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San Marcos rallies past Dons to grab share of Channel League title

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Royals win first Channel League title since 2023

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - Heart of a champion!

San Marcos trailed for most of the game but erupted for 6 runs in the top of the seventh inning to beat rival Santa Barbara 10-5 and earn a piece of the Channel League championship.

The Royals share the title with Dos Pueblos who won at Oxnard. Both teams are 10-4 in league but San Marcos swept DP so the Royals will be the top-seed from the Channel League in the upcoming CIF-SS playoffs.

Trailing 5-4 the Royals loaded the bases with no outs in the top of the seventh inning and tied the game on a bases loaded walk issued to Gunner Martinez.

Pat Foster drove in the go-ahead run on a fielder's choice to first but the Dons did not record an out on the play.

So with the bases still loaded and just one out, Levi Monson grounded to first base and the throw came home beating the runner but the umpire said that catcher's foot was not on the plate for the force and it was 7-5 Royals.

(Game of inches as the runner is called safe and soon afterwards the Royals break the game wide open in the seventh. Entenza Design).

Quinn Melton followed with a two-run single to right field and Mason Crang finished off the scoring with an RBI fielder's choice.

Miles Herbert closed out the Dons (11-14) and the Royals (16-11) celebrated another Channel League title, their fourth in the past six years.

The Dons Jetner Welch hit a first inning home run and Max Weddle added a 2-run triple in the fourth inning as Santa Barbara built up a 5-2 lead.

But the Royals chipped away scoring a run in the fifth on a hit batter with the bases loaded.

Melton ripped a single in the sixth inning and Pat Foster, who was running on the pitch, scored all the way from first base to bring the Royals within 5-4 and San Marcos finished off the comeback an inning later.

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¿Crisis del petróleo? Los vehículos eléctricos chinos están listos para dominar el siglo XXI

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Por Simone McCarthy, CNN

Un elegante SUV ofrece masajes mecánicos para los pies, una lujosa minivan cuenta con asientos giratorios para facilitar el acceso a la tercera fila, y una sorprendente cantidad de modelos ofrecen karaoke a bordo con altavoces profesionales.

Otros incorporan faros que proyectan películas en una pared, convirtiendo cualquier lugar en un autocine. Aquí, las funciones de conducción inteligente son omnipresentes, incluso en los modelos más asequibles.

Para muchos consumidores que observan desde fuera, las opciones que ofrece China —expuestas esta semana en Beijing en el mayor salón del automóvil del mundo— parecen un sueño. Pero para algunos fabricantes de automóviles y políticos de todo el mundo, representan una amenaza existencial.

Los fabricantes de automóviles chinos están produciendo sus modelos a gran escala y a un precio relativamente bajo.

Y hay otro factor importante: mientras que los precios del petróleo y el gas se disparan debido a la guerra con Irán, la gran mayoría de estos autos son eléctricos o híbridos.

El contraste con Estados Unidos nunca ha sido tan marcado: el año pasado, Washington redujo su apoyo a los vehículos eléctricos en favor de los que consumen mucha gasolina, y de hecho ha prohibido la entrada de automóviles chinos al mercado, alegando la necesidad de proteger la seguridad nacional y la industria local.

Ante la inminente llegada del presidente de EE.UU., Donald Trump, a China a mediados de mayo para mantener conversaciones con el líder Xi Jinping, los fabricantes de vehículos eléctricos del país también están explorando otra frontera, observando si la creciente demanda mundial de vehículos eléctricos les ayudará a abrirse paso en el mercado estadounidense.

En cualquier caso, el mensaje que se pretende transmitir con esta exhibición del tamaño de 70 campos de fútbol es claro: China avanza implacablemente con la tecnología que cree que le permitirá triunfar en el siglo XXI.

Los principales fabricantes de automóviles de China, y Beijing, están apostando fuerte a que el resto del mundo elegirá su visión de un futuro eléctrico, en lugar de uno que siga ligado a la gasolina.

El aumento del precio de la gasolina es “una llamada de atención para quienes nunca han probado un vehículo eléctrico”, declaró Stella Li, ejecutiva de BYD, a CNN durante la emisión del programa, donde habló sobre la ambiciosa estrategia de expansión del mayor fabricante mundial de vehículos eléctricos. “Cuando te pasas al coche eléctrico, nunca vuelves atrás y cambias a un vehículo de gasolina”.

Captar clientes en el extranjero es ahora imprescindible para las principales empresas chinas.

Por un amplio margen, el país posee el mayor mercado de vehículos eléctricos del mundo. Más de la mitad de los autos nuevos vendidos en China son eléctricos o híbridos.

En sus megaciudades y alrededores, el tráfico se va silenciando progresivamente, y el suave zumbido del motor eléctrico reemplaza el rugido del motor de combustión interna.

Pero sus titanes de la industria también están inmersos en una lucha encarnizada por la cuota de mercado, con brutales guerras de precios y una competencia feroz en un mercado nacional saturado que re

CIF-SS playoff boys volleyball results

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DP and Bishop Diego sweep into quarterfinals

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) -

CIF-Southern Section Division 3 Second Round: Servite 3, Santa Barbara 0

CIF-Southern Section Division 5 Second Round: Dos Pueblos 3, Hemet 0: Ben Wojogbe and Evan Daugherty each had 9 kills to lead the Chargers to the sweep (25-20, 25-22, 25-15). DP is at El Dorado in quarterfinals on Wednesday.

CIF-Southern Section Division 5 Second Round: Bishop Diego 3, La Quinta/Westminster 0: Damien Krautmann led the Cardinals attack with 21 kills while John Michael Flint added 11 in the sweep (25-20, 25-21, 25-18). Bishop Diego is at Brea Olinda in quarterfinals on Wednesday.

CIF-Southern Section Division 5 Second Round: Flintridge Prep 3, Ventura 1

CIF-Southern Section Division 7 Second Round: Foothill Tech 3, Bell Gardens 0

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NCAA Championship results: Cal Poly Beach Volleyball advances; UCSB tennis eliminated

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Gauchos fall in first round in men's and women's tennis

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) -

NCAA Championship Beach Volleyball First Round: Cal Poly 3, Grand Canyon 0

It was a strong start Friday for the Cal Poly beach volleyball team at the NCAA Championship, defeating No. 11 Grand Canyon 3-0 in the first round to advance to Saturday’s quarterfinals.

The No. 6 Mustangs had a battle with the No. 11 Lopes with three of the matches going to a third set. Cal Poly’ s No. 4 pair of Julia Westby and Elise Lenahan started things off strong with a 21-16, 21-14 win to put the Mustangs on the board first.

A short time later, Ella Connor and Erin Inskeep took care of business at the No. 1 spot, winning their match in straight sets, 21-12, 21-17 to put the Mustangs up 2-0. After they won, all three other pairs were starting third and deciding sets.

After back-and-forth battles at the No. 2, No. 3, and No. 5 spots, it was the No. 2 pair of Izzy Martinez and Logan Walter being the pair that won first, just ahead of the No.5 pair of Peyton Dueck and Katie Clevenger. Martinez and Walter won their third set 15-10 to clinch the duel for Cal Poly.

With their wins, Westby and Lenahan are now 29-3 on the year together and have won nine in a row. Connor and Inskeep are 32-5 on the year and Martinez and Walter are now an NCAA-leading 35-3 as a duo.

Cal Poly is now set to face No. 3 UCLA in the quarterfinals Saturday at 10 a.m. PT/12 p.m. CT on ESPN2 and ESPN+. The winner will move on to Saturday’s semifinal match at 12:30 p.m. PT/2:30 p.m. CT on ESPN2/ESPN+ against the winner of No. 2 Texas/No. 7 LMU.

(article courtesy of Cal Poly Athletics)

NCAA Championship Men's Tennis First Round: USD 4, UCSB 2

Doubles

  1. #34 Adrien Berrut/Lambert Ruland (USD-M) def. #67 Miguel Avendano/Lucca Liu (UCSB) 6-2
  2. Stian Klaassen/Oliver Tarvet (USD-M) vs. Conrad Brown/Dominique Rolland (UCSB) 4-3, unfinished
  3. Manvydas Balciunas/Vincent Marysko (USD-M) def. Lorenzo Brunkow/Diogo Morais (UCSB) 6-4

Singles

  1. #19 Oliver Tarvet (USD) def. #103 Lucca Liu (UCSB) 6-3, 6-4
  2. Diogo Morais (UCSB) def. #94 Manvydas Balciunas (USD) 1-6, 6-1, 6-1
  3. Stian Klaassen (USD) vs. #71 Dominique Rolland (UCSB) 6-4, 4-6, 5-2, unfinished
  4. Miguel Avendano (UCSB) def. Vincent Marysko (USD) 4-6, 6-2, 6-4
  5. Lambert Ruland (USD) def. Charlie Underwood (UCSB) 6-3, 4-6, 6-4
  6. Adrien Berrut (USD) def. Carson Lee (UCSB) 6-1, 6-3

NCAA Championship Women's Tennis First Round: Pepperdine 4, UCSB 0

Singles competition

  1. #40 Ziva Falkner (PEPP) vs. Ekua Youri (UCSB) 6-3, 5-7, 1-1, unfinished
  2. Isabella Wong (UCSB) vs. #35 Anastasiia Grechkina (PEPP) no result
  3. #48 Sonja Zhiyenbayeva (PEPP) def. Emma Tutoveanu (UCSB) 6-3, 7-6 (7-5)
  4. Chantal Sauvant (PEPP) def. Lily Pradkin (UCSB) 6-3, 6-1
  5. #121 Duru Soke (PEPP) vs. Raphaelle Leroux (UCSB) 6-1, 6-6 (2-3), unfinished
  6. Alexia Harmon (PEPP) def. Shanelle Iaconi (UCSB) 6-1, 7-5

  7. Doubles competition
  8. #16 Sonja Zhiyenbayeva/Ziva Fa

Gauchos blast Bakersfield with 18-run, 18-hit performance

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Gauchos end 3-game losing skid with offensive outburst

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KEYT) - The UC Santa Barbara Baseball team (28-15, 14-8 Big West) took Hardt Field by storm on Friday night, routing Cal State Bakersfield (20-26, 9-13 Big West) by scoring 18 runs on 18 hits, though the five Roadrunner errors did the home team no favors. Jackson Flora earned the win behind five shutouts innings while Donovann Jackson earned the save by working the final four frames — the first time that the two Jacksons have covered the entire game between themselves since Feb. 15, 2025 — but the story of the night was the Gaucho offense. At the top of the lineup, Liam Barrett had a career night with four hits, driving in a pair of runs. Nate Vargas matched his season high with four RBIs, and William Vasseur did the same with his three RBIs. Xavier Esquer also had three RBIs on the night, contributing to Santa Barbara's season-high run total. The last time the Gauchos had scored 18 runs was April 12, 2025, at UC Riverside.

HOW IT HAPPENED
The Santa Barbara bats gave their ace, Flora, more cushion than he could have wished for in the first inning, with Barrett sending the second pitch of the game into right center for a single. The first of two errant throws in the inning set up Gauchos on second and third, with Vargas' single to left center bringing both runs home. The second errant throw, on a bunt attempt just like the first, helped the Gauchos load the bases, and Esquer helped un-load them with a two-RBI single into right center. Nick Husovsky's RBI single into right center brought up a full handful of runs for Santa Barbara as the Gauchos batted around for the first of two times on the evening.

A pair of Roadrunner singles suggested the home team could rally back, but Flora quashed that idea with his first of eight strikeouts. He essentially cruised through the remainder of his five-inning stint on the mound, setting down the side in order in both the second and fourth innings, both times with a pair of punchouts involved. He allowed just one baserunner in the third and two in the bottom of the fourth but no runs.

By the time Jackson replaced Flora on the bump for the bottom of the sixth, the Gauchos' lead had rocketed up to 16. Vasseur's steal of home made it six in the third, then Rowan Kelly's RBI single made it seven in the fourth. Vasseur got a double out of a ball lost in the lights right after, bringing home Kelly to make the score 8-0. Barrett picked up his first RBI of the night on a check-swing single that jumped all the way into left field, and a misplay out there allowed him to run all the way to third on the play; third base coach Matt Fonteno nearly sent the Gauchos' left fielder to try for a little-league home run but threw up the stop sign at the last minute.

The real back-breaking inning was the sixth. Vargas batted twice in the frame and recorded hits both times, leading things off with a single. An error kept him safe at second and allowed Kelly to reach on a fielder's choice, then Vasseur's second double of the night scored them both. Another error put runners on the corner with Vasseur at third and Noah Karliner on first, then Esquer's sacrifice fly brought Vasseur home and the Gauchos' run total to 12. Barrett picked up his second RBI in as many innings with a (full-swing) single, then Corey Nunez

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