Barry Punzal
Sports Editor at Noozhawk
We are the sports section for @noozhawk, covering local sports in the Santa Barbara area. Contact us at [email protected]
Articles
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6 days ago |
noozhawk.com | Mark Patton |Barry Punzal
Overview: The Santa Barbara Foresters have won the National Baseball Congress World Series 10 times since 2006 A baseball game is like true love: It has the potential to last forever. There’s no limit to the number of possible extra innings, just as there’s no end to the ties that bind the human heart. Bill Pintard, the longtime manager of the Santa Barbara Foresters, holds onto those maxims at age 78 as tightly as anyone who ever gripped a baseball.
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6 days ago |
noozhawk.com | Barry Punzal
The Dos Pueblos baseball team will make its debut in the CIF SoCal Championships as the No. 1 seed in Division 3. The Chargers will open the eight-team tournament against No. 8 St. Anthony of Long Beach on Tuesday at Scott O’Leary Field. Game time is scheduled at 4 p.m.Dos Pueblos (22-11) enters the tournament as the CIF-SS Division 4 runner-up. It lost to Ganesha, 8-2, in the championship game on Saturday at Blair Field. St. Anthony (21-9) was blanked by Elsinore, 2-0, in the Division 5 final.
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1 week ago |
noozhawk.com | Mark Patton |Barry Punzal
Overview: Dylan Axelrod, the 927th player chosen in the 2007 MLB Draft, pitched in Major League Baseball for both the Chicago White Sox and Cincinnati Reds Little Dylan Axelrod had wished for a miracle. He got one on Sept. 7, 2011, when he made his very improbable pitching debut in Major League Baseball. But it wasn’t the miracle he’d requested. His biggest wish was that his mother, Joni, would win her battle against breast cancer. She died on his 10th birthday in 1995.
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2 weeks ago |
noozhawk.com | Mark Patton |Barry Punzal
Overview: Ron Anderson’s 10 years in the NBA included the 1988-89 season when he averaged 16.2 points and 5.0 rebounds while playing for the Philadelphia 76ers alongside Charles Barkley Ron Anderson’s first shot in organized basketball took flight like the 1938 plane trip of New York pilot Douglas “Wrong-Way” Corrigan. Corrigan landed in Ireland instead of his intended destination of Long Beach, California.
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3 weeks ago |
noozhawk.com | Barry Punzal
It was an up-and-down regular season for the Santa Barbara High boys volleyball team. But timing is everything in sports, and the Dons found their groove at the right time, elevating their game to a championship level for the postseason. After losing two of their last three matches to end the regular campaign, they’ve stepped up and reeled off four playoff wins to reach a CIF-Southern Section division final for the 10th time in program history.
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