Monday’s prep baseball and softball scores
Baseball Aquinas 3, Linfield Christian 1Arcadia 3, Damien 1Arleta 14, Van Nuys 8Ayala 5, Glendora 0Beaumont 6, Citrus Valley 5Bellflower 13, Dominguez 1Bishop Amat 4,…
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Prep Rally: Witness something you may never see again
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Prep sports roundup: Birmingham to face El Camino Real for title
It’s happening again. One of the best sports rivalries in the City Section — Birmingham versus El Camino Real in boys soccer — will be…
Prep Rally: Basketball championship week loaded with big matchups
Hi, and welcome to another edition of Prep Rally. My name is Eric Sondheimer. It’s championship week in high school basketball. Let’s examine the big…
Prep sports roundup: Harvard-Westlake defeats St. John Bosco
It was way back in early November when The Times’ preseason basketball rankings came out with St. John Bosco ranked No. 1 and Harvard-Westlake No.…
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Sierra Canyon (29-1) and Etiwanda (27-3) continue on their collision course to meeting for the Southern Section Open Division girls’ basketball championship. They are each…
Prep baseball: Westlake’s Dylan Volantis shows off nasty stuff in win
Whether he’s in the pool playing water polo as a goalie or on the mound pitching, 6-foot-6 Westlake senior Dylan Volantis is one impressive athlete.…
Prep basketball: Harvard-Westlake routs Sierra Canyon
Stuck behind a player headed to USC, Trent Perry, and a player headed to Harvard, Robert Hinton, sophomore guard Amir Jones of Harvard-Westlake has been…
Prep Rally: Contreras High’s soccer team can inspire us all
Hi, and welcome to another edition of Prep Rally. My name is Eric Sondheimer. As a Los Angeles native, born and raised, there’s nothing more…
Prep baseball: Devin Gonor dazzles in debut to help ECR beat Crespi
Calm, cool, collective and possessing a nasty changeup. That’s the best way to describe a dazzling varsity baseball debut for El Camino Real junior left-hander…
Prep playoffs roundup: Sherman Oaks Notre Dame survives overtime thriller in Division 1 opener
Going on the road as the No. 1 seed in the Southern Section Division 1 basketball playoffs, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame (26-3) needed overtime before…
Prep Rally: Breaking down the high school basketball playoff pairings
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Why is Germany so low on PrEP and will HIV infections now rise?
A severe shortage of HIV prevention drugs in Germany has sparked fears of a spike in infections over coming months, with doctors urging government to…
Testing, treatment, PEP and PrEP are key in ending new cases of HIV by 2030
When Terry Higgins became one of the first named people in the UK to die from an AIDS-related illness in 1982, the virus didn’t even…
Prep Rally: High school baseball players and teams to watch
Hi, and welcome to another edition of Prep Rally. My name is Eric Sondheimer. Spring is near, so let’s start talking high school baseball. The…
US invests almost $700,000 into sex education for trans male youth
The US Department of Health and Human Services has awarded funding to a program to make sexual health education more inclusive to non-binary and trans…