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Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru—brace for a blockbuster. Punjab Kings are hitting their stride at the perfect time under Shreyas Iyer’s composed leadership. Shashank Singh has become a revelation in the death overs, while Arshdeep Singh’s precision with the ball continues to make the difference. This is a team playing with purpose and belief. […]


Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru—brace for a blockbuster. Punjab Kings are hitting their stride at the perfect time under Shreyas Iyer’s composed leadership. Shashank Singh has become a revelation in the death overs, while Arshdeep Singh’s precision with the ball continues to make the difference. This is a team playing with purpose and belief. RCB, meanwhile, arrive with momentum and star power. Rajat Patidar is in commanding form, and Virat Kohli remains the ever-reliable anchor, blending class with intensity. With Glenn Maxwell facing his former side and Yuzvendra Chahal up against the team that shaped his rise, emotions will be running high. This contest has all the ingredients of an IPL thriller—with big names and high stakes. With momentum on Punjab Kings side and a squad firing on all fronts, they look ready to take control and deliver a statement win in red and gold.
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GULF SHORES, Ala. – Top-seeded UCLA (32-7) fell to No. 4 LMU in the national championship semifinal, 3-2, on Saturday afternoon at Gulf Beach Place. UCLA went up 1-0 on the court three after a straight-set win by Jessie Smith and Kenzie Brower, 21-17, 21-12, over LMU’s Abbey Thorup and Lisa Luini. The Bruins advanced […]

UCLA went up 1-0 on the court three after a straight-set win by Jessie Smith and Kenzie Brower, 21-17, 21-12, over LMU’s Abbey Thorup and Lisa Luini.
The Bruins advanced to 2-0 when Sally Perez and Maggie Boyd defeated Michelle Shaffer and Anna Pelloia in two sets on court one, 25-23, 21-18.
The Lions then earned a point by picking up a straight-set on court two when Chloe Hooker and Vilhelmiina Prihti defeated Peri Brennan and Natalie Myszkowski, 22-20, 21-16.
LMU tied up the dual on court four as Magdalena Rabitsch and Isabelle Reffel won a three-set thriller over Alexa Fernandez and Kaley Mathews, 21-16, 14-21, 12-15.
The Lions clinched the dual on court five in another three-setter with Tannon Rosenthal and Giuliana Poletti Corrales defeating Ensley Alden and Harper Cooper, 18-21, 21-19, 15-12.
No. 4 LMU def. No. 1 UCLA, 3-2
Gulf Beach Place • Gulf Shores, Ala.
Saturday, May 3, 2025 • 10:00 AM PT
Records: UCLA (32-7), LMU (38-6)
Order of finish: 3, 1, 2, 4, 5*
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Moore League Boys’ Swimming Finals – The562.org
Mike Guardabascio An LBC native, Mike Guardabascio has been covering Long Beach sports professionally for 13 years, with his work published in dozens of Southern California magazines and newspapers. He’s won numerous awards for his writing as well as the CIF Southern Section’s Champion For Character Award, and is the author of three books about […]

An LBC native, Mike Guardabascio has been covering Long Beach sports professionally for 13 years, with his work published in dozens of Southern California magazines and newspapers. He’s won numerous awards for his writing as well as the CIF Southern Section’s Champion For Character Award, and is the author of three books about Long Beach history.
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Women’s Track & Field Earns Three All-Region Honors at the New England Division III Championships
Story Links NEW LONDON, Conn.—Junior Brooke Jankowski (Derry, N.H.), sophomore Colleen Corman (Quaker Hill, Conn.) and first-year Amrit Rehal (Alpharetta, Ga.) all earned all-region honors as the Babson College men’s and women’s track & field teams wrapped up competition at the New England Division III Championships on Saturday afternoon. The Babson women totaled 12 points over the two-day […]

NEW LONDON, Conn.—Junior Brooke Jankowski (Derry, N.H.), sophomore Colleen Corman (Quaker Hill, Conn.) and first-year Amrit Rehal (Alpharetta, Ga.) all earned all-region honors as the Babson College men’s and women’s track & field teams wrapped up competition at the New England Division III Championships on Saturday afternoon.
The Babson women totaled 12 points over the two-day meet to finish 22nd among scoring teams, while the Babson men tied for 34th with two points.
The Beavers claimed a pair of top-six finishes in the women’s high jump as Rehal placed fourth by clearing 5-feet, 3.25-inches, while Jankowski took sixth with a mark of 5-feet, 1.25-inches. Their other all-region honor came in the 400-meter hurdles as Corman posted a time of 1:07.21, which was good for fifth place and just 0.11 seconds off her best result of the year.
Junior Robyn Wilkes (Atlanta, Ga.) came in 16th in the 200 meters with a time of 25.88, while classmate Trista Sicard (Mansfield, Mass.) finished 22nd in the triple jump with a leap of 35-feet, 3.75-inches. Wilkes time in the 200 meters was just 0.01 seconds off her season best set back on April 19.
First-year Noa Wong (Kaneohe, Hawaii) registered the top result of the day for the Babson men by coming in 17th with a season-best time of 49.96 in the 400 meters. Classmate Jackson Adams (Norwell, Mass.) finished 20th in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 57.19.
The Beavers are back in action next Friday and Saturday with both the NEICAAA Championships at UMass Amherst and the Farley Inter Regional at Williams.
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Miners boys volleyball falls to West Field in playoff opener
It wasn’t to be Saturday afternoon for the Miners boys volleyball squad, falling in their playoff opener to West Field three sets to two. Park City left everything on their home floor however, sending a moderate-but-exuberant crowd into a frenzy with each twist-and-turn of the match. The Miners took the first set with relative ease, […]

It wasn’t to be Saturday afternoon for the Miners boys volleyball squad, falling in their playoff opener to West Field three sets to two.
Park City left everything on their home floor however, sending a moderate-but-exuberant crowd into a frenzy with each twist-and-turn of the match. The Miners took the first set with relative ease, falling in the second in a similar manner. The third set was contentious, with the Miners falling on a set point marred by a bad call, and in the fourth set, Park City rallied well to force the deciding fifth.
In the fifth set, it appeared the Miners simply ran out of juice. West Field had a bit more size up front, and they used that to dominate. West Field also played a bit cleaner throughout the match, avoiding penalties and other mistakes.
The loss was emotional for the Miners, whose second-ever boys volleyball season came to a close. For many of the team’s 11 seniors, that was their last competitive sporting action. Supportive parents and friends helped ease the blow as West Field made the Park City High gym their own, celebrating on their opponent’s home floor.
“I told them how proud of them I am,” said Miners head coach Eric Damon on how he consoled the team in the locker room after the loss. “It’s not the result we wanted, but from where we started this season to where we ended, the growth as volleyball players and young men is unreal.”

This year’s group was Damon’s first as varsity head coach. The group means a lot to him, and he knows they’ll go on to do special things in life. Many of the players and parents went up to their head coach, thanking him for his efforts this season.
“I’m feeling really optimistic,” added Damon on the future of Park City boys volleyball. “There’s a lot of young boys that are coming up, and volleyball is growing.”
Damon liked what he saw this year from the program’s underclassmen. He also hopes some of the seniors’ younger siblings felt inspired by what they saw, and decide to come out for future teams. This year’s team certainly electrified their home crowd.
Next year, Damon will look for a little more consistency from his team. He said one of his favorite memories this season was watching his boys dominate Stansbury at home March 28, and he wished they’d have been able to piece together that level a bit more.
“Volleyball is very much a game of ebbs and flows, and you’ve got to ride the waves,” said Damon. “When the waves are too low, sometimes it’s too hard to come back from. … That Stansbury match really showed what kind of team we are.”
West Field advances to face number one 4A seed Orem Wednesday morning at Utah Valley University. To follow the remainder of the boys 4A tournament, see their bracket on MaxPreps. The state title game will be held Thursday, also at UVU.
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Redondo Union claims Southern Section girls’ beach volleyball title
The moment of truth arrived … and Bella Jones rose to the occasion. Leaping as high as she could from her right-side position, the Redondo Union senior angled a crosscourt kill that clipped the top of the net and dropped into the open court to complete a 12-21, 21-14, 15-13 comeback for Jones and partner […]

The moment of truth arrived … and Bella Jones rose to the occasion.
Leaping as high as she could from her right-side position, the Redondo Union senior angled a crosscourt kill that clipped the top of the net and dropped into the open court to complete a 12-21, 21-14, 15-13 comeback for Jones and partner Kara Namimatsu to lift the Sea Hawks to a thrilling 3-2 dual victory over defending champion Mira Costa in the CIF Southern Section Division 1 beach volleyball final Saturday afternoon at Long Beach City College.
The Bay League rivals had split the first four matches, with Redondo Union winning on the first two courts and Mira Costa prevailing on the last two, so the championship came down to Court 3, where Jones and Namimatsu were down 11-8 to the Mustangs tandem of Lily Sprague and Allyn Hilt before rallying back to take a 14-12 lead on an ace by Jones. Sprague’s spike landed on the baseline to stave off the first championship point, setting the stage for Jones’ heroics.
“I told Kara let’s go out swinging … win or lose I’m going to be aggressive,” said the teary-eyed Jones, who is headed to San Diego State to play indoor volleyball. “I was really nervous and it wasn’t the best swing, it hit the tape, but all these girls mean so much to me and I wanted to win it for them.”
It was only the second time Jones and Namimatsu had played together — the first being two days before in the semifinals.
“We had an injury so we switched our lineup on the bus for JSerra and we just went with it,” Jones confessed. “Yesterday we served and passed to each other for about an hour and that helped.”

Redondo Union’s Abby Zimmerman lofts the ball over Mira Costa’s Simone Roslon in the Southern Section Division 1 girls’ beach volleyball final.
(Steve Galluzzo / For The Times)
“Our chemistry works well together and in the timeouts our coach told us to trust in each other, trust in your training,” added Namimatsu, a junior transfer from Bishop Montgomery and early USC beach volleyball commit.
The result was practically a carbon copy of the Sea Hawks’ semifinal triumph, only that time it was Abby Zimmerman and Avery Junk winning 15-13 in the third set of the deciding match on Court 1. On Saturday, the pair swept Mira Costa’s top duo of Olga Nikolaeva and Simone Roslon, 21-17, 21-14.
“This is a really big win for us and it’s really exciting to have all five matches going on at the same time,” said Zimmerman, an All-CIF junior outside hitter who is going to California for indoor. “Our coaches trusted me and Avery to go up against their best. It was just our day.”
“We beat them earlier this year which gave us confidence that we could do it but we lost to them in the finals the last two years so we knew we had to play our best,” added Junk, a senior head to Florida State to play beach with twin sister Addy, who won 22-20, 20-17 on Court 2 with partner Leah Blair.
Mira Costa juniors Audrey Flanagan and Anabelle Redaelli prevailed easily 21-11, 21-18 on Court 4 while sophomores Lerin Rosenthal and Sammy Nammack won 21-17, 25-23 on Court 5.
On March 4, Redondo Union snapped Mira Costa’s 170-match winning streak spanning over a decade (the majority of them coming in Interscholastic Beach Volleyball League play before the CIF sanctioned beach volleyball). Mira Costa won the rematch 5-0 on March 26 and was poised for a three-peat.
Saturday, however, belonged to the Sea Hawks.
A similar scenario unfolded in the first dual Saturday morning and the ending was equally dramatic as Long Beach Poly’s Simone Millsap and Alyssa Luna overcame a match point on Court 4 to win the deciding set 17-15, with Millsap serving an ace to clinch the Jackrabbits’ 3-2 triumph over Anaheim Canyon in the inaugural Division 3 final.

Long each Poly celebrates its 3-2 triumph over Anaheim Canyon in the Southern Section Division 3 girls’ beach volleyball final Saturday at Long Beach City College.
(Steve Galluzzo / For The Times)
“My thought was ‘I need to get this in,’” Millsap said of her last serve ag ainst Canyon’s Erin Ly and Hannah Huang. “I just closed my eyes and envisioned it going to the left corner— and luckily it did.”
Poly’s Aleeya Salima and Lindyn Foster pulled out a 13-21, 21-17, 15-11 win on Court 1 to level the score.
“Going into the last set we knew it come down to us and I think it was about 8-8 when we heard cheering and saw everyone running over to our court that we knew for sure,” Millsap said.
“When a game’s going point by point, your goal is to get the last two,” said Luna, who was called up from JV to play with Millsap in the third round of the playoffs. “Our indoor team won CIF in November so this is extra special.”
The second match of Saturday’s championship tripleheader pitted two Long Beach schools against each other and again it came down to Court 4, where Wilson sophomore Iyla Alvarado and junior Jane Morrison prevailed 21-19, 18-21, 15-11 over Millikan’s Mikayla Brumbelow and Johanna Swerdloff to secure the title for the Bruins.
Moments later, Rams juniors Sophia Orbiso and Aubrey Greene pulled out a 21-17, 17-21, 21-19 win on Court 2 but by then Wilson had already clinched. Millikan was trying to avenge 3-2 and 4-1 losses in Moore League play.

Long Beach Wilson’s Sadie Calderone is defended at the net by Millikan’s Bethany Arnold in the Division 2 final Saturday at Long Beach City College.
(Steve Galluzzo / For The Times)
“It was 2-1 at that point, but I was like ‘we need to do this!,” Morrison said. “It helps having people there supporting me. Even though we’d beaten them twice this is the finals and we knew it could go either way.”
“No matter what’s going on with the other matches, we want to win ours,” Alvarado added. “This is our second year playing together, we have good chemistry, we talk strategy and pride ourselves on being mentally stronger than the other team.”
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Wabash Captures 11th NCAC Outdoor Track and Field Title
Story Links GREENCASTLE, Indiana — Wabash captured its 11th North Coast Athletic Conference outdoor track and field championship and 20th track and field title overall by winning the 2025 NCAC Men’s Outdoor Track and Field Championship on Saturday afternoon at DePauw University. Wabash scored 172.5 points to outdistance Denison […]
GREENCASTLE, Indiana — Wabash captured its 11th North Coast Athletic Conference outdoor track and field championship and 20th track and field title overall by winning the 2025 NCAC Men’s Outdoor Track and Field Championship on Saturday afternoon at DePauw University.
Wabash scored 172.5 points to outdistance Denison University in second place with 137.5 points. Wittenberg, the pre-championship favorite to win the men’s title, finished in third place with 130.5 points. DePauw finished in fourth place with 110 points, followed by Ohio Wesleyan (83.5 points), Oberlin (69 points), Wooster (52 points), Kenyon (40 points), and Hiram (24 points).
The 11 outdoor titles extend the Wabash record for NCAC titles. The Little Giants have won five championships in the past seven years.
Head coach Clyde Morgan, associate head coach Tyler McCreary, and assistant coaches Emile Conde, Mitchell Kessler, Dillon Frederickson, and emeritus track and field coach Robert Johnson were named the NCAC Men’s Outdoor Track and Field Staff of the Year.
“We dedicated this meet to former Wabash Dean of Students Tom Bambrey,” Morgan said after the meet. “Tom (who passed away earlier this year) was dedicated to the sport from his time as an athlete, as a dean at his alma mater, and after he retired as director of athletics of the College. We definitely felt his presence throughout the weekend.”
Senior Brayden Curnutt earned NCAC Men’s Distance / Mid-Distance Runner of the Year honors. He broke the NCAC championship meet record by winning the 5,000-meter run in 14:40.54, breaking the old mark of 14:45.50 set by former Wabash runner Paul Christian in 2019.
Will Neubauer won the 800-meter run by finishing in 1:52.84. Teammates Haiden Diemer-McKinney and David Adesanya added second and fourth-place finishes. Diemer-McKinney earned all-conference honors with his runner-up performance, crossing the finish line in 1:54.82. Adesanya placed fourth overall with a time of 1:56.70.
Wabash earned six of the top-eight places in the discus throw, led by Quinn Sholar’s second-place finish with an all-conference mark of 45.83 meters (150 feet, 4 inches). Evan Furuness was named the NCAC Men’s Field Athlete of the Year, adding a fourth-place finish in the discus with his effort of 42.06 meters (138 feet) to his other meet accomplishments. He won the shot put on Friday and earned all-conference honors with a third-place finish in the hammer throw.
Jordan Tate finished fifth in the discus with a top effort of 41.59 meters (136 feet, 5 inches). Jakob Van Pelt added a sixth-place finish with a season-best throw of 41.26 meters (135 feet, 4 inches). Oostman scored a seventh-place finish with his toss of 41.25 meters (`35 feet, 4 inches).
Owen Smith took second place in the 400-meter hurdles, earning all-conference honors with his personal-best time of 54.83.
Carter Leininger scored a fourth-place finish in the 100-meter dash, posting a time of 10.77. Tanner Brooks placed eighth overall in the finals with a time of 11.00. Leininger also earned a fifth-place finish in the 200-meter dash by crossing the line in 21.76.
Ryan Papandria placed fourth overall in the javelin throw with a toss of 51.61 meters (169 feet, 4 inches). Jake Oostman scored a sixth-place finish with his throw of 49.92 meters (163 feet, 9 inches).
Kannon Chase earned a fourth-place finish in the high jump by clearing a season-best height of 1.90 meters (6 feet, 2.75 inches). Oostman placed sixth in the high jump with his season-best height of 1.85 meters (6 feet, 0.75 inches).
Mike Holsclaw produced a leap of 12.65 meters (41 feet, 6 inches) to finish in seventh place in the triple jump.
Smith, Leininger, Nate Joven, and Brooks combined to finish fourth in the 4×100-meter relay with a combined season-best time of 42.15. Leininger, Smith, Diemer-McKinney, and Adesanya combined to finish the 4×400-meter relay in 3:24.08 to place seventh overall.
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