In Germany, there is no MLB Network, no ESPN web gems, and you can't just click on the television at the end of the day to catch the nightly baseball scores.

So it's no surprise that Donald Lutz didn't know much about America's favorite pastime growing up, except for the small faded posters his older brother Sascha possessed of various players from baseball's chase for the home run record era.

In Germany, there is no MLB Network, no ESPN web gems, and you can't just click on the television at the end of the day to catch the nightly baseball scores.

So it's no surprise that Donald Lutz didn't know much about America's favorite pastime growing up, except for the small faded posters his older brother Sascha possessed of various players from baseball's chase for the home run record era.

Cypress College won its third straight softball state championship with a pair of victories Sunday over College of the Siskiyous at the Dean & Adah Gay Sports Complex.

The Chargers (45-5) won three straight elimination games after losing 8-3 to Siskiyous on Saturday.

Cypress College won its third straight softball state championship with a pair of victories Sunday over College of the Siskiyous at the Dean & Adah Gay Sports Complex.

The Chargers (45-5) won three straight elimination games after losing 8-3 to Siskiyous on Saturday.

CLOVIS -- There's nothing like the Central Section Swimming and Diving Championships to bring out the best from Frontier High sophomore Jorie Caneta.

For the second sonsecutive year, Caneta set a section record in winning the girls' 100-yard breaststroke. Her time of 1:04.43 dominated the field and easily topped her previous best of 1:04.94, set in this meet one year earlier. In a race often won by hundredths of a second, Caneta beat runner-up Haley Washburn of Sanger (1:08.41) by nearly four seconds.

CLOVIS -- There's nothing like the Central Section Swimming and Diving Championships to bring out the best from Frontier High sophomore Jorie Caneta.

For the second sonsecutive year, Caneta set a section record in winning the girls' 100-yard breaststroke. Her time of 1:04.43 dominated the field and easily topped her previous best of 1:04.94, set in this meet one year earlier. In a race often won by hundredths of a second, Caneta beat runner-up Haley Washburn of Sanger (1:08.41) by nearly four seconds.

CLOVIS -- It's almost like Matt Sewell and Anthony Busacca could tell the future.

A year ago, after both bowed out in the Central Section individual championships, they told each other they'd team up and win the doubles title in 2012. The vision came true Saturday at Buchanan High, where Busacca, a sophomore at Liberty High, and Sewell, a senior, took down an upstart Stockdale team of John Matthew Flores and Charles Tamer, 6-1, 6-2 in the section championship.

CLOVIS -- It's almost like Matt Sewell and Anthony Busacca could tell the future.

A year ago, after both bowed out in the Central Section individual championships, they told each other they'd team up and win the doubles title in 2012. The vision came true Saturday at Buchanan High, where Busacca, a sophomore at Liberty High, and Sewell, a senior, took down an upstart Stockdale team of John Matthew Flores and Charles Tamer, 6-1, 6-2 in the section championship.

Division I Championships

At Clovis West

Division I Championships

At Clovis West

Baseball is a simple game ... score more runs than your opponent.

But if that is the case then why is it so hard to play? Why do so many people have such a visceral passion for the game, yet haven't played in years?

Baseball is a simple game ... score more runs than your opponent.

But if that is the case then why is it so hard to play? Why do so many people have such a visceral passion for the game, yet haven't played in years?

CERRITOS -- Bakersfield College freshman Chris Schwartz finished third in the 1,500 and 5,000 at the state track and field championships at Cerritos College on Saturday.

Schwartz, a Foothill High graduate, finished just one hundreth of a second behind second-place Christian Soratos of Hartnell in the 1,500, with a 3:47.04. Matt Airola of American River won in 3:45.80.

CERRITOS -- Bakersfield College freshman Chris Schwartz finished third in the 1,500 and 5,000 at the state track and field championships at Cerritos College on Saturday.

Schwartz, a Foothill High graduate, finished just one hundreth of a second behind second-place Christian Soratos of Hartnell in the 1,500, with a 3:47.04. Matt Airola of American River won in 3:45.80.

Central Section MastersChampionships

At Clovis Buchanan

Central Section MastersChampionships

At Clovis Buchanan

IRVINE -- Andrew Letourneau went 2-for-3 with three RBI's to lead Cal State Bakersfield to a 5-4 victory Saturday over UC Irvine.

CSUB (21-28) scored three runs with two outs in the seventh to get back on top. Letourneau broke the tie with a two-run double, followed by a Kevin Younger RBI-double that scored Letourneau.

IRVINE -- Andrew Letourneau went 2-for-3 with three RBI's to lead Cal State Bakersfield to a 5-4 victory Saturday over UC Irvine.

CSUB (21-28) scored three runs with two outs in the seventh to get back on top. Letourneau broke the tie with a two-run double, followed by a Kevin Younger RBI-double that scored Letourneau.

Maybe you'd think this wasn't what East High senior D.J. Johnson had in mind, when he came back to play high school tennis instead of focusing on the Southern California junior circuit.

Here's Johnson, playing doubles with a partner who isn't in the same stratosphere, and so the opposition is trying to hit every single shot away from him. But Johnson is racing from doubles alley to doubles alley, trying to hit every ball himself. The result often is a manaical game of two-on-one tennis, and Johnson usually wins anyway.

Maybe you'd think this wasn't what East High senior D.J. Johnson had in mind, when he came back to play high school tennis instead of focusing on the Southern California junior circuit.

Here's Johnson, playing doubles with a partner who isn't in the same stratosphere, and so the opposition is trying to hit every single shot away from him. But Johnson is racing from doubles alley to doubles alley, trying to hit every ball himself. The result often is a manaical game of two-on-one tennis, and Johnson usually wins anyway.