Sports

Look up “dominating” in the dictionary. There should be an Oak Park Eagle mascot swinging a 9-iron . . . for an eagle. What mortal could resist that dad joke? Oak Park High’s girls’ golf team captured its first CIF-Southern Section championship in program history by shooting 415 in the Division 3 finals on June 8 at Santa Barbara Golf […]

Lightning struck twice for Agoura High’s boys’ and girls’ basketball teams. The Chargers, however, couldn’t strike gold. Both Agoura teams reached CIF-Southern Section championship games in the same year for the first time in school history, but neither squad pulled out a victory. Agoura’s boys lost to Crean Lutheran 68-58 in the Division 2A final June 9 in Irvine. The […]

Agoura is the hoops headquarters— at least in this 3-point nook of the known universe. Both the girls’ and boys’ basketball teams at Agoura High reached CIF-Southern Section championship games in the same season. That’s never happened before. “It’s something we’ll remember,” said Tyler Humphries, a star senior forward for the Charger girls’ squad. “We had COVID our senior year […]

A typical spring postseason is busy. These pandemic playoffs are more frenzied than a 24-hour telethon of 96 crocodiles gnashing, thrashing and mashing in a reincarnated Nirvana mosh pit during an earthquake under a blood wolf moon. Baseball and softball teams began chasing CIF-Southern Section glory this week, while girls’ and boys’ basketball, girls’ and boys’ golf, girls’ and boys’ […]

One team won its first league title in 16 years. The last banner came before several current players were born. Another squad just steamrolled to a ninth straight league championship. Two high school girls’ basketball outfits historically on opposite ends of the hourglass are now perched on top of the beach, sipping Shirley Temples and lining the birdcages of Captain […]

Mike Rivera owns a security company. Around 1 a.m. at the DoubleTree hotel in Pomona a few years ago, Rivera checked in on a guard. He caught a glimpse of a beach volleyball match humming quietly on a TV in the back of the office. The white noise sizzled into focus. He thought he recognized the broadcaster’s voice. “Is that […]

Basketball went from hopeless to humming within a few months. In January, nobody knew if there’d be a high school boys’ basketball season in California. Now local teams are trying to secure CIF-Southern Section playoff spots with roughly one week left in the regular season. “It hasn’t always been easy, it hasn’t always been smooth, but it has been a […]

Seven rowers walk into a boat. . . . Is that how it starts? Seven athletes from Acorn country, who train with Channel Islands Rowing Club, will continue participating in the sport in college. “We all come from different backgrounds and schools,” said Hudson Forster, an Oaks Christian High senior. “We all want our teammates to succeed.” Forster, a coxswain, […]