Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now IRVINE — Mission Viejo’s softball team punctuated a dominating run through the CIF-SS playoffs with one more emotional performance Friday night. Sophomore Sofia Elliott struck out the No. 9 batter with the tying-run at second base and the go-ahead run at first to…
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FULLERTON – JSerra has fielded some excellent baseball teams over the past dozen years. League champions, top-ranked teams and teams that went deep into the playoffs with talented rosters. The Lions played in a CIF Southern Section championship game for the first time last season and lost to Harvard-Westlake in the Division 1 final. “And…
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PHILADELPHIA — Julio Urias wrote a better sequel. Lit up for eight runs in six innings – and four home runs – when the Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies met last week, Urias held the Phillies scoreless for five innings this time around as the Dodgers started their longest road trip of the season with a…
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Graduating Lake Mary quarterback standout Gunnar Smith will soon be taking his skills to the University of South Florida as a summer enrollee, but the Rams have found a capable signal-caller to take his place: Logan Cook. Cook, who will be a junior this fall, completed 7 of 10 passes for 82 yards and 3…
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Before the call was even made, Austin Hays and his Orioles teammates were already leaving the field. He, as well as just about everyone inside Oriole Park at Camden Yards, knew the ruling would be overturned. Hays had thrown a seed from left field to home plate, and catcher Anthony Bemboom applied the tag to…
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Steve Cherundolo knows squirrels. During his playing days in Germany, the Los Angeles Football Club head coach lived in a house in Hannover with a walnut tree in the backyard. “I would watch the squirrels go every day back and forth over the terrace to the tree then hide (nuts) all over the yard and basically…
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One year after authorities say a road-rage shooting killed 6-year-old Aiden Leos while he was being driven to school on the 55 Freeway in Orange, the man accused of shooting the boy was still in jail, while the suspected driver of the car was out on bail. Related: Off-duty cop honored for trying to save…
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The Orlando Magic’s front office, led by president of basketball operations Jeff Weltman and general manager John Hammond, have shown an affinity for certain types of players in drafts. They’re well aware of the reputation. “We’ve always liked long, lanky guys,” Hammond said during a recent appearance on the Bart & Hahn podcast. “In today’s…
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Newly unsealed court documents reveal for the first time how some of the adult Turpin children wound up in such poor living conditions that Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin described them in a national television interview as “squalor” and “crime-ridden neighborhoods.” Those adults, documents show, grudgingly accepted housing in an apartment complex they considered…
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By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer TULSA, Okla. — The Oklahoma wind came sweeping through Southern Hills and then swiftly left town in time for Will Zalatoris, Bubba Watson and yes, even Tiger Woods, to bring a sleepy PGA Championship to life on Friday. Zalatoris hit the ball on the button whether he was in…
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