SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (KEYT) - Cal Poly's 10-game winning streak featuring a pair of three-game Big West series sweeps, an 8-0 start to conference play, a .352 team batting average, 85 runs and 129 hits (including 51 for extra bases) came to an end Monday in an 8-2 loss to UC Davis at Baggett Stadium.

The loss dropped Coach Larry Lee's Mustangs to 14-8 for the season and 8-1 in the Big West, still ahead of UC San Diego (5-1) and four teams, including UC Davis, tied for third place at 5-4. Cal Poly still won the series against the Aggies, two games to one.

Nine of Cal Poly's 14 wins so far this season have been in come-from-behind fashion. On Monday, however, there were no answers as the Mustang bats were held to just two runs and five hits while UC Davis shattered a 2-2 tie with back-to-back three-run rallies in the seventh and eighth frames.

UC Davis, just 3-29 in games against Cal Poly at Baggett Stadium entering Monday's game, earned its first win over the Mustangs in San Luis Obispo since the 2018 season, snapping an eight-game losing streak. Aggie head coach Tommy Nicholson notched his first win over Cal Poly in nine tries at Baggett Stadium and is 3-12 overall versus the Mustangs.

The Aggie victory featured a 13-hit offensive attack and five pitchers who combined on the five-hitter. Peter Storjohann (2-0) secured two outs, both strikeouts, and was the pitcher of record when UC Davis erupted for three runs in the seventh on a safety squeeze bunt laid down by Zach Story and a two-run triple by Tyler Howard.

The Aggies (10-11) pulled away with three more runs in the eighth on Story's second safety squeeze bunt and a two-run double by Korey Williams.

Mustang starter Carson Turnquist did not allow a hit in 4 2/3 scoreless innings before giving up the first UC Davis hit and single runs in both the fifth and sixth frames. Lefty Josh Morano (3-1) suffered the loss as he allowed the tiebreaking run in the seventh.

Cal Poly scored first on a bases-loaded sacrifice fly by Ryan Tayman in the opening frame. After UC Davis scored single runs in the fifth and sixth innings, the Mustangs knotted the score at 2-2 in the bottom of the sixth on Dante Vachini's sacrifice fly, also with the bases loaded.

Both Casey Murray Jr. and Cam Hoiland extended their hitting streaks in the sixth. Murray singled to stretch his streak to 12 games while Hoiland doubled to increase his streak to 10 contests.

For the series, second baseman Alejandro Garza was 8-for-12 at the plate with four RBIs while Hoiland was 6-for-12, Murray 5-for-12 with four RBIs and third baseman Gavin Spiridonoff 5-for-13.

Center fielder and Santa Barbara High School alum Kai Mault led the Aggies at the plate with a single, double and triple. Right fielder Tyler Howard contributed a double and triple for two RBIs while Story and Williams both had two hits and a pair of RBIs as well.

Cal Poly ended a seven-game home stand with the loss and will hit the road for its next five contests. The Mustangs visit Loyola Marymount on Wednesday night and play a three-game Big West series Friday through Sunday at UC Riverside.

(Article courtesy of Cal Poly Athletics)

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - It was a good day to be a Royal.

San Marcos High School student-athletes Lucy Dessert and Andy Keenan received Athlete of the Week honors at the Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table luncheon at Harry's.

Dessert pitched two complete-games as the junior led the Royals softball team to two Channel League wins over Ventura.

In 14 innings Dessert only allowed 3 earned runs, striking out 13 batters and did not issue any walks.

Keenan led San Marcos boys golf to wins over Buena and Valencia as he fired back-to-back rounds of four-under- par.

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - It was a good day to be a Royal.

San Marcos High School student-athletes Lucy Dessert and Andy Keenan received Athlete of the Week honors at the Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table luncheon at Harry's.

Dessert pitched two complete-games as the junior led the Royals softball team to two Channel League wins over Ventura.

In 14 innings Dessert only allowed 3 earned runs, striking out 13 batters and did not issue any walks.

Keenan led San Marcos boys golf to wins over Buena and Valencia as he fired back-to-back rounds of four-under- par.

The post San Marcos sweeps awards at Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table luncheon appeared first on News Channel 3-12.

Por Blake Ellis y Melanie Hicken, CNN

Según una revisión de los registros gubernamentales realizada por CNN durante los últimos dos años, muchos pilotos han manifestado su preocupación por la falta de comunicación, los errores del control de tráfico aéreo y otros peligros en el aeropuerto de LaGuardia.

“Por favor, hagan algo”, escribió un piloto el verano pasado en uno de al menos una docena de informes sobre LaGuardia al Sistema de Informes de Seguridad Aérea de la NASA.

El piloto citaba un incidente en el que los controladores de tráfico aéreo no proporcionaron la orientación adecuada sobre varias aeronaves cercanas.

“El ritmo de las operaciones está aumentando en LGA (LaGuardia). Los controladores están presionando”, declaró el piloto. “En días de tormenta eléctrica, LGA empieza a parecerse a DCA antes del accidente”, refiriéndose a la colisión aérea de enero de 2025 sobre el río Potomac en Washington, que dejó más de 60 muertos.

El domingo, dos pilotos fallecieron y decenas de pasajeros resultaron heridos en el aeropuerto de LaGuardia cuando un avión de Air Canada chocó con un camión de bomberos en una colisión a alta velocidad en la pista.

Un controlador aéreo había autorizado al camión de bomberos a cruzar la pista e intentó detenerlo desesperadamente en el último momento, pero ya era demasiado tarde.

Tras el accidente, declaró por radio en tierra que había estado “atendiendo una emergencia” y que había cometido un error.

Hace apenas unos meses, en octubre, dos aviones regionales de Delta Airlines colisionaron en una pista de rodaje del aeropuerto LaGuardia, resultando en una persona hospitalizada.

Y esta misma semana, en Newark, se produjo un incidente de alto riesgo cuando dos aeronaves intentaban aterrizar en pistas que se cruzaban.

En los dos años previos al fatal accidente del domingo, varios informes detallaron situaciones en las que se evitaron por poco colisiones en LaGuardia, según una revisión de CNN del sistema de informes voluntarios.

Este registro permite a los empleados de la industria aeroespacial señalar anónimamente problemas de seguridad y puede tardar varios meses en incluir los informes más recientes.

Si bien un equipo de analistas de seguridad revisa los informes y se encarga de alertar a la Administración Federal de Aviación (FAA) sobre cualquier peligro. Los reguladores gubernamentales no necesariamente verifican los detalles de cada informe.

En diciembre de 2024, por ejemplo, una queja en la base de datos de la NASA describió cómo un avión estuvo peligrosamente cerca de otra aeronave en tierra debido a instrucciones imprecisas de los controladores de tráfico aéreo.

Meses antes, en julio, un copiloto informó de que casi tuvieron una colisión después de que los controladores autorizaran al avión a cruzar la pista a pesar de que otra aeronave estaba aterrizando al mismo tiempo.

“El control de tierra dio la orden de detenerse justo a tiempo”, decía el informe.

Otras notificaciones parecen menos graves o menos concluyentes sobre lo que salió mal, pero también citan situaciones confusas o peligrosas en LaGuardia, que se considera uno de los aeropuertos con más tráfico del país.

Dada la escasez crónica de personal en las instalaciones de control de tráfico aéreo y los anteriores cierres del Gobierno, no es infrecuente que se registren incidentes que estuvieron a punto de convertirse en accidentes y que existan preocupaciones sobre la seguridad

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN

(CNN) — Across some of the nation’s busiest airports on Monday, groups of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents surveyed what felt like never-ending security lines, some directing confused travelers while others silently supervised with their thumbs tucked into the sides of their tactical vests.

Hundreds of ICE agents were deployed to 14 airports on Monday as part of the Trump administration’s effort to mitigate painful travel delays that have resulted from a Department of Homeland Security shutdown. Fliers have faced hourslong waits and lines snaking out of airports as hundreds of TSA employees have quit and thousands more have called out of work after going weeks without pay.

But while the ICE agents – who are being paid – were spotted in Atlanta, New York, Houston, Chicago and others cities on Monday, officials have said they are limited in what duties they can perform: They are not trained, for example, to operate the understaffed security checkpoints that are often the source of delays.

Instead, White House Border Czar Tom Homan said they will assist with simpler tasks, ideally freeing up more TSA employees to perform critical and specialized security work.

While airports in Atlanta and Houston have seen hourslong TSA wait times, travelers at LaGuardia Airport in New York were not even able to get into security lines until Monday afternoon, after a fatal collision between an Air Canada plane and a fire truck closed the airport overnight.

As travelers and CNN crews observed federal agents roving through several airports on Monday, it was at times unclear what tasks they were assigned to carry out.

Even so, Homan said more airports may see an ICE presence in the coming days. Here’s what we know.

ICE will allow TSA to focus on security screenings, Homan says

Mounting TSA employee callouts have crippled US airports that rely on the government employees for security, as an influx of spring break travelers wheel their suitcases through the doors.

Some airports have been forced to dramatically cut down on the number of security checkpoints as an increasing number of TSA employees haven’t shown up to work.

At the world’s busiest travel hub, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, 41% of TSA workers called out on Sunday. Similar numbers were reported at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, where passengers waited in line for as many as four hours the following day. More than a third also called out at airports in Baltimore, New York and New Orleans on Sunday.

While ICE agents are not trained to perform security screenings, Homan said they could relieve TSA employees of other tasks, like monitoring exits and crowd control, and allow them to be redirected to specialized screening work.

“We’re simply there to help TSA do their job in areas that don’t need their specialized expertise, such as screening through the X-ray machine,” Homan told Dana Bash on Sunday. He noted agents will not be asked to perform tasks they do not have expertise in.

“Not trained in that? We won’t do that,” the border czar said.

Homan pointed out that ICE agents’ presence in airports is not new. They “are assigned at