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• Orange County scores and player stats for Saturday (2-9-19)

  09-02-2019 23:55
  
  Scores and stats for the Orange County games on Saturday, Feb. 9.
  BASKETBALL
  BASEBALL
  SOFTBALL
  BOYS SOCCER
  CIF-SS PLAYOFF
  DIVISION 1
  Second round
  Edison 3, Palos Verdes 0
  Goals: (Edi) Booij, Burris, Van Buren
  DIVISION 2
  Second round
  San Marcos 3, Laguna Hills 2 (OT)
  DIVISION 3
  Second round
  El Segundo 4, Brea Olinda 2
   
  GIRLS WATER POLO
  CIF-SS PLAYOFFS
  DIVISION 2
  Quarterfinals
  San Clemente 6, Huntington Beach 4
  DIVISION 4
  Quarterfinals
  Dana Hills 8, Edison 7
  DIVISION 5
  Quarterfinals
  Roosevel
  
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• Middleweight champ Robert Whittaker out of fight vs. Kelvin Gastelum at UFC 234

  09-02-2019 23:37
  
  MELBOURNE, Australia  — Australia’s UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker has withdrawn from his championship defense against Kelvin Gastelum tonight at UFC 234 because of a hernia.
  UFC president Dana White says the 29-year-old Whittaker, who has a record of 20-4, became ill last night and complained of pain in his abdomen before being diagnosed at a hospital with a hernia.
  Gastelum, fighting out of Kings MMA in Huntington Beach, will not fight on the card. It was his first
  
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• Big media’s identity crisis, latent for years, is now on full display.

  09-02-2019 23:00
  
  The saga surrounding the Washington Post is just one of the latest signs of what is—and isn’t—happening to the news industry.
  Take the Post’s self-serious Super Bowl ad, touting its “Democracy Dies in Darkness” motto. It was recently revealed that the ad was only run, after a crash production process of around a week, in the wake of owner Jeff Bezos’s decision to nix a seven-figure ad for his Blue Horizon space company—a decision that emanated from
  
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• Kings fall in OT in Boston to snap 3-game winning streak

  09-02-2019 22:21
  
  BOSTON — Patrice Bergeron scored a power-play goal with 2:26 left in overtime, and the Boston Bruins beat the Los Angeles Kings 5-4 on Saturday after blowing a two-goal lead.
  Brad Marchand, David Krejci and Danton Heinen each scored a goal in a 3:22 span early in the third period to give the Bruins a 4-2 edge before the Kings came back. Los Angeles tied it on Oscar Fantenberg’s slap shot from the point with 4:47 left in regulation for his first goal of the season.
  Nate Thomson’
  
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• Ducks losing streak hits 7 in 6-2 trouncing by Flyers

  09-02-2019 21:54
  
  PHILADELPHIA — All-Star goaltender John Gibson couldn’t play because of an upper-body injury and Chad Johnson gave up four goals on 14 shots in the first period, so 26-year-old Kevin Boyle got a chance to make his NHL debut Saturday for the Ducks.
  Boyle made the cross-country journey from San Diego and didn’t look out of place in the least. He was poised and confident while stepping into the chaos that has enveloped the reeling Ducks, losers of seven in a row and 19 o
  
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• Ducks fall to Flyers and last in the West as losing streak reaches 7

  09-02-2019 21:54
  
  PHILADELPHIA — Last at last. The Ducks’ downward spiral finally dropped them to the bottom of the Western Conference standings after a 6-2 loss Saturday to the Philadelphia Flyers at Wells Fargo Center, their seventh consecutive and 19th in their past 21 games.
  Coach Randy Carlyle emerged from the dressing room looking fatigued, the strain of the Ducks’ losing streak clearly etched on his face as he met with reporters. As the losses have mounted, the calls for General
  
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• Trump’s Year 3 aims for dramatic sequels to rival originals

  09-02-2019 21:10
  
  By CATHERINE LUCEY and JONATHAN LEMIRE | Associated Press
  WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump prepares to meet North Korea’s Kim Jong Un for a second time, he’s out to replicate the suspenseful buildup, make-or-break stakes and far-flung rendezvous of their first encounter. The reality star American president will soon learn if the sequel, on this matter and many others, can compete with the original.
  In his third year in office, Trump is starting to air some reruns.
  Tr
  
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• Restoring the California Dream, not nailing its coffin

  09-02-2019 21:00
  
  Virtually everyone, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, is aware of the severity of California’s housing crisis. The bad news is that most proposals floating in Sacramento are likely to do very little to address our housing shortage.
  Newsom has promised to have 3.5 million homes built over the next seven years to solve the problem. That is, conservatively stated, more than 2.6 million that would be built at the current rate of construction.
  This effort is doomed, though, since it fails to address
  
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• Pacific Symphony announces 2019-20 season, the 30th with conductor Carl St.Clair

  09-02-2019 21:00
  
  The Pacific Symphony’s will mark two significant milestones in its 2019-20 season: music director Carl St.Clair’s 30th year with the orchestra and the 250th anniversary of composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
  St.Clair took the helm of the orchestra in 1989 at age 37 and is only the second music director in its 41-year history.
  “It has been my pleasure to work with these brilliant artists over the past 30 years, and I have selected for the 2019-20 season particularly meaningful repert
  
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• Photos: Torrence, Hight and Enders-Stevens lead qualifying at 59th NHRA Winternationals Friday

  09-02-2019 20:27
  
  Defending Funny Car champion J.R. Todd (left) qualifies against Robert Hight (right) during the opening round of qualifying on the opening day of the pro season at the 59th annual NHRA Winternationals at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona on Friday, February 8, 2019. Hight is currently the top qualifier. Pro qualifying continues Saturday with eliminations scheduled for Sunday. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
  Funny Car driver John Force does his burnout during the first round o
  
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• Nancy Pelosi shows pragmatic streak in pursuit of border deal

  09-02-2019 20:00
  
  By ANDREW TAYLOR | Associated Press
  WASHINGTON — Republicans have vilified Nancy Pelosi for years as a San Francisco liberal, and now they’re trying to portray her as a captive of resurgent left-wingers in her Democratic Party.
  But in her early moves so far as House speaker, Pelosi is displaying her pragmatic streak. She’s set to endorse a split-the-differences deal on government funding that appears on track to give President Donald Trump at least some barriers on the bor
  
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• Calls mount for Virginia lieutenant governor’s resignation

  09-02-2019 19:50
  
  RICHMOND, Va. — Calls were mounting for Virginia’s lieutenant governor to resign Saturday, at the tail end of an astonishing week that saw the state’s top three elected officials — all Democrats — embroiled in potentially career-ending scandals fraught with questions of race, sex, and power.
  Two women have accused Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexual assault, and he has emphatically denied both allegations . After the second allegation was made Friday, Fairfax —
  
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• Gov. Newsom’s ill-fated individual mandate proposal

  09-02-2019 19:49
  
  Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to establish his new administration as an ambitious one from Day One. Unfortunately, his misbegotten focus on restoring the federally repealed individual health care mandate in California gets us off on the wrong foot.
  It’s part of a sweeping plan to expand Medi-Cal and extend coverage more fully to undocumented residents of California. Democrats have been champing at the bit for these costly and controversial goals, laying the political groundwork even before forme
  
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• Recipe: Sweet-and-sour spicy kumquat sauce elevates a dish like pork chops

  09-02-2019 19:22
  
  It’s no secret that I am crazy about kumquats. They are like an inside-out orange; the sweet part is on the outside and the sour part is the inside flesh. Although I’m not tempted to eat them out of hand as I would a peach, I love the perky-tart flavor they add when sliced and added to dishes. A few wedges in a fruit crumble and we’re talking palate excitement. Or make a simple sweet-sour-spicy sauce and team them with dried cranberries or cherries; use it atop pork, chicken or
  
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• Elizabeth Warren makes presidential bid official with call for change

  09-02-2019 19:02
  
  By ELANA SCHOR | Associated Press
  LAWRENCE, Mass. — Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren made her bid for the presidency official on Saturday in this working-class city, grounding her 2020 campaign in a populist call to fight economic inequality and build “an America that works for everyone.”
  Warren delivered a sharp call for change at her presidential kickoff, decrying a “middle-class squeeze” that has left Americans crunched with “too little accountability
  
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• Rail work will limit Metrolink service in Orange County this weekend

  09-02-2019 18:44
  
  Rail repairs have prompted Metrolink to limit its service in Orange County on Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 9-10.
  The Orange County Line will operate between Union Station in Los Angeles and Laguna Niguel. The Inland Empire-Orange County Line will operate between San Bernardino-Downtown and Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo, a news release from the passenger carrier said.
  There will be no Metrolink service between Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo and Oceanside.
  Metrolink will provide alternate bus service
  
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• Market slowdown: 4 ways commercial occupants should change their thinking

  09-02-2019 17:30
  
  I read with great interest this week a column by Jeff Collins, “Home seller’s market cooling,” in which he reports the year-over-year home sales in December of 2018 declined 20.3%! This is a staggering figure and confirms “the bloom is off the rose” officially in the housing market.
  Economic uncertainty, a spike in interest rates, and a glut of homes for sale are the culprits. Will a decline in the median home price in SoCal be the hangover that follows? Will the ca
  
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• Santa Anita racing consensus picks for Saturday, Feb. 9

  09-02-2019 17:13
  
  The consensus box of picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Art Wilson, Terry Turrell and Eddie Wilson. Here are the picks for Saturday, Feb. 9 at Santa Anita.
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• Rain in SoCal expected to clear Saturday afternoon, but more coming Sunday

  09-02-2019 17:13
  
  Rain and snow are in the forecast for Saturday morning in Southern California, but the afternoon should be free of precipitation, the National Weather Service said.
  The rain was already falling in Los Angeles County at 7 a.m. and Orange County at 7:45 a.m. Showers began in Riverside and San Bernardino counties about 8 a.m.
  The rain was not expected to be substantial enough to trigger debris flows in areas affected by wildfires.
  A winter weather advisory was in effect for the mountains, where sev
  
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• Kartje: Looking past the Super Bowl and into the offseason NFL abyss

  09-02-2019 17:00
  
  It’s been a week since the Super Bowl, and only now are the collective effects of our Super Bowl hangover finally lifting. The Maroon 5-induced nausea has subsided; though, the pounding headache caused by Bill Belichick’s gameplan still lingers. (I’m not sure Sean McVay will ever fully shake that.)
  But for the rest of us, it’s time to peel ourselves off the couch, throw away the old pizza boxes, shower away the stench of cheap beer and defeat and march headlong into the f
  
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• Fees? Online referrals? Here are some tips to find the right lawyer

  09-02-2019 17:00
  
  Lawyers don’t know everything.
  Wait, what? Sure, we pretend to at family dinners, but that’s different.
  The truth is in modern times no one lawyer can know every area of law. Think about it — the tax code alone is a gaztrillion pages long (that’s a legal term). How could we know and understand that along with the California Family Law code, which is a modzillion pages (legalese again, sorry)? That’s why we specialize in one, maybe two or three related areas of law.
  
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• Newport Beach police release photos of suspect in bank robbery, bomb threat

  09-02-2019 16:44
  
  Police are seeking to identify this suspect in a Feb. 8 bank robbery in Newport Beach. (Photo courtesy of Newport Beach Police Department)
  Police are seeking to identify this suspect in a Feb. 8 bank robbery in Newport Beach. (Photo courtesy of Newport Beach Police Department) SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsPolice are seeking to identify this suspect in a Feb. 8 bank robbery in Newport Beach. (Photo courtesy of Newport Beach Police Department)Police are seeking to identify this suspect in
  
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• Realtors oppose natural gas ban, support keeping home sales public

  09-02-2019 16:06
  
  As a newly appointed director for the California Association of Realtors representing District 32, which includes the Orange County Association of Realtors, I had the privilege of participating in my first board of directors meeting in Indian Wells, one of three annual meetings.
  With approximately 210,000 members, the California Association of Realtors is among the largest real estate trade associations.
  Here’s a subset of what the board decided in this meeting and my spin on what it means
  
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• Leftist tax schemes bash the rich, but depend on their success

  09-02-2019 16:00
  
  SACRAMENTO – Nineteenth century historian Thomas Carlyle called economics “the dismal science” because of its predictions about scarcity and poverty. Those are immutable features of all societies, which explains why his snarky term remains widely used. Modern economics writer Thomas Sowell captured the same idea, but expanded upon it. “The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it,” he wrote. &ldq
  
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• Dealerships must help, but drivers still on the hook to have 2 license plates

  09-02-2019 15:03
  
  Q. I see quite a few newer cars with no front license-plate holders – including brands such as Tesla, Mercedes, BMW, Ford, Mazda, Hyundai and Kia. Often, these are sportier cars. From what I can tell, there was never any holder attached to the front – so that tells me the dealers are skirting the law requiring plates on front and back. Is there no penalty for the dealers, or is it only the vehicle owner who gets a ticket if a cop has the time to stop them? Also, I like the
  
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• Reducing gun violence, charter school accountability, top voter concerns in education, poll says

  09-02-2019 15:00
  
  By Laura Fay | LA School Report
  School safety and college affordability are the most pressing issues in education, California voters said in a ew poll.
  The top priority overall was reducing gun violence in schools, with more than half of respondents saying it was “very important.” But voters with children as well as those ages 18-49 and those earning less than $35,000 a year rated college affordability as more important. The annual poll, conducted since 2012, was led by res
  
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• CIF-SS girls soccer playoffs: Friday’s scores, updated quarterfinals schedule

  09-02-2019 10:04
  
  Scores from the CIF-SS girls soccer playoff games Friday and the updated schedule for the quarterfinals.
  GIRLS SOCCER
  DIVISION 1
  Friday
  Second round
  JSerra 2, Millikan 1
  San Juan Hills 1, Troy 0
  Trabuco Hills 2, Aliso Niguel 1
  Villa Park 3, Esperanza 0
  Cypress 2, Upland 1
  Harvard-Westlake 0, Corona Santiago 0 (Harvard-Westlake wins on PKs 5-4)
  Newport Harbor 1, Santa Margarita 0
  Los Alamitos 6, Hart 0
  Quarterfinals
  Tuesday, Feb. 12
  JSerra at San Juan Hills
  Villa Park at Trabuco Hills
  Cypress at
  
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• CIF-SS boys basketball playoffs: Friday’s scores, updated schedule for all divisions

  09-02-2019 09:54
  
  Scores from the CIF-SS boys basketball playoff games Friday and the updated schedule.
  BOYS BASKETBALL
  OPEN DIVISION
  Pool play
  Friday’s games
  POOL A
  Etiwanda 59, Rancho Verde 49
  POOL B
  Sierra Canyon 71, Mater Dei 61
  Corona Centennial 75, St. John Bosco 71
  Saturday, 7 p.m.
  POOL A
  Bishop Montgomery vs. Rancho Christian at Chaparral HS
  Tuesday, Feb. 12, 7 p.m.
  POOL A
  Etiwanda at Rancho Christian
  Bishop Montgomery at Rancho Verde
  POOL B
  St. John Bosco at Sierra Canyon
  Mater Dei at Corona Cente
  
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• Video: Sierra Canyon soars past Mater Dei in Open Division boys basketball playoffs

  09-02-2019 09:03
  
  Sierra Canyon defeated visiting Mater Dei 71-61 in the first pool-play game of the CIF-SS Open Division boys basketball playoffs on Friday, Feb. 8.
  KJ Martin led all scorers with 21 points. Interviews with Sierra Canyon’s Martin, Scottie Pippen Jr., Amari Bailey and Coach Andre Chevalier and Mater Dei coach Gary McKnight.
  Video by Jonathan Khamis, for SCNG
  
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• Rika Kihira takes Four Continents title with monster free skate

  09-02-2019 08:52
  
  Rika Kihira of Japan, competes in the women’s free skating program at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships at Honda Center in Anaheim on Friday, February 8, 2019. She won the competition with total segment score of 153.14. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)
  Rika Kihira of Japan, competes in the women’s free skating program at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships at Honda Center in Anaheim on Friday, February 8, 2019. She won the competition with
  
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• Brown takes control, leads Pacifica past El Dorado in first round of CIF-SS basketball playoffs

  09-02-2019 08:48
  
  PLACENTIA – Pacifica wasn’t going to let anyone steal the game from them.
  Instead, Andrew Brown stole the show with 11 steals and 22 points to lead the Mariners to a 61-52 victory over host El Dorado on Friday night in the first round of the CIF-SS Division 3A boys basketball playoffs.
  Brown and his coach were caught off guard by his 11 steals, but it was expected from the returning All-Empire League guard.
  “I did not know he had 11 steals,” Pacifica coach David Friedman
  
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• Clippers fans hear team’s brass break down trades, paint picture of success ahead

  09-02-2019 08:06
  
  LOS ANGELES — Lawrence Frank asked the fans filling the Belasco Theater to imagine themselves as an elite free agent on the receiving end of a pitch from the Clippers this summer.
  “We got the best city in the NBA, right?” asked Frank, the team’s president of basketball operations. “The thing we offer, in this city, is you get all the benefits without the drama.”
  The group of approximately 750 fans on hand cheered in approval of that distinction, obviously made
  
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• Crean Lutheran escapes with first-round basketball win against Sonora

  09-02-2019 07:56
  
  LA HABRA – Crean Lutheran’s boys basketball team has been on the wrong end of a few close games this season, so when Saints coach Nate Klitzing saw Sonora’s Garrett Bell get a good look at a potential game-winner from the top of the key he only had one feeling.
  “I wanted to faint.” Klitzing said.
  The shot clanked off the back of the rim and Crean Lutheran survived to beat Sonora 67-66 in the first round of the CIF-SS Division 2A playoffs Friday night at Sonora
  
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• Pilot in deadly Yorba Linda crash twice disciplined by federal air safety board

  09-02-2019 07:42
  
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  The pilot of a plane that broke up in the sky and crashed into a Yorba Linda neighborhood on Super Bowl Sunday, killing him and four others inside a home, apparently was twice disciplined by the National Transportation Safety Board, according to federal documents.
  Federal Aviation Administration officials confirmed Friday that the pilot of the ill-fated Cessna notified the agency in 1991 that he had changed his name from Jordan Albert Isaacson to Jordan Ike Aaron. In 2
  
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• Santa Margarita basketball needs late surge to get past Edison in Division 1 playoffs

  09-02-2019 07:05
  
  HUNTINGTON BEACH – Santa Margarita hit a second gear in the final 12 minutes of the game to beat Edison 57-44 in the first round of the CIF-SS Division 1 boys basketball playoffs Friday at Edison High.
  The Eagles, ranked No. 3 in the county, trailed 36-29 with just over three minutes remaining in the third quarter. Santa Margarita then went on a 28-4 run until it pulled its starters with under two minutes left in the game with a 17-point lead.
  “I don’t know if it was the nerves
  
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• Pasadena turns up defense to beat Esperanza in first round of basketball playoffs

  09-02-2019 06:53
  
  PASADENA — A return trip to the CIF-Southern Section Division 1 finals is going to be a rugged adventure full of traps for the Pasadena High boys basketball team. However, the Bulldogs appear ready to escape any kind of opponent that tries to keep them contained.
  That was evident in Pasadena’s 53-48 tenacious win over a persistent Esperanza team in the first round of the playoffs on Friday night.
  With the win, the Bulldogs will play Loyola in the second round on Tuesday night. The Cu
  
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• Newport Harbor back in its groove as it beats El Toro in boys basketball playoff opener

  09-02-2019 06:42
  
  Newport Harbor’s Robbie Spooner, left, rejects an attempted layup by El Toro’s Stuart Bulling Jr. in the first round of the CIF-SS Division 2AA playoffs at Newport Harbor High on Friday February 8, 2019. (Photo by Michael Kitada, Contributing Photographer)
  El Toro’s Steven Gutierrez, left, shoots over Newport Harbor’s Robbie Spooner, right, in the first round of the CIF-SS Division 2AA playoffs at Newport Harbor High on Friday February 8, 2019. (Photo by Michael Kitada, C
  
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• Josh Christopher lifts Mayfair to win over Corona del Mar to open boys basketball playoffs

  09-02-2019 06:42
  
  LAKEWOOD — Josh Christopher is a one-of a kind player. The junior from Mayfair put his athletic dominance on full display Friday night in a 26-point performance that lifted the Monsoons to a 67-57 CIF-Southern Section playoff win over Corona del Mar in front of a home crowd.
  With the win, Mayfair advances to the second round to play Villa Park. The Corona del Mar season is over.
  “[The win means] an opportunity to practice, another day when we can be together,” Mayfair head
  
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• Orange County basketball highlights for Friday, Feb. 8

  09-02-2019 06:10
  
  Highlights and top scorers from the Orange County basketball games on Friday, Feb. 8.
  *Will be updated.
  BOYS BASKETBALL
  Friday’s basketball scoreboard
  CIF-SS PLAYOFFS
  Friday’s top scorers
  BOYS
  Pts    Player, school
  31    Maker, Orange Lutheran
  27    Dasca, Costa Mesa
  23    Seesemann, Troy
  22    Brown, Pacifica
  22    Chalmers, Newport Harbor
  22    Feldman, Beckman
  22    Hewitt, Mission Viejo
  21   
  
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• Colby Barnett’s hat trick helps Los Alamitos girls soccer cruise into Division 1 quarterfinals

  09-02-2019 06:03
  LOS ALAMITOS — Los Alamitos knows how precarious things can be in the CIF Southern Section playoffs, and if the Griffins’ powerhouse girls soccer team needed any evidence, it came with word — during their 6-0 destruction of Hart — that Upland had been upset by Cypress and JSerra was headed to overtime at Millikan.
  Pat Rossi’s side faced no such challenge in its second-round Division 1 game, toying with the Foothill League champs much of the way as Colby Barnett nett
  
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• Millikan girls soccer’s historic season ends in heartbreaking extra-time loss to JSerra

  09-02-2019 05:58
  
  LONG BEACH — The Millikan girls soccer team accomplished a lot in 2018-19, winning the Rams’ first Moore League title in two decades and making it to the second round of the CIF-Southern Section playoffs.
  Then, with the season on the brink and down by one with minutes left in regulation, the Rams fought again to draw even and force extra time on Friday against JSerra.
  But for all the fight, and all the history, it was in extra time that Millikan’s run came to an end. JSerra&rsq
  
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• Freshman Nico Wyrick’s two goals lift South girls soccer past Brea Olinda in CIF playoffs

  09-02-2019 05:53
  
  South’s Nico Wyrick takes a shot at the Brea Olinda goal in Torrance on Friday, Feb. 8, 2019. (Photo by Scott Varley, Daily Breeze/SCNG)
  Brea Olinda goalie Cadence Rutledge and Katherine Martinson keep South’s Kendall Osborne from the ball in front of their goal in Torrance on Friday, Feb. 8, 2019. (Photo by Scott Varley, Daily Breeze/SCNG)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsSouth’s Nico Wyrick, right, tries to get around Brea Olinda’s Marissa Swindell in Torrance on Fr
  
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• Cypress girls soccer pulls off stunning upset of No. 3 seed Upland in Division 1 playoffs

  09-02-2019 05:02
  
  Cypress scored two goals in the final eight minutes and upset defending CIF Southern California Regional champion Upland 2-1 in a CIF-SS Division 1 second-round girls soccer game Friday at Cypress High.
  Sophia Schindler scored in the 73rd minute and senior Emma Daniels bent a corner kick into the net for the winning goal in the 79th minute as the Centurions (15-4-8) knocked the third-seeded Highlanders (19-2-0) out of the playoffs.
  Cypress will play at Harvard-Westlake of Studio City (16-0-6) in
  
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• Alysa Liu’s wild ride: 13-year-old U.S. figure skating champ keeping busy

  09-02-2019 05:00
  
  Alysa Liu performs during her women’s free skate program at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
  Alysa Liu, 13, acknowledges the audience after winning the women’s title at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Friday in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsAlysa Liu performs during her women’s free skate program at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, in Detr
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Friday (2-8-19)

  09-02-2019 04:31
  
  Scores and stats for the Orange County games on Friday, Feb. 8.
  BASKETBALL
  GIRLS SOCCER
  CIF-SS PLAYOFFS
  Second round
  DIVISION 1
  Cypress 2, Upland 1
  Newport Harbor 1, Santa Margarita 0
  San Juan Hills 1, Troy 0
  Villa Park 3, Esperanza 0
  Trabuco Hills 2, Aliso Niguel 1
  Los Alamitos 6, Hart 0
  JSerra 2, Millikan 1
  DIVISION 2
  Camarillo 3, University 0
  Sunny Hills 2, Rosary 0
  DIVISION 3
  South Torrance 2, Brea Olinda 1
  DIVISION 4
  Kennedy 2, Bloomington 0
  St. Margaret’s 2, Los Altos 1 (OT)
  Windward
  
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• Newport Harbor girls soccer blanks Santa Margarita, advances to Division 1 quarterfinals

  09-02-2019 04:23
  
  RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA – Newport Harbor got a clutch goal from Emily Johnson and played exceptional defense in a 1-0 victory over Santa Margarita in the second round of the CIF-SS Division 1 girls soccer playoffs Friday at Santa Margarita High School.
  The victory puts the Sailors (18-2-6), who are ranked No. 7 in Division 1, in the quarterfinals for the first time in Coach Justin Schroeder’s three-year tenure. On Wednesday, the Sailors defeated Mission Viejo 1-0 for its first postsea
  
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• Is Vincent Zhou ready to challenge Nathan Chen?

  09-02-2019 04:20
  
  Vincent Zhou reacts after seeing his score in the men’s short program at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships on Thursday at Honda Center. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
  Vincent Zhou competes in the men’s short program at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships on Thursday at Honda Center. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsVincent Zhou competes during the men’s short program at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships on Thursd
  
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• Fryer: Transfers make fast exit from Mater Dei, and it looks bad for all involved

  09-02-2019 03:32
  
  They came, they won, they left.
  Jeremiah Criddell and Sean Dollars transferred from Rancho Cucamonga High School to Mater Dei before the 2018-19 school year. Criddell, a safety, and Dollars, a running back, contributed to Mater Dei’s successful season that yielded CIF-Southern Section and CIF State titles and earned the Monarchs recognition as national champions.
  Criddell and Dollars were also among the signees in the Mater Dei gym on Dec. 19 when the school had a national letter of intent
  
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• They were deported as kids. Now the Rubio sisters are California lawmakers

  09-02-2019 02:04
  
  They spent their childhood on both sides of the Mexican border, on both sides of U.S. immigration laws. Dad was a factory worker, mom a housekeeper. The family spoke little English.
  In high school, in the 1980s, when Blanca and Susan Rubio expressed interest in college, a high school counselor suggested they look instead at home-economics classes to get ready for marriage and children.
  The Rubio sisters did not grow up imagining careers in elected office.
  “I used to believe you could only
  
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• Orange County restaurants shut down by health inspectors (Jan. 31-Feb. 8)

  09-02-2019 00:53
  
  Restaurants and other food businesses closed by health inspectors in Orange County from Jan. 31 to Feb. 8, 2019:
  Wahoo’s Fish Taco, 120 Main St., Huntington BeachClosed: Feb. 7
  Reason: Cockroach infestation
  Reopened: Feb. 8The Loft, 7862 Warner Ave., Suite B, Huntington BeachClosed: Feb. 6 (report)
  Reason: Cockroach infestation
  Reopened: Feb. 7La Langosta, 13571 Harbor Blvd., Garden GroveClosed: Feb. 6 (report)
  Reason: Cockroach infestationTaqueria Los Escaleras, 312 S. Main St., OrangeClo
  
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