It's March Madness.. San Pedro Prep Softball style.

A wild intersectional hometown showdown ended with a St. Patrick's Day delight on a Friday afternoon for Mary Star Of The Sea High softball.

With two outs and two in scoring position in the bottom of the seventh with the game tied, Mary Star junior shortstop Janelle Vega blasted the first pitch from San Pedro freshman Jenna Ortega into center field, driving in freshman second baseman Mariah Candela for the 9-8 home victory.

This was a back-and-forth encounter that had a lot of twists, turns, and like the NCAA basketball tournaments, it was also a game of runs, especially in the fifth inning.

With San Pedro ahead, 3-2, the Pirates struck for three runs to push their lead up to 6-2, strengthened by a pair of RBI-singles by senior designated player Marissa Markel and…

VENICE - San Pedro High girls basketball hasn't had a season as glorious as this... since it was 1986.

Fast-forward to Friday, February 24, 2023, for the next date of glory for the Lady Pirates as they went overtime to defeat Chatsworth Charter, 52-51 in the CIF-Los Angeles City Section Division 2 championship game at Venice High to capture the program's fourth CIF girls basketball title, and first in nearly four decades.

With this win, the Lady Pirates (21-8 overall) capped off an incredible run as they have now won 12 straight games which included going unbeaten in the Marine League for their first league crown since... well, 1986.

Everything seemed to work against fourth-year head coach Kevin Simpson in the midway point of the fourth quarter, as two of his top scorers, both junior forwards in Shalia Coleman and Maia…

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 did an about face, and adopted a relentless, fast-paced style that worked out well for them. So well in fact, they made some big-time history on Thursday at Los Angeles Harbor College.

POLA shook off a slow first quarter start against New Designs Watts of Los Angeles, pulled away in the second quarter, then dominated the second half all the way to a 67-39 victory over the Knights in the CIF-Los Angeles City Section Division 5 championship game, giving the Polar Bears their first…

In the case of the San Pedro High girls basketball program... about time to party like it's 1986.

Who would have believed that this once down-trodden program who won only one game in the 2010-2011 season rise to the very top of the Marine League considering the previous decades-long dominance of CIF-Los Angeles City Section power Narbonne of Harbor City along with some league title success of their rival Carson?

Well, this 2022-2023 edition of Lady Pirates' hoops definitely believed, and they were determined to make it a reality.

This past Friday was the culmination of those beliefs emphatically sealed with a convincing 61-19 victory over visiting Gardena to not only capture the outright Marine League championship for the first time in 37 years, but to also finish an unbeaten, undeterred, and undisputed 10-0 run through the…

Coaches and players have come and gone in the San Pedro High girls soccer program since the Marine League was reformed in the 1999-2000 season, but the end result, with the exception of one year (2005), has always remained consistently the same.

For the 18th consecutive season, San Pedro remains sitting on the league throne as they posted back-to-back season ending victories over Gardena, 4-0 this past Wednesday at Mike Walsh Pirate Stadium, followed by a 4-1 triumph at rival Narbonne of Harbor City on Friday. In all, the Pirates have been solid all year long, posting a 21-2 overall record going into the upcoming CIF-Los Angeles City Section Division 1 playoffs with the pairings coming up on Monday.

In Manuel Maciel's second year as coach, San Pedro captured their second straight Best In The West Tournament title in Montebello, while…

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NORTHRIDGE - Redemption. 

One year ago, San Pedro High girls volleyball reached their seventh CIF-Los Angeles City Section championship match appearance, only to get their dreams of a fifth title swept away in the Division 1 final by Sylmar.

The majority of the team took that defeat really hard and vowed to make it back to a championship match with another opportunity to make it count. A determined team with 13 seniors on an experienced 19-player roster did exactly that from the opening serve of the 2022 season, all the way to returning to the CIF-LACS Division 1 title tilt. This time, they finished in an impressive way on Friday.

Taking on top-seeded Birmingham of Lake Balboa, who were the Division 1 champions in 2020, San Pedro shook off a tough first-set loss before delivering the reserve sweep for a 18-25, 25-16, 25-17,…

WILMINGTON - There has been plenty of incredible memories in this century-old Battle Of The Harbor football rivalry between San Pedro and Banning of Wilmington High that dates back to their first meeting all the way back in 1921.

Just over a full century later, came the biggest battle of all.

The Pirates and Pilots both came in with equal 3-0 Marine League records, relatively breezing through league play before finally meeting in a highly anticipated showdown pitting the No.1 and No.2 teams in the CIF-Los Angeles City Section according to the CalPreps rankings, just like last year's battle, which the Pilots won, 48-41 at Mike Walsh Pirate Stadium in a high scoring war.

On this Friday night, home field advantage was switched... and so did the bragging rights in the Harbor Area once again.

Relying on a stingy defensive…