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    Cypress baseball honors ‘Dairy City’ past on new uniforms
    • March 18, 2026

    It was time for the Cypress baseball team to order new uniforms.

    The Centurions had not donned white uniforms for a few years, having gone with blue, grey and orange versions. So it was time to get some white ones.

    “I told our coaches, ‘Draw it up and let’s see what ya got,’ ” Cypress head coach John Weber said.

    The result: white home uniforms that read “Dairy City” across the chest and blue caps bearing interlocked initials “DC” on them.

    Cypress pitcher Tate Belfanti delivers a pitch against Villa Park in a Crestview League baseball game in Cypress on Tuesday, March 17, 2026. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
    Cypress pitcher Tate Belfanti delivers a pitch against Villa Park in a Crestview League baseball game in Cypress on Tuesday, March 17, 2026. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)

    The city of Cypress is celebrating the 70th anniversary of its incorporation. It was not called “Cypress” in 1956. Within its borders were dairies that had around 100,000 cows so the town was called “Dairy City.” Nearby La Palma was “Dairyland” for several years, too.

    The idea to put “Dairy City” on the uniforms came from Cypress athletic director Mark Slevcove, a Cypress alum whose son Drew is a pitcher for the Centurions.

    “Me being a Garden Grove guy, I didn’t know about all of this,” Weber said. “Coach (John) Short designed the hat. It’s a nice homage to the city.”

    NOTES

    Going into Orange Lutheran’s game Wednesday against Damien, 11 of the Lancers’ 20 runs had been scored with two outs. …

    Damien is coached by former Orange Lutheran assistant coach AJ LaMonda, whose brother Zack LaMonda is the football head coach at El Dorado. …

    Orange Lutheran senior right-handed pitcher Gary Morse (6-8, 210) has 16 strikeouts in nine innings coming into this week. Morse signed with Tennessee. …

    Foothill junior Aidan Gogley had 11 RBIs in 10 games through Tuesday. …

    Huntington Beach pitcher Jared Grindlinger, who reclassified as a senior for this school year, has 17 strikeouts in 17 innings with five walks and a 0.82 ERA. Huntington Beach pitcher Tanner Brown has a 1.10 ERA with 14 strikeouts and four walks in 17⅔ innings. …

    Santa Margarita freshman Cooper Holland drove in four runs in the Eagles’ 15-3 win over Brother Rice of Chicago on Wednesday in the Bishop Gorman Invitational tournament in Las Vegas. …

    Among the other big hitters for Santa Margarita on Wednesday was sophomore Warren Wulfemeyer who homered and drove in three runs. Wulfemeyer’s grandfather Mark Wulfemeyer at one time held the CIF Southern Section record for career points with 2,608 for Troy in the early 1970s. …

    The baseball schedule for Friday includes these games: El Dorado at Villa Park in the Crestview League; Newport Harbor at Corona del Mar in the Sunset League; and Mater Dei at Cypress in a nonleague game. …

    The sit-out period ends March 27 for transfers who did not make a residence change that would have made them immediately eligible at their new school. …

    The National Classic will run March 30 through April 2 with games at El Dorado, Villa Park and Yorba Linda high schools. Those three schools are in the 16-team field, which includes Sherman Oaks Notre Dame, Corona Centennial and Aquinas.

     

     

     Orange County Register 

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