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FRIDAY’S RESULTS

BOYS

CITY SECTION
QUARTERFINALS
DIVISION I

#1 Granada Hills 82, #9 LA Marshall 50

#5 LA Jordan at #4 Crenshaw, 1 p.m. Saturday

#3 Venice 58, #6 Sun Valley Poly 40

at #2 Chatsworth 67, #10 Rancho Dominguez 64

DIVISION II

#1 Bravo d. #8 MSCP, forfeit

#4 King/Drew 52, #12 Downtown Magnets 50

#6 Carson at #3 Sylmar

#10 Marquez 57, #2 Eagle Rock 50

DIVISION III

#1 RFK Community 49, #9 Orthopaedic 46

#5 Huntington Park 45, #4 Hollywood 36

#3 SOCES 84, #6 Foshay 64

#10 Verdugo Hills 59, #2 Los Angeles 58

Note: Semifinals Feb. 21-22; Finals Feb. 27-28.

SECOND ROUND

DIVISION IV

#1 East Valley 73, #16 Jefferson 47

#8 Hawkins 73, #9 Mendez 18

#5 San Fernando 71, #12 Animo Robinson 65

#4 Gardena 65, #20 USC-MAE 60

#3 Bell 53, #14 West Adams 41

#6 Angelou 56, #11 Alliance Marine-Innovation 27

#7 Contreras 64, #10 Animo Watts 50

#2 Franklin 74, #15 New West Charter 37

DIVISION V

#17 Central City Value at #1 Van Nuys

#8 Legacy 58, #9 Sotomayor 43

#21 Camino Nuevo 56, #5 Stella 29

#13 Magnolia Science Academy 55, #4 Sun Valley Magnet 47

#19 Santee 78, #3 Vaughn 56

#11 Torres 69, #6 Animo Venice 39

#7 Monroe 61, #10 East College Prep 39

#2 Canoga Park 57, #18 Chavez 45

Note: Quarterfinals Feb. 18; Semifinals Feb. 20; Finals Feb. 27-28.

SOUTHERN SECTION

SECOND ROUND

OPEN DIVISION

Pool A

#9 Crespi 82, #8 Corona del Mar 70

Pool B

#7 Harvard-Westlake 67, #10 Damien 62

Pool C

#6 Corona Centennial 74, #11 Etiwanda 48

Pool D

#12 La Mirada 56, #5 St. John Bosco 53

Note: Third round pool play games Tuesday at higher seeds; Quarterfinals Feb. 20; Semifinals Feb. 24; Finals Feb. 28 at Toyota Arena.

DIVISION 1

#1 Crean Lutheran 87, Corona Santiago 80

#9 Village Christian 67, #8 Mira Costa 66

#12 Millikan 79, Windward 75

Rancho Christian 94, Cypress 82

#3 Inglewood 103, St. Bernard 92

Fairmont Prep 60, #6 Brentwood 57

#7 Rolling Hills Prep 63, Orange Lutheran 52

#2 JSerra 75, Loyola 46

DIVISION 2

#1 Bishop Amat 81, Chino Hills 74

#8 Anaheim Canyon 70, Oxnard 67

#12 Servite at #5 Eastvale Roosevelt, Saturday

Edison 58, Valencia 56

#3 Mater Dei 85, #14 Westlake 59

#11 El Dorado 66, Leuzinger 61

#7 Rancho Verde 84, #10 San Marcos 69

#2 Hesperia 77, #15 Elsinore 62

DIVISION 3

#16 Ontario Christian 54, San Marino 52

#8 Murrieta Mesa 88, #9 Temecula Valley 67

Warren 64, Long Beach Wilson 61

Golden Valley 61, Los Altos 54

#3 Alta Loma 65, Ayala 56

Aliso Niguel 87, #11 Glendora 73

#10 Gahr 56, #7 Aquinas 42

#15 Woodbridge 44, Eastside 39

DIVISION 4

#16 Blair 79, #1 Bonita 71

#9 Trabuco Hills 60, #8 Saugus 54

#12 Norte Vista 71, #5 Moorpark 69

Cathedral 56, #4 Summit 51

#3 Shalhevet 42, #14 Palm Springs 41

Long Beach Jordan 71, #6 Torrance 66

#7 Colony 57, #10 South Torrance 48

#2 Walnut 71, #15 Corona 70

DIVISION 5

#1 Gardena Serra 55, #16 Northwood 47

Rancho Mirage 87, #9 California 73

Oakwood 77, Beaumont 52

Vasquez 45, Adelanto 41

Pilibos 53, #14 Quartz Hill 47

Temple City 56, #6 Brea Olinda 50

#10 Verbum Dei 42, Rio Mesa 35

#15 San Juan Hills 75, Irvine 63

DIVISION 6

Placentia Valencia 65, #1 Hemet 63

#9 St. Bonaventure 54, Highland 43

#12 Ramona 52, #5 Pasadena Poly 35

#4 Montclair 64, #13 Fontana 63

Laguna Hills 88, #14 Carter 50

#11 Orange Vista 67, Valley View 63

#10 Buckley 72, Eisenhower 57

#15 Moreno Valley 49, #2 Troy 42

DIVISION 7

#16 Vista del Lago 50, #1 Tahquitz 45

#8 Canyon Country Canyon 60, Anaheim 52

#5 Salesian 58, Westminster La Quinta 51

Webb 74, #13 YULA 71

Riverside Notre Dame 59, Faith Baptist 48

#6 Rowland 45, #11 Norwalk 44

Rosemead 65, Santa Rosa Academy 47

#2 Rialto 67, #15 Segerstrom 53

DIVISION 8

#1 Excelsior Charter at Redlands Adventist, 6:30 p.m. Saturday

Twentynine Palms 51, #9 Bolsa Grande 45

#5 Victor Valley 88, #12 Trinity Classical Academy 54

#14 South El Monte 45, #3 Desert Christian Academy 41

#4 Barstow 58, Loara 55

#6 Coastal Christian 69, #11 Silver Valley 63

#10 Edgewood 63, #7 Big Bear 48

Dunn 64, #2 San Gabriel 56

DIVISION 9

Sherman Indian 48, #1 Bassett 36

#8 Colton 63, #9 Newbury Park Adventist 29

#5 Santa Maria Valley Christian 76, #12 Long Beach First Baptist 56

#13 Loma Linda Academy 65, #4 San Jacinto Valley 63

Samueli Academy 84, Grove School 49

#6 Santa Barbara Providence 49, #11 Santa Ana Valley 48

Pacific 58, #7 California Lutheran 50

#15 Mesrobian 80, #2 ACE 62

(Quarterfinals Feb. 17; Semifinals Feb. 20; Finals Feb. 27 or 28)

SATURDAY’S SCHEDULE

(All games at 7 p.m. unless noted)

GIRLS

CITY SECTION
QUARTERFINALS
DIVISION I

#9 Garfield at #1 El Camino Real, 2 p.m.

#5 Arleta at #4 Eagle Rock

#6 Grant at #3 San Pedro

#7 Verdugo Hills at #2 Granada Hills Kennedy

DIVISION II

#8 Larchmont Charter at #1 Harbor Teacher

#5 West Adams at #4 Triumph Charter

#11 South East at #3 Santee, 1 p.m.

#7 New West Charter at #2 North Hollywood

DIVISION III

#8 Diego Rivera at #1 Washington Prep

#5 Sun Valley Poly at #4 LA Marshall

#11 Animo Robinson at #3 San Fernando

#7 Crenshaw at #2 Gardena

Note: Semifinals Feb. 21; Finals Feb. 27-28.

SECOND ROUND

DIVISION IV

#16 Huntington Park at #1 Maywood CES

#9 Smidt Tech at #8 Magnolia Science Academy

#12 Wilmington Banning at #5 Foshay

#13 Lincoln at #4 LA Wilson

#19 Franklin at #3 WISH Academy

#11 Bravo at #6 Marquez

#10 Panorama at #7 Contreras

#18 South Gate vs. #2 Sun Valley Magnet at East Valley

DIVISION V

#17 Horace Mann UCLA at #1 LA Roosevelt

#9 Los Angeles at #8 Camino Nuevo

#12 Discovery at #5 Torres

#20 Sotomayor at #4 Chavez

#14 Animo Bunche at #3 Vaughn

#11 Monroe at #6 Lake Balboa College Prep

#23 Alliance Bloomfield / #10 Port of LA at #7 Aspire Ollin

#18 East College Prep at #2 Legacy

Note: Quarterfinals Feb. 19; Semifinals Feb. 21; Finals Feb. 27-28.

SOUTHERN SECTION

SECOND ROUND

OPEN DIVISION

Pool A

#9 Rancho Christian at #8 JSerra

Pool B

#10 Fairmont Prep at #7 Lakewood St. Joseph

Pool C

#11 Oak Park at #6 Corona Centennial

Pool D

#12 Redondo Union at #4 Mater Dei

Note: Third round pool play games Wednesday at higher seeds; Quarterfinals Feb. 21; Semifinals Feb. 24; Finals Feb. 28 at Toyota Arena.

DIVISION 1

#1 Ventura at Bishop Montgomery

#8 Flintridge Prep at Windward

#5 Valencia at Mira Costa

#4 Brentwood at Troy

#3 Moreno Valley at St. Bonaventure

#6 Orange Lutheran at Marlborough

#7 Villa Park at Santa Margarita

#2 La Salle at St. Anthony

DIVISION 2

#1 Glendora at Portola

#9 Saugus at Heritage

312 Summit at #5 Yucaipa

Camarillo at #13 South Torrance

#4 Rancho Cucamonga at Camarillo

#3 Crescenta Valley at #14 Chino Hills

Rolling Hills Prep vs. #11 San Clemente

#7 San Juan Hills at Dos Pueblos

#2 Rosary Academy at Riverside King

DIVISION 3

#1 Lynwood at Murrieta Valley

#8 St. Monica at Arcadia

#12 Trabuco Hills at #5 Segerstrom

#4 Oxnard at #13 Aliso Niguel

#14 Mark Keppel at El Modena

#6 Leuzinger at #11 Shadow Hills

#10 Riverside Poly at #7 St. Margaret’s

#2 Wiseburn-Da Vinci at Canyon Country Canyon

DIVISION 4

#1 Long Beach Jordan at Lancaster

#9 La Canada at #8 Yorba Linda

#5 Eastside at Gabrielino

Knight at Anaheim Canyon

#14 Ontario at #3 El Dorado

#6 Long Beach Wilson at Westlake

#7 Pasadena Poly at Shalhevet

#2 Marina at #15 Holy Martyrs

DIVISION 5

#1 Tesoro at #16 Sunny Hills

#9 Bishop Diego at Fullerton

#5 Fountain Valley at Torrance

#13 Godinez at Heritage Christian

#3 Santa Ana Foothill at Whitney

Oakwood at YULA

#10 Culver City at #7 Burbank Burroughs

#2 Western Christian at Carter

DIVISION 6

#16 San Jacinto at #1 Carpinteria

#9 Costa Mesa at Immaculate Heart

#5 Redlands at Savanna

#4 Palm Desert at #13 Santa Monica

#14 Notre Dame Academy at Hillcrest

#11 Liberty at Rowland

#7 Hart at #10 Sante Fe

Warren at Silver Valley

DIVISION 7

#16 Foothill Tech at #1 Fillmore

Capistrano Valley Christian vs. Laguna Hills

Desert Christian Academy at #5 Dominguez

#12 Rosemead at Desert Christian

Villanova Prep at Patriot

#14 Nogales at #3 Canoga Park AGBU

#6 Barstow at Ridgecrest Burroughs

La Palma Kennedy at Long Beach Poly

Garden Grove at Cajon

DIVISION 8

#1 Cobalt at Yucca Valley

University Prep vs. #8 Norwalk

#12 Coachella Valley at Orange

#4 Santa Ana Valley at #13 Riverside Notre Dame

Mesa Grande vs. #14 Schurr

#6 CAMS at #11 South El Monte

#7 Victor Valley vs. #10 Chadwick

#2 Riverside North at #15 Santa Monica Pacifica Christian

DIVISION 9

#1 NOVA Academy Early College at #16 Vista del Lago

#8 Santa Clarita Christian at #9 Victor Valley Christian

#12 Jurupa Hills at #5 Channel Islands

Desert Hot Springs vs. #4 Temple City

La Sierra at Faith Baptist

#6 Redlands Adventist at #11 Newport Christian

#10 Sierra Vista at #7 San Gabriel

Western at Santa Maria Valley Christian

(Quarterfinals Feb. 18; Semifinals Feb. 21; Finals Feb. 27 or 28)

Sanne and Nick Gibson are two Wizz Air captains who first met at pilot school in Arizona and now fly for the same budget airline, managing to juggle life as parents with flying across Europe

This is your captain speaking. And this is your captain’s husband speaking.

Not the words you’d expect to hear as you buckle up ahead of a trip away, but ones that could crackle through the intercom of Sanne and Nick Gibson’s Wizz Air plane when they happen to be flying together.

The aviators are a vanishingly rare duo who don’t just work for the same company, but do exactly the same job. Sometimes in the same cockpit.

They are veteran captains for the Hungarian budget airline, both based at its UK base in Luton. They start work at the same time, jumping out of bed in the small hours, heading to the airport and skillfully flying a plane load of people to one of the 190 or so airports Wizz Air serves, before heading back to the UK again after a short 35-minute break.

Impressively, Sanne, 31, and her 33-year-old husband manage to make it back from Budapest, Corfu, Rome or wherever they happen to be going that day in time to pick up their 1.5-year-old daughter from nursery.

Having known each other for more than 10 years has its advantages when it comes to working together. When they first joined one another in the cockpit, the professional connection was instant.

“We didn’t have to understand each other first. I knew Sanne’s thought process before it came out of her mouth. I couldn’t have asked for a better co-pilot, because you know each other so well, you understand each other’s strengths and weaknesses,” Nick, from Leeds, explained.

It seems to be true what they (might) say: couples that fly together, stay together.

Sanne and Nick’s soaring romance began in 2015 when they met at pilot school in Arizona. “Away from the prying eyes of parents,” for the first time and beneath the scorching desert sun, the Yorkshire lad and Dutch woman hit it off one evening around a pool after a hard day’s flying.

They exchanged bucket lists, Nick impressing Sanne with boasts of a police ride-along he’d secured in a chance encounter with a cop.

Wings earned, what had remained a friendship in the US blossomed into a romance in the UK, where Nick took Sanne for her first Nando’s on their first date. From then, they may well have been inseparable – had the fast-paced, demanding life of a young pilot not got in the way.

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He scored a job in Munich, and she in Strasbourg, meaning they were a two-hour drive apart. When Sanne later landed a gig in Toulouse, Nick managed to transfer to Bristol so he could do night layovers in the French city.

And then, when Sanne secured a job at Wizz Air in 2017 and Nick the year after, the couple had achieved their ambition of working from the same base for the first time. “I know other people in this job had been at it for ten years trying to get to the same place,” Nick explained.

On his very first flight as a captain, Sanne was there alongside Nick as his co-pilot.

“Sometimes I have to pinch myself that we live together. And we get home every night. I am so lucky,” Sanne said.

The couple’s rotas are aligned, meaning they both work five days on and then four days off. They have permanent, live-in childcare for five days when they’re at work – something they say is crucial to them getting enough sleep to be ready to fly.

“The mum guilt is a real thing, but I think it’s a really important thing to keep going. Flying is a perishable skill; if you don’t fly, you lose it. It’s not like riding a bike. I remember that first takeoff after maternity leave, I was halfway down the runway before I got my head in the game,” Sanne said.

While Nick and Sanne do fly together, they don’t do so all the time. In fact, it’s a chance when they do end up in the same cockpit. “We don’t push for it, but it is quite nice. It was just us, no daughter, no phones. We just sat there and had a chat,” Nick said.

Both are quick to note that they’ve never had a domestic while behind the controls, despite Sanne noticing that Nick does sometimes make a loud whistling sound into the microphone when he’s flying.

They also resist doing a ‘his and hers’ bit to the cabin over the intercom, for fear it’d freak out passengers concerned that they aren’t taking their jobs seriously enough.

Looking to the future, the husband and wife won’t be flying together anytime soon. Because Sanne is due to give birth just before Valentine’s Day.

But after six months of maternity leave, they’ll both be back in the cockpit, jetting off to somewhere sunny together.

Do you have a story to share? Email webtravel@reachplc.com

When the Justice Department released an additional 3 million pages of documents related to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein at the end of January, ARTnews unearthed and published excerpts from dozens of emails between Epstein and David A. Ross, a former director of the Whitney Museum of American Art who started his career in the 1970s as deputy director and curator of video art at the Long Beach Museum of Art.

Ross, who served as the chair of the MFA art practice program at New York’s School of Visual Arts since 2009, promptly resigned.

If the emails had been less damning, the revelation of Ross’ connection to Epstein might have played out differently, but that was not the case. In one letter, dated Oct. 1, 2009, Epstein wrote to Ross that Roman Polanski’s attorney was coming to see him and that he was considering funding an exhibit titled, “Statutory.”

“Girls and boys ages 14 – 25, where they look nothing like their true ages,” Epstein wrote. “Juvenile mug shots, photo shop, make up. Some people go to prison because they can’t tell true age. Controversial. Fun. Maybe it should be a web page with hits, tallied.”

“You are incredible,” Ross wrote back. “This would be a very [sic] owerful and freaky book. Do you know that total porno commercial kiddie picture of Brooke Sheilds that Richard Prince appropriated for an exhibition in the early 1980’s?”

Epstein replied in the affirmative to Ross’ reference to a Prince photo titled, “Spiritual America,” which appropriated a 1976 photo of a naked, 10-year-old Shields taken by commercial photographer Gary Gross.

“They closed it off in the London show,” Epstein noted.

Ross also expressed sympathy for Epstein’s legal travails in 2009 following a 13-month sentence he served in Florida after pleading guilty to reduced state charges of procuring a minor for prostitution.

“Glad the nightmare is over, Jeffrey,” Ross wrote. “It was an undeserved punishment foisted upon you by jealous creeps.”

In an email to ARTnews, Ross expressed remorse that he “fell for” Epstein’s lies.

“Like many he supported with arts and education patronage, I profoundly regret that I was taken in by his story,” Ross wrote. “I continue to be appalled by his crimes and remain deeply concerned for its many victims.”

Ross noted that he first met Epstein when he was director of the Whitney in the mid-1990s. Ross also served as director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.

“I knew him as a wealthy patron and a collector, and it was part of my job to befriend people who had the capacity and interest in supporting the museum,” Ross wrote, adding that when Epstein was jailed in 2008, he told Ross that it was a political “frame-up” resulting from his support for former President Bill Clinton. Ross said he believed him.

It seems lots of men believed Epstein. Meanwhile, behind all the power lunches, private plane rides and callous late-night emails, far too many women and girls suffered.

I’m Arts editor Jessica Gelt with your arts and culture news for the week.

On our radar

Michael Feinstein and the Carnegie Hall Ensemble will perform Valentine’s Day at Segerstrom Hall in Costa Mesa.

(Segerstrom Center for the Arts)

Michael Feinstein: A Broadway Valentine
The singer, musician, conductor and stalwart proponent of the Great American Songbook celebrates the holiday of the heart with the Carnegie Hall Ensemble. Timeless love songs and lush orchestrations seem like a perfect way to spend the evening.
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Segerstrom Hall, 300 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. scfta.org

A detail of miniature “sportraits” from Lyndon J. Barrois, Sr.’s exhibit, “Fútbol Is Life,” at LACMA.

(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Fútbol Is Life: Animated Sportraits
GOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAL! Ahead of this summer’s World Cup, with L.A. as one of 16 host cities across the U.S., Canada and Mexico, arrives this unique exhibition celebrating the beautiful game. Portraying transcendent moments in men’s and women’s soccer, award‑winning animator and visual effects artist Lyndon  J. Barrois, Sr. fashions engrossing scenes in miniature from gum wrappers, glue, paint and other materials. The handmade sculptures and stop-motion animations on display bring together the visual and emotional elements that make it the world’s most popular sport. Jasmine Mendez spoke to Barrois about his process and Times photographer Allen J. Schaben provides more marvelous images.
Sunday through July 12. LACMA Resnick Pavilion, 5905 Wilshire Blvd. lacma.org

The Academy Museum’s exhibition “Studio Ghibli’s Ponyo” opens Saturday.

(Nibariki-GNDHDDT)

Studio Ghibli’s Ponyo
A deep dive into Hayao Miyazaki’s 2008 animated film about a goldfish who longs to be human honors the traditional hand-drawn animation processes used by its creators. The exhibition includes more than a hundred items handpicked by Studio Ghibli: art boards, posters, a Studio Ghibli animation desk and original hand drawings by Miyazaki and others. “Because writer-director Miyazaki very much follows his own star when it comes to story, narratives like ‘Ponyo’ remind you of no one else’s tales,” wrote Times film critic Kenneth Turan upon the film’s U.S. release. “Not only do they offer up fantastical images, like Ponyo running on the crests of waves, they make deep connections to our emotions without following conventional paths, using the logic of dreams to excellent effect.”
Screening 2:30 p.m. Saturday; exhibition, Saturday through Jan. 10. Academy Museum, 6067 Wilshire Blvd. academymuseum.org

The week ahead: A curated calendar

FRIDAY
Nitrate Festival
The American Cinematheque’s annual tribute to the beautiful, if highly volatile, film format that was used from the 1890s until the 1950s, offers audiences the rare opportunity to see this work on the big screen. The festival opens with the 1947 noir “Dead Reckoning,” starring Humphrey Bogart and directed by John Cromwell, and continues with William Wyler’s “The Good Fairy” (1935), Gregory La Cava’s “My Man Godfrey” (1936), William Wellman’s “Nothing Sacred” (1937), Mikio Naruse’s “Wife! Be Like A Rose!” (1935), David Lean’s “Blithe Spirit” (1945) and Cecil B. DeMille’s “Samson and Delilah” (1949).
7 p.m. Friday, through Feb. 22. Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. americancinematheque.com

Foursome
Matthew Scott Montgomery, Adrián Javier, Jimin Moon and Calvin Seabrooks star in Montgomery’s comedy about a quartet of queer friends who reunite for an emotionally fraught, desire-filled weekend at a cabin. Directed by Tom DeTrinis.
Through March 23. Atwater Village Theatre, 3269 Casitas Ave. iamatheatre.com

Guards at the Taj
Two sentries at the Taj Mahal have their friendship, faith and sense of duty challenged in Rajiv Joseph’s play set centuries in the past with contemporary resonance. Behzad Dabu and Kausar Mohammed star. Directed by Behzad Dabu.
8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 2 and 7 p.m. Sundays, through Feb. 22
El Portal Theatre, 5269 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood elportaltheatre.com

Alfredo Rodriguez, left, and Pedrito Martinez will perform Friday at the Nimoy.

(Anna Webber)

Alfredo Rodriguez and Pedrito Martinez
Pianist Rodriguez and percussionist-vocalist Martinez perform traditional Cuban songs, original compositions and some surprises.
8 p.m. UCLA Nimoy Theater, 1262 Westwood Blvd. cap.ucla.edu

Incitation To The Dance
A young man upends an older gay couple’s relationship in the world premiere of writer-director Michael Van Duzer’s dark comedy.
Through March 15. Theatre West, 3333 Cahuenga Blvd. https://theatrewest.org/on-stage/incitation-to-the-dance

Roksana Pirouzmand
The Iranian-born, L.A.-based multidisciplinary artist’s solo exhibition “everything was once something else” explores the contrasting properties forged by earth and fire through clay and metal works.
Through April 11. Oxy Arts, 4757 York Blvd. oxyarts.oxy.edu

SATURDAY
Attune 1.0
A free public light- and sound-art experience happens simultaneously across L.A. County locations presented by NXT Art Foundations with community support.
4:30-7:30 p.m. Barnsdall Park, East Hollywood; Sycamore Grove Park, Northeast Los Angeles ; Jessie Brewer Jr. Park, Exposition Park; Jane and Bert Boeckmann Park, Porter Ranch; Hansen Dam, Lake View Terrace; Leimert Park, South Los Angeles; Wende Museum, Culver City; Promenade Square Park, Long Beach; Tongva Park, Santa Monica and Loma Alta Park, Altadena. nowartpublic.com

Desert Dreams and Coastal Currents
The exhibition tracks the concurrent emergent of artistic hubs in Southern California and the Southwest, featuring work by artists in areas such as Laguna Beach, and Taos and Santa Fe, N.M.
The Autry, 4700 Western Heritage Way, Griffith Park. theautry.org

Wally Hedrick
“Sex Politics Religion” is a two-venue retrospective of the Pasadena-born artist, who established himself in the burgeoning post-war San Francisco art scene. Hedrick eschewed “style” in favor of pursuing a vision including welded assemblage junk sculptures, Bauhausian abstraction, black monochromes, gestural figuration, graphic signage, pictographic diagrams and near-photorealism.
Through April 4. Parker Gallery, 6700 Melrose Ave.; The Box
805 Traction Ave., downtown L.A. parkergallery.com

Honour
The Ruskin’s grand opening on the Kaplan Stage features Joanna Murray-Smith’s drama on the precariousness of marriage, directed by Max Mayer and starring Marcia Cross, Matt Letscher, Ariana Afradi and Jude Mayer.
8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays, through March 22. Ruskin Group Theatre, 2800 Airport Ave., Santa Monica.

Artist Takashi Murakami.

(Shin Suzuki)

Takashi Murakami
The new solo exhibition “Hark Back to Ukiyo-e: Tracing Superflat to Japonisme’s Genesis” features 24 paintings by the Japanese artist.
4-7 p.m. opening, free and open to the public; exhibition continues through March 14. Perrotin, 5036. W Pico Blvd. perrotin.com

Mythical Creatures: The Stories We Carry
Immigrant narratives and pan-Asian mythology infuse this immersive exhibition featuring contemporary artists including Dinh Q. Lê, Dominique Fung, Lily Honglei, Greg Ito, Wendy Park, Momoko Schafer, Kyungmi Shin, Sanjay Vora and Lauren YS. Conceived by L.A.-based Korean American artist and muralist Dave Young Kim.
Through Sept. 6. USC Pacific Asia Museum, 46 N. Los Robles Ave. Pasadena. pacificasiamuseum.usc.edu

PASSION + MYSTERY
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, led by conductor Jaime Martín, celebrate Valentine’s Day weekend with Fauré’s “Pelléas et Mélisande” and Gernot Wolfgang‘s “Desert Wind,” and are joined by pianist Fazıl Say for Beethoven’s “Piano Concerto No. 3.”
7:30 p.m. Saturday. Colburn School, Zipper Hall, 200 S. Grand Ave., downtown L.A.; 4 p.m. Sunday, The Wallis, 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills. laco.org

Red Harlem
Four Black actors in 1932 Harlem are recruited by the Communist Party to make a film in the Soviet Union in Kimba Henderson’s drama based on true events. Directed by Bernadette Speakes.
Through March 15. Company of Angels, 1350 San Pablo St. companyofangels.org

Retro Romantics: An Academy Film Archive Trailer Show in 35mm
Vintage cinematic love stories unspool in their original abridged glory, seductively beckoning you to the movies.
7:30 p.m. Academy Museum, 6067 Wilshire Blvd. academymuseum.org

SUNDAY
Black History Month at The Ebell
Soprano Gertrude Bradley performs a tribute to Joel Graham, accompanied by pianist Greg Schreiner in an African Americans for LA Opera recital; and Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles (ICYOLA) salutes the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in “I, Too, Sing America,” a nod to the Langston Hughes poem.
AALAO Recital, 12:30 p.m. Sunday; LA Voices: ICYOLA, 4:30 p.m. Sunday. Ebell of Los Angeles, 743 S. Lucerne Blvd. https://www.ebellofla.org/

Isidore String Quartet
The group performs “Brahms: the Admirer,” an exploration of the composer’s work alongside complementary pieces by Bach and Beethoven.
3:30 p.m. Caltech Beckman Auditorium, 332 S. Michigan Ave. Pasadena. colemanchambermusic.org

What Happened to Flamenco
Clap your hands as dancer and choreographer Fanny Ara brings the folkloric tradition to life.
7 p.m. Fountain Theatre, 5060 Fountain Ave. fountaintheatre.com

TUESDAY
Seth MacFarlane
The erstwhile animator, writer, producer, director, actor and comedian picks up the mic, backed by an orchestra, for a program dedicated to the music of Frank Sinatra.
8 p.m. Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave., downtown L.A. laphil.com/events

WEDNESDAY
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
Barry Pearl directs the long-running off-Broadway musical comedy revue on modern love, featuring book and lyrics by Joe DiPietro and music by Jimmy Roberts to open ICT’s 41st season.
Through March 8. International City Theatre, 330 E. Seaside Way, Long Beach. ictlongbeach.org

Patti LuPone
The Broadway star marks the 25th anniversary of her “Matters of the Heart,” which ran on Broadway and London’s West End and toured the globe.
8 p.m. Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Segerstrom Hall, 300 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. scfta.org

Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Can’t get to New Orleans for Mardi Gras? The Soraya brings it to the Valley via the deep roots of this legendary French Quarter ensemble.
8 p.m. The Saroya, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge. thesoraya.org

Emma Elizabeth Smith as Catherine of Aragon in The North American touring company of “Six.”

(Segerstrom Center for the Arts)

Six
The national tour of the Broadway musical by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, a modern pop take on the sextet of women who were the wives of Henry VIII.
Through March 9. Hollywood Pantages Theatre, 6233 Hollywood Blvd.; March 10-15. Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 300 Town Center Dr., Costa Mesa. sixonbroadway.com

THURSDAY
Compagnie Hervé Koubi: Sol Invictus
The French-Algerian choreographer’s dance troupe performs “Sol Invictus,” with a score featuring music by Swedish composer Mikael Karlsson, minimalist composer Steve Reich and digital composer Maxime Bodson.
7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday. February 19 – 21, 2026 The Wallis, 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd. Beverly Hills. thewallis.org

Culture news and the SoCal scene

The cast of “Brassroots District” performs on Sunday.

(Gabriella Angotti-Jones/For The Times)

Features columnist Todd Martens checked out “Brassroots District: LA ’74,” a piece of immersive theater he describes as “part concert, part participatory theater and part experiment, attempting to intermix an evening of dancing and jubilation with high-stakes drama. How it plays out is up to each audience member. Follow the cast, and uncover war tales and visions of how the underground music scene became a refuge for the LGBTQ+ community. Watch the band, and witness a concert almost torn apart as a group on the verge of releasing its debut album weighs community versus cold commerce. Or ignore it all to play dress-up and get a groove on to the music that never stops.”

The UCLA Hammer Museum has announced the winner of the $100,000 Mohn Award.

(Eric Staudenmaier)

Artist Ali Eyal, who grew up in Baghdad in the late 1990s and early 2000s during U.S. military operations in Iraq, is the recipient of the $100,000 Mohn Award, which honors artistic excellence, in conjunction with the Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A. 2025. In addition to the award money, the Hammer will produce a publication for Eyal. The Hammer also announced that sculptor Carl Cheng has been given the $25,000 Career Achievement Award; and that painter Greg Breda won the $25,000 Public Recognition Award.

The news out of the Kennedy Center continues to be grim. This week, Trump-appointed center president Richard Grenell sent an email to staffers informing them that significant cuts would be implemented when the center closes for renovations, beginning July 4. “Over the next few months, department heads and I will be evaluating the needs and making the decisions as to what these skeletal teams left in place during the facility closure and construction phase will look like,” Grenell wrote in the email obtained by The Times.

— Jessica Gelt

And last but not least

Want a giant stuffed mochi? So do I.

HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER PLAYOFFS

THURSDAY’S RESULTS

BOYS

CITY SECTION

OPEN DIVISION

Quarterfinals

#1 El Camino Real 1, #8 Wilmington Banning 0

#4 Palisades 2, #5 Bell 1

#6 Marquez 3, #3 Birmingham 3 (Marques wins 6-5 in shootout)

#2 South East 3, #7 Venice 0

Note: Semifinals Feb. 19 at higher seeds; Finals Feb. 27-28 at TBA.

DIVISION I

First Round

#17 King/Drew 2, #16 Sylmar 1

#13 Van Nuys 3, #20 Alliance Marine-Innovation 0

#19 LA Marshall 2, #14 Reseda 0

#15 Granada Hills Kennedy 2, #18 Eagle Rock 0

DIVISION II

First Round

#17 Canoga Park 3, #16 Contreras 2

#9 Santee 1, #24 Fairfax 0

#12 Arleta 1, #21 Animo Robinson 0

#20 Neuwirth Leadership 2, #13 Burton 1

#14 Taft 10, #19 Gertz-Ressler 0

#22 Elizabeth 9, #11 Monroe 0 (Elizabeth wins 4-3 in shootout)

#23 Huntington Park 1, #10 Jefferson 1 (HP wins 6-5 in shootout)

#15 RFK Community 1, #18 USC Hybrid 0

DIVISION III

First Round

#16 Camino Nuevo 3, #17 West Adams 2

#9 Franklin 1, #24 CALS Early College 0

#12 North Hollywood 6, #21 Simon Tech 1

#13 Foshay 2, #20 Northridge Academy 2 (Foshay wins 4-3 in shootout)

#14 Hollywood 2, #19 University Prep Value 0

#11 Grant 1, #22 USC-MAE 0

#23 Sun Valley Magnet 3, #10 Bravo 2

#15 Bernstein 5, #18 Torres 2

DIVISION IV

First Round

#16 Smidt Tech 1, #17 Hawkins 1 (Smidt Tech wins in shootout)

#24 New Designs University Park 3, #9 Dymally 2

#12 MSCP 3, #21 Crenshaw 2

#13 Animo South LA 2, #20 Animo De La Hoya 0

#19 Lakeview Charter 2, #14 Rise Kohyang 2 (LC wins 10-9 in shootout)

#11 Triumph Charter 2, #22 Los Angeles 1

#10 Alliance Levine 3, #22 Washington Prep 2

#18 Port of LA 3, #15 Stern 1

Note: Second Round Feb. 18 at higher seeds; Quarterfinals Feb. 20 at higher seeds; Semifinals Feb. 25 at higher seeds; Finals Feb. 27-28 at TBA.

GIRLS

SOUTHERN SECTION

FIRST ROUND

Pool Play

#1 Santa Margarita , #8 Corona Santiago

#4 Oaks Christian , #5 Palos Verdes

#3 Mater Dei , #6 Huntington Beach

#2 Redondo Union , #7 JSerra

DIVISION 1

Westlake 3, Fairmont Prep 2

El Dorado 1, Los Alamitos 0

Rosary Academy 1, Thousand Oaks 1 (Rosary wins in shootout)

Great Oak 1, Aliso Niguel 0

San Juan Hills 1, Mira Costa 0

Orange Lutheran 4, Chino Hills 1

Newport Harbor 2, Chaminade 1

Moorpark 4, Murrieta Valley 1

Edison 2, Mission Viejo 0

Eastvale Roosevelt 5, Foothill 2

Etiwanda 2, Bishop Amat 1

Anaheim Canyon 3, Hart 2

Harvard-Westlake 3, San Clemente 1

Garden Grove Pacifica 1, Torrance 0

Capistrano Valley 3, Camarillo 2

Sherman Oaks Notre Dame 1, Glendora 0

DIVISION 2

Beckman 3, Brea Olinda 1

Ayala 3, Buena 0

Temecula Valley 2, Paraclete 1

Saugus 3, Laguna Beach 0

Crean Lutheran 2, West Ranch 0

Portola 2, Tesoro 0

Rancho Cucamonga 3, Downey 2

San Marino 2, Villa Park 1

St. Genevieve 2, Western Christian 1

Millikan 3, El Segundo 0

La Habra 1, Corona Centennial 0

Warren 5, Yorba Linda 4

Riverside King 2, South Torrance 2 (King wins 4-2 in shootout)

Alta Loma 4, El Toro 0

Bonita 3, Cypress 2

La Serna 2, Royal 1

DIVISION 3

Valencia 3, North Torrance 0

La Mirada 1, Dos Pueblos 0

Oxnard 2, Mayfield 0

Crescenta Valley 3, Montclair 2

Fullerton 1, Burbank Burroughs 1 (Fullerton wins 4-3 in shootout)

La Salle 1, Flintridge Sacred Heart 0

South Hills 0, Estancia 0 (South Hills wins 4-3 in shootout)

Paloma Valley 2, Northwood 1

Sage Hill 4, Norco 0

Quartz Hill 2, Brentwood 1

Costa Mesa 2, Ventura 1

La Canada 2, Long Beach Wilson 0

Santa Monica 1, Oak Hills 0

Flintridge Prep 1, Valley View 0

Citrus Valley 1, Don Lugo 0

Simi Valley 1, Notre Dame Academy 0

DIVISION 4

Patriot 1, Windward 0

Monrovia 2, Los Altos 0

Katella 3, Palm Desert 2

San Jacinto 4, Pasadena Poly 1

Temescal Canyon 3, Santa Fe 0

Granite Hills 4, Culver City 2

Shadow Hills 1, California 0

Arcadia 4, Carter 1

Tahquitz 5, Riverside Poly 2

Laguna Hills 2, Redlands 0

Immaculate Heart 2, Viewpoint 0

Redlands East Valley 1, Linfield Christian 0

Yucaipa 1, Orange County Pacifica Christian 0

Chino 5, Palm Springs 0

Arlington 1, Ontario Christian 0

Apple Valley 3, Long Beach Poly 1

DIVISION 5

Ramona 2, Indio 1

Anaheim 2, Fillmore 1

Artesia 1, Summit 0

Channel Islands 5, Century 1

Rancho Verde 2, Maranatha 1

Grand Terrace 3, Arrowhead Christian 2

Carpinteria 3, Burbank 0

Coachella Valley 5, Cerritos 2

La Palma Kennedy 2, San Gorgonio 1

Santa Paula 3, Charter Oak 2

Sultana 1, Liberty 0

Lakewood 2, Rowland 0

Del Sol 2, Northview 1

Cerritos Valley Christian 2, Godinez 1

Alemany 1, Whittier Christian 0

El Rancho 3, Capistrano Valley Christian 1

DIVISION 6

Beverly Hills 1, Knight 1 (Beverly Hills wins in shootout)

Norte Vista 2, Alhambra 1

Palmdale Aerospace Academy 3, Fontana 2

Mark Keppel 1, Perris 0

Hemet 4, Cobalt 2

Arroyo Valley 3, Woodcrest Christian 2

Riverside Prep 5, Gahr 0

Segerstrom 2, Palmdale 0

Mayfair 2, Littlerock 1

Thacher 1, Orange Vista 1 (Thacher wins 3-1 in shootout)

St. Monica 2, Rim of the World 1

Grace 2, Village Christian 0

DIVISION 7

Nuview Bridge 3, Mary Star 1

Desert Mirage 1, Garey 0

de Toledo 6, San Jacinto Leadership 5

Savanna 3, Westminster La Quinta 0

Animo Leadership 3, Jurupa Hills 1

Santa Monica Pacifica Christian 1, University Prep 0

Ganesha 5, St. Mary’s Academy 2

South El Monte 5, Hawthorne 0

Cate 4, Pioneer 0

Desert Christian Academy 1, Bellflower 0

Santa Rosa Academy 4, AGBU 0

Saddleback 1, Garden Grove Santiago 0

San Gabriel 2, St. Paul 0

Pasadena Marshall 1, Western 0

Oakwood 3, Baldwin Park 0

Azusa 3, Academy for Academic Excellence 0

DIVISION 8

CAMS 6, Academy of Careers & Exploration 0

Shalhevet 2, Bolsa Grande 0

Hawthorne MSA 2, Compton Early College 1

Mountain View 2, Bishop Diego 0

Milken 3, Loma Linda Academy 0

Vistamar 2, Palmdale Academy Charter 0

Buckley 3, Wildomar Cornerstone Christian 0

Indian Springs 1, Laguna Blanca 0

Environmental Charter 4, Silver Valley 0

Rosemead 2, Lennox Academy 1

Big Bear 6, Coast Union 1

Bishop Conaty Loreto 5, Redlands Adventist 2

Miller 2, Edgewood 1

Downey Calvary Chapel 2, Sacred Heart LA 0

Vasquez 2, San Bernardino 1

Webb 8, Workman 0

Note: Quarterfinals Feb. 18; Semifinals Feb. 21; Finals Feb. 27 or 28.

FRIDAY’S SCHEDULE

(Games at 3 p.m. unless noted)

BOYS

SOUTHERN SECTION

ROUND 2

OPEN DIVISION

Pool Play

#8 Orange Lutheran at #1 Palos Verdes, 3:15 p.m.

#5 Cathedral at #4 Placentia Valencia, 5 p.m.

#6 JSerra at #3 Redondo Union, 5 p.m.

#7 Mira Costa at #2 Mater Dei, 5 p.m.

DIVISION 1

Anaheim Canyon at Arlington, 6 p.m.

Servite at Palm Desert

Santa Monica at Eastvale Roosevelt

Rancho Mirage at Sultana, 5 p.m.

El Toro at Sunny Hills

Fontana at Edison, 5 p.m.

Rialto at El Segundo, 6 p.m.

DIVISION 2

Shadow Hills at Downey

El Dorado at Millikan

Oak Hills at Newport Harbor, 5 p.m.

Crossroads at Tesoro, 5 p.m.

Bishop Amat at Ayala, 5 p.m.

Culver City at Norte Vista

Patriot at Temecula Valley, 5 p.m.

Fullerton at Citrus Hill

DIVISION 3

West Torrance at Buena Park

Los Alamitos at Los Altos

La Serna at Palmdale

Godinez at Hillcrest, 5 p.m.

Channel Islands at Murrieta Valley

Oxnard at Littlerock

Calabasas at Claremont, 5 p.m.

Yorba Linda at Knight, 5 p.m.

DIVISION 4

Granite Hills at Santa Fe

Sherman Oaks Notre Dame at Cypress, 5 p.m.

Estancia at Sierra Vista

Sage Hill at Indian Springs, 5 p.m.

Irvine University at San Bernardino

Montebello at Santa Paula, 5 p.m.

Lakewood at Arroyo, 5 p.m.

Baldwin Park at Oxnard Pacifica, 5 p.m.

DIVISION 5

Santa Ana Valley at Linfield Christian

Windward at Crespi, 5 p.m.

Mountain View at Norwalk, 5 p.m.

Golden Valley at San Marcos, 5 p.m.

Esperanza at Pasadena, 6:15 p.m.

Magnolia at Tustin

Bellflower at Westlake, 7 p.m. at Cal Lutheran University

Camarillo at Ventura, 5 p.m.

DIVISION 6

Cate at Viewpoint

Temescal Canyon at Bishop Montgomery

Beverly Hills at Coachella Valley

Animo Leadership at South Pasadena, 5 p.m.

Vista del Lago at Elsinore

Cerritos Valley Christian at Samueli Academy

Ontario Christian at Indio, 5 p.m.

Lakeside at Tahquitz, 5 p.m.

DIVISION 7

Artesia at Maranatha, 5 p.m.

Western Christian at Cerritos

Laguna Blanca at Pasadena Poly

Edgewood at Milken

Glenn at Oakwood, 4:30 p.m. at Valley College

Ganesha vs. Cristo Rey OC at Dan Young Sports Complex

Palmdale Academic at Temple City 3:30 p.m.

Pioneer at St. Anthony

DIVISION 8

San Jacinto Leadership at Burbank Providence, 12 p.m.

Foothill Tech vs. Fairmont Prep at Great Park, Field #7

Orange County Pacifica Christian at Don Bosco Tech

Le Lycée at Bishop Diego, 1 p.m.

Environmental Charter at Rio Hondo Prep

Buckley vs. Holy Martyrs at Valley United Sports Complex

Redlands Adventist vs. de Toledo, 1 p.m. at Whitsett Soccer Field #3

Big Bear at Thacher

Note: Quarterfinals Feb. 17; Semifinals Feb. 21; Finals Feb. 27 or 28.

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS
THURSDAY’S RESULTS

GIRLS
CITY SECTION
OPEN DIVISION
Quarterfinals
#1 Westchester 43, #8 King/Drew 38
#5 Venice 55, #4 Granada Hills 42
#3 LA Hamilton 70, #6 Cleveland 65
#2 Birmingham 75, #7 Palisades 39

DIVISION I
First Round
#1 El Camino Real 58, #16 RFK Community 39
#9 Garfield 48, #8 Taft 35
#5 Arleta 38, #12 Narbonne 22
#4 Eagle Rock 50, #13 Bernstein 26
#3 San Pedro 63, #14 Fairfax 29
#6 Grant 53, #11 LACES 27
#7 Verdugo Hills 66, #10 Carson 32
#2 Granada Hills Kennedy 77, #15 Chatsworth 29

DIVISION II
First Round
#1 Harbor Teacher 43, #16 Bell 36
#9 Larchmont Charter 37, #8 Gertz-Ressler 27
#5 West Adams 38, #12 Hollywood 31
#4 Triumph Charter 43, #13 MSCP 21
#3 Santee 77, #14 Sylmar 39
#11 South East 48, #6 Northridge Academy 42
#7 New West Charter 53, #10 Hawkins 28
#2 North Hollywood 70, #15 Animo Watts 19

DIVISION III
First Round
#1 Washington Pep 65, #16 AMIT 11
#8 Diego Rivera 51, #9 Central City Value 24
#5 Sun Valley Poly 45, #12 USC Hybrid 35
#4 LA Marshall 45, #13 Van Nuys 31
#3 San Fernando 47, #14 SOCES 40
#11 Animo Robinson 26, #6 USC-MAE 22
#7 Crenshaw 60, #10 Stern 18
#2 Gardena 51, #15 Mendez 21

DIVISION IV
First Round
#16 Huntington Park 18, #17 Angelou 15
#13 Lincoln 49, #20 Roybal 27
#19 Franklin 32, #14 Lakeview Charter 13
#18 South Gate 56, #15 Community Charter 30

DIVISION V
First Round
#17 Horace Mann UCLA 25, #16 VAAS 17
#9 Los Angeles 22, #24 Rancho Dominguez 18
#12 Discovery 11, #21 Stella 7
#20 Sotomayor 38, #13 Orthopaedic 21
#14 Animo Bunche 51, #19 Valor Academy 25
#11 Monroe 50, #23 Animo de La Hoya 15
#23 Alliance Bloomfield at #10 Port of LA
#18 East College Prep 47, #15 Annenberg 39

SOUTHERN SECTION
OPEN DIVISION
Pool Play
#1 Ontario Christian 122, #9 Rancho Christian 72
#2 Etiwanda 79, #10 Fairmont Prep 49
#3 Sierra Canyon 77, #11 Oak Park 51
#4 Sage Hill 74, #12 Redondo Union 47

DIVISION 1
First Round
#1 Ventura 59, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame 41
Bishop Montgomery 41, #16 Harvard-Westlake 38
Windward 56, #9 North Torrance 50
#8 Flintridge Prep 59, Rialto 44
#5 Valencia 76, Chino 44
Mira Costa 45, #12 Oak Hills 39
Troy 69, #13 Los Osos 57
#4 Brentwood 81, Alemany 56
#3 Moreno Valley 65, Village Christian 27
St. Bonaventure 43, #14 Thousand Oaks 37
Marlborough 55, #11 Beckman 46
#6 Orange Lutheran 56, West Torrance 35
#7 Villa Park 71, Palos Verdes 50
Santa Margarita 65, #10 Esperanza 54
St. Anthony 62, #15 Oaks Christian 37
#2 La Salle 62, Buena Park 39

DIVISION 2
First Round
#1 Glendora 60, Los Altos 45
Portola 64, #16 Paramount 41
#9 Saugus 64, Claremont 47
Heritage 58, #8 Chaparral 56
#5 Yucaipa 46, Bonita 39
#12 Summit 63, Campbell Hall 59
Camarillo 54, #13 South Torrance 32
#4 Rancho Cucamonga 45, Crossroads 42
#3 Crescenta Valley 70, Hacienda Heights Wilson 46
#14 Chino Hills 42, Gardena Serra 37
#11 San Clemente 52, San Marcos 39
Sonora at #6 Rolling Hills Prep
#7 San Juan Hills 53, Orange County Pacifica Christian 47
Dos Pueblos 53, #10 Los Alamitos 43
Riverside King 49, #15 Murrieta Mesa 41
#2 Rosary Academy 65, Trinity Classical Academy 36

DIVISION 3
First Round
#1 Lynwood 71, El Toro 31
Murrieta Valley 58, #16 Cerritos 42
Arcadia 62, #9 Bishop Amat 57
#8 St. Monica 66, CSDR 59
#5 Segerstrom 50, South Hills 30
#12 Trabuco Hills 70, La Serna 46
#13 Aliso Niguel 49, Rio Mesa 46
#4 Oxnard 62, Cypress 53
El Modena 53, #3 Aquinas 33
#14 Mark Keppel 48, Downey 30
#11 Shadow Hills 60, Ramona 41
#6 Leuzinger 61, Lawndale 52
#7 St. Margaret’s 46, San Dimas 29
#10 Riverside Poly 56, Arrowhead Christian 36
Canyon Country Canyon 75, #15 Vista Murrieta 52
#2 Wiseburn-Da Vinci 52, Huntington Beach 44

DIVISION 4
First Round
#1 Long Beach Jordan 47, Eastvale Roosevelt 32
Lancaster 71, #16 South Pasadena 33
#9 La Canada 62, Viewpoint 38
#8 Yorba Linda 43, Quartz Hill 38
#5 Eastside 43, Xavier Prep 39
Gabrielino 58, #12 Beaumont 53
Anaheim Canyon 55, #13 Moorpark 22
Knight 56, #4 Burbank 42
#3 El Dorado 67, Loma Linda Academy 34
#14 Ontario 50, Whittier Christian 45
Westlake 65, #11 Hesperia Christian 35
#6 Long Beach Wilson 43, Hesperia 35
#7 Pasadena Poly 60, Walnut 39
Shalhevet 51, #10 Bolsa Grande 30
#15 Holy Martyrs 67, Silverado 43
#2 Marina 40, St. Genevieve 36

DIVISION 5
First Round
#1 Tesoro 52, St. Paul 41
#16 Sunny Hills 40, Lakewood 25
#9 Bishop Diego 62, Milken 54
Fullerton 43, #8 Twentynine Palms 32
#5 Fountain Valley 75, Temescal Canyon 35
Torrance 78, #12 St. Pius X-St. Matthias Academy 45
#13 Godinez 64, Cantwell-Sacred Heart 38
Heritage Christian 46, #4 Colony 44
#3 Santa Ana Foothill 34, Temecula Prep 22
Whitney 73, #14 Calvary Baptist 39
YULA 60, #11 San Bernardino 24
Oakwood 55, #6 Rio Hondo Prep 31
#7 Burbank Burroughs 54, Sacred Heart LA 39
#10 Culver City 44, Santa Paula 40
Carter 61, #15 West Covina 50
#2 Western Christian 38, La Quinta 24

DIVISION 6
First Round
#1 Carpinteria 69, San Gabriel Academy 39
#16 San Jacinto 52, Pioneer 37
#9 Costa Mesa 63, Newbury Park Adventist 23
Immaculate Heart 42, #8 El Rancho 35
#5 Redlands 29, Loara 26
Savanna 48, #12 Pilibos 40
#13 Santa Monica 49, Sherman Indian 15
#4 Palm Desert 67, Colton 22
Hillcrest 55, #3 Glendale 42
#14 Notre Dame Academy 42, Citrus Valley 35
#11 Liberty 48, Irvine 46
Rowland 60, #6 Whittier 50
#7 Hart 49, San Jacinto Valley 44
#10 Sante Fe 49, Woodbridge 21
Warren 50, #15 Fontana 37
Silver Valley 54, #2 Cerritos Valley Christian 51

DIVISION 7
First Round
#1 Fillmore 31, Hawthorne MSA 29
#16 Foothill Tech 50, Lucerne Valley 24
Capistrano Valley Christian 58, #9 Monrovia 42
Laguna Hills 46, #8 Mary Star of the Sea 44
Desert Christian Academy 44, #5 Dominguez 26
#12 Rosemead 29, Lancaster Desert Christian 23
Patriot 48, #13 Arlington 42
Villanova Prep 56, #4 St. Monica Academy 45
#3 Canoga Park AGBU 49, Vistamar 24
#14 Nogales 50, Indian Springs 44
Ridgecrest Burroughs 40, #11 Chaffey 32
#6 Barstow 47, Coastal Christian 45
La Palma Kennedy 65, #7 San Jacinto Leadership Academy 35
Long Beach Poly 63, #10 St. Mary’s Academy 22
Garden Grove 52, #15 Kaiser 41
Cajon 39, #2 Paloma Valley 30

DIVISION 8
First Round
#1 Cobalt 58, Excelsior Charter 39
Yucca Valley 61, #16 Laguna Blanca 20
University Prep 40, #9 Anaheim 38
#8 Norwalk 44, Elsinore 36
Orange 50, #5 California Military 32
#12 Coachella Valley 53, Banning 31
#13 Riverside Notre Dame 54, Duarte 42
#4 Santa Ana Valley 54, Santa Barbara Providence 10
Mesa Grande 35, #3 EF Academy 17
#14 Schurr 75, Compton Early College 5
#11 South El Monte 53, Packinghouse Christian 21
#6 CAMS 40, Edgewood 30
Anza Hamilton at #7 Victor Valley
#10 Chadwick 48, Samueli Academy 30
#15 Santa Monica Pacifica Christian 55, Westminster 46
#2 Riverside North 50, Desert Chapel 25

DIVISION 9
First Round
#1 NOVA Academy 71, Southwestern Academy 12
#16 Vista del Lago 25, Eisenhower 19
#9 Victor Valley Christian 28, Saddleback 26
#8 Santa Clarita Christian 38, Webb 32
#5 Channel Islands 65, Riverside Bethel Christian 12
#12 Jurupa Hills 60, La Puente 21
Desert Hot Springs at #13 Glendale Adventist
34 Temple City 52, San Luis Obispo Classical 16
La Sierra 37, #3 Cate 35
Faith Baptist 30, #14 Arroyo 20
#11 Newport Christian 39, Miller 32
#6 Redlands Adventist 42, Ganesha 19
#7 San Gabriel 55, Lakeview Academy 6
#10 Sierra Vista 68, Thousand Oaks Hillcrest Christian 7
Santa Maria Valley Christian 39, #15 Rancho Alamitos 37
Western 35, #2 Avalon 21

Police say 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar killed her mother and stepbrother before carrying out mass shooting in BC.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has said he will shortly visit the remote British Columbia town of Tumbler Ridge, where nine people died in one of the country’s worst mass shootings, according to his office.

Police say 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar, who had suffered mental health problems, killed her mother and stepbrother on Tuesday before shooting a teacher and five young students at the local school.

Van Rootselaar, who police say was born a male but began identifying as a woman six years ago, then died by suicide.

“The Prime Minister will be visiting Tumbler Ridge shortly in support of the community … [we are] working closely with the community and local authorities to finalise details based on their own immediate needs,” Carney’s office said on Thursday in a brief statement, which gave no details.

Across Tumbler Ridge, a town of about 2,400 in the Canadian Rockies, flowers and stuffed animals could be seen at unofficial public memorials.

“Hold your kids tight, tell them you love them every day. You never know,” a tearful Lance Young, father of 12-year-old victim Kylie Smith, told reporters on Wednesday.

Carney announced on Wednesday that Canadian flags will be flown at half-staff for seven days on federal buildings following the mass school shooting.

Honouring the victims

Police, who say they still do not have a motive, held a meeting with provincial officials late on Wednesday.

“They are working very hard – they recognise the public does need to hear information to fill that vacuum,” local provincial legislator Larry Neufeld told CBC News on Thursday.

Police said they had visited Van Rootselaar’s house on several occasions to address mental health issues and had twice taken her away for formal assessments.

British Columbia Premier David Eby said on Wednesday he had reached out to local health officials to ask for more details of the interactions.

At one point, police seized guns from the house but returned them after the owner, whose identity they did not disclose, successfully appealed the decision.

British Columbia on Thursday observed an official day of mourning. Provincial Lieutenant-Governor Wendy Cocchia, the personal representative of King Charles, Canada’s head of state, is scheduled to deliver a speech in the legislature to honour the victims.

In Toronto, the iconic CN Tower went dark at the top of every hour on Wednesday to honour the victims of the tragedy.

“Tonight the #CNTower will dim for 5 minutes at the top of each hour in honour of the victims of the attack in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia,” the CN Tower’s official social media account posted on Wednesday.

Feb. 12 (UPI) — A teacher who was among three people injured during a hostage situation at her school in southern Thailand has died, provincial officials announced Thursday.

Sasiphat Sinsamosorn was pronounced dead at 2:06 a.m. local Thursday at Hat Yai Hospital, where she was receiving treatment for wounds sustained a day earlier when a gunman allegedly entered Patongprathankiriwat School, in Hat Yai District, located in the southern Thailand province of Songkhla.

Authorities have identified the alleged gunman as a 17-year-old boy. Provincial officials alleged the boy, “acting in a deranged state and armed with a firearm,” entered the school at about 4 p.m. Wednesday afternoon.

Preliminary findings show that the suspect had attacked a police officer with a knife, wresting away the government-issued 9mm firearm before entering the school, where he took Sinsamosorn and several students hostage.

A standoff ensued.

At about 6:15 p.m., police confronted the boy. During the confrontation, Sinsamosorn and a 16-year-old student were struck by gunfire. The boy, who was also injured, was then subdued by police, ending the two-hour standoff.

Sinsamosorn and the alleged assailant were transported to Hat Yai Hospital, while two students, both girls, were transported to Songklanagarind Hospital.

Officials said Sinsamosorn was shot in the left side of the chest and underwent surgery, but died early Thursday from severe blood loss.

A formal funeral rite bathing ceremony of the deceased presided over by Education Minister Narumon Pinyosinwat was scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Thursday, the Songkhla Provincial Public Relations Office said in a statement.

Sinsamosorn was a teacher and director at the school.

Officials have identified the two injured students as Nattawan Thongphasmkaew, a 16-year-old girl who was shot in the left side of her waist, and 19-year-old Manassanum Anyphonphalakarn, who sustained minor injuries to her chin and neck when she jumped from the second floor of the school building out of panic amid the incident.

The provincial government said Thongphasmkaew underwent surgery and is in stable condition. “Fortunately, the bullet did not strike any vital organs,” the Songkhla Provincial Public Relations Office said Thursday.

Anyphonphalakarn was discharged from the hospital, according to officials.

The Ministry of Education said it is preparing to propose a special salary promotion and a request for the bestowal of a royal decoration for Sinsamosorn.

Authorities said the alleged assailant has a history of psychiatric treatment related to substance abuse and was discharged from hospital in December.

A motive is under investigation, with preliminary information indicating that the alleged attacker’s young sister was enrolled at the school.

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS
WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS

BOYS
CITY SECTION
OPEN DIVISION
Quarterfinals
#1 Palisades 72, #8 El Camino Real 45
#5 San Pedro 51, #4 Washington Prep 47
#6 Fairfax 66, #3 Birmingham 58
#2 Cleveland 57, #7 Narbonne 52

DIVISION I
First Round
#1 Granada Hills 83, #16 Bernstein 53
#9 LA Marshall 60, #8 Triumph Charter 55
#5 LA Jordan 53, #12 LA Hamilton 38
#4 Crenshaw 69, #13 Grant 58
#3 Venice 73, #14 North Hollywood 64
#6 Sun Valley Poly 44, #11 Westchester 36
#10 Rancho Dominguez 61, #7 Taft 58
#2 Chatsworth 81, #15 LA Wilson 53

DIVISION II
First Round
#1 Bravo 76, #16 Granada Hills Kennedy 51
#8 MSCP 74, #9 LA Roosevelt 50
#12 Downtown Magnets 59, #5 Dorsey 54
#4 King/Drew 64, #13 View Park 34
#3 Sylmar 72, #14 Lincoln 65
#6 Carson 68, #11 LACES 53
#10 Marquez 55, #7 Garfield 38
#2 Eagle Rock 53, #15 LA University 51

DIVISION III
First Round
#1 RFK Community 69, #16 Wilmington Banning 51
#9 Orthopaedic 43, #8 South Gate 33
#5 Huntington Park 52, #12 WISH Academy 37
#4 Hollywood 55, #13 Middle College 51
#3 SOCES 89, #14 South East 57
#6 Foshay 81, #11 Arleta 76
#10 Verdugo Hills 51, #7 Northridge Academy 32
#2 Los Angeles 56, #15 Roybal 34

DIVISION IV
First Round
#16 Jefferson 95, #17 Larchmont Charter 53
#20 USC-MAE 54, #13 University Prep Value 45
#14 West Adams 52, #19 USC Hybrid 37
#15 New West Charter 53, #18 Harbor Teacher 38

DIVISION V
First Round
#17 Central City Value 56, #16 Simon Tech 54
#9 Sotomayor 56, #24 CHAMPS 37
#21 Camino Nuevo 60, #12 Horace Mann UCLA 55
#13 Magnolia Science 37, #20 Manual Arts 36
#19 Santee 85, #14 Valor Academy 49
#11 Torres 58, #23 Animo De La Hoya 30
#10 East College Prep 55, #23 Collins Family 51
#18 Chavez 54, #15 Animo Pat Brown 31

SOUTHERN SECTION
OPEN DIVISION
Pool Play
#1 Sierra Canyon 71, #9 Crespi 54
#2 Santa Margarita 81, #10 Damien 71
#3 Redondo Union 74, #11 Etiwanda 31
#4 Sherman Oaks Notre Dame 76, #12 La Mirada 60

DIVISION 1
First Round
#1 Crean Lutheran 87, Santa Barbara 61
Corona Santiago 60, #16 Heritage Christian 55
#9 Village Christian 65, Orange County Pacifica Christian 63
#8 Mira Costa 57, Oaks Christian 56
Windward 77, #5 Bishop Montgomery 61
#12 Millikan 79, Thousand Oaks 34
Cypress 61, #13 San Gabriel Academy 58
Rancho Christian 78, #4 St. Francis 59
#3 Inglewood 102, Tesoro 71
St. Bernard 63, #14 La Habra 51
Fairmont Prep 52, #11 Crossroads 43
#6 Brentwood 61, Long Beach Poly 55
#7 Rolling Hills Prep 50, St. Monica 47
Orange Lutheran 79, #10 Arcadia 74
Loyola 72, #15 Los Alamitos 64
#2 JSerra 72, Pasadena 66

DIVISION 2
First Round
#1 Bishop Amat 68, La Serna 42
#16 Chino Hills 59, Mayfair 57
Oxnard 45, #9 North Torrance 43
#8 Anaheim Canyon 63, Silverado 55
#5 Eastvale Roosevelt 82, Santa Monica 61
#12 Servite 70, Maranatha 66
Edison 79, #13 Esperanza 76
Valencia 65, #4 Beverly Hills 63
#3 Mater Dei 83, Burbank Providence 63
#14 Westlake 65, Burbank 39
#11 El Dorado 74, Fountain Valley 62
Leuzinger 79, #6 St. Anthony 68
#7 Rancho Verde 68, Great Oak 64
#10 San Marcos 69, Calabasas 51
#15 Elsinore 80, Sonora 78
#2 Hesperia 52, San Clemente 41

DIVISION 3
San Marino 59, #1 Milken 57
#16 Ontario Christian 70, Villa Park 61
#9 Temecula Valley 66, Oak Park 54
#8 Murrieta Mesa 71, Viewpoint 58
Long Beach Wilson 59. #5 Riverside King 52
Warren 66, #12 Camarillo 44
Los Altos 59, #13 Palos Verdes 56
Golden Valley 66, #4 Oak Hills 49
#3 Alta Loma 51, Santa Monica Pacifica Christian 34
Ayala 59, #14 Crescenta Valley 55
#11 Glendora 70, Portola 68
Aliso Niguel 68, #6 Newport Harbor 60
#7 Aquinas 54, Knight 50
#10 Gahr 60, La Salle 55
#15 Woodbridge 65, La Canada 50
Eastside 65, #2 Redlands East Valley 61

DIVISION 4
#1 Bonita 71, Malibu 34
#16 Blair 74, Palm Desert 66
#9 Trabuco Hills 70, Chino 54
#8 Saugus 65, Culver City 64
#5 Moorpark 101, Godinez 75
#12 Norte Vista 77, Downey 76
Cathedral 64, Flintridge Prep 36
#4 Summit 70, Holy Martyrs 65
#3 Shalhevet 57, Capistrano Valley Christian 51
#14 Palm Springs 67, Pioneer 46
Long Beach Jordan 69, #11 Los Amigos 65
#6 Torrance 61, Cantwell-Sacred Heart 55
#7 Colony 59, Beckman 51
#10 South Torrance 61, Citrus Hill 60
#15 Corona 95, Santa Paula 91
Hart 73, #2 Walnut 63

DIVISION 5
#1 Gardena Serra 82, Diamond Ranch 75
#16 Northwood 56, Valley Torah 51
#9 California 73, Temescal Canyon 49
Rancho Mirage 54, #8 Bishop Diego 53
Beaumont 63, #5 Mark Keppel 62
Oakwood 72, #12 San Bernardino 69
Adelanto 66, #13 Cerritos 55
Vasquez 67, #4 Sierra Vista 61
Pilibos 42, #3 Tustin 31
#14 Quartz Hill 70, Charter Oak 65
Temple City 39, #11 Hacienda Heights Wilson 28
#6 Brea Olinda 70, Indian Springs 54
#7 San Juan Hills 63, Arrowhead Christian 56
#10 Verbum Dei Jesuit 61, Diamond Bar 42
#15 San Juan Hills 84, Apple Valley 65
Irvine 84, #2 Calvary Baptist 68

DIVISION 6
#1 Hemet 75, Palmdale Aerospace 64
Placentia Valencia 62, #16 Vistamar 51
#9 St. Bonaventure 58, Western 42
Highland 43, #8 Paloma Valley 42
#5 Pasadena Poly 63, Grace 32
#12 Ramona 91, Fillmore 58
#13 Fontana 77, Ontario 54
#4 Montclair 68, Oxford Academy 58
Laguna Hills 85, #3 Temecula Prep 80
#14 Carter 72, Foothill Tech 56
#11 Orange Vista 60, Cajon 39
Valley View 57, #6 Chadwick 48
Eisenhower 80, #7 Santa Clara 73
#10 Buckley 59, Santa Fe 49
#15 Moreno Valley 62, La Palma Kennedy 55
#2 Troy 69, Ocean View 59

DIVISION 7
#1 Tahquitz 72, Azusa 65
#16 Vista del Lago 51, Summit Leadership 35
Anaheim 75, #9 Gabrielino 60
#8 Canyon Country Canyon 98, Bell Gardens 68
#5 Salesian 88, Thousand Oaks Hillcrest Christian 24
Westminster La Quinta 71, #12 CSDR 42
#13 YULA 64, Channel Islands 41
Webb 44, #4 Thacher 38
Riverside Notre Dame 61, #3 Garden Grove 60
Faith Baptist 57, #14 San Fernando Valley Academy 51
#11 Norwalk 52, La Puente 31
#6 Rowland 56, Arroyo 46
Rosemead 75, #7 Desert Chapel 47
Santa Rosa Academy 69, #10 CAMS 53
#15 Segerstrom 52, Estancia 42
#2 Rialto 58, Schurr 49

DIVISION 8
#1 Excelsior Charter 69, Newport Christian 54
Redlands Adventist at #16 Hawthorne MSA
#9 Bolsa Grande 52, Banning 43
Twentynine Palms 76, #8 Riverside Prep 63
#5 Victor Valley 82, Rubidoux 72
#12 Trinity Classical Academy 68, Sequoyah 54
Loara 73, #13 Palm Valley 21
#4 Barstow 68, Santa Ana 49
#3 Desert Christian Academy 63, Desert Hot Springs 57
#14 South El Monte 70, Tarbut V’ Torah 36
#11 Silver Valley 63, Rancho Alamitos 46
#6 Coastal Christian 82, Packinghouse Christian 54
#7 Big Bear 79, Western Christian 58
#10 Edgewood 52, Duarte 45
Dunn 77, #15 Animo Leadership 23
#2 San Gabriel 62, Rim of the World 44

DIVISION 9
First Round
#1 Bassett 53, Coast Union 9
Sherman Indian 48, #16 Maricopa 38
#9 Newbury Park Adventist 54, Public Safety Academy 49
#8 Colton 64, Hesperia Christian 35
#5 Santa Maria Valley Christian 88, Glendale Adventist 47
#12 Long Beach First Baptist 66, Mesa Grande Academy 42
#13 Loma Linda Academy 64, Crossroads Christian 22
#4 San Jacinto Valley 79, Coachella Valley 75
Grove School 64, #3 Joshua Springs 46
Samueli Academy 58, #14 Lakeview Leadership 39
#11 Santa Ana Valley 54, Magnolia Science 47
#6 Santa Barbara Providence 54, NOVA Academy 31
#7 Cal Lutheran 88, New Covenant 31
Pacific 68, #10 Acaciawood 66
#15 Mesrobian 60, Ambassador Christian 55
#2 ACE 78, Compton Early College 66

Jon Kay and Sally Nugent delivered sad news as they opened the instalment of BBC Breakfast

BBC Breakfast opened with breaking news after nine people were killed in a school shooting in Canada.

The incident took place in the small town of Tumbler Ridge in British Columbia. The police have said that the suspected shooter was found dead at a school in the town.

Opening the show on Wednesday (February 11), host Jon Kay said: “Here are our headlines today and some breaking news. Nine people have been shot dead at a school in Canada. The attacker has also died.”

Co-host Sally Nugent went on: “At least nine people have been shot dead, 25 injured at a school and at a nearby home in British Columbia in what Canadian officials have described as one of the worst mass shootings in the country’s history.”

Jon continued: “According to Canadian media, an alert said during that attack described the suspect as a female in a dress with brown hair.”

The show then moved to a North America correspondent, who explained: “A total of 10 people are dead. This happened just after lunchtime yesterday.

“The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said it received a report of an active shooter at a school in the small town of Tumbler Ridge, a tiny place, a population of about 2,400 people.

“It lies in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.

“There was a search of a school. They found six people dead. A seventh died on the way to hospital. More than two dozen people we’re told, were injured.

“Now, the authorities say another person believed to be the attacker was also found dead at the school with what appeared to be self-inflicted injuries.

“Officials say the shooting at the school and at a nearby home where two additional bodies were found are believed to be linked. The authorities say they don’t know yet what the attacker’s connection is to the school.”

The British Columbia Premier David Eby has said: “This is a devastating and unimaginable tragedy. We can’t imagine what the community is going through, but I know it’s causing us all to hug our kids a little bit tighter tonight.”

BBC Breakfast airs on BBC One

Feb. 10 (UPI) — Ten people are dead, including the suspect gunman, and dozens are injured following a shooting at a high school and a residence in rural British Columbia on Tuesday, Canadian authorities said.

Six people were found dead at the high school in Tumbler Ridge, a town of about 2,400 people located in northeastern British Columbia near the Alberta border, while a seventh victim died while being transported to a hospital, Ken Floyd, chief superintendent of the RCMP’s North District, said in a press conference.

Authorities said the suspected shooter was among those found dead at the scene. Floyd said the unidentified gunman died from a suspected self-inflicted wound.

Two victims who discovered wounded at the school were airlifted to hospitals with serious or life-threatening injuries, Floyd said. Another roughly 25 others were being treated for non-life threatening injuries.

Amid the investigation, officers located a second crime scene, a residence where two additional bodies were found, he said, adding that additional searches were ongoing to locate additional potential victims.

This is a breaking story.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UPI) — Some seven months after a Supreme Court Case gave parents sweeping rights to remove their children from lessons that violate religious beliefs, Republicans expresses concern Tuesday about school districts ignoring the ruling, while Democrats voiced fears that the ruling condoned discrimination.

​”In a world where new and controversial types of content are finding their way into classrooms, it is essential that parents maintain control over their child’s education,” Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., said in a congressional hearing of the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education, which he chairs.

​In Mahmoud vs. Taylor, the high court ruled in June that Maryland parents had a First Amendment right to opt out their children from public school lessons involving LGBTQ+ themed storybooks that conflict with their religion. Tuesday’s hearing provided a venue for House members to reflect on how the ruling has changed classrooms.

Democrats, for example, voiced worries about the dangerous precedent it sets for censorship and exclusion.

​”Inclusion is not indoctrination,” said the committee’s top Democrat, Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore. “Differences exist in the world around us. and part of a good education includes teaching students about tolerance and understanding.”

Bonamici said Republicans are using parental rights as another means to undermine public education.

One witness, Yeshiva University Assistant Professor of Law Zalman Rothschild, said he fears the decision could have broad implications and could be disruptive for education.

​”I have no idea how in any sense this can be bounded,” Rothschild said.

“For example, say a teacher tries to teach the value of nondiscrimination against religion and specifies its wrong to discriminate against Jews or against Muslims, and some parents have a problem with that because of their sincerely held religious beliefs, because Chapter 16 of Mark says that those who are not baptized are condemned,” he said.

Rep. Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., urged her Republican colleagues not take the ruling as permission to turn public schools into the “latest front in a culture war.”​

Grijalva said Republicans were hypocritical to encourage federal involvement in education when they call themselves “the party that wants things to go back to the local level.”​

“I want us to continue to support our duly locally elected school districts to make decisions about school curriculum,” Grijalva said.

Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., held up a children’s picture book from the Montgomery Area School District curriculum, “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding,” while she questioned witnesses. The story follows a young girl as she learns that her favorite uncle is getting married to his male partner, Jamie.

Lee said providing holistic education to American children became harder after the ruling.

“It’s about exploiting religious exemptions to shield children from the reality of queer people existing,” he said.

​Conservative education groups, however, applauded the power shift in schools after the ruling.

“Two of the story books, not only “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding” but “Pride Puppy!” addressed non-binary individuals, drag queens and pride parades. These are individuals who don’t have a clear sense of their identity regarding whether they want to be a firefighter or a fairy when they grow up. What we’re dealing with is a designed attempt to change minds on perspectives,” said Sarah Perry, vice president of Defending Education, a national advocacy group that supports more parental involvement in schools.

​Throughout the hearing, Bonamici tried to steer the conversation to “hearing topics that actually matter,” including ICE allegedly inflicting trauma in schools and the effects of the dismantling of the Department of Education.

She pointed out that the committee had yet to hold a hearing on gun violence in schools and that just Monday, a 16-year-old was shot at a Montgomery County Public School.

​”No one is arguing that parents should not be involved in their children’s education. We all agree on that,” Bonamici said. “Banning books or preventing students from learning about differences only serves to perpetuate a culture of hatred and fear.”

A look at The Times’ top 25 boys’ basketball rankings for the Southland after the regular season.

Rk. School (Rec.); Comment; ranking last week

1. SIERRA CANYON (22-1); vs. Crespi, Wednesday; 1

2. REDONDO UNION (25-3); vs. Etiwanda, Wednesday; 2

3. SANTA MARGARITA (26-3); vs. Damien, Wednesday; 3

4. SHERMAN OAKS NOTRE DAME (19-6); vs. La Mirada, Wednesday; 4

5. ST. JOHN BOSCO (20-7); vs. La Mirada, Friday; 5

6. HARVARD-WESTLAKE (22-5); vs. Damien, Friday; 6

7. LA MIRADA (22-6); at SO Notre Dame, Wednesday; 7

8. CORONA DEL MAR (27-1); vs. Crespi, Friday; 9

9. DAMIEN (26-5); at Santa Margarita, Wednesday; 8

10. CORONA CENTENNIAL (25-5); vs. Etiwanda, Friday; 10

11. ETIWANDA (26-2); at Redondo Union, Wednesday; 11

12. CRESPI (19-11); at Sierra Canyon, Wednesday; 12

13. VILLAGE CHRISTIAN (22-6); vs. Newport Beach Pacifica Christian, Wednesday; 13

14. INGLEWOOD (25-5); vs. Tesoro, Wednesday; 14

15. CREAN LUTHERAN (21-7); vs. Santa Barbara, Wednesday; 15

16. JSERRA (19-12); vs. Pasadena, Wednesday; 16

17. LOS ALAMITOS (19-9); vs. Loyola, Wednesday; 17

18. BRENTWOOD (25-3); vs. Long Beach Poly, Wednesday 18

19. LOYOLA (15-15); at Los Alamitos, Wednesday; 19

20. ST. FRANCIS (21-8); vs. Rancho Christian, Wednesday; 20

21. ORANGE LUTHERAN (18-9); at Arcadia, Wednesday; 21

22. ELSINORE (28-0); vs. Sonora, Wednesday; 22

23. ROLLING HILLS PREP (21-6); vs. St. Monica, Wednesday; 23

24. NEWPORT BEACH PACIFICA CHRISTIAN (20-7); at Village Christian, Wednesday; NR

25. SAN GABRIEL ACADEMY (19-8); vs. Cypress, Wednesday; 25

Every year, Brits end up stranded at the airport due to issues with their passports but you can make sure you’re not one of them by making these 6 vital checks now

There’s nothing quite like that holiday excitement as you arrive at the airport, ready to jetset off somewhere sunny and get a well-deserved week or two off. However, every year thousands of Brits get caught out with documents that are invalid; and it means their trip gets cut short.

Not only can you be denied boarding on your flight, but your travel insurance is unlikely to cover the costs if you can’t travel because of invalid documents including your passport.

Luckily, we’re here to help as we’ve rounded up six vital passport checks to do now, so if there’s anything amiss you have plenty of time to get it fixed ahead of the summer (and avoid the pre-summer rush that the Passport Office always faces).

Check out our top tips below…

1. Validity duration

This one often catches holidaymakers out. When travelling to the EU, Brits need passports with at least three months validity, and the key thing to remember is this is based on your return date, not your departure. For example, if you’re on holiday from July 25 to August 1, your passport will need to be valid until at least November 1 2026.

Some countries such as Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, and Singapore require six months of validity, so always check before you book your trip.

It’s also worth remembering that child passports only last for five years, not ten, so for those travelling with kids these checks are especially important.

2. The 10 year rule

The ’10 year rule’ often catches Brits out at the airport. Pre-Brexit, passports that were renewed before expiry could carry over a certain amount of validity. This meant some passports issued before September 2018 were valid for as long as ten years and nine months. Passports issued after this date are valid for ten years only.

However, since Britain has left the EU, UK passport holders are now classed as third-country nationals, meaning all passports must be issued less than 10 years before your departure date. This means some holidaymakers with older passports are being caught out, as while they may have enough validity on their passport, the document could be over ten years old.

If your passport will be passing the ten year mark soon, make sure you get it renewed before you go.

3. Damage

Even minor damage to a passport can see you denied boarding. According to the Passport Office, a passport is considered damaged if:

• you cannot read any of your details
• any of the pages are ripped, cut or missing
• there are holes, cuts or rips in the cover
• the cover is coming away
• there are stains on the pages (for example, ink or water damage)

You can replace a damaged passport online at a cost of £94.50 for adults. While this might sound pricey, it’s often cheaper than the expenses that come with being denied boarding. Keep your passport in a plastic wallet to protect it from damage.

4. Number of blank pages

With many countries moving away from manual stamps and onto more sophisticated processes such as the EU’s new Entry/Exit System (EES), you might assume that you don’t need to check the number of pages left in your passport.

However, most countries still require a certain amount of blank space, and many EU countries are still making the switch to EES, so Brits may find they still need to get their passport stamped. EU destinations including Germany, Italy, and Belgium require two blank pages for stamps, some long haul destinations in Africa ask for four, while Nambia holds the record with visitors asked to present six blank pages.

A standard adult passport comes with 34 blank pages, but frequent travellers can opt for a 54-page passport which costs £107.50 instead of the standard £94.50 fee.

5. Signature

It’s something most of us forget to do when a new passport arrives, but make sure you sign it. An unsigned passport can be rejected as invalid, and it takes just a couple of seconds to do.

While it’s not a legal requirement, take some time to fill in your emergency contacts too. This is important in case of an accident, and could also be useful if your passport gets recovered after being lost or stolen.

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6. Correct passport

It may sound obvious, but it’s easy to accidentally pick up the wrong passport and not realise until your train is halfway to the airport. A quick check before you leave could save a lot of hassle.

When you renew your passport and the old one is returned, consider shredding and disposing of the expired document. Never store your old passport alongside the new one, otherwise this could lead to a costly mix-up when you head out to catch your flight.

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With his six-volume magnum opus “My Struggle,” Karl Ove Knausgaard became one of Europe’s most acclaimed contemporary novelists.

At once epic and intimate in scope, the books used the raw material of Knausgaard’s life to answer questions about male identity, the obligations of fatherhood and marriage, and what it takes to become a serious artist. In his new novel, “The School of Night,” Knausgaard further explores the mysteries of artistic greatness, using as his template Christopher Marlowe’s 16th century play “Doctor Faustus.” Knausgaard sets his story in mid-1980s London, where two aspiring photographers named Kristian and Hans try to find their footing in the art world.

I spoke to the Norwegian writer about the devil, photography and Radiohead.

✍️ Author Chat

Your novel’s plot and characters are based on Christopher Marlowe’s 16th century play “Doctor Faustus,” which is about a scholar who sells his soul to the devil. Was this something you’ve been thinking about for a while?

I read Thomas Mann’s novel “Doctor Faustus” when I was 19 and it made a big impression on me. It’s been with me ever since then. The devil theme has hovered over some novels I’ve written, so it remained, and then I wanted to set this novel in London, where I now live, and where Marlowe was murdered. I wanted all of this in the background, but I didn’t know how to use it. That came during the writing.

The two young artists in “The School of Night” are photographers, an art form that has long been associated with the occult and summoning the unseen world. One thinks of the spirit photography trend of the 19th century in England.

I wrote about the first photograph in the novel, shot by Daguerre in 1848. I have it on my wall in my office. It’s a Paris street, which I find very unsettling and spooky, because even though it’s daytime there are no people on the street because the exposure was too slow to capture them. There’s just this lone figure, in the center of the frame who looks like the devil. I find it intriguing that the devil might have been present when the first photograph was taken.

Karl Ove Knausgaard, one of Europe’s most acclaimed contemporary novelists, sets his newest novel, “The School of Night,” in mid-1980s London.

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I think one of the reasons for the enduring appeal of the Faust legend is, if given the chance, most people would sell their souls for success, especially artists.

I think you’re right. And it is also a way of explaining something that is really mysterious, how a kind of normal, maybe even mediocre person could achieve something great overnight. When I was 19, I could have cut off my left arm to just have a book published. And when I wrote “My Struggle,” I was so frustrated in my writing, I was willing to go to extremes, to just make something happen. And then I didn’t think much about that when I wrote “The School of Night.” But it’s all kind of obvious to me afterwards that I use that feeling of doing something I really shouldn’t, and I could have stopped, but I still did it.

To your point: Kristian, your protagonist, has an artistic breakthrough when he photographs a dead cat that he has boiled. I guess my question is: A boiled cat?

Oh, that’s just due to the way I write. I never know what’s going to happen in a book. He’s starting to think about inner structures that keep up life somehow. And then, he thinks, how could he take photos of that? Well, maybe a cat. And then you have to practically get a cat. And then it’s like 25 pages of me describing how to boil a cat. I never planned it, you know.

Do you not outline your novels beforehand?

No, never, I’ve never done that. I do really try to be present and see what happens there. And then there will always be consequences of the choices you make, and that will eventually be the novel. And in this case, the character is different from me, so his choices will be different, and that creates a different trajectory, really.

Your characters are music obsessives in ways that only men in their 20s can be: curating their record collections, and so on.

When I was young, music really meant almost everything to me. When I was 15, I went to a local newspaper and asked to review records for them. And I had my own radio show. I’m not obsessed anymore, but I did see Radiohead at the O2 Arena recently. They are the last band I really wanted to see, and it was absolutely fantastic. I had tears running down my cheeks.

(This Q&A was edited for length and clarity.)

📰 The Week(s) in Books

George Saunders’ new novel might be the dark humor read you need right now, writes Robert Allen Papinchak.

(Los Angeles Times photo illustration; cover from Riverhead Books)

George Saunders has published a new novel called “Vigil,” and Robert Allen Papinchak is besotted by it, calling it a “virtuoso achievement, an immersive experience for the reader.”

Nathan Smith had a Zoom chat with author Martha Ackmann about her new Dolly Parton biography, “Ain’t Nobody’s Fool,” and got the lowdown on how Parton’s fixation with over-the-top wigs began. “Her promotions man happened to be dating an actress who had a big part in the television series ‘Mr. Ed,’ ” Ackmann tells Smith. “This actress took her around, showed her L.A. and they went to the Max Factor store and tried on wigs.”

In an excerpt from this new book, “Football,” Chuck Klosterman makes a case for America’s favorite sport as best viewed in the privacy of our living rooms. “It’s not just that you can see a game better when you watch it on television,” he writes. “Television is the only way you can see it at all.”

Finally, Bethanne Patrick gives us the lowdown on the must-read books of February.

📖 Bookstore Faves

Fear not, grown-ups: Our kids are not digital zombies just yet. In fact, children’s bookstores are thriving in Los Angeles. Children’s Book World is the largest independent bookstore of its kind in the city, with over 80,000 titles for sale. The store is a wonderland of printed matter for kids, with readings, book clubs and even musical performances. I spoke with the store’s manager Brien Lopez to get the lowdown on what our kids are reading.

What’s selling right now?

T.Z. Layton’s “The Academy” series, which is about a global soccer competition for tweens, is one of our best sellers. This series has lots of boys who were not avid readers becoming strong fiction readers because they are about a subject they love and they are really fun reads.

What kind of YA books are popular right now?

For our particular store we sell lots of sunshine romance particularly targeted to new teens like Lynn Painter’s books, as well as both mysteries and suspense thrillers like Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ “Inheritance Games” series. Dystopian sci fi is also popular, like Soyoung Park’s “Snowglobe” duology.

Who are the popular authors?

We just had a 2,000-person event with Dav Pilkey for his new “Dog Man” book and how he gets kids excited about books and reading just can’t be underestimated. We also had big events with beloved authors Katherine Applegate, Stuart Gibbs and Max Brallier. Middle grade fiction and graphic novels are very popular at our store.

Are kids still interested in books, despite all the distractions in their lives?

Kids definitely are interested in books if they are allowed to read about subjects they enjoy and books they love. The moment you tell a child there is a good book versus a bad book to read you have stopped that kid’s reading journey in its tracks. Let kids read the books they love and they will do it for a lifetime.

Children’s Book World in Los Angeles is located at 10580 1/2 W. Pico Blvd.

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A record number of school holiday fines were handed out across England last year, and there’s one region that saw the most children take unauthorised time off as parents are hit with penalties

The English town with the highest number of pupils heading on holidays during term time has been revealed, as holiday penalties hit an all-time high.

Across England last year, a record-breaking 459,288 school holiday fines were handed out, the Department for Education (DfE) has confirmed. The number of penalties shot up by four per cent in 2024-2025 and accounted for 93 per cent of all fines issued for unauthorised school absence.

These mark the first statistics published since school holiday fines increased in 2024, jumping from £60 to £80 per parent, per child, per holiday. While parents risk a substantial penalty, they can save thousands of pounds by booking their family getaway during term time, swerving peak-season prices.

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Yet, if the school fine is not paid within 21 days, it can be raised to £160, and if parents receive a second penalty for the same child within three years, it will instantly cost £160, according to Gov.uk rules. And there’s one region willing to take this risk most of all.

The area with the highest recorded number of fine notices per pupil in 2024/25 was Barnsley, making it the holiday fines capital of England. The local authority issued 5,275 fines to parents over the year for unauthorised family holidays, meaning 1,672 for every 10,000 pupils.

Following news of a spike in penalty notices across England, parents have shared their views. Among them is Jodie Salt, from Cheshire, who has insisted that her three daughters learn ‘far more through travel and real life’ than in a classroom.

Jodie exclusively told the Mirror: “I’ve always taken my kids out of school, and I’ve been fined for it, and I’m fine with that (and will continue to do it in the future). School curricula are so outdated. They’re still focused on memorising information and passing exams, instead of developing real-world skills, confidence and behaviour. My kids learn far more through travel and real life than they do sitting at a desk in a classroom!

“They develop their social interaction, learn resilience when things don’t go according to plan, they learn about money and currency, they broaden their horizons about what’s possible for their own futures and careers, they clearly develop more language capability and learn about different cultures first hand too – all priceless!”

Another mum, who wishes to stay anonymous, took her children out of school for a wedding anniversary and admitted: “The fine was a struggle to pay, but it cost less than going on summer holidays.”

She shared: “We took five of our children to Lanzarote for two weeks. The second week was half-term, so I was fined for the first week for four children. The holiday was very educational for the children. We visited a volcanic crater and ate dinner at the top of a volcano. The children learned about the eruptions on the island. They rode camels, visited an animal park. It was our 10th wedding anniversary.

“Ten years previously, we took our eldest three on the same holiday for our honeymoon, and we did the same activities. I would definitely do it again, especially for a special occasion. We saved so much money. Originally, I was going to book for a week in half-term, but when we extended it to two weeks, flying out the week before half-term, the price didn’t increase much.”

For teachers, it can be disruptive when children are taken out of school during term time. However, one teacher, who is also a mum to three children, said: “I’m completely against blanket school fines, and I think wholeheartedly it’s the wrong approach.”

The parent, who also wishes to stay anonymous, continued: “As a teacher and a mother, I think holidays are important. If your child has generally good attendance, I think families should be given the right to take their children out. Home-schooled children have this ability (when they can afford it), but state children do not? Holidays are great learning experiences and bonding time. I don’t mind when my students go on holiday; I love seeing them excited, and I ask them questions when they come back.

“I do not make those children worry about their ‘attendance’ either, and ruin their experience. The only time I am concerned about parents taking their children out is when those parents do not parent. They do not care about their child’s education, whether that is poor attendance and lateness, no homework/or they never show up to a parents’ evening. This reflects in their grades and general attitude towards school.”

She added, “What really needs to be targeted is the holiday resorts that jack their prices up.”

However, many parents disagree with taking children out during term-time, arguing that it is disruptive for a child’s education.

One shared on Facebook: “I’m firmly in ‘camp no’ to taking out during term time. However, I still disagree with the fines or further punishment due to the high amount of Sen parents who get punished!”

Another commented on X: “I don’t agree with taking kids out of school for a holiday – if holiday companies were regulated, there’d be no need.” One more agreed to the fees and wrote on X: “Yes, and enforce them properly. These parents who take their children out of school are likely the same ones who moan that the teachers aren’t doing their jobs properly because their kids are not getting the grades.”

Cllr Ashley Peace, Cabinet Support Member for Children’s Services in Barnsley, told the Mirror: “Improving attendance is a priority for us, and we will continue to work with schools and parents to share the importance of preventing term-time absences.

“We ask parents to consider the impact of taking children out of school for holidays. While we acknowledge that families want to keep holiday costs down, there is research which demonstrates that term-time holidays can create gaps in learning that are difficult to bridge.

“It can feel hard to catch up and for some children it can be challenging to settle back into school when attendance is inconsistent or disrupted. We continue to follow government guidance when issuing any school absence fines, and the money raised through these penalties is used to cover the costs of running the system.”

A Department for Education spokesperson also shared with the Mirror: “Every child deserves the best start in life, and that begins with being in school. Term-time holidays place the burden on teachers to support missed learning and affect the entire class.

“We are playing our part to support those children who face barriers to attending school, and this is making a difference – with 5 million more days in school last academic year and 140,000 fewer pupils persistently absent. Alongside this, fines continue to have a vital place in our system, so everyone is held accountable for ensuring children are in school.”

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HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL
WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS

BOYS
CITY SECTION
AMIT 51, Discovery 26
Angelou 85, West Adams 55
Animo Bunche 56, Aspire Ollin 41
Birmingham 74, Cleveland 66
Bravo 60, Eagle Rock 56
CHAMPS 66, Bert Corona Charter 52
Community Charter 54, Lakeview Charter 37
East Valley 57, Fulton 32
El Camino Real 54, Granada Hills 43
Fairfax 77, LA Hamilton 49
Foshay 87, Larchmont Charter 55
Granada Hills Kennedy 62, Panorama 43
Grant 49, Verdugo Hills 47
Harbor Teacher 59, Port of LA 46
Hawkins 70, Locke 38
Hollywood 90, Belmont 21
Huntington Park 58, South East 44
Jefferson 56, Diego Rivera 42
LA Jordan 70, Dorsey 27
LA Roosevelt 53, Bell 31
LA Wilson 55, LA Marshall 52
Lincoln 73, Franklin 45
MSAR 47, Sun Valley Magnet 43
MSCP 71, New West Charter 53
Palisades 76, Westchester 40
Rancho Dominguez 67, Gardena 53
San Fernando 65, Van Nuys 59
San Pedro 78, Wilmington Banning 35
Simon Tech 66, AHSA 22
Smidt Tech 48, Stern 42
South Gate 53, Legacy 38
Sun Valley Poly 65, Arleta 49
Sylmar 95, Reseda 25
University Prep Value 63, Sotomayor 58
Valor Academy 73, Lake Balboa College Prep 33
Venice 64, LA University 31
View Park 60, Dymally 20

SOUTHERN SECTION
Ambassador Christian 84, Summit View West 44
Anaheim 53, Savanna 52
Arroyo 75, Mountain View 46
Banning 61, Cathedral City 31
Bassett 59, Workman 45
Big Bear 72, Indian Springs 62
Blair 78, Santa Monica Pacifica Christian 71
Buckley 84, North Hollywood 77
California 83, Whittier 50
Canyon Country Canyon 90, Castaic 53
Carpinteria 66, Santa Barbara Providence 43
Charter Oak 70, Covina 33
Colony 56, San Dimas 45
Compton 78, Muir 66
Corona Centennial 59, Corona Santiago 38
Crossroads 64, Murrieta Mesa 55
CSDR 45, Sherman Indian 40
Desert Hot Springs 70, Desert Mirage 35
de Toledo 80, International School of LA 33
Eastvale Roosevelt 72, Riverside King 54
Elsinore 82, Temecula Prep 67
Faith Baptist 55, Grace 50
Gabrielino 57, El Monte 21
Garden Grove 41, Buena Park 39
Gardena Serra 54, Verbum Dei 53
Glendora 80, Walnut 67
Hacienda Heights Wilson 50, Northview 43
Hart 64, West Ranch 53
Heritage 68, San Jacinto Valley Academy 45
Heritage Christian 80, Burbank Providence 44
Hesperia 81, Serrano 52
Highland 63, Palmdale 48
Highland Hall 61, Pilgrim 53
JSerra 87, Mater Dei 66
Keppel 70, Alhambra 49
Knight 68, Eastside 42

Lancaster 57, Antelope Valley 46

La Puente 62, Edgewood 60
Long Beach Wilson 59, Long Beach Cabrillo 51
Mesrobian 72, Le Lycée 70
Montebello 53, San Gabriel 41
Nordhoff 52, Villanova Prep 38
Oak Hills 101, Apple Valley 32
Orange County Pacifica Christian 50, Fairmont Prep 46
Pacific 51, Miller 46
Quartz Hill 53, Littlerock 48
Rancho Mirage 68, Palm Desert 63
Redlands Adventist Academy 67, Packinghouse Christian 50
Ridgecrest Burroughs 58, Sultana 44
Rosemead 53, Pasadena Marshall 44
San Bernardino 96, Entrepreneur 46
San Fernando Valley Academy 89, Campbell Hall 43
San Gabriel Academy 73, Capistrano Valley Christian 40
Santa Clara 80, Del Sol 55
Santa Fe 51, El Rancho 50
Santa Margarita 57, St. John Bosco 56
Schurr 59, Bell Gardens 50
SEED: LA 80, EF Academy 67
Segerstrom 52, Godinez Fundamental 48
Summit Leadership Academy 59, Victor Valley Christian 56
Thousand Oaks Hillcrest Christian 68, Newbury Park Adventist 54
Twentynine Palms 64, Silver Valley 59
United Christian Academy 74, Bethel Christian 51
Valencia 68, Golden Valley 63
Verbum Dei 54, Gardena Serra 53
West Covina 41, Rowland 39
Westmark 64, Summit View 40
Wildwood 60, Lennox Academy 52
Woodcrest Christian 60, Loma Linda Academy 54

INTERSECTIONAL
Buckley 84, North Hollywood 77
South Pasadena 56, Garfield 49

GIRLS
CITY SECTION
AMIT 23, Discovery 8
Arleta 58, Sun Valley Poly 21
Aspire Ollin 28, Animo Bunche 24
Bell 57, LA Roosevelt 13
Birmingham 54, Cleveland 44
Carson 36, Narbonne 23
Crenshaw 62, GALA 57
Diego Rivera 51, Jefferson 20
Gardena 58, Rancho Dominguez 14
Granada Hills 50, El Camino Real 32
Granada Hills Kennedy 61, Panorama 11
Harbor Teacher 80, Port of Los Angeles 21
Lake Balboa College Prep 28, Valor Academy 15
Lakeview Charter 25, Community Charter 21
Larchmont Charter 56, Foshay 29
Mendez 33, Roybal 13
Monroe 41, Chavez 18
MSAR 38, Sun Valley Magnet 29
New West Charter 66, MSCP 15
San Pedro 66, Wilmington Banning 38
South Gate 47, Legacy 41
Stern 32, Smidt Tech 19
Sylmar 58, Reseda 17
Taft 64, Chatsworth 45
Van Nuys 50, San Fernando 37
Vaughn 44, VAAS 25
Verdugo Hills 45, Grant 37
West Adams 43, Angelou 25

SOUTHERN SECTION
AAE 47, Webb 32
Arroyo 52, Mountain View 6
Banning 53, Cathedral City 26
Bethel Christian 37, La Sierra Academy 26
Canyon Country Canyon 65, Castaic 10
Carpinteria 52, Villanova Prep 30
Cate 31, Dunn 22
Charter Oak 58, Covina 31
CSDR 44, Sherman Indian 31
Desert Hot Springs 55, Desert Mirage 27
Eastside 56, Knight 49
Edgewood 40, La Puente 20
EF Academy 45, SEED: LA 33
El Modena 50, Katella 37
Gabrielino 53, El Monte 14
Ganesha 27, Pomona 16
Hacienda Heights Wilson 68, Northview 61
Hart 46, West Ranch 33
Hesperia 59, Serrano 36
International School of LA 44, Mesrobian 32
Keppel 64, Alhambra 23
Lancaster 53, Antelope Valley 23
Laguna Hills 43, Tustin 42
La Sierra 24, Jurupa Valley 17
Lancaster 53, Antelope Valley 23
Le Lycee 37, Archer 29
Loma Linda Academy 50, Woodcrest Christian 40
Lucerne Valley 38, Big Bear 25
Marymount 47, St. Genevieve 35
Miller 28, Pacific 24
Montebello 43, San Gabriel 40
Newbury Park Adventist 69, Thousand Oaks Hillcrest Christian 20
Oak Hills 68, Apple Valley 21
Packinghouse Christian 43, Redlands Adventist Academy 35
Palmdale 42, Highland 21
Palm Desert 73, Rancho Mirage 14
Quartz Hill 60, Littlerock 14
Rancho Christian 68, Fairmont Prep 64
Ridgecrest Burroughs 71, Sultana 16
Rosemead 48, Pasadena Marshall 17
Samueli Academy 30, Southlands Christian 22
San Bernardino 23, Entrepreneur 10
San Dimas 64, Colony 38
Santa Clarita Christian 52, Legacy Christian Academy 26
Santa Fe 55, El Rancho 37
Santa Monica Pacifica Christian 45, Burbank Providence 36
Schurr 33, Bell Gardens 24
Segerstrom 63, San Clemente 61
Sherman Indian 31, CSDR 44
Silver Valley 61, Twentynine Palms 59
Temecula Prep 41, San Jacinto Valley Academy 33
Valencia 82, Golden Valley 21
West Covina 44, Rowland 34
Westridge 27, Santa Clara 25
Whittier 62, California 33
Wildwood 33, Lennox Academy 15
Workman 30, Bassett 20
Yorba Linda 36, Sunny Hills 34

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL
MONDAY’S RESULTS

BOYS
CITY SECTION
Angelou 86, Diego Rivera 46
Animo Robinson 59, Animo City of Champions 57
Bell 56, South Gate 38
Birmingham 74, Granada Hills 59
Crenshaw 52, Dorsey 47
Downtown Magnets 94, Central City Value 62
El Camino Real 66, Taft 60
Fairfax 62, Westchester 44
Fulton 50, Panorama 45
Garfield 34, Legacy 26
Grant 78, Monroe 55
Jefferson 71, West Adams 65
Lakeview Charter 51, Valley Oaks CES 25
LA Roosevelt 57, Huntington Park 42
Los Angeles 67, Manual Arts 26
Marquez 94, Maywood Academy 44
Maywood CES 43, Elizabeth 38
North Hollywood 78, Chavez 24
Orthopaedic 52, USC-MAE 22
Palisades 82, LA Hamilton 45
Simon Tech 48, Brio College Prep 46
SOCES 54, Hollywood 49
Sotomayor 42, Torres 38
Sun Valley Poly 60, Verdugo Hills 58
Van Nuys 69, Canoga Park 51
View Park 52, Harbor Teacher 33
Washington Prep 61, LA Jordan 52

SOUTHERN SECTION
Acaciawood 69, Southlands Christian 58
AGBU 63, de Toledo 53
Aliso Niguel 57, El Toro 46
Animo Leadership 39, AHSA 20
Animo Robinson 59, Animo City of Champions 57
Apple Valley 71, Sultana 50
Arlington 56, Riverside North 46
Arroyo 53, Rosemead 49
Azusa 52, Garey 40
Big Bear 84, California Lutheran 65
Bishop Montgomery 74, Bishop Amat 67
Bonita 70, Ayala 53
Brentwood 71, Viewpoint 56
Cantwell-Sacred Heart 67, St. Genevieve 51
Channel Islands 69, Nordhoff 46
Chino 73, Don Lugo 54
Citrus Hill 67, Vista del Lago 57
Citrus Valley 60, Beaumont 56
Colony 67, South Hills 54
Corona del Mar 59, Newport Harbor 51
Covina 61, Northview 49
CSDR 71, University Prep 66
Crossroads 62, Campbell Hall 60
Desert Chapel 56, Mesa Grande 50
Diamond Ranch 71, Chaffey 56
Dominguez 79, Compton Early College 24
Dos Pueblos 59, Buena 56
Duarte 71, Baldwin Park 34
Eastside 79, Palmdale 56
Edgewood 70, Pomona 13
Fairmont Prep 70, Capistrano Valley Christian 40
Faith Baptist 81, Valley Torah 65
Gabrielino 69, Pasadena Marshall 43
Garden Grove 75, Costa Mesa 44
Glendora 80, Walnut 58
Golden Valley 50, Saugus 28
Hacienda Heights Wilson 51, West Covina 44
Hawthorne MSA 53, Geffen Academy 46
Hemet 83, Perris 55
Heritage 64, Canyon Springs 50
Highland 71, Lancaster 36
Holy Martyrs Armenian 63, Le Lycee 49
Indian Springs 83, Miller 49
Indio 79, Yucca Valley 49
JSerra 78, Servite 53
Keppel 71, Bell Gardens 38
Laguna Hills 65, Godinez 55
Lancaster Baptist 62, PACS 48
La Palma Kennedy 61, Santa Ana Calvary Chapel 55
La Puente 54, Workman 32
La Salle 76, Paraclete 30
La Serna 51, Whittier 45
Legacy College Prep 69, Downey Calvary Chapel 41
Long Beach Poly 57, Millikan 66
Los Alamitos 68, Edison 61
Los Altos 83, San Dimas 64
Malibu 81, Fillmore 42
Marina 76, Huntington Beach 72
Mary Star of the Sea 54, Salesian 53
Mater Dei 92, Orange Lutheran 65
Mesrobian 55, Samueli Academy 52
Milken 59, YULA 50
Millikan 66, Long Beach Poly 57
Moreno Valley 62, Valley View 35
Newbury Park Adventist 55, Glendale Adventist 33
Norte Vista 93, Jurupa Valley 58
Ocean View 63, Katella 52
Ontario 63, Montclair 61
Orange Vista 64, Liberty 59
Palmdale Aerospace 75, Trinity Classical Academy 66
Palm Desert 95, La Quinta 32
Palm Valley 56, Joshua Springs Christian 36
Paloma Valley 59, Lakeside 49
Pilgrim 78, Summit View 38
Placentia Valencia 60, Fullerton 43
Quartz Hill 66, Antelope Valley 50
Ramona 94, Patriot 47
Redlands East Valley 83, Yucaipa 55
Rio Hondo Prep 77, EF Academy 39
River Springs Magnolia 65, Temecula River Springs 33
Rubidoux 51, La Sierra 34
San Bernardino 65, Buena Park 53
San Clemente 69, Tesoro 64
San Fernando Valley Academy 51, Highland Hall 39
San Gabriel Academy 62, Newport Beach Pacifica Christian 53
San Marcos 67, Oxnard Pacifica 46
Santa Barbara 71, Rio Mesa 46
Santa Clarita Christian 67, St. Monica Academy 65
Santa Fe 68, California 58
Santa Paula 92, Carpinteria 48
Santa Rosa Academy 63, Warner 46
San Jacinto Valley Academy 51, Nuview Bridge 25
Segerstrom 66, Westminster 25
Sherman Oaks Notre Dame 82, Crespi 78
Sierra Canyon 103, Loyola 74
Sierra Vista 69, Nogales 53
Silverado 68, Victor Valley 28
Southwestern Academy 32, Waverly 27
St. Anthony 75, St. Pius X-St. Matthias Academy 68
St. Bernard 80, St. Paul 65
St. Bonaventure 60, Cate 47
Trabuco Hills 56, Mission Viejo 52
United Christian Academy 65, Anza Hamilton 47
Valencia 67, Canyon Country Canyon 64
Verbum Dei 53, Gardena Serra 50
Westmark 49, Lighthouse Christian 18
West Torrance 74, SEED: LA 42
Woodcrest Christian 74, Desert Hot Springs 26

INTERSECTIONAL
Compton 82, South East 36
Santa Maria Valley Christian 51, Maricopa 44

GIRLS
CITY SECTION
Angelou 31, Diego Rivera 24
Animo Robinson 67, Animo City of Champions 11
Bell 66, South Gate 20
Birmingham 61, Granada Hills 57
Central City Value 56, Downtown Magnets 9
Cleveland 58, Chatsworth 30
Crenshaw 65, Dorsey 21
Eagle Rock 37, Arleta 31
East Valley 24, Fulton 22
El Camino Real 59, Taft 41
Garfield 86, Legacy 23
Grant 72, Monroe 5
Harbor Teacher 68, Hawkins 27
Huntington Park 33, LA Roosevelt 19
LA Hamilton 86, Palisades 83
Los Angeles 40, Manual Arts 26
Marquez 55, Maywood Academy 16
Maywood CES 52, Elizabeth 11
North Hollywood 65, Chavez 16
Northridge Academy 75, Vaughn 13
Santee 61, New West Charter 22
Sotomayor 35, Torres 22
USC-MAE 38, Orthopaedic 15
Venice 75, LACES 37
Verdugo Hills 75, Sun Valley Poly 16
Washington Prep 57, LA Jordan 20
West Adams 59, Jefferson 15
Westchester d. Fairfax, forfeit

SOUTHERN SECTION
AGBU 60, Buckley 33
Alemany 55, Notre Dame Academy 17
Animo Robinson 67, Animo City of Champions 11
Apple Valley 43, Sultana 29
Barstow 36, Granite Hills 17
Beaumont 63, Citrus Valley 55
Bonita 49, Ayala 38
Brentwood 63, Viewpoint 22
Cajon 31, Redlands 26
Calvary Baptist 64, Packinghouse Christian 41
Chaffey 47, Diamond Ranch 34
Chino 66, Don Lugo 25
Claremont 72, Diamond Bar 37
Crossroads 60, Campbell Hall 56
CSDR 50, University Prep 38
Duarte 47, Baldwin Park 40
Edgewood 47, Pomona 11
Gabrielino 39, Pasadena Marshall 19
Ganesha 34, Bassett 22
Glendora 57, Walnut 46
Hacienda Heights Wilson 60, West Covina 44
Hart 54, Castaic 14
Hawthorne 40, Animo Leadership 13
Hawthorne MSA 33, Geffen Academy 25
Heritage 59, Canyon Springs 21
Immaculate Heart 63, Flintridge Sacred Heart 34
Indian Springs 55, Miller 28
Jurupa Valley 34, Norte Vista 17
Keppel 67, Bell Gardens 13
Knight 60, Littlerock 15
Lancaster Baptist 44, PACS 36
La Puente 37, Workman 32
La Serna 71, Whittier 42
La Sierra 36, Rubidoux 4
Liberty 45, Lakerside 41
Los Alamitos 74, Edison 31
Louisville 47, Burbank Burroughs 21
Mater Dei 60, JSerra 46
Milken 58, Burbank Providence 21
Newbury Park Adventist 46, Glendale Adventist 21
Nogales 66, Sierra Vista 47
Northview 55, Covina 46
Oak Hills 69, Hesperia 38
Ojai Valley 38, Pilgrim 34
Ontario 37, Montclair 12
Orange Lutheran 48, Santa Margarita 44
Pacific 53, Entrepreneur 9
Palm Desert 52, La Quinta 40
Paloma Valley 60, Orange Vista 36
Pilibos 56, Shalhevet 51
Quartz Hill 59, Antelope Valley 35
Rancho Christian 105, Hemet 43
Ridgecrest Burroughs 40, Serrano 26
Riverside North 32, Arlington 27
Riverside Poly 74, Perris 10
Rosemead 47, Arroyo 18
Samueli Academy 54, Legacy College Prep 14
San Dimas 58, Los Altos 41
San Gabriel 40, Alhambra 37
San Jacinto Valley Academy 58, Nuview Bridge 32
Santa Clarita Christian 40, St. Monica Academy 34
Sante Fe 48, California 28
Santa Rosa Academy 44, Warner 35
Saugus 54, Golden Valley 36
Schurr 49, Montebello 36
Silverado 37, Victor Valley 32
South El Monte 30, El Monte 11
South Hills 41, Colony 20
Southwestern Academy 37, New Covenant Academy 22
St. Bonaventure 67, Thacher 22
St. Lucy’s 39, Mountain View 15
St. Mary’s Academy 48, Mesrobian 29
Trinity Classical Academy 92, Palmdale Aerospace 23
Twentynine Palms 61, Coachella Valley 22
Valencia 64, Canyon Country Canyon 46
Vista del Lago 37, Citrus Hill 34
Webb 50, First Baptist 17
Westridge 36, EF Academy 33
Windward 55, Archer 24
Woodcrest Christian 52, Desert Hot Springs 39
Yucaipa 90, Redlands East Valley 21
Yucca Valley 50, Indio 36
YULA 68, New Roads 6

INTERSECTIONAL
Panorama 39, Beverly Hills 36
Santa Maria Valley Christian 59, Maricopa 15

MINNEAPOLIS — For weeks, administrators at this charter high school have arrived an hour before class, grabbed neon vests and walkie-talkies, and headed out into the cold to watch for ICE agents and escort students in.

Lately, fewer than half of the 800 sudents show up.

“Operation Metro Surge,” the immigration crackdown in Minnesota that led to nationwide protests after federal agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens, has had students, parents and teachers on edge regardless of their immigration status.

Signs of a fearful new normal are all over the school. Green craft paper covers the bottom of many first-floor windows so outsiders can’t peer in. A notice taped outside one door says unauthorized entry is prohibited: “This includes all federal law enforcement personnel and activities unless authorized by lawful written direction from appropriate school officials or a valid court order.”

Students at a Minneapolis high school classroom with many empty seats on Jan. 29, 2026.

Staff coordinate throughout the day with a neighborhood watch group to determine whether ICE agents are nearby. When they are, classroom doors are locked and hallways emptied until staff announce “all clear.”

Similar tactics have been utilized by schools in other cities hit by immigration raids across the country. The Los Angeles Unified School District established a donation fund for affected families and created security perimeters around schools last summer.

But it appears nowhere have students felt the repercussions of local raids more than in Minneapolis.

Many schools have seen attendance plummet by double-digit percentages. At least three other, smaller charter schools in Minneapolis have completely shut down in-person learning.

At this high school, which administrators asked The Times not to identify for fear of retaliation by the Trump administration, 84% of students are Latino and 12% are Black. Staff and students are being identified by first or middle names.

A balloon sits in a hallway at the high school.

Doors and windows are covered at the school so outsiders can’t see in.

Three students have been detained — and later released — in recent weeks. Two others were followed into the school parking lot and questioned about their immigration status. Several have parents who were deported or who self-deported. Latino staff said they have also been stopped and questioned about their legal status.

“Our families feel hunted,” said Noelle, the school district’s executive director.

Students returned from winter break on Jan. 6, the same day 2,000 additional immigration agents were dispatched to Minneapolis to carry out what Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Todd Lyons called the agency’s “largest immigration operation ever.” The next day, an ICE officer fatally shot Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three.

“I describe that day as if you’re on an airplane and it’s really bad turbulence, and you have to keep your cool because, if you don’t, you lose the entire building,” said Emmanuel, an assistant principal. “It felt like we went through war.”

Attendance dropped by the hundreds as parents grew too afraid to let their children leave home. School leaders decided to offer online learning and scrambled to find enough laptops and mobile hotspots for the many students who didn’t have devices or internet. Some teachers sent packets of schoolwork to students by mail.

A teacher at the Minneapolis high school that administrators asked The Times not to identify for fear of retaliation by the Trump administration. Teachers and students there also asked not to be identified.

Noelle said in-person attendance, which had dropped below 400 students, increased by around 100 in the third week of January. Then federal agents shot and killed 37-year-old intensive care nurse Alex Pretti, and attendance plummeted again.

Rochelle Van Dijk, vice president of Great MN Schools, a nonprofit supporting schools that serve a majority of students of color, said many schools have redirected tens of thousands of dollars away from other critical needs toward online learning, food distribution and safety planning. For students still attending in person, recess has frequently been canceled, and field trips and after-school activities paused.

Even if students return to school by mid-February, Van Dijk said, they will have missed 20% of their instructional days for the year.

“A senior who can’t meet with their college counselor right now just missed support needed for major January college application deadlines. Or a second-grader with a speech delay who is supposed to be in an active in-person intervention may lose a critical window of brain plasticity,” she said. “It is not dissimilar to what our nation’s children faced during COVID, but entirely avoidable.”

At the high school, administrators said they tried to create “a security bubble,” operating under protocols more typical of active shooter emergencies.

Gym class at the Minneapolis school, where many students are so afraid of ICE that they won’t go to the campus.

If agents were to enter the building without a judicial warrant, the school would go into a full lockdown, turning off lights, staying silent and moving out of sight. That hasn’t happened, though ICE last year rescinded a policy that had barred arrests at so-called sensitive locations, including schools.

Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, said that blaming ICE for low school attendance is “creating a climate of fear and smearing law enforcement.”

“ICE does not target schools,” McLaughlin said. “If a dangerous or violent illegal criminal alien felon were to flee into a school, or a child sex offender is working as an employee, there may be a situation where an arrest is made to protect the safety of the student. But this has not happened.”

Alondra, a 16-year-old junior who was born in the U.S., was arrested after school Jan. 21 near a clinic where she had gone with a friend, also 16, to pick up medication for her grandmother.

She said that as she was about to turn into the parking lot, another car sped in front of her, forcing her to stop. Alondra saw four men in ski masks with guns get out. Scared, she put her car in reverse. Before she could move, she said, another vehicle pulled up and struck her car from behind.

Alondra shared videos with The Times that she recorded from the scene. She said agents cracked her passenger window in an attempt to get in.

“We’re with you!” a bystander can be heard telling her in the video as others blow emergency whistles.

She said she rolled her window down and an agent asked to see her ID. She gave him her license and U.S. passport.

“Is it necessary to have to talk to you or can I talk to an actual cop?” she asks in the video. “Can I talk to an actual cop from here?”

“We are law enforcement,” the agent replies. “What are they gonna do?”

In another video, an agent questions Alondra’s friend about the whereabouts of his parents. Another agent is heard saying Alondra had put her car in reverse.

“We’re underage,” she tells him. “We’re scared.”

A sign directs students to line up for their school bus route. Bus pickups are staggered, with one group of students escorted outside at a time. This way, the children can be taken back inside the school or onto the bus more easily if ICE arrives.

A Minneapolis Public Radio reporter at the scene said agents appeared to have rear-ended Alondra’s car. But Alondra said an agent claimed she had caused the accident.

“It’s just a simple accident, you know what I mean?” he says in the video. “We’re not gonna get on you for trying to hit us or something.”

“Can you let us go, please?” her friend, visibly shaken, asks the agent at his window.

Alondra and her friend were handcuffed and placed in a U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicle as observers filmed the incident. At least two observers were arrested as agents deployed tear gas and pepper spray, according to an MPR report.

The agents took the students to the federal Whipple Building. Alondra said the agents separated the friends, looked through and photographed her belongings and had her change into blue canvas shoes before chaining her feet together and placing her in a holding cell alone.

“I asked at least five times if I could let my guardian know what was happening, because I was underage, but they never let me,” she said.

Finally, around 7 p.m., agents released Alondra — with no paperwork about the incident — and she called her aunt to pick her up. Her friend was released later.

Meanwhile, school administrators who saw the MPR video called Alondra’s family and her friend’s.

Alondra said officers didn’t know what had happened to her car and told her they would call her when she could pick it up. But no one has called, and school administrators who helped her make calls to Minneapolis impound lots haven’t been able to locate it either.

Though Alondra could attend classes online, she felt she had to return to campus.

“I feel like if I would have stayed home, it would have gone worse for me,” she said, her lip quivering. “I use school as a distraction.”

The backstage of the auditorium, dubbed the bodega, has been turned into a well-stocked pantry for families who are too afraid to leave their homes.

A volunteer organizes donated items for distribution to families at the Minneapolis high school.

A teacher makes a delivery to a family in Minneapolis.

Teachers and volunteers sort donations by category, including hygiene goods, breakfast cereals, bread and tortillas, fruit and vegetables, diapers and other baby items. Bags are labeled with each student’s name and address and filled with the items their family has requested. After school, teachers deliver the items to the students’ homes.

Noelle said some students, particularly those who are homeless, are now at risk of failing because they’re in “survival mode.” Their learning is stagnating, she said.

“A lot of these kids are — I mean, they want to be — college-bound,” Noelle said. “How do you compete [for admission] with the best applicants if you’re online right now and doing one touch-point a day with one teacher because that’s all the technology that you have?”

On Thursday afternoon, 20 of 44 students had shown up for an AP world history class where the whiteboard prompt asked, “Why might some people resort to violent resistance rather than peaceful protest?”

Upstairs, in an 11th-grade U.S. history class, attendance was even worse — four students, with 17 others following online. The topic was what the teacher called the nation’s “first immigration ban,” the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.

Students head to their bus at the high school.

Morgan, the teacher, asked the students to name a similarity between the Chinese exclusion era and current day.

“Immigrants getting thrown out,” one student offered.

“Once they leave, they can’t come back,” said another.

“The fact that this is our first ban on immigration also sets a precedent that this stuff can happen over and over and over again,” Morgan said.

Sophie, who teachers English language learners, led the effort to organize the online school option. She is from Chile and says she has struggled to put her own fear aside to be present for the students who rely on her. Driving to school scares her, too.

“It’s lawless,” she said. “It doesn’t matter that I have my passport in my purse. The minute I open my mouth, they’re going to know that I’m not from here.”

Sophie said she once had to call a student’s mother to say her husband had been taken by immigration agents after another school staffer found his car abandoned on a nearby street.

“Having to have that conversation wasn’t on my bingo card for that day, or any day,” she said. “Having to say that we have proof that your husband was taken and hearing that woman crying and couldn’t talk, and I’m like, what do I say now?”

Close to the 4:15 p.m. dismissal, administrators again donned their neon vests and logged on to the neighborhood Signal call for possible immigration activity.

Students walk to a bus Thursday. Dismissal used to be a free-for-all, with large numbers of students rushing outside as soon as the bell rang.

Dismissal used to be a free-for-all — once the final bell rang, students would rush outside to find their bus or ride or to begin the walk home.

Now pickups are staggered, with students escorted outside one bus at a time. Teachers grab numbered signs and tell students to line up according to their route. If ICE agents pull up, administrators said, they could rush a smaller group of students onto the bus or back inside.

In yet another example of how the immigration raids had crippled attendance, some buses were nearly empty. On one bus, just two students hopped on.

A look at The Times’ top 25 boys’ basketball rankings for the Southland after Week 11.

Rk. School (Rec.); Comment; ranking last week

1. SIERRA CANYON (21-1): Hosts Loyola on Tuesday; 1

2. REDONDO UNION (24-3): Plays at Mira Costa on Tuesday; 2

3. SANTA MARGARITA (24-3): No. 2 seed in Trinity League tournament; 4

4. SHERMAN OAKS NOTRE DAME (18-6): Hosts Crespi on Tuesday in Mission League semifinal; 5

5. ST. JOHN BOSCO (19-6): Top seed in Trinity League tournament; 3

6. HARVARD-WESTLAKE (22-5): Wolverines have lost three of their last four games; 5

7. LA MIRADA (21-6): Matadores can enter playoffs with a 14-game win streak; 7

8. DAMIEN (26-4): Hosts Etiwanda for Baseline League title on Tuesday; 8

9. CORONA DEL MAR (26-1): At Newport Harbor on Monday; 9

10. CORONA CENTENNIAL (24-5): Playing in Big VIII League championship game; 10

11. ETIWANDA (25-2): Rematch with Damien on Tuesday; 11

12. CRESPI (19-10): Wins over Loyola, Harvard-Westlake give Celts playoff spot; 13

13. VILLAGE CHRISTIAN (21-6): Needs win over Maranatha for Olympic League title; 11

14. INGLEWOOD (24-5): Jason Crowe Jr. is averaging 44.1 points; 14

15. CREAN LUTHERAN (21-7): Crestview League champion; 15

16. JSERRA (17-11): Big win over Mater Dei thanks to Jaden Bailes; 17

17. LOS ALAMITOS (18-9): Tyler Lopez having all-league season; 18

18. BRENTWOOD (24-3): Big wins over Crossroads, Windward, Campbell Hall; 24

19. LOYOLA (15-14): Win over St. Francis put Cubs in playoffs; 25

20. ST. FRANCIS (21-8): Two losses to Loyola put Golden Knights on the bubble; 20

21. ORANGE LUTHERAN (18-8): Win over St. John Bosco changes everything; NR

22. ELSINORE (26-0): Unbeaten regular season within reach; 22

23. ROLLING HILLS PREP (21-6): Set for Division 1 playoffs; 23

24. MIRA COSTA (23-4): Can Mustangs put up a fight vs. Redondo Union?; 21

25. SAN GABRIEL ACADEMY (17-8): Faces Pacifica Christian on Monday; 16

To say that DeAndre Cole inherited a difficult challenge when he became the boys’ basketball coach at Compton Centennial this season would be an understatement. The team went 1-23 last season and had a streak of seven consecutive losing seasons since finishing 13-13 in 2017-2018.

“The expectation was to bring the winning culture, to bring some excitement,” the 44-year-old Cole said.

Incredibly, Centennial has already finished its regular season with a 12-12 record and represents one of the biggest turnaround stories in Southern California. The .500 record means Centennial is eligible for a Southern Section at-large playoff berth.

This is a program where UCLA assistant coach Rod Palmer once had teams competing against the best when alumnus Arron Affalo was bombing in threes and delivering dunks before going on to UCLA and the NBA. Centennial won the 2004 state Division III championship. This year’s team went 1-6 in the Ocean League, where Inglewood and high-scoring Jason Crowe Jr. won the league title.

Cole once served as an assistant coach at Washington Prep and Manual Arts. He was set to be head coach at Morningside until the school closed last year.

He’s a Crenshaw grad who says he was kicked off the basketball team by legendary coach Willie West. Asked what he learned, Cole said, “It takes hard work and being dedicated buying into the program and no player is bigger than the program.”

He said his problem was not listening to West and thinking he was the next Stephen Curry.

Even though Centennial had only six players available much of the season for varsity action, Cole created a junior varsity team, so help is on the way if the team gets a playoff spot. The team’s best two players have been guards Jaden McDonald, a transfer from Detroit, and Edward Johnson, who used to be home-schooled.

Five of the six players have played football, including Joshua Crathers, who was the school’s quarterback for two years.

Asked what he learned after winning one game last season, Crathers said, “Don’t give up. When you lose, you get better.”

Cole had to be creative when he lost a player against St. Bonaventure, leaving the Apaches with four players. A student who was a friend of a Centennial player with minimal practices was asked to join the team for a single game.

“We need you to show up,” Cole told the student.

Cole remembers him being so out of shape that he needed a water break after the first play of the game. Centennial won 63-58.

McDonald said the team has no choice but to be in their best shape knowing players have to play the entire game.

“I feel everything that comes to us is deserving, but we have to work hard,” McDonald said.

There’s no reason the program can’t continue to grow considering the Compton area is filled with talent. Remember the city is where DeMar DeRozan, Patrick Christopher, Tyson Chandler and Corey Benjamin once played. It’s about keeping the neighborhood kids home and showing players can develop and explore their basketball dreams.

Considering how far Centennial plunged, a 12-12 record at this point is a stunning reward for the school, players, parents and fans. Let’s see where Cole can take them.

The school is about to go through a rebuilding phase, with the gym being torn down and replaced on a whole new campus.

The straight outta of Compton story is in its beginning stage, but it sure looks like things are changing fast.