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The Friday night lights were switched off in early November last year.For the first time in memory, not one South Coast school that plays 11-man football — Santa Barbara, San Marcos, Dos Pueblos, Carpinteria and Bishop Diego — made the postseason.Why did this happen and what are the coaches of these programs doing to turn things around? Presidiosports.com contacted each coach to find some answers.Carpinteria High finished the 2009 football season on a high note by winning its … [Read more...]
Goleta’s Gordon McClenathen finished second in the 2000-meter steeplechase at the USA Masters Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Sacramento on Friday.Competing in the 75-over age division, McClenathen, 76, the former Dos Pueblos High track and cross country coach and UCSB Hall of Famer, clocked 11 minutes, 51.46 seconds.Jerry Smartt, 78, of Warsaw, Mo., won the event in 11:38.53.The noontime race was run in temperatures in the upper 80s.McClenathen, who runs for Club … [Read more...]
Streak sustained.The Santa Barbara Foresters mounted a ninth-inning rally in San Luis Obispo on Friday, scoring three runs in the top half of the inning before Ryan Hawthorne struck out the side for the save in a 4-2 win over the San Luis Obispo Rattlers.Santa Barbara (32-7, 21-5 CCL) has now won 15 in a row and 22 out of its last 24.“That was pretty sweet. We were waiting for that comeback the whole game. We haven’t been in many close games recently, so it was really nice to … [Read more...]
Local high school football teams just completed their spring-early summer workouts and will now, under CIF rules, take a 21-day dead period before they reconvene to begin training for the regular season.For the first time in decades, all five Santa Barbara area schools that play 11-man football are coming off a season when not one of them made the CIF-SS playoffs.Presidiosports.com asked the local football coaches what they’re doing to turn things around.Here is our Q&A with … [Read more...]
Kevin Lunn, a former Laguna Blanca running star and the 2009 Santa Barbara County champion in the 1600, won the 5-kilometer run at Nite Moves No. 12 Wednesday night.Lunn, 19, hit the finish line at Leadbetter Beach in 16 minutes, 3 seconds. Sebastian Hoenig of Santa Barbara came in second in 16:16 and current Dos Pueblos High runner Bryan Fernandez took third in 17:04. The top women’s finisher was Cassandra Henkiel (5th overall) in 18:25.In the 1-k swim, former San Marcos star and … [Read more...]
Goleta Valley South Little League couldn’t contain Moorpark’s big bats and suffered an 11-10 defeat in the 10-under Section 1 championship game Wednesday night.Goleta Valley led 6-3 in the second inning, but Moorpark roared back behind three home runs and took the lead in the fifth.Moorpark advances to the divisional playoffs in Palmdale.The loss ended a great run by Goleta Valley South, which won the District 63 championship. … [Read more...]
Dos Pueblos Little League’s Junior All-Stars made history Wednesday night. In routing Thousand Oaks 11-1 Wednesday, they became the league’s first Section 1 champion in the 13-14 division.Dos Pueblos used some timely hitting to capitalize on several walks given up Thousand Oaks pitchers and built an early lead. The championship game in Oxnard was called in the fifth inning on the 10-run mercy rule.Thousand Oaks defeated DP on Tuesday night, 14-12, to force a second championship … [Read more...]
SAN LUIS OBISPO — Effort has equaled fun for the Santa Barbara Foresters recently, as they kept hustling all the way through Wednesday’s 9-3 victory over the San Luis Obispo Rattlers at Sinsheimer Stadium and got a few laughs along the way. It was the team’s 14th consecutive win, and the 21st in the last 23 games.Ace pitcher Sam Stafford was put in as a pinch-hitter in the top of the ninth and struck out on four pitches with three giant swings.“It felt like he was throwing … [Read more...]
The Friday night lights were switched off by the second week of November last year. For the first time in memory, not one South Coast school that plays 11-man football — Santa Barbara, San Marcos, Dos Pueblos, Carpinteria and Bishop Diego — made the postseason. Why did this happen and what are the coaches of these programs doing to turn things around? Presidiosports.com contacted each coach to find some answers. Tom Crawford guided Bishop Diego to the CIF final in 2007. That team was … [Read more...]
The CCL champion Santa Barbara Foresters have less than two weeks remaining in their regular season so here's your chance to get out to see them before they head off for the NBC World Series in Wichita, Kansas.We have several pairs of tickets to hand out that can be used at any home game left on the schedule. The Foresters play their home games at UCSB's Caesar Uyesaka Stadium.To become eligible, simply add a comment or a "thumbs up" to the contest thread on ourFacebook Page and you … [Read more...]
UCSB triathletes Lauren Capone and Jordy Littell topped Tuesday night's biathlon at Reef and Run No. 13, with Capone winning the 1k/2-mile run in 33 minutes and 18 seconds.Capone edged Littell by 13 seconds by making up some ground during the 2-mile run, outpacing all other biathlon competitors with a time of 13:50. Littell was the next fastest runner at 14:21.UCSB teammate Katherine "Moose" Warren claimed the 1k swim in 17:33, followed closely by last week's winner in Doug Parent. … [Read more...]
