RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KEYT) - For the second day in a row, the UC Santa Barbara Baseball team (26-12) took a big early lead and hung on late, this time out-lasting California Baptist (31-10) in a rollercoaster, 11-6 victory. The Gauchos scored the first eight and last three runs of the game, while surviving a six-run eighth inning from the Lancers. Santa Barbara smacked six extra-base hits, including home runs from both Liam Barrett and Colin Beazizo, with Barrett, Corey Nunez and Xavier Esquer all finishing with multiple RBIs on the night. Two-out clutch was the theme of the night, as eight of the Gauchos' 11 runs (and all six of the Lancers') came with no margin for error in that column.

On the mound, Calvin Proskey's four scoreless innings of work helped the Gauchos build their big lead, Josh Jannicelli made it stick, then Chase Hoover led the firefighting efforts when things got wild late. Jannicelli got the win and Hoover his third save of the season.

HOW IT HAPPENED
Santa Barbara showed up at James W. Totman Stadium, a venue where they had never previously won, and got right to the business of hitting, scoring in each of the first six innings. Nunez was hit by a pitch to set up Nate Vargas' RBI single in the first, then Barrett's two-out walk kept the second inning alive for Esquer to drive a double into the left-center gap. A misfield out there let Esquer get to third and Barrett home to double the lead.

Nunez then started the third inning on third base with a straight-up triple to center field, coming home on William Vasseur's RBI groundout. It was back to two-out magic in the fourth, as Barrett's double preceded back-to-back hit batters to load the bases and bring Nunez back to the dish. He promptly smacked a two-run single up the middle and it was 5-0 Gauchos. Rowan Kelly's double set up Nick Husovsky to single him home in the fifth (you guessed it, with two outs), then Liam Barrett clobbered a home run well over the tall wall in right field to lead off the sixth. For the second time in as many days, the Gauchos were up a touchdown.

While the offense was turning the Lancers' pitches into batting practice, Proskey was busy reminding everyone why he was Santa Barbara's Saturday starter last season. He picked up where he had left off at UCLA, allowing just three hits and no walks or runs over four innings, while striking out four. He won a nine-pitch at-bat for one of those punchouts as part of a perfect second, then finished a perfect third with back-to-back K's, including a seven-pitch at-bat. To end his evening, he escaped a two-on-no-outs jam in the fourth.

Jannicelli took over and showed why he is the next man up in the Gauchos' line of pitching succession. The freshman retired the first six batters he faced, issuing four of his five strikeouts on the night in that span. Despite a pair of errors, Jannicelli got out of the seventh unscathed before finally surrendering the two runs on his ledger in the eighth.

The Gauchos put up their eighth run in the top of that eighth inning on Beazizo's home run to straightaway center field, but the Lancers finally found an answer in the bottom half of the frame. A sequence of a home run, walk, double, double, single and home run got the home team back within two before

By Reuters

Tokyo (Reuters) — Japan on Tuesday unveiled its biggest overhaul of defense export rules in decades, scrapping restrictions on overseas arms sales and opening the way for exports of warships, missiles and other weapons.

The move aimed at strengthening Japan’s defense industrial base marks another step away from pacifist restraints that have shaped its postwar security policy.

Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East are also straining US weapons production, expanding opportunities for Japan. At the same time, US allies in Europe and Asia are looking to diversify supply as Washington’s long-held security commitments look less certain under President Donald Trump.

“No single country can now protect its own peace and security alone, and partner countries that support each other in terms of defense equipment are necessary,” Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said in a post on X.

Japanese officials and diplomats have told Reuters that countries ranging from Poland to the Philippines are exploring procurement opportunities as they modernize their forces. One of the first deals could be the export of used warships to Manila, two of the sources said.

Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro welcomed Japan’s export rule change, saying in a statement that it will give his country access to defense “articles of the highest quality” that would “strengthen domestic resilience” and “contribute to regional stability through deterrence.”

The revision approved by Takaichi’s government removes five export categories that had limited most military exports to rescue, transport, warning, surveillance and minesweeping equipment. Ministers and officials will instead assess the merits of each proposed sale.

Japan will keep in place three export principles that commit it to strict screening, controls on transfers to third countries and a ban on sales to countries involved in conflict. But in a presentation outlining the changes, the government said exceptions could be made when deemed necessary for national security.

Japan also building up its own military

Tokyo hopes such defense exports will shore up its industrial base by boosting production volumes, lowering per-unit costs and adding manufacturing capacity it could draw on in a military crisis.

Contractors such as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries can build advanced systems including submarines, fighter aircraft and missiles, but for decades have relied on small orders from a single customer, Japan’s Self-Defense Forces.

Japan is pressing ahead with unprecedented efforts to bolster its military – buying missiles, stealth jets and drones it says are needed to deter any threat posed by neighbouring China to its territory, including around islands along the edge of the East China Sea near Taiwan.

Beijing has said its intentions in East Asia and elsewhere are peaceful.

Tokyo is also developing a next-generation fighter jet with Britain and Italy for deployment in the mid-2030s, part of a strategy to share development costs and gain access to new technology.

Japan has steadily increased defense spending in recent years to 2% of GDP, and Takaichi’s government is expected to announce further rises this year when it releases a new security strategy.

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By Zoe Sottile, Lauren Mascarenhas, Isabel Rosales, Maria Sole Campinoti, Taylor Romine, CNN

Shreveport, Louisiana (CNN) — Freddie Montgomery looked across the street as he walked home from visiting a neighbor and saw Shamar Elkins. The 31-year-old was sitting on the front porch of his Shreveport, Louisiana, home Saturday afternoon, Montgomery told CNN. The two men waved at each other as children played in the yard.

When Montgomery woke up and opened the curtains the next morning, he saw law enforcement entering the house across the street. And the police presence continued to grow.

He asked an officer if the scene was bad. The police said yes.

“Are we talking fatalities?” Montgomery asked. Multiple, the officer said.

“Loss of children?” Montgomery asked. Multiple, the officer said.

Elkins fatally shot eight children — seven of them his own — early Sunday morning, Shreveport police said, in the nation’s deadliest mass shooting in more than two years. He also shot his wife and another woman. A third woman — his wife’s sister — and a 12-year-old girl jumped off the roof trying to escape.

(Police previously said it was a 13-year-old boy who jumped off the roof trying to escape.)

The attack spanned multiple homes.

“This is a tragic situation, maybe the worst tragic situation we’ve ever had in Shreveport,” Mayor Tom Arceneaux said in a Sunday news conference.

The youngest victim, Jayla Elkins, was just 3 years old, authorities said.

The other children killed are Shayla Elkins, 5; Kayla Pugh, 6; Layla Pugh, 7; Markaydon Pugh, 10; Sariahh Snow, 11; Khedarrion Snow, 6; and Braylon Snow, 5, according to the Caddo Parish Coroner’s Office.

The eight children’s deaths more than double the number of homicides in Shreveport and Caddo Parish this year, according to the coroner’s office.

Arceneaux described the scene in the city of just over 180,000 people as “horrific.” This kind of shooting “rattles the entire city,” the mayor told CNN.

As the shooting unfolded, some of the children tried to escape out the back, a state representative said at a news conference Sunday.

Bullet holes could be seen in the back door of one of the homes on Monday.

Early morning quiet broken by gunfire

The first call came in just before 6 a.m.

Shreveport police received a call from someone on the roof of a house on West 79th Street, who said a suspect inside had just shot someone, Shreveport Police Chief Wayne Smith said at a news conference Monday.

A few minutes later, another call came in.

The caller told police the suspect was a family member, and dispatch was told nine people lived at the home, Smith said.

The suspect, the caller said, had shot everyone inside the home.

The caller told dispatch that she and her children had fled from the roof and were now in the backyard.

Police arrived on the scene at 6:01 a.m., Smith said.

Minutes later, police received a third call about another shooting on Harrison Street. A wo

Por Pau Mosquera y Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN en Español

Algunas personas pasaron la noche en la calle, sobre cartones, para asegurar su lugar en la fila. Otras llegaron de madrugada y encontraron largas filas que ya doblaban la esquina. Así comenzó este lunes el proceso extraordinario de regularización de migrantes en España, con escenas marcadas por la espera, la incertidumbre y una organización que, en varios puntos de Madrid, se vio rápidamente superada.

Frente a la sede de la Asociación Aculco, cientos de personas aguardaban desde la madrugada —algunas desde la noche anterior— para obtener el certificado de vulnerabilidad, uno de los documentos necesarios para iniciar el trámite.

“Nos ha desbordado, no esperábamos esto”, dijo a CNN Álvaro Zuleta, el director de la organización que colabora con las autoridades para expedir este certificado. Aculco, dijo Zuleta, puede atender a unas 300 personas al día, pero este lunes la demanda superaba ampliamente esa cifra. Explicó que parte del colapso respondió a informaciones erróneas difundidas en redes sociales sobre la posibilidad de realizar gestiones sin cita previa.

“Se ha generado un bulo en internet de que Aculco estaba dando estos certificados sin cita previa, cosa que no es real. Estamos dando listas diarias de 300 personas para atender”, dijo Zuleta.

En la fila, la espera incluso llegó a organizarse de manera informal. María Verónica, migrante venezolana, dijo a CNN que vio cómo circulaban hojas de papel de mano en mano con listas improvisadas sin validez oficial, pero que intentaban poner cierto orden entre la multitud.

“Caos total, me parece una desorganización total”, dijo María Verónica, quien trabaja de manera independiente y lleva dos años en España. “Hay sobreinformación, muchas especulaciones”.

Con el paso de las horas, el cansancio se hacía visible. “Hay gente desde las cuatro o cinco de la mañana. Nadie ha comido, hay personas con sed, con hambre”, añadió. Salir de la fila, incluso por unos minutos, implicaba el riesgo de perder el turno.

Entre los solicitantes predominaban quienes trabajan en la economía informal y ven en la regularización una posibilidad de estabilidad. Omar León, colombiano, dijo que lleva poco más de un año en el país y que está decidido a esperar en la fila el tiempo que sea necesario, pese a la incertidumbre del proceso. “El que no lucha no lo consigue”, afirmó. León busca regularizar su situación para acceder a un empleo estable, retomar sus planes de estudio y, con el tiempo, ahorrar lo suficiente para construir algo propio en su país.

La colombiana es la segunda comunidad extranjera más numerosa en España, con 978.041 residentes, según datos del Instituto Nacional de Estadística de 2025. Y también la que probablemente pueda obtener mayor provecho de esta regularización masiva.

Aunque el Gobierno estima que la medida favorecería a medio millón de personas, los datos recopilados por FUNCAS —un centro de análisis vinculado a la asociación bancaria CECA— apuntaban a que el país estaría dando acogida a 840.000 personas en situación administrativa irregular. De este monto, la comunidad más destacada sería la colombiana, con 290.000 personas en esta situación.

En ese grupo se encuentra también Leonardo Flores, quien llegó a las oficinas de la organización en Tetuán, un distrito en el norte de Madrid, desde las dos de la madrugada. “Dormir en cartones, el tumulto, la gente empuja”, dijo sobre cómo vivió la espera. Flores trabajaba como asesor inmobiliario en Colombia y ahora se emplea en labores de limpieza y construcción. “Es difícil el cambio”, añadió.

A lo largo de la mañana, algunos lograban avanzar. Cada persona que sa

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - A handful of student-athlete awards were handed out at two local luncheons.

The Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table luncheon at Harry's passed out four honors.

The girls Athlete of the Week is the dynamic duo of San Marcos High School senior beach volleyball players Cora Loomer and Evyn Miller.

The #1 Royals team won the Channel League Pairs championship. They went undefeated in Channel League play all season long and will get ready for the CIF-SS playoffs this week.

The boys Athlete of the Week goes to Dos Pueblos track and field standout Cullen Gully. He won the 800-meter race at the Mount San Antonio Relays in a blazing time of 1:54.13.

(Gully also finished third in the mile with a time of 4:13.91).

Santa Barbara City College awarded their Student-Athlete of the Year to men's volleyball player Luke Steinert.

He is a Vaqueros captain and the libero carries a 4.0 GPA.

(Steinert will attend UCSB in the fall).

At the Northern Santa Barbara County Athletic Round Table luncheon at Giavanni's in Orcutt, three honors were dished out.

Last week's boys Athlete of the Week Damien Adams of Lompoc collected his overdue award.

This week's winner is St. Joseph High School pitcher Mason Majewski who threw the Knights first perfect game in over 15 years.

The girls winner is Lompoc softball player Lily Ortega who roped two doubles and knocked in three runs in a 7-1 win over Templeton.

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