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San Marcos football coach Jeff Hesselmeyer passed away suddenly late Friday night or early Saturday at his home, the school reported.The cause of death is believed to be a heart attack, but it hasn't been confirmed.“It’s a real shock,” said athletic director Abe Jahadhmy, who received the news while on vacation in Washington D.C.Jahadhmy said he last saw Hesselmeyer before he left on his trip on Tuesday night.“I was told he was at work on Friday,” Jahadhmy … [Read more...]
Juan Bollini scored a golden goal to lift Piaget to an 11-10 polo win over Mansour in a pool play game of the Piaget Silver Cup on Friday at the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club.In other tourney action, Grants Farm edged Audi 12-11.The tournament continues Sunday with Piaget playing Lucchese at 1 p.m. and Audi taking on ERG at 3 p.m.The semifinals are Friday, July 29 and the championship Sunday, July 31. … [Read more...]
New UCSB baseball coach Andrew Checketts went back to his roots to find an assistant coach.Checketts has hired Eddie Cornejo from UC Riverside and Riverside Community College to join his staff in Santa Barbara. Checketts started his coaching career as an assistant at RCC before moving on to an assistant’s position at UC Riverside.Cornejo served one season as an assistant coach at UCR and previously served as the Associate Head Coach and interim head coach at Riverside CC.“Eddie … [Read more...]
SAN LUIS OBISPO — Five errors and just four hits doomed the Santa Barbara Foresters on Thursday night, as they lost to the rival San Luis Obispo Blues for the second straight night. Despite loading the bases to bring the go-ahead run to the plate in the top of the ninth, the 8-time defending California Collegiate League champs fell 4-1.Santa Barbara now leads SLO by just a half game in the CCL standings heading into the final two weeks of the regular season.“Tonight was just a poor … [Read more...]
It was too much Trevor Garcia for the Goleta Valley South Little League Under-10 All-Stars Wednesday night.Garcia pitched allowed only one hit for 5 2/3 innings and hit a two-run homer to lead Santa Maria Southside to a 9-1 victory and the championship of the Section 1 All-Star Tournament at the Goleta Valley South complex.Mason Boelter had the only hit and scored GVS’s only run in the game. … [Read more...]
Jack Sofro ripped a grand slam and Evan Kling followed with a mammoth solo homer to start the game for the Goleta Valley South Little League 11-Under All-Stars on Tuesday night.But Moorpark fought its way back and scored two runs in the sixth inning to beat GVS 8-6 and win the Section 1 All-Star Tournament in Nipomo.Moorpark, with the help a two-run homer by Robert Fletcher and a three-run shot by Sawyer Stoehr, took a 6-5 lead in the second inning.GVS tied the score in the bottom of … [Read more...]
While most of the universe was glued to the television, watching the USA vs. Japan in the Women's World Cup soccer finale, closer to home was more finals action "in full swing."The Cathedral Oaks Athletic Club hosted the 2011 Santa Barbara Patrons Junior Tennis Circuit.“We had incredible conditions for tennis this weekend and had a wonderful tournament,” said Hugh Stratman, COAC Tennis Director.Both he and Liz Frech, the Dos Pueblos tennis coach, served as co-directors … [Read more...]
Former Dos Pueblos High star Carly Wopat has been selected to the USA Volleyball Women’s Junior National Team that will compete at the FIVB Women’s World Junior Championships in Peru, beginning Friday.Wopat is a 6-2 middle blocker who plays at Stanford and earned All-Freshman team honors in the Pac-10 last season.She played on the junior national team last year that captured the gold medal at the NORCECA Women’s Junior Continental Championship in Tijuana, Mexico.The junior … [Read more...]
Local high school standouts Katie Spieler and Dani Rottman, fresh off winning a USA Junior National indoor title with the Santa Barbara Volleyball Club, continued their winning ways on the beach.Spieler of Dos Pueblos and Rottman of Santa Barbara won the Girls 18-under division title at the first California Beach Volleyball Association Youth Tournament of the summer at East Beach on Tuesday. They defeated Danielle Carlson of Santa Ynez and Michaela Christaansen, a freshman at Pepperdine from … [Read more...]
