Sherman Oaks Notre Dame High‘s softball team is on a nine-game winning streak, with six freshmen making major contributions. Freshman Keira Luderer hit two home runs in a comeback win over Sierra Canyon in the Knights’ Mission League opener on Thursday. Freshman Molly Coppola hit a walk-off home run against the Trailblazers. Luderer’s twin sister,
Phelan Bucknor of Sherman Oaks Notre Dame High had a career day at the plate on Wednesday. He had six hits and five RBIs by the end of the fifth inning in a 24-3 Mission League win over host Chaminade. The game started with Bucknor, the leadoff hitter who came into the game with a
Former Sherman Oaks Notre Dame softball standout Ella Parker is off to a great start in her sophomore year at Oklahoma. She entered this week leading the team in hitting with a .574 average, including four home runs and 24 RBIs. Parker, the niece of Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, was equally dominant during her high
Moments after an emphatic two-handed jam in the closing seconds that sealed Sherman Oaks Notre Dame’s 68-61 upset of Harvard-Westlake on Friday night in Studio City, Tyran Stokes clenched both fists, turned toward his teammates and screamed at the top of his lungs. It was a deserving victory cry for the fifth-seeded Knights (26-6), who
Brett Kay doesn’t care that bunting in Major League Baseball has gone the way of the rotary telephone. Yes, it occasionally shows up in MLB games, but Kay, the baseball coach at JSerra, continues to believe it has a place in high school baseball. His team bunted five times in five innings on Tuesday in
Notre Dame Fighting Irish men’s basketball coach Micah Shrewsberry went on a fiery rant on Sunday defending the team following a 15-point loss to the Louisville Cardinals. Shrewsberry vowed to turn the program around and even hit the microphone at the podium after the Fighting Irish fell to 11-14 overall and 5-9 against ACC opponents.Â
Zana Muno, a standout volleyball player at Sherman Oaks Notre Dame High who won consecutive NCAA titles playing beach volleyball for UCLA, will be among those inducted in the high school’s sports Hall of Fame on March 29 at the gym. At Notre Dame, she was a three-sport athlete, graduating in 2015. Her brother, JJ,
As the final seconds ticked off the clock and with the victory secured, Sierra Canyon forward Maximo Adams leaped and rejected a shot by Sherman Oaks Notre Dame guard NaVorro Bowman Jr. rather than concede a meaningless layup. The play exemplified the Trailblazers’ defensive intensity all game — a collective effort that produced a 63-54
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Through warmups and the game, the cell phone sat on the team’s bench. In the small gym in Brookville, N.Y., Long Island, no opponent could match Kate Koval that February night. Her coach yelled to her, calling the plays, and Koval instinctively reacted. Her body was on the court, but her
French President Emmanuel Macron’s desire to be immortalized in the windows of the restored Notre Dame Cathedral may be shattered as his plans for contemporary designs face furious opposition. Macron’s plan involves replacing the large windows of six side-chapels in the south aisle of Notre Dame’s nave with contemporary designs in yellow, pink and green