Northwood baseball coaches, including head coach Josh Keithly, meet with the Timberwolves following Friday’s win over University. (Photo: Tim Burt, OC Sports Zone). Northwood High School’s baseball team has relied on outstanding starting pitching, solid defense and timely hitting to remain atop the Pacific Coast League standings, tied with Beckman, Read More
Orange Lutheran (Division 1) and El Modena (Division 2) are ranked high in this week’s CIF softball polls released on Monday. Pacifica, Los Alamitos, Huntington Beach and Canyon are all ranked in the top 10 for Division 1. Mission Viejo is fifth, Aliso Niguel seventh and Tesoro eighth in Division Read More
Crean Lutheran football coach Rick Curtis leads his team out during a game in 2023. (Photo courtesy Crean Lutheran Shutterbugs). After a highly successful 2023 season, Coach Rick Curtis and his Crean Lutheran High School football players are preparing to compete in a challenging non-league schedule and a new league Read More
Costa Mesa (Division 6), Buena Park (Division 7) and Pacifica Christian (Division 8) are all ranked No. 1 in their divisions in this week’s CIF baseball polls. In Division 1, Orange Lutheran, Santa Margarita, Huntington Beach, JSerra and Mater Dei are ranked in the top 10. Aliso Niguel is ranked Read More
Cozie Zimmerman made her college decision recently. (Photo courtesy Zimmerman family). Irvine High School girls volleyball standout Cozie Zimmerman has signed a national letter of intent to continue her academic and beach volleyball career at Concordia University in Irvine, according to her mother Holiday, the coach of the Vaqueros squad. Read More
Crean Lutheran (Division 2) is top seeded and JSerra (Division 1) second seeded in the CIF girls beach volleyball playoffs that begin this week. Beach volleyball is in its second CIF championship season. The playoffs begin with wild card matches on Tuesday and first-round matches on Thursday. There will be Read More
Century players after Saturday’s win against Santa Ana. (Photo: Tom Connolly, For OC Sports Zone). Century High School’s baseball team is revving up for the CIF playoffs. The Centurions (18-4-1) pounded out 15 hits and took advantage of nine Santa Ana errors to capture a 13-0 nonleague victory over the Read More
CREAN LUTHERAN 3, VALENCIA 0: Crean Lutheran pitchers Joe Rhinehart and Jake Mercurio teamed up on a no-hitter Friday in the Saints Empire League win. Rhinehart pitched five innings, striking out 10 while Mercurio threw two innings striking out six, according to Crean Lutheran Coach Jake Haney. Harrison Stiles had Read More
Kai Mo of Northwood gets ready to slide in for the go-ahead run in the ninth inning as University catcher Luke Emrich waits for the throw. (Photos: Tim Burt, OC Sports Zone). Northwood High School’s baseball team fought off a tough challenge from University but emerged Friday with a 2-0 Read More
Segerstrom players after Friday’s victory over Garden Grove. (Photos: Tom Connolly, For OC Sports Zone). The visiting Segerstrom High School baseball team completed a sweep of Garden Grove in a Golden West League game Friday afternoon with a 2-0 victory over the Argonauts. However, Garden Grove did not go away Read More
