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Yahoo
2 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
High school baseball: Southern California regional pairings
Baseball and glove on field high school scores (Getty Images) SOCAL REGIONAL BASEBALL PAIRINGS FIRST ROUND June 3 (All games at 4 p.m. unless noted) DIVISION 1 #8 St. Augustine at #1 St. John Bosco #5 Villa Park at #4 Granite Hills #6 Mater Dei vs. #3 Crespi at Hartunian Park Advertisement #7 Patrick Henry at #2 Santa Margarita DIVISION II #8 Rancho Bernardo at #1 Fountain Valley #5 Glendora at #4 Eastlake #6 Point Loma at #3 El Camino Real #7 San Dimas at #2 Santa Maria St. Joseph DIVISION III #8 St. Anthony at #1 Dos Pueblos #5 University City at #4 Birmingham #6 Trinity Classical Academy at #3 Venice #7 Elsinore at #2 Mt. Carmel DIVISION IV #8 Lemoore at #1 Banning #5 Rancho Mirage at #4 Ramona #6 Mary Star of the Sea at #3 Estancia #7 Riverside Notre Dame at #2 Ridgeview DIVISION V #8 LA University at #1 Corcoran #5 Port of Los Angeles at #4 Nuview Bridge #6 Mountain View at #3 Pioneer #7 High Tech SD at #2 Fillmore Advertisement Note: Semifinals in all divisions June 5 at higher seeds; Finals June 7 at higher seeds. 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.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
St. John Bosco wins Division 1 baseball championship on Miles Clark's walk-off single
To say that St. John Bosco and Santa Margarita engaged in a championship baseball game on Friday night that will be remembered for a lifetime would be an understatement. "This game was special, something I'll remember for the rest of my life. You really had to fight for it," said St. John Bosco left fielder Noah Everly. Advertisement It was a Southern Section Division 1 final filled with drama. Teenagers came through with big play after big play until finally in the bottom of the ninth inning, with the bases loaded, Miles Clark hit a walk-off single up the middle to give St. John Bosco a 3-2 victory and its first baseball championship before a sold-out crowd of 3,010 at Cal State Fullerton. "It hurts a lot," Santa Margarita coach Chris Malec said. "It was a great effort by both sides. There were so many amazing moments." Let's start with Santa Margarita pitcher Brennan Bauer, who threw five scoreless innings of relief and somehow escaped twice with the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh to keep the game going. First he had a 3-and-1 count to Everly and got a pop fly with one out. Then he had a 3-2 count with Moises Razo and got a fly out to the warning track. Advertisement "That's all Brennan," Malec said. In 22 1/3 playoff innings, Brenann won four games and gave up one earned run. Then there was Everly coming through with a stunning catch on the run in left field in the top of the ninth inning to prevent a Santa Margarita extra base hit with a runner on first. "That was an extraordinary catch," Malec said. Said Clark: "Oh my goodness, Noah came through." So did Clark against relief pitcher Ethan Russell in the bottom of the ninth. Bauer had run out of innings, having reached his 10-inning max after throwing five innings against Crespi in the semifinals. Russell walked Razo on a 3-2 pitch to load the bases, setting the stage for Clark. Advertisement "We were locked in the whole game," Clark said. "We didn't lose our mental focus. I kept telling my guys we have to stay focused." Razo had a two-run double in the first inning to give the Braves an early lead. Santa Margarita took advantage of an error and closed it to 2-1 in the second on Brody Schumaker's second hit. The Eagles tied tied it at 2-2 in the fifth with a squeeze bunt by Blake Ankrum, the third sacrifice of the game. After Gavin Cervantes started on the mound and freshman Brayden Krakowski pitched into the sixth inning, St. John Bosco turned to its closer, Jack Champlin, who was magnificent. In four scoreless innings, he allowed one hit with four strikeouts. At one point, a Santa Margarita batter appeared to challenge Champlin after the count went to 3-0. Champlin proceeded to strike him out, unleashing a fist pump. St. John Bosco ended up being the most consistent team in the Southland for the 2025 season. The Braves went 27-4 and became the first Trinity League champion to win a Division 1 title. All the other Trinity League teams that have won Division 1 never won the league title. And beating top-seeded Corona 2-0 on Tuesday was quite an accomplishment itself. 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.
Sydney Morning Herald
09-05-2025
- Business
- Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney's accidental MPs who seized Liberal seats when no one was looking
He has lived in the Shire his whole life, attending local Catholic schools (St John Bosco primary and high schools in Engadine) and the Shire campus of Wollongong University, where he studied economics and finance. He has worked for a Shire state MP (Maryanne Stuart, the Labor MP for Heathcote) and his parents are local public school teachers. Moncrieff says his strength was knowing so many people in his community, whether from his former schools or cricket club or through his family. 'I focused on direct community engagement, I campaigned full-time and being a local, I knew a lot of the issues, and when I would door knock, there was always people I knew, or knew my parents,' Moncrieff says. 'We have lots of small business owners and lots of people with technical education such as tradies so the messages – tax cuts, fee-free TAFE – were resonating with people. I was a teenager in the Rudd-Gillard years when the Labor brand was toxic, but now people see us as pro business and pro economy.' Moncrieff is adamant his win was not a fluke. Rather, it was the result of plenty of hard work. 'The fact that Hughes wasn't being looked at on election night, summed it up. People felt that they had been ignored,' Moncrieff says. Soon, meanwhile, is a former diplomat who was stationed in Afghanistan. He was the youngest ever appointee to the NSW Board of Studies and studied at the Australian National University. Born in Malaysia, Soon moved to Sydney aged three and grew up in Revesby. He went to Hurlstone Technology High and is now raising his young family in Padstow. Apart from his overseas posting and his university studies, Soon has never left Banks. He has had a long career in public policy, especially education, and behavioural economics – but had a calling to politics. Soon unsuccessfully contested Banks for Labor at the 2022 election. So how did he pull off a task no one thought possible this time? 'In my heart of hearts I thought Banks was a Labor seat,' Soon, 39, says. 'I was focused on the hard work, knocking on thousands of doors and generally trying to help people, even with things that had nothing to do with the election. On one of the doors, I helped someone register their Service NSW app, so I just tried to be helpful to every person I met.' He says Labor's commitment to roll out more urgent care clinics was popular in Banks – a 'tangible' policy, he says – but Soon believes his lifelong ties to the electorate won him the seat. 'When people raise roads, I know exactly what they are talking about because I have driven on those roads all my life. I can tell them the best places to park,' Soon says. 'Banks is my home, it always has been.' Moncrieff and Soon had very little financial help from Labor head office, other than the standard allowance to cover how-to-vote cards, corflutes and campaign T-shirts. One senior party operative, who asked not to be named to speak frankly, said: 'They were definitely accidental MPs. Hughes and Banks were just not in our sights at all.' Moncrieff and Soon celebrated their wins on Saturday night, then it was straight back to work. Both were at train stations first thing on Monday. Moncrieff at Sutherland, Soon at Riverwood – this time, they went to thank voters for sending them to Canberra.
The Age
09-05-2025
- Business
- The Age
Sydney's accidental MPs who seized Liberal seats when no one was looking
He has lived in the Shire his whole life, attending local Catholic schools (St John Bosco primary and high schools in Engadine) and the Shire campus of Wollongong University, where he studied economics and finance. He has worked for a Shire state MP (Maryanne Stuart, the Labor MP for Heathcote) and his parents are local public school teachers. Moncrieff says his strength was knowing so many people in his community, whether from his former schools or cricket club or through his family. 'I focused on direct community engagement, I campaigned full-time and being a local, I knew a lot of the issues, and when I would door knock, there was always people I knew, or knew my parents,' Moncrieff says. 'We have lots of small business owners and lots of people with technical education such as tradies so the messages – tax cuts, fee-free TAFE – were resonating with people. I was a teenager in the Rudd-Gillard years when the Labor brand was toxic, but now people see us as pro business and pro economy.' Moncrieff is adamant his win was not a fluke. Rather, it was the result of plenty of hard work. 'The fact that Hughes wasn't being looked at on election night, summed it up. People felt that they had been ignored,' Moncrieff says. Soon, meanwhile, is a former diplomat who was stationed in Afghanistan. He was the youngest ever appointee to the NSW Board of Studies and studied at the Australian National University. Born in Malaysia, Soon moved to Sydney aged three and grew up in Revesby. He went to Hurlstone Technology High and is now raising his young family in Padstow. Apart from his overseas posting and his university studies, Soon has never left Banks. He has had a long career in public policy, especially education, and behavioural economics – but had a calling to politics. Soon unsuccessfully contested Banks for Labor at the 2022 election. So how did he pull off a task no one thought possible this time? 'In my heart of hearts I thought Banks was a Labor seat,' Soon, 39, says. 'I was focused on the hard work, knocking on thousands of doors and generally trying to help people, even with things that had nothing to do with the election. On one of the doors, I helped someone register their Service NSW app, so I just tried to be helpful to every person I met.' He says Labor's commitment to roll out more urgent care clinics was popular in Banks – a 'tangible' policy, he says – but Soon believes his lifelong ties to the electorate won him the seat. 'When people raise roads, I know exactly what they are talking about because I have driven on those roads all my life. I can tell them the best places to park,' Soon says. 'Banks is my home, it always has been.' Moncrieff and Soon had very little financial help from Labor head office, other than the standard allowance to cover how-to-vote cards, corflutes and campaign T-shirts. One senior party operative, who asked not to be named to speak frankly, said: 'They were definitely accidental MPs. Hughes and Banks were just not in our sights at all.' Moncrieff and Soon celebrated their wins on Saturday night, then it was straight back to work. Both were at train stations first thing on Monday. Moncrieff at Sutherland, Soon at Riverwood – this time, they went to thank voters for sending them to Canberra.
