California High School Sports News

Fallbrook's Evan Jenkin passes the ball to a Warrior teammate during the May 9 game against La Jolla Country Day.

Two teams that seem so evenly balanced statistic wise, both share a common goal, and now these two CIF-Los Angeles City Section Division III softball powers collide once again on Saturday, 11am for the championship at Cal State Dominguez Hills.

Three local boys and one girl will try to throw, run, hurdle and vault their way into the CIF State Track and Field Championships on Friday.

With just two weeks left until school lets out for summer, the Las Lomas High School community has suffered a devastating blow with the loss of 18-year-old junior Amir Khakimov, a fierce competitor and athlete who died Tuesday from bleeding in the brain.

Senior Richie Nunez collides with the Encinal catcher while scoring a run during fourth-seeded Sonoma's NCS Division-3 opening victory over the 13th-seeded Jets Wednesday night at Arnold Field.

Graduating Mira Costa seniors and scholarship winners Angelina Vollucci, Isaac Siegemund-Broka, Birttany Donaleshen, Taylor Lewis, Christina Regan and Jeremy Silva.

The Pioneer Patriots won't mind. After their roller-coaster, back-and-forth, section-championship clinching performance on Wednesday, they'll probably view it as a compliment.

Matt Blais, making his first start of the season, completely dominated, while offensive stars included Christian Conci and Anthony Ramirez in a 6-0 win over San Benito in the semifinals of the Central Coast Section Division I tournament at San Jose Municipal Stadium Wednesday afternoon.

No. 12 seed San Rafael didn't need a miracle to beat the fifth-seeded Clear Lake Cardinals 7-4 in the first-round of the North Coast Section Division IV softball playoffs on a breezy Wednesday afternoon in Lakeport.

Earlier in the 2013 the San Pedro High baseball team needed ten innings to defeat CIF-Los Angeles City Section foe Kennedy of Granada Hills in a 1-0 clash.

And because of that, St. Bernard's senior right-hander and the rest of the Crusaders had a little extra motivation heading into their North Coast Section Division 5 playoff opener.

Paul Kitagaki Jr. pkitagaki@sacbee.com Kaitlyn Garcia, who has pitched every inning for Casa Roble for three years, settled down after allowing two runs in the first.

Yosemite High School's 5-foot-11 senior, Molly Casey, led the Badger girl's swim team to a third place finish at the May 18 Central Section Division II Swimming and Diving Championships held at Tulare Union High School.

An arm injury has prevented Janae Lockwood from playing shortstop the past three weeks.

Yosemite High School distance runner Brittney Hughey was the highest Badger finishers at the May 18 Central Section Masters Championships at Fresno's Buchanan High School, placing eighth in the 1,600 meter run.

Northview's Kollby Oriti walked with the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh inning to force in the game-winning run, scoring Alex Labor from third to give the Vikings a 5-4 victory over visiting South Torrance in the second round of the CIF-Southern Section Division 4 baseball playoffs on Tuesday.

Marina High is moving on in the CIF Southern Section baseball playoffs after picking up a big road victory Tuesday.

After forcing a decisive Game 3 in the best-of-three series with an extra-inning victory over Modesto-Central Catholic, the Manteca Buffaloes couldn't pull off the sweep in the nightcap of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV playoffs Tuesday at Zupo Field.

"He was one of the brightest kids in school," fellow 1984 grad Beau Hill, athletic director at the high school, said Wednesday.

Stanford University's Erin Ashby, a Crescenta Valley High alumna, finished her sophomore season hitting .291 in 58 starts.