Football CIF Round 1
This Friday night, November 21st, our Varsity Football Team has its first round CIF playoff game here at MHS playing host to Ontario Christian. The game starts at 7:00pm and the gates will open at 5:45pm. Ticket prices are $8.00 for adults, $5.00 for students with school ID and children 5 – 13. Boosters will be handing out red pompoms to those attending the game and the drum corps and cheerleaders will be on hand to create lots of excitement! The Booster concession stand will open at 5:30pm serving every ones favorite cheeseburger or chicken kabob dinners so come early and enjoy dinner with your classmates and friends.

Nicolette Tsukamoto Praised for Enthusiam on the Court!
Nicolette Tsukamoto was recently highlighted in a Los Angeles Japanese Daily Newspaper:

Tsukamoto is in her second year as the starting libero for Maranatha's Varsity Volleyball Team, a junior assuming a position of responsibility usually occupied by a senior. Whereas the setter is the key to a team’s offense, the roving libero must be keen on defense as well as passing to facilitate the setter’s job. “Libero is the primary passer, your best passer,” Coach Ralph Rivas said, “And you want your best passer there because she can go in and out freely.”

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MHS Student Named USA Swimming Scholastic All-American
USA Swimming recently named their Scholastic All-America Team for 2007-2008. Maranatha is proud to have a member of that team with senior Jonathan Masehi-Lano. Nine-hundred and seventy-four athletes made the team this year, including 600 women and 374 men. Sixty-eight percent of the successful applicants had a 4.0 GPA. For Information regarding application and criteria to be a member of the USA Swimming Scholastic All American program please go to www.usaswimming.org. Congratulations Jonathan!

Boys' and Girls' Cross Country Win League!
Congratulations to both the Boys' and Girls' Cross Country Teams -who both won the League Championship on 11/4. Our girls have won league six straight years and a total of 23 championships over our school's history. Our boys have won the past 10 years straight and 27 overall. The Maranatha Cross country Team continues to reach great heights year in and year out and we are so proud of what they do. Congratulations to Head Coach, Mark McCown, and all his coaches and runners! Next steps: CIF and State! Go Minutemen!

Junior Dylan Covey Emerges Among Hard-Throwing Elite
In 160 pool-play games played at the WWBA World Championship on 12 fields over a four-day period, 166 pitchers were clocked at 90 mph and above. A total of 298 hit 88 or better. Hard throwers were in evidence throughout the tournament, but no pitcher threw harder than Winning Inning (Fla.) righthander Mychal Givens (Tampa), a projected first-rounder in 2009 who was clocked at 96—and yet lost his only start while giving up three walks, four hits and four runs in three innings. Eight more pitchers were clocked at 94, including Covey, who worked all seven innings of San Gabriel Valley’s key 3-2, pool-play win over the talented Royals Scout Team. Not only did Covey allow just one hit, a wind-blown triple, but he struck out 17 and most impressively was 94 from the first inning to the seventh. No pitcher in the entire tournament (with the possible exception of Miller) may have created quite as much buzz. Ranked No. 34 in the 2010 high school class at the outset of the tournament, Covey progressed to a potential first-rounder off his dominant performance.