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Far East meets Far West in trio of softball games

Far East meets Far West in trio of softball games

By Loren Kopff MONTEREY PARK-Even when the Artesia Punishers Gold travel softball team isn’t competing in a showcase tournament or qualifying for an end of the summer national tournament, it’s…

Norwalk Girls Softball Seek Dollars, Donations To Attend 10u Softball Championships In Arizona

Norwalk Girls Softball Seek Dollars, Donations To Attend 10u Softball Championships In Arizona

  By Justin Cooley Despite a long journey down a road of success that led to qualifying for the Western Nationals this year, the Norwalk Girls 10u Softball team still…

Artesia Punishers, CGSA 14-Under squads gearing up for final summer tournaments

  By Loren Kopff With less than a month remaining in the travel ball and recreational softball season, four Artesia Punishers teams are still actively pursuing some type of 2013…

La Mirada Girls Softball All Stars Search For Dollars, Support to Attend National Championship in Arizona

La Mirada Girls Softball All Stars Search For Dollars, Support to Attend National Championship in Arizona

By Kristin Grafft and Justin Cooley Despite their amazing success in qualifying for the Girls Softball National Championship Tournament, the La Mirada Girls Softball 10u Gold All Star team still…

La Mirada Girls Softball Association Continues To Dominate

The La Mirada Girls Softball Association (10u Gold All-Star Team) continues its seasons with an extremely impressive record. The team of nine and ten year olds began the season with…

Nielsen is Cerritos’ gift that keeps on giving

Nielsen is Cerritos’ gift that keeps on giving

By Loren Kopff When you have lived in the same city for your entire life, you feel compelled to give back to that city what it has given to you.…

Cerritos Girls Softball Association All-Stars make history again in District Tournament

ASA LOS ANGELES/SOUTH BAY “B” DISTRICT TOURNAMENT By Loren Kopff LONG BEACH-Everything was coming up in three’s last weekend for the Cerritos Girls Softball Association at the annual Amateur Softball…

Club Liverpool: Cerritos club soccer team getting its kicks in short amount of time

By Loren Kopff Wherever Joul Farah is, a soccer team isn’t far behind. The former successful Gahr High School girls varsity soccer head coach has now put together another club…

Tough Mudder event lives up to its name in Rocky Mountains

Tough Mudder event lives up to its name in Rocky Mountains

  Steve Kopff, a two-year participant of the Tough Mudder in Beaver Creek, Colorado, moves through a watered-down muddy pit while dealing with electrical wires in the Electric Eel obstacle…

Valley Christian football welcomes new coach in first ever spring game

By Loren Kopff Although he was hired in early April, the Woodie Grayson era at Valley Christian officially began last Friday night when the school held its inaugural spring football…

Cerritos 8-Under All-Stars pick up second summer tournament championship

By Loren Kopff TUSTIN- Of the four Cerritos Girls Softball Association All-Star teams, the hottest one thus far seems to be the youngest one. For the second time in three…

Former Cerritos High School slugger Sarah Smith slowly becoming Baylor’s big Bear

Former Cerritos High School slugger Sarah Smith slowly becoming Baylor’s big Bear

By Loren Kopff Standing tall at 5’ 10”, Sarah Smith tormented Southern California high school pitchers when she was at Cerritos High, spraying hits to all areas of the outfield…

NEWS AND NOTES FROM PRESS ROW: Younger Artesia Punishers begin summer on high note

By Loren Kopff The Artesia Punishers 10-Under and 12-Under travel ball softball teams didn’t take long to qualify for their respective Amateur Softball Association National Championship tournaments in late July.…

2013 SPRING ALL-AREA TEAMS: Gahr baseball dominates again while area softball teams more balanced

By Loren Kopff By now, it’s almost a given that Gahr’s baseball team will bat well over .350 and have several players eclipse the .400 mark. That’s what happened again…

High expectations once again fall short for Gahr, bounced out in CIF quarterfinals

CIF-SOUTHERN SECTION DIVISION III BASEBALL PLAYOFFS  By Loren Kopff Time after time, Gerardo Perez talks about what it takes to play baseball at Gahr High School. The nine-year head coach…

Wiener Dog Nationals At Los Alamitos Race Course Looking For ‘Fast’ Four-Legged Speedsters

Wiener Dog Nationals At Los Alamitos Race Course Looking For ‘Fast’ Four-Legged Speedsters

Los Alamitos Race Course is looking for a few good wiener dogs to participate in the 18th annual Wienerschnitzel Wiener Nationals to be held on Saturday, July 20, 2013.  …

NEWS AND NOTES FROM PRESS ROW: Humbert sends Gahr into Division III quarterfinals

By Loren Kopff For the fifth time in the past nine seasons, Gahr’s baseball team will be playing in a California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section divisional quarterfinal game. This past Tuesday,…

HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS! NEWS AND NOTES FROM PRESS ROW

HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS! NEWS AND NOTES FROM PRESS ROW

La Mirada softball succumbs to Mayfair in Suburban League first place showdown By Loren Kopff The most heated recent rivalry in the Suburban League softball world went Mayfair’s way this…

Corrales, Artesia put John Glenn in must-win situation

SUBURBAN LEAGUE BASEBALL By Loren Kopff The post game music following Artesia’s home game with John Glenn last Friday afternoon was fitting. Blaring from the Artesia dugout was “Don’t Stop…

Humbert holds off Warren as Gahr clinches another SGVL championship

SAN GABRIEL VALLEY LEAGUE BASEBALL By Loren Kopff If there is a league title on the line, then odds are Gahr senior pitcher Greg Humbert is in the middle of…