Basketball tournament seeks teams
      The 11th annual Ventura Seaside Basketball Tournament, a fundraiser for youth programs in Ventura, is scheduled from Fri. to Sun., April 18 to 20.
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Opening Day a blast for local Dodger fans
Young and old celebrate the magic of baseball's biggest bash
By Thomas Gase tgase@theacorn.com
      Thomas Boswell of the Wash ington Post once wrote: "Time begins on Opening Day. It's a day when we know something fine, almost wonderful, is about to happen." For 56,000 baseball fans at Dodger Stadium Monday, Boswell's statement couldn't have been more accurate.
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Members of Agoura track and field team raising funds for Australia trip
By Thomas Gase tgase@theacorn.com
      Last August the Agoura High boys' water polo team took a trip to Europe to play some of the best competition in the world. Four months later, the end result was a CIF-Southern Section Division IV championship. Now the AHS track team is hoping a trip overseas can produce similar resul...
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Local lacrosse update
      With a 14-2 victory over Calabasas last Sunday afternoon, Agoura has closed the gap on Newbury Park in the Southern California Lacrosse Association's varsity division standings.
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Westlake resident remembered as 'beautiful storyteller'
Billy Consolo was a longtime coach for the Detroit Tigers, working under Sparky Anderson
By John Lowe Detroit Free Press
      Billy Consolo, the irrepressible storyteller who was a Detroit Tigers coach for much of Sparky Anderson's tenure as manager, died last Thursday, apparently of a heart attack, at his home in Westlake Village. He was 73.
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Pro hoops team to play at CLU
By Eliav Appelbaum eliav@theacorn.com
      Mark Harwell was nicknamed "White Lightning" at Prairie View A&M University. Fittingly enough, Harwell now owns the Los Angeles Lightning, the newest franchise in the International Basketball League.
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