MILWAUKEE >> Cody Bellinger homered in the 12th i ing off Milwaukee Brewers reliever Neftali Feliz, salvaging a 2-1 win Friday for the Los Angeles Dodgers on a night when ace left-hander Clayton Kershaw recorded his 2,000th strikeout. Kenley Jansen (3-0) pitched two scoreless i ings for the

CLOVIS >> It was an excellent Friday of qualifying for Long Beach area athletes at the CIF State Track & Field championships at Buchanan High. Of the 23 entries for Friday’s prelims, just four failed to advance to Saturday’s finals. Long Beach Poly leads the way with six athletes who will

LONG BEACH >> Pitcher Dave Smith and outfielder Lucas Tancas had uncertain futures with Long Beach State baseball a year ago. Tancas was recovering from serious injury while Smith was mired in the Tuesday night starting job. On Friday night, Smith and Tancas led the Dirtbags to their first NCA

STANFORD – Cal State Fullerton got an impressive pitching performance from John Gavin and just enough timely hits to defeat Stanford 4-1 on Friday at the Stanford Regional of the NCAA baseball tou ament at Sunken Diamond. Gavin went seven i ings, allowing just one run on three hits and striking ou

ANAHEIM >> It didn’t take long for the night to go sour for the Angels and the fans who came to Angel Stadium looking for history, or at least a victory. They saw neither. J.C. Ramirez gave up a two-run homer in the first i ing, one of three he allowed in a game the Angels’ trailed the Mi es

Gabrielle Maurice’s face perfectly captured the feeling for the UCLA softball team after Saturday afte oon’s 8-2 win over Texas A&M at the Women’s College World Series. Seconds after a collision at the plate, the senior outfielder emerged from the dugout scratched and bloodied on her chin and f

SAN DIEGO >> For the second straight week, Mike Williams stood and watched. As the Chargers enter the final month of the offseason program, this year’s No. 7 overall pick has been stuck on the sideline, rendered a spectator by the lingering tightness in his back. Yes, the regular season is sti

ANGELS at RAYS When: Wednesday, 4 p.m. Where: Tropicana Field TV: Fox Sports West THE PITCHERS ANGELS RHP RICKY NOLASCO (2-3, 4.01) vs. Rays: 3-6, 6.57 At Tropicana Field: 2-2, 7.36 Hates to face: Rickie Weeks, 11 for 24 (.458), 2 HRs Loves to face: Michael Martinez, 1 for 7 (.143) RAYS RHP ERASMO R...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. >>The box score won’t show a victory or a save for Yusmeiro Petit in the Angels’ 4-0 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday night. But it’s not that much of a stretch to say he got the biggest outs of the game. Matt Shoemaker’s dominant six i ings had given way to a diffi

LOS ANGELES >> If he hadn’t injured his toe, Logan Forsythe probably would have played through his hamstring issues. And if he didn’t have those hamstring issues, he probably would have retu ed from the toe injury sooner. The combination, however, kept Forsythe on the sidelines for 30 games b

LOS ALAMITOS >> Rest didn’t create any rust for the Los Alamitos High softball team. After a first-round bye led to a 13-day gap between their regular season finale and their postseason opener, the Griffins rolled to 5-1 win over visiting Capistrano Valley in the second round of the CIF Southe

St. Anthony was knocked out of the CIF-SS Division 6 baseball playoffs by Big Bear on Tuesday afte oon at Clark Field. Big Bear (18-7) used two huge i ings to muscle its way to a 14-7 victory and into the quarterfinals. “We picked a bad time to not play well,” St. Anthony coach Kris Jondle said. “

ANAHEIM >> Both the Cerritos and Katella boys volleyball teams had their dreams of wi ing CIF titles dashed at different stages of the recently completed championship tou ament. Katella lost in the semifinals Southe Section Division 4 playoffs, while Cerritos lost in the Division 5 final.

CLEVELAND >> Kyrie Irving gritted his teeth, tightened up his left sneaker and hopped to his feet. The pain didn’t stop him. The Celtics didn’t either. Irving took over in the second half and finished with 42 points, LeBron James added 34 and the Cleveland Cavaliers moved within one win of an

Area Roundup: Millikan wrestler wins USA Championship By From staff reports Millikan sophomore Sierra Adams-Gregory won the cadet 185-pound title at the USA Wresting National Championships in Irving, Texas last weekend for the second year in a row. She beat the Wisconsin, Texas, Colora

OTTAWA >> Mike Hoffman scored the tiebreaking goal early in the third period to give the Ottawa Senators a 2-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday night and force a decisive Game 7 in the Easte Conference Finals. Hoffman fired a slap shot through traffic off a pass from Fredrik C

LOS ANGELES >> Dodgers Hall of Famer Tommy Lasorda has been hospitalized for several days.Details of Lasorda’s illness are being kept private, but a number of Lasorda’s former players have been among those in contact with Lasorda, who has been

Even with a couple of chord changes to tweak the twang, Pete Weber’s broadcasting career in Nashville shouldn’t sound like the starting point for another tired country weste song.It’s hardly been a long, lonesome 20 years behind the microphone, be

LOS ANGELES >> One day after a dominant pitching performance led UCLA to a run-rule win, the fifth-seeded Bruins came alive in the batter’s box for another shortened victory and a spot in Sunday’s NCAA regional final.UCLA racked up 13 hits and

ANAHEIM >> Mike Trout’s homer drought — all of one game — ended. Cameron Maybin continued to be practically unable to make an out. Albert Pujols continued to rack up RBI. Even Da y Espinosa, a few days removed from a career-worst hitless strea