San Diego’s Lisa Rutledge (pink hat) and Laguna Beach’s Lynne Brinkman (pink top) won the Women’s Main Beach Volleyball Open that took place Saturday, May 5. For Brinkman, this was her third Main Beach open victory (2009, 2011, 2012). Photo by Cameron Brinkman
Alumni football is coming to Laguna Beach. Gridiron Alumni is planning several full contact alumni football games. Players are needed to sign up and the first 40 players on each team get to play. The team that gets 30 people registered first gets home field advantage. Teams from Laguna Beach, Aliso Niguel High School, Laguna [...]
Steven Harrison hit a solo home run (# 6) in the bottom of the seventh inning to lift the Breakers (18-8) to a 5-4 victory over Victor Valley (10-12) Tuesday, May 15, at Skipper Carrillo Field in a Southern Section CIF Division 4 wild card contest. Laguna started slowly as the Jackrabbits took an early [...]
The Southern Section’s CIF swimming and diving championships got underway at Riverside Community College Thursday afternoon with a come-from-behind victory for the Laguna boys in the 200 medley relay. Four hours later in the cool evening air, they capped their best overall post-season performance with a runner up finish behind Alhambra’s Mark Keppel High 311 [...]
Whatever happened at CIF finals this past Thursday, May 10, in Riverside, it can’t diminish what swim coach Kari Johnson has accomplished at Laguna Beach High. A former swimmer at Mission Viejo High, Johnson took over the boys and girls teams four years ago with one overriding goal: to bring legitimacy to what many had [...]
Boys Tennis Laguna heads to the CIF’s Southern Section Division 4 playoffs this week seeded second in the 36-team tournament. Breakers played this past Wednesday against wild-card foes Schurr or Gahr who completed the previous day for the right to travel to Laguna. If the Breakers prevailed they would play on Friday, May 11. Quarterfinals [...]
Those who played, coached or managed Laguna Beach Little League are invited Little League’s 60th Anniversary party Friday, May 11, at 6 p.m. in Riddle Field. League organizers invite kids, parents and grandparents who have been enjoying the little league experience since 1952 to come be photographed for the LBLL 60th Anniversary Yearbook. Wear your [...]
AAA – UPS Store Delivers a Win By Shelley Detweiler, LBLL Secretary A recent game between The UPS Store and Morgan Stanley saw strong defense on both sides. The defensive effort by Morgan Stanley’s infield managed to keep The UPS Store from scoring for the first two innings. Thanks to consistent hitting by Morgan Stanley’s [...]
Baseball (14-8, 7-5) Breakers took a big step forward to the playoffs with a 3-2 victory over Godinez on Tuesday, May 1, at the local field. The win with just three regular season games remaining gives Laguna a solid third place spot with a two game lead over fourth place Godinez (5-7, 9-13). Breakers hold [...]
McKenna Porsche vs Angels 21-13 McKenna Porsche Outruns Laguna Hills’ Angels By Shelley Detweiler, Special to the Independent The inter-league juniors division game between Laguna Beach’s McKenna Porsche and Laguna Hills’ Angels proved the epitome of Little League baseball: it took parents from both teams to resolve challenges over the field, umpire, scheduling and [...]
Baseball (12-7, 5-4) Laguna took a 1-0 victory over Estancia last Friday, April 20, at Skipper Carrillo Field as Grant Wilhelm scored off a Blake Hester double in the first inning for the lone score in the game. Jackson Rees went the distance giving up only four hits, one walk, striking out four. Breakers faced [...]
After a 3-4 start, the Breakers baseball team has won eight of 10, including the last four in a row at the Lions Tournament, to raise their season mark to 11-6 as of last Monday. A big part of the team’s recent surge has been the stellar play of Grant Wilhelm, who hit .472 over [...]
Local mountain bike champion Brian Lopes won the inaugural UCI MTB World Cup XC Sprint Eliminator held in Houffalize, Belgium, on April 13. Lopes, 40, said the results show age is nothing but a number. He was pleased by his performance. Confident after a first place qualifying run, Lopes went on to show [...]
Club Soccer Tryouts Laguna United Football Club will hold try outs for the boys under 15 teams, Tuesday, April 24 and Thursday, April 26, at 5 p.m., in the lower Crown Valley fields by the YMCA. Info: contact lagunaunited.org. Volunteers Needed for Volleyball Tournament The Men’s and Women’s Laguna Open Volleyball Tournament, [...]
The Sea Scout program, which instills sailing and leadership skills in youth ages 12 to 18, has not ventured beyond Dana Point Harbor since February, anchored by a pending Coast Guard investigation. Emotions are reaching a crescendo as many in the local boating community see the Coast Guard action as an unnecessary affront to [...]
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Ignoring a Red Zone Elicits More Than a Ticket
How can lack of a parking space land you behind bars? In Laguna Beach, it occurs when you pull into a spot marked in red reserved for the police watch commander. That’s what happened to Barbara Louise Kanode, 47, of Newport Beach, who on Wednesday, May 9, took an available spot near City Hall while [...]
