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The Laguna Beach High baseball team split two recent Pacific Coast League games at home. . The Breakers rallied from a three-run deficit to down Calvary Chapel, 6-4, and dropped a 10-4 decision Tuesday to Corona del Mar. Laguna 6, Calvary Chapel 4 Conley Sampson delivered a two-run double in the bottom of the third inning to help Laguna overcome a 3-0 deficit. The Breakers scored five runs in the third to take a 5-3 lead, and the teams each scored once in the sixth inning.

Laguna Beach boys' soccer team takes on Tesoro for league win.The Laguna Beach High boys' soccer team concludes its regular season at 3:15 p.m. today at Pacific Coast League rival Tesoro. Laguna, which is 8-1-2 in the league and 13-3-3 overall heading into today's match, can earn an outright league championship with a victory over the Titans. Today's match was originally scheduled for Wednesday, but that game was canceled due to air-quality concerns as a result of the wildfire.

In a key run in the Pacific Coast League boys' cross country title race, a banged-up Laguna Beach High team was defeated by host Corona del Mar, 24-33, at Bonita Creek Park Thursday. Last year, Laguna defeated the Sea Kings by a point. Corona del Mar is ranked seventh in the county. "Their varsity boys are healthy and run close together," Laguna coach Dave Brobeck said. "We are nursing our dings still, although we are getting healthy quickly, and I didn't want to really race them all-out yet. "The course was concrete with several long, pounding downhills, and I didn't want to risk further injury, so I chose to keep my guys in their training shoes and run controlled races.

Laguna Beach, meet Corona del Mar. Not many introductions will be needed at 7 tonight when the Breakers kick off their 2009 football season by hosting the Sea Kings. The former Pacific Coast League rivals also met twice last season, although those are games the Breakers might like to forget. They didn?t score in either game, falling, 37-0, in their second game of the season and 41-0 to end their season in the second round of the CIF Southern Section Southern Division playoffs.

LAGUNA BEACH — Where was No. 1 in the maroon jersey Friday night at Laguna Beach High? For much of the third quarter, Laguna Beach junior receiver Chris Paul was on the sidelines with what appeared to be leg cramps. For most of the rest of the game, Paul was in the end zone, perhaps serving notice to Corona del Mar that this game wouldn’t be a blowout like past years. But in the end the Sea Kings were too deep and too balanced as they took control in the second half for a 65-34 nonleague victory.

Mike Sciacca This time, the Laguna Beach High boys' basketball team didn't let it slip away. In what was a very eerily similar situation to a Jan. 21 game at Corona del Mar, the Breakers took a big first half lead Wednesday on their chief rival, only to see the Sea Kings rally late. But unlike that first Pacific Coast League meeting between the teams, which Corona del Mar pulled out, 38-37, on a last-second, three-point shot by junior forward Scott Slaughter, Laguna withstood a fourth quarter charge this time out, regained its composure down the stretch, and went on to a 54-49 victory.

Two longtime rivals who once were league foes meet tonight in the second week of the prep football season. Laguna Beach and Corona del Mar, once members of the Pacific Coast League, go head-to-head at Davidson Field on the Newport Harbor High campus. Game time is 7 p.m. “This is a good game for us,” Laguna Beach Coach Jonathan Todd said. “They’re a good football team that is sound everywhere. It’s a good challenge for us.” The Breakers and Sea Kings, who last were league rivals in 2005, will meet for the 19th time in a series that began in 1962.

Laguna Beach girls' water polo team opens playoffs.When the CIF-Southern Section released the pairings for the 2005 Division II girls' water-polo playoffs on Monday, the set-up revealed another potential collision course for the teams from Laguna Beach and Corona del Mar. Laguna was deemed the No. 2 seed in the playoffs, right behind the Sea Kings, who are the defending division champions. Three victories by each team in the opening rounds of the playoffs would set up a title-game rematch on Feb. 27 at Belmont Plaza Pool in Long Beach.

A 1-0 shutout of rival Sea Kings puts Breakers at 5-0; key match against Tesoro awaits.Today, the Laguna Beach High boys' soccer team is sitting in a place where coach Giovanni Vlahos had hoped his squad would be -- in first-place. The Breakers ran their Pacific Coast League record to 5-0 and remained the lone undefeated team in league play after going on the road Wednesday to blank rival Corona del Mar, 1-0. The victory was the 10th of the season for the Breakers, who improved to 10-2-1 overall.