By Loren Kopff Coming off a strong performance in the Southern California Summer Sunsational Tournament last weekend in Lancaster, winning four of five games played and outscoring its opponents 29-7,…
By Loren Kopff For the next two weeks, the Premier Girls Fastpitch National Championships will take center stage and the first of two Artesia Punisher squads participating in the event…
Editor’s note: Due to an unfortunate situation, the Chinese National Team has to cancel two games scheduled against a pair of Artesia Punisher teams. The Chinese National Team was scheduled to…
Trio of area softball players win 16-Under Champions Cup By Loren Kopff IRVINE-While the Cal A’s-Iseri 16-Under travel softball team, based out of La Habra, may not have…
Cerritos 14-Under All-Stars blow lead late, fall short of Western Nationals By Loren Kopff PALMDALE-The Cerritos Girls Softball Association 14-Under All-Stars were three outs away from advancing to…
Washington, DC- Reps. Linda T. Sánchez (CA-38) and Jackie Speier (CA- 14), along with 33 original co-sponsors, today introduced a resolution calling on the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) to immediately…
TRIPLE CROWN SPORTS COLORADO SPARKLER JUNIORS TOURNAMENT By Loren Kopff When last we saw the Artesia Punishers 14-Under travel softball team, managed by Danny Guerrero, it had just secured a…
By Loren Kopff Tim Walton may have started as just one of the guys on the Cerritos High School baseball in the late 1980s. But in 10 years, he has…
NEWS AND NOTES FROM PRESS ROW By Loren Kopff One of the biggest sports clichés is it’s not how you do in the regular season, it’s how you do at…
AMATEUR SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION L.A./SOUTH BAY “B: DISTRICT TOURNAMENT By Loren Kopff DOWNEY-It hasn’t been the all-star season that Shasta Rivera had anticipated but for one brief moment, her Cerritos Girls…
By Loren Kopff PICO RIVERA-Three games, three opponents and roughly 11 hours was all that was needed for the Cerritos Girls Softball Association’s 14-Under All-Star team to win its second…
NEWS AND NOTES FROM PRESS ROW By Loren Kopff LA MIRADA-The Artesia Punishers 16-Under team travel softball team, managed by Armando Canizales, had a very brief stay in the Premier…
PREMIER GIRLS FASTPITCH SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA QUALIFIER By Loren Kopff MENIFEE-The Artesia Punishers 14-Under travel softball team, coached by Danny Guerrero, made the most of its only appearance in a Premier…
PREMIER GIRLS FASTPITCH SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA QUALIFIER By Loren Kopff HEMET-The hardest thing for any travel softball team to endure in any tournament is to go through the loser’s bracket after…
SURF CITY SUMMER KICKOFF By Loren Kopff ANAHEIM-The Artesia Punishers travel softball program has a new 18-Under team that has played in just a few showcase tournaments thus far. But…
SURF CITY SUMMER KICKOFF By Loren Kopff LA HABRA-Last summer in the Premier Girls Fastpitch National Championships, a pair of Artesia Punishers 14-Under travel softball teams squared off against each…
SURF CITY SUMMER KICKOFF By Loren Kopff Bob Medina, the manager of the Artesia Punishers 18 Gold travel softball team didn’t know if his team was ready for this weekend’s…
By Loren Kopff HEMET-The Inland Empire was home to hundreds of college coaches and thousands of softball players who participated in the Triple Crown Sports Zoom Into June tournament…
By Loren Kopff While the Cerritos and Gahr softball teams were making expected deep runs in the California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section playoffs, their respective baseball teams were having interesting seasons…