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By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on X Just when the Whitney High boys basketball team thought it was turning the corner against its city rival, the kings of the 605 League showed why they are still the team to beat. Cerritos High, which has won the league four times in the seven years of its existence, moved one step closer to another title.

January 29, 2026 By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on X The winter season for basketball and soccer ends on Tuesday with a potential 605 League third place tiebreaker game in boys basketball scheduled for Wednesday. After this past Wednesday’s action, only two area boys basketball teams, four area girls basketball teams, three area boys soccer teams and two area girls soccer teams have been officially eliminated from playoff contention.

The Cerritos High girls flag football team edged Norwalk High 13-12 in double overtime last Saturday in the first game in school history. This is the third season the CIF-Southern Section has had the sport. PHOTO BY LOREN KOPFF. By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on X Somewhere in the future when people look through the annals of Cerritos High athletics, there should be the following question: who scored the game-winning extra point in the first girls flag football game?

January 20, 2026 By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on X As the La Mirada High boys basketball team continues to carve though the Gateway League, considered as one of the toughest leagues in the CIF-Southern Section, many expect the Matadores to win by huge margins. That’s not going to be the case all the time, as the kings of the league were tested in the first half by Gahr High last Friday.

December 31, 2025 By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on X The final December high school basketball tournaments ended this past Tuesday and as the calendar flips over to 2026, that could mean only one thing-league action gets underway. While there may be a few non-league games sprinkled in here and there, January figures to be an exciting month to kick off the new year as the area teams have until Feb.

October 12, 2025 By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on X For just over four decades, the Gahr High girls volleyball program was one of the best in the CIF-Southern Section, winning 22 San Gabriel Valley League championships from 1978-2019. But with the good times come the worst times, one of which was last season when the Gladiators went 0-8 in the Gateway League and missed the CIF-Southern Section playoffs for just the fourth time since at least 1978.

December 31, 2025 By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on X ORANGE-The hottest girls basketball team in the area remained on fire in the early games of the 60th Annual Orange Holiday Classic and in one of the rare occasions this season, Valley Christian High was pushed to the limit. The Defenders had lost a pair of games by five and six points, respectively, but found a way to hold off Laguna Hills High 53-50 last Saturday in a pool play game.

By Loren Kopff Sports Editor | Follow X December 18, 2025 It’s never too late to start planning for the 2026 fall season and now that we have put a wrap on the 2025 season for the fall sports, seven area schools now know who, when and where they will play their league contests eight months from now. The proposed league schedules were recently released, pending approval from the 20 principals of the schools that will be part of the new Suburban Valley Conference.

By Loren Kopff Sports Editor | Follow X December 17, 2025 The early part of Gahr High’s 2025-2026 season has been like keeping track of the stock market. Entering its matinee game with Marquez High last Saturday, the Gladiators have been up and down, starting with a loss, then two wins, two losses, two wins and a loss. In fact, all four wins have come in convincing fashion, and it appeared to go in that direction against Marquez as the host Gladiators led by 12 points almost two minutes into the fourth quarter.

By Loren Kopff Sports Editor | Follow X September 9, 2026 One would think that there couldn’t be too many differences between the previous girls volleyball teams that Cerritos High has had over the past seven seasons and the one that longtime head coach David Cuthbert has for this season. Yes, the Dons may have won six league titles in the last seven seasons and won at least 24 matches four times during that time and advancing to the second round of the CIF-Southern Section playoffs three times.

By Loren Kopff @LorenKopff on X For the first time since 2023, longtime former Suburban League rivals La Mirada High and Norwalk High will meet at Goodman Stadium in a non-league contest on Friday in the HMG-Community News Game of the Week. Since the schools were broken off by the four ex-league schools who formed the 605 League to begin the 2018 season, the Matadores and Lancers have met six times, recently playing in 2023 when La Mirada prevailed in a 34-13 contest.

By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on X For the first time since 2023, longtime former Suburban League rivals La Mirada High and Norwalk High will meet at Goodman Stadium in a non-league contest on Friday in the HMG-Community News Game of the Week. Since the schools were broken off by the four ex-league schools who formed the 605 League to begin the 2018 season, the Matadores and Lancers have met six times, recently playing in 2023 when La Mirada prevailed in a 34-13 contest.

CONTRACT QUESTIONS: Norwalk-La Mirada Unified Board President Robert Cancio, left, and Trustees Espie Free and Norma Amezcua look on as a speaker addresses the board. The trustees tabled two contracts after raising questions about documentation for a nearly $459,000 waste-disposal agreement and the use of an outside provider for after-school tutoring. August 24, 2026 By Vincent Media, Contributing Writer Trustees questioned documentation for a nearly $459,000 waste-disposal agreement and whether district teachers were given the first opportunity to provide after-school tutoring.

By Vincent Medina, Contributing Writer NORWALK — Norwalk officials took two actions Tuesday aimed at preventing homelessness and helping unhoused residents, including accepting 18 new federal housing vouchers for veterans and approving additional funding for the city’s homelessness prevention and rapid rehousing programs. During the Norwalk Housing Authority meeting, commissioners accepted a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing grant providing the city with 18 HUD-VASH vouchers and $313,356 in federal funding.

August 20, 2026 By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on X The time has come for the area’s 11-man football teams to kick off their 2026 football seasons and for the third straight season, the two Artesia Blvd. neighbors separated by approximately a mile will get things started in the HMG-Community News Game of the Week on Friday. This will be the 12th meeting between city rivals Gahr High (7-5 last season) and Valley Christian High (11-4 last season) since 2002 with Gahr holding a 6-5 advantage.

Junior League World Series champs will parade through the city Tuesday before a Civic Center celebration and City Council recognition. LML Staff Report LA MIRADA — Break out the signs, grab the lawn chairs and get ready to make some noise — La Mirada is throwing a hometown celebration for its world champions. The La Mirada Little League Junior All-Stars, fresh off their remarkable run to the Junior League Baseball World Series championship, will be honored with a parade and community celebration Tuesday, Aug.

August 19, 2026 By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on X Gahr High’s Grag Marshall embarks on his 24th season as head coach of the Gladiators, hoping to get to the CIF-Southern Section playoffs for a fourth straight season and ninth time since he took over the program. New will be the operative word this season as Marshall will be running a team with a new quarterback and new, but experienced offensive line while facing new challenges in the new Mid-Cities League of the Suburban Valley Conference as California High and Santa Fe High are new league opponents.

By Loren Kopff Sport Editor | Follow X August 12, 2026

July 24, 2026 By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on X It’s a journey that begins in September with tryouts, then the selection of teams at the different levels of an organization and carries through a plethora of showcase tournaments, friendlies and national tournaments to this point. Now that July is winding down, softball players are getting a chance to display their talents before either high school or college begins in a few weeks.

By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on X This is the seventh in a series of stories on the new Suburban Valley Conference which involves 20 schools from the 605 League, Del Rio League, Gateway League and Mid-Cities League. The SVC will begin with the 2026-2027 school year and over the next month and a half, I will be getting comments from the athletic directors of the area schools on what it has been like the past year and the effects the new SVC will have on their respective schools this upcoming school year and beyond.

By Loren Kopff Sport Editor | Follow X July 16, 2026 GFTravel softball players across the nation have waited all summer long for this time to arrive and for the remainder of month, the stakes will be the highest they have ever been as the Premier Girls Softball National Championships and The Alliance Fastpitch Championship Series take centerstage. For the area, nearly 20 players will be making one last attempt to bring home a championship or make one final memory before heading off to college or in preparation for their next season in high school.