High School Baseball

Los Angeles Times' 2013 final high school baseball rankings

2013-06-10 17:07:00

Rank, School Record, playoff finish 1. HARVARD-WESTLAKE (28-4); SS Division 1 champion 2. OAKS CHRISTIAN (29-3-1); SS Division 4 champion 3. MATER DEI (24-3); SS Division 1 first round 4. CYPRESS (26-8); SS Division 2 champion 5. GARDENA SERRA...

Matt LaCour is The Times' baseball coach of the year

2013-06-10 17:00:00

After the 2007 high school baseball season, Matt LaCour made a surprising job change. He gave up one of the best coaching positions in the City Section at Woodland Hills El Camino Real to become coach at Studio City Harvard-Westlake, which was known...

Baseball finalists pinching themselves as Dodger Stadium awaits

2013-05-30 17:00:00

For 10 high school baseball teams, this weekend's championship games at Dodger Stadium must feel like Christmas morning. The anticipation could be felt after players won their semifinal games. Austin Olivas, a left-handed starting pitcher for...

Daughter and dad share dream of UCLA softball

2013-06-03 07:00:00

Curled up on the floor near the front door of her grandmother's house, Angelica Felix mumbled in her sleep. "I have to study." It was well past midnight and the teenager was stressing out. For years, she dreamed of playing softball for 11-time NCAA...

The Times' high school baseball rankings

2013-05-13 00:00:00

Rank, School (Record), Playoff division. 1. MATER DEI (24-2) SS-Division 1� 2. OAKS CHRISTIAN (24-3-1) SS-Division 4� 3. BONITA (25-3-1) SS-Division 3� 4. EL TORO (21-6) SS-Division 1� 5. ORANGE LUTHERAN (19-7) SS-Division 1 �6. HARVARD-...

Baseball: League titles are on the line this week [Updated]

2013-05-06 08:34:04

Jackie Robinson's legacy resonates with Magic Johnson

2013-04-13 18:10:00

The men had celebrated into the wee hours of the morning. Sleep would come, later. The Dodgers were theirs, and for the first time these men could introduce themselves as owners rather than bidders. Mark Walter, the incoming chairman, sat in a...

Baseball: Mater Dei scores two runs in ninth inning to pull out victory [Video]

2013-04-19 21:45:00

Ex-KPMG partner was sting target

2013-04-10 19:00:00

It was the Starbucks sting. The defining moment in the KPMG insider-trading scandal took place over coffee at a Starbucks in the San Fernando Valley, where the accountant at the center of the case was set up by his longtime friend. Scott London...

Baseball: Coaches, players and fans will love '42' movie

2013-04-11 23:53:52

Baseball: Mater Dei is No. 1 in national poll

2013-04-09 08:34:34

Pitchers are ahead of the game this high school season

2013-03-31 16:56:00

After one month of the high school baseball season, there have been more no-hitters than triples, more strikeouts than doubles and more shutouts than .400 hitters. In conclusion, pitchers have been in complete command. "There's just not a whole lot of...

Mercer County lost a heartbreaker 3-2 in eight innings in the state high school baseball championship game Saturday in Lexington.

2013-06-08 00:00:00

South Bend Tribune/JAMES BROSHER Washington's Isaiah White (5) gets a glove on the ball as Marian's Brian Mischler (5) slides safely into second during a high school baseball game on Wednesday, May 8, 2013, at Marian High School in Mishawaka.

2013-06-05 00:00:00

San Diego's Kris Bryant. NELVIN C. CEPEDA/San Diego Union Tribune photo)

2013-06-04 00:00:00