updated semifinals schedule Mission Viejo pulls off upset of Newport Harbor in girls volleyball quarterfinals Young stars help Huntington Beach girls volleyball knock off Tesoro in D2 quarterfinals The first two sets went back and forth before the Monarchs ...

HUNTINGTON BEACH >> The Edison girls volleyball team battled for four sets but fell to Upland, 25-23, 16-25, 25-20, 25-14, on Saturday in the second round of the CIF-SS Division 3 playoffs at Edison High.

Kukuk nearly breaks OC record with 611 yards passing to go with six TD passes and two rushing TDs in a contest with seven lead changes in the fourth quarter.

The junior quarterback breaks the school record for career TD passes as the Griffins roll to another lopsided win in the Sunset League.

Westminster High senior was crowned homecoming queen. But first she had to get permission from her coach to miss the halftime pep talk. Galvin and four other finalists stood together on the field, anxiously awaiting the big announcement.

Laguna Beach football coach John Shanahan knew the scoreboards he stared at during the coronavirus-shortened spring didn’t have all the numbers that mattered. The inexperienced Breakers won only one of five games — and none in league — but he kept coming back to another set of figures he encountered: 67 of 72.

Huntington Beach native Sacha Kljestan has been invaluable as a 36-year-old midfielder providing veteran leadership and scoring for the Galaxy

The Gators edge the Monarchs in the finals of the North-South Challenge to claim their second major tournament in as many weekends.

Each athlete is then entered into the overall Athlete of the Week vote. Click on the newspaper links below the athlete’s name to read about their performance from last week, and then vote for who you think deserves the top honor.

Hill, a 6-foot-5 center, scored five goals in a 9-6 win over Foothill in the S&R Sport tournament championship game. He has committed to Harvard. Huntington Beach (16-2 overall) is tied with Mater Dei for No.