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Basketball, soccer accolades continue as All CIF-Southern Section teams are announced
BY LOREN KOPFF • @LORENKOPFF ON TWITTER • April 3, 2020 The final high school basketball and soccer games may have been played in late February or early March, but the…
NEWS AND NOTES FROM PRESS ROW : La Mirada boys soccer denied multiple times in late stages of key game with Mayfair
By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on Twitter LAKEWOOD-When you’re down a goal in the second half of any soccer game, that sense of urgency to tie is magnified 10 times. Such…
2019 VALLEY CHRISTIAN THANKSGIVING CLASSIC : Payero Powers Valley Christian Past La Mirada High 67-49
The Valley Christian High boys basketball team celebrates after knocking off La Mirada High 67-49 last Saturday night to win the 2019 Valley Christian Thanksgiving Classic. Senior Malvin Payero was…
PREMIER GIRLS FASTPITCH 10th ANNIVERSARY : Travel softball’s top organization continues to grow in many ways
By Loren Kopff @LorenKopff on Twitter For the longest time, the Amateur Softball Association was the leading organization where travel softball players showcased their talents, hopeful of landing college…
WEEK 9 FOOTBALL Artesia stays alive for possible postseason bid in high-scoring affair with Cerritos
By Loren Kopff @LorenKopff on Twitter The only thing missing from Artesia High’s homecoming football game against Cerritos High last Friday night was the scoreboard at Atkins Stadium missing a…
WEEK EIGHT FOOTBALL Norwalk spreads the wealth around with punishing ground game, roughs up Cerritos
By Loren Kopff @LorenKopff on Twitter It’s never too early to look ahead to the future and the Norwalk High football team showed Cerritos High that it can go beyond…
WEEK 8 FOOTBALL Bernard, Hawk power Gahr to wild fourth quarter rally against Warren
By Loren Kopff @LorenKopff on Twitter In the first half of Gahr High’s pivotal San Gabriel Valley League football game with Warren High, the host Gladiators missed two extra…
Artesia Punishers 18-U team captures championship while two others finishes as runners-up
By Loren Kopff @LorenKopff on Twitter FONTANA-The Artesia Punishers travel softball program was well-represented in the 2017 West Coast American Fastpitch Association Nationals with five teams vying for a…
AMATEUR SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION ‘B’ STATE CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT Cerritos 10-Under All-Stars unable to weather the hot conditions, go two and out
By Loren Kopff @LorenKopff on Twitter LANCASTER-The Amateur Softball Association ‘B’ State Championship Tournament has been held in Lancaster and nearby Palmdale for many years. While it tends to get…
Artesia Punishers president, manager looks back on program’s lone National Championship
By Loren Kopff @LorenKopff on Twitter It has been a decade since the Artesia Punishers 18-Under travel softball team won the USA/Amateur Softball Association 18-Under ‘A’ National Championship, the only…