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By Loren Kopff While the area schools take a break from their studies, there won’t be any time off for many baseball and softball players. Usually, the St. Paul Easter…
By Loren Kopff LAKEWOOD-The first three innings of the Cerritos-Mayfair Suburban League softball opener this past Wednesday is what many expected between a couple of competitive teams vying for a…
By Loren Kopff LOS ALAMITOS-Gahr’s softball team, fresh off a solid performance in the 20th Annual Dave Kops Tournament of Champions 10 days ago in which it went 4-2 and…
By Loren Kopff Two teams that are going in the opposite direction through the first eight games of the season met last Thursday when Norwalk, behind freshman sensation Breanna Vasquez,…
By Loren Kopff Don’t laugh now but the Artesia and Cerritos baseball teams, stuck in the bottom half of the Suburban League for over five years, are talking playoffs and…
By Loren Kopff The rematch between Deidra Genera and Jennifer Iseri, the two senior pitchers for the Gahr and Cerritos softball teams respectively, didn’t quite go the same way as…
By Loren Kopff ANAHEIM-The top two teams in the California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section Division III-AA played like they belonged in the championship game at…
By Loren Kopff This is it. There’s no sugarcoating the expectations laid upon the Cerritos and Gahr softball teams for 2015. Not only are the two predicted to win their…
CIF-SOUTHERN SECTION BOYS BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS By Loren Kopff It was the type of atmosphere you want in a California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section semifinal boys basketball playoff game. Inside a…
CIF-SOUTHERN SECTION BOYS SOCCER PLAYOFFS By Loren Kopff It was as close to a déjà vu situation as you could get when Valley Christian hosted Whitney in a California Interscholastic…
CIF-SOUTHERN SECTION GIRLS BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS By Loren Kopff WEST COVINA-It didn’t take long for the Gahr girls basketball team to realize it was in trouble against South Hills in a…
CIF-SOUTHERN SECTION BOYS BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS By Loren Kopff One could say that it was Valley Christian junior guard Stedmon Bryant’s three-point play with 31.7 seconds left in the first half…
By Loren Kopff LAWNDALE-Early on, it looked like the Artesia boys basketball team would blow out Leuzinger on its home court in a California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section Division III-A first…
By Loren Kopff The 2014-2015 season has been one that the Valley Christian girls soccer program isn’t used to seeing. The Lady Crusaders, who have been a major force in…
By HMG-CN Sports Editor Loren Kopff The Cerritos High girls basketball program has had a long history of putting freshmen on its varsity teams, developing them and keeping those…
By Loren Kopff The Norwalk girls basketball team had already wrapped up third place in the Suburban League but it wanted to send its nine seniors off with a victory…
NEWS AND NOTES FROM PRESS ROW By Loren Kopff The winter regular season ended on Feb. 12 with several area basketball and soccer teams either automatically qualifying for next week’s…
By Loren Kopff When the Cerritos boys basketball team joined the Suburban League at the beginning of the 1998-1999 season, it was quickly greeted by powerhouse teams like Artesia…
By Loren Kopff When the first round of the Suburban League girls soccer slate ended on Jan. 23, Artesia, Cerritos and Norwalk had identical 2-2-2 marks and were vying to…