Eric Sondheimer

1 week ago | latimes.com | Eric Sondheimer

The one-year experiment of Tajh Ariza playing for his father’s alm mater, Westchester High, has ended. The 6-foot-9 junior has transferred to St. John Bosco. Ariza led Westchester to the City Section Open Division championship and was named City Section co-player of the year. He previously attended St. Bernard before transferring to Westchester. He will rejoin his former St. Bernard teammate, Christian Collins, who went to St. John Bosco last season.

1 week ago | latimes.com | Eric Sondheimer

Spring football practice begins this month, and one of the players with a terrific upside is junior left-handed quarterback Wyatt Brown. For three seasons, he was Santa Monica’s star in the making. Then he transferred to Sherman Oaks Notre Dame for the spring semester seeking to challenge himself. Through running the 400 meters and lifting weights, he’s improving his speed, strength and stamina. He has grown to 6 feet 4 and 200 pounds.

1 week ago | latimes.com | Eric Sondheimer

Former Servite High coach Troy Thomas will be attending next week’s NFL draft in Green Bay, Wis., at the invitation of Mason Graham, his former defensive lineman. “He told me to dress nice,” Thomas said. Graham and receiver Tetairoa McMillan, another Servite grad from the 2021 team, are expected to be first-round draft picks. “It’s exciting for them and their families. Both were great young men and represented Servite in such a positive way,” Thomas said.

1 week ago | latimes.com | Eric Sondheimer

If anyone was hoping to get in some surfing Tuesday afternoon in Huntington Beach after watching the Oilers take on Los Alamitos in a big Sunset League baseball game, Ethan Porter did them a big favor. Porter hit a walk-off home run on the first pitch of the bottom of the eighth inning to finalize a 3-2 Huntington Beach victory. The sun had come out, the clouds disappeared and Huntington Beach was being Huntington Beach, improving to 16-2 overall and 8-0 in league play.

1 week ago | latimes.com | Eric Sondheimer

Cameron Joyce is moving from St. Ignatius in Cleveland to become basketball coach at Loyola. Cameron Joyce, whose father, Dru Joyce II, coached LeBron James in high school, is the new basketball coach at Loyola. He was head coach at St. Ignatius in Cleveland and has experience working at the college level. His father was head coach at St. Vincent-St. Mary during James’ high school career. Loyola took a long look at some local high school coaches but ended up going outside California to select Joyce.