SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - Bryan Peck had a dominant return to the Santa Barbara area.

The former Westmont College standout pitcher who is now a graduate student at Cal Baptist, fired six innings of one-hit shutout ball as the Lancers snapped the Gauchos 7-game win streak 8-3. He improved to 7-1 on the season.

UCSB managed just 3 hits for the game and scored all 3 of their runs in the bottom of the eighth inning well after the game was decided.

Conner Ross homered twice and drove in 4 runs for the Lancers who improved to 40-13 on the season.

The Gauchos (34-16) used seven pitchers in this nonleague game with five of them allowing runs. San Marcos High School alum Chase Hoover pitched well in relief for UCSB with 2 2/3 scoreless innings with 3 strikeouts.

UCSB will play for a Big West regular season title with three home games against UC Riverside starting on Thursday 4:35 p.m.

The Gauchos are tied for first place in league with Cal Poly who finish with 3 home games against Long Beach State.

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - The final Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table luncheon of the school year honored two Bishop Diego High School student-athletes.

Senior John Michael Flint is the Boys Athlete of the Week and junior Tierney Clark is the Girls Athlete of the Week.

John Michael Flint led the Cardinals volleyball team into the CIF-Southern Section Division 5 championship match with a 20 kills in a four-set semifinal win over El Dorado. Earlier in the week he had a match-high 30 kills in a quarterfinal comeback victory at Brea Olinda.

The Cardinals will host St. Anthony for the D5 championship on Friday at 6 p.m.

Tierney Clark is a double CIF champion in swimming. She won the CIF-SS Individual Division 4 100 freestyle and 200 freestyle with times of 53.05 and 1:56.81 respectively.

Also at the luncheon the Scholar-Athlete of the Year for UCSB is women's soccer player Sofie Rodriguez who carries a 3.4 GPA.

This was the final luncheon as president for Bryan Cornet who finished his two-year term.

Gabe Grandcolas is the incoming president.

The Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table finished its's 57th year of hosting luncheons at Harry's.

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By Lex Harvey, CNN

(CNN) — They boarded a cruise ship in Argentina last month for a once-in-a-lifetime expedition across the Atlantic Ocean to see unique wildlife and remote islands. Six weeks later, most of the American passengers who were aboard the MV Hondius are now in a small and spartan room with a bed and an exercise bike at the National Quarantine Unit in Omaha, Nebraska, and face potential weeks of isolation.

“Hopping back on for a second to let everyone know I’m okay and feeling well,” passenger Jake Rosmarin wrote in a post to Instagram Monday, alongside a smiling selfie in the room where he is quarantining.

“The repatriation flight was smooth, and I safely made it to the National Quarantine Unit in Omaha. It’s been a very long few days, but hopefully I can start giving more updates again soon.”

A little over a week since the World Health Organization reported an outbreak of the rare hantavirus aboard the Hondius, operated by Oceanwide Expeditions, a global repatriation effort is still underway for the passengers and crew who were aboard the infected ship.

As of Tuesday morning, 122 people — 87 passengers and 35 crew members — had been evacuated, and most had returned to their home countries. Five Australians and one New Zealander are in the Netherlands and set to be repatriated later this week, according to authorities.

The remaining 27 people aboard the ship — 25 crew members and 2 medical professionals — are now sailing to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where the ship will be disinfected. They are expected to arrive Sunday evening, according to Oceanwide.

Three passengers have died since April 11 and there are several other confirmed or probable cases, according to the WHO, which has reiterated that the risk to the general public is low.

Weeks of monitoring ahead

The next few weeks will be mired in uncertainty for those who were onboard the ship, where human-to-human transmission of the Andes variant of the hantavirus is believed by the WHO to have occurred.

In the US, 17 Americans and one British dual-national are being monitored in medical facilities like the one Rosmarin posted from. The ages of the passengers range from late 20s to early 80s, with older people and those with medical comorbidities at higher risk for severe outcomes.

Sixteen of those individuals are the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). One is in the biocontainment unit after testing positive for the virus and 15 are in the quarantine unit. All are asymptomatic.

Two other people — a couple — were transferred to Atlanta’s Emory University, where they are being held in a biocontainment unit, because of capacity limitations at UNMC. At least one person at Emory is showing symptoms.

After assessing the passengers for a few days, authorities will decide if each individual should complete their 42-day monitoring period at home or in the medical facilities.

In addition to these 18 people, at least 11 others are being monitored across seven states. Passengers in Arizona, California, Georgia, Texas and Virginia had previously disembarked from the ship and individuals in New Jersey and Maryland were exposed to a

Análisis por Stephen Collinson, CNN

La cumbre de Donald Trump con el líder de China, Xi Jinping, esta semana es un evento culminante destinado a demostrar la huella imborrable del presidente en la historia mundial.

Pero si bien la pompa china lo presentará como un estadista honrado, la visita también mostrará cómo algunas de las decisiones de Trump, incluida una guerra con Irán que no puede terminar, corren el riesgo de socavar su autoridad y el poder estadounidense.

Una situación global tumultuosa, creada conscientemente por el presidente estadounidense, constituirá el telón de fondo de esta cumbre, a diferencia de cualquier otra reunión entre líderes estadounidenses y chinos desde que el presidente Richard Nixon impulsara a China al escenario mundial en la década de 1970.

Las cumbres entre Estados Unidos y China han buscado durante mucho tiempo la estabilidad en la que se ha convertido en la relación diplomática más importante del mundo. Pero Trump es la antítesis de la estabilidad: ha convertido a Estados Unidos en una de las principales fuentes de inestabilidad a nivel mundial.

Trump también ha debilitado los pilares tradicionales de la primacía estadounidense, incluyendo el libre comercio, las alianzas y un orden internacional que favorece a Washington.

El presidente ve esta transformación como una afirmación del poder estadounidense sin reservas y de la libertad de acción unilateral.

Los críticos la consideran un acto de autosabotaje que neutraliza las ventajas globales de Estados Unidos justo cuando la supremacía estadounidense se ve puesta a prueba en múltiples frentes por una China en ascenso.

El fracaso del presidente en lograr una victoria contundente en Irán y las catastróficas repercusiones económicas mundiales de su guerra plantean nuevas dudas sobre el poder estadounidense, que China podría intentar aprovechar.

El último desaire de Irán a la búsqueda de un acuerdo y una salida por parte de Trump, el lunes, desmiente sus afirmaciones de que está a punto de ceder.

El desafío de una potencia menor frente al poderío estadounidense lo deja en una posición de debilidad personal.

Trump se reunió con su equipo de seguridad nacional el lunes por la noche. CNN citó fuentes que indicaban que el presidente estaba considerando con mayor seriedad que en las últimas semanas la reanudación de las acciones militares contra Irán.

Mientras tanto, Teherán envió un mensaje provocador al presidente antes de su viaje.

“Señor Trump, no se imagine que aprovechando la actual calma de Irán podrá entrar triunfalmente en Beijing”, declaró Ali Akbar Velayati, asesor del nuevo líder supremo, según un informe de la agencia de noticias semioficial iraní Tasnim.

La guerra ofrece desafíos y oportunidades para China.

Si bien la administración quiere apoyarse en sus aliados nominales en Teherán, su descontento por el cierre del estrecho de Ormuz —una importante ruta de suministro para sus importaciones de petróleo— podría, en cambio, ejercer presión sobre Trump.

Además, cualquier ayuda diplomática que China ofrezca probablemente vendrá con condiciones, ya sea en materia comercial o incluso en un asunto que Beijing considera existencial: sus reivindicaciones de soberanía sobre Taiwán.

“Estas no son las condiciones estratégicas que

VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) The early morning Platform Habitat fire and evacuation took place about 7.5 miles off Mussel Shoals in Ventura County.

It's an area known for the Oil Pier surf spot and The Cliff House Inn.

 Robert Brunner lives a few doors down.

Brunner, who fought to make the 101 exit safe, is considered the honorary mayor.

Brunner was on the beach in front of his home on Monday morning, but said he couldn't see the platform due to thick fog.

A emergency response command center was set up miles away at DCOR, on the sixth floor of a building near The Collection shopping area, in Oxnard.

The offshore oil energy company is named after the large Dos Cuadras Offshore Oil Field.

DCOR personnel chose not to comment on the fire, but offered a U.S. Coast Guard response handout.

The Coast Guard said the platform produces natural gas, not oil, and is in the process of being decommissioned.

More than two dozen workers were evacuated. Two were treated for scrapes, but no one went to the hospital.

There are no reports of impacts to the public or marine life.

Mussell Shoals resident Reece Ballard said he heard about what happened from his parents.

He was surprised to see a Coast Guard photo that showed a boat spraying water on the platform.

Ballard said on a clear day it is easy to see the platform in day and night.

It appears the weather conditions helped keep things cool during the emergency.

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