Laguna Beach High

LAGUNA BEACH — It had been 11 years since the Laguna Beach High baseball program last hosted a CIF game when the Breakers took on Indio Thursday in the opening round of the Southern Section Division 4 playoffs. Wanting to put on a good show in front of the home crowd and make the most of just their third overall home postseason game in their history, the Breakers did just that. They rallied early from a run down to knock off the visiting Rajahs, 5-2,at Skipper Carrillo Field.

Friday Boys' Tennis (all day) Laguna at Ojai Tournament Baseball (3:15 p.m.) Godinez at Laguna JV Baseball (3:15 p.m.) Laguna at Godinez Saturday Boys' Tennis (all day) Laguna at Ojai Tournament Monday Track & Field (3 p.m.) Orange Coast League prelims (at Estancia High) Boys' Volleyball (5:30 p.m.) Costa Mesa at Laguna JV Volleyball (4:30 p.m.) Costa Mesa at Laguna Frosh/Soph Volleyball (4:30 p.m.)

Hot Wings win Wednesday League title The Hot Wings captured the Laguna Beach 16" Softball Wednesday League title, defeating belongs the Smoking Gunz, 11-4. The title was the team's fourth championship under Coach Jonathon Cohen (Laguna Beach High, 1998). Hot Wings won the Dec. 8 final at Laguna Beach Little League's Riddle Field behind the defense of Kurt Boultinghouse, pitching of Shaun MacGillivray (LBHS, 1998), catching of Bob Jameson (LBHS, 1993), all-out play of Aaron Talarico (LBHS boys' tennis coach)

The Laguna Beach High School dance team will heat up the stage during the cold winter nights with its annual holiday Winter Dance Concert. Directed by dance instructor and choreographer Lisa Jay, "In Motion" will feature more than 50 students and four guest choreographers in a fun array of funk, lyrical, ballet, Latin jazz, Broadway and hip-hop performances. "Each year my goal is to go bigger and better," Jay said. "I've given the choreographers the freedom to do their own thing and just be creative, and what they've produced is great.

Laguna Beach High School students will soon embark on an educational journey that veers outside of the classroom, when the school welcomes four students from Winona Secondary School in Mississippi as part of a new "cultural exchange" experiment. "It's a new way for students and schools to learn from each other," Principal Don Austin said. "We need to start sharing and working together. It's time to stop learning from programs and learn from other people. " Through the exchange, two male and female upperclassmen from Mississippi, accompanied by their principal, will spend a week in Laguna beginning Sept.

When "Damn Yankees" takes its first swings at Laguna Beach High School's Artists Theater this weekend, it'll be a homecoming of sorts for a number of musical theater performers who graduated from Laguna Beach High over the past decade. The Gallimaufry Performing Arts rendition of the musical fantasy will be staged for two weekends and only six performances under the direction of Steve Josephson, artistic director of the Laguna company, and choreographer Andrew Ruesch. The show imagines what might happen if the Washington Senators (this being the 1950s)

Players from the Laguna Beach High basketball program, past and present, will be in Laguna Beach High's Dugger Gym on July 31 for the Laguna Beach Boys' Basketball Alumni Tournament. The all-day affair starts with opening games at 8:30 a.m. and concludes with the championship game at 4:30 p.m. Laguna Beach boys' Coach Bret Fleming said that 10 teams representing 10 eras, from the "old group" (previous to/up to 1984), to the 2010-11 varsity team, will vie for the tournament title.

Laguna Beach's Annika Dries has been selected to the USA Women's Senior National Team travel roster for the 2010 FINA World Cup. The tournament will run Aug. 17 to 22 in Christchurch, New Zealand. Dries is one of 14 players to be making the trip. Only 13 players will be selected for the World Cup event. The travel team will train in Hawaii and play in a pre-World Cup tournament in Sydney, Australia, before heading to New Zealand. Team USA will open World Cup play Aug. 17 against Russia.

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.

It's just the end of the second week of July, but the cross-country season is about to get underway at Laguna Beach High. The Breakers' cross-country program is offering a Summer XC Camp that begins Monday. Registration for the camp is being taken through the city's recreation department. The camp starts at 8 a.m. Mondays and Wednesdays at El Morro, Thursdays at Laguna Beach High and Friday at Alta Laguna Park. A cross-country parents' meeting is at 6 p.m. Aug. 25 at the Laguna Beach High library.