Thirteen champions will be crowned Friday and Saturday in the Southern Section Championships presented by Farmers.
State Championships: JSerra, Dana Hills and Trabuco Hills also crack the top 5 in the team competition.
Southern Section playoffs: Mater Dei upsets third-seeded Long Beach Poly to set up an all-Trinity League final.
At stake this week is a trip to the Southern Section finals.
The dead weight of the playoffs has been eliminated as the real battles for the championship begin.
Can Corona del Mar win its third title in a row? Can Mission Viejo take down St. John Bosco? Let the discussions begin.
Wednesday was the first day athletes from several sports could sign papers committing to a particular college, and the college must in turn provide a scholarship.
Mission Viejo rules Orange County football through the regular season, but the playoffs is where real superiority is counted.
Nonperishable food items will be collected for Veterans First.
Despite season-ending victories over Servite and Santa Margarita, JSerra doesn't receive one of two at-large berths in the Pac-5 Division. Other losers countywide include Trabuco Hills and Laguna Beach.
The final week of the regular season brings some decisive match-ups.
See the latest football, water polo and volleyball highlights from local schools.
There are a couple of big movers after big victories over the weekend, but Mission Viejo remains No. 1.
There are only two weeks left in the season, and the playoff picture should be more focused come Saturday morning.
The search for the replacement for Harry Welch has begun. The school figures to get applications from throughout the United States.
A new team breaks into the top 10, and an old stalwart drops out. Trinity League continues to dominate, but in what order?
The Struggling Wolverines faced off against arguably the Stallions' best team yet.
Toughest tickets around are for South Coast League games.
A team in South Orange County make a positive move upward.
The Anaheim Ducks will host Hockey Fights Cancer Night at Sunday's game as part of a monthlong league-wide initiative.
A night race at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana brought the IndyCar Series to a close, but Helio Castroneves was unable to overtake Scott Dixon for the championship. Will Power won the event.
The second week of league play and some teams are finding themselves in must-win type of situations.
Trinity and South Coast Leagues are in the top 20 toughest football leagues in the nation, according to a prep website.
League play begins, and there are some whoppers on the schedule.
Check out all the highlights from Trabuco Hills High's challenging match against JSerra.
Four of the top five teams are from the Trinity League, including JSerra.
Huge south O.C. matchup looms between JSerra and Trabuco Hills.
Mission Viejo is ranked No. 1 for the third week in a row.
County's top-ranked team has an easy time of it against the Wolverines.
The fourth- and fifth-ranked teams in Orange County face off in a battle for Santa Margarita Parkway supremacy.
Mission Viejo is an obvious choice at No. 1, and upstart Trabuco Hills—also from the South Coast League—gets the nod as the No. 2 ranked public school in Orange County.
A cardboard box laced with honey helped trap a swam of bees that stopped a Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Seattle Mariners game Sunday in Anaheim.
Reo Kobayashi is representing Orange County at the 2013 Mission Viejo wheelchair tennis camp.
The highest finisher from Aliso Viejo in the half marathon was Al Ellaboudy, 48, who finished with a time of 1:56:37.
Aliso Niguel's Danielle Darden was among the rest of the field that had no answer for Long Beach Poly's Arianna Washington in the girls' 200 meters at the State Track and Field Championships.
Playoffs: Unlike Aliso Niguel, Temecula Valley continued its high-scoring ways.
Eight of the locals reportedly finished the race before the blasts.
Daniel Ad'm Dusenbury is barred from the sport after allegedly admitting to an affair with a 15-year-old.