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Ex-Gahr High standout Joshua Perkins excited to be playing in the City of Brotherly Love

Ex-Gahr High standout Joshua Perkins excited to be playing in the City of Brotherly Love

Former Gahr High standout Joshua Perkins is enjoying his new opportunity as a member of the Philadelphia Eagles. The tight end, who was signed by the Atlanta Falcons as an…

Norwalk High grad Penny progressing well with knee injury rehab

Norwalk High grad Rashaad Penny of the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks. Photo by: Islanderzz (Wikimedia).   Staff Report • June 2, 2020 Rashaad Penny appeared to be just finding his footing…

CIF-Southern Section considering all options for 2020-2021 athletic season

CIF-Southern Section considering all options for 2020-2021 athletic season

By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on Twitter • June 2, 2020 This past spring season had lasted roughly one month before COVID-19 put a screeching halt to everything, denying high school…

STATE OF JOHN GLENN HIGH ATHLETICS: Happy to be in the 605 League

STATE OF JOHN GLENN HIGH ATHLETICS: Happy to be in the 605 League

By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on Twitter • May 28, 2020 This is the fourth in a series of stories on the athletic programs of the area high schools from the…

STATE OF GAHR HIGH ATHLETICS: Boys basketball, baseball, softball enjoying greatest success at Gahr High

STATE OF GAHR HIGH ATHLETICS: Boys basketball, baseball, softball enjoying greatest success at Gahr High

    By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on Twitter• May 20, 2020 This is the third in a series of stories on the athletic programs of the area high schools from…

STATE OF CERRITOS HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS: Football, boys soccer anticipate better days ahead while rest of athletic program keeps excelling

STATE OF CERRITOS HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS: Football, boys soccer anticipate better days ahead while rest of athletic program keeps excelling

By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on Twitter This is the second in a series of stories on the athletic programs of the area schools from the past 15-20 years and the…

Norwalk High School Named One of America’s Best High Schools

Norwalk High School Named One of America’s Best High Schools

NORWALK, California, May 5, 2020 – Norwalk High School has been named one of America’s best high schools, according to U.S. News & World Report. The 2020 U.S. News Best…

STATE OF ARTESIA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS: Winter season strong for Artesia High athletics with fall, spring sports showing promise

STATE OF ARTESIA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS: Winter season strong for Artesia High athletics with fall, spring sports showing promise

  By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on Twitter This is the first in a series of stories on the athletic programs of the area teams from the past 15-20 years and…

Gahr High baseball continues to be one of Southland’s top programs

Gahr High baseball continues to be one of Southland’s top programs

By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on Twitter •April 23, 2020 The first thing Gerardo Perez wanted to do when he took over the Gahr High baseball program in 2005 was keep…

Former Gahr High Standout Dwayne Washington NFL’s Newest Million-Dollar Man

Former Gahr High Standout Dwayne Washington NFL’s Newest Million-Dollar Man

Gahr High’s Dwayne Washington after scoring a touchdown in New Orleans.     By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on Twitter While the world is going through a global pandemic right now,…

Artesia Punishers in a holding pattern, look to a possible travel softball season this summer

Artesia Punishers in a holding pattern, look to a possible travel softball season this summer

By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on Twitter The COVID-19 situation has abruptly ended the high school spring athletic season and has put temporary stops to other events that some of the…

COMMUNITY SPORTS: COVID-19 puts area athletic coaches in unchartered territory

COMMUNITY SPORTS: COVID-19 puts area athletic coaches in unchartered territory

By Loren Kopff• @LorenKopff on Twitter While school districts across the Southland had already made the decision to shut down their schools for the remainder of the 2019-2020 academic year weeks…

Basketball, soccer accolades continue as All CIF-Southern Section teams are announced 

Basketball, soccer accolades continue as All CIF-Southern Section teams are announced 

BY LOREN KOPFF • @LORENKOPFF ON TWITTER • April 3, 2020 The final high school basketball and soccer games may have been played in late February or early March, but the…

WHITNEY HIGH’S MARK JOHNSON IS THE BACKBONE OF AQUATICS IN THE AREA 

WHITNEY HIGH’S MARK JOHNSON IS THE BACKBONE OF AQUATICS IN THE AREA 

  WHITNEY HIGH SWIMMING and water polo coach Mark Johnson awards the Ben Carlson Award to Caden Cunningham of Huntington Beach at last summer’s Chubascos bodysurfing contest. Cunningham had the…

Athletic Directors scramble to make plans amidst Coronavirus pandemic shutdown

  By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on Twitter   Thursday, March 12 will be a day in the world of sports that no one will ever forget. It was the day…

2019-2020 HMG-COMMUNITY NEWS WINTER ALL-AREA TEAMS: Ending of long playoff droughts highlight basketball, soccer seasons

2019-2020 HMG-COMMUNITY NEWS WINTER ALL-AREA TEAMS: Ending of long playoff droughts highlight basketball, soccer seasons

By Loren Kopf • @LorenKopff on Twitter The beginning of the new decade will be one that several area basketball and soccer teams will remember for a long time. The…

COMMENTARY: Artesia girls basketball slowly moving back on the map

COMMENTARY: Artesia girls basketball slowly moving back on the map

ARTESIA HIGH girls basketball head coach Shontya Pouncey is all smiles as he holds the plaque following his team’s 46-38 victory over San Jacinto Valley Academy in the CIF-Southern Section…

CIF-SS DIV. 5 AA GIRLS BASKETBALL FINALS : Artesia holds off San Jacinto Valley Academy to win program’s first championship in 17 years

CIF-SS DIV. 5 AA GIRLS BASKETBALL FINALS : Artesia holds off San Jacinto Valley Academy to win program’s first championship in 17 years

The Artesia High girls basketball team defeated San Jacinto Valley Academy 46-39 last Saturday morning to capture the CIF-Southern Section Division 5 AA championship. It’s the program’s fourth divisional title,…

NEWS AND NOTES FROM PRESS ROW: Cerritos girls basketball player Kari Orr signs to play soccer at California Lutheran University

NEWS AND NOTES FROM PRESS ROW: Cerritos girls basketball player Kari Orr signs to play soccer at California Lutheran University

Cerritos High senior Kari Orr (center) is surrounded by coaches, family members and friends as she signed a letter of intent to play soccer at California Lutheran University.  By Loren…

CIF-SS DIV. 5AA GIRLS BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS : McKee, Young power Artesia into program’s first divisional title game in 17 years

By Loren Kopff • @ LorenKopff on Twitter SAN BERNARDINO-Artesia High girls basketball head coach Shonyta Pouncey has been around a long time to remember how he got started in…