WILMINGTON - Fast paced, and in your face.

That was how the 2022-2023 Port Of Los Angeles High boys basketball team turned their program around.

After losing all but one of their 14 games the previous year, which was the first after not playing a shortened 2021 season due to the coronavirus pandemic, these young but dangerous Polar Bears squad…

2022 was an unpredictable year in the world of San Pedro Prep Softball.

San Pedro, Port Of Los Angeles and Mary Star Of The Sea High Schools all came in relatively young, fresh and full of potential, eager to show their opposition what they were capable of. All three schools combined to have just eight seniors on their respective rosters, while the…

The 2022 San Pedro Prep Baseball season was the first fully felt-like-a-season kind of year.

For the first time since the pandemic, San Pedro, Port Of Los Angeles and Mary Star Of The Sea High Schools could finally participate in tournaments where they could play against other schools outside of their own respective CIF sections.

San Pedro…

At last, a full season of hoops for the first time since 2018-2019 in the world of San Pedro Prep Sports.

Starting hot early, overcoming a rough patch coming into their own tournament, and maintaining that confidence and belief in one another, San Pedro High boys basketball posted a solid 19-10 overall season which ended in the CIF-Los Angeles City…

The San Pedro Prep Sports world began not-so normally, with many sports teams at San Pedro, Mary Star Of The Sea and Port Of Los Angeles High Schools all hoping to just play again due to the overwhelming nature of the coronavirus pandemic which caused a national shutdown on March 14, 2020.

Everything returned with a carefully planned twist in March for…

The 2021 San Pedro Prep Girls Volleyball season was a celebration of a return to somewhat normalcy.

Fans were able to take in the hard-hitting, fast and furious action while still adhering to the rules of the pandemic era that is still ongoing with seemingly no end in sight.

One area school managed to stand triumphant even when not fully…

With the recent two California Interscholastic Federation sectional championships claimed last month by both San Pedro High baseball and Mary Star Of The Sea High girls basketball, San Pedro Prep Sports has finally come full circle in the ten years of San Pedro News Pilot online, which gives us the opportunity to review the ten best CIF sports championship…

San Pedro High baseball was well represented on the 2021 All-City Open Division teams after capturing the program's second CIF-Los Angeles City Section major division championship when it won the Open Division title on June 19 with a 7-6 victory over El Camino Real.

Senior INF/P Dylan Kordic was named the City Section's Open Division Player Of The…

Springing up excitement in 2021 for San Pedro Prep Softball was the uprising of a new era for San Pedro High softball.

First-year head coach Leanna Flores injected some well-needed optimism and a whole new level of intensity to a program that has produced 17 CIF-Los Angeles City Section championship seasons. With the combination of senior leadership…

The 2021 San Pedro Prep Baseball season... was a pick-up of what the 2020 season left off, due to the early cancellation of it due to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.

Finishing their business the most out of all three schools, is San Pedro High.

Losing most of their incredible talent from their abbreviated 2020 campaign, the Pirates…

High school sports is coming back.

One year after the world of San Pedro Prep Sports played its last sporting events on March 11, 2020 before the coronavirus pandemic forced the abrupt shutdown of all sports all across the nation days later, youth sports is starting to make a resurgence with the new Los Angeles County Public Health guidelines in place.…

The San Pedro Prep Sports world all shut down, along with the rest of high school sports in California, with the sudden arrival and rising cases of the coronavirus pandemic on March 14, 2020, yet there were still some amazing memories that were gained, even after the fact with several signing day ceremonies.

Here are the top five stories of an…

Even in these perilous pandemic times... several San Pedro Prep Sports student athletes still managed to keep their dreams alive with a series of signing days during the Holiday season.

It culminated on Wednesday, December 16 with four San Pedro High standouts, two each from both football and girls soccer, celebrating their achievements with a virtual…

On the birthday of former San Pedro Prep Sports softball pitching great Nicolle Miranda (pictured alongside Kelsea Short to her left), here is a special look-back at the early dynasty created by Port Of Los Angeles High softball once the San Pedro-based Charter high school founded the program in 2010.

The first year of softball playoff eligibility in…

For a school and sports year that ended sooner than expected, the San Pedro Prep Sports 2019-2020 season still had its strong points.

There were eight league champions (none from the Spring Sports due to all those seasons ending early due to the coronavirus pandemic), four on-campus signing day ceremonies, four regular season tournament…

Announced on July 20, the California Interscholastic Federation has postponed all sports in the Fall semester, making the high school sports season to start as early as December 2020.

The three traditional seasons - Fall, Winter and Spring - are now tentatively scheduled to be condensed together between December and June into two seasons, Fall…

San Pedro News Pilot 2019-2020 Prep Sports Players Of The Year

Football: Joshua Ward (San Pedro).

Girls Volleyball: Sammie Sabra & Serena Ramirez (Mary Star)

Boys Basketball: Ian Hietala (San Pedro).

Girls Basketball: Isabella Serrano & Sarah Leyba (Mary Star).

Boys Soccer: Billy Lopez (San…

As we continue this special San Pedro News Pilot Class Of 2020 Spotlight feature series on student athletes at the San Pedro-based high schools whose senior years were cut short due to the coronavirus, here is our feature on Port Of Los Angeles High softball outfielder Briana Vigil.

A member of back-to-back Coliseum League championship teams her first…

As we continue on this special San Pedro News Pilot Class Of 2020 Spotlight feature series on student athletes at the San Pedro-based high schools whose senior year was cut short due to the coronavirus, here is our feature on Port Of Los Angeles High baseball catcher Anthony D'Anna.

The Marymount California-bound D'Anna was a man of many hats for the…

Just like every other Spring sport in high school, the 2020 San Pedro Prep Softball season was short circuited by the coronavirus pandemic, which wiped out tremendous aspirations for the teams of San Pedro, Port Of Los Angeles and Mary Star Of The Sea High Schools, all of which had at least one college bound player on their roster.

It also…