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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - To the victor goes the spoits.

CIF-Southern Section Division 7 girls volleyball champion Cate High School swept the major individual honors.

Senior Oyin Opawumi was named CIF-SS D7 Player of the Year while the Rams Jordon Dyer is awarded Coach of the Year.

Opawumi was joined by fellow Cate seniors Fallon Erickson and Evangeline Little as All-CIF D7.

Here are other local players to receive All-CIF recognition:

Division 2: San Marcos senior Samantha Fallon

Division 4: Ventura senior Gigi Scaglia, Ventura junior Mia Howard

Division 5: Santa Barbara junior Blake Saunders, Santa Barbara junior Paylin Marcillac

Division 8: Foothill Technology senior Emily Turner, Foothill Technology sophomore Fiona Holt

Division 9: Nordhoff sophomore Wren Zimmerman, Nordhoff freshman Audrey Churpek

Division 10: San Luis Obispo Classical senior Madi Blasingame, San Luis Obispo Classical senior Sibylia Ridley, Thacher senior Cata Brown, Thacher Ori Ouermi

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - Internationally acclaimed musician Jake Shimabukuro performed a free ukulele concert for school kids at the Arlington Theatre Wednesday morning. Hundreds of 4-6th graders were bussed in from around the area, and they joyfully sang along to a number of songs.

Shimabukuro told the students he began playing ukulele at age four and his mom was his first teacher. He showed them the first chords he learned, and how easy the instrument is to pick up and strum a tune. The event was put on by UCSB Arts & Lectures with Shimabukuro returning to the stage a few hours later for a ticketed event dubbed "Holidays in Hawai`i" which is where he's from.

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LEXINGTON, Kentucky (KEYT) - Emma Fredrick tied for match-high honors with 11 kills but Cal Poly saw their surprising postseason run end in a 3-0 sweep at Kentucky (25-19, 25-18, 25-7) in an NCAA Regional Semifinal.

Lizzie Carr had 11 kills for the Wildcats(28-2) who advance to the Regional Final versus Creighton on Saturday.

The Wildcats defense was the story as they held the Mustangs to a .114 hitting percentage and Cal Poly had 19 hitting errors.

Cal Pol ends the season at 27-8 with NCAA Tournament upset wins against BYU and USC.

The Mustangs were the only unseeded team to reach the Sweet 16.

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BOSTON, Mass. (KEYT) – On Thursday, a federal court ruled in favor of a coalition of states, including California, and restored funding cut by the Trump Administration earlier this year for a program that issued grants to projects intended to limit the financial impact of natural disasters before they happen.

The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program was signed into law by President Trump as part of the Disaster Recovery Reform Act of 2018 to fund local mitigation projects nationwide.

The BRIC program invested a total of $5 billion into resiliency projects across the country since its passage and every dollar spent through the project is estimated to have saved between $6 and $13 in damages, clean up costs, and economic impact detailed a June letter from members of Congress opposed to the programs termination.

California is the largest beneficiary of the federal program and is uniquely at risk from future natural disasters noted a press release in July from the California Office of Attorney General.

"Democrats and Republicans in Congress recognized a simple fact: Preparing for disasters, instead of just reacting to them, saves money and lives," stated Attorney General Bonta. "Yet in the name of cutting waste, fraud, and abuse, President Trump and his lackeys have once again jeopardized public safety with their indiscriminate slashing of pre-disaster mitigation funding. We’re taking them to court – not because we want to, but because we have to. As we continue to build a climate resilient California, we deserve a federal government that is a partner, not a roadblock in our efforts – and that’s exactly what Congress intended."

On April 4 of this year, Cameron Hamilton, who was serving as the Senior Official Performing the Duties of Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) at the time, issued a press release stating that the federal emergency response agency was terminating the BRIC program and returning the grant program's funding to the Disaster Relief Fund or the U.S. Treasury.

Hamilton was fired from the position the following month, just one day after telling the House Appropriations Committee, "I do not believe it is in the best interest the American people to eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency", a statement inconsistent with plans announced by the Trump Administration regarding the future of the federal emergency response agency.

"President Trump has been very clear since the beginning that he believes that FEMA and its response in many, many circumstances has failed the American people, and that FEMA, as it exists today, should be eliminated in empowering states to respond to disasters with federal government support," Department of Homeland Security Secretary Noem informed the House Appropriations Committee in May.

Your News Channel reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for comment in June as part of our coverage of the decision to eliminate the BRIC program and the following statement was provided in response:

"The BRIC program was yet another example of a wasteful and ineffective FEMA program.