Wisconsin-bound Deacon Hill fires a bomb during Santa Barbara High's first football practice after the county met the 14 COVID cases per 100,000 metric on Tuesday.
In a moving moment, Santa Barbara's Jackson Hamilton hugs Henry Manfredonia of San Marcos after giving him a sympathy card signed by the Dons baseball team. Manfredonia, a sophomore, lost his father to cancer a couple of days earlier. Lisa Ishikawa photo
Jaron Rillie of Dos Pueblos scores a three-point during fourth-quarter rally. Rillie scored 17 of his 25 points in the fourth quarter in a 69-66 loss to San Marcos.
An epic night for girls water polo: San Marcos, Dos Pueblos and Santa Barbara advance to CIF Championship games. SM and DP will play for Division 1 title and Santa Barbara will face Newport Harbor in Division 2 final.
Winning the CIF Double!!! Carpinteria’s soccer team become first county soccer team to capture CIF section and state regional titles. Warriors beat Rubidoux 4-2 in regional final
Before its game against Lompoc, the Santa Barbara High girls basketball team held a moment of silence for Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and the other victims of the helicopter crash that took their lives. The team made T-shirts to honor Kobe and Gianna.
Noozhawk Sports presented its All-South Coast Football Team at the first Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table press luncheon of 2019. QB Jack Deardorff of Cate is the Offensive Co-MVP with Adrian Soracco of Bishop Diego. DE Jeremiah Phillips of Santa Barbara is Defensive MVP.
After 21 years, more than 400 wins, 3 CIF-SS titles, 1 CIF State Regional title and 16 Channel League titles, Santa Barbara High boys soccer coach Todd Heil is now the school's athletic director.
Jasper Johnson finishes a lob from Stephen Davis with 1.1 seconds left to lift Santa Barbara to a 45-43 win over San Marcos at a packed SBCC Sports Pavilion
Connor Streett picks off Estancia’s last-gasp pass and the celebration is on! Bishop upsets No. 2- seeded Eagles 49-46 and snaps their 19-game win streak.
Libero Emma Coglizer and setter Amy Mancinelli jump for joy after Bishop Diego defeats Hills in five sets in the first round of the CIF State Regionals at the Brick House. The Cardinals won the 5th set 15-13. Photo by Gary Kim / Noozhawk Sports
Ryan Speshyock of Dos Pueblos fires a one-hit shutout against Santa Barbara, 3-0. In his last 3 starts, he's thrown two shutouts and one-run no-hitter.
Todd Heil reaches 400-win milestone as Santa Barbara High's boys soccer coach. That's 400 wins-and counting, 3 CIF-SS titles and 1 CIF Regional title. Well done, Todd!
Oakley drives a triple down the right-field line to clear the bases to give the Chos their first runs of the 2023 campaign!!!
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Santa Barbara’s Amber Melgoza scored a game-high 18 points in her professional basketball debut with the Italian Serie A1 club Polisportiva Battipaglia.
Melgoza’s squad lost the preseason game to La Molisana Magnolia Basket of Campobasso, 84-65.
Great to see local boys playing college football at SBCC and making contributions in season-opening win at Compton. Nice work Ashkan Allen, Jeremiah Nicholson, Jacob Villarreal and Nathan Beveridge.
Bishop Diego's girls soccer team rallies from a 5-2 deficit and beats Thacher, 6-5, in double overtime to win the school's first CIF-SS girls soccer championship.
These are not you big brother's or father's CIF football playoffs. Bishop Diego plays Alemany in a first-round matchup of league champions in Division 2. 5-5 Lompoc is the No. 3 seed in Division 9.
UCSB sophomore pitcher Matt Ager was named to the 31-player roster for the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team that will play against Chinese Taipei and Japan.
Eliana Urzua puts away the final point to complete a Bishop Diego sweep of Capistrano Valley Christian for the CIF-SS Division 7 girls volleyball title. It was the program's first title since 1979.
Local water polo players bring home gold medals from the FINA World League Super Final in China. Kiley Neushul, Paige Hauschild and Jamie Neushul helped Team USA beat Netherlands, 8-6, for the championship.
Bishop Diego's football team practices in pads for the first time in over year. The Cardinals are preparing for their spring season opener against St. Bonaventure on March 19.
Kayalily Penn finishes the corner kick from Siena Urzua for Bishop Diego's winning goal in a 6-5 double-overtime victory over Thacher in the CIF-SS Division 7 final. Penn scored all 6 Bishop goals.
Eliana Urzua, Bishop Diego freshman volleyball player, and San Marcos football's senior quarterback Joaquin Sandoval are the SB Athletic Round Table Athletes of the Week.
The 805 will shine brightly tonight in Cleveland as 4 players with strong local ties will play in MLB All-Star Game. Jeff McNeil(Nipomo HS, SB Foresters), James McCann(Dos Pueblos HS), Shane Bieber(UCSB), and Christian Yelich(Westlake HS).
Bishop Diego football's Qu'ran Gossett and San Marcos volleyball's Brooke Hoadley are the SB Athletic Round Table Athletes of the Week. Both student athletes are juniors.
Miguel Alvarado scores in overtime to give the Santa Barbara Soccer Club's U18 Boys Elite a 2-1 win over the Las Vegas Sports Academy for the USYS Far West Regional title in Boise, Idaho.
For 14 years, John Muller served as the athletic director at St. Bonaventure High, leading the Seraphs in fierce rivalry games against Bishop Diego.
Muller is now a Cardinal, taking charge of
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Santa Barbara Foresters bring home a record-setting seventh NBC World Series championship. They win title, 6-5, on a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the ninth.
Mason Boelter of Dos Pueblos gets a strikeout for the final out in a 4-3 win over Santa Barbara in the Channel League baseball opener at Eddie Mathews Field.
Beau Allen of San Marcos clears 6-11 to win the CIF State Championship in the high jump. He is the area's first state champion since Nick Scarvelis in 2011.
Siena Urzua of Bishop Diego blocks Maliyah LaBrie of Hillcrest during CIF State Regional Division 4 match at the Brick House. Bishop won in five sets for its first-ever State Tournament victory.
No holidays off. Golden Tornado putting in championship game preparations on Thanksgiving morning -- two days before Division 8 final against Sunny Hills at San Marcos.
Dons are No. 1. The Santa Barbara boys basketball team moved into the top spot of the CIF-SS Division 3A rankings.
DIVISION 3A
1 Santa Barbara
2 Palos Verdes
3 Palm Springs
4 Shalhevet
5 Capistrano Valley Christian
6 Corona
7 Mary Star of the Sea
8 Salesian
9 San Dimas
10 Covina
Evan Kling of Dos Pueblos belts a grand slam to tie the score at 5-5 in the bottom of the 7th against D1 second-seeded Huntington Beach. DP won 6-5 in 8 innings.
Water polo is back! Kate Meyer gets past a Santa Barbara defender and scores for San Marcos in the Royals' 8-1 water polo win. It was the first game for both teams since last year.
Bishop Diego High School (
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“I want to give these kids the best baseball experience possible, whether you’ve played baseball before or you haven’t,” Fick said.
Bishop Diego basketball players Kai Morphy and Elliot Redkey were named the Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table Athletes of the Week after helping their teams advance to the CIF-SS Finals.
The awareness and hustle of Santa Barbara's Bolden Brace results in a basket during a Northeastern victory in the CAA Tournament. Brace & the Huskies won the tournament and are headed to the NCAA Tournament
Bishop Diego roars to 41-6 lead in first half at Cabrillo in Lompoc. Adrian Soracco has TD runs of 44, 3, 32 yards. Buddy Melgoza has 2 TD passes, 18 and 71 yards.
Gizela Zermeno scores from distance to give Dos Pueblos a 1-0 lead in the second minute against Lompoc. The Chargers won 2-0 and took over first place in the Channel League.
Santa Barbara sports legend Sam Cunningham has passed away at the age of 71. After a great high school football career at Santa Barbara High, he went on to star at USC and play in the NFL. He is the USC and College Football Halls of Fame.
The Santa Barbara sports community has lost a legend with the passing of Joby Nunez. He was a star athlete at SBHS in the 60s, he coached at all 3 public high schools, and he's a member of the SB Athletic Round Table and SBHS Halls of Fame.
Dos Pueblos student athletes Portia Sherman and Kellan Montgomery sign with Big West schools. Portia is headed to Hawai'i for beach volleyball and Kellan is bound for Long Beach State for baseball.
Santa Barbara High is No. 3 in this week's CIF-SS Div. 8 football poll. The Dons play Dos Pueblos for an outright Channel League title on Friday at DP. Lompoc is ranked 8th in Div. 5; Cate is 4th in Div. 1 8-man football.
What a Winter Season! Our area produced five CIF-SS Players of the Year -- Ryann Neushul (Div. 1 girls water polo), Grace Raisin (Div. 2 girls water polo), Ben Roach (Div. 1 boys soccer), Gabe Barajas (Div. 6 boys soccer) and Jackson Stormo (Div. 2A boys basketball).
Ricardo Alcaraz Cuellar takes over the tradition-rich Santa Barbara High boys soccer program. He played on the Dons' 2001 CIF-SS championship team. Former CSUN All-American Willie Sims is named the girls coach at SBHS.