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By Loren Kopff IRVINE-The managers of two Artesia Punishers 14-Under teams admitted it was good to face off against each other in the Premier Girls Fastpitch National Championships. But both…
By Loren Kopff For the second straight game in the Babe Ruth League State Tournament, the Frontier Youth Baseball League 8-Under all-stars had a chance to win a game. But…
By Loren Kopff IRVINE-When Heather Bowen of the (Las Vegas) Lil Rebels smacked a three-run home run in the bottom of the fifth inning against the Artesia Punishers 18-Under team…
By Loren Kopff LONG BEACH-The opening game of the Babe Ruth League State Tournament didn’t go so well for three of the all-star teams from the Frontier Youth Baseball League.…
By Loren Kopff IRVINE-When the travel ball season began last September, the Artesia Punishers team coached by Armando Canizales was a 14-Under squad. But over the past few months, the…
ASA LOS ANGELES/SOUTH BAY “B” DISTRICT TOURNAMENT By Loren Kopff DOWNEY-The bats came alive for the Cerritos Kaos 12-Under All-Star team this past Sunday in the Amateur Softball Association Los…
By Loren Kopff Fresh off of participating in the Tournament of Champions, the four all-star teams of the Frontier Youth Baseball League will participate in the Cal Ripken District All-Star…
PREMIER GIRLS FAST PITCH SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA QUALIFIER By Loren Kopff HEMET-Entering this past Sunday’s action in the Premier Girls Fastpitch Southern California qualifier at Diamond Valley Lake Community Park, the…
By Loren Kopff Four years after I moved from Plano, TX, just northeast of Dallas, to the community of Mira Mesa in suburban San Diego, Tony Gwynn made his debut…
By Loren Kopff With a chance to play in the Premier Girls Fastpitch National Championships in late July, a trio of Artesia Punisher travel ball teams will be participating in…
By Loren Kopff The 47th annual 605 All Star Football Classic was a time for selected seniors across the California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section and Los Angeles City Section to…
By Loren Kopff HUNTINGTON BEACH-The Cerritos Kaos 12-Under all-stars had relative ease in its pool of the South Huntington Beach Tournament last weekend. Unfortunately, when it came to the playoffs,…
By Loren Kopff The 2014 baseball and softball season in the area was one of the most competitive seasons in quite some time with several teams in position for league…
CIF-SOUTHERN SECTION DIVISION III BOYS VOLLEYBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS By Loren Kopff The last two seasons, the Gahr boys volleyball team was swept by South Pasadena in the first round of the…
CIF-SOUTHERN SECTION DIVISION III BASEBALL PLAYOFFS By Loren Kopff GARDEN GROVE-After blasting Beverly Hills 11-0 in a California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section Division III wild card game on May 21, Gahr…
Cerritos Legend is a youth travel baseball team, based in the Cerritos area. Players are 7 and 8 years old, and currently competing at the 8u level. Our team is…
By Loren Kopff CARDIFF-BY-THE-SEA-What began as a promising opening to the slew of summer tournaments for the three Cerritos Girls Softball Association all-star teams ended with a pair of heartbreaking…
By Loren Kopff EL MONTE-For Valley Christian’s baseball team, there was literally no margin for error back on Apr. 29 after a 13-3 road loss to Heritage Christian. It was…
By Loren Kopff Following Cerritos’ 9-1 victory at La Mirada on May 13, first-year softball head coach Mike Freeman was nervous heading into last Thursday’s regular season finale. He, as…
CIF-SOUTHERN SECTION DIVISION II SOFTBALL PLAYOFFS By Loren Kopff Norwalk’s softball team was destined to snap a six-game postseason skid as it led host Long Beach Poly 11-0 midway through…