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Midseason baseball report: The players and teams to watch

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At the midway point of the high school baseball season, senior Jackson Eisenhauer of Crespi has been close to perfect. He has pitched 36 innings without giving up any earned runs. His scoreless streak reached 33-2/3 innings until two errors helped two runs score to end the streak last week.

“It’s an amazing thing to see,” coach Mike Glendenning said.

Eisenhauer has come out of nowhere, having pitched just 11 innings last season. He spent the summer becoming stronger under Woody Cliffords, a private trainer who has worked with Ryan Braun, Trevor Plouffe and Pete Crow-Armstrong.

What he’s accomplishing is no fluke.

“It’s a tribute to how hard he’s worked in the offseason to get himself to this point,” Glendenning said. “He’s hungry and determined.”

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Said Loyola coach Keith Ramsey: “He’s got a nice pitch mix with an 88-to-92-mph fastball. When he needs to make a pitch with runners on base, he gets tough. Whatever he did this offseason, every high school pitcher should do.”

Said Sierra Canyon coach Tom Meusborn: “He was throwing three pitches for strikes.”

Eisenhauer has what he calls a sweeper — a combination slider/curveball — that makes his fastball even better. He’s 5-0 and has helped Crespi go 14-1.

“I spent a lot of time in the weight room,” he said. “Putting on strength has been a big part of it.”

He’s a surfer, too, so there’s a fearless streak in him.

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Another pitcher on the rise has been 15-year-old freshman Carlos Acuna of Birmingham. He has thrown 22 consecutive scoreless innings. He’s 4-0 with an 0.57 earned-run average and 51 strikeouts in 36-2/3 innings.

Gavin Lauridsen of Foothill has been one of the best two-way players. He’s batting .426 with 20 hits and 18 RBIs. On the mound he’s 5-0 with an 0.71 ERA and 51 strikeouts in 39-1/3 innings.

Unbeaten Corona (14-0) has many players living up to expectations. The pitching staff has delivered 12 shutouts in 14 games. The hitters have combined for 26 home runs.

Seth Hernandez (4-0) has pitched 22-1/3 scoreless innings while striking out 47 with two walks. He also has hit four home runs and is batting .383. Anthony Murphy has six home runs. The team has made just seven errors.

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Hunter Manning of West Ranch is coming off a 16-strikeout performance against Valencia. He is 3-0 with a 1.38 ERA. Sophomore Otto Graham of JSerra started the season with 24 1/3 scoreless innings. Brandon Thomas of Mater Dei has given up one run in 27 innings.

Junior pitcher Garrett Jacobs of Mira Costa has helped his team win 12 consecutive games. He had 11 strikeouts against Redondo Union, 14 against Palos Verdes and has given up just 27 hits in 40 innings while striking out 61.

Jake Nobles of Villa Park has given up one unearned run and 12 hits in 26-2/3 innings.

Quentin Young of Oaks Christian continues to prove he’s the best power hitter with nine home runs.

Gavin Kramer of Vista Murrieta is 4-0 with a 1.42 ERA and also has 15 hits.

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Catcher Trent Grindlinger of Huntington Beach is performing well behind the plate and in the batter’s box with three home runs.

Joshua Pearlstein of Clevleand has become one of the top hitters in the City Section with a .445 average. The junior had a week in which he went seven for eight against Granada Hills.

Sophomore Jake Kim has hit five home runs for Harvard-Westlake.

Among teams, Aquinas is 12-1 and won the National Classic last week after winning the Boras Classic South consolation title.

Pitcher Jackson Eisenhauer of Crespi.

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(Craig Weston)

Crespi has started the Mission League with a 9-1 record.

La Mirada (13-2) has lost only to Corona.

Huntington Beach is 12-1 and hoping to meet Corona in the National High School Invitational this week in Cary, N.C.

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Venice is 13-1 and running away with the Western League championship.

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Miami Heat star Bam Adebayo makes NBA history with 83-point game

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Miami Heat star Bam Adebayo made NBA history on Tuesday night.

Adebayo scored 83 points, all while setting league marks for free throws made and attempted in a game for the Miami Heat in a 150-129 win over the Washington Wizards. It is the second-highest scoring game for a player ever, only to Wilt Chamberlain’s famed 100-point game.

“An absolutely surreal night,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra told reporters after the game.

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Adebayo started with a 31-point first quarter. He was up to 43 at halftime, 62 by the end of the third quarter. And then came the fourth, when the milestones kept falling despite facing double-, triple- and what once appeared to be a quadruple-team from a Wizards defense that kept sending him to the foul line.

He finished 20 of 43 from the field, 36 of 43 from the foul line, 7 for 22 from 3-point range.

After the game, he was seen in tears while he hugged his mother, Marilyn Blount, before leaving the floor after the game.

“Welp won’t have the highest career high in the house anymore,” Adebayo’s girlfriend, four-time WNBA MVP A’ja Wilson, wrote on social media, “but at least it gives me something to go after.”

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Bam Adebayo #13 of the Miami Heat celebrates during the fourth quarter of the game against the Washington Wizards at Kaseya Center on March 10, 2026, in Miami, Florida.  (Megan Briggs/Getty Images)

The NBA’s previous best this season was 56, by Nikola Jokic for Denver against Minnesota on Christmas night. The last player to have 62 points through three quarters: one of Adebayo’s basketball heroes, Kobe Bryant, who had exactly that many through three quarters for the Los Angeles Lakers against Dallas on Dec. 20, 2005.

He wound up passing Bryant for single-game scoring as well. Bryant’s career-best was 81 — a game that was the second-best on the NBA scoring list for two decades.

Adebayo scored 31 points in the opening quarter against the Wizards, breaking the Heat record for points in any quarter — and tying the team record for points in a first half before the second quarter even started.

He finished the first half with 43 points, a team record for any half and two points better than his previous career high — for a full game, that is — of 41, set Jan. 23, 2021, against Brooklyn.

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Adebayo’s season high entering Tuesday was 32. He matched that with a free throw with 5:53 left in the second quarter, breaking the Heat first-half scoring record.

Adebayo’s 43-point first half was the NBA’s second-best in at least the last 30 seasons — going back to the start of the digital play-by-play era that began in the 1996-97 season.

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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Kings lose in overtime to the Boston Bruins

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Charlie McAvoy scored 39 seconds into overtime and Jeremy Swayman stopped 14 shots on Tuesday night to earn the Boston Bruins their 13th straight victory at home, 2-1 over the Kings.

Mason Lohrei scored midway through the third period to break a scoreless tie. But the Kings tied it five minutes later when Drew Doughty’s shot from the blue line deflected off the heel of Bruins forward Elias Lindholm and into the net.

It was the seventh straight time the teams had gone to overtime in Boston.

In the overtime, Mark Kastelic blocked a shot in the defensive zone and made a long pass to David Pastrnak, who waited for McAvoy to come into the zone. The Bruins’ defenseman and U.S. Olympian, who went to the locker room at the end of the second period after taking a puck off his mouth, skated in on Darcy Kuemper and went to his backhand for the winner.

Kuemper stopped 21 shots for the Kings, who entered the night one point out of the second wild-card spot in the Western Conference. The victory kept Boston in possession of the East’s second wild-card spot.

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Swayman tied his career high with his 25th win of the season. The Bruins haven’t lost at the TD Garden since before Christmas.

After the game, Kings forward and future Hall of Famer Anze Kopitar stayed on the ice to shake hands with the Bruins after what is expected to be his last game in Boston.

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Jon Jones requests UFC release after Dana White says legend was ‘never’ considered him for White House card

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Mixed martial arts legend Jon Jones ended his retirement from UFC simply because he wanted a spot on the “Freedom 250” fight card at the White House in June. 

But, when UFC CEO Dana White announced the card during UFC 326 this past weekend, Jones wasn’t among the fighters. As a result, he has requested a release from his UFC contract. 

White was candid when asked about Jones following the UFC 326 card. 

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Jon Jones of the United States of America reacts after his TKO victory against Stipe Miocic of the United States of America in the UFC heavyweight championship fight during the UFC 309 event at Madison Square Garden on Nov. 16, 2024 in New York City.  ((Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images))

“Never, ever, ever, which I told you guys a hundred thousands times, was Jon Jones ever even remotely in my mind to fight at the White House,” White explained, per CBS Sports. “Some guy with Meta Glasses filmed him talking about his hips – that his hips are so bad. And I don’t know if you guys saw that flag football game where he can barely run. Jon Jones retired because of his hips. He’s got arthritis in his hips. Apparently, doctors say he should have a hip replacement.”

White added that “the Jon Jones thing is bulls—,” saying that he texted the fighter’s lawyer saying he would never be on the White House card despite Jones saying he was in negotiations for it. 

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The Meta Glasses incident White is referring to came from a viral video, where Jones, unaware he was being filmed, discussed issues with his hips to a fan. 

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On Monday, Jones composed a thorough response to White’s comments about him and the White House Card. He previously posted and deleted social media explanations, but Monday’s appeared to be his final statement on the matter. 

UFC President Dana White speaks after UFC Fight Night at Toyota Center on Feb. 21, 2026.  (Troy Taormina/Imagn Images)

“Yes, I have arthritis in my hip and it’s painful, but that doesn’t mean I can’t fight,” Jones, who retired a heavyweight champion in 2025, said. “So let me get this straight, if I had accepted the lowball offer, suddenly my hip would be fine and I’d be on the White House card? That doesn’t make sense. I even received stem cell treatment last week to get ready for the White House card, and training camp was scheduled to start today. I was preparing to be ready. 

“I understand business deals fall through sometimes, but going out publicly and saying things that aren’t true isn’t right. After everything I’ve given to the UFC, the years, the title defenses, the fights, hearing that I’m ‘done’ is disappointing. Especially when as recently as Friday UFC was calling me trying to get me on that White House card for a much lower number.”

Jones finished his statement by saying he “respectfully” asks to be released from his UFC contract.

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Jon Jones enters the ring before facing Stipe Miocic in the UFC heavyweight championship fight during the UFC 309 event at Madison Square Garden on November 16, 2024 in New York City, New York. (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)

“No more spins, no more games. Thank you to the real fans who know what’s up,” he wrote. 

The UFC did not immediately respond to a request for comment by Fox News Digital.

Jones is considered one of the best UFC fighters of all time, owning a 28-1-1 record, which includes his last bout with Stipe Miocic, knocking him out to take the heavyweight title belt. He is also a two-time light heavyweight champion. 

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