though the Panthers didn’t dupli-cate last year’s 22-point margin of victory, the game wasn’t as close as the final score indicates.

Pinewood got off to a 12-4 start with three-pointers from Field-

Polisso and Lippe, but Pacific Hills scrapped its way back.

Truth be told, Pinewood struggled in the first half to adjust to the way the referees called the game.

They let Pacific Hills get really physical, and Geppert, in particular, got frustrated, pounding the ball into the floor after one questionable travel call.

“I haven’t played a lot of girls who are so strong and hard to box out,” Geppert said. “It was more of a mental thing. Doc told me I had to get payback. I took it personally.”

That she did, grabbing 11 of her rebounds in the second half as Pine-wood largely kept Pacific Hills off the glass and behind on the score-board.

Ultimately, the Panthers over-came 21 turnovers and 30 offensive rebounds for Pacific Hills to cap-ture the school’s third-ever state banner.

“In these kinds of games, some-times you have to win ugly,” said Scheppler, “but that (state champi-onship) trophy sure looks pretty to us.”■

Pinewood’s (L-R) Miriam Zouzounis, Liz Altmaier, Aly Geppert, Sami Field-Polisso and Hannah Lippe cel-ebrate their CIF Division V state title during the postgame medal ceremony on Saturday in Sacramento.

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Pinewood’s (L-R) Aly Geppert, Sami Field-Polisso and Liz Altmaier be-gin to celebrate moments after the final buzzer Saturday.

Pinewood senior Hannah Lippe is congratulated by coach Doc Schep-pler after the Panthers won their second straight state title.

Pinewood junior point guard Sami Field-Polisso (3) scored 14 points and added seven assists in the 58-52 win over Pacific Hills.

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Coleman, Clare Bodensteiner and Kristen Newlin combined to play nine minutes of that contest, and none of them scored.

Laura Andrews, Erin Higgins and Beky Preston scored a com-bined six points in 59 minutes.

Since then each team has added a highly visible player or two wor-thy of national attention.

Wiggins already has earned the Pac-10 Player-of-the-Year award and was an All-American selec-tion last year.

Oklahoma’s Courtney Paris is a freshman out of Piedmont High in the East Bay, who averages 21.5 points and 14.9 rebounds a game. She’s led the Sooners in scoring 29 times and in rebounding 32 times.

Stanford junior center Brooke Smith (22 points, 13 rebounds, five assists against Florida State) will need to hold her own against the bulky, agile freshman.

Second-seeded Oklahoma ad-vanced to the Sweet 16 with an 80-76 win over BYU.

Other than for Stanford, it was a dismal day for the Pac-10. Washington led top-seeded LSU at halftime but the Lady Tigers roared back to win 72-49. Arizona State was up 34-19 in the first half against Utah but was outscored 19-0 during one stretch and fell, 86-65, to the Utes.

Stanford will make its 14th ap-pearance in the Sweet 16, and the fourth time in five years. LSU and DePaul, courtesy of a dramatic late-game comeback, meet in the other regional game in San Anto-nio. The winners tip off next Mon-day with a berth in the Final Four at stake.

Oklahoma may have Paris, but Stanford always will have Wig-gins, who scored more than 30 points for the fifth time this sea-son and moved into 17th place on Stanford’s all-time career scoring list with 1,303 points. Wiggins is averaging 19.5 points a game for her career.

She was 11 of 18 from the field against Florida State and led a 1:28 span that turned a competi-tive game into a blowout.

“It was her (VanDerveer) tell-ing me to relax and just play in the flow of the game,” Wiggins said. “I think that the more that you don’t think about your shot, the easier it is.”

The Seminoles drew within 68-60 with 5:24 remaining to play. A Wiggins three-pointer, a few tra-ditional baskets and a handful of free throws later, Stanford was up 86-64 with 2:16 left.

“My opening statement is: Can-dice Wiggins,” Florida State coach Sue Semrau said.

VanDerveer turned the game over to the bench, who happily held onto the lead.

Jillian Harmon added 11 points and Rosalyn Gold-Onwude con-tributed her usual nine points, seven rebounds and five assists.

The Stanford Tree, meanwhile, got in trouble — again — and was ejected from the game for not leav-ing the court in a timely manner after halftime festivities.■

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Brooke Smith (left) and Candice Wiggins had reason to be excited dur-ing their 88-70 romp over Florida State in NCAA second-round play.

Brooke Smith (left) prepares to get one of her four blocks against Flori-da State on Monday night, this one against Mara Freshour.

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BADMINTONPAL Ocean Division

Menlo-Atherton 11, at Jefferson 4Girls No. 1 singles — Luu (J) d. Sanchez,

15-1, 5-1; Boys No. 1 singles — Chao (MA) d. Torres, 15-5, 15-3; Girls No. 1 doubles — Kopf-Decurtins (MA) by default; Boys No. 1 doubles — Presseky-Smith (MA) d. Muliadharma-Castro, 15-5, 15-1; Mixed No. 1 doubles — Spar-Liang (MA) d. D. Senio-DeGuzman, 15-5, 15-2.

Record: Menlo-Atherton 2-0

BASEBALLSCVAL De Anza Division

Palo Alto 210 000 1 — 4 8 1Mtn. View 000 000 0 — 0 4 2

WP — White. LP — Hatasaki (1-1).3B — Sugimoto (MV). 2B — Warner (PA).

3 hits — Warner (PA). Records: Palo Alto 1-3 (2-6)

PAL Bay DivisionMenlo-Atherton 140 020 0 -- 7 8 2Burlingame 122 100 2 -- 8 10 1

Abramson, Brewer (5) and Hicks; Ed-wards, Fregosi (5), Gotthardt (6) and Chick-man. WP -- Edwards.†LP -- Brewer.

2B -- Abramson, Brewer, Johnston, Finley, Pound (MA); Chickman, Pasiecznik, Riddle, Suvunnachuen (B). 2 hits -- Pound, Rose (MA); Chavez, Riddle (B). 2 RBI -- Brewer (MA); Pasiecznik (B).

Records: Menlo-Atherton 1-1 (4-3); Burl-ingame 1-1 (4-3-1)

NonleagueCarlmont 001 000 3 — 4 3 2SH Prep 000 102 0 — 3 5 4

Alonzo, Gambino (6), Norlander (7) and Ching; Dos Remedios, Connor (7) and Pow-ell. WP — Norlander. LP — Connor (0-1).

2B — Geyton (Carl). 2 hits — Lucian (SHP).

Records: Sacred Heart Prep 0-2

BOYS BASKETBALLCIF Division II State Championship

At ARCO Arena, SacramentoMater Dei 8 12 13 14 — 47Palo Alto 8 16 10 17 — 51

MD — King 8 3-4 23, Brown 4 2-6 10, Jacobson 1 2-4 4, Tarin 1 0-0 2, Campbell 1 0-0 2, Brown 1 0-0 2, Arnet 1 0-0 3. Totals: 17 7-14 47.

PA — Lehman 4 1-2 10, Brown 2 2-4 7, Lin 6 2-2 17, Miller 3 0-4 6, Scott 5 1-2 11, Trimble 0 0-0 0. Totals: 20 6-14 51.

Three-point goals: King 4, Campbell, Ar-net (MD); Lin 3, Lehman, Brown (PA).

Records: Mater Dei 33-3, Palo Alto fin-ishes its season 32-1

GIRLS BASKETBALLCIF Division V State Championship

At ARCO Arena, SacramentoPacific Hills 6 15 9 22 — 52Pinewood 14 14 15 15 — 58

PH — M. Puente 3 0-0 7, Shellmire 2 3-4 7, Lewis 3 7-9 13, Dale 3 2-6 8, Richardson 2 0-0 4, T. Puente 4 3-5, 11, Miller 1 1-5 5. Totals: 18 15-25 52.

P — Field-Polisso 4 5-7 14, Geppert 4 3-6 11, Beck 3 1-2 8, Altmaier 2 3-3 8, Lippe 2 3-4 14, Nickel 0 2-2 2, Koshiyama-Diaz 0 1-2 1. Totals: 19 16-25 58.

Three-point goals: Puente (PH); Field-Polisso, Altmaier, Beck, Lippe (P).

Records: Pinewood finishes its season 24-9

GOLFSCVAL De Anza Division

At Palo Alto Muni (par 36)Palo Alto 213, Cupertino 263

Records: Palo Alto 3-1Private Schools Athletic LeagueAt Sharon Heights CC (par 36)

Woodside Priory 203, Pinewood 271Medalist: Sam Chavez (WP) 33.Records: Woodside Priory 3-0, Pinewood

0-1

GIRLS LACROSSEPeninsula Athletic League

Pioneer 0 2 — 2Menlo 8 4 — 12

P — Vega 2M — Lapolla 4, Swanson 3, Gessow 2,

Daly, McKinnon, ChungRecords: Menlo 2-0 (2-0)

Castilleja 4 1 — 5Gunn 3 2 — 5

C — Dunec 3, Cohn, JasujaG — Pin 2, Monica, Pak, KostiovkovaRecords: Castilleja 0-0-1, Gunn 0-0-1

SH Prep 4 4 — 8Menlo-Atherton 6 6 — 12

SHP — Irvine 3, Benevento, Boyle, Bru-gos, Clee, Rochester

MA — Breen, Ushman 3, Flaherty 2, Nev-ille 2, Power, Mongird

Records: Sacred Heart Prep 1-1 (1-2), Menlo-Atherton 1-1 (2-2)

SOFTBALLSCVAL El Camino Division

Los Altos 020 000 0 — 2 7 2Gunn 100 010 2 — 4 4 3

(One out when winning run scored)WP — Carothers (3-1). LP — Farrell.HR — Greenberg (G). 2B — Silver (LA). 2

hits — Silver (LA). 3 RBI — Greenberg (G).Records: Gunn 1-0 (4-2)

Cupertino 011 010 000 3 — 6 10 2Palo Alto 003 000 000 2 — 5 12 4

WP — Pool. LP — Cory (1-2). 3B — Schublas (Cup). 2B — Hzman

(Cup); Stankovic 2, Cory 2 (PA). 4 hits — Hz-man (Cup); Cory (PA). 2 hits — Schublas, Stenson (Cup); Miller, Stankovic, Cory (PA). 2 RBI — Schublas (Cup); Stankovic (PA).

Records: Palo Alto 0-1 (1-2)Nonleague

St. Ignatius 100 000 0 — 1 1 2Menlo 001 000 1 — 2 2 5

Smith and Larson; Lycette and Hawkins. WP — Lycette (3-2). LP — Smith.

2B — Lycette (M).Records: Menlo 3-2

BOYS SWIMMINGSCVAL De Anza Division

At Gunn 117, Mtn. View 69200 medley relay — Gunn (Matt Prior,

Wong, Agramonte, Gertridge) 1:46.69; 200 free — Trowbridge (MV) 1:47.51; 200 IM — Matt Prior (G) 2:07.60; 50 free — Gertridge (G) 23.42; 100 fly — Agramonte (G) 58.78; 100 free — B. Bishop (MV) 50.52; 500 free — Trowbridge (MV) 4:51.94; 200 free relay — Gunn (Prior, B. Johnson, Agramonte, Ger-tridge) 1:34.50; 100 back — Matt Prior (G) 56.61; 100 breast — M. Kim (MV) 1:09.63; 400 free relay — Mountain View (Trow-bridge, Hobert, Quistad, Bishop) 3:24.50; Diving — E. McDonald (MV) 167.3

At Palo Alto 122, Lynbrook 58200 medley relay — Lynbrook 1:44.07;

200 free — Higgins (PA) 1:46.23; 200 IM — Lo (PA) 2:01.91; 50 free — Robinson (L) 22.63; 100 fly — Morrison (PA) 54.56; 100 free — Robinson (L) 49.58; 500 free — Mor-rison (PA) 4:43.95; 200 free relay — Palo Alto (Kim, Fortune, Vallone, Morrison) 1:31.98; 100 back — Wenzlau (PA) 56.60; 100 breast — Wu (L) 1:02.60; 400 free relay — Palo Alto (Fortune, Horstmeyer, Vallone, Morrison) 3:23.69.

Records: Palo Alto 1-0 (3-0)West Catholic Athletic LeagueAt SH Prep 94, St. Ignatius 89

200 medley relay — Sacred Heart Prep (Navarro, Stahley, Flores-Maxfield, Rudolph) 1:42.70; 200 free — Navarro (SHP) 1:48.78; 200 IM — Stahley (SHP) 2:05.84; 50 free — Ang (SHP) 23.04; 100 fly — Flores-Maxfield (SHP) 54.65; 100 free — Bruno (SI) 50.53; 500 free — Navarro (SHP) 4:43.32; 200 free relay — Sacred Heart Prep (Rudolph, Flores-Maxfield, Ang, Kristofferson) 1:32.55; 100 back — Stahley (SHP) 56.98; 100 breast — Flores-Maxfield (SHP) 1:01.43; 400 free relay — Sacred Heart Prep (Stahley, Ang, Navarro, Kristofferson) 3:25.29.

Records: Sacred Heart Prep 2-0Nonleague

At Menlo-Atherton 110, Los Altos 75200 medley relay — Menlo-Atherton (Kel-

vie, Hong, Daye, Welsh) 1:50.00; 200 free — Eaton (MA) 1:57.18; 200 IM — Hong (MA) 2:12.81; 50 free — Smith (LA) 23.41; 100 fly — Kelvie (MA) 1:00.69; 100 free — Smith (LA) 51.75; 500 free — Welsh (MA) 5:35.22; 200 free relay — Menlo-Atherton (Jacobs, Kelvie, Morton, Eaton) 1:37.29; 100 back — Kwok (MA) 1:03.35; 100 breast — Morton (MA) 1:08.64; 400 free relay — Menlo-Ather-ton (Hong, Jacobs, Daye, Welsh) 3:41.23.

Records: Menlo-Atherton 2-2

GIRLS SWIMMINGSCVAL De Anza Division

At Gunn 117 1/2, Mtn. View 57 1/2200 medley relay — Gunn (Levens, Ea-

ton, Reeves, Glassman) 2:00.69; 200 free — Barnes-Waychus (G) 1:59.57; 200 IM — Reeves (G) 2:19.53; 50 free — Glassman (G) 26.64; 100 fly — Levens (G) 1:03.57; 100 free — Glassman (G) 58.45; 500 free — Barnes-Waychus (G) 5:11.14; 200 free relay — Gunn (Glassman, Reeves, Fish, Barnes-Waychus) 1:46.60; 100 back — Levens (G) 1:03.02; 100 breast — Lesyna (MV) 1:13.11; 400 free relay — Gunn (Barnes-Waychus, Levens, Fish, Xing) 3:57.19; Diving — Bucko (MV) 177.9.

At Palo Alto 118, Lynbrook 65200 medley relay — Palo Alto (Zuo, Wil-

cox, Kremer, Abbott) 1:57.78; 200 free —

Champion (PA) 2:00.07; 200 IM — Ghosh (L) 2:15.99; 50 free — Jensen (PA) 23.84; 100 fly — Ghosh (L) 1:00.91; 100 free — Jensen (PA) 53.35; 500 free — Neilson (L) 5:37.79; 200 free relay — Palo Alto (Jensen, Kremer, Wenzlau, Champion) 1:41.60; 100 back — Wenzlau (PA) 1:04.74; 100 breast — Tham (L) 1:11.58; 400 free relay — Palo Alto (Jensen, Wilcox, Champion, Wenzlau) 3:43.34.

Records: Palo Alto 1-0 (2-1)West Catholic Athletic LeagueSt. Ignatius 125, at SH Prep 56

200 medley relay — St. Ignatius 1:56.30; 200 free — Ryan (SI) 2:02.69; 200 IM — Sutherland (SHP) 2:18.11; 50 free — D. Campbell (SI) 25.85; 100 fly — Shepard (SI) 1:01.54; 100 free — M. Campbell (SI) 55.60; 500 free — Sutherland (SHP) 5:25.85; 200 free relay — St. Ignatius 1:45.61; 100 back — M. Campbell (SI) 1:02.69; 100 breast — D. Campbell (SI) 1:11.88; 400 free relay — St. Ignatius 3:50.89.

Records: Sacred Heart Prep 0-2Nonleague

Los Altos 87, at Menlo-Atherton 83200 medley relay — Menlo-Atherton (Ea-

ton, Kucera, Hildebrandt, Breen) 1:57.57; 200 free — Hildebrandt (MA) 2:04.16; 200 IM — Wong (LA) 2:24.07; 50 free — Eaton (MA) 25.44; 100 fly — Levin (LA) 1:05.11; 100 free — Hildebrandt (MA) 57.28; 500 free — Eaton (MA) 5:27.54; 200 free relay — Menlo-Atherton (Kucera, J. Welton, Fero, L. Welton) 1:46.40; 100 back — Powers (LA) 1:07.85; 100 breast — Kucera (MA) 1:08.15; 400 free relay — Menlo-Atherton (Eaton, Fero, Hildebrandt, Sitts) 3:55.96.

Records: Menlo-Atherton 3-1Yamamoto Memorial Invitational

At St. Francis HighTeam leaders — 1, Mitty 387.5; 2, St.

Francis 251.5; 3, Leland 202; 4, Menlo-Atherton 196; 5, Menlo School 179; 6, Monta Vista 137; 7, Gunn 132; 8, Santa Teresa 88; 9, Notre Dame-San Jose 67; 10, Sequoia 23.

(Winners & top local finishers)400 free relay — Mitty 3:37.00; 2, Men-

lo-Atherton 3:39.13; 400 IM — Monsees (Leland) 4:26.89(meet record); 4, Reeves (Gunn) 4:47.99; 100 IM — Kucera (MA) 1:01.27; 200 back — Wei (Mitty) 2:08.20; 2, K. Eaton (MA) 2:09.15; 50 back — Liu (Mitty) 27.51; 2, K. Eaton (MA) 27.59; 200 medley relay — Mitty 1:53.98; 3, Menlo 1:55.69; 1,000 free — Monsees (Leland) 10:22.51; 2, Barnes-Waychus (Gunn) 10:34.03; 50 free — Drysdale (Monta Vista) 25.81; 6, Fish (Gunn) 26.46; 200 breast — Kucera (MA) 2:24.60; 50 breast — Isaacs (Mitty) 32.25; 7, Sheikhrezai (MA) 35.97; 400 medley relay — Menlo-Atherton (Eaton, Kucera, Hildeb-randt, L. Welton) 4:03.36; 200 fly — Reeves (Gunn) 2:13.91; 50 fly — Liu (Mitty) 26.29; 3, Hildebrandt (MA) 28.48; 200 free relay — Le-land 1:43.47; 4, Menlo 1:47.57.

BOYS TENNISPAL Bay Division

At Menlo 7, Mills 0Singles — Hoffman (M) d. Chew, 6-1, 6-3;

Williford (M) d. Lee, 6-0, 6-2; Przybyla (M) d. Hung, 6-0, 6-0; Glenn (M) d. Stephenson, 6-0, 6-0.

Doubles — Sum-Castor (M) d. Tang-Robison, 6-0, 6-1; Serrurier-Lee (M)( d. Ho-Shimoda, 6-0, 6-0; Mills defaults No. 3 doubles.

Records: Menlo 6-0 (6-2)Menlo-Atherton 5, at San Mateo 2

Singles — Volovets (SM) d. Bliss, 6-3, 6-1; Smith (MA) d. Nadhan, 6-4, 7-5; Horowitz (MA) d. Sagara, 6-1, 6-0; Hofareb (SM) d. Greenberg, 6-4, 5-7, 7-6.

Doubles — Hubble-Schwab (MA) d. Tan-Imielski, 7-6, 6-0; Weiss-James (MA) d. Chen-Lui, 6-2, 6-2; Lengeloh-Marty (MA) d. Loe-Margallo, 6-2, 7-5.

Records: Menlo-Atherton 3-3 league Private Schools Athletic LeagueSH Prep 7, Redwood Christian 0

Singles — Kokubun (SHP) d. Magee, 6-0, 6-1; Parsons (SHP) d. Dalton, 6-1, 6-2; Han-sen (SHP) d. Wong, 6-0, 6-0; Burton (SHP) d. Masuda, 2-6, 6-3, 6-1.

Doubles — Chambers-Derwin (SHP) d. Zasimovich-Plangsriskul, 6-1, 6-0; Van Al-styne-Westerfield (SHP) d. Kaslin-Silva, 6-0, 6-0; Wang-Maceda (SHP) d. Fong-Waqa, 6-2, 6-3.

Records: Sacred Heart Prep 2-0 (4-0)SH Prep 6, at Woodside Priory 1

Singles — Dixit (WP) d. Parsons, 6-1, 6-2;

Kokuban (SHP) d. Helfrich, 1-6, 6-3, 10-6; Hansen (SHP) d. Capelle, 6-0, 6-0; Burton (SHP) d. McIntosh, 6-4, 6-3.

Doubles — Chambers-Derwin (SHP) d. Ackerman-Lombard, 6-0, 6-0; Van Alstyle-Westerfield (SHP) d. Green-Sherman, 6-0, 6-0; Wiggly-Cobb (SHP) d. Yam-Montalvo, 6-1, 6-0.

Records: Sacred Heart Prep 3-0 (5-0), Woodside Priory 1-2 (1-2)

BOYS TRACK & FIELDSCVAL De Anza Division

At Palo Alto 78, Monta Vista 49400 relay — Monta Vista 46.30; 1600

— Bill (MV) 4:38.70; 110 HH — Jensen (PA) 19.00; 400 — Xiang (PA) 54.40; 100 — Chang (MV) 11.90; 800 — Berezin (PA) 2:03.10; 300 IH — Abid (PA) 44.20; 200 — Milumol (MV) 24.50; 3,200 — Reynolds (PA) 10:07.00; 1,600 relay — Palo Alto no time.

High jump — Lee (MV) 6-0; Triple jump — Ashworth (PA) 40-5; Shot put — Koloto (PA) 41-3; Discus — Koloto (PA) 121-0.

Records: Palo Alto 2-0

GIRLS TRACK & FIELDSCVAL De Anza Division

Monta Vista 79, at Palo Alto 48400 relay — Monta Vista 51.10; 1600

— Jain (MV) 5:13.10; 100 hurdles — Shin (MV) 17.90; 400 — Lattanzi (PA) 58.50; 100 — Nelson (MV) 13.00; 800 — Hsu (MV) 2:20.90; 300 hurdles — Przybyla (PA) 49.50; 200 — Doran (MV) 27.10; 3,200 — Cummins (PA) 12:05.00; 1,600 relay — Monta Vista 4:33.50.

High jump — Ryan (PA) 5-0; Long jump — Co (MV) 17-6; Triple jump — Co (MV) 34-0; Shot put — Williams (PA) 32-8; Discus — Williams (PA) 102-9.

Records: Palo Alto 1-1

SCHEDULEWEDNESDAY

BaseballDe Anza Division — Los Gatos at Gunn,

3:30 p.m.PAL Bay Division — Menlo-Atherton at

Half Moon Bay, 3:15 p.m.; Burlingame at Menlo, 3:15 p.m.

PSAL — Pinewood at Fremont Christian, 3:30 p.m.

Girls lacrossePAL — Menlo at Gunn, 4 p.m.

SoftballPAL Ocean Division — Woodside at

Menlo-Atherton, 2:45 p.m.; Menlo at Jeffer-son, 3:15 p.m.

Nonleague — Castilleja at Redwood Christian, 3:30 p.m.

SwimmingWBAL — Notre Dame-San Jose at Cas-

tilleja, 3:30 p.m.Boys tennis

Nonleague — Aragon at Palo Alto, 3:30 p.m.; Gunn at Lynbrook, 3:30 p.m.; Menlo at Los Gatos, 2:30 p.m.

Track and fieldWCAL — Sacred Heart Prep girls at St.

Francis, 3 p.m.

THURSDAYBadminton

De Anza Division — Palo Alto at Gunn, 3:30 p.m.

PAL Ocean Division — Capuchino at Menlo-Atherton, 3:15 p.m.

GolfPAL — Menlo vs. Burlingame at Burlin-

game CC, 3 p.m.Girls lacrosse

PAL — Woodside at Sacred Heart Prep, 4 p.m.

FRIDAYBaseball

De Anza Division — Wilcox at Palo Alto, 3:30 p.m.; Gunn at Milpitas, 3:30 p.m.

PAL Bay Division — Half Moon Bay at Menlo-Atherton, 3:15 p.m.; Menlo at Burlin-game, 6:30 p.m.

PSAL — Pinewood at Harker, 3:30 p.m.; Sacred Heart Prep vs. St. Lawrence at Washington Park, Santa Clara, 6 p.m.

Boys lacrosseNonleague — Menlo at Carmel Tourna-

mentGirls lacrosse

PAL — Leland at Menlo, 4 p.m.; Castilleja at Menlo-Atherton, 4 p.m.; Gunn at Pioneer, 4 p.m.

HIGH SCHOOL SCOREBOARD

Swimmersbeatingweather

Rain can’t slow downswim teams, which are

off to fast startsby Keith Peters

If there is one spring sport that isn’t being affected by the recent rainy weather, it’s swimming.

Despite the cold and rain, the 2006 swim campaign is well under way with fast early season times.

The Palo Alto boys and girls opened their SCVAL De Anza Division seasons last Friday with impressive wins over visiting Lyn-brook. The boys posted a 122-58 win while the girls registered a 118-65 triumph.

Among the boys’ noteworthy times, freshman Mark Higgins clocked a 1:46.23 to win the 200 free in one of the top early Central Coast Section times. Senior Ed-ward Morrison also moved among the leaders by winning the 100 fly in 54.56 and the 500 free in a fast 4:43.95. Morrison also anchored the winning 200 free (1:31.98) and 400 free relay (3:23.69) teams to season bests.

The Paly girls, meanwhile, got a very quick 23.84 win in the 50 free from sophomore Liv Jensen, who took second at CCS last season with a school-record 23.71. Jensen also won the 100 free in a fast 53.35 and led off the winning 200 free (1:41.60) and 400 free (3:43.34) relay teams.

The Gunn boys and girls also swept De Anza Division dual meets last week, the boys posting a 117-69 win over visiting Mountain View while the girls handed the Spartans a 117.5-57.5 defeat.

Casey Barnes-Waychus (200 free, 500 free), Tara Levens (100 back, 100 fly) and Naomi Glass-man (50 free, 100 free) plus Matt Prior (100 back, 200 IM) paced the Titans.

The Menlo-Atherton girls saw their unbeaten dual-meet season end in a mixup, which cost the Bears an 87-83 nonleague loss to visiting Los Altos. M-A’s Heidi Kucera finished first in the 100 fly, but missed the touch pad.

Kucera, who came back to win the 100 breast in a good early sea-son time of 1:08.15, also helped the Bears finish fourth in the annual Yamamoto Memorial Invitational at St. Francis. She won the 100 IM and 200 breast (2:24.60) and swam a leg on the Bears’ 400 medley re-lay that also won.

Gunn’s Katie Reeves won the 200 fly in 2:13.91.

The Sacred Heart Prep boys, meanwhile, continued to swamp the opposition with fast time. The Gators (2-0) dunked visiting St. Ignatius, 94-89, by winning 10 of 11 events. Alex Navarro turned in a fast 4:43.32 to win the 500 free while the Gators’ 200 medley relay team posted a very good 1:42.70 to open the meet.■

PREP ROUNDUP

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Page 30 • Wednesday, March 22, 2006 • Palo Alto Weekly

by Rick Eymer

The final game was a micro-cosm of the season. Stanford fell behind early, rallied to

take the lead and then faded.That’s how the season went for

the Cardinal men’s basketball team and that’s how the season ends af-ter host Missouri State downed Stanford, 76-67, in the second round of the National Invitation Tournament.

There will be no more big games at the college level for seniors Matt Haryasz, Chris Hernandez, Dan

Grunfeld and Jason Haas. There are no more trips to Madison Square Garden, nor anywhere else the NCAA tournament is held.

And yet there was also some-thing heroic about the way the final game was played out last Fri-day night, thousands of miles away from Maples Pavilion.

With 7:16 remaining to play in the first half, Stanford fell behind by 21 points at 35-14. Shots weren’t falling and the Cardinal had trou-ble hanging onto the ball. At the time, Missouri State was shooting

67 percent and Stanford was shoot-ing 29 percent.

The season died there, just like the season died when the Cardinal lost four of its first six games.

No one performed last rites though, so maybe Stanford coach Trent Johnson figured his team could breathe new life into the game, just like it breathed new life into its season just before Pac-10 play began.

So the seventh-seeded Cardinal huffed and puffed and blew down the 21-point deficit on enemy terri-

tory. Stanford went on a 26-7 ram-page over the final seven minutes and went into intermission satis-fied by carving 19 points of that deficit off.

Stanford (16-14) wasn’t finished either, taking its first lead since a 5-4 advantage when the game was three minutes old when Peter Prowitt made a pair of free throws with 10:01 remaining to play.

Lawrence Hill added to the Cardinal lead minutes later. Then second-seeded Missouri State did a little carving of its own and even-tually stuffed its profits in its col-lective pockets, saving up to play another day.

If it was entertainment you wanted this season, Stanford pro-vided it many times over. The fans will have their own moments to sa-vor; perhaps one of the many times Hernandez came to the rescue with the game on the line. Or maybe it was Haryasz slamming the ball through the net and pumping his fist as he jogged back on defense. Or the smooth shooting of Grun-feld, when for one game he shook off his season-long doldrums and pounded 31 points through the net against Arizona State.

Stanford has much to be proud of with this group. The four se-niors never went hungry at the end of the regular season, reaching a postseason party in each of their four playing years.

Haryasz, Hernandez and Grun-feld combined to score 3,352 points in their careers and we don’t need a lecture to wonder how many

more they could have scored had they stayed healthy.

Stanford gets young now. The ever-popular Carlton Weatherby, if he returns, will be the only senior. Weatherby is in his senior year academically and may choose to help the world in some other fash-ion next year.

Fred Washington and Tim Mor-ris are seniors academically next year, but juniors in their athletic endeavors. Taj Finger and Peter Prowitt join them on the junior level, leaving Mitch Johnson, An-thony Goods, Hill and Ken Brown to bolster the underclassmen.

This year’s freshmen class took giant strides during the year, with Johnson perhaps taking the biggest leap by embracing his role as point guard. There’s a reason he was picked for the all-Pac-10 freshman team.

Hill and Goods also played bril-liantly at times and another year learning the Trent Johnson system will do wonders for their playing abilities and for Stanford’s hopes of returning to the promised land.

Much has been made of the in-coming freshmen, led by the 7-foot-1 Lopez twins. They may not be saviors of the program in one fell swoop but there’s no doubt in most minds that what Stanford may lack in experience next year will be compensated for by raw talent.

It was a sad ending to Stanford’s season, and its seniors. But it was also a bright beginning to a new era.■

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MEN’S BASKETBALLNational Invitation Tournament

FridaySTANFORD (67)

Grunfeld 1-4 3-3 5, Finger 1-2 1-2 3, Haryasz 4-11 7-8 15, Johnson 0-1 0-0 0, Hernandez 2-9 5-5 11, Goods 2-5 0-0 5, Morris 2-4 0-2 4, Hill 3-5 6-8 13, Haas 0-1 0-0 0, Prowitt 3-4 5-7 11. Totals: 18-46 27-35 67.MISSOURI ST. (76)

Laurie 3-4 0-2 6, Easley 2-5 4-4 8, Rich-ards 1-2 0-0 2, Ahearn 4-12 8-8 19, Thomp-son 4-7 9-12 19, Bilyeu 3-6 1-3 7, Lamberth 0-3 2-3 2, Chaney 1-7 3-4 5, Frazier 3-4 1-2 8. Totals: 21-50 28-38 76.

Halftime — Missouri State 42, Stanford 40. 3-point goals — Stanford 4-15 (Hernan-dez 2, Hill, Goods), Missouri St. 6-18 (Ahearn 3, Thompson 2, Frazier). Fouled out — Bily-eu, Goods, Hernandez, Johnson, Richards. Rebounds — Stanford 35 (Haryasz 10), Mis-souri St. 33 (Bilyeu 8). Assists — Stanford 11 (Hernandez 3), Missouri St. 13 (Ahearn, Bilyeu 3). Total fouls — Stanford 32, Missouri St. 23. A — 5,664.

Records: Stanford ends its season 16-14

WOMEN’S BASKETBALLNCAA Tournament

at Pepsi Center, DenverFirst round

SE MISSOURI ST. (45)Purcell 5-15 4-4 17, Jackson 2-9 3-6 7,

Conceicao 1-14 10-13 12, Owsley 1-3 1-2 3, Nixon 0-4 0-0 0, Ryan 0-2 0-0 0, Kintchen 1-1 0-0 2, Dunn 0-4 0-0 0, Pal 0-0 0-0 0, Daugherty 0-1 0-0 0, Lyles 0-1 0-0 0, Blunt 0-0 0-0 0, Thesing 2-3 0-0 4. Totals: 12-57 18-25 45.STANFORD (72)

Smith 7-16 0-0 14, Rappahahn 0-0 0-0 0, Wiggins 8-15 4-4 21, Gold-Onwude 1-7 0-2 3, Harmon 3-4 3-4 9, Coleman 0-2 0-0 0, Bodensteiner 0-3 0-0 0, Titchenal 0-0 0-0 0, Pierce 3-6 4-4 10, Okafor 3-5 1-1 7, Clyburn 0-1 0-0 0, Newlin 2-4 3-4 7. Totals:27-63 16-21 72.

Halftime — Stanford 37, SE Missouri St. 24. 3-point goals — SE Missouri St. 3-18 (Purcell 3), Stanford 2-11 (Wiggins, Gold-Onwude). Fouled out — Newlin. Rebounds — SE Missouri St. 35 (Purcell 13), Stanford 52 (Harmon 11). Assists — SE Missouri St. 7 (Conceicao, Nixon 2), Stanford 7 (Pierce 4). Total fouls — SE Missouri St. 17, Stanford 18. A — 3,415.

Records: Stanford 24-7; Southeast Mis-souri State 22-9

MEN’S FENCINGNCAA Championships

at Harris County-Houston Sports AuthoritySaturday (after four rounds)

Saber — 1, Ghattas (Notre Dame) plus-46; 2, Momtselidze (Ohio State) plus-38; 3, Crompton (Ohio State) plus-37. 11, Teddy Levitt (Stanford) minus-1.

Foil — 1, Horanyi (Ohio State) plus-42; 2, Ellis (Ohio State) plus-42; 3, Berkowsky (Penn) plus-37; 4, Steve Gerberman (Stan-ford) plus-15. 20, Richard Fulton (Stanford) minus-17.

Epee — 1, Solomon (Princeton) plus-27; 2, Stockdale (Air Force) plus-18; 3, Tolkachev (Ohio State) plus-28. 8, Martin Lee (Stanford) plus-10. 19, Clayton Kenney (Stanford) plus-11.

SundaySaber finals — 1, Crompton (Ohio State;

2, Ghattas (Notre Dame); 3, Rogers (Ohio State). 9, Teddy Levitt (Stanford).

Foil finals — 1, Ellis (Ohio State); 2, Horanyi (Ohio State); 3, Sugimoto (Colum-bia). 5, Steve Gerberman (Stanford); 17, Richard Fulton (Stanford).

Epee finals — 1, Ungar (Harvard); 2, Tol-kachev (Ohio State); 3, Solomon (Princeton); 4, Martin Lee (Stanford). 20, Clayton Kenney (Stanford).

WOMEN’S FENCINGNCAA Championships

at Harris County-Houston Sports AuthorityThursday (after four rounds)

Saber — 1, Baratta (Columbia-Bernard) plus-35; 2, Thompson (Penn St.) plus-33; 3, Zagunis (Notre Dame) plus-29. 6, Eva Jel-lison (Stanford) plus-24.

Foil — 1, Garay (St. John’s) plus-43; 2, Cross (Harvard) plus-36; 3, Leahy (Princ-eton) plus-34.

Epee — 1, Garina (Wayne St.) plus-30; 2, Brendler (Ohio St.) plus-21; 3, Szarwark (Penn St.) plus-21.

Friday

Saber finals — 1, Zagunis (Notre Dame); 2, Jacobson (Columbia/Barnard); 3, Baratta (Columbia/Barnard). 8, Eva Jellison (Stan-ford).

Foil finals — 1, Garay (St. John’s); 2, Leahy (Princeton); 3, Cross (Harvard).

Epee finals — 1, Trzopek (Penn State); 2, Garina (Wayne State); 3, Brendler (Ohio State).

WOMEN’S SWIMMINGNCAA Championships

at Athens, Ga.All races in yards

Team leaders — 1. Auburn 518.5; 2, Georgia 515.5; 3, Arizona 415; 4, California 291; 5, Stanford 209; 6, USC 193; 7, SMU 161.5; 8, Texas 151; 9, Wisconsin 146; 10, Florida 135.

200 free relay — 1, Arizona (Cashion, Gresdal, Turner, Nymeyer) 1:27.98; 2, Geor-gia 1:28.79; 3, Auburn 1:30.25.

500 free — 1, Conway (Georgia) 4:40.01; 2, Peirsol (Auburn) 4:41.78; 3, Reilly (Cal) 4:41.84.

200 IM — 1, Myers (UA) 1:54.88; 2, Harm (Georgia) 1:57.28; 3, Kukors (Auburn) 1:57.50. 6, Caverly (Stanford) 1:58.93.

50 free — 1, Joyce (Georgia) 21.63; 2, Nymeyer (UA) 22.10; 3, Bishop (Stanford) 22.17.

1-meter diving — 1, Hartley (USC) 353.50; 2, Brennan (South Carolina) 326.10; 3, Huang (Hawaii) 324.05.

400 medley relay — 1, Arizona (Gresdal, Sieper, Myers, Nymeyer) 3:31.70; 2, USC 3:33.97; 3, California 3:34.10. 6, Stanford (Bishop, Caverly, Kirk, Rovira) 3:37.56.

200 medley relay — 1, Georgia (Harm, Poewe, Descenza, Joyce) 1:37.24; 2, Arizona 1:38.78; 3, Florida State 1:38.97.

400 IM — 1, Myers (UA) 4:06.32; 2, Stupp (Auburn) 4:09.22; 3, Caverly (Stan-ford) 4:09.70.

100 fly — 1, Descenza (Georgia) 51.56; 2, Andrew (ASU) 52.23; 3, Kirk (Stanford) 52.63.

200 free — 1, Joyce (Georgia) 1:43.96;

2, Reilly (Cal) 1:44.63; 3, Kukors (Auburn) 1:44.66.

100 breast — 1, Hardy (Cal) 1:00.02; 2, Soni (USC) 1:00.07; 3, Bernhardt (Florida) 1:00.43.

100 back — h (Auburn) 52.35; 2, Gres-dal (UA) 52.74; 3, White (Virginia) 52.76. 5, Bishop (Stanford) 53.50.

3-meter diving — 1, Hartley (USC) 373.15; 2, Loukas (Indiana) 371.40; 3, Gerlach (Au-burn) 365.65. 7, Krug (Stanford) 343.65.

800 free relay — 1, Georgia (Descenza, Cole, Maust, Joyce) 7:03.75; 2, Arizona 7:07.10; 3, Auburn 7:07.12.

1,650 free — 1, Peirsol (Auburn) 15:49.48; 2, Rigamonti (SMU) 15:54.67; 3, Binder (Au-burn) 15:57.64.

200 back — 1, H. Silver (Cal) 1:53.01; 2, Putra (Georgia) 1:54.59; 3, Harrigan (Rut-gers) 1:54.77.

100 free — 1, Joyce (Georgia) 47.41; 2, Nymeyer (Arizona) 48.43; 3, E. Silver (Cal) 48.47.

200 breast — 1, Soni (USC) 2:09.37; 2, Bernhardt (Florida) 2:10.13; 3, Jensen (Au-burn) 2:10.81. 5, Caverly (Stanford) 2:12.00.

200 fly — 1, Descenza (Georgia) 1:53.78; 2, Vandenberg (UCLA) 1:56.02; 3, Myers (UA) 1:56.26.

Platform diving — 1, Ignacio (Kentucky) 335.30; 2, Wang (Hawaii) 320.00; 3, Weigle (Indiana) 317.05.

400 free relay — 1, Arizona (Cashion, Gresdal, Myers, Nymeyer) 3:12.77; 2, Geor-gia 3:13.38; 3, Auburn 3:15.00.

WRESTLINGNCAA Championships

at Oklahoma City125 pounds

Second round — Tanner Gardner (Stan-ford) d. Steve Mytch (Drexel), 6-1.

Quarterfinals — Troy Nickerson (Cornell) d. Gardner (Stanford), 3-1.

Consolation round three — Gardner (Stanford) d. Borges (Fresno St.), 12-2.

Consolation round four — Gardner (Stan-ford) d. Castillo (Northern Illinois), 5-4.

Consolation round five — Gardner (Stan-ford) d. Smith (Central Michigan), 14-5.

Consolation round six — Scott (Okla-homa State) d. Gardner (Stanford), 7-0.

Seventh place — Velez (Northwestern) d. Gardner (Stanford), 8-5.

165 poundsFirst round — Nick Braima (Northern

Iowa) d. Ray Blake (Stanford), 4-2.Consolation round two — Max Dean (In-

diana) d. Blake (Stanford), 5-4.

SCHEDULETHURSDAY

SwimmingCollege men -- Stanford at NCAA Cham-

pionships, Atlanta, Ga.Synchronized swimming

College -- U.S. Synchronized Swimming Collegiate Championships at Stanford, 10:30 a.m.

FRIDAYBaseball

College -- Cal Lutheran at Menlo, 2:30 p.m.

GymnasticsCollege -- Stanford at Mtn. Pacific Sports

Federation Championships, Colorado Springs, Colo.

College -- Swimming

College men -- Stanford at NCAA Cham-pionships, Atlanta, Ga.

Synchronized swimmingCollege -- U.S. Synchronized Swimming

Collegiate Championships at Stanford, 9 a.m.

Water poloCollege women -- Princeton at Stanford,

7 p.m.

SATURDAYBaseball

College -- Cal Lutheran at Menlo (2), 11:30 a.m.; Washington St. at Stanford, 1 p.m.

BasketballCollege women -- Stanford at NCAA West

Regional, San AntonioGymnastics

College -- Stanford at Mtn. Pacific Sports Federation Championships, Colorado Springs, Colo.

College women -- Stanford at Pac-10 Championships, Corvallis, Ore.

SoftballCollege -- Stanford vs. Illinois, 1 p.m.;

Stanford vs. Princeton, 3 p.m.Swimming

College men -- Stanford at NCAA Cham-pionships, Atlanta, Ga.

Synchronized swimmingCollege -- U.S. Synchronized Swimming

Collegiate Championships at Stanford, 9:15 a.m.

SUNDAYBaseballCollege -- Washington St. at Stanford,

1 p.m.Softball

College -- Stanford vs. UC Davis, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

TennisCollege women -- Cal Poly at Stanford,

noon

MONDAY, MARCH 27Baseball

College -- Washington St. at Stanford, 11 a.m.

BasketballCollege women -- Stanford at NCAA West

Regional, San AntonioGolf

College men -- Stanford at Western In-tercollegiate at Pasatiempo GC, Santa Cruz

TennisCollege men -- Tulsa at Stanford, noon

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■ A T H E R T O N ■

Atherton…Exquisite details throughout the entire property. Located on approx 1.4 ac in the heart of Atherton, yet secluded & quiet, this 5BR/5BA is spectacular. Landscaping feat. a waterfall, hundreds of plants species, a large pool & greenhouse.Dana Capiello $5,500,000

Atherton… Spacious 6BR/5.5BA home with elegant living areas and casual day-to-day spaces. Park-like grounds include a peaceful Redwood grove, level lawn and children’s play space. Features include kitchen with granite countertops, living room w/fireplace, library, pool, cabana and tennis court.Kristin Cashin $4,295,000

Atheron…Sensational three-story. A parade of fea-tures, including family room with fireplace. 6BR/4BA. Desirable 3-car garage. Hardwood flooring, ample storage space, breakfast room. Central air. Slate roof, patio, sauna.Pierre Buljan $8,995,000

Atherton…Over 1 acre flat lot with existing 4BR/3.5BA home with wonderful exposure.Also offered as future site for new (approx.) 9600sf country French estate with approved plans.Mark Kaprielian $2,950,000

Atherton…Incomparable French country-style estate home of over (approx) 7000 sq.ft. nestled on (approx) 7.5 private acres at the end of a cul-de-sac. This 4BR/3BA, plus 2 half-baths with library, art studio & central couryard. Custom finishes, natural stone & French doors throughout. 1BR/1BA apt. & 1BR/1BA guest hse.Suzanne Scott / Elizabeth Daschbach $5,995,000

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East Palo Alto…Prize this winning 3-bedroom single-story. This promising residence highlights carpeting with hardwood flooring. Office, ample storage space, home warranty package. Gas heat. Garage, patio, deck. A home full of potential.Gordana Wolfman $649,000

East Palo Alto… This unique 1BR /1BA fixer is perfect for first time buyers! A quaint size of approx. 480 square feet allows for adding on to the existing house or the opportunity to build your dream home. Conveniently located near commute access, University Av. Shopping & Stanford University. Edelmira Cardenas $399,000

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La Honda…Alpine Ranch! This historical property is approx. 350+ acres w/2 homes. 3BR/3BA & wonderful porches all the way around. Caretaker’s cottage includes 1 loft bedroom, lrg living area & kitchen. Set in an area of the most spectacular views imaginable. Huge barn surrounded by trails & parks, perfect climate & soil for vineyards. So much land & so much potential!Dana Cappiello/Steve Gray $8,800,000

La Honda…Country contemporary nestled in the Redwoods. Spacious 3BR/1BA, eat-in kitchen, new roof, well maintained yard, perfect for entertaining. Peaceful and serene setting.Steven Keefe $635,000

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Menlo Park...Charming, remodeled 3 BR/3 BA home plus bonus room/office located in prime West Menlo location. Bright kitchen w/granite counters & break-fast nook overlooking separate family room. Private, spacious yard w/lush landscaping.Stephanie Savides $1,799,000

Menlo Park...Charming, turnkey, 5 BR home in west Menlo Park’s most desirable location. Vaulted ceiling family room opens to gourmet kitchen with cozy breakfast-nook. Spacious, luxurious master suite, with fireplace and French doors opening to gorgeous rear garden. Separate guest cottage, approx.1/3 acre lot, outstanding Oak Knoll Elementary School.Elizabeth Daschbach $3,150,000

Menlo Park…Go first class in this inspired 2BR/2+BA condo. Both beauty and, including fireplace and hard-wood flooring. Space to spread out. Double ovens, central air. Two-car garage. Community swimming pool and tennis. Kristin Cashin $1,875,000

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Portola Valley…Classic luxury enhances this 5BR/4BA French-style. Superbly appointed, with fireplace, fire-place and slate roof. Room? Here’s space galore! Atrium. Office, family room, breakfast room. Patio, greenhouse. Stylish ambiance!Mark Benson $8,995,000

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Woodside…Central Woodside’s most sought after location! Gorgeous views of the western hills from this prime, level one acre site. Minutes from school and town. Rare opportunity! Ready to build. On sewer.Elizabeth Daschbach $2,850,000 Woodside…Magnificent oaks line the entrance to this family compound, weekend retreat or full-time residence. Approx 7.78 acres 4BR/3BA w/ gourmet kit & wood-fired oven. Massive granite stone FP, stone deck w/ panoramic views. With tennis ct, spa, stables that open to gently sloping 3 acre pasture, green house, vegetable garden and lg parks near by to provide excellent hiking, biking & horse back riding, your prvt resort is as unique as they come. Equestrian trails lead to the ocean where one can ride on the beach at Tunitas Creek.Dana Cappiello / Steve Gray $2,600,000

Woodside…Conveniently located, minutes to ocean and the bay on approx. 5+ acres in a newly contructed custom 4BR/3.5BA Craftsman Style Woodside Estate Home. Gated w/security camera. The property is fully fenced. Easy access to HWY 280. Approx 4220 sq.ft.Gary McKae $5,880,000

FOSTER CITY…Fabulous sought after Plum Island! This state of the art 3BR/2.5BA waterfront with widewater views home boasts a Gourmet Kitchen, Great Room, separate Dining Room, & Master suite w/lrg. adjacent office. Beautiful/low maintenance landscaping. Two car garage w/custom cabinets. Community tennis courts, pool & spa. JULIA KEADY $1,849,000

PALO ALTO… Charming classic Spanish style home in desirable Professorville neighborhood. 2 Bedrooms, 1.5 Baths, vaulted ceiling in Living Room, sep. Dining Room, eat-in Kitchen ,indoor laundry room. Detached one car garage BOX. Nicely landscaped front & rear yards on an approx. 5,000 sq ft lot. Short distance to downtown and P.A. schools.PAUL SKRABO /JAMI ARAMI $1,250,000

MENLO PARK… Totally renovated! This 2bedrrom/1 bath boasts hardwood floors and dual pane windows. Separate Dining Room. Huge lot of approximately 7350 sq.ft. Move in condition. Desirable Menlo Park Schools.TED PAULIN $749,000

LOS ALTOS…New Price! Exquisite NEW HOME featuring 5 BR suites, 5.5BA, approx. 3,850 sqft. of living area. Beautiful profes-sionally landscaped lot of approx. 17,500 sqft. Grand Entry, Formal Living Room & Dining Room, huge Gourmet’s Kit., w/center island, high-end appliances, spacious eating area, Family Room w/French doors to rear yard & stately Library. 3 car garage, lovely warp-around porch. Los Altos schools.PAUL SKRABO $2,798,888

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ATHERTON…This prime West Atherton flag lot boasts an approximate 1 acre+ of level, sunny and private land. The lot is cleared and ready for you to build your dream house! Desirable Menlo Park Schools.SKIP CASHIN $4,295,000

SARATOGA…A flowing floor plan and park like gardens allow for comfortable every day living. This spacious 2,666sq.ft,(approx.) 4BR/2BA home features formal LV & DR, crown moulding, custom cabinetry, dual pane windows/sliding doors and wet bar . Newly landscaped w/brick pavers. Lot size is 11,326sq.ft. approx. www.18749aspesi.com MIKE GRANNEMAN $1,399,000

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