Day: April 5, 2021

SANTA ANA — Mater Dei maintained the upper hand in its football rivalry with Servite on Saturday, April 3 but the Friars showed the gap might be closing. The Monarchs, ranked No. 1 in Orange County, never trailed but needed until the final play to secure a 24-17 victory in a hard-fought Trinity League game…

ANAHEIM — The challenges facing the Ducks are almost too numerous to list now that the remainder of the season can be measured in days and weeks rather than months. One of the biggest is how they play their final games, how they respond to their lowly status during the season’s stretch run. “The challenge…

Jenevieve Arlene Raygoza, one of four people killed in a shooting at a business complex in Orange last Wednesday, cherished holidays with her two boys This Easter Sunday, her husband, Armando Raygoza said, “She would have gotten the kids together and organized a little Easter egg hunt. She would have coordinated everything. She was so…

One day after Santa Anita took wagers totalling $24,282,400, its largest Derby Day handle since 2007, the speedster filly Gamine returned to the races for the first time in five months in what amounted to a paid workout against three overmatched opponents. The 4-year-old daughter of Into Mischief, who according to Bob Baffert is one…

By The Associated Press ROME — Priests, nuns and other people living in community settings are among the vaccination priority groups permitted under Italy’s revised national rollout. The country’s Piedmont region is going a step further by opening a special vaccine center just for the leaders of religious communities. Medical personnel at the Cottolengo hospital…

One team represents a Jesuit university in Spokane, Wash. with an undergraduate population of not quite 6,000. The other represents a Baptist university in Waco, Tex., with almost 15,000 undergraduates. Gonzaga’s only national championship, in anything, was a boxing title it shared with Idaho in 1950. That was the same year Baylor went to its…

One team represents a Jesuit university in Spokane, Wash. with an undergraduate population of not quite 6,000. The other represents a Baptist university in Waco, Tex., with almost 15,000 undergraduates. Gonzaga’s only national championship, in anything, was a boxing title it shared with Idaho in 1950. That was the same year Baylor went to its…

Dodgers right-hander Tony Gonsolin has been placed on the Injured List with shoulder inflammation. Gonsolin pitched 3 2/3 innings in the first Freeway Series game against the Angels on March 28 but had not pitched since the season started. But Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Gonsolin had been bothered by the shoulder discomfort for “a…

UCLA guard Tyger Campbell (10) drives up court ahead of Gonzaga guard Jalen Suggs (1) during the first half of a men’s Final Four NCAA college basketball tournament semifinal game, Saturday, April 3, 2021, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy) Gonzaga forward Drew Timme, left, and UCLA forward Cody Riley fight for…

UCLA guard Tyger Campbell (10) drives up court ahead of Gonzaga guard Jalen Suggs (1) during the first half of a men’s Final Four NCAA college basketball tournament semifinal game, Saturday, April 3, 2021, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy) Gonzaga forward Drew Timme, left, and UCLA forward Cody Riley fight for…

VATICAN CITY — Christianity’s most joyous feast day was celebrated worldwide with the faithful spaced apart in pews and singing choruses of “Hallelujah” through face coverings on a second Easter Sunday marked by pandemic precautions. From vast Roman Catholic cathedrals to Protestant churches, worshippers followed regulations on the coronavirus. In some European countries, citizens lined…