CIF-SS BASEBALL PLAYOFFS DIVISION 1 First round, Friday Corona 1, El Dorado 0 Mater Dei 5, Damien 0 Aquinas 7, Pacifica/GG 2 Notre Dame/SO 16, Torrance 1 Huntington Beach 9, Santiago/Corona 2 Villa Park 6, Bishop Amat 1 Gahr 5, Fullerton 2 Santa Margarita 7, Tesoro 9 Orange Lutheran 6, Sierra Canyon 1 Vista Murrieta…
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CIF-SS BOYS LACROSSE PLAYOFFS DIVISION 1 Quarterfinals, Friday St. Margaret’s 17, Corona del Mar 7 Mater Dei 18, Westlake 14 Loyola 9, Santa Margarita 4 Foothill 10, JSerra 5 Semifinals, Monday, 5 p.m. St. Margaret’s at Mater Dei Foothill at Loyola Championship game: May 10 DIVISION 2 Quarterfinals, Friday Mira Costa 12, Santa Monica 3…
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May has been very attentive to my need to live in Camelot for my entire birthday month. By Camelot, I mostly mean the musical which features my favorite “It’s May, it’s May that gorgeous holiday” song … but also the King Arthur reference to a utopia on earth. Romantic and magical with a door wide…
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DALLAS — As the song goes: Inglewood, always up to no good. And now the Clippers live there. Their next home game will be their first at the new Intuit Dome. You can put a period on the 2023-24 season: Friday night’s 114-101 Game 6 loss to the fifth-seeded Dallas Mavericks meant the Clippers won’t…
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FOUNTAIN VALLEY — The CIF-SS Division 3 baseball playoff game between Trabuco Hills and Fountain Valley on Friday featured a season’s worth of emotions in the final inning. In the top of the seventh, the Mustangs, who had been trailing by a run for most of the contest, were down to their final strike when…
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LOS ANGELES — This time around, there was no playoff seeding at stake, no MVP race to decide and no argument to settle about who is the National League’s best team as October approached. This time, the Dodgers and Atlanta Braves met as a pair of mega-talented teams still trying to find their way in…
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SANDY, Utah — Sydney Leroux and Clair Emslie both scored in the first half and Angel City held on for a 2-1 victory over the expansion Utah Royals on Friday night. It was the third win in four games for Angel City (3-3-1, 10 points), which has played a schedule front-loaded with some of the…
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DANA POINT — A seven-run fourth inning led El Modena’s baseball team to a 9-3 win over Dana Hills Friday in the first round of the CIF-SS Division 3 playoffs at Dana Hills High. El Modena (19-8-1) will play its second-round game at South Torrance on Tuesday. South Torrance beat Northwood 3-1 in the first…
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Ryan Prescott homered, Neil Navarro hit a three-run double and Manuel Rivera pitched six scoreless innings for Buena Park in a 12-0 victory over Thacher in the first round of the CIF Southern Section Division 7 baseball playoffs Friday at Buena Park High. Coyotes coach Cody Gutierrez said it is the school’s first win in…
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By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS — Given the significance of two Mexican fighters facing each other on Cinco de Mayo weekend, Canelo Alvarez and Jaime Munguia have been especially respectful of each other heading into Saturday night’s bout. Much more so than what typically would be expected of a title fight when…
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