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Daily Pilot sports coverage coming to HB, Fountain Valley, Laguna Beach, Sunset Beach and Seal Beach

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Sports readers in Huntington Beach, Fountain Valley, Laguna Beach, Sunset Beach and Seal Beach, The Daily Pilot is coming to you, new and improved, as this community newspaper has expanded its circulation beyond Newport Beach and Costa Mesa.

That means the Pilot will cover sports for 15 high schools, six in Huntington Beach (HB, Edison, Marina, Ocean View, Brethren Christian and Liberty Christian), four in Newport Beach (Newport Harbor, Coroan del Mar, Sage Hill and Pacifica Christian), two in Costa Mesa (CMHS and Estancia), two in Fountain Valley (FV and Los Amigos) and the Laguna Beach Breakers.

This is a return for The Daily Pilot, as the Pilot last covered these cities in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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Athletic directors, coaches, athletes and athletes’ families please take note and let us know what’s going on for sports at your schools. We want to be there for the games, tout the accolades and tell all the stories.

Our Friday edition will feature the special Coastal Sports section, which will include extensive reporting from our sports staff.

The Pilot has 25 editorial staff members, four veterans in sports, including yours truly, the sports editor, who has worked for Times Community News for 14 years, 10 as the sports editor. Among my duties, I will be covering girls’ golf, the Toshiba Classic, club sports and youth sports in the fall. My email is steven.virgen@latimes.com; @SteveVirgen on Twitter.

It will be 30 years in November at the Times Community News for Barry Faulkner (barry.faulkner@latimes.com; @BarryFaulkner5 on Twitter), the assistant sports editor who was the Huntington Beach Independent sports editor from 1986-1989. He is covering college sports, general assignment preps and field hockey this season.

Matt Szabo (matthew.szabo@latimes.com; @mjszabo), who has worked for TCN for 10 years, will be busy this fall with boys’ water polo and girls’ tennis.

David Carrillo Peñaloza (david.carrillo@latimes.com; @ByDCP), who has been with The Daily Pilot for 10 years, is your go-to guy for football and girls’ volleyball.

We are planning to fill the reporter position for boys’ and girls’ cross country very soon.

The Daily Pilot sports coverage aims to be the main source for community sports, especially high school.

Let the games begin.

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