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Marina High senior Victoria Anthony was named the Lower Weight Most Valuable Player on Saturday at the 2009 CIF Inland Division Wrestling Championships at Los Osos High in Rancho Cucamonga. Anthony claimed first place in the 103-pound weight class. She finished the tournament with two falls, two technical falls and one decision. Athletes from 41 schools participated in the two-day competition that began last Friday. In the team standings, Edison finished in sixth place. Fountain Valley placed seventh and Marina was 11th.

SANTA ANA — Anthony Brown said the Ocean View High boys’ basketball team wanted to set the tone early in Friday night’s CIF Southern Section Division IV-AA semifinal game. The No. 3-seeded Seahawks, as it turned out, wanted to play smash-mouth basketball against No. 2 Serra. “We wanted to attack them right from the beginning and not them let them have a chance to get in the game, or think they could play with us,” junior guard Anthony Brown said.

HUNTINGTON BEACH — They’ve spent time before every game of every CIF playoff match in a circle, chanting the words "I believe, I believe that we can win" over and over again. "That’s our word that we go by," senior outside hitter Kellie Turner said. "Just, ‘believe.’ " The Huntington Beach High girls’ volleyball team has always believed in its Cinderella story. Now everyone else can, too. The unseeded Oilers upset No. 2-seeded Santa Barbara in four games Tuesday night at home, 25-21, 15-25, 25-21, 25-18, advancing to the CIF Southern Section Division IA final.

Brandice Cutspec thought she had hit a pop up to the outfield. It wasn’t until the sophomore said she heard “loud cheering” from Ocean View fans and then caught teammates jumping up and down out of the corner of her eye that she knew she hadn’t hit into just any routine fly out. Cutspec’s sixth-inning shot cleared the fence in left-center field, helping the Ocean View softball team to an 8-3 victory against Bishop...

In the words of Coach Jeff Andrews, Sage Hill School boys water polo players are extremely driven entering this season, in both mind and body. Andrews said Lightning players are hungry to improve upon last season's CIF Southern Section Division VI playoff berth, the first in the program's five-year history and advance past the first round. They boast the speed to increase their chances of reaching and moving through the postseason. "We're basically the same team we were last year, but this year's team is a lot faster," said Andrews, who played at UC Irvine and enters his third season at the helm.

For a photo gallery click here. IRVINE — Brandice Cutspec thought she had hit into a pop up to the outfield. It wasn’t until the sophomore said she heard “loud cheering” from Ocean View fans echo in her ears and then caught teammates jumping up and down out of the corner of her eye as she headed toward first base in the bottom of the sixth inning of Saturday’s CIF Southern Section Division IV softball title game...

Edison featured twice on TV The CIF Southern Section has joined forces with Fox Sports Prime Ticket and Fox Sports West to present the High School Football Game of the Week for the 2010 regular season. Edison is featured in two of the telecasts in the 10-game schedule. The Chargers' Sept. 24 nonleague game at Cerritos College against Servite will be televised at 7:30 p.m. on Prime Ticket and their Nov. 11 Sunset League game against Los Alamitos at Veterans Stadium in Long Beach also will be televised at 7:30 p.m. by Prime Ticket.

The Fountain Valley High Barons got a jump on the rest of the local schools by opening the 2010 prep football season Friday. The Barons traveled to South Hualapai, Nevada, to take on the Faith Baptist Crusaders in a nonleague game, which was won in the final moments by the host team, 26-23. Crusaders quarterback Joe Portaro got 22 of his 296 passing yards (21 of 54) when he connected with Brett Lubbe for the winning touchdown with 23 seconds remaining in the game. It was the third touchdown pass thrown by Portaro.

On the road again. That's where you will find Ocean View High throughout the majority of the 2010 prep football season. The reason? The Seahawks have been displaced due to the installment of an all-weather track at the school's stadium this fall, Coach Harold Eggers said, adding that tear-up is expected to begin in late-September. At least Ocean View is scheduled to get in one true home game, a Sept. 17 nonleague matchup with Laguna Beach. The Seahawks will use the stadiums at Westminster and Huntington Beach highs for other "home" game.

Small in numbers but big in experience and talent. That's how Coach Bruce Eien describes his 2010 Brethren Christian High football team, a 19-player squad that is in its final full week of preparations for the upcoming season, which begins Sept. 2. Eien, who is in his 14th year as coach and 30th overall with the program, has 11 starters back from a team that went 5-5 in 2009. The Warriors went 1-2 and finished third in the Academy League and just missed making the postseason.

Over the last 10 years, the Edison High football program has enjoyed plenty of success, winning or sharing five consecutive Sunset League titles and reaching the CIF Pac-5 Division championship game on three occasions. The Chargers' most recent trip to the title game came last December, but as they ready themselves for the start of the 2010 season, a majority of that 13-1 team has moved on. Dave White enters his 25th year as head coach of his alma mater with the task of having to construct a team that welcomes back just three starters.

Edison High quarterback Matt Viles was awarded the offensive MVP on Friday at the 51st annual Brea Lions Orange County All-Star football game at Orange Coast College. Viles guided the South on a late drive that nearly chewed up 7:38 of the fourth-quarter clock that allowed his team to hold on for a 24-21 victory over the North. Viles finished the game 11 of 13 for 98 yards with a touchdown. Viles went four for five on the late drive that started at the South six-yard line and stalled near midfield in the final minute.

Editor's note: This is the second in a three-part series about the effects of the Obama administration's health - care reform on Huntington Beach and Fountain Valley health - care providers and their patients. Dr. Peter Anderson sometimes goes for days in Fountain Valley Regional Hospital and Medical Center's emergency room without treating an emergency. It's not for lack of patients. Anderson, the director of the hospital's emergency department for 35 years, has seen increasing numbers of people check in with ailments that traditionally would be handled by a family doctor.

The Battle at the Beach passing tournament title was won by La Habra High. The Highlanders on Saturday capped a 6-0 day by holding off Centennial of Corona, 25-24, to win the 12th annual tournament hosted by Edison. La Habra quarterback Cody Clements, who committed last week to Washington State, hit receiver Mark Yackey late in the game for what turned out to be the winning points. The Highlanders secured the title only when safety Anthony Baca broke up a two-point conversion pass at the end of the game.

He had heard a few stories of what it was like to be in Omaha, Neb., in late-June, but nothing could prepare Beau Amaral for what he was to about to experience. Even when it was all over, two days removed from competing at the baseball College World Series, and on a campout July 1 with his family down in San Clemente, Amaral found it difficult to find the words to describe it all. A year ago, he was playing in a CIF prep baseball final for Huntington Beach High. For the past two weeks, at age 19, he had played on college baseball's ultimate stage, Rosenblatt Stadium, where he was a integral part of the UCLA Bruins' runner-up finish to the national title.