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February 22, 2024 By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on X Cerritos High has won six straight league titles, the last four in the 605 League, but that might come to an end in 2024. The emergence of Artesia High, John Glenn High and Pioneer High has made the league as tight as it’s ever been.…
June 22, 2023 By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on Twitter IRVINE-Many of the area’s high school softball players’ travel teams have already clinched a spot in the Premier Girls Fastpitch National Championship, but they wanted more. Others were looking to stamp their name to the lengthy list of teams that will flock to several Orange…
May 17, 2023 By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on Twitter The numbers didn’t stack up favorably for Artesia High when it hosted J.W. North High in last Saturday morning’s CIF-Southern Section Division 6 semifinal game. The Pioneers, ranked fifth in the division, finished in third place in the 605 League and had to play a…
May 3, 2023 By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on Twitter Artesia High head coach Ed Blanck will surely take his team’s 4-0 victory over Harvard-Westlake High this past Tuesday, but he was in no mood to celebrate. The Pioneers scored all their runs in the bottom of the first inning, then had to hang on…
Artesia High’s softball finale against John Glenn High had enough stuff to make a Hollywood movie. The game featured everything one could imagine, ranging from just one senior in either dugout, to a combined 13 freshmen in the starting lineup and a three-run rally by the hosts late in the game to a total of 17 runs, 27 hits and 16 errors between the playoff-hungry teams. When the dust had settled, literally, the Lady Pioneers had scratched out a 9-8, 12-inning victory, sending them to the CIF-Southern Section Division 4 playoffs for the first time since 2019 and third time in the past fo...