ALCS Game 1: Rangers’ Jordan Montgomery shuts out Astros

• October 16, 2023

By KRISTIE RIEKEN (AP Sports Writer)

HOUSTON — Jordan Montgomery outdueled Justin Verlander and the Texas Rangers received a big boost from their youngest player to open the AL Championship Series with a 2-0 win over the Houston Astros on Sunday night.

Montgomery pitched five-hit ball over 6 1/3 innings, Leody Taveras provided a two-run lead with his solo homer in the fifth and the Rangers remained perfect in the postseason at 6-0.

Evan Carter, a rookie who just turned 21 on Aug. 29, doubled and scored in the second and made two nifty defensive plays in left field. He’s shined this postseason after not making his major league debut until Sept. 8.

“He just has so much confidence,” Texas manager Bruce Bochy said. “He’s got the youthful enthusiasm and he’s just excited to be here. He’s not in awe of anything, just no fear in this kid since he’s come up.”

In the ALCS for the first time since back-to-back appearances in 2010-11, the Rangers swept the Rays in the Wild Card Series and the Orioles in the Division Series. The winning streak followed losses in their previous six playoff games against Toronto in the ALDS in 2015 and 2016.

“We just found a way to get a couple of runs across the board,” Bochy said. “That was the difference in the game, obviously. But our guy was really good, Monty, terrific job he did. And he got in a couple of jams there and found a way to get out of it.”

Game 2 of the best-of-seven series is Monday in Houston.

The defending champion Astros, in the ALCS for a seventh straight year, had a tough time getting anything going against Montgomery. The top four batters in Houston’s lineup were 2 for 12 with five strikeouts against the left-hander. Slugger Yordan Alvarez struck out against him three times.

“Overall, just didn’t do enough tonight, offensively,” Houston third baseman Alex Bregman said. “I thought J.V. threw the ball tremendously, but we need to string together some better at-bats.”

Houston’s offensive woes came after it hit 16 homers and outscored the Rangers 39-10 in a three-game sweep in September. Things were much different in the first postseason meeting between these in-state rivals as they managed just five singles.

“Sometime you’ve got to say: ‘Hey, the guy threw a great game tonight against us, excellent game,’ manager Dusty Baker said. “And they say good pitching beats good hitting, but when you don’t hit, everybody wants to know what’s wrong. There’s not a whole bunch to say. He threw a real good game against us.”

Montgomery has been great in the last month, allowing just two earned runs over 27 innings in his last four starts of regular season, and posting a 2.08 ERA in three postseason starts.

Verlander allowed two runs and six hits in 6 2/3 innings to mark the first time this postseason that both starters pitched into the seventh. It was the 36th postseason start for Verlander and the MLB-record 14th time he’s started a playoff series opener.

The three-time Cy Young Award winner threw 47 fastballs, getting 27 swings without a single swing and miss.

Verlander said the defending champs aren’t concerned after falling into an early hole in the series.

“We lost Game 1 in the World Series last year,” he said. “We’ve lost Game 1 of some playoff series before. And that’s the great thing about this team. Obviously nobody is sitting in the locker room right now happy. But it’s very matter of fact, okay. We just got punched, how do you answer?”

Alvarez stranded two in the third with an inning ending strikeout and Martín Maldonado left the bases loaded when he struck out in the fourth.

Josh Sborz walked Jose Altuve starting the eighth and was replaced by Aroldis Chapman. The Rangers turned a double play when Carter made a great grab on the track on a ball hit by Bregman and Altuve was called out for not retouching second base when he retreated to first after Carter’s catch.

Altuve initially called safe, but the Rangers challenged the ruling and it was overturned in a video review. Alvarez following with an inning-ending groundout.

Carter had robbed Bregman of a hit with one out in the first. He sprinted before leaping to make the catch and crashing into the scoreboard wall in left field and knocking out one of the squares.

“Oh, my gosh. This is so much fun,” Carter said. “That’s just all I think about. Where else would I want to be. This is awesome. I’m just trying to keep my feet grounded and just keep rolling with this team. It’s been a lot of fun.”

Jose Leclerc struck out one in a perfect ninth for the save and the Rangers’ second shutout of the playoff. Texas’ bullpen has a 1.86 ERA in the playoffs after ranking 24th at 4.77 during the regular season.

Carter got things going for Texas with a hustle double on a grounder with one out in the second before scoring on a single by Jonah Heim. John Jung singled with two outs, Taveras walked to load the bases and Verlander limited the damage by retiring Marcus Semien on a fly ball.

Verlander had retired eight in a row when Taveras drove a hanging slider 398 feet into the seats in right field with one out in the fifth.

“Every one of their guys has the opportunity to beat you,” Verlander said. “You’ve got to be on your game one through nine. And if you’re not, they’ll make you pay.”

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Houston LHP Framber Valdez (0-1, 10.38 ERA) opposes RHP Nathan Eovaldi (2-0, 1.32) in Game 2. Eovaldi grew up in suburban Houston and attended Alvin High School, which is also the alma mater of Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan.

“It’s awesome,” Eovaldi said. “I’m going to have a lot of friends and family here for the game. Anytime we’re in this stage in this moment right here, being this close to the World Series, it’s a big deal. Doesn’t matter where we’re playing at, it’s a big honor for us to be here.”

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Frank Vatrano leads Ducks past Hurricanes in home opener of 30th anniversary season

• October 16, 2023

ANAHEIM –– It’ll take more than three periods to make a substantive statement, but in their home opener Sunday the Ducks may have at least offered an initial proclamation: this team is a hell of a lot tougher to play against than it was just a few short months ago.

They picked the right night for their wordless announcement as they had a standing-room-only crowd on hand Sunday at Honda Center for the first home game of the franchise’s 30th anniversary season. The Ducks prevailed 6-3 against one of the NHL’s top teams, the Carolina Hurricanes.

Not only did the Ducks match one of the NHL’s fastest teams stride for stride, they took them out of their comfort zone and beat back a rally that saw Carolina draw to within a goal after trailing 4-1.

Frank Vatrano turned in a hat trick and also had a roughing penalty against Michael Bunting where he got his money’s worth. Fourth-liner Sam Carrick carried over a prolific preseason into the regular year with a goal in Game No. 2 after a 4-1 loss in Vegas Saturday. Pavel Mintyukov scored his first career NHL goal and Ryan Strome added two assists. Fittingly, the longest-serving Duck, Cam Fowler, iced the game with an empty-netter before Vatrano piled on another. In goal, Lukas Dostal made 32 saves in the victory.

Teuvo Teravainen scored two goals, one on the power-play, and Martin Necas added a man-advantage marker. No. 2 goalie Antti Raanta got the nod after former Ducks goalie Freddie Anderson beat the Kings 6-5 Saturday, and stopped 18 shots.

Other than the empty-net goals, the third-period scoring belonged to Carolina and both their goals came on the power play. Teravainen scored off a long slap shot of a rolling puck to at least inspire thoughts of a final push for Carolina, which included a tip-in tally from Necas. Teravainen also scored in the second period, knocking down an airborne puck and rifling it past Dostal in a quick, fluid sequence.

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Equally rapid-fire were two saves made in succession made by Dostal, who fended off the temeritous Hurricanes off at almost every turn, apart from Teravainen’s first tally.

The Ducks were protected beyond their net though, and made Carolina feel at least slightly on edge. While Coach Rod Brind’Amour’s group has plenty of heft, they play a relentless style at a break-neck pace that leaves opponents winded rather than battered most nights. But the Ducks drew them into scrums routinely, including one that earned former Kings forward Brendan Lemiuex, now with Carolina, and newly acquired Ducks defenseman Radko Gudas game misconduct penalties.

But the early going was owned by the Ducks, with Carrick opening the scoring, Vatrano earning them a cushion and Mintyukov getting his first goal from defense partner Jackson LaCombe, whose assist was his first career NHL point.

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Lakers, without LeBron James and Austin Reaves, fall to Bucks

• October 16, 2023

LOS ANGELES — The Lakers were once again without at least two starters – and a few other players – for an exhibition Wednesday, falling to the Milwaukee Bucks 108-97 at Crypto.com Arena.

LeBron James and Austin Reaves sat for the third time during preseason as part of their ramp-up plans for the regular season.

They’ll likely play in Thursday’s preseason finale against the Phoenix Suns at Acrisure Arena in Thousand Palms, giving the Lakers a “test run” ahead of the regular-season opener against the Denver Nuggets on Oct. 24.

Anthony Davis (16 points, seven rebounds, five assists, two blocks and two steals in 19 minutes) and D’Angelo Russell (11 points in 19 minutes) were the two known starters who played but were limited to first-half minutes.

Taurean Prince, a candidate for the fifth starting spot, was in the starting unit for the third time during preseason, scoring eight points (2-of-5 shooting on 3-pointers) in 15 first-half minutes.

Cam Reddish returned to the court after missing three consecutive games because of right ankle soreness. He finished with 10 points (4-of-11 shooting, 2 of 5 on 3s) and five rebounds in 21 minutes.

“Cam looked great,” Ham said. “He’s out there gassed a little bit, which is to be expected. But he’s another high-level, skilled player. Can shoot it, can guard. Really competes on the defensive side of the ball. Able to handle, get downhill, finish. It was good to see him out there giving contributions. Look forward to seeing more of him.”

Max Christie (10 points and four rebounds) also scored in double figures.

Jarred Vanderbilt (left heel soreness), Gabe Vincent (lower back soreness)) and Jalen Hood-Schifino (right knee contusion) also missed Sunday’s game.

Vincent sitting in the last two games has been designated as precautionary. Ham said Hood-Schifino bumped knees during Friday’s home loss to the Golden State Warriors and the team wants to “evaluate it some more and make sure we know what we’re dealing with.”

The absence was the fourth consecutive missed game for Vanderbilt, who’ll be reevaluated on Friday and is expected to miss Thursday’s game against the Suns.

It’s unknown whether he’ll be available for the regular-season opener.

“We’ll see,” Ham responded when asked whether Vanderbilt will be available against the Nuggets. “Once he gets reevaluated on Friday, we’ll go from there.”

Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard, the seven-time All-Star guard the Bucks acquired from the Portland Trail Blazers on Sept. 27, made their preseason debuts against the Lakers.

Antetokounmpo had 16 points, eight rebounds and two blocks in 15 first-half minutes. Lillard finished with 14 points, three assists and three steals in 22 minutes.

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“It’s a hell of a combo, hell of a one-two punch,” Ham said. “Just Dame with the ball, Giannis as a screener. Or even Dame as a screener and Giannis with the ball. It’s not going to be any fun for anybody. Best of luck to everybody else, the other 28 teams, aside from ourselves that have to figure out a way to try to stop that. I’m just happy we only see them twice in the regular season.”

After playing every other day for over a week, the Lakers will have three days in between games to close out their exhibition slate.

The matchup against the Suns should give clarity to what their rotation will look like to start the season.

“We got a few days in between now and then as we build up toward it,” Ham said. “Obviously, it’ll be a little bit of a test run for us to see what our normal rotation looks like – looks like that being the last preseason game of the preseason. For three quarters, we’ll see what we look like. And again, in between time, try to get better at different things.”

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Bishop Tod Brown, who led the Diocese of Orange for 14 years, has died

• October 16, 2023

Bishop Tod D. Brown, who led the Dioceses of Orange for 14 years before his retirement in 2012, died early Sunday morning, church officials said. He was 86.

Brown came to the diocese in 1998 from the Diocese of Boise, leading Orange County Catholics until his retirement at age 75 – the typical age of retirement for bishops. He saw the diocese through several years of significant growth, including the purchase of the Crystal Cathedral in 2011, as well as its dark years addressing the clergy sex-abuse scandal locally.

During Brown’s tenure, the diocese more than doubled its membership and by 2012, he was shepherd to more than 1.2 million Catholics in Orange County. He recognized the diversity of the county’s Catholics, ordaining the nation’s first Vietnamese Roman Catholic bishop in 2003 and one of the few Hispanic bishops in the United States in 2000. He also development a relationship with the Archdiocese of Hanoi and made multiple trips to Vietnam.

“With his tireless spirit and witness to Christ, Bishop Brown faithfully served the people of the Diocese of Orange since 1998 when Pope St. John Paul II appointed him bishop and ordinary of our diocese. I remember especially his kindness to me when I was a newly ordained priest years ago, and we were together at the Casa Santa Maria in Rome in the Fall of 1981,” Bishop Kevin Vann, who has served the diocese since Brown’s retirement, said in a statement.

“I ask for your prayers for the repose of his soul and for thanksgiving to God for his many years of ministry and evangelization,” Vann said.

Monsignor Tuan Joseph Pham was Brown’s secretary for six years and said Brown had a vision for building a cathedral as the new spiritual home for the diocese.

The Bishop of Orange, The Most Reverend Tod D. Brown gives his comments during Santa Margarita Catholic High School’s graduation exercise at UCI’s Bren Center in 2010. (File photo by Andy Templeton, The Orange County Register.)

Property near Segerstrom High was under consideration, when the Crystal Cathedral filed for bankruptcy protection and Brown and church leaders spoke with Rev. Robert Schuller about the 35-acre campus in Garden Grove.

In 2011, a federal judge approved the sale to the diocese for $57.5 million. Brown’s daily prayers for a cathedral had been answered in an unexpected way, Pham said.

“I felt very bad that they lost their home. However, we needed a new Catholic cathedral because our cathedral is very small,” Brown said in 2012 when the new Christ Cathedral name was announced. “Dr. Schuller himself said he wanted us to be the ones to purchase it, so we would continue Christian worship in the cathedral and Christian ministry on the campus. That would not have happened with another buyer.”

Fr. Bruce Patterson, now the Episcopal Vicar for Priests, remembers Brown’s leadership and having a “real vision in mind” and said the acquisition of the property for the Christ Cathedral “really did help us find a spiritual home that allowed us to express our diversity.”

The campus puts the diocese in a position to offer leadership in the church not just locally but throughout the state, he said. “We can do a lot of great things here.”

Patterson and Pham also spoke of the leadership Brown showed in handling the settlement of sexual abuse lawsuits.

“His willingness to take the stand on principal when other bishops were reluctant to do so,” Patterson said, “he had a lot of compassion for the victims and I really admired that.”

In 2005, Brown agreed to the largest settlement of its kind that had been seen as of then, paying $100 million to 90 victims who had alleged abuse by Catholic priests, nuns and lay teachers in Orange County. It was the first settlement in California.

The year before Brown had nailed a “Covenant with the Faithful” to the door of Holy Family, pledging the public honesty and continued efforts to help victims. At the time of his retirement, it was noted the hard line he had taken against abusive priests as the U.S. Conference of Bishops struggled to address the growing scandal.

Brown had his detractors who argued he should have dealt more swiftly with abusers when allegations arose instead of spending time fighting some cases in court.

In 2014, in an interview for his retirement, Brown said “the decision to settle and to try to bring peace to the victims was very, very important.”

In a later interview, he said, “We’ve established protocols for employees and clergy, background checks, audits, everything we can do to prevent the abuse from happening again. This is unfortunately a part of our legacy, and it’s something that should never be forgotten. The actions we take to prevent abuse is unending. It must be.”

Brown was just the third bishop to serve the diocese, which was split in 1976 from the the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Brown lived the last years of his life at Holy Family Catholic Church in Orange. He had been in failing health recently.

Fr. Sy Nguyen is the pastor at Holy Family and said Brown attended Mass and events in his retirement and was always very giving to the congregants.

“He was a gentleman in the sense that he would greet the people and give the people his time,” Nguyen said.

Brown cared for and supported the priests in the diocese, if they were struggling he would call and check on them, Nguyen said. “They would find in Bishop Tod a real spiritual father.”

Pham remembered visiting parishes often and Brown inviting priests to dinner in his retirement, he said. “He was very social.”

Patterson said he hoped Brown would be remembered for his compassion and “how gracious he was, what an even tempered gentleman he was.”

At the time of his retirement, Brown said he hoped his legacy “will be that people see me as having been a faithful shepherd, pastor, and that by means of my leadership they may have been drawn closer to the Lord.”

Brown is survived by his brother Daniel Brown and sister-in-law and their children and grandchildren. Diocese officials said information on memorial services would be coming in the next few days.

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Biden campaign raises $71.3 million, far outpacing Trump and Republican field

• October 16, 2023

President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign announced Sunday it had raised a combined $71.3 million alongside the Democratic National Committee and a joint fundraising committee during the three-month period that ended in September, a haul that eclipses what his Republican rivals have amassed but falls short of where President Donald Trump was at this point four years ago.

The campaign said the three fundraising vehicles had a combined $90.5 million in cash on hand. It did not disclose how the cash was divided among the three fundraising vehicles.

“It was a spectacular quarter,” Jeffrey Katzenberg, the Hollywood mogul whom Biden named a co-chair of his campaign, said Saturday.

But Biden’s fundraising haul is well short of the $125 million Trump and the Republican National Committee raised during the same period of his 2020 reelection campaign. And it is just a touch more than the $70.1 million President Barack Obama and the DNC raised at this point in his 2012 campaign — at a time when individual contribution limits were far lower than they are today.

Katzenberg, in the interview, dismissed comparisons to such campaigns as “comparing apples to submarines.”

Comparisons with Obama’s fundraising efforts for the 2012 campaign are indeed imprecise, because a 2014 Supreme Court decision and other legal changes now allow candidates and parties to form joint fundraising committees that can accept single donations of nearly $1 million. In 2012, Obama and the DNC could collect only $30,500 per person.

More revealing details about the Biden campaign’s financial status will emerge when the committees file quarterly reports required by the Federal Election Commission. Those are due by the end of Sunday; a campaign official said the reports would become public late Sunday evening.

Among the most significant details in the campaign’s fundraising report will be the amount of cash it has accumulated from donors who gave less than $200.

These so-called small donors are vital to presidential efforts because they can be recruited to give again and again over the course of a long campaign. During the three-month fundraising period that ended in June, $10.2 million of contributions to the Biden effort, or about 21%, came from small donors, an amount smaller in percentage and in real dollars than the Trump and Obama campaigns in the comparable time periods.

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Swanson: Rams do what’s expected in victory against Arizona Cardinals

• October 16, 2023

INGLEWOOD – You know how the NFL can be.

Fickle. Erratic. All over the place.

On any given Sunday, anything can happen.

Sometimes anything can be surprising: Like on Sunday, when the middling Cleveland Browns sent the San Francisco 49ers home with their first loss, 19-17. And the embattled New York Jets picked off Philadelphia’s star quarterback Jalen Hurts late to pin the Eagles with their first loss, 20-14.

And sometimes anything is the predictable thing.

Like when a team in the midst of a major renovation and a team navigating a competitive remodel shows us they are who we thought they were: Rams 26, Arizona Cardinals 9.

If Sunday’s victory was a measuring stick for this young Rams team (3-3), it placed them squarely ahead of the 1-5 Cardinals. And a few feet ahead of where the Rams themselves left off the previous week in their 23-14 loss to the Eagles.

They’re still the team that’s guaranteed to give its paying customers one good half of football per game. (On Sunday it was the second half instead of the first. That after coming in with first-half averages of 194.3 yards, 12.3 first downs, a 46.5% third-down conversation rate – as opposed to their post-halftime metrics: 135.5 yards, 8.6 first downs and just a 22.2% third-down conversion rate.)

They’re still the team with Cooper Kupp, who is still awesome, despite missing the first four games of the season recovering from a hamstring injury. On Sunday, he made seven sublime catches for 148 yards and a touchdown.

But the Rams let us know they’re also a team that’s capable of mixing up the run and the pass. Or even – would you believe it – leaning outright on the run.

Trailing 9-6 at the break, the Rams came out of the locker room craving the run game, deciding suddenly to feed running back Kyren Williams. After just two carries for four yards in the first half, the second-year running back out of Notre Dame feasted, filled up, a glutton on the ground. He finished with 20 carries for 158 yards, including a touchdown.

And that offensive twist served to stymie the Cardinals, who couldn’t muster even a field goal in the second half, when they had the ball for only about 10 minutes and had to deal with a fresh and fired up Rams defense.

All those rushing plays on offense? “It was great, it gave us a lot of juice,” Aaron Donald, the Rams’ star defensive tackle, who still measures as a menace – especially to the Cardinals.

He now has a career-high 17 sacks in 19 games against Arizona after Sunday, when he flung Arizona’s Josh Dobbs to the turf as if the poor quarterback were a quilt on a hot day and not a 216-pound man.

Donald said he’d have to examine tape of the game to determine how he felt. But gauging by what we all witnessed the first time though, he’ll be happier about it than he was after mistakes cost the Rams against Philadelphia.

Donald was still smarting days after that, telling reporters last week: “We gave up some plays and with some penalties that hurt us and some things that we could’ve done better. We got to try to eliminate that type of stuff, but we can’t have that as a defense. That’s not us, that can’t be acceptable.”

This time, it was the defense saving the day: They helped mitigate possible disaster after Austin Trammell’s fumbled punt gave the Cardinals the ball at the Rams’ 17-yard line. Dobbs threw two incompletions and gained just three yards on the ground before having to settle for a field goal early in the second quarter.

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And later, Christian Rozeboom made his first career interception to start the fourth quarter, effectively cleaning up for Derion Kendrick after he’d incurred a face mask penalty and given up a 22-yard catch to Marquise Brown, which brought Arizona up to the Rams’ 12-yard line. Williams’ touchdown came 12 plays after Rozeboom’s pick.

“To not score a touchdown in the NFL, credit to your defense and calls and preparation,” said Rozeboom, who put on a show for the 22 guests he had in the crowd this given Sunday – when the Rams held the Cardinals to six third-down conversions on 16 tries, and no touchdowns in three trips to the red zone.

For the Rams, what was different Sunday wasn’t a surprise, rather an achievement unlocked.

“It was the first time I feel like we played complementary football,” Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford said. “Get turnovers on defense, taking care of the ball for the most part on offense and that’s usually a good recipe.”

Even — or especially — in the volatile stew that is the NFL.

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Rams notebook: DE Jonah Williams provides critical snaps vs. Cardinals

• October 16, 2023

INGLEWOOD — Entering Sunday’s game against the Arizona Cardinals, the Rams knew they would need to find more production along the defensive line. Bobby Brown III had been placed on injured reserve with a knee injury, forcing rookie Kobie Turner into more of an early-down role than he had previously occupied, and creating ripple effects down the line.

Fourth-year defensive lineman Jonah Williams proved to be the one to step up when the Rams needed it. He provided two tackles for loss and a sack, along with two quarterback hits in the Rams’ 26-9 win.

“I just knew I had to play more,” Williams said. “It was going to be a little more opportunity on third-and-long, second-and-long, which, I enjoy, a little bit more rushing the passer. I was excited for it. A little more opportunity to let loose.”

The Cardinals were facing third-and-two from the Rams 40 in the first quarter. A blitz was called for linebacker Ernest Jones, while Williams had the freedom to attack the offensive line where he wanted on the call.

Jones lined up in the A gap, but moved outside, bringing the center with him as he was engaged by the left tackle. It left a clear lane for Williams to move inside, and he evaded the left guard to get a clean shot on Arizona quarterback Joshua Dobbs for a 13-yard loss, driving the Cardinals out of field goal range.

“You have a very short amount of time to make a decision. You go to your tool bag where you feel like you’re best at, and then after that it’s just reading what the guard gives you,” Williams said. “Once Ernest hit that gap, there was no thinking. He took my side of the rush, so I take his and it opened up for me.”

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Injury report

Running back Kyren Williams, the star of Sunday’s win, left the game in the fourth quarter with a left ankle injury. Head coach Sean McVay said he didn’t expect the injury to impact Williams long-term, and the running back’s ankle was lightly taped after the game.

With backup RB Ronnie Rivers also sidelined with a knee injury, the Rams turned to rookie Zach Evans for the first carries of his career. The sixth-round pick rushed four times for 10 carries.

Right guard Joe Noteboom (groin) and defensive tackle Larrell Murchison (knee) were medical scratches before the game.

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Final CIF-SS girls volleyball polls 2023

• October 16, 2023

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The final CIF-SS girls volleyball polls of 2023, released Saturday, Oct. 14

CIF-SS GIRLS VOLLEYBALL POLLS

(Selected by the CIF-SS Girls Volleyball Committee)

DIVISION 1

1. Mater Dei

2. Mira Costa

3. Huntington Beach

4. Sierra Canyon

5. Marymount

6. Alemany

7. Los Alamitos

8. Palos Verdes

DIVISION 2

1. Redondo Union

2. JSerra

3. Long Beach Wilson

4. Orange Lutheran

5. Edison

6. Santa Margarita

7. San Clemente

8. Oaks Christian

9. South Pasadena

10. La Canada

DIVISION 3

1. Beckman

2. Campbell Hall

3. Long Beach Poly

4. Roosevelt

5. Dana Hills

6. Pasadena Poly

7. Hart

8. Notre Dame Academy

9. Village Christian

10. Norco

DIVISION 4

1. West Ranch

2. Capistrano Valley Christian

3. Arcadia

4. Crescenta Valley

5. Thousand Oaks

6. Sunny Hills

7. Paloma Valley

8. Arrowhead Christian

9. Royal

10. Flintridge Sacred Heart

DIVISION 5

1. Ventura

2. La Reina

3. Irvine

4. Northwood

5. Centennial/Corona

6. Flintridge Prep

7. San Dimas

8. Valencia/Valencia

9. Temple City

10. Diamond Bar

DIVISION 6

1. Sacred Heart of Los Angeles

2. Glendale

3. Linfield Christian

4. Cate

5. United Christian Academy

6. La Mirada

7. Gahr

8. Mayfair

9. La Sierra

10. West Valley

DIVISION 7

1. Pacifica Christian/Santa Monica

2. Norwalk

3. Wildwood

4. St. Mary’s Academy

5. Southlands Christian

6. Gabrielino

7. Loma Linda Academy

8. Ramona Convent

9. Indio

10. Pomona Catholic

DIVISION 8

1. Temecula Prep

2. Orangewood Academy

3. Jurupa Valley

4. Lighthouse Christian Academy

5. Le Lycee

6. Patriot

7. Tahquitz

8. Firebaugh

9. Samueli Academy

10. California Lutheran

DIVISION 9

1. Rosemead

2. Moreno Valley

3. Canyon Springs

4. Cornerstone Christian/Wildomar

5. Hesperia Christian

6. Garey

7. University Prep

8. Edgewood

9. Century

10. Shalhevet

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