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By David Carrillo Peñaloza | March 21, 2014
HUNTINGTON BEACH - Evan Chalmers coached Newport Harbor High in a Sunset League baseball game for the first time in five seasons on Friday. He was happy to be back, not so much with his team's start to league. Early on, the Sailors missed chances to jump on host Huntington Beach. Chalmers saw a runner on second base get doubled up after he didn't try to get back to the bag on a line drive to third base. In the next inning, that same player struck out with the bases loaded. The Oilers took the lead in the bottom of the second inning and they went on to open league with a convincing 8-4 win. They are talented, with a half dozen players committed to NCAA Division I programs.
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By David Carrillo Peñaloza | December 7, 2013
ANAHEIM - A reporter asked Jeff Brinkley for his thoughts on Kai Ross and it drew a short response from the Newport Harbor High head football coach. He preferred to talk about his Sailors, not the Huntington Beach player who again proved to be the difference against his team. Everyone on the field seemed to want to talk about Ross, or to him. He finally appeared with his jersey and shoulder pads off, shortly after leading his Oilers to a 42-28 victory and the program's first CIF Southern Section championship in 78 years.
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By Barry Faulkner | October 17, 2013
The tears welling in the eyes of UC Irvine defender Jordan Bruce had nothing to do with the first goal of her collegiate career. Instead, Bruce and her Anteaters, dominant yet still doomed, were writhing as a result of their 2-1 Big West Conference loss to visiting Long Beach State on Thursday night. "It's the sport we play," UCI Coach Scott Juniper said. "You can dominate a game and lose. I don't think that happens in any other sport that you can dominate a game to that degree, literally in every department.
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By Barry Faulkner | October 1, 2013
LA MIRADA - An achievement eight years in the making for Vanguard University women's soccer coach Randy Dodge all but vanished in the span of 90 ill-fated minutes on Tuesday afternoon. The Lions, who had won their first seven contests to, for the first time in school history, move atop the NAIA coaches' poll released Tuesday afternoon, played like a team with a target on its back in a 3-0 loss to Westmont at Biola. The Golden State Athletic Conference opener marked the first loss in 13 contests against conference foes for the Lions, who were a perfect 10-0 in conference last season, then won two games to pocket the GSAC Tournament crown on their way to an NAIA quarterfinal appearance and an 18-2-1 record.
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By Matt Szabo | April 17, 2013
NEWPORT BEACH — Weird things happened on a windy Wednesday afternoon at the Newport Harbor High baseball field. A couple of well-hit balls carried all the way out of the park. A couple of balls appeared foul down the left-field line, only to be blown back into play for hits. But the Sailors couldn't really blame their 8-5 loss to first-place Fountain Valley in a Sunset League game on gusts of air. Errors were a bigger issue. Newport Harbor (9-10, 2-7 in league) committed five of them in falling further behind in the league race.
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By Barry Faulkner | January 19, 2013
RIVERSIDE - There is taking what the opponent gives you and there is taking what you simply decide the opponent can't deny you. UC Riverside accomplished the latter in handing visiting UC Irvine a 68-58 Big West Conference men's basketball defeat Saturday. The Highlanders (5-13, 2-4 in conference), who had lost three straight against Big West competition, dominated inside and shot better from the perimeter to halt the Anteaters' three-game conference winning streak that had allowed them to earn a share for second place entering Saturday.
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By David Carrillo Peñaloza | January 19, 2013
COSTA MESA - Coach Robert Castellano has told his players that they're all important and he needs each one of them to do their part. He's not kidding. Everyone on the team gets to play. With only 15 players, the Estancia High boys' soccer team is thin. The program began the season with 20 players, but three players have been lost to injuries and two players because they had to get jobs. At halftime of the Eagles' match on Friday, they lost another player. Castellano said Chris Gomez, the team's leading goal scorer last season, had to leave because of work.
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January 12, 2013
GIRLS' SOCCER St. Margaret's 2, Sage Hill 0 Goalkeeper Kekai Whitford finished with 14 saves for the Lightning, but it wasn't enough during Saturday's Academy League match. With the setback, Sage Hill dropped to 9-4-2 and 1-2 in league.
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By David Carrillo Peñaloza | September 20, 2012
IRVINE - Estancia High traveled to the city of Irvine to play a football game on Thursday night. The city prides itself on being one of the safest in the country. While the city is safe, no lead was for Estancia on the city's lone high school field with lights. Twice the Eagles took 14-point leads in the second quarter, only to see host University come back and tie the game right before halftime. The Trojans made up a lot of ground. The best way to catch Estancia was by attacking on the ground, and once the Trojans did, they never stopped.
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By Matt Szabo | September 18, 2012
LONG BEACH - With 13 seniors and one junior on his roster, maturity is not a problem for Corona del Mar High boys' water polo coach Barry O'Dea. After watching his Sea Kings lose a 16-15 back-and-forth contest to Long Beach Wilson on Tuesday at Belmont Plaza, O'Dea talked about needing to get better defensively. But it was not an angry observation, just a matter-of-fact one. "They just need to figure out what their priorities are in a game," O'Dea said. "Is it offense and scoring goals, or are we going to put a little more effort into playing some defense?