ON THE ROAD AGAIN: Cal State Fullerton’s...

ON THE ROAD AGAIN: Cal State Fullerton’s baseball team starts postseason play today (C6) in a familiar spot: on the road. . . . The Titans, the top-ranked team in the nation, will take part in the NCAA South Regional at Louisiana State University. Regional winners advance to the College World Series. . . . But travel doesn’t seem to bother the Titans: They advanced to the World Series last season by beating Oklahoma State--in Stillwater, Okla.

BIKER POWER: Costa Mesa securities lawyer L. Louis Raring rides a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and isn’t happy with the restrictions of the state’s helmet law. . . . On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Napolean A. Jones Jr. agreed with Raring’s lawsuit, that small, black, bowl-shaped caps known as beanies--many bikers’ way of minimal compliance--must be accepted. Police say they’ll continue to issue tickets to the beanie-wearing bikers until the judge’s order becomes official later this week.

ORANGE AID: Young Chilean playwright Guillermo Reyes says Orange County has played a major role in his career. Reyes’ latest play, “Allende by Pinochet,” is currently premiering at Cypress College. In 1991, Reyes, 32, was with the South Coast Repertory’s Hispanic Playwrights Project, developing his play “September 11.” . . . Both plays are about Chile, but Reyes may someday write an Orange County-based play: “Sooner or later, places I’ve lived come into my writing.”

COMMUNITY HAND: When 5-year-old Christopher Nguyen suffered serious injuries in the Oklahoma City bombing, some here wanted him to know his fellow Vietnamese Americans cared. Khoi Vu, publisher of Westminster’s Vietnamese-language magazine Ngay Mai (Tomorrow), and three colleagues recently flew there to visit him. They also left checks totaling $2,000 to help bombing victims. . . . Says Vu: “We wanted to let them know they are in the thoughts and hearts of those in the Vietnamese community.”