Ontario

THURSDAY’S RESULTS

City Section

Carson 32, Wilmington Banning 19

Contreras 18, RFK Community 7

Contreras 33, Roybal 0

Foshay 34, Manual Arts 7

Franklin 37, Chatsworth 0

Fremont 30, Marquez 12

Garfield 12, Huntington Park 0

Granada Hills Kennedy 20, Birmingham 9

Hollywood 26, Bernstein 6

Hollywood 30, Mendez 0

Jefferson d. Los Angeles, forfeit

King/Drew 50, Gardena 0

Legacy 16, South Gate 14

Los Angeles Hamilton 20, Palisades 0

Los Angeles University 22, LACES 16

Narbonne 8, San Pedro 0

RFK Community 20, Roybal 13

Santee 25, West Adams 0

Venice 33, WISH Academy

Westchester 13, Fairfax 6

Southern Section

Agoura 24, Oaks Christian 14

Antelope Valley 6, Knight 0

Aquinas 59, Riverside Notre Dame 7

Brentwood 21, Burbank Providence 6

Burbank Burroughs 19, South Pasadena 0

Castaic 44, Golden valley 0

Culver City 14, Hawthorne 12

Eastside 53, Littlerock 7

Hart 27, Canyon Country Canyon 12

Lawndale 7, Inglewood 6

Newbury Park 36, Calabasas 0

North Torrance 13, Wiseburn-Da Vinci 6

Oxnard 53, Rio Mesa 0

Oxnard Pacifica 47, Del Sol 0

Palmdale 2, Lancaster 0

Pasadena Poly 39, Village Christian 34

Quartz Hill 19, Highland 12

Redondo Union 32, Mira Costa 0

Santa Ana Foothill 19, Brea Olinda 6

Santa Barbara 20, Channel Islands 2

Santa Paula 33, Hueneme 16

Sherman Oaks Notre Dame 54, Flintridge Sacred Heart 6

Sierra Canyon 46, Louisville 0

Simi Valley 26, Royal 14

South Torrance 50, West Torrance 0

Tesoro 50, Dana Hills 0

Woodbridge 47, El Toro 13

Intersectional

Saugus 45, Verdugo Hills 13

WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS

City Section

Arleta 63, Grant 0

Arleta 26, Grant 0

Collins Family 19, Smidt Tech 0

East Valley 47, AMIT 0

GALA 6, Los Angeles Marshall 0

Los Angeles Hamilton 19, Fairfax 13

Los Angeles Wilson 47, Monroe 6

Los Angeles Wilson 12, Panorama 6

Lincoln 27, Legacy 0

Orthopaedic 36, East College Prep 0

Panorama 49, Monroe 0

Rise Kohyang 40, Animo De La Hoya 13

San Fernando Arroyo 37, Reseda 7

SOCES 50, Valley Oaks CES 0

Stern 12, Camino Nuevo 0

Sun Valley Magnet 69, Valor Academy 0

VAAS 20, MSAR 0

Van Nuys 12, Immaculate Heart 0

Van Nuys 33, Chatsworth 0

Southern Section

Baldwin Park 30, Sierra Vista 7

Bell Gardens 45, Keppel 6

Bishop Amat 18, St. Paul 7

Bonita 19, Ayala 6

Cajon 34, Eastvale Roosevelt 12

California Military 61, United Christian Academy 0

Camarillo 33, Oxnard Pacifica 20

Century 39, Bolsa Grande 25

Cerritos 26, La Mirada 16

Chaminade 59, Flintridge Sacred Heart 26

Charter Oak 12, Hacienda Heights Wilson 0

Colony 48, Arlington 13

Compton 28, Dominguez 0

Compton Centennial 12, Compton Early College 6

Corona del Mar 23, Los Alamitos 13

Cypress 20, Anaheim Canyon 7

Don Lugo 33, Ontario 0

Downey 25, California 13

El Dorado 20, Sunny Hills 18

El Monte 6, Rosemead 0

El Rancho 34, Schurr 6

Etiwanda 19, Bishop Montgomery 6

Fountain Valley 43, Marina 0

Fullerton 14, Segerstrom 13

Gabrielino 33, South Pasadena 12

Gardena Serra 38, St. Mary’s Academy 6

Garden Grove 6, Laguna Hills 0

Garden Grove Pacifica 18, Santa Ana Foothill 12

Garden Grove Santiago 27, Savanna 0

Glenn 41, Whitney 0

Godinez 12, Buena Park 0

Hemet 20, West Valley 6

Highland Entrepreneur 28, Fontana Entrepreneur 0

Huntington Beach 18, Newport Harbor 6

Irvine University 8, Northwood 0

La Canada 12, Monrovia 7

Laguna Beach 12, Rosary 6

Lakewood 37, Los Angeles Jordan 18

La Serna 28, Gahr 8

Long Beach Poly 20, Millikan 6

Linfield Christian 19, Ontario Christian 6

Mission Viejo 20, Trabuco Hills 12

Montclair 19, Chaffey 12

Mountain View 24, Arroyo 0

Nogales 20, Garey 0

Ocean View 6, Katella 0

Orange 18, Loara 12

Palm Desert 19, Elsinore 13

Paramount 13, Artesia 6

Pomona 19, Edgewood 6

Redlands 28, La Sierra 8

Rio Hondo Prep 13, Westridge 6

Riverside Poly 14, Corona Santiago 7

Rowland 8, Covina 6

San Clemente 30, San Juan Hills 6

San Marino 12, Burbank Burroughs 6

Santa Ana Valley 6, Western 0

Sierra Canyon 40, Palos Verdes 12

Sonora 13, Villa Park 7

South El Monte 31, San Gabriel 14

St. Lucy’s 27, Ramona Convent 13

St. Margaret’s 45, Irvine 13

St. Monica 33, Animo Leadership 0

Temple City 24, Cantwell-Sacred heart 12

Troy 12, La Habra 7

Tustin 7, Costa Mesa 0

Valley View 24, Indio 13

Van Nuys 12, Immaculate Heart 0

Vasquez 56, PACS 0

Warren 59, Mayfair 0

West Covina 7, Northview 6

Western Christian 68, Vista Meridian 0

Westminster 2, Placentia Valencia 0

Westminster La Quinta 7, Los Amigos 0

Whittier 33, Oxford Academy 6

Woodbridge 19, Sage Hill 13

Woodcrest 22, Riverside Notre Dame 6

Workman 41, Bassett 0

Whittier 34, Oxford Academy 6

Yorba Linda 27, Crean Lutheran 19

Aug. 29 (UPI) — Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Saturday erected a massive sign saying “Lake Ontario — Now and Always” in a rebuke to President Donald Trump‘s move to rename the body of water Lake America.

The sign in Hamilton sits on the shores of Lake Ontario and measures 18 feet tall, nearly two stories. It also says in French, “Lac Ontario — Aujourd’hui et pour toujours.”

“I’m here on the shores of beautiful Lake Ontario, a crown jewel of our province and our country,” Ford said in a video statement posted on X. “You may have heard that President Trump is trying to rename this lake, all because he doesn’t like Ontario and Canada standing up for ourselves.”

“But let’s be serious,” he added. “Long before President Trump, this lake was called Lake Ontario, and long after President Trump is gone, it will still be called Lake Ontario.”

Trump on Thursday signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario amid a trade dispute with Canada.

He called Canada “entitled” and repeated claims that the country has ripped off the United States for years.

Canadian Prime Minister said it would be called Lake Ontario “now and always.”

J. Conrad Sence, president of Seneca Nation, said, “The president cannot assert ownership over our culture or erase it through irresponsible political action.”

“His order should be rescinded and the name Lake Ontario should be left as it is, reflective of the Seneca people, other Haudenosaunee nations and all Indigenous people surrounding the lake,” Seneca said in a statement shared with WIVB.

“To us, Lake Ontario is not a political pawn,” he added. “It does not separate the countries of the United States and Canada. It is all Indigenous land, which has been occupied by Indigenous people since time immemorial.”

Aug. 28 (UPI) — The leader of the Seneca Nation on Friday called on President Donald Trump to reverse his decision to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America.

Trump on Thursday signed an executive order renaming the body of water amid a trade dispute with Canada.

J. Conrad Sence, president of Seneca Nation, said, “The president cannot assert ownership over our culture or erase it through irresponsible political action.”

“His order should be rescinded and the name Lake Ontario should be left as it is, reflective of the Seneca people, other Haudenosaunee nations and all Indigenous people surrounding the lake,” Seneca said in a statement shared with WIVB.

“To us, Lake Ontario is not a political pawn,” he added. “It does not separate the countries of the United States and Canada. It is all Indigenous land, which has been occupied by Indigenous people since time immemorial.”

Jérôme Marty, executive director at the International Association for Great Lakes Research, said the lake was named by indigenous people.

“They gave the name of Lake Ontario, and then this name was then used to give the name of the province of Ontario, so it’s certainly not the province of Ontario that gave the name of the Lake Ontario, but it’s the opposite,” Marty told WIVB. “It’s prior to Canada, the creation of the United States, it’s been there for a really, really long time.”

Conrad told WGRZ the people of the region will continue to call it Lake Ontario, and urged others to do the same.

In a statement, a White House spokesperson pushed back against the criticism.

“As the president said yesterday, the majority of the great lake’s volume sits in United States territory,” the spokesperson told WIVB. “Thanks to President Trump’s bold action, its name will now reflect its place in America and her heritage.”

Lake Ontario is called sga:nyodai:yoh in the Seneca language, meaning “beautiful lake,” WGRZ reported.

Trump has also changed the name of Alaska’s Mount Denali, an indigenous name, to Mount McKinley after the 25th president of the United States.

He also renamed the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America.

WASHINGTON — President Trump said Thursday he is renaming Lake Ontario to be known as “Lake America” in the United States as he exacerbates his trade war with Canada.

The Republican president signed an executive order directing the Interior Department to update the lake’s name in the U.S. geographic naming service. Trump cannot force Canada to follow his preferred naming convention, however.

Trump has been floating the idea of the name change in recent days as the U.S. announced it was imposing 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods over the weekend after talks between the countries broke down. Trump has been needling America’s northern neighbor since he returned to the White House last year, suggesting the ally with whom the U.S. once had warm relations instead should be absorbed as the 51st state.

Canada responded to Trump’s import taxes this week by imposing retaliatory tariffs on $20 billion worth of American goods, including steel, dairy products, appliances and farm equipment.

Trump, who signed the order as he was sitting at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, had a large sign behind him propped on a stand with a map of the Great Lakes. Over Lake Ontario, in big red letters, the map read “Lake America.”

On the other side of the president was another map with the words, “MAKING THE GREAT LAKES EVEN GREATER.”

The lake is one of multiple Great Lakes that the U.S. and Canada share borders along.

The office of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

There is no single international body that determines names of international bodies of water, and Trump has wide latitude over how the U.S. government recognizes geographic places and landmarks.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who has traded insults with Trump, this week brushed aside the prospect of Trump changing the lake’s name as “a lot of rhetoric.”

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Huron Indigenous people’s word “oniatarí:io,” that means “lake of shining waters.” The province of Ontario, founded in 1867, took its name from the lake.

Trump said that while his action was not meant to send any particular geopolitical message, “Canada’s been ripping us off for a long time” on trade and military issues.

“They wanted to be treated like a state and they’re not a state,” the president said. “We just can’t do that anymore.”

“We love the people of Canada,” Trump added. “I don’t think their representatives do an appropriate job. Maybe they’ll change. I really don’t know. It doesn’t make much difference.”

The move is reminiscent of his move last year to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.”

Trump scribbled his name with a Sharpie pen on the executive order, then held it up for the cameras, offering, “And we filed all the necessary papers, documents, everything else.”

“We’ve notified all of the various people that we have to notify. So, we’ve done everything that you have to do,” he said. “And this is official, effective immediately.”

The executive order Trump signed shows that the changes, in fact, are supposed to be made within 30 days.

He also suggested his push to rename bodies of water may not be finished.

“So, if you think about it, we have a gulf and we have a lake. Now, all we need is an ocean,” Trump said. “So maybe we’ll have to change the name of the Atlantic and or the Pacific. Maybe we’ll change them.”

Price and Weissert write for the Associated Press. AP writer Rob Gillies in Toronto contributed to this report.

Aug. 27 (UPI) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America” after his dispute with Canada over tariffs last week.

Trump threatened to rename the lake Tuesday on Truth Social, saying, “The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don’t expect to be doing much business with Ontario any longer.”

“We’re going to be changing the name of Lake Ontario, effective immediately, to Lake America,” the president said just before signing the order.

In the Oval Office, a reporter asked what message he was trying to send with the renaming.

“No message,” he said. “As you know, Canada has been ripping us off for a long time on trade, very, very sadly. Even the military. You know, we defend Canada for nothing.”

Canada is a founding member of NATO.

The order says that within 30 days, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum will update the Geographic Names Information System. The GNIS works with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to standardize geographic names for federal use.

Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and Mount Denali to Mount McKinley on his first day in office in 2025. He can’t force other countries or private entities to use the new names, but he can force the federal government to.

Because it’s an international boundary water, Canada and the U.S. jointly manage Lake Ontario through the International Joint Commission under the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909.