The scores from Friday’s games in the CIF-SS baseball playoffs and the updated schedule.

CIF-SS BASEBALL

DIVISION 2

First round

Arcadia 6, Pacifica 2

El Segundo 6, Santa Fe 4

Santa Margarita 7, Tahquitz 1

Damien 3, Sierra Canyon 2

Oaks Christian 4, Agoura 1

Temescal Canyon 5, La Quinta 2

Redondo 10, Santa Barbara 2

King 3, Bonita 2

Thousand Oaks 3, Glendora 2

Crescenta Valley 4, Rio Mesa 1

Quartz Hill 8, Lakewood 4

Maranatha 6, Trabuco Hills 1

St. Bonaventure 1, Simi Valley 0

Norco 5, Don Lugo 0

Villa Park 2, Corona del Mar 1 (13 innings)

Temecula Valley 5, San Dimas 1

Second round

Tuesday, May 7, 3:15 p.m.

Arcadia at El Segundo

Damien at Santa Margarita

Oaks Christian at Temescal Canyon

Redondo at King

Thousand Oaks at Crescenta Valley

Maranatha at Quartz Hill

St. Bonaventure at Norco

Villa Park at Temecula Valley

DIVISION 4

First round

Sonora 4, Lompoc 0

Moreno Valley 6, Citrus Hill 5

Irvine 8, Rancho Alamitos 3

Garey 1, Nogales 0

Alhambra 4, San Marino 2

Ontario Christian 5, Highland 2

Muir 23, Rancho Christian 1

Canyon Springs 4, Chino 0

St. Paul 10, Temple City 1

Loara 3, El Rancho 2

Carter 5, Sierra Vista 4

Kennedy 16, Mayfair 4

Mary Star 9, Burbank 2

Sunny Hills 2, Culver City 0

La Sierra 6, Schurr 3

Summit 4, Montclair 3

Second round

Tuesday, May 7, 3:15 p.m.

Sonora at Moreno Valley

Irvine at Garey

Ontario Christian at Alhambra

Canyon Springs at Muir

St. Paul at Loara

Carter at Kennedy

Mary Star at Sunny Hills

Summit at La Sierra

DIVISION 5

First round, Friday

Salesian 5, Fillmore 2

DIVISION 6

First round

Costa Mesa 6, de Toledo 2

Excelsior 12, Granite Hills 8

Vista del Lago 4, St. Monica 2

Adelanto 14, Aquinas 1

Calvary Murrieta 10, Anza Hamilton 0

El Monte 18, Riverside Notre Dame 5

Trinity Classical 6, Gladstone 5

Orange 6, Academy for Academic Excellence 5

Rowland 5, Nuview Bridge 4

St. Anthony 37, Lancaster Desert Christian 0

Carpinteria 4, Santa Clara 1

Miller 4, Cathedral City 3

Rio Hondo Prep 14, St. Genevieve 3

Sultana 20, Apple Valley Christian 1

Second round

Tuesday, May 7, 3:15 p.m.

Costa Mesa at Webb

Excelsior at Vista del Lago

Adelanto at Calvary Murrieta

Trinity Classical at El Monte

Orange at Faith Baptist

Rowland at St. Anthony

Miller at Carpinteria

Sultana at Rio Hondo Prep

SAN DIEGO — “I didn’t see any panic,” Dave Roberts said.

Not even when he saw Cody Bellinger crouched near first base, after he had dived unsuccessfully.

Not even when Roberts learned that Bellinger’s right shoulder had somehow come loose from the rest of him, and then re-entered wherever it was supposed to be.

“We did some strength testing with him, he took a few swings in the cage,” Roberts said. “I think he’ll be fine. But his shoulder popped out. That’s happened with him before.”

The Dodgers’ manager seemed calmer than the situation might dictate. But over the past three years, he’s seen almost everything happen to them before.

This opener of a three-game series with the reborn Padres might have seemed a big deal to the locals, although a majority of the sellout crowd in Petco Park was wearing blue. It was another day for the Dodgers, who fell behind 3-0 and took out the brick and mortar and built a 4-3 win, for a 21-13 record.

Center fielder A.J. Pollock is out for who knows how long with yet another elbow problem, but the Dodgers push through such setbacks because, a year ago, they were basically missing their rotation and third baseman Justin Turner, too. Amid cries to dissolve the molecular structure of the franchise, they got it together and won another NL West Division title in the 163rd game, then got to their second consecutive World Series.

This year’s travails will be unique to this year. Friday night was devoted to turning around some of the stragglers, dispelling worry among the faithful.

Clayton Kershaw gave Manny Machado a 3-and-2 slider that was embossed like an invitation. Machado whacked it 437 feet for a 2-0 San Diego lead in the first inning.

Left fielder Hunter Renfroe was dashing this way and that to rob Dodger bids for extra bases. Left-hander Eric Lauer, the 23-year-old in a rotation that has no one over 27, gave up no hits for the first four innings, by which time it was 3-0, thanks to Ian Kinsler’s home run off Kershaw.

Then Kershaw shut San Diego down through the sixth inning and posted his fourth quality start in four starts.

And the first Dodgers hit was a home run by Chris Taylor, who is now hitting .173.

Turner’s 11-pitch at-bat ended with a walk and helped create a bases-loaded, no-out situation in the sixth. The Dodgers got only one run, and 6-foot-9 lefty Brad Wieck got the final two outs.

But in the seventh, Austin Barnes took Wieck deep to tie it. Barnes, now getting the majority of catching duty, is hitting .218 with 11 RBIs in 27 games.

Kershaw now has a 2.87 ERA with 27 strikeouts in 26 innings. Outs that are achieved with 90 mph pitches still count the same as those achieved with 96.

“When you’re not feeling your best and still keep us in it and go six strong innings, that’s a pretty good effort,” Barnes said. “No matter what, his ability to battle and make pitches is next-level. As the game went on, he got stronger and stronger.”

The Dodgers’ habitual winning doesn’t make it easier for Barnes and Taylor and anyone else to hit when they’re struggling, but it does buy time.

“It’s a grind, it’s like anything else,” Barnes said. “It’s up and down. Tonight I just got a couple of balls in the zone. I felt pretty good at the end of spring training, hit a little bit of a skid. Now I’m feeling good again. This was a good win, a hard-fought win.”

HUNTINGTON BEACH – It was less than a year ago that Chase Budinger – a former NBA player – told this newspaper that he was working on his blocking in his new career as a beach volleyball player.

Now in his second year on the AVP Tour, Budinger is showing the progress he was looking for when he made that comment. He had a whopping eight blocks Saturday as he and teammate Casey Patterson – seeded sixth – defeated second-seeded Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena to advance to Sunday morning’s semifinals of the Huntington Beach Open.

Also advancing to the semifinals without a loss was the top-seeded women’s team of April Ross of Costa Mesa and Alix Klineman of Manhattan Beach.

This is the season-opener of the AVP Tour.

Budinger and Patterson, a seasoned veteran on the sand, won by scores of 21-18, 21-17. They will play No. 7-seeded Tim Bombgren and Troy Field, of San Clemente, in the semifinals Sunday at 12:15 p.m.

Dalhausser and Lucena were sent to the contender’s bracket, where they were eliminated by top-seeded Jake Gibb and Taylor Crabb in three sets. Gibb and Crabb will play eighth-seeded Tri Bourne and Trevor Crabb in the other semifinal at 11:15 a.m.

The championship match is at 3:30 p.m.

Budinger also had 13 kills, three digs and two aces. But it was those blocks Patterson loved to see.

“Yeah, Chase has the ability to hang and disrupt guys’ offense,” Patterson, of Huntington Beach, said of the 6-foot-7 Budinger.

He noticed Budinger when he was partnered with Sean Rosenthal in 2018.

“That shows how much of a veteran he is already,” Patterson said. “To be able to have a match like that against that team is what I saw six months ago when he was playing with Rosie – I knew that was a possibility.

“I said, ‘Man, that’s a guy that is only on his way up.’ “

Budinger, 30, spoke in humble tones when asked about his blocks.

“I think it started with our game plan,” he said. “Our coaches, we talk before the match and we had a game planned and I just kind of stuck with it and really just tried to read Nick’s arm swing to know if he was trying to shoot over me or dart it (on a) line or hit the seam.

“I really just stuck with the game plan and sometimes you get lucky when that happens.”

Patterson contributed 13 kills and 13 digs.

Interestingly, Dalhausser, who is 6-9, had nary a block in the match. Patterson explained how he believes that happened.

“You never go to the movie theater and sit in the front row,” he said. “You want to sit in the middle of the back, so that’s how I see my approach. If I pass, if I can get back, keep everything in front, you can see big Phil because he’s huge.

“If you get caught early and under it, then you’re lost and that’s when he takes full advantage of you. So for us, it was stay patient, keep that ball in front of us on our way up, so that we have some better range.”

Dalhausser had 11 kills, six digs and two aces and Lucena had 12 kills and 10 digs, but also 10 hitting errors, thanks in part to Budinger’s presence. Lucena is 6-foot-1.

Ross and Klineman defeated fourth-seeded Emily Day of Torrance and Betsi Flint in straight sets in the quarterfinals. Scores were 21-17, 21-5.

Ross and Klineman will square off with second-seeded Sara Hughes of Costa Mesa and Summer Ross in the semifinals at 10:15 a.m. Sunday.

The championship match is scheduled for 2 p.m.

The 6-5 Klineman had 15 kills, six digs and two blocks and Ross came through with six kills, eight digs and two aces.

Klineman and Ross won four AVP titles in 2018, their first year together. Klineman liked what she saw Saturday.

“Betsi and Emily are a great team, we’ve played against them a lot,” she said. “We knew it wasn’t going to be an easy match. Like April said, I don’t think we came out quite firing on all cylinders, but we kept building and getting stronger throughout the match; we figured out a little bit technically what was working.

“And we just went with it.”

Ross said it took a bit to get used to playing on stadium court because it was her team’s first match on that court this weekend.

“I think the wind is a little bit different in there, the elements are a little bit different and ittook a minute to get used to that,” she said, “so I’m glad we got a match on there today before tomorrow.”

Day, of Torrance, had seven kills, two digs and two blocks. Flint had 10 kills and 10 digs as well as 10 hitting errors.

The other women’s semifinals match will feature 14th-seeded Melissa Humana-Paredes and Sarah Pavan going against Day and Flint at 9:15 a.m., as Day and Flint battled back through the contender’s bracket.

SAN DIEGO — Corey Seager has not been himself this year. That much is obvious.

Since he made his big league debut in September 2015, Seager’s offensive production has been remarkably steady. Before hip and elbow surgeries last year, he had only one calendar month during which he hit less than .250 — the last month of 2017 when he was dealing with elbow and back woes (that would keep him off the Dodgers’ roster for the NLCS against the Chicago Cubs).

But he finished April this year batting .236 and will take a .223 average and .656 OPS into Sunday’s game with just three hits in his past 35 plate appearances and no home runs since April 12.

“I’m searching a little bit. Trying to figure it out a little bit,” Seager acknowledged. “But not far. Just missing a few little things.

“There’s a few things that are off, that I’m trying to work through, just trying to figure it out.”

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts categorized Seager as a hitter who is “mechanics driven.” That it would take time for Seager to rediscover those mechanics after missing most of the 2018 season is not surprising.

“I think that’s fair. Yeah, I do. I think that’s completely fair,” Roberts said. “You’re taking at-bats in spring training but there’s a different intensity. And with Corey, his body, the levers, the hips, the elbow — everything has changed with surgery. So now you’ve got the body composition, the timing, the mechanics all of that stuff — you look at the player and you just expect him to roll out big numbers. But it’s just not that easy.”

Seager admitted early in the season that there were parts of his game-day routine that he had forgotten because he had been out for so long — “There are things in my routine where I say, “I can’t believe I forgot to do that,’” he said. But Seager is not willing to point to last season’s hip and elbow surgeries as the reason for his slow start.

“I don’t want to blame it on that,” he said.

“You obviously knew you were going to need some ABs. The amount, I don’t know. There was always going to be an adjustment when you haven’t played in a long time. It’s been a really long time since you played every day, been a long time since you faced this kind of pitching. Yeah, you knew it was going to take some time.”

Roberts knew too and said he would have predicted 100 to 150 plate appearances would be required before Seager felt like himself again at the plate. After Saturday’s 1-for-5 night, he has 139 plate appearances post-surgery.

“You don’t want to be,” Seager said when asked if he was worried by his current slump. “That’s not how you’re wired. You’re wired to expect to fix it. It’s frustrating, yeah, but not worried.”

POP OUT

Playing first base Friday night, Cody Bellinger made a diving attempt on Eric Hosmer’s fourth-inning single through the right side of the infield. Bellinger landed hard on his right shoulder and was in obvious pain for a few moments.

After the game, Bellinger said his right shoulder “popped out.” After manipulating his right arm, the should popped back in. Bellinger said it has happened before including once last year. But Roberts kept him out of the lineup Saturday due to residual soreness from the injury.

“He was a little disappointed he wasn’t in there tonight. But I think the best thing is to give him an extra day,” Roberts said.

“It happened to him last year. As I recall, speaking with our trainers, it happened a few years ago. But this wasn’t as severe as last year and I really can’t recall if he missed time last year because of it. I do know he’s on this shoulder-strengthening program which if he hadn’t been on I’d hate to have seen what would have happened. But I like to think we have it under control.”

ALSO

Left-hander Tony Cingrani has been assigned to Class-A Rancho Cucamonga on a rehab assignment. Cingrani has not pitched this season due to a recurring shoulder problem that flared up during spring training. The same issue sidelined him for most of the second half last season. Cingrani was scheduled to pitch in relief for the Quakes Saturday night. …

Left-hander Caleb Ferguson threw on flat ground Saturday. Roberts said Ferguson will likely throw to hitters in a simulated-game setting Tuesday before the game at Dodger Stadium. Ferguson is on the Injured List with a minor oblique strain.

UP NEXT

Dodgers (RHP Kenta Maeda, 3-2, 4.41 ERA) at Padres (LHP Nick Margevicius, 2-3, 3.23 ERA), 1:10 p.m., SportsNet LA (where available), AM 570

Anaheim celebrated Cinco de Mayo with a four-day festival that lasted through the holiday on Sunday, May 5.

The popular community celebration dates back nearly 50 years to when it was a small fiesta organized by parents and staff at Fremont Junior High and Anaheim High. Out of that beginning grew Fiesta United, which has been organizing the event in partnership with the city of Anaheim at La Palma Park for many years.

The weekend included a ballet folklorico competition, entertainment, a carnival and lots of good food.

NEWPORT BEACH – It has seemed all season that Newport Harbor is destined to play in the CIF-Southern Section Division 1 boys volleyball championship game.

It sure seemed that way again Saturday. The Sailors powered their way to a 3-0 home win over San Clemente to advance to the semifinals. The scores: 25-21, 25-18, 25-20.

Newport Harbor (34-1) will play at Loyola of Los Angeles (21-4) in the semifinals Wednesday. Mira Costa of Manhattan Beach (21-5) plays at Santa Barbara (21-6) in the other Division 1 semifinal Wednesday.

Orange County had teams in three of Saturday’s four Division 1 quarterfinals. Newport Harbor beat San Clemente and Loyola beat Redondo Union in the top half of the bracket, and in the bottom half of the bracket Corona del Mar lost to Santa Barbara and Huntington Beach lost to Mira Costa of Manhattan Beach.

San Clemente, which shared the South Coast League championship with Tesoro, finished 29-6.

Dayne Chalmers, as usual, led the Sailors in kills Saturday. Chalmers, a 6-foot-4 senior outside hitter who signed with UC Santa Barbara, had 25 kills against the Tritons.

He slams the ball with violent authority.

“I don’t know a kid who hits as hard as him,” Sailors senior opposite hitter Jack Higgs said of Chalmers. “That kid is unbelievable.”

Higgs was outstanding, too, with 14 kills and two aces.

Newport Harbor senior setter Joe Karlous distributed the ball well again, finishing with 48 assists.

Digging, passing and hitting contributions came from many others, including senior outside hitter Blake Ludes middle blockers Caden Garrido, a junior, and senior Alec Patterson.

The Sailors had matchup advantages at the net and took advantage of them regularly.

“They have five seniors who have played a lot of volleyball together,” San Clemente coach Ken Goldstone said. “You can play them tight, but on key plays their seniors are going to come through.”

Newport Harbor had defeated San Clemente 3-0 on Feb. 26.

Newport Harbor rarely trailed San Clemente on Saturday and the Sailors showed killer instinct in the final moments of all three sets.

They outscored the Tritons 5-2 down the stretch in the first set to win 25-21, they took a big lead midway through the second set and maintained it in their 25-18 win, and scored seven of the final 10 points in the third set to take the set 25-20 and the match.

Newport Harbor’s only loss this season was to Corona del Mar. Newport Harbor and Corona del Mar finished the regular season as co-champions of the Surf League.

Last season, Newport Harbor lost to Corona del Mar in the finals of the CIF-SS Division 1 playoffs and in the CIF Southern California Regionals.

Ciarelli was asked if Saturday’s match was the best the Sailors have played this season. His evaluation of Saturday’s game was that it resembled the way the team has performed throughout its 35 matches.

“Really, all year we’ve been pretty steady,” Ciarelli said. “I can’t think of too many games where we didn’t play very well. The kids are working in practice and doing what they’re supposed to do, and hopefully we’re getting better.”

The Tritons next season will miss graduating seniors like libero Owen Hamro and setter Cole McDaniel but they will have several key players returning next season so they could be good again in 2020. Among them are Nathan Streuter, a junior opposite hitter who had eight kills Saturday, and junior middle blockers Wolf Beeuwsaert and Eli Crane.

MISSION VIEJO – The South Coast League boasts some of the best track and field programs in the county.

The league may have proved it unequivocally at the CIF SS Division 1 Prelims on Saturday at Trabuco Hills High School.

The top nine competitors in each event advanced to the Division 1 Finals on Saturday, May 11 at El Camino College in Torrance.

Between the boys and girls teams for Aliso Niguel, Dana Hills, Trabuco Hills and Dana Hills, those four South Coast teams qualified athletes for the finals in a total of 41 events, with Aliso Niguel topping the group with qualifiers in 13 events.

Aliso Niguel’s Andrew Koesel qualified in four events – the 400 meters, 200, 4×100 relay and 4×400 relay – to lead the Wolverines, while teammates Kaden Reynolds and Jed Kaufman qualified in two events each.

For the Wolverines girls, Morgan Flynn and Dylan Beveridge both qualified in the pole vault.

“Everybody’s goal was just to qualify, not to try to win, because that’s for next week,” Aliso Niguel coach Danny Werner said. “(We) just do what we’ve been doing … stay consistent.”

For the Dana Hills girls, Hailey Ray and Anisa Rind both qualified in four events, helping the Dolphins qualify athletes in eight events.

Ray qualified in both hurdles races and ran on both relay teams and Rind qualified in the 200, 400 and both relays.

For the Dana Hills boys team, Carrick Denker and Cole Stark, two of the state’s top 1,600 runners, both advanced to next week’s Division 1 Finals, and they joined teammate Simon Fuller in qualifying in the 3,200. Fuller is one of the state’s top runners in that event.

Jake Burns of Trabuco Hills was also a four-event qualifier, doing it in the 100, 200 and on both relays.

Valencia’s Chrystal Aluya qualified in the 100 and 200 on the same track where she earned sprinter of the meet honors in the Trabuco Hills Invitational on March 30.

Aluya won both events at the Empire League championships and finished fourth and fifth, respectively, in the 100 and 200 at the Orange County Championships.

One of the feel-good stories of the meet was turned in by Santa Ana junior Maria Hernandez, who qualified in the 1,600 and 3,200 after rebounding from a leg injury that sidelined her last season.

Hernandez led through the first three laps in the 3,200, a race that also featured premier distance runner Hana Catsimanes of San Clemente. Hernandez dropped back but stayed with the lead pack throughout the race, finishing seventh.

“By the way I’ve been running without competition made me feel like I was now ready to compete again,” said Hernandez, who will choose either the 1,600 or 3,200 for the CIF SS Finals. “I think I’m better at the (3,200) but I just need to put in more miles.”

Catsimanes, the top 3,200 runner in the county this season and 12th-best in the state, qualified fourth in the event.

Skyler Magula of Marina, the county’s top pole vaulter, was among three Vikings to advance to the finals.

HUNTINGTON BEACH – The Mira Costa boys volleyball team beat Huntington Beach 25-13, 25-22, 25-17 in a CIF SS quarterfinal match Saturday night at Huntington Beach High.

The Mustangs (22-5) will make their first semifinal appearance under second-year coach Avery Drost and travel to Santa Barbara on Wednesday.

Drost thanked his coaching staff for their help in preparing the team for Saturday’s matchup.

Mira Costa sweeps Huntington Beach, 25-13, 25-22, 25-17, to advance to the Semifinals against Santa Barbara. @ocvarsity @breezepreps @ocboysvolley pic.twitter.com/EdF1b9Sz1U

— David Delgado (@DavidDelgado_OC) May 5, 2019

“My assistant coaches were really huge this week because I was preparing to play in the AVP. I was there playing up until a couple of hours ago,” Drost said of his hectic schedule at the Huntington Beach Open. “I was really proud of the preparation.”

The Mustangs were led by Sam Collins (11 kills) and Ben Coordt (10 kills) but also got solid offensive production from their middle blockers Dain Johnson and Adam Sevier.

“They were on it tonight and they were a big part of our offensive weapons,” Drost said. “Adam plays middle with a serious athleticism and Dain has always been a great blocker and he has just added so much offense to his game this year.”

Dain Johnson gets the kill to give Mira Costa set 2 over Huntington Beach, 25-22. @ocvarsity @breezepreps pic.twitter.com/FraDxa0im1

— David Delgado (@DavidDelgado_OC) May 5, 2019

After dropping the first set, the Oilers took a 19-18 lead in the second set. Mira Costa went on a 5-0 run with Ethan Young picking up two service aces during the scoring burst.

Huntington Beach could not recover and eventually lost the set when Johnson’s kill gave the Mustangs a 2-0 lead in the match.

Drost believed that 5-0 spurt in the second set was a crucial turning point in the game.

“There’s always a time in a playoff game where, especially on the road, a couple of bounces go the other way, but they scrapped and kept some plays alive until the bounces went their way.”

The trip to the semifinals will be a homecoming for Drost, who played his college volleyball at Westmont College in Santa Barbara.

Mira Costa defeated Santa Barbara in their first match of the season back in March. The Dons, who knocked off the defending champs Corona del Mar in the quarterfinals, will look to exact revenge on the Mustangs with a trip to the finals on the line.

Drost had nothing but good things to say about the Dons and is excited about the prospect of getting to the finals.

“They have one of the best outside hitters in the state, probably in the country, in Will Rottman, and the whole team has improved around him, Chad Arneson is a super-good coach,” Drost said.

“I just can’t wait to compete, there’s a lot of people in Santa Barbara who will be there and make it a fun night.”

SAN DIEGO — Bullpens, huh — what’re you gonna do?

The Dodgers signed Joe Kelly to be part of the solution in their bullpen. But he has been a problem. Saturday night, Dave Roberts put him in a game the Dodgers were leading for the first time in over two weeks. Kelly retired just one of the five batters he faced and the San Diego Padres tied the game.

Kirby Yates allowed one run in his first 16 appearances this season as the Padres closer, saved 14 games in April and was named the National League Reliever of the Month.

But he created his own bases-loaded mess in the ninth inning Saturday night then walked in the winning run as the Dodgers beat the Padres 7-6 by scoring against Yates in the ninth inning for the second night in a row.

“There’s a lot of emotions that you’ve got to keep inside,” Roberts said of living with the volatile nature of bullpens liable to upset a night’s worth of planning at any high-leverage moment. “As a manager, you don’t want to think about the bad situations, bad things happening.”

There was plenty of time for contemplation and introspection Saturday. At four hours and 12 minutes it was the longest nine-inning game in Petco Park history and it was a long zig-zag journey to a familiar outcome — the Dodgers have now beaten the Padres in 16 of their past 21 meetings (and 101 of 152 since the start of the 2011 season).

It started the same way as Friday’s game — with Manny Machado haunting his former team. Machado hit two home runs off Dodgers starter Rich Hill — first driving a curveball down the line off the Wester Metal Supply building in the first inning then crushing a first-pitch fastball in the third and sending it into the Padres bullpen in center field.

“I pitched like crap,” said Hill who left the game in the fifth inning, trailing 3-1. “I need to do a better job next time out, make better pitches. I left too many balls out over the plate.

“(Machado) is obviously an elite hitter. He’s in the top 5 percent in the league. I think he’s one of the best hitters in the league. I think obviously again it comes down to making pitches and making better pitches.”

Machado also hit a two-run home run off Clayton Kershaw Friday, giving him three home runs in two games against the Dodgers (and five in 31 games against the rest of the league).

“There might be a little extra incentive,” Roberts said of Machado facing the Dodgers. “Obviously playing for the division, a division rival is one thing. But also, the familiarity — he’s got teammates in this clubhouse that I know he wants to show also. You see a little extra fire and focus, certainly.

“Hopefully Andy (Green) gives him a day off tomorrow. Day game after a night game.”

Padres starter Joey Lucchesi held the Dodgers to one run on four hits through the first five innings. But things fell apart for him in the sixth.Corey Seager beat out an infield single when Lucchesi tried to scoop his dribbler to the first baseman. When Lucchesi followed that by walking David Freese (and reaching 100 pitches for the night), Padres manager Andy Green swapped out left-handers and brought in Brad Wieck.

Wieck fell behind 3-and-1 then hung a slider over the heart of the plate. Muncy relocated it to the right-field seats to give the Dodgers the lead. Three more hits followed off Wieck with Matt Beaty getting his first major-league RBI on a pinch-hit single. Another run scored on a forceout.

“I think we keep talking about the same thing and that’s execution,” Roberts said of Kelly who has an ERA of 10.13 as a Dodger, allowing hitters to bat .377 against him. “You get ahead of guys. That (Ty) France at-bat, he just couldn’t put him away and it just took a lot of pitches (14) and he ends up leaving a ball middle-middle for a double. The breaking ball 1-2 to (Alex) Dickerson it was left up.

“I think it’s just one of those things where we’ve got to keep running him out there and bet on his execution.”

It stayed tied until the ninth when Justin Turner led off with a single off Yates. It was the only hit — and only ball put in play — during the game-winning rally.

After striking out Seager and Joc Pederson, Yates lost his way. He walked Max Muncy then hit Russell Martin with a pitch to load the bases. Yates walked Alex Verdugo on five pitches to force in the go-ahead run.

“For me, Yates has a really good splitter, likes to feed off the bottom of the zone, let it work down and kind of feed off the hitter’s aggressiveness,” Verdugo said. “Bases loaded, two outs — you can get kind of riled up in that situation. I just tried to take a couple deep breaths, stay with my normal approach.”

SANTA ANA – The St. Margaret’s girls lacrosse team beat Mater Dei 12-9 in the semifinals of the U.S. Lacrosse Orange County championships on Saturday at Segerstrom High.

The Tartans went on a 5-0 scoring run over a 20-minute stretch in the match between the two teams that played for the 2018 championship.

Grace Karstetter and Maddie Barkate each scored in the final minute of the first half to give St. Margaret’s a 7-6 lead at the break.

The Tartans scored the first three goals of the second half and held Mater Dei scoreless for the first 17 minutes of the half.

St. Margaret's beats Mater Dei 12-9 to advance to its second consecutive Orange County championship. Niki Miles had 5 goals for the Tartans. St. Margaret's, the defending champs, will play Foothill Wednesday. @ocvarsity @SMESAthletics @SteveFryer pic.twitter.com/4Ez6JSEtRv

— Michael Huntley (@mikehuntley63) May 4, 2019

“I’m really proud of them because they have been able to make adjustments with different players playing different positions in every game,” St. Margaret’s coach Holly Reilly said. “We refer to it as Battleship, just moving pieces around and calling different shots. They turned it around the second half. They played the team game and we were a lot smarter with our shooting and that was the difference maker.”

Niki Miles scored six goals for the Tartans, including four of the first five. All six of her goals were unassisted against a good Mater Dei defense.

“She is a disciplined player and she was holding the ball for us during our stall as well,” Reilly said. “She wants it. She has heart and doesn’t want to go out on her senior year with a loss.”

Barkate had three points for the Tartans and won the majority of her draw controls. Jordan Miles had three points in the win including an assist to Barkate on the go-ahead goal to end the first half.

Mater Dei (15-6) will be absent from the championship game for the first time since 2015. Dartmouth-signee Peyton Smith had five points for the Monarchs with three assists. Tess Keiser scored three goals and Gianna Danese scored twice.

St. Margaret’s (14-3) will play Foothill in the championship game on Wednesday at Newport Harbor High. The Tartans handed Foothill its only loss of the season on April 25.

“They are a good team,” Niki Miles said of Foothill. “This game will be different because we both showed some things in the first game and will make adjustments.”

In the other girls semifinal:

Foothill routed Santa Margarita 19-4 to advance to the Orange County championship game for the fourth time in five years.

The Knights have outscored their opponents 55-16 in the playoffs.

Ashley Stokes led Foothill with six points on three goals and three assists. Elena Torres had five points for the Knights and Brooke Williams, Peyton Puma and Andie Pomeroy each had three goals.

Santa Margarita only scored one goal in the first half and was shut out for 29 minutes.

Katelyn Murphy, who led the Southern Section in points, scored one goal but was saddled with two yellow cards.

In the boys lacrosse semifinals:

Andrew Cumming had nine points including six goals to lead Foothill to a dominant 17-4 win over Trabuco Hills to advance to its third consecutive Orange County championship game.

“Andrew Cumming was fantastic,” Foothill coach John Fox said. “Having him back in the action is huge for us and he is really making an impact. We played as a team, that’s the biggest thing, and took advantage of some situations where we had mismatches or extra guys.”

The Knights got a four-goal performance from Troy Hofer and two goal games from Easton Babb and Destry Burton.

Foothill (15-6) led 12-2 at halftime and the game had a running clock for much of the second half.

Holden Evans and AJ Switzer each scored twice for the Mustangs, who were playing without starting goalie Cooper Gatine who missed the game due to illness.

In the other boys semifinal:

The St. Margaret’s offense was too much for Corona del Mar to handle as the Tartans beat the Sea Kings 12-5 to advance to the championship game.

St. Margaret’s will face Foothill in the final on Wednesday in a rematch of the 2018 championship game.

St. Margaret’s beat Foothill in overtime in the 2018 championship game and beat the Knights 12-6 this season on April 11

Koa Todd scored five goals and Kevin Groeninger added four for the Tartans.

Groeninger had six points Saturday, giving him 399 career points. He broke the California career points record Thursday against Newport Harbor and now has 200 career goals and 199 assists.

St. Margaret’s (16-3) got another great performance from faceoff specialist Stuart Pollard who won 16 of 21 faceoffs. The Tartans defense forced 10 turnovers and goalie Zane Handy had eight saves.

All-American goalie Kyle Cord had eight saves for Corona del Mar (17-4). Junior midfielders Ryan Rector and Simon Hall each had two goals for the Sea Kings.

Coach Bob Bradley preached patience as the Los Angeles Football Club sought to stay perfect at home.On Saturday night it was a message that the team needed to hear.

Facing a Chicago Fire squad that had given up a goal apiece in its last two matches and lost both of them, LAFC pushed to find the magic strike that would have given it six wins in six tries in front of its supporters in 2019.

The moment never came, however, and a club record five-match winning streak at Banc of California Stadium ended as LAFC (7-1-3, 24 points) played its second scoreless draw in team history.

“With a lot of numbers back finding the right pass, the quality of the pass, definitely hurt us,” Bradley said.

With right back Steven Beitashour returning to the LAFC lineup after missing last Sunday’s match in Seattle due to knee soreness, the top-scoring team in Major League Soccer appeared to be at full strength at kickoff.

Aided by the availability of striker Adama Diomande for the first time since week six, when LAFC marauded over D.C. United, and designated player Andre Horta, who had not played since week four, Bradley threw what he could at the stout Chicago defense.

Unlike the teams’ first meeting in 2018, when a down Chicago side dismantled a flat-footed LAFC 3-1 in a pivotal match with a month remaining in the regular season, the Black & Gold pushed for an advantage from the opening whistle as they attempted to turn the page from last weekend’s 1-1 result in Seattle.

Thirty minutes into the match it was clear that LAFC’s attack would have to dissect a compact group aligned in two rows of four in front of Chicago goalkeeper David Ousted to get a positive result.

Several chances in front of the Chicago goal prompted an announced crowd of 22,154 groan in displeasure as near misses and stifled chances mounted.

A corner kick just before the half hour mark saw LAFC defender Jordan Harvey take two whacks at the ball before striker Christian Ramirez had his chance.

“Maybe a little frustration creeps in,” Bradley said. “We had some set pieces that we didn’t take advantage of.”As the clock ticked towards halftime, LAFC ramped up its creativity to breakdown Chicago (2-4-4, 10 points).The Fire took their chances when they could, and did as good a job as any LAFC opponent this year in limiting the effectiveness of Carlos Vela, who was limited to just one shot on goal in the match.

The 30-year-old Mexican star nearly connected with fellow winger Diego Rossi, but the young Uruguayan just missed putting his right-footed shot on frame.

Chicago almost snuck one past LAFC goalkeeper Miller late in the first half when he stepped up into no man’s land and got away with a one-on-one situation against a Fire player.

In the second half, an LAFC goal was wiped off the board as Beitashour was called offside in the 53rd minute.

Chicago came closest to scoring when Aleksander Katai crossed the ball behind Namanja Nikolic, who could not put his foot on the ball.

LAS VEGAS — On Tuesday, Danny Jacobs said it out loud, into microphones and on videotape.

He intended to bring 175 pounds, “at least,” into the ring at T-Mobile Arena Saturday night, to confront Canelo Alvarez.

This didn’t mean Jacobs wouldn’t honor 160 pounds when he stepped onto the scale Friday. He did. But there was a little-known clause that required Canelo and Jacobs to gain no more than 10 pounds by Saturday morning. Jacobs blasted right through that one, He was 173.6 pounds, according to ESPN.com.

And yet the show went on. Jacobs shrugged off the risk of $750,000 in fines, on a night when he was scheduled to make at least $10 million from DAZN, the subscription streaming service, and $2.2 million in purse money.

So basically this was a battle of light heavyweights, thanks to the sudden hydrations that can’t be healthy for the fighters who go through it, and are a clear danger to the fighters who meet those fighters.

Fortunately the fights were good enough to silence most of that concern. Canelo was good early, Jacobs good late, and Canelo improved his record to 52-1-2- with a unanimous decision, thus taking Jacobs’ IBF belt and adding it to the two he already owns.

Two judges gave Canelo a two-point victory, the other had him winning by three. It was definitely rematch-worry.

This is a worn-out soapbox by now, but why even have weight classes under these circumstances? It was reminiscent of the rainy night in March of 2018 when Scott Quigg ballooned to welterweight levels in a featherweight clash with Oscar Valdez. Quigg broke Valdez’s job but Valdez won the fight

Fighters swell themselves up with impunity because they know, at least in the big fights, that cancellations are impossible. If promoters or managers or trainers are penalized, maybe that changes things. Or maybe the 160-pound belt should be customized so only a 160-pounder can wear it.

All week he has talked of  “writing my own history.” He can write it with a gold-plated fountain pen after he signed an 11-fight, $365 million deal with DAZN. He has nine left after the Jacobs fight. One of those is presumably against Golovin in September, although Canelo has said Triple-G needs to recover one of the three belts that Canelo lifted from him last September if he wants a third crack at the champ.

Canelo probably doesn’t have enough worthy opponents to pile up the  record that Ruben Olivares and Julio Cesar Chavez did, and thus will have a hard time rising into anybody’s list of top 10 fighters from Mexico. But these are different days. Chavez fought 17 times in 1991-93. In today’s ethic and economy, Canelo is the bulwark of the sport.

Canelo fought all styles as he ascended through the welterweight division and conquered the problems presented by Erislandy Lara and Austin Trout. Lara was supposed to be too slick and he wasn’t. James Kirkland was supposed to be dangerous, and he fell like a canned ham tossed from David Letterman’s rooftop.

Miguel Cotto had all the passion and experience in the world and Canelo won a decisive decision. And Golovkin was considered an uncontrollable monster when he climbed into the ring with Canelo. You can argue with the judgments of both those fights, but Canelo at the very least pulled up the shade and exposed Golovkin as human.

Among the lead-ins was Joseph Diaz Jr. of South El Monte, the ex-Olympian who pushed his record to 29-1 with a 10th-round knockout of Freddy Fonseca. It was Diaz’s second fight at 130 pounds and puts him in a distinguished mix. Miguel Berchelt puts up his WBA felt against Francisco Vargas next week, and Tevin Farmer and Gervonta Davis also hold championships. “Tevin, where you at?” Diaz called out.

Fonseca landed only 13 percent of his punches against Diaz, and his corner threw in the towel when Diaz’s body shots drew no resistance.

Then Vergil Ortiz, boxing’s fast-rising version of Vladimir Guerrero Jr., blasted Mauricio Herrera to the deck at the end of the 2nd round and meticulously finished him in the 3rd with a flawless right hand to the chin. Ortiz, 21, is 13-0 with 13 knockouts, and Herrera was stopped for the first time in his 33 fights.

“I’m usually not satisfied with my performance but I’d have to say I’m satisfied tonight,” Ortiz said, smiling. This was a welterweight fight for him but he said he wanted to drop to 140 and pick up a world championship there.

If he does, it is hoped he defends it against equals.

Looking out at the expansive view of the Corona del Mar channel, the Newport Beach peninsula and the Pacific Ocean from Kevin and Stephanie Kaberna’s top-floor condominium, it’s easy to see why Kevin chose it for what Stephanie calls “his bachelor pad.”

That was in 2013, when the couple, who are now married with a young daughter and another child on the way, were dating. He lived on the peninsula; she in Santa Monica.

“It took probably four to six months before it was complete,” Kevin recalls. “I started working with Anders (Lasater, a Laguna Beach-based architect) pretty much right away.”

Kevin had a specific reason for purchasing the 1,232-square-foot, two-bedroom condo in the waterfront Channel Reef development.

“This is a really unique place where you had a boat dock, a marina, you have the pool and the hot tub and access to a small beach. It feels very private here,” he says about the complex, which was built in 1964. “I grew up on a lake and I really like the water and I had a boat, and I wanted to keep that up.”

He also had a vision of how he wanted to update the space, which Lasater was instrumental in bringing to fruition.

“Kevin had some pretty strong ideas about what he wanted and had some clear vision about what his expectation was for the house to perform,” Lasater muses, looking out floor-to-ceiling windows that stretch the length of the exterior northwest-facing wall. “What I kept going back to is, the reason you’re here is because of the views. It’s all about the views. So the question was, how do we have the views from as much square footage as we can?”

Kaberna, who works for a multifamily housing company on the “investment leadership side,” knew that both he and his wife-to-be agreed on the need to open up the unit, which meant starting over, by taking everything down to the studs, changing the configuration of the rooms and raising the ceiling.

“We wanted a larger master bedroom suite,” Stephanie says. “Our relationship was serious at that point. We knew I was going to be coming down and moving in, so I was still part of the decisions. But he’s the creative one of the two of us. He can visualize it.”

The reality of his vision is now a place where the large, open kitchen greets you as you enter the unit and flows directly into the living room and to the views. They got rid of the dining room, instead using elegant Sapele wood, glass cabinets and other natural materials to make the kitchen the center for entertaining. Tall and deep built-in storage cabinets make use of every bit of space. The floating stainless-steel wine wall visually moves the party from the kitchen into the living room, where similar stone surrounds a long porcelain tile wall that is home to the open fireplace and a large television.

They even removed most of the wall that separates the master bedroom from the living area, putting in a sliding door between the rooms.

“I said, ‘Let’s create more of like a New York loft-style living, where the place you sleep is part of your everyday experience,’” Lasater remembers. “That really resonated with Kevin. So we created this sliding door that for purposes of privacy when it’s needed, you can close this bedroom off, but 99 days out of 100, this now can stay open and you’ve got the sense of spaciousness. Especially from the back part of the unit, you don’t see the bed, but you do see that ocean horizon.”

The master bathroom has a view, too.

“We wanted to have the views from as much square footage as we could. That led to the ‘let’s open up the shower with glass’ idea,” Kevin says. “So now and when you’re in the bathroom, we are able to see straight out, see through to the views.”

The second bedroom and bath both lost square footage. Tucked away near the front door of the unit, they are perfect for the couple’s toddler. Meanwhile, the rest of the space definitely achieves the New York loft-living feel with a Californian twist. While the home does not have an outdoor patio, the exterior glass walls open in a variety of configurations, bringing in the breeze and salt air on beautiful beach days. There are even two outdoor heaters built into the ceiling over those doors, which warm things up as the family watches the sunset.

It’s quite a transformation, from dated 1960s condo to bachelor pad to toddler hangout, and one that both the Kabernas continue to love as the years go by.

“We’ve turned it into a family home, and it’s been really nice,” Stephanie says. ■

HUNTINGTON BEACH – Melissa Humana-Paredes and Sarah Pavan may have been the No. 14 seed at the Huntington Beach Open, but top-seeded April Ross of Costa Mesa and Alix Klineman of Manhattan Beach knew the duo would be difficult to beat in the finals Sunday.

Humana-Paredes and Pavan had won two of three previous matches against Ross and Klineman. It was therefore not surprising that it took Ross and Klineman three sets to dispatch Humana-Paredes and Pavan to win the AVP season bell-ringer in front of thousands on the sand at Surf City.

Ross and Klineman won by scores of 18-21, 21-12, 17-15.

The final moments were back and forth during freeze scoring, where once it gets to match point a team can only score when it is serving. Ross and Klineman were up 14-11 and had match point at 14-13. Then it was 15-14 in favor of Humana-Paredes and Pavan, but they could not get the winner, either.

With the score tied 15-15, Klineman had a block for a 16-15 lead and the final point came when Humana-Paredes hit out, sending Ross and Klineman as well as their supporters into celebration mode.

This is the fourth consecutive AVP victory for Ross and Klineman, as they won the final three of 2018. This is only their second year together.

Ross said an adjustment was made after losing the first set.

“Sometimes we just get into this routine of serving the same person no matter how the match is going,” she said. “That’s what we did in the first set – we served Mel (Humana-Paredes) relentlessly, we didn’t serve Sarah one ball.

“And we got back to between games and (coach) Jen (Kessy) was like, ‘We’ve gotta try her at least once.’ So we came out, got a run on her in the second set in the beginning and I think that was a huge adjustment.”

MEN’S FINAL: ‘Contenders’ Jake Gibb, Taylor Crabb defeat Casey Patterson-Chase Budinger

Ross had 23 kills (and 10 hitting errors), a whopping 25 digs and three service aces. Klineman had 18 kills, three blocks and three aces.

Klineman was thrilled to get this season off to a fine start after finishing 2018 with a bang.

“I mean, it’s amazing,” she said. “We left off last season on such a high note and … to win thisfirst one was huge. It’s a lot of confidence.”

Pavan, who like Klineman is 6-foot-5, had eight blocks to go with 17 kills. She was chagrined,especially since her team had match point after coming back so strongly.

“I mean, we had the game,” Pavan said. “I honestly thought we had them, fighting back from down 14-11; we had all the momentum in our favor. We had a chance for match and it didn’t go our way.”

Humana-Paredes had 13 kills and 13 digs; she also had eight hitting errors.

Ross and Klineman reached the finals with a 25-23, 18-21, 15-9 victory over No. 2-seeded Sarah Hughes of Costa Mesa and Summer Ross.

Klineman had 28 kills and nine hitting errors to go with three digs and three blocks in that one, and April Ross had 19 kills and 15 digs.

Summer Ross led her team with 22 kills, three digs and five blocks and Hughes came through with 14 kills and seven digs.

Humana-Paredes and Pavan reached the finals by defeating fourth-seeded Emily Day of Torrance and Betsi Flint 19-21, 21-12, 16-14 in the semifinals.

Humana-Paredes had 25 kills, 17 digs and four aces in that one and Pavan had 14 kills, six blocks and two aces.

Day powered down 26 kills and had three blocks and Flint contributed 10 kills, 13 digs and three aces.

Okay, we see you @AlixKlineman #BeachMode pic.twitter.com/UGk0iCl7I5

— The AVP (@avpbeach) May 5, 2019

Life at the beach was good this weekend.

The inaugural BeachLife Festival brought thousands of music fans and 40 acts, including Brian Wilson, Bob Weir and Willie Nelson, to three stages by the water in Redondo Beach May 3-5 for a laid-back weekend of music and food in a smoothly run event.

“It was just so nice, relaxed. Great music, perfect weather. I couldn’t be happier,” said Carson resident Randy Lopez as he sat by the main stage on Sunday afternoon.

Organized by locals Allen Sanford, owner of Saint Rocke in Hermosa Beach, and his business partner Rob Lissner, the festival took place on 8.6 acres by the water that included the entire Seaside Lagoon and adjacent parking lot.

“It’s cathartic. I cannot believe how much this community has rallied around the BeachLife,” Sanford said on Sunday.

The live music fit the waterside vibe with an older crowd that was laid-back and in good spirits throughout the three-day festival and maybe more surprisingly, especially for a first year event, people were sailing through the gates with short to sometimes no waiting time in line at the main gate.

In addition to headliners Weir, Wilson and Nelson, the lineup included acts such as singer Jason Mraz, San Diego-born rock-reggae group Slightly Stoopid, Hermosa Beach outfit Tomorrow’s Bad Seeds, Ziggy Marley, Violent Femmes and Blues Traveler.

It was an event that attracted mostly locals, who biked, walked or took shuttles and ride shares to the venue, which meant little traffic and parking woes as most of the event’s eight surrounding parking lots ever reached capacity all weekend.

“We had a ton of parking lots and there’s nobody parking in them because I think it’s true, the BeachLife people ride their bikes, they walk, Uber, the game has changed,” Sanford said.

Capacity at the venue was 12,000 people per day and while Sanford didn’t have the final attendance figures, he noted that the event was not a sell-out.

“I think for the first year it’s perfect out there,” he said of the crowd size.

The main acts took place on the High Tide stage, which was located in the parking lot area of the venue.

But you would never guess this was a parking lot with rich green synthetic turf covering the area front of the stage, giving it the feel of a welcoming neighborhood park where you could lay down a blanket, listen to music and watch your kids run around.

And that’s exactly what Lane Royall did with her kids, who are 5 and 3 years old as she waited for the music to begin on the main stage on Sunday afternoon.

“It’s beautiful, the weather is great…it’s been easy and super chill,” she said.

And even the late starts were planned, Sanford said. Some bands on Saturday and Sunday started about 15 minutes after their scheduled start time.

“I don’t like the first band to not have people in front of them,” Sanford said, noting that he delayed the set times for opening bands until more people would arrive at the festival.

Even lines, which can be painfully long and slow, especially at first-time events, were virtually non-existent with people pretty much sailing into the gates all weekend. And the few lines that formed, mostly Saturday afternoon and Sunday evening, got festival goers in the doors within 15 minutes.

“Tremendous amounts of hours went into planning this thing so meticulously. Every detail was poured over a thousand times,” Sanford said.

And the planning for next year has already started.

“I think the community is pretty loudly saying we like this,” he added.

LAS VEGAS — All week Canelo Alvarez spoke of “writing my own history.”

At this rate he’ll have to fight off the biographers.

If Canelo became boxing’s Paul Bunyan last year when he introduced Gennady Golovkin to defeat, he finds himself running out of timber. There’s no more worthy opponent than Daniel Jacobs was Saturday night, and yet Canelo kept his wits, adhered to the plan, took all the late-arriving punches that Jacobs could summon, and won a unanimous decision at T-Mobile Arena.

At 28, Canelo has a 52-1-2 record and he took Jacobs’ IBF middleweight championship to go with his own WBA and WBC versions. The only one remaining is the WBO belt worn by the undefeated Demetrius Andrade, who has rarely shown he belongs in the class over which Canelo presides.

A rematch was promised if Jacobs had won, but there was little talk of it afterward, even though “The Miracle Man” endangered Canelo in the late rounds. Jacobs had found nothing to hit while fighting in an orthodox stance, so in Round 6 he went southpaw, a gambit that cost him in his 2017 loss to Golovkin.

It got Jacobs back into the fight. Suddenly Canelo wasn’t piling up points with left hands, and Jacobs was finding opportunities with his own left. In the ninth and 10th, Jacobs disposed of his caution and turned it into a modified slugfest. His trainer, Andre Rozier, had fretted beforehand about “making it a firefight, we don’t want that.”

But when Jacobs looks back through the wrong end of the binoculars, he may wish he’d opened the gates earlier..

“I wanted to trade a little more,” Jacobs said. “But his timing was very good, in terms of knowing when to stand and when to back away. I had to get my feet underneath me. I also had to get adjusted to his speed. He was pretty fast and pretty slippery.”

Judges Steve Weisfeld and Dave Moretti favored Canelo by 115-113 scores, and Glenn Feldman had him winning 116-112.

“We have no problem with the decision,” said Eddie Hearn, Jacobs’ Matchroom Boxing promoter.

The CompuBox numbers agreed. Canelo was successful on 45.5 percent of his power shots, compared to 24.8 percent for Jacobs, and had a 40.3 to 20.2 edge in total shots. Jacobs launched 183 more punches than Canelo and connected on 57 fewer.

It confirmed what the crowd of 20,203 saw. Canelo’s head movement was constant and effective, and when Jacobs finally opened up and hit whatever he saw, Canelo’s unquestionable chin kept him afloat.

“II took a couple of hard shots, but the corner asked me about them and I said, no, I’m just fighting my fight,” Canelo said.

Eddy Reynoso, who trains Canelo with his dad Chepo, said Jacobs “came out in survival mode, like he didn’t really want to win the fight. That makes it hard to give the fans what they want. But Canelo showed you the defense that is getting better each time.”

There was an unwelcome, if familiar, issue on Saturday when Jacobs took a morning weigh-in and came in at 173.6 pounds. That is not only 13.6 pounds more than the 160-pound limit that Jacobs reached at the weigh-in. It was also 3.6 more pounds than the 170-pound fight-day limit that Canelo and Jacobs were supposed to meet.

This was not a surprise. Jacobs had announced on Tuesday that he would enter the ring at no less than 175 pounds. The contract called for fines by the pound, which meant Jacobs would lose approximately $750,000 from a total purse that will exceed $12.2 million, thanks to a nice bonus from DAZN, the subscription streaming service..

So Jacobs saw no need for repentance.

“I sacrificed to get down to 160, which is what I was supposed to do,” Jacobs said. “I’m just a naturally big middleweight and I paid a hefty fine for it, but I did make some sacrifices. Even when I hydrated with just water, I came up to 170 right away. I think I may have outgrown the middleweight division.”

If so, there’s a vacant WBO title at super-middleweight. Hearn suggested Canelo might well fight Callum Smith, a Matchroom client and the WBA 168-pound champ. Smith fights Hassan N’Dam in New York on June 1.

Golovkin was here with new trainer Jonathon Banks. Chapter 3 with Canelo, in September, still looms.

“For me it’s over,” Canelo said. ‘But if that’s what the people want, I’ll fight him again and I’ll beat him again. All I want is the biggest challenge.”

At the moment, that’s Golovkin. Everything else is history.

Firefighters doused a pair of small brush fires that erupted in Carbon Canyon near the border of Orange and San Bernardino counties on Sunday afternoon, officials said.

Both sides of Carbon Canyon Road were closed by about 5 p.m. following the fires, according to officials from the city of Brea and the Chino Valley Fire Department.

The route was shut down for about an hour as firefighters from both the Brea and Chino Valley fire departments went to work. By around 6:05 p.m., the road was reopened in both directions.

CVFD knocked down and contained a vegetation fire to one acre in the Carbon Canyon area of Hillside Drive. Both directions of traffic on Carbon Canyon Rd. is closed.

— Chino Valley Fire (@cvifd) May 6, 2019

Officials from Brea said the fires were contained to less than one acre.

Flames broke out in two distinct locations, said Sgt. Chris Haddad of the Brea Police Department — one fire was located on the west side of the county border in Brea, and the other was on the east side of the line in Chino Hills.

Haddad said the pattern was consistent with a fire started by exhaust from an engine.

The California Highway Patrol had been called in to assist with traffic control in the area.

Police searched for a suspect who allegedly crashed a stolen vehicle and then ran into an industrial area of Brea on Sunday, May 5.

Officers in Brea spotted a vehicle at 3:42 p.m. that had been involved in a carjacking in La Habra and attempted to pull it over, Brea Police Lt. Adam Hawley said.

The driver sped off, struck a curb near the intersection of Columbia and Puente streets, and abandoned the vehicle.

Police swarmed the area to look for the suspect. Officers continued to search for him, and were “clearing a large warehouse,” officials said in a Tweet at 7:33 p.m. At one point, officers believed the man had fled into a crawl space, Brea Police Sgt. Chris Haddad said.

A description of the suspect was not immediately available. Authorities did not believe he was carrying a firearm.

UPDATE @ 730pm: Search for the suspect ongoing. Officers clearing a large warehouse. https://t.co/PhhvGZd6xN

— Brea Police Dept (@BreaPD) May 6, 2019

Details regarding the initial carjacking were not immediately released.

This story is developing. Please check back for updates.

HUNTINGTON BEACH — Just think – top-seeded Jake Gibb and Taylor Crabb were in the contender’s bracket Friday after losing their second match of the day at the Huntington Beach Open.

Sunday, they were crowned champions after defeating sixth-seeded Casey Patterson and Chase Budinger in straight sets in the final. Scores were 27-25, 21-14.

WOMEN’S FINAL: April Ross, Alix Klineman rally to beat Melissa Humana-Paredes and Sarah Pavan 

Gibb and Crabb made it to the final by defeating eighth-seeded Tri Bourne and Trevor Crabb 21-14, 18-21, 15-11 in the semifinals.

That was the same team Taylor Crabb and Gibb lost to Friday before having to battle their way back through the contender’s bracket.

Losing that first very long set in the final seemed to take some of the starch out of Patterson and Budinger. Gibb gets that.

“Yeah, I mean, it’s a little draining,” Gibb said. “It’s one of those where mentally you have to fight back. But those guys are warriors. They were ready to fight back. But, yeah, I mean, it takes a little bit out of you and then you have to rebuild and gain some confidence in the next (set).”

Budinger agreed that losing that first set was difficult to swallow.

“Yeah, it was tough just because I thought we had momentum and we had chances to end it,” he said. “I think both Casey and I put serves like in the bottom of the net and you really just can’t do that against that team, just give them free points in those situations.”

Gibb led his team with 18 kills and two aces. Crabb, a tremendous defensive player, had 14 kills and 12 digs. He had an incredible save in the second set that helped give his team a 10-6 lead.

Deflating, indeed, to the opposition.

“From indoor, you dig a lot of hard-driven balls,” Crabb, out of Long Beach State, said of his digging skills. “But, yeah, when I come out here to the beach, I really pride myself on defense.

“I think defense is more heart and effort than kind of technical stuff, really.”

Gibb, 43, was asked what it’s like to have someone who can defend like Crabb, 27.

“I mean, it’s one of those things where I’m going to give myself a lot of credit for picking the right partner,” said Gibb, who had reporters laughing at his modesty.

This is the third win in Surf City for Gibb. It never gets old, he said.

“In all honesty, they keep getting sweeter, the older I get,” said Gibb, who hit .708.

Crabb looks at this victory as ultra-special because he and Gibb lost that match Friday to Bourne and Crabb’s brother Trevor.

“I don’t think I’ve ever been in the loser’s bracket on Friday and won the tournament, so it’s nice to know that we have that in ourselves,” he said.

Budinger led his team with 16 kills and Patterson, of Huntington Beach, had 12 kills and six digs; he also had three aces.

Patterson and Budinger reached the final with a 21-16, 21-19 victory over seventh-seeded Tim Bomgren and Troy Field in the semifinals.

Patterson led the way with 19 kills and eight digs in that one, with Budinger contributing 10 kills and three blocks.

Bomgren led his team with 17 kills and eight digs and Field, of San Clemente, had nine kills and two blocks; he also had six hitting errors.

By Joshua Rosen, contributing reporter

“I couldn’t ask my parents for food,” said Yetta Kane, 87, to a crowd of more than 250 people during Sunday’s Holocaust Remembrance at Alpert Jewish Community Center in Long Beach.

“I knew they didn’t have any.”

Kane — surrounded by friends, family and the descendants of other Long Beach residents who survived the Holocaust — spoke, performed music and poetry, and lit candles in remembrance of the six million Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis before and during World War II at a Yom HaShoah observance.

“I have been part of the human beings that survived hell. And people ask ‘how did she survive,’ ” said Kane. “We were on the run. We were without food, without shelter. The pain of being hungry cannot be explained. Not when you’re … hungry day in and day out.”

“The reason we survived,” she added, “was because my parents were wonderful, loving people.”

The service took place during a jolting recent period in Southern California that included the synagogue shooting in Poway that left a woman dead and a rabbi among the wounded, rumblings of a possible white nationalist rally in Long Beach — and the arrest of a man in a suspected plot to ignite a bomb at that event. In the end, the rally did not happen at Bluff Park, but a counter-protest did, watched closely by Long Beach police  officers.

In response to growing recent concern, officials at the Alpert Jewish Community Center worked with Long Beach police to increase security at Sunday’s services. Long Beach Police Chief Robert Luna was also among Sunday’s speakers.

Studies show hate crimes are increasing in the state and nation, including Long Beach. The number of hate groups in the United States, particularly white nationalist groups, rose in 2018 for the fourth consecutive year, according to a report released in February by the Southern Poverty Law Center, an Alabama-based civil rights watchdog group.

Other recent anti-Semitic incidents in Southern California have sparked headlines, including a social media post featuring students partying around red Solo cups arranged in a swastika formation and a video that showed youth hockey players making racially insensitive remarks.

The first candle at Sunday’s services was lit by the family of Gerda Seifer, 91 and in a wheelchair, who was born in Przemysl, Poland in 1927. On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi forces began their occupation of her home.

“I’ll speak to whoever asks me,” spoke Seifer. “I spoke to 800 kids two weeks ago in Cypress. I spoke to about 60 soldiers three days ago. To me it’s very, very important. I speak to the young people, and I give them the same message you heard today, ‘treat everyone the way you want to be treated, appreciate freedom in America.’”

Kane was a child when the Nazis invaded her hometown of Myadel.

“I was 8 years old when hatred came out with its ugly head,” explained Kane. “My first introduction was when a Jewish man, walking back from temple — I still remember his name, Chaim Minkis. I was playing with a little girl in front of my house three doors away. I was young, blonde, skinny, blue eyes… As the man … walks by, the little girl, my neighbor said “Zide” in polish, which means Jew. Without a blink of his eye, (a German soldier) pulled out a revolver and shot him dead. That was my introduction to the Nazis.”

Those horrors were just beginning for Kane. In the days that followed, more than 30 community leaders were targeted by the Nazis. Soldiers took them out of the city on trucks to a ravine and made them dig their own graves — then shot them, she said.

Kane reflected that her granddaughter is only a year older now then she was when the Nazis arrived in her community. Kane’s family had the choice to escape to Siberia or to Uzbekistan, she said. At the time, Kane’s uncle remarked that “they couldn’t catch malaria in Siberia.”

In 1949, Kane’s family escaped to Los Angeles, and she settled in Long Beach with her husband, a fellow Holocaust survivor.

The survivors in attendance were adamant that education is the most vital method to fight the tide of hatred. To this end, the service included awards in a creative writing contest for middle school and high school students.

A poem submitted by student Ester Fettman aptly captured that tone:

“I’m honored to have connected with you;

Because of the pain you went through I am here;

Because you didn’t give up, I hope I never will.”

Some of Sunday’s speakers vowed to share their message with others for the rest of their lives.

“I will speak here for five hours,” said Kane. “I cannot cover the pain, the scars that I have within my soul.”