CYPRESS – With the pressure on, Villa Park’s Gavin Grahovac came through with a big hit, and he did it twice Friday in the CIF-Southern Section baseball playoffs. The senior slugged a home run to start the game and then hit a go-ahead, two-run home run in the seventh inning to lead Villa Park to…
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SANTA ANA >> When the 2022 high school baseball season got underway, Huntington Beach coach Benji Medure figured offense would be the team’s strength. As the season unfolded, however, the majority of the Oilers’ victories came in close, low-scoring affairs. Then, from late April through the playoffs, the Oilers have displayed the power Medure always…
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Just for good measure, the Orioles were presented another golden opportunity. Left-hander Gregory Soto entered out of the bullpen in the ninth inning and promptly hit the first two batters he faced, then walked the bases loaded with one out. And yet, once Soto was replaced by right-hander Will Vest, Baltimore did what Baltimore had…
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CHICAGO — Aaron Hicks needed one. The Yankees centerfielder had been struggling going into Friday night’s game, on a 2-for-30 slide. In his first at-bat of the night, Hicks doubled and drove in a run in the Yankees 10-4 win over the White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field. It was Hicks’ first extra base hit…
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CHICAGO — This is what they dreamed of back in the winter of 2017 when they made the deal for Giancarlo Stanton. Putting him in a lineup with Aaron Judge, the Yankees imagined the twin towers powering them to wins. Friday night, for the second straight game, Judge and Stanton homered in the same game…
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A New Mexico man who raped and murdered a 79-year-old grandmother in the bedroom of her Anaheim apartment more than four decades ago was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. An Orange County Superior Court jury earlier this year found Andre William Lepere, now 65, guilty of first-degree murder for…
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Under sunny skies and with the ocean as the background, the third installment of the BeachLife Festival returned to Redondo Beach as day one of the weekend concert attracted thousands of music fans to Seaside Lagoon on Friday, May 13. “It’s like a perfect day. The beach, the sun, the music,” said 42-year-old Jackson Miller,…
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Six teams from Orange County reached the semifinals of the CIF-SS softball playoffs. Here is the updated schedule for those games. CIF-SS SOFTBALL PLAYOFFS Semifinals DIVISION 1 Oaks Christian at Los Alamitos, Saturday, 1 p.m. DIVISION 2 Mission Viejo vs. Torrance at West Torrance HS, Saturday, noon DIVISION 3 St. Anthony at Tesoro, Monday, 3:30…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now CLAREMONT — Beckman boys tennis coach Nick Friendt offered his players plenty of encouragement Friday in a tight CIF-SS Division 2 final against Los Alamitos. But one bit of advice provided a snapshot of the Patriots’ mindset. “Just like league matches,” the coach…
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With the NBA draft and free agency creeping up, more attention is being put on who the Orlando Magic will add during the offseason. But whom the Magic add will depend on which players from the 2021-22 roster return. Orlando prioritized developing its younger players during a season that ended with a 22-60 record. Expect…
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