Corona del Mar student suspended for saying ‘Free Palestine’

• November 11, 2023

A Corona del Mar Middle and High School student was suspended this week, allegedly for saying remarks deemed to be threatening, such as “Free Palestine,” to a classmate, according to social media posts circulating Friday.

Newport-Mesa Unified Assistant Superintendent Kerrie Torres confirmed the student was suspended for three days from classroom instruction starting on Nov. 13.

Torres and other district employees reached Friday evening said they could not go into further details about what caused the suspension.

But a social media post that purports to be from the student’s aunt included a photo of a letter signed by Principal Jacob Haley that said: “(The student) said threatening remarks to a young lady in class. He said ‘Free Palestine.’” Those social media posts also detailed previous tensions that occurred between the student and others at school.

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Corona del Mar High was the site of vandalism last month after swastikas were drawn on a locker.

Newport-Mesa Unified supports students’ free speech, but it “will not tolerate hateful speech in our schools, especially not hate speech that incites others to engage in negative behavior,” said Annette Franco, a district spokesperson, in an emailed statement Friday evening.

“We have an obligation to maintain a safe learning environment while respecting students’ rights to speak on issues,” the statement said. “We take our obligations to students seriously, and because of this, there is an expectation for students to engage in respectful dialogue for change, not hateful speech that is directed toward a specific student population.”

The suspended student’s family could not be reached for comment Friday evening.

In the case of the reported vandalism last month, school officials said they alerted police who were investigating the incident. There was no indication from either district employees or the social media posts Friday that the suspended student was involved in the vandalism.

Franco said last month that the vandalism and an increase in digital hate speech prompted the school to form an interfaith council made up of students, parents, community members and local religious leaders to discuss the incident and encourage positive dialogue around culturally sensitive issues going forward.

Corona del Mar is a public middle and high school in Newport Beach.

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Spider season: Here are a few things you may not know about them

• November 11, 2023

Does whatever a spider can

What was an itsy-bitsy spider spinning webs a few months ago is now a large, fully-grown exterminator helping keep the pest population under control.

Is it peak spider season? Not necessarily, because there are usually more spiders in the spring after they hatch their eggs. By September to November they are fully grown, easier to find and make larger webs.

Some spidey facts

The world is home to about 50,000 species of spiders.

Almost all are venomous but only a few can harm you. According to the Burke Museum in Seattle, only 25 have venom that can cause harm to humans. So just 1/20 of 1% of spiders are dangerous to humans.

According to the University of Kentucky, spiders don’t have a jaw and teeth like many animals, they have chelicerae – external structures that work somewhat like a jaw. Spiders use their chelicerae to hold prey in place while they inject it with venom.

Instead of chewing their food with mandibles, spiders will first spit enzymes either on or in their prey to liquefy it. They then eat the prey by sucking in the juices created by the enzymes with their mouth parts, according to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

They all make silk, but they don’t all make webs. About half the species catch prey with silky webs, while the others use it to make nests, cocoons or egg sacs.

Many spiders replace their entire web every day. According to science.org a study was conducted in 2018 that discovered that certain spiders’ webs are stronger than steel and if human-size, would be tough enough to snag a jetliner.

UC Irvine has a web page with photos of all the spiders, ticks and mites in Orange County here.

Keeping them out

Even though spiders may help control insect populations, many people have some form of arachnophobia or simply don’t want them inside their homes. As the days cool, spiders might be looking for warmer places to winter.

A few tips

Seal potential entry points like cracks and gaps along the building’s foundation.Keep doors, windows and screens sealed.

Prevent other insects from inhabiting the area by keeping a clean home.

Reduce clutter to limit hiding places.

Use a botanical repellent. Spiders don’t like the scent of lavender.

Source: Hebets Lab, Burke Museum, reconnectwithnature.org, National Space Society, University of Kentucky, earthkind.com, The National Pest Management Association Illustrations by KURT SNIBBE and staff artists

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UFC 295, missing Jon Jones’ star power, elevates light heavyweight title bout

• November 11, 2023

List some of the marquee main events to headline UFC cards at Madison Square Garden – Conor McGregor, Georges St-Pierre and Daniel Cormier are among the winners – and Jon Jones vs. Stipe Miocic could have topped them all.

The heavyweight championship clash instead got KO’d.

Jones, on the short list of greatest MMA fighters of all time, tore a pectoral tendon off the bone during training last month. The UFC heavyweight champ needed surgery and was off the card. So was Miocic. The two-time heavyweight champion did not get a replacement fight and will sit out Saturday’s UFC 295 show at Madison Square Garden.

Just as they do on Broadway, UFC called on the understudies.

Now, No. 2 heavyweight contender Sergei Pavlovich fights No. 4 Tom Aspinall for the interim heavyweight championship in a late add to the card. The fight for the vacant light heavyweight title between Jiri Procházka and Alex Pereira was bumped to the main event.

Former strawweight champion Jessica Andrade faces Huntington Beach’s Mackenzie Dern in another key bout on the main card.

What the card lacks in star power just may be made up for in power, period.

Procházka (29-3-1) has 25 knockout wins and Aspinall (13-3) has 10. Pereira (8-2) is a former UFC middleweight champ and looks to become a two-division UFC champion in just his seventh fight for the promotion. Pereira fought in the main event of UFC 281 last November at MSG and defeated Israel Adesanya to claim the 185-pound championship. The Brazilian knockout artist lost the title back to Adesanya in April.

UFC cranked the hype machine to get fans pumped for Saturday in the wake of late shuffle, noting it marked “four of the most thrilling fighters in the planet competing for UFC gold.”

Yet even the fighters are trying to find the thrill in competing at MSG. “At the end of the day, mate, it’s another arena,” Aspinall said.

As for the original main event, the bout could be rescheduled for as early as next summer, depending on Jones’ health.

Jones ended a three-year sabbatical from the UFC in March and the king of the light heavyweights moved up to its highest weight class to choke out Ciryl Gane and win the vacant championship in the main event of UFC 285. Jones said after that fight he wanted Miocic. UFC President Dana White said it would have been “complete disrespect” to offer Miocic an interim title fight. So Aspinall and Pavlovich will slug it out to find out who really is the baddest heavyweight in UFC. Well, you know, except for those other two guys.

Here’s a look at the two major fights on the main card:

Procházka vs. Pereira

Pereira took his time getting to UFC after a successful kickboxing career. The 36-year-old fighter didn’t make his UFC debut until November 2021 and earned the championship match against Adesanya in just his fourth fight. Three matches later, he is back for another title shot and – with a win – would suddenly find himself in the company of the greatest Brazilian fighters in MMA history.

“I don’t know the criteria for calling someone the greatest,” he said through a translator. “I don’t think about it too much. I just do my job.”

He has done it very well.

Procházka won the UFC light heavyweight crown when he submitted Glover Teixeira in June 2022.

Procházka later suffered a shoulder injury that wiped out a scheduled championship rematch and forced him to surrender the title.

“It was the right choice,” Procházka said. “The show must go on. The division must still grow.”

Procházka not only hasn’t fought since last year – he hasn’t lost a fight anywhere since 2015, a span that includes three straight UFC wins.

Pavlovich vs Aspinall

Pavlovich (18-1) is on a six-fight win streak and Aspinall is 6-1 in the UFC. Unlike Miocic, both heavyweights are in their prime and this one could be a slugfest between two fighters getting an unexpected shot at an interim belt.

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Just don’t take a bathroom break during this one.

Pavlovich has had all seven UFC fights, including a loss, end in the first round. Aspinall has made it to the second round just once in his seven UFC fights.

Even if they are just keeping the top of the division warm until Jones returns, this is a chance for each fighter to get on the map and be more than a footnote on the card.

“I’m not the type of guy who is going to fly across the world, sign a contract and show up if I don’t think I’m going to win,” said Aspinall, a British fighter.

UFC 295

When: Saturday

Where: Madison Square Garden, New York

How to watch: Early prelims (3 p.m., ESPN+); prelims (5 p.m., ESPNews); main card (7 p.m., PPV via ESPN+)

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High school football live updates: Friday’s quarterfinal playoff games in Southern California

• November 11, 2023

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FRIDAY’S GAMES

CIF-SS QUARTERFINALS

All games start at 7 p.m. unless noted.

DIVISION 1

San Clemente at St. John Bosco

Orange Lutheran at Centennial

Santa Margarita at Sierra Canyon

JSerra vs. Mater Dei at Santa Ana Stadium

DIVISION 2

Murrieta Valley at Rancho Cucamonga

Oaks Christian at Mission Viejo

Los Alamitos at Serra

Long Beach Poly vs. Servite at Cerritos College

DIVISION 3

San Juan Hills at Citrus Valley

Cajon vs. St. Bonaventure at Ventura College

Oak Hills at Warren

Villa Park at Chaminade

DIVISION 4

Loyola at Yorba Linda

Corona del Mar at Santa Barbara

Capistrano Valley at Culver City

La Serna at Trabuco Hills

DIVISION 5

Newbury Park vs. Foothill at Placentia Valencia HS

Bonita at Thousand Oaks

Apple Valley at Western

Orange Vista at San Jacinto

DIVISION 6

Ontario Christian at Huntington Beach

Crean Lutheran at Simi Valley

Murrieta Mesa at La Habra

Cypress at Mira Costa

DIVISION 7

Chino at Mayfair

Agoura at Muir

King at Salesian

El Dorado at Redondo

DIVISION 8

Brentwood at Highland

Covina at Charter Oak

St. Anthony at St. Pius X-St. Matthias

Aliso Niguel at Jurupa Hills

DIVISION 9

Rio Hondo Prep at Orange

Santa Monica at Troy

Los Osos at Kaiser

DIVISION 10

Torrance at Redlands

Elsinore at Hemet

West Covina at Beckman

La Palma Kennedy at Xavier Prep

DIVISION 11

Linfield Christian at Quartz Hill

Palmdale at Ramona

Riverside Poly at Patriot

Cantwell-Sacred Heart at Westminster

DIVISION 12

Coachella Valley at Don Lugo

Cerritos at Western Christian

Arrowhead Christian at Santa Fe

Buena Park at Yucca Valley

DIVISION 13

Walnut vs. Los Amigos at Bolsa Grande HS

San Bernardino at AB Miller

St. Monica at Montclair

Desert Hot Springs at Baldwin Park

DIVISION 14

Artesia at Santa Rosa Academy

Bell Gardens at Ocean View

Hawthorne at El Monte

Whittier Christian at Lynwood

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Government launches review to determine if VA Loma Linda whistleblowers feel safe

• November 11, 2023

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has launched a comprehensive review of the VA Loma Linda Health Care System amid a congressional investigation into employee complaints alleging widespread retaliation and harassment from supervisors for reporting misconduct.

Since March 2019, the VA’s Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection has received 35 retaliation allegations from VA Loma Linda whistleblowers, the OAWP’s investigation division director, Eric Calhoun, told the House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight during a Nov. 2 hearing.

Of those, 11 prompted investigations and five resulted in recommendations for disciplinary action to VA Loma Linda management, Calhoun said.

One disciplinary recommendation from OAWP was fully implemented by management while three weren’t because the employee accused of misconduct had already resigned from the VA. VA Loma Linda officials took no action to enforce the remaining recommendation.

Across-the-board, about 3% of OAWP’s investigations result in discipline, Calhoun said. OAWP is responsible for oversight while management at VA facilities is given discretion in implementing punishment recommendations.

OAWP’s disciplinary statistics are alarming, said Rep. Jay Obernolte, R-Hesperia, who is investigating whistleblower complaints at VA Loma Linda along with Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Rep. Mike Bost, R-Illinois.

“If only three percent of the time their information results in … disciplinary action being taken … that’s not very reassuring to them (whistleblowers),” he told Calhoun, suggesting it could have a chilling effect on their willingness to come forward with complaints.

OAWP officials will visit VA Loma Linda in December for a “climate review” examining whether the health care system promotes an environment in which whistleblowers feel safe reporting concerns without fear of retaliation, said OAWP Assistant Secretary Bruce Gipe.

Meanwhile, Bost and Obernolte have introduced legislation aimed at strengthening the VA’s ability to hold bad employees accountable.

OAWP received 577 whistleblower retaliation cases in fiscal year 2020 and 736 in fiscal year 2023, according to a Government Accounting Office report published earlier this month. The average length for cases from 2018 through 2022 was 190 days.

Nearly 70% of VA whistleblowers face workplace retaliation such as demotion, reassignment, or termination, according to the GAO. In some instances, whistleblowers enter into a settlement agreement with the VA to resolve the dispute.

Since April, dozens of whistleblowers have contacted the Southern California News Group with allegations of misconduct by VA Loma Linda officials, including that of a grounds supervisor who was promoted after federal investigators repeatedly recommended that he be fired for employee harassment and intimidation.

The mother of former VA Loma Linda Health Care System irrigation technician Ryan Sperry, who died by suicide in 2022 after purportedly enduring more than three years of harassment and retaliation from the grounds supervisor, has filed a $5 million personal injury claim against the government.

In another matter, a confidential 2022 federal report provided to SCNG alleges VA Loma Linda officials mismanaged more than $1 million in patient transportation funding over a three-year period by colluding with ambulance companies through informal “handshake” agreements and unauthorized contracts.

Additionally, several advocacy organizations allege VA Loma Linda is violating the civil liberties of some veterans seeking voluntary mental health evaluations by placing them on involuntary psychiatric holds as a precondition of their transportation to a hospital or treatment facility.

Earlier this month, VA Loma Linda Medical Director Karandeep Sraon, whom many whistleblowers say has done little to address what they perceive as a toxic work environment, sent an email to staff stating he requested the OAWP climate review “to create an atmosphere that promotes open communication, respect and collaboration.”

“The purpose of this review is not to investigate any alleged wrongdoing or individual, nor is it to find fault, but rather to provide us with valuable insights and recommendations on how we can foster an environment where employees feel comfortable reporting concerns without fear of intimidation or retaliation,” Sraon said in the email. “Together, we can build a culture that promotes transparency, accountability and inclusivity.”

Sraon also encouraged employees to participate in a voluntary and anonymous OAWP online survey aimed at improving whistleblower reporting.

The 17-question survey obtained by SCNG asks employees to rank on a scale of 1 to 5 whether they feel free from retaliation for reporting someone to VA Loma Linda supervisors and VA oversight entities such as OAWP, the Office of Inspector General and the Office of Special Counsel.

Several VA Loma Linda whistleblowers, who asked not to be identified because they fear retribution, told SCNG they are suspicious of the survey’s purpose, fearing the results could be used to identify and target them for further retaliation.

“Almost everybody thinks there is something behind the survey and that they (VA Loma Linda management) are using it to try and find out who is talking,” one worker said.

Another employee suggested it’s doubtful the survey results will improve working conditions. “It’s kind of laughable,” the worker said. “Why should we think that it will change anything?”

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Kings host the Flyers looking to reclaim home ice

• November 11, 2023

The Kings completed four days of a road trip while sleeping in their own beds recently and Saturday they’ll have traversed the state of Pennsylvania, hockey-wise at least, without having to have left downtown L.A.

After wrapping up their away swing with the extensive comforts of home and a quick jaunt to Vegas to pillage the Golden Knights’ village Wednesday, the Kings stumbled in overtime against the Pittsburgh Penguins at home Thursday.

Saturday, the Kings will face the Pens’ rivals from the southeastern corner of their state, the Philadelphia Flyers, in the second and final meeting of the season between these Expansion Six foes.

While the Kings’ balanced contributions on offense have been persistent throughout much of the campaign, their top line has gotten its play cranking of late. Captain Anze Kopitar and emergent force Quinton Byfield have matching five-game point streaks over which they’ve racked up six and eight points, respectively. Adrian Kempe, who like Byfield was a first-round pick as a center whose consistency was lacking until he made a full-time move to wing, is on an eight-game rampage over which he has oozed offense. He has burst forth with 12 points to put a tepid start to the season behind him.

“The confidence is there. I know I can do it, so I don’t try to think about it too much, it’s just coming naturally, I guess. Playing with good players helps me, too,” said Kempe, who seared a shot high to the short side authoritatively for a goal off the rush Thursday.

Some might view the reification of Kempe and Byfield’s promise as feathers in the caps of the Kings’ coaching, training and player development personnel. However Coach Todd McLellan said that while they were “good stories organizationally,” the credit belonged to the players themselves.

“They both matured within different timeframes. They’re both confident now,” McLellan said. “(Kempe) was drafted as a center as well, and now [like Byfield] he’s on the wing, and there’s nothing wrong with that. And they have a pretty good center iceman right now that stabilizes things.”

The Kings will coast into Saturday’s match on an eight-game points streak across which they’ve gone 6-0-2 with overtime defeats at the hands of Pittsburgh and also Vegas back on Oct. 28. The Flyers fell to the Kings 5-0 in their first meeting in Philly, when goalie Cal Petersen was cracked open like the Liberty Bell by his former cohorts. It’s a slight mystery whom the Kings will face Saturday given some last-second shuffling in net for the Flyers on Friday, but any clear signs point to Petersen.

Philadelphia faced the Ducks on Friday and had planned to start its first option Carter Hart, freshly recovered from a minor back injury, before likely turning to Samuel Ersson against the Kings. But Hart is now dealing with a new malady, an undisclosed illness, thrusting Ersson into duty against the Ducks and prompting the urgent recall of Petersen. All present indicators would point to another serendipitous showdown between the Kings and Petersen, who has toiled in the minors this season exclusively apart from last month’s initial match against the Kings.

Sean Walker, who played five seasons on defense for the Kings, will also don orange Saturday, as an integral part of the Flyers’ second pairing. Flyers coach John Tortorella has leaned more heavily on Walker, a player with whom he wasn’t especially familiar when the Flyers acquired him via the same trade that added Petersen this summer, than expected because of injuries to Rasmus Ristolainen and Marc Staal.

Walker, he said, has offered a pleasant revelation, giving Philly a competitor who can play in all situations and bring staunch competitiveness to the ice.

“He’s willing to take a chance and play aggressively and it’s rubbed off on people,” Tortorella said.

“Just the way he plays in areas, in certain [moments] of games,” he added. “I think he’s very hard on himself. He wants to be good every shift, you can see that when he comes to the bench. That’s an intangible that I like looking at with players. [With Walker], it’s always there.”

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Walker and Petersen will return to the only home arena they ever knew until this year, where the Kings have just one victory this season. That’s one fewer than the league’s worst team overall, the San Jose Sharks, but a perfect road record and a locked-in lineup counterbalanced that lack of success at home, which has come with some mitigating factors and identifiable mistakes, McLellan remarked.

“I don’t put a lot of credence into the home-and-road thing yet, no,” McLellan said.

Philadelphia at Kings

When: Saturday, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Crypto.com Arena

How to watch: Bally Sports West

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Judge orders release of LA County jail videos that show deputies beating inmates

• November 11, 2023

Videos unsealed this week from the Los Angeles County jail system show deputies beating inmates and using excessive force, suggesting the Sheriff’s Department has been slow to reform its practices under an agreement with the ACLU.

Sheriff’s officials, however, say the security recordings taken during a previous administration are not representative of the department’s interactions with inmates and do not reflect the changes made under current Sheriff Robert Luna.

The videos, spanning a time frame from October 2019 to July 2022, were released late Thursday, Nov. 9, by U.S. District Court Judge Dean Pregerson as part of a lawsuit brought by Alex Rosas and the American Civil Liberties Union against the Sheriff’s Department over the treatment of inmates in the jail system. Los Angeles Times Communications and WitnessLA had requested the videos be unsealed.

RELATED: See more of the unsealed videos here.

“In the 11 years since this case was instituted, there has been a complete cultural shift away from the days when such abuses were tolerated, and Sheriff Luna is intent on building on that progress comprehensively, and at a more rapid pace than his predecessors,” the Sheriff’s Department said in a statement on its website.

The videos, gritty and troubling, show deputies controlling inmates with punches to the head, the use of a questionable restraining device and a knee on the neck. The ACLU and the Sheriff’s Department are continuing to refine a 2014 agreement to reduce the use of head strikes as well as a controversial restraining device known as the body WRAP.

‘Unnecessary and dangerous’

Peter Eliasberg, an ACLU attorney, said the department has a ways to go toward fulfilling its commitment.

“Deputies continue to punch people who are incarcerated in the head during force incidents when this dangerous tactic is unnecessary and dangerous,” Eliasberg said. “Worse still, supervisors approve these out-of-policy head punches as permissible even though year after year the federal court monitors … conclude that the department far too often signs off on head strikes that are clearly out of policy.”

He added, “As long as deputies think, ‘We can do this stuff and nothing is going to happen,’ it will continue.”

Head strikes a concern

Court monitors, in a recent report, said they disagreed with 85% of the head strikes that department supervisors concluded were justified.

Head blows can cause brain hemorrhaging, facial fractures and eye injuries. Additionally, they can exacerbate mental illnesses suffered by many jail inmates, the ACLU has said, noting that 41% of inmates have serious mental illnesses.

In one video, two deputies can be seen bashing an inmate’s head against a window while escorting him down a jail corridor. The inmate’s hands are behind his back. The video is time-stamped July 2022, when Alex Villanueva was sheriff.

“That’s totally brutal, totally uncalled for and very, very dangerous,” Eliasberg said. “There is just no justification for it.”

The Sheriff’s Department has referred that incident to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office for potential prosecution.

In another video, a deputy can be seen pushing an inmate against a jail cell and then repeatedly punching him in the head. The inmate apparently had asked for soap and complained when he didn’t get it, Eliasberg said.

“Even when force is necessary, the force should be proportional to the situation. It almost never should be a head punch,” he said.

Sheriff’s officials countered that the use of head strikes at the county’s nine jails has fallen dramatically over the past two years and are on pace to hit only 48 in 2023, the lowest of any year since the lawsuit was filed in 2012. The department estimated that up to 60,000 inmates pass through the system in any given year.

The department’s existing policy says head strikes can be used only when an inmate is assaulting a deputy or when a deputy is threatened with serious injury and there is no other means for control.

Deputies will be held accountable

“Sheriff Luna has set a new tone when it has come to making it clear that, regardless of this dramatic drop in uses of force involving inmates, when deputies engage in uses of force in a manner that violates the department’s strict use of force policies, they will be held accountable,” said the department’s website.

In one video, a deputy places a knee on the neck of an inmate who has been taken to the ground, reminiscent of the police tactic that killed George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020. In the Los Angeles County incident, the knee remains in place for less than a minute, compared to the more than nine minutes for Floyd. Eliasberg said the deputy in this case was disciplined.

Another video shows deputies employing the controversial WRAP device, which encircles an inmate’s legs and connects to a chest harness. Doctors say the device can lead to positional asphyxiation, which is putting the inmate in a physical position that restricts breathing.

Many California law enforcement agencies have paid heavily to settle wrongful death cases involving the WRAP, including Pleasanton ($5.9 million), Alameda County ($2.7 million), Hayward (three cases totaling $2.4 million), San Diego County ($1.35 million) and National City ($300,000).

The Sheriff’s Department placed the jail videos on its official website as a show of transparency and said it welcomes more discussions with the court and the ACLU.

“The Sheriff’s Department will continue to have an open dialogue with the ACLU and the court-appointed monitors in this case to explore ways to improve the Department’s performance and will continue to be forthcoming in its efforts to ensure an honest analysis of every use of force incident that occurs,” said the site.

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Orange County scores and player stats for Friday, Nov. 10

• November 11, 2023

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FRIDAY’S SCORES

GIRLS TENNIS

CIF-SS PLAYOFFS

Finals

OPEN DIVISION

Westlake 9, Mater Dei 9 (Westlake wins by game, 82-80)

DIVISION 2

Laguna Beach 10, Calabasas 8

DIVISION 3

Cate 11, Culver City 7

DIVISION 4

Crean Lutheran 11, Oxford Academy 7

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