John McFadden and Mark Reichner of San Juan Hills and Miguel Ortega of Garden Grove are CIF Southern Section boys basketball players of the year, the CIF-SS office announced Monday. McFadden and Reichner, seniors, were named CIF-SS Division 2A Co-Players of the Year. They led San Juan Hills to the 2A championship. Jason Efstathiou of…
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LOS ANGELES — For nearly the entire season, the USC men’s basketball team has alternated between juniors Max Agbonkpolo and Ethan Anderson as the fifth starter. Head coach Andy Enfield felt like both deserved starter status, so they both got the nod every other game. But at the end of the season, Enfield switched strategies.…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Scores and stats from Orange County games on Monday, March 14. Click here for details about sending your team’s scores and stats to the Register. MONDAY’S SCORES BASEBALL NONLEAGUE Edison 2, Katella 0 Edi: Ugalde (W, no-hitter). Taylor HR. Winokur 3B, 1R. Marker…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Dan Albano’s Diamond Club outstanding softball players last week, March 14: Brooklyn Carreon, Whittier Christian, Sr., P: The Utah-bound ace tossed a two-hitter with 11 strikeouts and drove in two runs with a push-bunt in a 3-0 win against Canyon in the quarterfinals…
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All three races for Orange County supervisor seats on the June 7 ballot will be contested, with three to five candidates running for each seat in the first election since supervisorial district boundaries were redrawn. The period to file for those offices, and most others in the primary election, closed Friday. The five-person Board of…
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By HUIZHONG WU TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China banned most people from leaving a coronavirus-hit northeastern province and mobilized military reservists Monday as the fast-spreading “stealth omicron” variant fuels the country’s biggest outbreak since the start of the pandemic two years ago. The National Health Commission reported 1,337 locally transmitted cases in the latest 24-hour…
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GLENDALE, Ariz. — Trea Turner is back home on the field. It remains to be seen whether he will be making his long-term home in Dodger blue. With Corey Seager’s departure via free agency, Turner will be an ever-day shortstop again. It’s the position at which he has spent most of his seven-year career though…
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The Queen Mary, the iconic World War II-era ship that has been a Long Beach tourist attraction for decades but has long needed repairs worth millions of dollars, could become a national monument — which would transfer ownership from Long Beach to the federal government. Or at least the city could take steps to persuade…
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This week’s CIF-SS boys volleyball polls, released Monday, March 14. CIF-SS BOYS VOLLEYBALL POLLS (Selected by the CIF-SS Boys Volleyball Advisory Committee) DIVISION 1/2 1 Loyola 2 Mater Dei 3 Beckman 4 Corona del Mar 5 Santa Barbara 6 Mira Costa 7 Newport Harbor 8 Huntington Beach 9 Redondo Beach 10 Servite 11 Santa Margarita…
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Wendell Carter Jr. hasn’t been hesitant to admit that the opportunity to match up against the league’s top big men motivates him. “I want to be able to prove I’m one of the elite bigs in this league,” Carter said after having 25 points, 12 rebounds and 4 assists in a loss to Nikola Jokic’s…
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