Breakers Edge San Juan Hills 3-2 Laguna completed the 39th Annual Anaheim Lions Tournament with a victory Wednesday, April 3, at Brookhurst Field in Anaheim as Jackson Ress won his sixth of the season, scattering seven hits and striking out five. The victory marked Laguna’s best showing ever in the Spring Break tournament and extended [...]
Baseball Breakers attempted to compete as a club team last week in the rain-hammered 33rd annual Mid-Pacific Institute Baseball Tournament in Honolulu. The squad did get a few games in to prepare for this week’s season opener in the Costa Mesa division of the 30th Annual Newport Elks Tournament along with Calvary Chapel and Estancia. [...]
Boys Basketball (22-7) Laguna 66, Salesian 33 Breakers met little resistance in the easy win over the at-large entry from the Santa Fe League on Wednesday, Feb. 13 at Dugger Gym. Noah Blanton and Cole Kesler dominated in the first half with Laguna leading 29-21 at the intermission. A 25-6 second half opening run by [...]
Boys Basketball (22-6) Breakers are up next at No. 8 Harvard-Westlake in Studio City, tonight Friday, Feb. 15, 7 p.m. Girls Basketball (19-6) Lost to Brentwood 59-32. Eagles took a larger early lead and never looked back. Boys Soccer (9-4-5) Breakers lost their wild card match at Diamond Bar 2-1 on Wednesday night. [...]
It’s been a historic season for Laguna Beach High School basketball. For as far back as records show, the 2012-13 boys team is the first to have four players score at least 240 points, led by senior Cole Kesler’s league-leading 361. The other three—junior Noah Blanton (268), Dalke (264), and junior Alec Wulff (240)—finished among [...]
Boys Basketball (22-6) Breakers defeated Salesian (13-15) 66-33 Wednesday, Feb. 13 as Noah Blanton and Cole Kesler dominated play. The results give Laguna 22 season wins, ranking as the fourth best in 79 years for the school. Up next: tip off against eighth-ranked Harvard-Westlake is Studio City on Friday, Feb. 15, 7 p.m. Girls [...]
Noah Blanton may be a quiet kid, but the 6’5” junior has been making some noise on the basketball court for the Breakers, who needed to beat Costa Mesa on Thursday, Feb. 7 at Dugger Gym to cap off an undefeated league season, the third in school history. Most locals remember the exploits of Noah’s [...]
Austin Paxson (’11) slides home for the first of six runs for the alumni squad. The young Breakers beat the old Breakers in seven innings this past Saturday, Jan. 5 at Skipper Carrillo Field. Chris Stansbury (’03) looked solid in the middle relief against this year’s Breaker squad, but the damage was [...]
Boys Basketball (7-5) Breakers went 2-3 in the very tough Irvine News Tournament last week, preparation for league and Laguna’s CIF division placement. The tournament opened on Dec. 11 with a 52-42 loss to Woodbridge followed by a similarly close 60-52 setback to Tesoro. Laguna hit the victory column with a 70-58 defeat of Esperanza [...]
Laguna goes for a school record 11th win this Friday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m. at Guyer Field as the Breakers face Northwood (5-6) in the Southern Division quarterfinals. Breakers are 1-6 all-time against the Timberwolves and only have one common opponent this season. Laguna and University tied 36-36 on Sept. 7 while Northwood defeated [...]
Cross Country Girls – League Champs ! Teams Prep for CIF This Saturday Laguna girls captured their seventh all-time league team title last Wednesday as the Breakers edged Godinez for conference honors at the annual league meet at Centennial Park adjacent to Godinez High School in Santa Ana. Eliza Romero was Laguna’s top runner finishing [...]
A two-hour bus ride to Santa Clarita last Monday did nothing to stop the momentum of the Laguna Beach girls tennis team, which scored a decisive 10-6 CIF quarterfinal victory over unranked Valencia High. The victory earned the Breakers another long bus ride, this time to Arcadia, where they met second ranked and undefeated Arcadia [...]
Girls Tennis (14-5) Captures League Championship Brook Michaels captured the singles title at the seventh annual Orange Coast League championships taking the crown for Laguna for the fourth straight year. Laguna doubles team of Chloe Mansour and Dominique Willette took that title continuing Laguna’s dominance in the event. Division II CIF playoffs started this past [...]
It’s not Webster’s first definition of “team” (a group of people who compete in a sport, game, etc., against another group), but the second (a group of people who work together) that really defines the collection of dedicated Laguna Beach water polo players who have fought their way to the number two ranking in this [...]
Girls Golf (0-5) League play opened this past week with a 252-277 loss to Estancia. Breakers should battle Calvary for second place in the four-team league and on a good day could take the league-leading Eagles. Only Costa Mesa appears to lack the scores to really complete for the title. Girls Tennis (2-0, 6-3) [...]
Police Use Taser to Subdue Assault Suspect
An assault involving three men escalated into a struggle with Laguna Beach police, who ultimately deployed a taser twice to subdue the younger combative suspect in the 300 block of Cozumel around 1:15 a.m. Friday, May 10, police said. Police ultimately arrested Laguna Beach resident Sergio Gabriel Borgognone, 51, for allegedly resisting arrest and his [...]
