Santa Margarita players and coaches celebrate after winning the CIF Division I title. (Photos: Tom Connolly, For OC Sports Zone). Saturday’s CIF SoCal Regional Division I baseball championship game pitted top-seeded Santa Margarita against the No. 2 seeded La Costa Canyon, a seemingly perfect ending to the high school baseball Read More
Canyon players, including No. 27 Johnny Lopez, celebrate after defeating Crean Lutheran Friday. (Photos courtesy Crean Lutheran Shutterbugs / John Luciano and Ted Rigoni). Canyon High School’s baseball team came from behind to edge Crean Lutheran 6-5 Friday afternoon at Canyon to capture its first CIF Division IV SoCal Regional Read More
Fullerton players and coaches celebrate after Thursday’s victory. (Photo: Tom Connolly, For OC Sports Zone). Fullerton High School’s softball team erupted for six runs in the first inning and held on to defeat Mater Dei Catholic of Chula Vista 6-4 in a semifinal game of the CIF SoCal Regional Division Read More
Foothill’s baserunner Ally Storey (12) celebrates with teammate Julia Steinberg (15) after scoring the go-ahead run in the top of the seventh inning. (Photos: Fernando M. Donado, For OC Sports Zone). The Foothill High School softball team scored five runs in the final two innings to erase a three-run deficit Read More
Capistrano Valley players display their championship patches after Saturday’s final. (Photos: Tom Connolly, For OC Sports Zone). Madi McDonnell homered and pitched a complete game to lead Capistrano Valley to a 6-1 victory over Santiago of Corona in the CIF Division 3 softball championship game Saturday afternoon at Deanna Manning Stadium. Read More
JSerra players celebrate after winning the CIF Division 1 title for the second year in a row. (Photos: Fernando M. Donado, For OC Sports Zone). Dmitri Susidko’s two-out RBI single scored Jackson Summers from second base in the bottom of the eighth inning propelling JSerra to a 1-0 victory over Read More
Newport Harbor players and coaches with the CIF championship plaque. (Photos: Tom Connolly, OC Sports Zone). Newport Harbor’s boys volleyball team looked like a team on a mission during Saturday’s CIF Division 1 volleyball championship game at Cerritos College. Before a capacity crowd, the Sailors overpowered Corona del Mar in Read More
Santa Margarita players (from left) Drew Rutter, Blake Balsz, Colin Clarke and Charlie Lapp scored eight runs in the sixth inning Friday. (Photos: Tom Connolly, For OC Sports Zone). For five and a half innings La Mirada was in control of a CIF Division 1 baseball quarterfinal playoff game Friday Read More
Fullerton seniors get together after Tuesday’s second round loss. (Photos: Tom Connolly, For OC Sports Zone). No. 4 seeded Gahr High baseball team blasted four home runs en route to a 10-5 victory over Fullerton in a CIF Division 2 second round playoff game Tuesday at Fullerton. The Gladiators (23-6-1) Read More
Fullerton players (from left) Mathew Carbajal, Niko Savage, Niko Mendez, Zach Fany, George Papadatos and Conor Sunderland contributed to Friday’s win. (Photos: Tom Connolly, For OC Sports Zone). Fullerton High School’s baseball team has had a knack this season for late inning rallies. On Friday, Niko Mendez’s sacrifice fly in Read More
