Laguna Beach High

The last of several Junior Breakers Volleyball Clinics, a series of youth volleyball classes run by Laguna Beach High boys' volleyball coach Scott Panaro, starts Sunday at the North Gym on the Laguna Beach campus. The clinics include eight classes and the cost is $200. Other clinics at the gym are also underway: now though Dec. 16 (one clinic per week); now through Dec. 19 (several classes). The clinics are designed for boys ages 14 and younger and of all skill levels. For clinic pricing and other information, visit http://www.lagunabeachcity.net , or call (949)

Girls' soccer has little trouble with Beckman, posting a 2-0 victory.The Laguna Beach High girls' soccer team opened its Pacific Coast League schedule Wednesday on a winning note by shutting down visiting Beckman, 2-0. The Breakers took control at Guyer Field by sprinting to a 2-0 halftime lead. Alicia Rose scored off an assist by Anna Hopper for Laguna's first score, and Jessica Heitel nailed an unassisted goal. The Breakers resume league play Monday when they travel to Irvine to battle the Northwood Timberwolves.

LAGUNA NIGUEL ? Laguna Beach High?s Chris Lavery and Benito Romeo made it to the boys? 18 doubles finals at the 11th annual Laguna Niguel Junior Open tennis tournament June 19. Lavery, a senior-to-be, and Romeo, a junior-to-be, advanced to the final against Patrick Lipscomb and Matthew Miller of Irvine before narrowly falling, 7-6, 4-6 and 5-10 in the tiebreaker. On the way to the final, Lavery and Romeo defeated brothers Joshua Barnard and Jacob Barnard, 1-6, 6-1, 10-7. Then, they beat top-seeded Kevin Law of Highland and Ryan Olson of Redlands, 6-2, 6-1. Romeo and Lavery have been training this summer with Coach Jimmy Gleason, the girls?

Taylor Pitz has had her driver’s license for less than a month. It’s a practical thing for Pitz, 16, more than most teenagers. She may enjoy cruising the town, but now she can drive to various beaches around Southern California. “It’s nice being able to drive yourself, especially to the beach and stuff,” she said. “It’s definitely different, though. I feel a lot older.” In terms of surfing, she’s been quite grown for some time now. Yes, Pitz should get better at driving, but when she hits the water it’s her chance to really show off. The Laguna Beach High junior-to-be and standout surfer is in the midst of a competition a weekend.

The 2007 prep sports season ends this weekend with various tournament activity for several Laguna Beach High winter sports teams. Below is a listing of key highlights that were reported to the Coastline Pilot during the past year:   January-June Laguna boys’ basketball enjoyed one of the most successful seasons in school history. The Breakers reeled off a school-record 23 wins during the regular season, won the school’s first league title in nine years and its No. 5 seeding in the CIF playoffs was the program’s highest since Laguna was seeded No. 1 entering the 1999 playoffs.

A new move took the Laguna Beach High athletic program to new heights during the 2006-07 school year. Gone were the days of competing in the six-team Pacific Coast League. What followed was a down-sized move to the newly-formed, four-member Orange Coast League. Breakers athletic teams dominated their new digs by winning league championships in nine sports: football, girls' tennis, girls' and boys' volleyball, boys' cross-country, boys' and girls' water polo, boys' basketball, and boys' track and field.

The way the school year began for Laguna Beach High athletics and the way it ended were one and the same: on fire. Sporting events came to a near halt in October, resumed with full force in November and went on — as usual — the latter-half of the school year. Below is a listing of key highlights that were reported to the Coastline Pilot during the past year.   September-December The big story in the fall wasn’t a result of what took place in athletics.

Annika Dries is doing what she loves best. She's going at a hectic pace, but the former Laguna Beach High athlete will tell you she wouldn't want it any other way. Six days a week, Dries' world revolves around women's water polo, a sport she began playing with Laguna Beach Water Polo Club and continued at Laguna Beach High, where she earned all-league and All-CIF honors. Now, she's playing at Stanford University and again this summer is on the USA Water Polo Women's Senior National team.

David Koning was born with hypoplastic left-heart syndrome. He said he was dead for six minutes as a toddler before being revived and he literally has half a heart. He also has cerebral palsy and suffers from seizures. Yet, he wants children to know that there is always hope. That?s the idea behind the event that Koning, 22, said he?s put together on Monday. The Laguna Beach High volleyball team manager has set up a ?Changing Children?s Lives? event at the Los Angeles Clippers game that day. The Clippers play the New Jersey Nets at 12:30 p.m., which happens to be Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Thanks to Koning?

LAGUNA BEACH - Mike Bair asked his Laguna Beach High baseball team to reach down deep in the final inning of Friday's CIF Southern Section Division 4 playoff opener. "It was about having faith, reaching down and finding it in your heart, and keeping that faith in your mind," he said, explaining what he told his Breakers during a team huddle outside the Laguna dugout, as the Breakers prepared to take their final at-bat against Victor Valley. The Breakers, it turns out, thrive on these last at-bats against the Roadrunners.

Laguna Beach High's impressive baseball season has earned the Breakers a home game to open the CIF Southern Section Division 4 playoffs, as pairings were released Monday. Laguna Beach (24-2) will play host to a wild-card winner Friday at 3:15 p.m. The Breakers await Tuesday's winner between Victor Valley (13-16, Desert Sky League No. 3) at Montclair (18-6, Mt. Baldy League No. 3). Laguna Beach went 15-0 to win the Orange Coast League. The Breakers take a school-record 22 straight wins into the playoffs.

The 36th annual Women's Laguna Open Beach Volleyball Tournament was held Saturday at Main Beach in Laguna Beach. Lisa Rutlege and Lynn Galli won the title for the second straight year. They defeated Sarah Pavan and Geena Urango in the final. Equal third-place were the teams of Sara Hughes and Delaney Knudsen, and Josie Schatz/Mackenzie Brook. Equal fifth-place were the teams of Traci Morin/Aurora Skarra-Gallagher, Heather Lowe/Gabriela Roney, Summer Ross/Sarah Day, and Monica Lynch/Dede Ravenhorst.

A matchmaker meets her biggest challenge in "Hello, Dolly!," the latest production taken on by Laguna Beach High School's Park Avenue Players that opens this weekend. The play, which takes place at the turn of the century in New York, first debuted in 1964 on Broadway and has had the likes of Carol Channing and Barbara Streisand play the lead. This time around, senior Haley Castuera is in the lead role of Dolly Gallagher Levi, a widow who matches lonely singles with their "perfect partners.

Young at heart. Irreverent. A riot. These are some descriptions that pop up when Common Sense comes to mind. What's even better is their own tag: "Six-year-olds in big person's bodies. " As the band members primped for a photo shoot outside Jean Paul's Goodies in Laguna Beach, guitarist Billy Sherman said, "Suck your belly in!" Lead singer Nick Hernandez, of Laguna Beach, puckered up in response. The fun began at UC Santa Barbara in 1986, and although four of the original five members have departed, the spirit is intact among musicians who consider each other brothers and have a blast every time they meet - be it at a performance, while surfing or over coffee.

With several key players returning and two new additions to its roster, the 2013 season has the potential to be a successful one for the Laguna Beach High boys' volleyball team. The Breakers welcome back six starters from last year from last year's Orange Coast League championship team coached, for the first time, by Scott Panaro. Laguna Beach enters the season ranked No. 4 in the CIF Southern Section Division 2 preseason poll. Below is a capsule look at the 2013 Breakers.

Now, Bret Fleming will call his Laguna Beach High boys' basketball team league champions. The longtime Laguna head coach watched his players snip away at the netting on one of the hoops at Dugger Gym Thursday night, moments after the Breakers had turned senior night into a big night for the program. A smile of contentment crossed Fleming's face as the last of the nylon netting was sliced away. Laguna sewed up an undefeated run through Orange Coast League play and in the process, won their seventh consecutive championship after running away from visiting Costa Mesa, 62-33.

Marissa Greenough, a member of the Laguna Beach High girls' volleyball team, committed to Erskine College, the school announced Tuesday. The Division II school is located in Due West, S.C., and is a member of the Conference Carolinas. Greenough, a senior outside hitter/opposite, took her official recruiting visit to Erskine in November. The official letter of intent signing date for volleyball is April 17. — From staff reports * Breakers teams ranked in CIF-SS polls Four Laguna Beach High athletic teams earned rankings in the initial CIF Southern Section polls of the New Year: Girls' water polo: Laguna Beach (No. 6, Division 1)

Editor's note: The Coastline Pilot looks back on the past year in Laguna Beach High athletics. Listed below are some of the main highlights reported on by or to the Independent. JANUARY-JUNE The Laguna Beach High girls' water polo team completed another undefeated run through Orange Coast League competition and entered the CIF Southern Section Division 1 playoffs with a No. 3 ranking. The Breakers scored postseason wins over Beckman and Santa Barbara to reach the semifinals.