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16-05-2025
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Prep baseball roundup: Angel Cervantes pitches Warren to 1-0 playoff victory
It takes a shutout to beat hard-throwing Angel Cervantes of Warren these days. Robby Zimmerman of Redondo Union did his best Thursday in an opening-round game of the Southern Section Division 3 playoffs. He held Warren scoreless for six innings until Ivan Perez drove in Cervantes with an RBI single in the seventh. That's all Cervantes needed to complete a 1-0 victory. He shut down Redondo Union in the bottom of the seventh and finished with 11 strikeouts and one walk. He gave up three hits. Advertisement Santa Margarita 2, Newport Beach 0: Brennan Bauer threw the shutout, giving up just three hits. The Eagles advanced in the Division 1 playoffs to play at Huntington Beach on Tuesday. Gavin Spiridonoff drove in both runs. Arcadia 2, Aliso Niguel 1: The Apaches won in the bottom of the 11th inning on a two-out single by Tyler Brereton. Gus Cooper allowed one run in nine innings and Damian Catano threw two shutout innings for Arcadia. Los Osos 7, Cypress 5: The Grizzlies won their Division 1 opener and advanced to play at top-seeded Corona on Tuesday. Drew Cromwell had a two-run single. Villa Park 8, Bishop Amat 7: The Spartans got the winning run in the bottom of the seventh on a wild pitch. Jake Nobles hit a two-run home run and threw three innings of shutout relief. Advertisement El Dorado 5, Ayala 0: Logan Steenburgen threw a five-hit shutout to advance in Division 1. Jake Vanderzee had three hits. El Dorado will face No. 2-seeded Crespi on Tuesday. Laguna Beach 7, Summit 5: Lucien Reed had an RBI triple and Dylan Yencho had an RBI double during a two-run seventh to break a 5-5 tie and lift Laguna Beach in Division 1. Los Alamitos 4, La Mirada 2: Tristan Dalzell struck out eight in six innings and Nate Walker and Tyler Smith each had two RBIs. Norco 9, Corona Centennial 2: Sophomore Dylan Seward had a home run and three RBIs and freshman Jordan Ayala struck out eight in 5 1/3 innings for Norco, which plays Laguna Beach in the second round on Tuesday. Advertisement Mira Costa 2, Arlington 0: Garrett Jacobs threw a complete game in the Division 1 contest. He struck out five and gave up three hits. Lucas Shermer hit a home run. Vista Murrieta 8, Harvard-Westlake 6: An eight-run first inning enabled Vista Murrieta to win. It will face Trinity League champion St. John Bosco on Tuesday in Division 1. RJ Holmes had two hits and three RBIs. Castaic 7, Paloma Valley 6: Giovanni Foster had three hits and three RBIs in a Division 3 opener. Fullerton 8, Long Beach Wilson 2: Zach Fany contributed three hits in the Division 3 victory. Declan Fitzgerald struck out nine. San Dimas 6, Calabasas 1: The Saints picked up the Division 3 win. Advertisement Garfield 3, San Fernando 2: The Bulldogs held on for the City Section Division I victory. Palisades 7, Kennedy 4: Jett Teegardin struck out six in six innings in Palisades. San Pedro 11, Hamilton 0: Tyrus Wilson had two hits and four RBIs and Anthony Solis struck out eight in a five-inning City Division I playoff win for the Pirates. Taft 7, Bell 4: The Toreadors upset defending City Section Open Division champion Bell in a first-round Division I game behind Oliver Berger, who had two RBIs. Banning 10, LACES 1: The top-seeded Pilots won their City Division I opener. AJ Herrera threw five innings. Angelo Duarte and Brandon Villarreal each had two RBIs. Banning will play Garfield on Saturday. Advertisement Jefferson 21, Lakeview Charter 0: The top-seeded Democrats won their City Division III opener. Monroe 1, Torres 0: Jeremiah Vicuna scored the winning run in the ninth inning on catcher's interference. Miguel Gonzalez struck out 11 in nine innings. Sign up for the L.A. Times SoCal high school sports newsletter to get scores, stories and a behind-the-scenes look at what makes prep sports so popular. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
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16-05-2025
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Prep baseball roundup: Angel Cervantes pitches Warren to 1-0 playoff victory
It takes a shutout to beat hard-throwing Angel Cervantes of Warren these days. Robby Zimmerman of Redondo Union did his best Thursday in an opening-round game of the Southern Section Division 3 playoffs. He held Warren scoreless for six innings until Ivan Perez drove in Cervantes with an RBI single in the seventh. That's all Cervantes needed to complete a 1-0 victory. He shut down Redondo Union in the bottom of the seventh and finished with 11 strikeouts and one walk. He gave up three hits. Santa Margarita 2, Newport Beach 0: Brennan Bauer threw the shutout, giving up just three hits. The Eagles advanced in the Division 1 playoffs to play at Huntington Beach on Tuesday. Gavin Spiridonoff drove in both runs. Arcadia 2, Aliso Niguel 1: The Apaches won in the bottom of the 11th inning on a two-out single by Tyler Brereton. Gus Cooper allowed one run in nine innings and Damian Catano threw two shutout innings for Arcadia. Los Osos 7, Cypress 5: The Grizzlies won their Division 1 opener and advanced to play at top-seeded Corona on Tuesday. Drew Cromwell had a two-run single. Villa Park 8, Bishop Amat 7: The Spartans got the winning run in the bottom of the seventh on a wild pitch. Jake Nobles hit a two-run home run and threw three innings of shutout relief. El Dorado 5, Ayala 0: Logan Steenburgen threw a five-hit shutout to advance in Division 1. Jake Vanderzee had three hits. El Dorado will face No. 2-seeded Crespi on Tuesday. Laguna Beach 7, Summit 5: Lucien Reed had an RBI triple and Dylan Yencho had an RBI double during a two-run seventh to break a 5-5 tie and lift Laguna Beach in Division 1. Los Alamitos 4, La Mirada 2: Tristan Dalzell struck out eight in six innings and Nate Walker and Tyler Smith each had two RBIs. Norco 9, Corona Centennial 2: Sophomore Dylan Seward had a home run and three RBIs and freshman Jordan Ayala struck out eight in 5 1/3 innings for Norco, which plays Laguna Beach in the second round on Tuesday. Mira Costa 2, Arlington 0: Garrett Jacobs threw a complete game in the Division 1 contest. He struck out five and gave up three hits. Lucas Shermer hit a home run. Vista Murrieta 8, Harvard-Westlake 6: An eight-run first inning enabled Vista Murrieta to win. It will face Trinity League champion St. John Bosco on Tuesday in Division 1. RJ Holmes had two hits and three RBIs. Castaic 7, Paloma Valley 6: Giovanni Foster had three hits and three RBIs in a Division 3 opener. Fullerton 8, Long Beach Wilson 2: Zach Fany contributed three hits in the Division 3 victory. Declan Fitzgerald struck out nine. San Dimas 6, Calabasas 1: The Saints picked up the Division 3 win. Garfield 3, San Fernando 2: The Bulldogs held on for the City Section Division I victory. Palisades 7, Kennedy 4: Jett Teegardin struck out six in six innings in Palisades. San Pedro 11, Hamilton 0: Tyrus Wilson had two hits and four RBIs and Anthony Solis struck out eight in a five-inning City Division I playoff win for the Pirates. Taft 7, Bell 4: The Toreadors upset defending City Section Open Division champion Bell in a first-round Division I game behind Oliver Berger, who had two RBIs. Banning 10, LACES 1: The top-seeded Pilots won their City Division I opener. AJ Herrera threw five innings. Angelo Duarte and Brandon Villarreal each had two RBIs. Banning will play Garfield on Saturday. Jefferson 21, Lakeview Charter 0: The top-seeded Democrats won their City Division III opener. Monroe 1, Torres 0: Jeremiah Vicuna scored the winning run in the ninth inning on catcher's interference. Miguel Gonzalez struck out 11 in nine innings.
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04-05-2025
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Redondo Union claims Southern Section girls' beach volleyball title
Redondo Union teammates congratulate Bella Jones (far right) after her championship-winning kill Saturday against league rival Mira Costa that clinched the Southern Section girls' beach volleyball title. (Steve Galluzzo / For the Times) The moment of truth arrived … and Bella Jones rose to the occasion. Leaping as high as she could from her right-side position, the Redondo Union senior angled a crosscourt kill that clipped the top of the net and dropped into the open court to complete a 12-21, 21-14, 15-13 comeback for Jones and partner Kara Namimatsu to lift the Sea Hawks to a thrilling 3-2 dual victory over defending champion Mira Costa in the CIF Southern Section Division 1 beach volleyball final Saturday afternoon at Long Beach City College. Advertisement The Bay League rivals had split the first four matches, with Redondo Union winning on the first two courts and Mira Costa prevailing on the last two, so the championship came down to Court 3, where Jones and Namimatsu were down 11-8 to the Mustangs tandem of Lily Sprague and Allyn Hilt before rallying back to take a 14-12 lead on an ace by Jones. Sprague's spike landed on the baseline to stave off the first championship point, setting the stage for Jones' heroics. 'I told Kara let's go out swinging … win or lose I'm going to be aggressive,' said the teary-eyed Jones, who is headed to San Diego State to play indoor volleyball. 'I was really nervous and it wasn't the best swing, it hit the tape, but all these girls mean so much to me and I wanted to win it for them.' It was only the second time Jones and Namimatsu had played together — the first being two days before in the semifinals. 'We had an injury so we switched our lineup on the bus for JSerra and we just went with it,' Jones confessed. 'Yesterday we served and passed to each other for about an hour and that helped.' Redondo Union's Abby Zimmerman lofts the ball over Mira Costa's Simone Roslon in the Southern Section Division 1 girls' beach volleyball final. (Steve Galluzzo / For The Times) 'Our chemistry works well together and in the timeouts our coach told us to trust in each other, trust in your training,' added Namimatsu, a junior transfer from Bishop Montgomery and early USC beach volleyball commit. Advertisement The result was practically a carbon copy of the Sea Hawks' semifinal triumph, only that time it was Abby Zimmerman and Avery Junk winning 15-13 in the third set of the deciding match on Court 1. On Saturday, the pair swept Mira Costa's top duo of Olga Nikolaeva and Simone Roslon, 21-17, 21-14. 'This is a really big win for us and it's really exciting to have all five matches going on at the same time,' said Zimmerman, an All-CIF junior outside hitter who is going to California for indoor. 'Our coaches trusted me and Avery to go up against their best. It was just our day.' 'We beat them earlier this year which gave us confidence that we could do it but we lost to them in the finals the last two years so we knew we had to play our best,' added Junk, a senior head to Florida State to play beach with twin sister Addy, who won 22-20, 20-17 on Court 2 with partner Leah Blair. Mira Costa juniors Audrey Flanagan and Anabelle Redaelli prevailed easily 21-11, 21-18 on Court 4 while sophomores Lerin Rosenthal and Sammy Nammack won 21-17, 25-23 on Court 5. Advertisement On March 4, Redondo Union snapped Mira Costa's 170-match winning streak spanning over a decade (the majority of them coming in Interscholastic Beach Volleyball League play before the CIF sanctioned beach volleyball). Mira Costa won the rematch 5-0 on March 26 and was poised for a three-peat. Saturday, however, belonged to the Sea Hawks. A similar scenario unfolded in the first dual Saturday morning and the ending was equally dramatic as Long Beach Poly's Simone Millsap and Alyssa Luna overcame a match point on Court 4 to win the deciding set 17-15, with Millsap serving an ace to clinch the Jackrabbits' 3-2 triumph over Anaheim Canyon in the inaugural Division 3 final. Long each Poly celebrates its 3-2 triumph over Anaheim Canyon in the Southern Section Division 3 girls' beach volleyball final Saturday at Long Beach City College. (Steve Galluzzo / For The Times) 'My thought was 'I need to get this in,'' Millsap said of her last serve ag ainst Canyon's Erin Ly and Hannah Huang. 'I just closed my eyes and envisioned it going to the left corner— and luckily it did.' Advertisement Poly's Aleeya Salima and Lindyn Foster pulled out a 13-21, 21-17, 15-11 win on Court 1 to level the score. 'Going into the last set we knew it come down to us and I think it was about 8-8 when we heard cheering and saw everyone running over to our court that we knew for sure,' Millsap said. 'When a game's going point by point, your goal is to get the last two,' said Luna, who was called up from JV to play with Millsap in the third round of the playoffs. 'Our indoor team won CIF in November so this is extra special.' The second match of Saturday's championship tripleheader pitted two Long Beach schools against each other and again it came down to Court 4, where Wilson sophomore Iyla Alvarado and junior Jane Morrison prevailed 21-19, 18-21, 15-11 over Millikan's Mikayla Brumbelow and Johanna Swerdloff to secure the title for the Bruins. Advertisement Moments later, Rams juniors Sophia Orbiso and Aubrey Greene pulled out a 21-17, 17-21, 21-19 win on Court 2 but by then Wilson had already clinched. Millikan was trying to avenge 3-2 and 4-1 losses in Moore League play. Long Beach Wilson's Sadie Calderone is defended at the net by Millikan's Bethany Arnold in the Division 2 final Saturday at Long Beach City College. (Steve Galluzzo / For The Times) 'It was 2-1 at that point, but I was like 'we need to do this!,' Morrison said. 'It helps having people there supporting me. Even though we'd beaten them twice this is the finals and we knew it could go either way.' 'No matter what's going on with the other matches, we want to win ours,' Alvarado added. 'This is our second year playing together, we have good chemistry, we talk strategy and pride ourselves on being mentally stronger than the other team.' Advertisement Sign up for the L.A. Times SoCal high school sports newsletter to get scores, stories and a behind-the-scenes look at what makes prep sports so popular. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles Times
04-05-2025
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Redondo Union claims Southern Section girls' beach volleyball title
The moment of truth arrived … and Bella Jones rose to the occasion. Leaping as high as she could from her right-side position, the Redondo Union senior angled a crosscourt kill that clipped the top of the net and dropped into the open court to complete a 12-21, 21-14, 15-13 comeback for Jones and partner Kara Namimatsu to lift the Sea Hawks to a thrilling 3-2 dual victory over defending champion Mira Costa in the CIF Southern Section Division 1 beach volleyball final Saturday afternoon at Long Beach City College. The Bay League rivals had split the first four matches, with Redondo Union winning on the first two courts and Mira Costa prevailing on the last two, so the championship came down to Court 3, where Jones and Namimatsu were down 11-8 to the Mustangs tandem of Lily Sprague and Allyn Hilt before rallying back to take a 14-12 lead on an ace by Jones. Sprague's spike landed on the baseline to stave off the first championship point, setting the stage for Jones' heroics. 'I told Kara let's go out swinging … win or lose I'm going to be aggressive,' said the teary-eyed Jones, who is headed to San Diego State to play indoor volleyball. 'I was really nervous and it wasn't the best swing, it hit the tape, but all these girls mean so much to me and I wanted to win it for them.' It was only the second time Jones and Namimatsu had played together — the first being two days before in the semifinals. 'We had an injury so we switched our lineup on the bus for JSerra and we just went with it,' Jones confessed. 'Yesterday we served and passed to each other for about an hour and that helped.' 'Our chemistry works well together and in the timeouts our coach told us to trust in each other, trust in your training,' added Namimatsu, a junior transfer from Bishop Montgomery and early USC beach volleyball commit. The result was practically a carbon copy of the Sea Hawks' semifinal triumph, only that time it was Abby Zimmerman and Avery Junk winning 15-13 in the third set of the deciding match on Court 1. On Saturday, the pair swept Mira Costa's top duo of Olga Nikolaeva and Simone Roslon, 21-17, 21-14. 'This is a really big win for us and it's really exciting to have all five matches going on at the same time,' said Zimmerman, an All-CIF junior outside hitter who is going to California for indoor. 'Our coaches trusted me and Avery to go up against their best. It was just our day.' 'We beat them earlier this year which gave us confidence that we could do it but we lost to them in the finals the last two years so we knew we had to play our best,' added Junk, a senior head to Florida State to play beach with twin sister Addy, who won 22-20, 20-17 on Court 2 with partner Leah Blair. Mira Costa juniors Audrey Flanagan and Anabelle Redaelli prevailed easily 21-11, 21-18 on Court 4 while sophomores Lerin Rosenthal and Sammy Nammack won 21-17, 25-23 on Court 5. On March 4, Redondo Union snapped Mira Costa's 170-match winning streak spanning over a decade (the majority of them coming in Interscholastic Beach Volleyball League play before the CIF sanctioned beach volleyball). Mira Costa won the rematch 5-0 on March 26 and was poised for a three-peat. Saturday, however, belonged to the Sea Hawks. A similar scenario unfolded in the first dual Saturday morning and the ending was equally dramatic as Long Beach Poly's Simone Millsap and Alyssa Luna overcame a match point on Court 4 to win the deciding set 17-15, with Millsap serving an ace to clinch the Jackrabbits' 3-2 triumph over Anaheim Canyon in the inaugural Division 3 final. 'My thought was 'I need to get this in,'' Millsap said of her last serve ag ainst Canyon's Erin Ly and Hannah Huang. 'I just closed my eyes and envisioned it going to the left corner— and luckily it did.' Poly's Aleeya Salima and Lindyn Foster pulled out a 13-21, 21-17, 15-11 win on Court 1 to level the score. 'Going into the last set we knew it come down to us and I think it was about 8-8 when we heard cheering and saw everyone running over to our court that we knew for sure,' Millsap said. 'When a game's going point by point, your goal is to get the last two,' said Luna, who was called up from JV to play with Millsap in the third round of the playoffs. 'Our indoor team won CIF in November so this is extra special.' The second match of Saturday's championship tripleheader pitted two Long Beach schools against each other and again it came down to Court 4, where Wilson sophomore Iyla Alvarado and junior Jane Morrison prevailed 21-19, 18-21, 15-11 over Millikan's Mikayla Brumbelow and Johanna Swerdloff to secure the title for the Bruins. Moments later, Rams juniors Sophia Orbiso and Aubrey Greene pulled out a 21-17, 17-21, 21-19 win on Court 2 but by then Wilson had already clinched. Millikan was trying to avenge 3-2 and 4-1 losses in Moore League play. 'It was 2-1 at that point, but I was like 'we need to do this!,' Morrison said. 'It helps having people there supporting me. Even though we'd beaten them twice this is the finals and we knew it could go either way.' 'No matter what's going on with the other matches, we want to win ours,' Alvarado added. 'This is our second year playing together, we have good chemistry, we talk strategy and pride ourselves on being mentally stronger than the other team.'
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29-04-2025
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Prep talk: Beach volleyball playoffs to decide Southern Section champion this week
Mira Costa players celebrate after defeating Redondo Union for the CIF Southern Section Division 1 girls' beach volleyball title at Long Beach City College last year. (Steve Galluzzo / For The Times) Can any team defeat No. 1 Mira Costa in girls' beach volleyball? We'll find out this week as the quarterfinals, semifinals and finals will be held in Southern Section Division 1. Edison will take the first chance against Mira Costa in the quarterfinals on Tuesday. The other matchups have Santa Margarita facing Los Alamitos, Redondo Union taking on San Marcos and San Juan Hills playing JSerra. Redondo Union has the only win against Mira Costa this season. Advertisement The championships will be Saturday at Long Beach City College. The City Section will hold its beach championships on Friday at Santa Monica State Beach. Venice is seeded No. 1 in the 16-team field. This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. To submit any news, please email Sign up for the L.A. Times SoCal high school sports newsletter to get scores, stories and a behind-the-scenes look at what makes prep sports so popular. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
