With additional reporting by George Laase.
The Culver City High School baseball season starts Saturday at 11 with a home game against Marshall.
Next will be a Tuesday date at home against East Los Angeles Roosevelt at 3.
The Centaurs will be led by the pitching of hard-throwing Nolan Martinez, two- sport star Mason Mulvihill, Michael Netzel, Jacob Weiner and Max Sterner.
Elsewhere
While the now-eliminated girls basketball team lost in the third round of the CIF playoffs, four other Culver City teams lost their first rounders last week.
The boys basketball team (12-15) was beaten by Los Altos of Hacienda Heights 97-80.
The boys soccer team lost to El Dorado of Placentia 1-0, ending a13-10-3 season. In girls soccer, the Centaurs (15-6-2) were upset by Burbank, 1-0.
The girls water polo team lost to Temescal Canyon of Lake Elsinore 8-4.
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