La Reina wins Mock Trial championship
      La Reina High School captured the recent California Mock Trial Championship when their defense team won the final round against Piedmont High School from Alameda County. This year's county victory was La Reina's fifth consecutive Ventura County championship. Last year the school won...
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Duckett dominates for Thousand Oaks
Senior standout has TOHS girls' swim squad on the brink of a Marmonte title
By Thomas Gase tgase@theacorn.com
      With a 113-57 home victory over Agoura High last week, the Thousand Oaks girls' swim team is now firmly planted in the driver's seat in the race for a Marmonte League championship. Playing a major role in the team's success thus far has been Lancer senior Camille Duckett.
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Warrior golfers confident they can overtake Royal
Consistency is the key for Westlake
By Thomas Gase tgase@theacorn.com
      With two weeks remaining in the regular season, the Westlake High boys' golf team is in a familiar position- battling Royal for a Marmonte League title. Entering Wednesday's match against Agoura at Malibu Country Club, the Warriors were 13-2 overall and 8-1 in league play. Westlake's only ...
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Basketball squad wins O.C. tourney
      LOCAL TALENT SCORES BIG WIN- Team Concept Basketball won the 17-and-under Open Division of the 2008 California Classic girls' club basketball tournament. The event, which took place at Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana and other Orange County gyms, was hosted by the Cal Sparks basketball club an...
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Four for the Month
      It was Maya Angelou who once said: "When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.
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Lancers refuse to let season slip away
Baseball team tries to rebound from a rough stretch
By Stephen Dorman sdorman@theacorn.com
      Rarely does a high school baseball team as talented as Thousand Oaks face a mustwin situation before the midway point of league play arrives. But that was exactly the case last Friday afternoon at TOHS as the Lancers, losers of eight of 10 games entering the contest, took on Royal.
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Marder stays hot
      Newbury Park High second baseman Jack Marder entered the week with a Marmonte League-leading .633 batting average, according to MaxPreps.com. The Panther junior had 38 hits in his first 60 official at-bats.
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Yelich chooses UCLA
      Westlake High sophomore first baseman Christian Yelich has made a verbal commitment to play baseball at UCLA when he graduates from high school.
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T.O. Titans rise to the challenge
      SKILL, NOT LUCK- The T.O. Titans BU-10 soccer team from AYSO Region 9 won its division at the Pot O' Gold Tournament. Pictured in the back row, from left, are coach Frank Ozello, Brendan Valentine, Frank Ozello, Jimmy Tatum, Bobby Alvarez, Kassem Hamideh, Spencer Wain and coach Gregory Wain. Bott...
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