Eric Sondheimer is the prep sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times. He has been honored seven times by the California Prep Sportswriters Assn. for best prep sports column. A graduate of Cal State Northridge, he joined the Daily News as prep editor in 1980. He left for 18 months in 1990 to be West Coast correspondent for the National Sports Daily. He returned to the Daily News in 1991 and joined The Times in 1997 covering high school sports. He has covered Southern California high school sports for more than 40 years.
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Corona opens Southern Section Division 1 playoffs with an 11-2 victory over Los Osos on Tuesday.
El Camino Real defeats Birmingham 4-3 on walk-off single by JuJu Haim in City Section Open Division semifinal on Tuesday.
DeAuna Louis will be a top athlete at the City Section track championships on Thursday at Birmingham.
Max Emberson shoots a 65 for Oaks Christian to win the Southern Section Division 2 boys’ golf tile. La Serna wins the Division 1 title.
It’s the greatest weekend for City Section athletics, because the baseball titles games in two divisions will be held Saturday at Dodger Stadium.
Alyssa Lee coaches El Camino Real to City Section championships in boys, girls and beach volleyball in the same academic year.
The Gondoliers’ center fielder knows it’s going to be a challenge when facing Sylmar in the Open Division semifinals. “We’ve worked so hard for four years.”
Darren Haggerty wins Division 4 long jump, high jump at Southern Section track and field championships.
Servite sophomore Benjamin Harris ran a career-best time of 10.32 seconds to win the 100 meters at the Southern Section track and field championships.
Championships are at stake in track and field, boys’ volleyball and boys’ lacrosse on Saturday.