Thursday, February 28, 2019
Lord Voldemort and other villains will take over Hogwarts Castle inside Universal Studios’ Wizarding World of Harry Potter
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A little bit of dark sorcery will engulf the Hogwarts Castle inside Universal Studios Hollywood’s The Wizarding World of Harry Potter as an all-new projection experience, “Dark Arts at Hogwarts Castle,” will illuminate the towering structure for a limited time starting Saturday, April 13 and running nightly through Sunday, April 28. It will also briefly return May 25-27.
The theme park debuted its “The Nighttime Lights at Hogwarts Castle” in 2017, which brightens up the land as the sun sets on Hogsmeade Village and the projection is given a spirited overhaul during the holidays with “The Magic of Christmas at Hogwarts Castle.” Now, however, it’s the villains of “Harry Potter” that will take center stage and be prominently featured during the brilliant display that will, like the previous projection shows, include all-new music and special effects that tell the story of some of the darkest creatures from the franchise including the powerful Lord Voldemort.
As darkness falls Dementors, Death Eaters and other creatures from from Aragog and Mountain Trolls to Thestrals will dance along the exterior of Hogwarts Castle to conjure the visage of Voldemort until the Patronus spell is cast. The sinister imagery will be accompanied by an exclusive arrangement conducted by William Ross and recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra in London, based on the original scores for the feature films which were created by Academy Award-winning composer John Williams. “Dark Arts at Hogwarts Castle” will occur multiple times per evening after sunset.
Universal Studios Hollywood
When: Open daily; theme park hours vary.
Where: 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City
Tickets: $99-$129 one-day general admission; $169-$259 one-day Universal Express; VIP Experience starting at $349; $149-$169 two-day general admission. All passes available at universalstudioshollywood.com.
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Posted by https://goo.gl/TXzGV531 Southern California cities ignore housing reporting rules, study finds
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Thirty-one Southern California cities – from Huntington Beach to Hidden Hills and from Lancaster to Loma Linda – failed to meet a state requirement to report progress meeting housing goals each year, a new report says.
Out of at least five annual progress reports required since 2013, these 31 cities provided none.
According to the report, Southern California as a whole – excluding Los Angeles County – gets a grade of C when it comes to addressing the region’s homebuilding needs. The letter grade for Los Angeles County alone is a C minus.
Those are among the conclusions from a new report released Thursday, Feb. 28, by Los Angeles-based Beacon Economics and Next 10, a San Francisco policy research center. The study, based on newly unveiled housing data, seeks to grade California communities in addressing the state’s housing shortage.
Statewide, the report found, 100 out of 539 cities and counties failed to file even one report tracking their progress meeting homebuilding goals.
And while most California regions are halfway to their next deadline, just 26 percent of the needed housing have received building permits.
“On average, jurisdictions are only a fourth of the way to meeting their targets,” said F. Noel Perry, Next 10’s founder. “At the current pace of construction, some of the jurisdictions won’t meet their targets for decades or, in some cases, millennia.”
Under a 50-year-old state law, California cities and counties are required to plan for housing at all income levels to accommodate growth. But the so-called “Regional Housing Needs Assessment” process lacked teeth, resulting in “a chronic lack of participation” and rising homelessness and displacement, the report said.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has vowed to improve compliance, threatening to withhold transportation funds from communities that fail to adequately address their housing needs. In January, Newsom sued the city of Huntington Beach for cutting affordable housing units from its general plan, then later met in Long Beach with leaders of numerous Southern California cities the state says has failed to adequately plan for new housing.
The RHNA process, as it’s called, is “the primary tool to address California’s housing shortage,” Perry said. “(But) the RHNA tool is not working that well … to address the housing crisis.”
Among the findings:
- There’s less progress meeting goals for low-income housing than for upper-income housing, statewide and among the six-county Southern California Association of Governments. For example, Southern California communities approved building permits for just 8.4 percent of the low-income-housing units needed by October 2021. On the other hand, 15.2 percent of the needed moderate-income units have been permitted and 48 percent of the needed units for upper-income households (those earning at least 20 percent more than the area’s median income) have been approved.
- The report named five Southern California cities that are overbuilding upper-income housing while failing to build any low-income units. Malibu, for example, approved 49 homes for households earning at least a moderate income or greater even though it doesn’t need any, the report said. Costa Mesa built 518 such homes. The report also named Laguna Hills, Westminster and Big Bear Lake as “misallocating” building permits for upper-tier units.
- Ten Southern California cities haven’t approved any new homes since the current planning cycle began in October 2013. Among them: Cudahy, Rosemead, Westlake Village, Laguna Woods, Rancho Santa Margarita, Banning and Apple Valley.
- San Bernardino County and the cities of Santa Ana and West Hollywood ranked among the state’s best-performing communities for meeting housing needs.
California’s overall letter grade for meeting housing goals also was a C, the report said.
Over half of the cities and counties in the state reported they hadn’t issued a single building permit for the poorest households in their communities — those earning less than half of the median income.
On the other hand, the Next 10 report found some communities earned the highest marks because their housing goals are too low. For example, Beverly Hills got an A, but only needed to approve three new homes to meet its RHNA goals, the report said. Meanwhile, a separate transportation plan showed Beverly Hills was expected to add 300 households and 3,400 jobs between 2008 and 2020.
Housing goals need to be aligned more with job growth, the report said.
The report argues local zoning rules favoring single-family homes over apartments or condos should be revised to ensure enough housing is built to keep up with growth.
“It’s become very apparent very quickly,” said Adam Fowler, Beacon’s director of research, “the (RHNA) assessment is very problematic in trying to solve the crisis at hand.”
The report notes that a majority of the California cities that fail to file progress reports are low-income communities in southeast Los Angeles County and the Central Valley that don’t have the planning staff needed to prepare the reports. Perhaps more support can be provided to those communities, Perry said.
The Southern Californian cities are Huntington Beach, Seal Beach, Rolling Hills, Palos Verdes Estates, Hermosa Beach, El Segundo, Hidden Hills, Monte Bello, Commerce, Vernon, Maywood, Lynwood, Compton, Bradbury, Covina, La Puente, Pico Rivera, Hawaiian Gardens, Azuza, Pomona, Industry, La Habra Heights, Lancaster, Fillmore, Montclair, Adelanto, Victorville, Loma Linda, Jurupa Valley, Canyon Lake and Blythe.
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Posted by https://goo.gl/TXzGV5Orange County baseball/softball highlights for Wednesday, Feb. 27
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Highlights and top performers from the Orange County baseball and softball games on Wednesday, Feb. 27.
BASEBALL
Wednesday’s baseball scoreboard
No. 2 Huntington Beach exploded for 12 runs in a 12-1 win over Riverside Poly in a nonleague game at Huntington Beach High. Sophomore Shane Stafford, a San Diego State commit, hit a grand slam for the Oilers who are now 5-1 on the season. Stanford commit Brett Barrera hit a leadoff home run for the Oilers in the third inning and UCLA commit Josh Hahn hit a two-run homer in the fourth inning. Dylan Ramirez pitched four solid innings and earned the win for the Oilers. Huntington Beach will play No. 25 Laguna Beach Friday in a Sunset Conference crossover game.
Knolton Clark pitched a complete game for No. 10 Servite in a 4-1 win over No. 19 Los Alamitos in a nonleague game at Los Alamitos High. The Purdue commit allowed just one run on six hits and struck out seven. Brandon Winters drove in two runs for the Friars in the win. Servite will host Foothill Saturday.
No. 17 Foothill blanked Villa Park 5-0 in a Century Conference Tournament game at Villa Park High. Kyle Ashworth and Ketch Gannon each stole three bases and drove in a run for the Knights. Gannon had three hits and Ashworth, a Cal Poly commit, had two hits. Luke Peterman pitched four innings in relief and earned the win for Foothill.
Esperanza beat El Dorado 3-1 in a Century Conference Tournament game at Esperanza High. Gavin Lizik pitched a complete game for the Aztecs, allowed just one run and had four strikeouts. Junior catcher Jason McDonnell went 3-3 at the plate for Esperanza and sophomore Davis Hildebrandt had a double. Esperanza plays Canyon Thursday in a Century Conference Tournament game.
Braden Wylde hit two doubles and drove in three runs for Marina in a 3-1 win over Tustin at Marina High. Senior pitcher Chase Hennessey pitched 5.1 innings, allowed just one hit and struck out five for the Vikings in the win. Marina will travel to play former Sunset League foe Los Alamitos Friday.
No. 18 Dana Hills beat No. 7 Capistrano Valley 6-2 in both teams’ South Coast League opener at Dana Hills High. The Dolphins have won four consecutive games and will play Aliso Niguel Friday in the El Dorado Steakhouse Tournament. Capo Valley will play a South Coast League game against No. 6 El Toro Friday at El Toro High.
Ethan Hoopingarner pitched five shutout innings for Aliso Niguel in a 3-0 win over No. 12 Mission Viejo in the El Dorado Steakhouse Tournament. The USC signee allowed just three hits and had 11 strikeouts. Stanford commit Quinn Mathews walked twice and stole two bases for the Wolverines and CJ Ezratty hit a double. Junior Kevin Fitzer went 1-2 with a RBI for Aliso.
SOFTBALL
Wednesday’s softball scoreboard
Nicole Stark hit a home run and drove in five runs for Brea Olinda in an 8-3 win over Bishop Amat in a nonleague game at Brea Olinda High. The Cal Baptist commit had three hits for the Wildcats. Isabella Savala hit a double and pitched a complete game, allowing just five hits. Brea Olinda is 4-0 on the young season and will host Redondo Union in the Brea Olinda Tournament Thursday.
No. 9 Cypress beat Irvine 11-1 in four innings at Cypress High. The Centurions scored six runs in the fourth inning to complete the onslaught. Sarah Harker hit a run-scoring double for Irvine in the loss.
Coaches and team representatives are encouraged to email their scores and stats after every game to the Register at preps@ocregister.com.
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Posted by https://goo.gl/TXzGV5Orange County boys volleyball top 5 players for 2019
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The Orange County boys volleyball preview for the 2019 season.
TOP 5 PLAYERS TO WATCH
Dayne Chalmers, Newport Harbor, Sr.: Chalmers, who signed with UC Santa Barbara, was All-Orange County and All-CIF last season when the Sailors won CIF-SS and SoCal championships.
Adam Flood, Corona del Mar, Sr.: One of the returnees from last season’s Sea Kings championship team; Flood signed with USC.
Nate Harlan, Tesoro, Sr.: This Long Beach State signee is used at outside hitter and opposite hitter.
Joe Karlous, Newport Harbor, Sr.: Karlous, a setter, is a three-year starter for the Sailors and signed with Pepperdine.
Cole Power, Edison, Sr.: Power, a libero, signed with UCLA and was All-Orange County second team last season.
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Posted by https://goo.gl/TXzGV5Complete coverage of Disneyland’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge
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Disneyland’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge will open in the summer. See complete coverage.
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Posted by https://goo.gl/TXzGV5Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Boys tennis preview 2019: Top five teams, top six individuals to watch
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The Register’s boys tennis preview for the 2019 season:
BOYS TENNIS
Top 5 Teams to Watch
1.University: Trojans’ fast start includes a victory on games (79-76) at reigning CIF-SS Division 1 champion Harvard-Westlake.
2. Corona del Mar: Sea Kings appear to be the favorite in the new Surf League.
3. Beckman: Patriots finished second to Arcadia at the recent Southern California team championships.
4. Northwood: The addition of 6-foot-6 senior Harry Yang makes the Timberwolves intriguing challengers to University in the Pacific Coast League.
5. Fountain Valley: The reigning CIF-SS Division 2 champion moves to Division 1 and hopes its depth can challenge Corona del Mar in Surf League.
Others to watch (listed alphabetically): Huntington Beach, Irvine, San Clemente, Valencia, Woodbridge
Top Individuals to Watch
Aditya Gupta, University: Penn-bound senior already posted a sweep against reigning CIF-SS Division 1 champion Harvard-Westlake.
Andy Hernandez, Troy: The sophomore earned second-team All-County honors last season.
Jiaxi Ma, Woodbridge: The sophomore transfer could become the Warriors’ next special player.
Kyle Pham, Corona del Mar: The senior leads five returners for the Sea Kings, who move to the Surf League from the Pacific Coast.
Griffen Wolfe, San Clemente: The junior has raised his level of play since earning All-County honors last season.
Harry Yang, Northwood: The 6-foot-6 senior (committed to Georgetown) had been home-schooled until this year.
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Posted by https://goo.gl/TXzGV5Former office manager of Santa Ana business charged with embezzling nearly $353,000
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SANTA ANA — A woman accused of embezzling nearly $353,000 over six years as the office manager of a small business in Santa Ana made her initial court appearance Wednesday, Feb. 27, on dozens of felony charges.
Martha Jean Czerkawski, 56, was charged Monday with 109 felony counts of possession of checks with the intent to defraud, with sentencing enhancement allegations of aggravated white-collar crime between $100,000 and $500,000, according to court records. Czerkawski was arrested on a warrant Tuesday at her home in Orange.
She is accused of cashing 109 checks worth a total of $352,997.33 over six years, a Santa Ana police detective says in court papers.
Czerkawski worked at J. Miller Canvas Inc. for 10 years. The last six years, she was in charge of accounts receivable, payable and payroll, according to police, who allege the embezzlement happened between 2014 and 2017.
Czerkawski’s arraignment was rescheduled for March 15 in the jail courtroom in Santa Ana.
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Posted by https://goo.gl/TXzGV5Up to 760 Fullerton homes could be built after court refuses to hear appeal of West Coyote Hills project
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The California Supreme Court on Wednesday, Feb. 27, refused to hear an appeal from an open space preservation group, ending a three-year legal battle that tried to stop construction of up to 760 homes on the hillsides and former oil fields of West Coyote Hills.
The court did not explain its reasoning.
Friends of Coyote Hills argued in its lawsuit that a successful 2012 referendum, in which voters repealed the City Council’s prior approval of a development agreement with Pacific Coast Homes, Chevron’s homebuilding subsidiary, should have put a stop to the project. But both the Orange County Superior Court and the California Court of Appeal disagreed, saying eliminating a development agreement doesn’t by itself stop a project.
“I’m very disappointed,” the group’s president, Angela Lindstrom, said. “I felt it was a very important case for the court to clarify what a city can or cannot do in terms of a referendum.”
The city can now start working with the 510-acre property’s owner to begin initial trail improvements, Fullerton City Manager Ken Domer said in a press release. Those improvements would give the public access to the area, including the city’s Robert E. Ward Nature Preserve.
The city and Pacific Coast Homes previously agreed on a “path forward” that allows the city to purchase parts of West Coyote Hills, “allowing limited development but preserving as open space the majority of West Coyote Hills, to include over 217 contiguous acres between Gilbert Street and Euclid Street,” Domer said in the release.
About $29 million has been raised for the city to reduce the project’s size, potentially by about 76 units. But Lindstrom said it seems unlikely the city will be able to buy the entire property, appraised at $150 million, and stop the development altogether.
“The price is going to be quite monumental,” she said.
Pacific Coast Homes’ project manager Ivan Jimenez said the trail improvements are expected to be completed as soon as early next year. He said there was no current timeline on when housing construction would happen, but the project’s planning is well underway.
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Posted by https://goo.gl/TXzGV5Second round of boys basketball SoCal Regionals will present interesting rematches
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The CIF Southern California Regionals will have a pair of compelling rematches in the second round.
In Tuesday’s Division III first round Pacifica Christian defeated Bakersfield Christian 69-68 in a Tritons home game and Fairmont Prep beat Palm Springs 51-41 at home. Pacifica Christian and Fairmont Prep play each other Thursday for the fourth time this season in a second-round game at Fairmont Prep. Fairmont Prep won the previous three meetings – in the CIF-Southern Section Division 4AA championship game and in two San Joaquin League games that were decided in overtime.
Sophomore Houston Mallette ties it up with no time on the clock to send the game to OT vs Bakersfield Christian. Your Tritons go on to win 69-68 to advance to the 2nd Round of the CIF State Tournament! @thedailypilot @ocvarsity @newportbeachindy @cifstate @cifss @scprepinsiderss pic.twitter.com/ZgaB43WYrM
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Sage Hill won its Division V first-round home game against Oakwood of Los Angeles 63-62. The Lightning on Thursday plays at Santa Clara of Oxnard, the team that beat them 68-52 in the CIF-SS 5AA championship game.
And it’s a buzzer beater! Your Lightning Boys’ Basketball team beats the Oakwood Gorillas 63-62 in the 1st Round of the CIF State Tournament!! #sageathletics #sagehill #golightning
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Santa Margarita, coming off of winning the CIF-SS Division 1 championship, defeated Mission Bay of San Diego 68-50 in a CIF Southern California Division I first-round game at Santa Margarita. Jake Kyman scored 26 points with five 3-pointers. Max Agbonkpolo scored 17 points and Shengzhe Li scored 13 with 10 rebounds for the Eagles.
PLAYOFF GAME ALERT
Your Division 1 CIF Champion Santa Margarita Eagles (23-10) will host Mission Bay High School (18-12) in the first round of the State tournament tonightFans come out and support our boys!
GAMETIME SET FOR 6PM
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— SMCHS_Basketball (@SMCHSBasketball) February 26, 2019
The Eagles are home Thursday in the second round against Foothills Christian of El Cajon.
CIF-SS 3A champion Capistrano Valley Christian was eliminated 66-58 in the Division III first round by Vista Rancho Buena Vista.
Crean Lutheran’s season ended with a 57-56 loss to Eagle Rock of Los Angeles in a Division IV first-round game at Crean Lutheran High.
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Posted by https://goo.gl/TXzGV5Regionals roundup: La Habra boys, San Clemente boys and JSerra girls among O.C. soccer teams to advance
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The Freeway League, among the toughest in CIF Southern Section boys soccer this season, went 2-0 on the first day of the Southern California Regional tournament, with La Habra and Troy advancing to boys semifinal matches.
La Habra (17-6-7) scored a 3-1 victory Tuesday afternoon at Jefferson, the L.A. City Section Division II champion, to set up a rematch with West Torrance (13-5-7) in Thursday’s Division III semifinals. The South Bay school eliminated the Highlanders on penalty kicks in the Southern Section Division 3 semifinals on Feb. 16.
Jonathan Aleman put away two goals and Tanner Coombs scored one and assisted another for La Habra. The other semifinal also is a rematch: El Segundo (23-1-1), which beat West Torrance in the sectional final, beat Alta Loma in the other Division 3 semifinal.
Troy (16-8-5), the Southern Section Division 4 runner-up, beat St. Margaret’s, 3-1, in a Division IV first-round game, the only boys game pitting two Orange County schools.
Rialto (18-6-4), which beat Troy in the sectional final, takes on Sierra Vista (24-2-1), the Southern Section Division 5 champion, in the other Division IV semifinal.
In other divisions:
Boys Division 1: Southern Section Division 1 titlist San Clemente advanced to the semifinals, but Edison and Mater Dei were eliminated.
The top-seeded Tritons (22-2-5) got goals in the first half from Jovani Gomez, off a Liam Linus cross, and in the second half from Blake Bowen, with Evan Dilbeck assisting, in a 2-1 win over visiting St. Augustine (11-6-5), a San Diego Section Open Division semifinalist. Goalkeeper Curtis Harvey had some big stops among his six saves.
San Clemente will face Birmingham (21-4-3), which toppled visiting Mater Dei, 5-2, the 10th time this season the L.A. City Section Division I champion has scored at least five goals. The Monarchs (17-3-6), Southern Section Division 1 semifinalists, had conceded just 15 goals in their first 25 games.
Edison (16-6-6), which lost to San Clemente in the sectional semifinals, took San Diego Section Open Division champ Torrey Pines to penalties but fell, 5-4, after seven rounds of spot kicks. Armand Piegan’s goal in second-half stoppage time sent the game to overtime at 3-3; Wyatt Burris and Chase Bullock also tallied for the Chargers.
Torrey Pines (13-1-11), which also prevailed on penalties in the San Diego semifinals and final, will take on Cathedral (21-3-3), the Southern Section Division 1 runner-up.
Division I girls: Top-seeded JSerra (20-0-3) joined Los Alamitos (26-1-5) in the semifinals with a 3-0 rout of visiting San Luis Obispo (22-3-1), which won the Central Section Division I title after departing the Southern Section last fall.
Abby Lynch, Samantha Williams and Rachel Bastone scored for the Lions, who beat Los Alamitos last weekend to claim their third successive Southern Section Division 1 title. They are without star striker Isabella D’Aquila, who is in Spain for a tournament with the U.S. under-20 national team.
JSerra will play host to Academy of Our Lady of Peace (20-4-2), the San Diego Section Open Division runner-up, in the semifinals. Los Alamitos, a 2-0 winner over Villa Park, will in the other semifinal take on Harvard-Westlake (18-1-6), a rematch of a Southern Section final-four game.
Division IV girls: St. Margaret’s (21-1-5) romped into the final four with a 4-0 rout of L.A. City Section Division IV champion Roosevelt as Juliet Ballard tallied twice and Charlotte Jones and Taylor Nock also scored.
The Tartans, who fell on penalties after a 2-2 draw with La Salle in the Southern Section Division 4 final, will be home for the semifinals against Ramona (16-7-4). The San Diego Section Division IV titlist romped to a 4-0 victory over Los Amigos (18-4-2), which won the Southern Section Division 5 championship.
Division II boys: Chris Osuna’s goal wasn’t enough for Godinez (18-4-2) in a first-round game at Westview (13-8-6), the San Diego Section Division 1 champion. Izel Smith scored both goals for the Wolverines in a 2-1 victory.
Godinez was a Southern Section Division 2 semifinalist. Champion Arlington (26-2-0) and runner-up Cabrillo (22-3-4) advanced to the regional final.
Division II girls: Top-seeded Sunny Hills (25-1-5), which had a first-round bye, will be home for the semifinals against San Diego Section Open Division semifinalist West Hills (11-8-7), which beat Vista Murrieta on penalties after a scoreless tie.
The Lancers won the Southern Section Division 2 title with a 2-1 win over Mira Costa (22-2-3), which will face Long Beach Poly (15-1-3) in the other semifinal. Sunny Hills advanced on penalties after a 0-0 draw with Poly in the sectional semifinals.
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Posted by https://goo.gl/TXzGV5CIF SoCal Regional boys and girls basketball playoffs: Tuesday’s scores, updated pairings and schedule
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Scores from Tuesday’s games in the CIF Southern California Regional boys and girls basketball playoffs, and the updated pairings and schedule.
(The higher seed is the home team in each round.)
BOYS BASKETBALL
Regional quarterfinals
Wednesday, Feb. 27, 7 p.m. unless noted
8 San Diego Torrey Pines at 1 Sierra Canyon, 6:30 p.m.
5 Rancho Christian at 4 Westchester
6 Mater Dei vs. 3 Bishop Montgomery at El Camino College
7 Corona Centennial at 2 Fairfax
DIVISION I
First round, Tuesday
Etiwanda 68, St. Augustine 57
Birmingham 69, Harvard-Westlake 67
El Cajon Foothills Christian 70, El Camino Real 56
Santa Margarita 68, San Diego Mission Bay 50
St. John Bosco 96, Vista 71
Chino Hills 72, Mayfair 69
Washington 64, Windward 55
Rancho Verde 66, Taft 53
Second round
Thursday, Feb. 28, 7 p.m.
8 Birmingham at 1 Etiwanda
5 El Cajon Foothills Christian at 4 Santa Margarita
6 Chino Hills at 3 St. John Bosco
7 Washington at 2 Rancho Verde
DIVISION II
First round, Tuesday
Santa Clarita Christian 59, Poway 53
San Diego Cathedral 67, La Canada 55
Valencia 72, Gardena 59
Colony 88, San Diego Parker 79
Rolling Hills Prep 70, San Diego County San Marcos 46
Santa Fe Christian 64, Highland 44
Riverside Notre Dame 73, Narbonne 39
Second round
Thursday, Feb. 28, 7 p.m.
9 Santa Clarita Christian at 1 Rancho Cucamonga
12 San Diego Cathedral at 4 Valencia
6 Rolling Hills Prep at 3 Colony
7 Santa Fe Christian at 2 Riverside Notre Dame
DIVISION III
First round, Tuesday
L.A. University 78, San Diego Montgomery 74 (OT)
La Jolla Country Day 66, Carlsbad 55
Pacifica Christian/Newport Beach 69, Bakersfield Christian 68
Fairmont Prep 51, Palm Springs 41
Santa Barbara 52, Oxnard 50
Crescenta Valley 59, Bakersfield 44
Vista Rancho Buena Vista 66, Capistrano Valley Christian 58
Granada Hills 59, Palos Verdes 55
Second round
Thursday, Feb. 28, 7 p.m.
16 L.A. University at 8 La Jolla Country Day
5 Pacifica Christian at 4 Fairmont Prep
14 Santa Barbara at 6 Crescenta Valley
10 Vista Rancho Buena Vista at 2 Granada Hills
DIVISION IV
First round, Tuesday
Visalia Central Valley Christian 55, El Cajon Valhalla 46
Eagle Rock 57, Crean Lutheran 56
Fremont 73, Ontario Christian 65
Silverado 75, Quartz Hill 63
San Diego 53, San Luis Obispo 34
Bakersfield Independence 76, Lemoore 71
Burbank Providence 73, Roybal 33
Second round
Thursday, Feb. 28, 7 p.m.
9 Visalia Central Valley Christian at 1 Ribet Academy
12 Eagle Rock at 4 Fremont
6 San Diego at 3 Silverado
7 Bakersfield Independence at 2 Burbank Providence
DIVISION V
First round, Tuesday
Bakersfield Foothill 72, Bassett 57
Arleta 57, Math/Science 41
Sage Hill 63, Oakwood 62
Santa Clara 78, Escondido San Pasqual 44
Orange Vista 62, Carpinteria 51
Kerman 72, Western Christian 68
Hueneme 42, Fresno County Firebaugh 41
San Diego Southwest 67, New Roads 43
Second round
Thursday, Feb. 28, 7 p.m.
8 Arleta at 1 Bakersfield Foothill
5 Sage Hill at 4 Santa Clara
6 Kerman at 3 Orange Vista
10 Hueneme at 2 San Diego Southwest
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GIRLS BASKETBALL
OPEN DIVISION
Regional quarterfinals
Wednesday, 7 p.m. unless noted
8 Redondo at 1 Clovis West
5 Mater Dei vs. 4 Bishop Montgomery at El Camino College, 5 p.m.
6 Fresno Clovis North at 3 Sierra Canyon, 5 p.m.
7 Etiwanda at 2 Windward
DIVISION I
First round, Tuesday
San Diego Cathedral 66, El Camino Real 47
King 64, El Cajon Christian 46
La Jolla Country Day 87, Westchester 61
Granada Hills 73, Bakersfield 44
Mount Miguel 49, Mission Hills 48
Troy 52, Lakeside 42
Long Beach Poly 50, Chaminade 30
Rosary 70, Narbonne 37
Second round
Thursday, Feb. 28, 7 p.m.
8 King at 1 San Diego Cathedral
5 La Jolla Country Day at 4 Granada Hills
14 Spring Valley Mount Miguel at 6 Troy
10 Long Beach Poly at 2 Rosary
DIVISION II
First round, Tuesday
Flintridge Prep 51, Santa Margarita 37
Los Angeles Hamilton 72, Oxford Academy 61
Legacy 40, Orange Lutheran 28
La Jolla Bishop’s 52, Eagle Rock 34
Rolling Hills Prep 77, La Costa Canyon 53
Eastvale Roosevelt 85, Bonita Vista 66
Chula Vista Mater Dei 65, Birmingham 48
Second round
Thursday, Feb. 28, 7 p.m.
8 Flintridge Prep at 1 Keppel
13 Legacy at 12 Los Angeles Hamilton
6 Rolling Hills Prep at 3 La Jolla Bishop’s
7 Eastvale Roosevelt at 2 Chula Vista Mater Dei
DIVISION III
First round, Tuesday
McFarland 68, Oxnard 56
Village Christian 54, Corona Santiago 52
San Diego Serra 47, Cathedral City 43
Diamond Ranch 59, Porterville 55
Poway 58, Mayfair 42
Palisades 59, Brentwood 55
Carlsbad 49, Crossroads 43
San Diego County San Marcos 61, St. Bonaventure 54
Second round
Thursday, Feb. 28, 7 p.m.
8 Village Christian at 1 McFarland
13 Diamond Ranch at 5 San Diego Serra
6 Palisades at 3 Poway
7 Carlsbad at 2 San Diego County San Marcos
DIVISION IV
First round, Tuesday
Santa Fe 48, Maranatha 46
Linfield Christian 63, El Cajon Grossmont 53
Hanford Sierra Pacific 59, Van Nuys 45
Carson 59, Encinitas San Dieguito 43
Oceanside Mission Vista 55, Crean Lutheran 48
Tehachapi 53, Hillcrest 49
Oak Park 74, Arleta 53
Second round
Thursday, Feb. 28, 7 p.m.
9 Santa Fe at 1 Northview
12 Linfield Christian at 4 Hanford Sierra Pacific
6 Oceanside Mission Vista at 3 Carson
7 Tehachapi at 2 Oak Park
DIVISION V
Play-in, Tuesday
Tollhouse Sierra 59, Tulare Union 56
First round, Tuesday
San Diego Madison 58, Saddleback 20
Bell 49, Pasadena Marshall 41
Anaheim 52, Bishop Conaty-Loretto 41
Bloomington Christian 63, Maywood 40
Coalinga 66, Western Christian 26
Mary Star 34, Montclair 31
Ramona 59, El Centro Southwest 27
First round
Wednesday, Feb. 27
11 Locke at 6 Tollhouse Sierra, 7 p.m.
Second round
Thursday, Feb. 28, 7 p.m.
8 Bell at 1 San Diego Madison
5 Anaheim at 4 Bloomington Christian
TBD at 3 Coalinga
10 Mary Star at 2 Ramona
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FULLERTON – Lakeside’s faithful roared before tip-off and deep into the second half with chants of “Defense!”
Cal-bound point guard Jazlen Green made one difficult basket after another, including a driving scoop shot against hard contact in the opening period.
Troy’s girls basketball team might have left the CIF-Southern Section’s challenging Open Division behind for the CIF Southern California Division I regionals, but the Open Division atmosphere and competition followed the Warriors back home Tuesday night.
But Coach Roger Anderson’s young Troy squad is growing up fast and produced the necessary answers to beat CIF-SS Division 2A champion Lakeside 52-42 in a first round game decided in the final two minutes.
Troy girls
growing up fast! warriors beat Lakeside 52-42 – Warriors will be home Thursday at home v Mt Miguel @ocvarsity @troy_warriors @TroyHSbsktball
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— Dan Albano (@ocvarsityguy) February 27, 2019
Left-handed guard Gaby Tan (8 points) scooped in her own drive to the basket against a foul with 1:18 left in the fourth period to give the sixth-seeded Warriors a 47-40 lead and the Troy (23-9) overcame 26 points by Green and the Lancer’ energetic crowd to advance to Thursday’s second round.
“Lakeside is like an Open team,” said Anderson, whose team went 0-3 on the road in the Open Division against Sierra Canyon, Bishop Montgomery and Redondo.
“The three Open games we played, three of those teams were all ranked in the top 10 in the state. You’re only going to get better if you learn form your mistakes and they were exposed and we’re working on it.”
Troy’s work continues Thursday when it plays host to Mount Miguel, which upset No. 3 seed Mission Hills 49-48 in another first-round game.
Freshman Hannah Stines led Troy with 22 points, including three first-half 3-pointers.
Stines contributed to a sizzling start by the Warriors — who don’t start a senior — but also was part of a defense that slowed No. 11 Lakeside (26-4), which dominated Orange County sixth-ranked Oxford Academy to capture its first section title Saturday.
Green made 9 of 17 shots from the floor but exerted herself against four different defenders who mostly guarded her the length of the court. The senior didn’t come out and scored one basket in the fourth, a three-point play off an offensive rebound that trimmed Troy’s lead to 42-38 with 4:11 left.
A 3-pointer by Green rattled in-and-out 30 seconds later that would have cut Troy’s lead to one point.
Troy mostly used Aaliyah Tu’ua, also a standout soccer player, to guard Green but also inserted her twin sister, Anaiyah, Kaitlyn Osako and Stines.
The Tu’ua twins combined for seven steals.
“Really pleased Aaliyah Tu’ua, who ran everywhere with that girl and made her earn all 26 of her points, which is good,” Anderson said. “(It was a) team effort, though, defensively.”
Anderson employed nine players and the Warriors seemed to wear Lakeside down. Troy grabbed four offensive rebounds off missed rebounds in the fourth, including two by freshman Aliyah Gonzalez.
Troy went on 17-0 run in the first period to open a 20-5 lead and led 26-12 after eight minutes. Stines made two 3-pointers in the first period while Osako added two, including one just before the buzzer.
End of 1st: @TroyHSbsktball 26 Lakeside 12 Super freshman Hannah Stines puts on show w/ 13 pts! @ocvarsity
— Dan Albano (@ocvarsityguy) February 27, 2019
The Warriors led as many as 17 points but Lakeside slowly came back.
“We just had to remember who were are,” Green said. “We’ve been through a lot of adversity … and we used that as motivation. Yeah, we didn’t pull through but a lot of it comes from heart and we gave it our all.”
Senior Jolene Armendariz added 9 points and three blocks for Lakeside.
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Posted by https://goo.gl/TXzGV5CIF SoCal boys and girls soccer playoffs: Tuesday’s scores, updated semifinals pairings
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Scores from Tuesday’s games in the CIF Southern California Regional playoffs for boys and girls soccer.
BOYS SOCCER
DIVISION I
Quarterfinals, Tuesday
San Clemente 2, San Diego St. Augustine 0
Birmingham 5, Mater Dei 2
Cathedral 3, San Diego Point Loma 1
San Diego Torrey Pines 3, Edison 3 (Torrey Pines wins on PKs 5-4)
Semifinals
Thursday, Feb. 28, 4 p.m.
4 Birmingham at 1 San Clemente
3 Cathedral at 2 Torrey Pines
DIVISION II
Quarterfinals, Tuesday
Arlington 1, Oceanside 0
San Diego Westview 2, Godinez 1
San Fernando 2, Bakersfield Ridgeview 1
Long Beach Cabrillo 4, Riverside Poly 0
Semifinals
Thursday, Feb. 18, 4 p.m.
4 San Diego Westview at 1 Arlington
3 San Fernando at 2 Long Beach Cabrillo
DIVISION III
Quarterfinals, Tuesday
Alta Loma 3, Tulare Western 0
La Habra 3, Jefferson 1
West Torrance 0, Santee West Hills 0 (West wins on PKs 4-2)
Semifinals
Thursday, Feb. 28, 4 p.m.
5 Alta Loma at 1 El Segundo
6 La Habra at 2 West Torrance
DIVISION IV
Quarterfinals, Tuesday
Rialto 3, Mission Vista 2
Sierra Vista 2, Chavez 0
Troy 3, St. Margaret’s 1
Bakersfield Foothill 2, Washington 1
Semifinals
Thursday, Feb. 28, 4 p.m.
4 Sierra Vista at 1 Rialto
3 Troy at 2 Bakersfield Foothill
DIVISION V
Quarterfinals, Tuesday
Bakersfield Garces 4, Exeter 0
San Dimas 1, USC Hybrid 0
La Puente 1, Bishop Diego 0
Marshall 2, Escondido Classical Academy 1
Semifinals
Thursday, Feb. 28, 4 p.m.
4 San Dimas at 1 Bakersfield Garces
3 La Puente at 2 Pasadena Marshall
Regionals Schedule
(Higher seed is home team in each round)
Semifinals: Thursday, Feb. 28, 4 p.m.
Championships: Saturday, March 2, 4 p.m.
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GIRLS SOCCER
DIVISION I
Quarterfinals, Tuesday
JSerra 3, San Luis Obispo 0
San Diego Our Lady of Peace 6, Granada Hills 0
Harvard-Westlake 3, Carlsbad 2 (OT)
Los Alamitos 2, Villa Park 0
Semifinals
Thursday, Feb. 28, 4 p.m.
4 San Diego Our Lady of Peace at 1 JSerra
6 Harvard-Westlake at 2 Los Alamitos
DIVISION II
Quarterfinals, Tuesday
Santee West Hills 1, Vista Murrieta 1 (West Hills wins on PKs 5-3)
Long Beach Poly 3, El Camino Real 0
Mira Costa 2, Spring Valley Steele Canyon 0
Semifinals
Thursday, Feb. 28, 4 p.m.
4 Santee West Hills at 1 Sunny Hills
6 Long Beach Poly at 2 Mira Costa
DIVISION III
Quarterfinals, Tuesday
Oak Hills 2, San Diego 1 (OT)
Culver City 1, Tulare Mission Oak 0
Grossmont 2, Downey 1
Flintridge Sacred Heart 7, New West 0
Semifinals
Thursday, Feb. 28, 4 p.m.
5 Culver City at 1 Oak Hills
3 Grossmont at 2 Flintridge Sacred Heart
DIVISION IV
Quarterfinals, Tuesday
Westridge 8, Rivera 0
San Diego County Ramona 4, Los Amigos 0
St. Margaret’s 4, Los Angeles Roosevelt 0
Semifinals
Thursday, Feb. 28, 4 p.m.
5 Westridge at 1 La Salle
6 San Diego County Ramona at 2 St. Margaret’s
DIVISION V
Quarterfinals, Tuesday
Arvin 0, Venice 0 (Arvin wins on PKs 4-2)
Desert Mirage 6, San Diego Hoover 2
Riverside Notre Dame 1, Arrowhead Christian 0 (OT)
Semifinals
Thursday, Feb. 28, 4 p.m.
4 Arvin at 1 South El Monte
7 Riverside Notre Dame at 3 Desert Mirage
Regionals Schedule
(Higher seed is home team in each round)
Semifinals: Thursday, Feb. 28, 4 p.m.
Championships: Saturday, March 2, 4 p.m.
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Posted by https://goo.gl/TXzGV5Los Alamitos girls soccer finds way past Villa Park, advances to Division I regional semifinals
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LOS ALAMITOS — Los Alamitos faced a stiff test against Villa Park’s high-pressure defense early in Tuesday evening’s CIF Southern California Regional girls soccer playoff opener.
A halftime adjustment took care of that, and the Griffins’ usual goal-getters were on target for a 2-0 Division I triumph that set up the first of potentially two rematches this week in Thursday’s semifinals.
Tabitha LaParl provided a 15th-minute lead and Colby Barnett scored near the finish as Los Alamitos (26-1-5), dominant after halftime, built a 14-1 shot advantage while creating nearly 20 chances to just two by the visiting Spartans (20-3-1).
Next up for Los Alamitos is a home game with Harvard-Westlake (18-1-6), which Los Al topped 3-0 in the Southern Section semifinals, and a win there could set up another showdown with JSerra (20-0-3) — a 3-0 winner over the Griffins in last weekend’s Southern Section title game — in Saturday’s final.
“(This is) 100 percent (a second chance),” said LaParl, who scored her 31st goal of the season after Leila Hijazi found her in space on the right just above the box. “I was very disappointed for us (in the JSerra loss). They’re a lot stronger than us, and we just didn’t show up, and it was really disappointing seeing that.
“We made some stupid mistakes, but we’ve just got to move forward. The past is the past. We could have a chance again to face them, and if we do, we know what do do.”
Los Alamitos struggled with its shape in the first half as Teryn Newkirk marked Jadenn Carrillo and Deepika Kooner, off the bench, stuck with Brianna Guerra, the Spartans’ other go-to attacker. Villa Park, behind midfielders Gracie Vanderschraaf and Tiana Salazar, kept winning balls in or at the edge of its attacking third but couldn’t turn that into viable chances.
Griffins coach Pat Rossi sacrificed a forward for another defender at the break, and the game was a mismatch the rest of the way. Barnett, with her 15th goal, sealed the victory in the 80th minute after LaParl played Newkirk into the box.
Harvard-Westlake, which challenged Los Alamitos with a high-pressure approach in the sectional semifinal, edged San Diego Section Open Division champion Carlsbad 3-2 in overtime Tuesday. JSerra thumped Central Section Division I titlist San Luis Obispo 3-0 and will meet San Diego runner-up Our Lady of Peace (20-4-2) in the other semifinal.
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Posted by https://goo.gl/TXzGV5Orange County baseball/softball highlights for Tuesday, Feb. 26
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Highlights and top performers from the Orange County baseball and softball games on Tuesday, Feb. 26.
BASEBALL
Sonora scored two runs in the top of the eighth inning to hand No. 11 Newport Harbor its first loss of the season, 4-2, in a nonleague game Tuesday at Newport Harbor High. Steven Salazar got the win with 2.1 innings of perfect relief, striking out three. Hector Garcia had allowed just four hits, one walk and no earned runs while striking out 12 in 5.2 innings for the Raiders (3-3). Luis Chavarin was 3-for-3 with a stolen base and scored a run. Joey Flores went 2-for-4, stole two bases and drove in a run. Clay Liolios was 3-for-3 with a double for Newport (4-1).
No. 16 Yorba Linda scored six runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to pull away from No. 9 Canyon for a 10-3 nonleague victory at home. Cole Robinson had two hits and three RBI, Dylan Strong was 3-for-4 with a double and RBI and Shane Curren hit a solo homer in Yorba’s 12-hit attack. Also for the Mustangs, Ricky Lane doubled and drove in two runs, Jacob Cochran was 2-for-2 and Luca Licata went 2-for-2 with two RBI. John Landry and Connor Clift each had two hits for Canyon.
Caden Kendle went 4-for-5 with two doubles and two RBI, and Caden Aoki belted a three-run homer as No. 24 Edison walloped Glendora 11-0. Kevin Hultgren got the win, allowing two hits in three innings and striking out two.
Dustyn Burleson and Ricky Zuniga each had three hits and three RBI as Katella rapped 15 hits in a 17-0 win over Santa Ana Valley. Jacob Luna doubled twice and drove in four runs, and Jesus Canul was 2-for-3 with a double and two RBI for the Knights. Adrian Navarrete allowed one hit in three innings for the win and Nathan Flores gave up one hit in two innings to complete the five-inning victory.
Chad Green was 5-for-5 with two doubles in Whittier Christian’s 15-3 rout of Whitney. Wes Ruiz hit a three-run homer in a five-run second inning. Elijah Camarena had a double and a triple in the first two innings. The Heralds totaled 18 hits in the six-inning game.
Savanna opened Orange League play with a 28-0 romp at Magnolia. Justin Holquin hit for the cycle and added an extra double in a 5-for-5, five-RBI performance. Miguel Barrios hit two triples and drove in four runs. Saul Reynoso was 4-for-5 with five RBI. Senior southpaw Miguel Martinez allowed one hit in five innings and struck out eight.
No. 25 Laguna Beach rallied for seven runs in the top of the seventh inning to beat Valencia 8-4. The Breakers had just seven hits for the game but drew seven walks. Will Potratz drove in three runs.
SOFTBALL
Sophia Nugent had two RBI and Kennedi Houshmandzadeh also drove in a run as No. 2 Los Alamitos beat No. 5 Mater Dei 6-2 in a nonleague game at Los Al.
No. 4 Santa Margarita beat No. 8 Aliso Niguel 5-1. Melanie Santos was 3-for-4 with a double and two RBI. Angie Yellen went 2-for-3 with a double and a run driven in. Cadie Williams was 2-for-3 and scored twice. That was enough offense for Isabella Fiorentino, who pitched a four-hitter.
Alyssa Brito went 3-for-4 with an RBI as No. 6 Pacifica beat No. 10 Marina 6-1 in a nonleague clash of top-10 teams in Orange County. Jacquelyn Bickar was 2-for-4 with two RBI and Sarah Reisler also had two hits and an RBI for the Mariners. Julia Cabral pitched the full game for the win.
Maddie Schmidt and Hannah Coor both homered, but No. 7 Esperanza lost to Lakewood 4-3 in a Savanna Showcase makeup game. Taylor Halterman was 2-for-4 with a double, and Sophia Tricoli drove in the Aztecs’ other run. Lakewood also hit a pair of homers off Emily Gomez, who yielded just four other hits and three earned runs in seven innings.
Taylor Caudill threw a two-hitter with 11 strikeouts as No. 25 JSerra beat El Toro 5-1. Willa Poplawski and Alison Steinker drove in runs for the Lions.
McKayla Cotton and Clare Austin combined to pitch five no-hit innings as Newport Harbor beat Saddleback Valley Christian 11-0. Cotton struck out five in three innings and Austin fanned one in two frames. Dru Stinson was 2-for-2 with two RBI and Lindsey Blanchfield went 2-for-3 with a double and two RBI.
Paige Crumley homered, doubled and singled twice in four at-bats to lead Katella to a 10-0 win over Oxford Academy in a Savanna Showcase game. Crumley scored three runs and drove in three, while Samantha Saldivar went 3-for-3 with an RBI, two runs and a stolen base. Samantha Lopez allowed no hits or walks in getting the pitching victory. Shaylie Merlino allowed no hits but two walks, and Hannah Halbrook gave up just two hits to preserve the five-inning shutout.
Coaches and team representatives are encouraged to email their scores and stats after every game to the Register at preps@ocregister.com.
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Posted by https://goo.gl/TXzGV5Birmingham soccer puts on a show as it crushes Mater Dei in SoCal regionals
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VAN NUYS — The Birmingham boys soccer team turned its home field into its own stage Tuesday against Mater Dei, a bigger and more physical team than the other teams the Patriots had faced this season.
Birmingham was simply better. Much better.
The Patriots, led by senior Noel Ortega and sophomore Anthony Miron, electrified their home crowd with three goals in the first half as Birmingham routed Mater Dei 5-2 in the first round of the CIF Southern Regional Division I playoffs.
After Ortega is fouled in the box, Ricky Nino scores the 61st minute PK. 4-1 Birmingham. @LAVarsity @Tarek_Fattal pic.twitter.com/vKsV9RoSy2
— Ethan Hanson (@EthanAHanson) February 27, 2019
Ortega, who is committed to Cornell, gave Birmingham (21-4-3) a 1-0 lead in the second minute of the contest. Ortega received a ball crossed halfway across the field from center back Oscar Nolasco. It was a ball that couldn’t have been delivered any better. Ortega found himself alone and struck the first goal.
It was redemption for Ortega, who had to sit out the CIF LA City Section final against San Fernando on Friday after receiving two yellow cards in the semifinals.
By sitting out Friday’s match. Ortega had fresh legs Tuesday.
“I just wanted to make sure I got my team going,” Ortega said. “It sucked that I didn’t get to play because I wanted to be there to help my team. So I had to come out and get my team started off right.”
What followed was a purely clinical display from Birmingham, seeded fourth for the regionals after winning the the City Section Division 1 title. The passes, connections and runs by the Patriots seemingly caught Mater Dei off guard.
Ortega found freshman David Diaz for a two-on-one breakaway in the 32nd minute to give the Patriots a 2-0 lead.
Miron scored a few minutes later to make it 3-0.
“It’s fun when everyone is just playing together, and I think the reason why we connect so well is because we spend so much time off the field,” Diaz said. “Then we get on the field and we just make plays for each other. It’s fun soccer.”
Birmingham will play at top-seeded San Clemente in the regional semifinals Thursday.
Mater Dei (17-4-6), seeded fifth after making it to the CIF-SS Division 1 semifinals, gave itself a chance in the 53rd minute when Steven McKimmey was left unmarked and he scored on a corner kick to make it 3-1.
Birmingham spent 10 minutes in the second half looking like the team of inexperience. The defensive backfield began to lose shape and Mater Dei began to find its rhythm in the backfield. Birmingham was also without Nolasco, who suffered a head injury in the 23rd minute.
After Ortega is fouled in the box, Ricky Nino scores the 61st minute PK. 4-1 Birmingham. @LAVarsity @Tarek_Fattal pic.twitter.com/vKsV9RoSy2
— Ethan Hanson (@EthanAHanson) February 27, 2019
“I thought we just started to panic a little bit,” coach EB Madha said. “Once we settled down and worked through our spell I thought we were fine in the final 20 minutes. The first half of soccer we played was what we want to strive for always.”
Ortega was able to restore order after making a run down field and being fouled in the box in the 60th minute. Ricky Nino scored the penalty kick and Birmingham had regained its composure to built its lead to 4-1.
The fireworks went off in the 72nd minute when Miron scored an elite-level goal from 27 yards out. Miron maneuvered through traffic, struck the ball and it curled under the crossbar and into the back of the net.
“With shots like that, it’s just about keeping focus and remaining calm,” Miron said. “It’s something I practice, and seeing it go in summed up how well we played.”
In the Division II regional:
San Fernando boys soccer topped Ridgeview 2-1.
Harvard-Westlake girls soccer advanced to the Division I semifinals after an overtime goal from Kerry Neil gave the Wolverines a 3-2 win over Carlsbad.
Academy of Our Lady of Peace beat Granada Hills girls soccer 6-0.
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Posted by https://goo.gl/TXzGV5Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Assistant coach Tyus Edney brings Bruin legacy on UCLA bench
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LOS ANGELES — The calendar changed during a volatile weekend in Westwood and Tyus Edney stood up in the UCLA locker room in Mo Ostin Center on New Year’s Eve with tears in his eyes. The head coach who gave Edney his first assistant job was fired that morning. Two days prior, the Bruins got booed off their own home court in a 15-point loss to Liberty.
There was no cohesion or trust on the floor. The team was united only in its matching jerseys. The players had yet to feel the pride of being a Bruin.
As their second-year assistant coach delivered an impassioned speech that many players later said propelled them to win their Pac-12 opener against Stanford on Jan. 3, the Bruins finally felt it.
“He played his heart and soul out for the championship here,” sophomore point guard Jaylen Hands said, “and not only should we do it for ourselves, we should do it for people like him who came here before us.”
Edney is an enduring symbol of UCLA’s rich tradition, the hero of the program’s last national championship who is now trying to help the storied program navigate an awkward transition toward what many hope will be a brighter future.
GOOD COP
Edney was one of three captains on the 1995 national championship team. Another was Ed O’Bannon. The power forward was the enforcer, former UCLA assistant coach Lorenzo Romar said.
Edney, who delivered the tournament’s shining moment with a coast-to-coast buzzer-beating layup with 4.8 seconds remaining in the second round against Missouri, was the nurturer. He continues to fill that role as an assistant coach.
“He’s more of someone who will take you to the side who will really communicate how he feels,” Hands said. “One-on-one, he’s really good.”
During the latter stages of his professional career, Edney often found himself acting as a coach for his younger teammates. When he finished playing overseas, he returned to Westwood as the director of operations in 2010 and made the jump to assistant coach last year under Steve Alford after seven years behind the scenes.
The version of college basketball that Edney returned to was different than the one he left. His national championship-winning team had three seniors. This year’s Bruins have none.
It makes Edney’s role as a teacher even more important.
“Nowadays, the NBA will draft you on potential and try to develop you,” Edney said, “but as much as we can help them here, (we) help them try to master this level … to get them prepared for what it’s going to be at the next level.”
Hands tested the NBA waters last summer for an evaluation, but he returned to school with orders from NBA scouts to work on his assist numbers. He now leads the Pac-12 with 6.4 assists per game.
The San Diego native became the first UCLA player to record 10 or more assists in three straight games this season after a long discussion with Edney in November. Hands was coming off an uneven performance against North Carolina in which he had eight assists in the first half and just one in the second as UCLA lost by 16.
Edney advised his protégé to shift his mental approach. It was a point guard’s job to first make the team run smoothly then pick his own spots second.
“He takes out a lot of the athleticism, shot-making, he doesn’t really focus on that a lot, just thinking,” Hands said. “Just thinking how can I make the team better, so I owe a lot to him.”
The good-natured Edney never raises his voice, Hands said. Even during his emotional speech in the locker room, Edney didn’t yell. He often has a smile on his face, but don’t let that fool you, Romar said.
“He’ll rip your heart out on the basketball court,” said Romar, currently the head coach at Pepperdine.
BRUIN BLOOD
Edney’s competitive streak makes some of UCLA’s recent struggles hard to swallow, he admits. But then he tries to remove his alumni hat.
The program has enough watchful eyes on it already. Despite the program’s fall from the nation’s elite, alumni continue to watch intently. Many former players have publicly backed former UCLA point guard Earl Watson to fill the vacant head coaching job, giving the Bruins a link to their eager alumni. Edney admits his old teammates occasionally pester him about the current squad.
That’s just what it’s like to play at UCLA.
“People have a vested interest in how we’re doing,” Edney said. “I just try to keep them up and keep them positive.”
UCLA’s coaching search is two months old with at least another month to go. One of the search committee members is Bob Myers, the Golden State Warriors general manager and national-championship teammate of Edney’s. Edney knows the program is itching for a big name with lots of experience.
One day, he would like to be in position to be such a candidate. Edney has aspirations to be a college head coach. He modestly affirmed that he would like to do so at UCLA if he could.
College is an important transitional time for a player’s development, he said, the middle stage between when dreams are hatched and dreams are realized. At UCLA, the skinny guard from Long Beach Poly High realized his dreams. To see others do the same at the same school would be another dream come true.
“He’s got that ‘it’ factor,” Romar said. “Wherever he goes, usually things happen pretty good.”
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UCLA vs. USC
Records: UCLA (15-13, 8-7 Pac-12); USC (15-13, 8-7 Pac-12)
When: Thursday, 6 p.m.
Where: Pauley Pavilion
Watch/listen: ESPN, 570 AM
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Posted by https://goo.gl/TXzGV5Land bill that includes Feinstein’s attempts to protect California’s deserts wins House approval, heads to Trump’s desk
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The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed its first significant public lands conservation bill in years, designating more than 1 million acres of wilderness for environmental protection and permanently reauthorizing a federal program to pay for conservation measures.
There are several benefits for California, including an expansion of two of the most visited national parks in the California desert and designation of nearly 80 miles of scenic rivers while providing new off-highway vehicle recreation areas in San Bernardino County for motorized trail riding.
The House passage of the bill, on a vote of 363-62, sends the measure, which was passed by the Senate this month, to the desk of President Donald Trump. The vote Tuesday offered a rare moment of bipartisanship in a divided chamber and a rare victory for environmentalists at a time when the Trump administration is working aggressively to strip away protections on public lands and open them to mining and drilling.
Nonetheless, Trump was expected to sign the bill into law. But the 1 million acres of wilderness that would be protected by the bill stand in contrast to the administration’s plans to open up for drilling 9 million acres of protected habitat for the sage grouse, 2 million acres of protected land in Utah, parts of the vast Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska and most United States coastal waters.
The package includes passage of the Desert Protection and Recreation Act, authored by California Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
“From desert tortoises to bighorn sheep and iconic Joshua trees, the beauty of the California desert is unrivaled,” she said in a tweet. “It’s a defining part of our state, and I’m proud to protect it.”
BREAKING: The House just passed a package of bills that includes my bill to protect the Mojave Desert. From desert tortoises to bighorn sheep and iconic Joshua trees, the beauty of the California desert is unrivaled. It’s a defining part of our state, and I’m proud to protect it.
— Sen Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) February 26, 2019
The lands package also secures new protections for our desert, creates California’s first National Heritage Area, develops smarter ways to manage the Santa Ana Wash and facilitates safety upgrades to the Contra Costa Canal. https://t.co/b2S4wDU1Gr
— Sen Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) February 26, 2019
Feinstein’s bill adds 4,518 acres to Joshua Tree National Park in Twentynine Palms, and 35,292 acres to Death Valley National Park, including about 1,600 acres donated by the Mojave Desert Land Trust.
One of the key measures was the addition of 200,000 acres for off-road users who ride motorized three- and four-wheelers up and down hills, rocks and gullies.
The legislation designates six Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Areas including: Johnson Valley, north of Joshua Tree, Sprangler Hills, El Mirage, Rasor, Dumont Dunes and Stoddard Valley.
Other California provisions include:
• Eight new Bureau of Land Management wilderness areas totaling 280,360 acres;
• Expansion of the San Gorgonio Wilderness by 7,141 acres, located within the San Bernardino National Forest;
• Designating about 18,000 acres of BLM land in Inyo County as the Alabama Hills National Scenic Area;
• Adding 81,800 acres in Imperial County for wilderness protection.
Lawmakers and environmentalists celebrated passage of the bill as a victory for bipartisanship and conservation.
“This bill represents Congress at its best and truly gives the American people something to be excited about,” said Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, D-Ariz., chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee. “It’s a massive win for the present and future of American conservation.”
Grijalva is one of several Western lawmakers from both parties who have worked for four years on the bill.
The bill is packed with parochial provisions designed to help the home states and districts of its authors. Among those is a provision for a land transfer in La Paz County, Arizona, to allow for the development of a solar farm, and a land exchange of 360 acres in Custer County, South Dakota, to allow the county to expand its airport.
Among the most consequential provisions is the permanent reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund, a federal program established in the 1960s that uses fees and royalties paid by oil and gas companies drilling in federal waters to pay for onshore conservation programs.
Although the program has long enjoyed bipartisan support, Congress typically renews it for only a few years at a time, and it expired Sept. 30 and has not been renewed. The new public lands package would authorize the program permanently.
In part because the bill would reauthorize that program — under which fossil-fuel companies, rather than taxpayers, cover a major portion of the cost of protecting public lands — the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the measure would increase government revenues by $9 million over a decade.
“Today’s passage of a bipartisan public lands package, including permanent reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund and numerous conservation measures, represents a historic victory for our wildlife heritage and outdoor enthusiasts of every stripe,” said Collin O’Mara, president and chief executive of the National Wildlife Federation.
The bill would designate 1.3 million acres in Utah, New Mexico, Oregon and California as wilderness, the most stringent level of federal land protection. It prohibits any development and the use of most motorized vehicles. And the bill creates less-stringent but permanent protections for land in Montana and Washington state.
It would also classify approximately 225 miles of river in Massachusetts and Connecticut and 280 miles of river in Oregon as wild, scenic or recreational. It would add approximately 40,000 acres of federal land to the Death Valley and Joshua Tree national parks and Mojave National Preserve.
It includes three new national monuments to be administered by the National Park Service: the home of civil rights activists Medgar and Myrlie Evers in Jackson, Mississippi; the Mill Springs Civil War battlefield in Nancy, Kentucky; and Camp Nelson, a Civil War recruitment and training center for African-American soldiers in Nicholasville, Kentucky.
The bill also includes some wildlife conservation provisions: It reauthorizes government conservation programs to protect exotic animals like rhinoceroses and tigers, and establishes cash-prize competitions for technological innovations in the prevention of illegal poaching and trafficking and protection of endangered wildlife.
Staff writers Sandra Emerson and Steve Scauzillo contributed to this article.
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Posted by https://goo.gl/TXzGV5Recent rain total in O.C.? $13 million. Supervisors declare emergency
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The storms that doused Orange County earlier this month caused an estimated $13 million worth of damage to public property, according to local communities.
On Tuesday, those reports prompted the county’s Board of Supervisors to declare a local emergency, the second in two years due to winter storms.
The declaration will allow local cities and public agencies to repair infrastructure with matching federal and state funds, the latter of which became available Tuesday after California Gov. Gavin Newsom also declared a State of Emergency in response to the recent storms.
This February already has been the wettest on record since 2005 in Santa Ana (5.5 inches), Newport Beach (3.3 inches), and likely beyond, according to the National Weather Service.
The heavy rainfall has battered roads and bridges, downed trees, induced mudflows, scarred levees and dams, and harmed public parks and recreation areas. The damaged areas stretch at least from the Orange County-controlled Prado wetlands near Corona down to Laguna Beach.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Department, which oversees early damage assessment efforts by federal and state authorities, could not immediately provide a list of the 10 local cities and agencies that submitted reports of damage.
The county’s most recent rainstorm emergency came in January 2017. And while that storm was more substantial in terms of rainfall, it had a lower initial damage estimate of $11 million.
So why have the recent storms been more destructive?
Samantha Connolly, a National Weather Service meteorologist, said the rains this month came in shorter but more powerful bursts.
“That’s different than in past years,” Connolly said. “That might be why they saw so much damage.”
On Tuesday, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services surveyed damaged areas of Orange County to vet the early $13 million estimate.
Connolly predicted the county would see a normal level of rainfall in March. But locals should prepare for showers this weekend, she said, when a quarter-inch to a half-inch of rain is expected in from Saturday afternoon through parts of Sunday.
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Posted by https://goo.gl/TXzGV5Sixty years on, the idea of order at Pasadena’s Sequoyah School
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As a child, I used to stare at the black-and-white class pictures my stepbrother and stepsister Bart and Victoria Hibbs brought back from Sequoyah School in the early 1960s.
Jeez, but those kids looked smart. And not just bohemian — they looked a little wild.
Not feral, mind you. They were just banging a different drum before different drums were cool.
As a young parent, I used to hear the Sequoyah kids’ calls across the wonderfully crazy-quilt campus at California Boulevard and Pasadena Avenue: “Phoebe! Phoebe!!!” Wait — there were no Phoebes in this world, excepting my wife. Were these children calling for my wife? Nope — it was little Phoebe Bridgers, a few years younger than our Julia, then the toast of the Bamboo Forest, now at 24 a properly vaunted singer-songwriter on top of the musical world.
Yes, it is a different educational planet, a barefoot school where the kids have called teachers by their first names since 1958, when my stepfather Al Hibbs was a founding board member.
Where you are not in first or second grade — you are in the Pond, or Over There.
It would not work for all students, and most definitely not for all parents. If you are in search of some standardized test score that defines a school, Sequoyah is not for you.
But it was for us, as Julia thrived there, especially in learning social and communication skills we still see in her and all her peers to this day. And as parental involvement is a must, it sometimes seemed like all our friends were Sequoyah friends, many of whom we are still close to. A great deal of the curriculum involves camping around California and the West, and there’s nothing like a few nights under the stars at Anza-B to bond a group for life.
So I’m thrilled to celebrate 60 years of Sequoyah, and was particularly thrilled to finally pay a visit to its still-new high school campus at the cool, woodsy Neighborhood Church campus on North Orange Grove. Funny, because the original K-8 campus is the site of the old Neighborhood Church, which sadly razed its old Craftsman building at the first 710 Freeway scare (and happily saved its Smith + Williams midcentury modern chapel, now the library) and sold to Caltrans, still the owner.
My tour guide: That perfect Sequoyahan, Louise Siskel, the cancer researcher and NASA biologist and 101st Rose Queen.
I hadn’t know what to expect. The rigors of college prep — I couldn’t figure out how that would translate from the freewheelin’ early years. I knew the students were smart; members of the school paper — The Barefoot Times, natch — had visited my office last year. I met Louise inside the church; we walked out past Greene & Greene’s Cole House, built by former Mayor Rick Cole’s grandparents; we wandered through Pasadena architect Doug Ewing’s perfectly matched new Craftsman-California Modern classrooms. “We’re a small school, so they’re multi-purpose — this is Spanish, and physics,” Louise said. She was just back from Sacramento. “Oh — were Sen. Portantino and Assemblyman Holden giving you ornate certificates?” “No,” Louise laughed. “That’s next month. It was like a moot court. A sexual assault case.” “You were defending or prosecuting the guy?” “Defending. It was actually a girl. False allegations. She didn’t get charged.”
We walked into her next class, Undiscovered Country, a hybrid of philosophy and literature taught by Ian Chang, an Iowa Writers Workshop MFA novelist and former cook at Lucques. It was Plato’s Parable of the Cave and it was Descartes, and all of a sudden I was 17 again, walking for the first time into Stan Sheinkopf’s literature class at Blair High, hearing stuff that was way over my head, wondering if I could ever catch up. Ian read Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West.” He asked: “Is nothing something?” “Yes,” came the answer. “Because nothing is a word that describes nothingness, so being a word, it is a thing.” “But what about the thing that word refers to?” “Nothingness is a state, one could argue.” “So: nothing is not nothing.” “There’s no such thing as nothing.” “But in your mind, when you think of nothing, that is something?” “Ian, you are proposing a paradox that kind of questions reality.” “Well, you kind of have to, in a class like this.” “What are we applying ‘nothing’ to?” That, the teacher proposed, was a slightly different question for another day.
Sixty years on, Sequoyah continues to give Pasadena students lots to think about.
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Posted by https://goo.gl/TXzGV5Portola High baseball joins Pacific Coast League play
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Portola High’s baseball team, under Coach Michael Nagamatsu, is getting ready for its first varsity season in the Pacific Coast League.
The Bulldogs, who have started out the season with a 3-2 record, play at Beckman on Friday, March 1, at 3 p.m. in their league opener against the defending league champion Patriots.
Portola is a young team, but Nagamatsu is hoping his players can have a solid season in the league. The school opened in 2016 with just freshmen and sophomores.
“We don’t have any seniors, we’re all juniors,” Nagamatsu said. “We have some sophomores and one freshman and we’re establishing a good tradition here. We’re working hard and all the guys are buying in.”
Nagamatsu said the team’s goal is to reach the CIF playoffs.
“We have one goal and that is to make CIF (playoffs) and I think that will surprise a lot of people,” he said. “Guys are working hard toward that goal every day.”
Nagamatsu is originally from Seattle and has been in Orange County for about five years.
“I was a scout for the Arizona Diamondbacks for four years and I played collegiately and professionally, and now I’m coaching,” he said.
Nagamatsu was with the Baltimore Orioles organization before being released. He then signed a contract to play and be a head coach in Austria.
He’s also been a travel ball coach. The Portola job is his first head coaching job in a high school.
“I wanted to get back into coaching so I got this job and I was hired before the school was even finished,” he said.
“This (the field at Portola) was just dirt so we actually had our first summer camp at Northwood High School and we didn’t even have equipment. I ended up using all my stuff.”
Nagamatsu said he is happy to be coaching at the new on-campus field at Portola.
“Everybody who comes here says: ‘This looks like a college campus,’” he said. “Everything is brand new.”
Portola prepared for the start of league play by competing in the Newport Elks Tournament last week.
The Bulldogs wrapped up the tournament losing to Estancia 11-3 on Friday, Feb. 22.
Portola also lost to Nogales 14-10 on Wednesday, Feb. 20.
But, the Bulldogs started the week by defeating Santa Ana Valley 11-0 on Feb. 18, and five Bulldog pitchers combined on a no-hitter.
Kaeden Foucart started and went two innings, recording four strikeouts. Aidan Russell then went two innings and struck out six, Jamison King pitched one inning and struck out two, Josh Liu went one inning and struck out two and Josh Park went one inning and struck out one.
Portola was led offensively by Luke Shen, who was 3 for 4 with three RBI.
Then on Tuesday, Feb. 19, Portola defeated La Quinta 15-2.
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