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Crenshaw Secure Challenging Wins, Remain Perfect
By Amanda Scurlock, Sports writer
Published May 23, 2021
Senior guard Khalid Betts (4) (Photo by Rob Helfman)
The Crenshaw girls’ and boys’ basketball teams are excelling through the unprecedented 2020-2021 season. Both teams carry a perfect overall record, the girls at 4-0 and the boys at 3-0 overall, as of May 23.
The prowess of both teams was tested on Saturday as they faced competitive matches that kept the Cougars fighting throughout their respective contests. The girls’ basketball team survived the Pioneer Titans of Whittier with a 64-61 victory on Saturday.
“It was intense, it was very aggressive on both ends of the court,” said Crenshaw junior forward Payton Walk. “It was definitely competition.”
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Melanie Andrews was 10 years old and bedridden with sepsis when she was introduced to the world of Shakespeare. Her teachers were her mother and grandmother, a college professor who encouraged Andrews to read from the 1950s encyclopedia series “Great Books of the Western World,” which encompasses more than 400 works of literature.
Over the span of a year, Andrews estimates, she read 20 Shakespeare plays, beginning with “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” while confined to her Compton home.
She says she is one of the few people who has read and directed, designed or performed every Shakespeare play, “including ‘Coriolanus’ and ‘Timon of Athens,’ which nobody reads, because of my Nana. She was there every day for almost a year because I couldn’t walk.”