Dodgers held to 3 hits, shut out by Hanshin Tigers
- March 16, 2025
THE GAME: The Hanshin Tigers held the Dodgers to just three hits and beat the reigning World Series champions, 3-0, in an exhibition game on Sunday afternoon (Saturday night PT) at the Tokyo Dome.
HITTING REPORT: The Tigers also shut out the Chicago Cubs and held them to three hits in an exhibition game on Saturday. … Right-hander Hiroto Saiki pitched the first five scoreless innings against the Dodgers, striking out seven. … Shohei Ohtani took just two at-bats in Sunday’s game, striking out the first time up on a pitch in the dirt and flying out to center field in his second at-bat. … Max Muncy, Austin Barnes and Andy Pages had the Dodgers’ only hits, all singles.
PITCHING REPORT: Neither team had a hit through the first three innings with Dodgers starter Blake Snell retiring the first nine batters he faced, five on strikeouts. In the fourth inning, though, Snell put runners on with a walk and a single then gave up a three-run home run to Teruaki Sato. Snell allowed one more hit and struck out seven in 4⅓ innings. … Tyler Glasnow pitched four scoreless innings, allowing one hit, walking one and striking out six. The game was played for a full nine innings despite the Tigers being the home team.
UP NEXT: Dodgers (RHP Yoshinobu Yamamoto) vs. Chicago Cubs (LHP Shota Imanaga), Tuesday, 3:10 a.m. PT, at Tokyo Dome, FOX (Ch. 11), SportsNet LA, 570 AM
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Brayden Burries’ record-setting night leads Roosevelt boys basketball to state Open Division championship
- March 16, 2025
SACRAMENTO – Brayden Burries can do it all.
And he did Saturday in a record-setting performance.
Burries scored 44 points for Roosevelt as the Mustangs defeated Archbishop Riordan of San Francisco 80-60 in the CIF State Open Division boys basketball championship game at Golden 1 Center, home of the NBA’s Sacramento Kings.
Burries set the state Open Division boys basketball single-game scoring record. His 44 points also set the state championship record for most points by a player on a winning team in the finals across all divisions, a mark previously held by Santa Margarita’s Klay Thompson since 2008.
The single-game record for most points in a state final is 64 set by Tracy Murray of Glendora in 1989; Glendora lost to Menlo-Atherton in that state Division II final.
It is Roosevelt’s second CIF State boys basketball championship. The Mustangs won a CIF State title in 2017. Mustangs coach Stephen Singleton coached that team, and coached Dominguez of Compton to a CIF State championship in 2001 when future NBA player Tyson Chandler was Dominguez’s star player.
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Roosevelt finished the season 35-2 and won its final 12 games, including a 74-67 win over Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks in the CIF Southern Section Open Division championship game. Burries scored 37 when the Mustangs beat Notre Dame again, in the CIF Southern California Regional Open Division final, a win that sent them to Sacramento for the state finals. He scored 29 in a regional first-round win over Harvard-Westlake.
Singleton was asked to describe this season’s Mustangs.
“Toughness,” he said. “Competitors and winners, and not afraid of the big moments. They love each other and they’re a tight-knit group.”
Riordan concluded at 29-2. Senior guard Jasir Rencher led the Crusaders with 22 points.
Burries had 27 points in the first half when he made 10 of his 13 shots. He scored in multiple ways – three 3-point baskets, pull-up jumpers from the 10-17 feet range, and two back-to-back, coast-to-coast layups that left the crowd breathless.
Burries, a 6-5 senior guard who is a McDonald’s All-American, finished the game 15 of 22 on all shots and 4 of 6 on 3-point attempts. He was 10 of 12 at the free-throw line and grabbed a game-high 12 rebounds and had a game-high three blocked shots.
He said he sensed before the game that he was going to have a special night.
“I felt like in the beginning of the day, going to shootaround with my teammates, that my shot was on,” he said. “My teammates were making me feel great. I was just loving the vibe.”
Burries’ first basket was a 3-pointer that tied the game 7-7. He followed with another 3 to put the Mustangs on top 10-7. Riordan had a brief lead, at 14-12, but that would be the last time the Crusaders had it.
Roosevelt was ahead 23-19 at the end of the first quarter and a flurry of Burries baskets in the second quarter, including one of his long-stride driving layups in the closing seconds gave the Mustangs a 44-33 lead at halftime.
The Mustangs were up 63-46 at the end of the third quarter, with the state championship pretty much secured.
Mustangs senior point guard Myles Walker scored 15 points with four assists and three steals. Junior guard Jackson Haggins scored 12 points and was 6 of 6 at the free-throw line. Roosevelt as a team was 21 of 23 at the line.
Burries, who went into Saturday averaging 29 points a game, has offers from many colleges, including Arizona, Duke, Kansas, Michigan, UCLA and USC among others. It is unusual that a high school senior of his skills and stature has not committed, but Burries it seems is an unusual player in more ways than one.
He said his plan all along was to wait until his final high school game before choosing his college destination. That is a decision he will make with plenty of input from his father.
“I wanted to wait until after the playoffs,” Burries said. “Now that we just won, I’m going to try to figure it out with him.”
Coach Stephen Singleton has the Roosevelt boys basketball team back in the CIF State final
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Fullerton College men’s basketball team holds off San Bernardino Valley College to reach CCCAA championship game
- March 16, 2025
WALNUT — The San Bernardino Valley College men’s basketball team was moving full speed ahead late in the second half.
Fullerton College sophomore forward Darvelle Wyatt threw up a roadblock and halted all of the momentum the Wolverines had gained.
Wyatt scored 10 consecutive points over a span of 2 1/2 minutes and finished with 22 points in the game, as the Hornets held on for an 83-76 victory over San Bernardino Valley College in a CCCAA semifinal contest Saturday afternoon at Mt. San Antonio College.
Fullerton (30-3) squares off against City College of San Francisco (31-1) for the state championship Sunday at 1 p.m. at Mt. SAC. It will be a showdown between the teams that were seeded No. 1 in Southern California and No. 1 in Northern California, respectively, for the state championship tournament.
The Hornets had a seemingly comfortable 15-point lead with 7 minutes remaining in the game, but San Bernardino Valley College rattled off eight straight points to trim the deficit to 66-59 with 5 minutes left to play. And that’s when Wyatt made his biggest mark of the afternoon. The Etiwanda High School product hit two free throws then scored baskets on four straight possessions to get the lead up to 17.
“My brothers put me in great positions during this game and I went to finish,” said Wyatt, who made 8 of 11 shots from the field during the game.
Fullerton coach Perry Webster said no lead can be considered safe against SBVC, especially when the Wolverines start applying full-court pressure.
“Our team has great culture and toughness and togetherness,” Webster said. “So when the game starts to get a little crazy like it was there for a while, they don’t splinter. They just come back stronger. They did what I expected them to do, and that’s respond.”
Wyatt’s scoring streak wasn’t the first time Fullerton had an answer for a run by SBVC (27-6, No. 3 seed in Southern California) in Saturday’s game.
The Wolverines knocked down their first four shots of the contest and jumped out to a 9-0 lead less than 2 minutes in the game.
“We predicted that actually,” Webster said. “We told our guys that they’re probably going to come out hot, but to remember it’s a 40-minute game. We wanted to make them play 40 minutes of possession-to-possession basketball, and we started to do that.”
Fullerton answered with a 10-0 run, and another run of 12-0 midway through the first half gave the Hornets a 28-16 advantage. Leading the way for Fullerton in the first half was 6-foot-10 freshman center Joe Grahovac, who scored 12 of his 14 points before halftime.
“That was our game plan, keep pounding the ball down low,” said Grahovac, who also finished with eight boards and five assists.
SBVC did take some momentum into intermission, as an 8-1 run over the final 67 seconds of the half cut the deficit to 38-30.
But the Wolverines were unable to sustain that coming out of the locker room, as Fullerton opened up the second half with a 12-3 run to extend its lead to 15.
Shadale Knight scored 15 of his team-high 22 points in the second half, while Jason Hillard scored 10 of his 15 after the break. The duo kept alive SBVC’s chances for a comeback, but the closest the Wolverines got was 81-76 with 2 seconds remaining (on a 3-ponter by Knight).
Darius Carr finished with 14 points for SBVC, and Khemanni Davis registered a double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds. Jason Lee added seven points and 12 rebounds for the Wolverines.
Addy G’Bye sank three 3-pointers and finished with 14 points and eight rebounds for Fullerton. Kairi Shepherd added 10 points for the Hornets.
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Etiwanda girls basketball tops Archbishop Mitty again for record third straight CIF State Open title
- March 16, 2025
SACRAMENTO — Etiwanda’s increasingly regular appearance in the CIF State Open Division girls basketball championship game Saturday seemed stacked with reasons why the Eagles could be overconfident.
Not only did Etiwanda face an Archbishop Mitty program that it beat in the finals the past two seasons, the Eagles encountered a Monarchs squad without star McKenna Woliczko, who suffered a season-ending knee injury in early January.
If that wasn’t enough of an enticement to be overly brash, Etiwanda advanced to the marquee girls game at Golden 1 Center by defeating Ontario Christian, the No. 1-ranked team in the nation, in the Southern California regional final.
The Eagles shoved aside all the psychological barriers to chase down history.
Junior Arynn Finley scored a game-high 21 points and Etiwanda made a stunning 11 of 15 field goals in the third period to defeat Archbishop Mitty 75-59 for a record third consecutive Open Division title.
The Eagles became the first program — boys or girls — to three-peat in the Open Division, which debuted in 2013.
” A special group,” said Etiwanda coach Stan Delus, whose players held up three fingers in their celebration. “They’re not (overconfident). They all know that every game has its own different challenges. We went into the mindset, with the staff, that we just need to be disciplined and execute and play our game.”
“(In SoCal), you have to go through at least four of the top national teams to get here,” the coach added. “That’s what makes it so much more special.”
Etiwanda (28-5) again showcased its depth. The Eagles rolled past the Monarchs (27-4) with McDonald’s All-American guard Aliyahna “Puff” Morris as their fourth-leading scorer with 12 points.
Point guard Shaena Brew and reserve guard Chasity Rice each had 13 points. Grace Knox, who also was named a McDonald’s All-American, added 10 points and 10 rebounds.
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Finley delivered one of the biggest shots with a 3-pointer with 32 second left in first half to answer Archbishop Mitty trimming its deficit to one point. Finley made 4 of 5 shots from beyond the arc and added two blocks.
“They’re not a two-tricky pony,” Archbishop Mitty coach Sue Phillips said of Etiwanda. “They are a team.”
The Eagles showed their hunger in the third period. After leading 37-31 at halftime, they outscored Archbishop Mitty 24-13 in the quarter to open a 61-44 lead.
Etiwanda made its move by attacking the rim. After making 4 of 11 3-pointers in the first half, the Eagles took only one shot from the arc in the third.
“This team isn’t riding off the last two state championships we’ve won because not everyone on this team has won those state champions,” said Morris, who had seven assists. “I’m very proud of this team.”
Etiwanda finished the game 31 for 52 from the floor (60 percent).
“They got to the rim at will,” Phillips said of the Eagles. “They’re physical and they were getting down hill on us.”
“And they can score at all three levels at all five positions, and they don’t make too many mistakes at the defensive end,” the veteran coach added. “They’re well-schooled. They’re skilled. They’re competitive.”
Last season, Etiwanda used a new-look zone defense to defeat Archbishop Mitty 60-48 in the Open Division final. In 2023, the Eagles edged the Monarchs 69-67 on a last-second putback by Jada Sanders.
On Saturday, Etiwanda capped a season that featured the summer departure of star freshman center Sydney Douglas to Ontario Christian and a 4-4 start against top competition. One of the key adjustments was moving Brew, a senior, to point guard.
“I am excited just to know they finished something strong when it didn’t look good early,” Delus said, “and they all did that together.”
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Angels drop Spring Breakout game to Cubs
- March 16, 2025
The Angels handed Caden Dana the ball for the relatively prestigious opportunity to be the starting pitcher in a prospect showcase game.
He responded with a disappointing performance, allowing four runs and failing to get out of the first inning in the Angels’ 8-3 loss to the Chicago Cubs as part of the Spring Breakout series on Saturday night.
For the second straight year, Major League Baseball orchestrated a weekend in which each organization played a game with a team of its best prospects.
The Angels used seven of their top 10, according to Baseball America, including Dana, who is No. 1.
Dana threw 34 pitches and recorded just two outs. He gave up four hits and walked two.
After that, the game settled down for the Angels. Right-hander George Klassen (No. 4) pitched a scoreless second inning. The Angels also got a scoreless inning from Chris Cortez (No. 11). The game didn’t get out of hand until Najer Victor, who is not even in the top 30, gave up three runs in the seventh.
Offensively, the Angels managed five hits. The starting lineup included four top 10 prospects: second baseman Christian Moore (No. 2), center fielder Nelson Rada (No. 5), shortstop Denzer Guzman (No. 8) and catcher Juan Flores (No. 9).
Rada was the only top 10 prospect who factored into the offense. He led off the game with a single, stole second and scored on a Cole Fontenelle hit. Fontenelle added a homer in the ninth. Right fielder Randy De Jesus blasted a homer in the fifth.
The Angels also brought 17-year-old Joswa Lugo (No. 6) off the bench as the designated hitter. He grounded out in his only at-bat.
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UC San Diego tops UC Irvine for Big West Tournament title, 1st NCAA tourney trip
- March 16, 2025
The frustration continues for the UC Irvine men’s basketball team, which again was denied a trip to the NCAA Tournament.
Hayden Gray had 22 points (six 3-pointers) and top-seeded UC San Diego held off second-seeded UCI, 75-61, in the Big West Tournament championship game on Saturday night in Henderson, Nevada.
The win sends the Tritons to the NCAA Tournament in their first year of eligibility and denies the Anteaters, who were looking to make their third trip to the Big Dance and their first since 2019.
Aniwaniwa Tait-Jones had 14 points, eight rebounds and eight assists for UCSD (30-4), which beat UCI (28-6) for the second time in three meetings this season and won the eight-team Big West Tournament in its first try. Gray shot 6 for 7 from 3-point range as the Tritons went 12 for 29 from behind the arc and shot 49% overall.
Justin Hohn had 18 points and five rebounds to lead UCI, which shot just 35% from the field and just 8 for 29 from 3-point range. Devin Tillis added 12 points, seven rebounds and eight assists, and Bent Leuchten had 10 points and seven rebounds.
UCI has been the most consistently successful program in the Big West Conference for more than a decade but has just two trips to the NCAA Tournament to show for it (2015, 2019).
The Anteaters have won the Big West regular-season title seven of the past 11 years and have 10 20-win seasons in 15 years under Coach Russell Turner, but the conference tournament has been their trouble spot.
UCI, the runner-up to UCSD in the regular season, has won just once in its past five appearances in the Big West championship game and was upset in the semifinals as the tournament’s top seed in 2023 and 2024.
UCSD will learn the opponent, site and location for its first-round game when the 68-team bracket is revealed during the NCAA Tournament Selection Show on Sunday at 3 p.m. PT (CBS, Ch. 2). The Tritons could also be placed into one of the First Four games that will be played Tuesday and Wednesday in Dayton, Ohio.
UCI will find out of it is selected for the NIT or another postseason tournament later Sunday.
Much more to come on this story.
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Kings beat Predators in OT, extend win streak to 5 games
- March 16, 2025
LOS ANGELES — For anyone who had heard that the Kings had been dominant at home and arrived at Crypto.com Arena on Saturday evening to see them take on the Nashville Predators, there might have been some serious confusion, though the end result still tracked.
They put a scanty six shots on goal through two periods but ultimately prevailed, 1-0, in overtime, stretching their winning streak to five games and bumping their stellar home record to 23-3-4. For a second straight game, the win lifted them over the Edmonton Oilers, who ended the night one point back of the Kings for second place in the Pacific Division.
The massively disappointing Preds’ already-thin ranks were further depleted, and their legs were weary as well. They were without their best player and captain, defenseman Roman Josi (upper-body), and their top goalie, Juuse Saros. He was rested as a consequence of having played 22 hours earlier at Honda Center, where Nashville fell to the Ducks to snap a four-game winning streak.
Quinton Byfield scored his third overtime goal of the year and fourth game-winner overall. Darcy Kuemper stopped all 24 shots he faced for his 2nd straight shutout.
Justus Annunen stopped 20 of 21 pucks thrown at him for Nashville.
The Kings have won nine of 12 games against the top four teams by record in the NHL (Carolina, Dallas, Vegas, Washington and Winnipeg) but, even with Saturday’s win, only five of 11 against its bottom five clubs (Buffalo, Chicago, Nashville, San Jose and Seattle).
Even notable misses in regulation were tough to come by on Saturday. Joel Edmundson’s bomb of a one-timer from the point in the third period and a Vladislav Gavrikov shot-pass to create a chance in tight for Trevor Moore in the first stood out somewhat. For Nashville, Kuemper served up a giveaway in the high slot for leading scorer Filip Forsberg but recovered to make the save.
But OT belonged to the Kings, culminating in Adrian Kempe’s pass across for a redirection by Byfield, who’d received the puck back after gaining the zone off a stretch pass from Brandt Clarke. With 1:40 showing on the clock, Byfield replicated his feat from exactly a week earlier against St. Louis.
Quinton Byfield hit the post with a shot in the first minute, after a third period that saw the Kings more pucks to the net, 12, than they did in the other stanzas combined.
After putting just four strikes on net in the first period, the Kings followed it up with just two in the second as they shot the puck high, wide and into defenders repeatedly. Kuemper’s workload was also relatively light.
Twenty minutes came and went with a whimper, with the Kings attempting 21 shots but hitting the net just four times. Nashville produced a snooze of a first period just as it did at Honda Center a night earlier in a 2-1 loss to the Ducks.
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Chatsworth boys basketball thwarted by Jesuit in bid for CIF state Division II title
- March 16, 2025
SACRAMENTO – Chatsworth’s quest for a CIF State boys basketball championship was stopped by an opponent that did everything well Saturday.
Jesuit of Carmichael moved the ball so well offensively that four of its players scored in double figures. The Marauders were 14 of 16 at the free-throw line and made eight 3-pointers. Jesuit committed only four turnovers, and its zone defense was active and outstanding.
All of that was too much for Chatsworth to overcome, as the Chancellors lost 66-53 in the CIF State Division II championship game at Golden 1 Center.
The Chancellors’ highlight was seeing senior Alijah Arenas became the first CIF LA City Section boys basketball player to reach 3,000 career points. The 6-6 guard, who has signed with USC and is the son of former NBA star Gilbert Arenas, scored 22 points to finish his high school career with 3,002 points. He is a young senior, too, having reclassified from a junior to a senior this school year.
Chatsworth, which lost to Westchester in the City Section Open Division championship game and then defeated Westchester in a CIF Southern California Regional final, finished the season 26-9. The Chancellors advanced to a state final for the second year in a row; they lost in the state Division IV final last season.
Arenas, a McDonald’s All-American, was the focal point of the Jesuit’s 2-1-2 zone defense. Any time Arenas got the ball inside of 25 feet, two or three Marauders would collapse on him.
Although Arenas is a fine passer when double- or triple-teamed, he was the only Chatsworth player to score in double figures. Arenas was 8 for 21 from the field including 1 of 7 on 3-point shots. He had four assists and seven rebounds.
Chatsworth coach Sam Harris was emotional about the loss. In his postgame press conference, he struggled to start his opening remarks.
“This is tough,” Harris said. “This is a special group right here. We just couldn’t knock down enough shots.”
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He was proud that the Chancellors are a homegrown team.
“We took neighborhood kids to back-to-back state finals,” Harris said.
Arenas was disappointed that Chatsworth could not return to Southern California with a CIF State championship trophy.
“The moral of this story was just effort,” Arenas said. “They (the Marauders) had more heart. I feel like we should have stuck together a little bit more.”
Chatsworth 6-8 senior Taj Unuakhalu scored nine points and had a game-high 10 rebounds.
Jesuit (27-9) won its first CIF State boys basketball championship.
Marauders 6-3 freshman guard Maison Phillips scored 19 points including three 3-pointers and was 4 for 4 at the free throw line. Amaury McKinney scored 13 points and Luke Browne and Asher Schroeder scored 12 each for Jesuit.
Chatsworth had a 13-9 lead at the end of the first quarter in which Arenas had five points.
Jesuit went on a 10-2 run to take a 19-15 lead three minutes into the second quarter. The Marauders, who scored eight points off of turnovers in the first half, carried a 29-25 advantage into halftime. Arenas had 11 first-half points.
Jesuit’s lead was seven points twice in the third quarter. V’Elijah Miller of Chatsworth made a 3-pointer to beat the end-of-quarter buzzer to knock the Chancellors’ deficit to three points, 43-40, going into the fourth quarter.
Browne made a 3 to start the final quarter in which Jesuit outscored Chatsworth 23-13. The Marauders played in those final eight minutes like they did in the previous 24 minutes, sharing the ball on offense while never faltering on defense.
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