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Girls basketball: Touchard signs with Grand Canyon

April 17th, 2013, 5:27 pm by CARLOS ARIAS

JSerra point guard August Touchard signed with Grand Canyon, Lions girls basketball coach Mary Rossignol announced on Wednesday.

Touchard was a first team All-Trinity League and second team All-County selection this season.

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Sink again coaching Brea girls

April 3rd, 2013, 9:48 am by Steve Fryer

Jeff Sink has resumed coaching girls basketball at Brea Olinda after coaching the school’s boys basketball team the past two years, Brea principal Jerry Halpin confirmed this morning.

He replaces Kim Cram-Torres, who had replaced Sink, as Ladycasts coach. Cram-Torres resigned after this past season to create more time to devote to her family.

Sink, left, coached Brea’s Ladycats for 17 years before taking the boys basketball coaching position the past two years. During those 17 years, Brea won 10 CIF-Southern Section championships, four state championships and was 480-74.

Brea’s girls team was 18-7 this past season, was Century League co-champion with Foothill and lost to Great Oak of Temecula in the first round of the Division 1AA playoffs.

Halpin said Sink sought the challenge of making the Ladycats CIF championship contenders again.

“Jeff’s heart is there with that program,” Halpin said. “It was a rough year for those kids, and it was rough on them when Kim resigned. He devoted 17 years to that program, and a lot of his former players and boosters reached out to him to get back to it.”

Brea was 44-14 during Cram-Torres’ two seasons, during which the Ladycats won two Century League championships and advanced to the CIF-SS Division 1AA final in 2011-12.

Brea’s boys basketball team this past season finished 22-8 and advanced to the CIF-Southern Section Division 3AAA semifinals. They Wildcats were fourth in the eight-team Century League.

In Sink’s first season coaching the Brea boys team, 2011-12, the Wildcats were 16-13, beat Woodbridge in a 3AAA first-round game and lost to Bonita of La Verne in the second round.

Halpin said Sink, 61, asked to coach the school’s boys and girls teams simultaneously. “But I wouldn’t let him do it,” Halpin said. “Yes, (Mater Dei girls coach) Kevin Kiernan did that at Troy, but Kevin was 30 at the time.”

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Releaguing: Principals approve Century conference, Yorba Linda only school moved

March 28th, 2013, 12:53 pm by DAN ALBANO, ocvarsity.com

IRVINE Orange County principals voted during their final re-leaguing meeting Thursday to create a conference out a slightly new-look Century League that adds Yorba Linda.

The eight-school conference will add Yorba Linda to the existing group of Brea, Foothill, Villa Park, El Modena, Esperanza, Canyon and El Dorado. The conference gives the Century the ability to create two separate football leagues, for example, or operate two leagues under the banner of the conference.

South County’s Coast View Athletic Association also features a conference configuration with the South Coast and the Sea View leagues.

Yorba Linda opposed the move and was the only school moved in the county’s re-leaguing recommendation for the 2014-2018 cycle. The recommendation needs to be approved by the CIF-Southern Section council.

The final proposal had a big-time rival today but county leagues appear as if they will remain the same – except for the Century conference.

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Girls basketball: Touchard commits to Grand Canyon

March 22nd, 2013, 9:52 pm by CARLOS ARIAS

JSerra point guard August Touchard committed to Grand Canyon University, Lions girls basketball coach Mary Rossignol announced on Friday night.

Touchard helped lead JSerra to a 25-8 record, a second-place finish in the Trinity League, the CIF-SS Division 4AA semifinals and the CIF Southern California Division 4 regional semifinals this season.

Touchard, who averaged 14.0 points per game, made first team All-Trinity League, first team All-CIF Division 4AA and second team All-County.

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Posted in: Girls Basketball • Recruiting • August Touchard • JSerra |

Morning roundup: What’s new on OCVarsity.com (3-18-13)

March 18th, 2013, 9:04 am by Erlina Tulabut, OCVarsity.com

OCVarsity Hot Shots: CIF boys swim relays

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OCVarsity Hot Shots: Friday’s baseball games

Hot Shots Overtime 1: Saturday’s track and field meets

Hot Shots Overtime 2: Saturday’s spring sports

Hot Shots Overtime 3: Saturday’s softball games

OCVarsity Hot Shots: CIF boys swim finals

Boys soccer: 2013 All-County boys soccer teams

Girls soccer: 2013 All-County girls soccer teams

Wrestling: 2013 All-County wrestling teams

Football: North nominees for the All-Star football game

Boys basketball: Mater Dei earns third trip in a row to state title game

Boys basketball: Fast start puts Mater Dei on right path

Girls basketball: Windward defeated Mater Dei in the CIF Southern California Open Division regional finals

Girls basketball: Mater Dei worn down by Windward’s relentless five

Girls basketball: Mater Dei’s Karlie Samuelson embraces sister act

Girls track and field: Santa Margarita’s Kaitlyn Merritt vaults meet record at Triton Invitational

Baseball: Canyon knocks off Fountain Valley to win Loara title

Baseball: Vaccher does it all in Troy’s victory over La Habra

Baseball: Fountain Valley defeated Huntington Beach, 5-0, in the league opener at Huntington Beach High

Baseball: Loara survives wild finish to beat Segerstrom

Baseball: Vorsheck, Cross a winning combination for Mater Dei

Baseball: Scheftz leads University with his arm, bat

Baseball: Molnar leads way for Aliso Niguel

Baseball: Marina defeated Los Alamitos to open league play

Softball: Taylor McQuillin helps lift Mission Viejo

Softball: Yorba Linda makes history with Brea title

Softball: Rosary blanks Loara for North O.C. tourney title

Boys swimming: Capistrano Valley boys have reason to cheer

Boys swimming: Updated top O.C. swim times (3-15-13)

Swimming: Results from Millikan CIF Relays boys prelims

Boys volleyball: San Clemente cruises to O.C. Championships final

Boys volleyball: Energized San Clemente storms into semifinals

Posted in: Baseball • Boys Basketball • Boys Soccer • Boys Track and Field • Boys Volleyball • Football • Girls Basketball • Girls Track and Field • Softball • Wrestling • Morning Roundup |

OCVarsity Girls Hoops: Mater Dei awaits Windward (video)

March 14th, 2013, 8:20 pm by Jonathan Khamis

Carlos Arias and Jonathan Khamis travel to Mater Dei to preview the Monarchs’ open division regional final game against Windward of Los Angeles. Interviews with Kevin Kiernan and the Samuelson sisters.

Video by Jonathan Khamis, OCVarsity.com

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Posted in: Girls Basketball • Video • hoops • mater dei • windward |

Morning roundup: What’s new on OCVarsity.com (3-14-13)

March 14th, 2013, 8:01 am by Erlina Tulabut, OCVarsity.com

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Hot Shots Overtime 1: Wednesday’s baseball, softball

Hot Shots Overtime 2: Wednesday’s sports

Baseball: No. 8 El Toro blanks Edison in doubleheader

Girls softball: Capo Valley survives wild ending. Defeats Laguna Hills, 5-4.

Girls basketball: Cram-Torres steps down as Brea Olinda coach

Boys golf: Mater Dei comes up shorth against LB Wilson

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Posted in: Baseball • Boys Basketball • Girls Basketball • Softball • Morning Roundup |

Mater Dei boys and girls dominate in 1st round (video)

March 9th, 2013, 2:20 am by Jonathan Khamis

Both Mater Dei boys and girls teams won convincingly in their opening round matchups of the CIF State playoffs. The girls beat Stockdale 91-46, while the boys beat El Camino Real 79-54.

Video by Jonathan Khamis, OCVarsity.com.

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Girls basketball: San Clemente’s Mulligan-Crapo inducted into Hall of Fame

March 8th, 2013, 1:45 pm by CARLOS ARIAS

Former San Clemente girls basketball coach Mary Mulligan-Crapo joined California coaching legends such as John Wooden, Bill Mulligan and Mark Trakh when she was inducted into the Southern California Interscholastic Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame last weekend.

Mulligan-Crapo, who played at San Clemente and UC Irvine, was honored during the CIF-SS girls bnasketball championships on March 1 at Anaheim Convention Center.

“Well, I am honored to be considered and very proud to represent women coaches because there aren’t too many in the Hall of Fame,” Mulligan-Crapo said. “I am proud to be included on a list of such well-respected coaches.”

Mulligan-Crapo, the 1981 Orange County Female Athlete of the Year, coached at San Clemente for 25 years from 1987-2011. She had 500 career victories, 13 South Coast League titles, including 12 in a row at one point. She led the Tritons to five CIF-SS championships and eight trips to the state tournament.

She was the CIF Division 1 coach of the year three times and she was the South Coast League coach of the year 13 times.

She had 28 players from her program go on to play college basketball.

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