Mike Klan
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT).
NCAA Men’s Soccer:
UCSB 1, Cal Poly 0
NCAA Women’s Soccer:
UCSB 1, Long Beach State 1
Cal Poly 2, UC Irvine 1
NCAA Women’s Volleball:
UCSB 3, CS Fullerton 0; UCSB 3, UC Irvine 1
Cal Poly 3, UC Irvine 0; Cal Poly 3, CS Fullerton 0
NCAA Men’s Water Polo:
UC Irvine 10, UCSB 9
Tracy Lehr
CENTRAL COAST, Calif. (KEYT) – Thousands of people attended “No Kings” protests up and down the Central Coast and around the nation on Saturday.
News Channel’s Kevin McClarty captured some of the march in Santa Barbara.
“There are so many things that have happened, so many videos of how people are being treated. We had ICE come here in Carpentaria, pick up people. There’s a lot of more concern,” one protester said.
Tensions in the small community of Carpinteria have been high since initial federal agent spottings and arrests earlier in the year.
In July, federal agents stormed marijuana farms outside of Camarillo and in Carpinteria arresting hundreds of people, including 14 children, and the enforcement operation led to multiple injuries and one man, Jaime Garcia -a worker at the Camarillo location- died from head and neck trauma days after falling 30 feet during the raid.
“My uncle Jaime was just a hard-working, innocent farmer. He has his wife and daughter waiting for him. He was chased by ICE agents, and we were told he fell 30ft,” wrote his family in a GoFundMe post. “He was his family’s only provider. They took one of our family members. We need justice.”
The first ever “No Kings” rallies took place around the country in June protesting the Trump administration and immigration enforcement – but protesters say the threat is still prevalent, and only getting harsher.
Community members gathered in Alameda Park in Santa Barbara to join the demonstration – arriving in the thousands.
While many attendees shared they feel fearful for the future, they won’t let that feeling overpower their fight.
“They’re trying to keep us down and shut us up, but we’re not going to shut up and we’re not going to go home and hide in our homes,” a protester said.
The Trump administration has condemned these demonstrations, with Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson referring to these weekend’s events as “Hate America” rallies.
“I think it’s very concerning when I hear that these are ‘Hate America’ protests because they’re not. They’re people that really love this country,” a protester said.
“I think we’re enjoying being American, actually. I think the First Amendment gives us the right to say what we want and to demonstrate,” said another protester.
Alissa Orozco
SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) – A motorcycle vs. pedestrian collision resulted in major and fatal injuries of two Santa Maria men Saturday night.
On Oct 18th, around 8:35pm, Santa Maria Police, Fire Department, and emergency medical responders were call out to the intersection of Broadway and Williams Street in Santa Maria where a traffic collision had occurred.
A 25-year-old male pedestrian and a 32-year-old male motorcyclist were found lying the intersection upon arrival – both with significant injuries.
According to the Santa Maria Police Department, the pedestrian was crossing eastbound in the north crosswalk of Williams Street when he was struck by the motorcyclist traveling northbound on Broadway. Initial impact caused the pedestrian to be thrown in the roadway and the motorcyclist to be ejected from his motorcycle.
Both were transported to Marian Regional Medical Center for treatment, where the pedestrian unfortunately succumbed to his injuries. The motorcyclist was left with serious injuries and is receiving treatment.
An investigation is in the works by the Santa Maria Police Department Traffic Unit, and preliminary findings indicate that alcohol may have been a factor in the collision.
Anyone who may have witnessed the collision or has additional information is asked to contact Officer Medrano at (805) 928-3781 ext. 1139.
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Mike Klan
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -(KEYT). It was a day for defenders in San Luis Obispo on Saturday, as Haruki Utsumi scored the only goal and the UC Santa Barbara Men’s Soccer team’s back line shut out Cal Poly to claim the Blue-Green Rivalry and three crucial points for the Gauchos with a 1-0 victory. With the result and September’s 0-0 draw at Harder Stadium, Santa Barbara wins the season series against their arch-rivals, 1-0 on aggregate, the sixth time in the last seven seasons that the Gauchos have claimed the Blue-Green Rivalry.
Santa Barbara’s three center backs — Utsumi, Drew Kamienski and Calle Mollerberg — were all tremendous on Saturday, Kamienski’s unflappable composure complementing the other two’s tenacity perfectly to anchor the defense. The wing backs — Eddie Villeda, Kaden Standish and Colby Renton — gave all of their energy to fulfill their duties both offensively and defensively, though both Ramses Martinez and Zac Siebenlist might have managed to cover even more ground as they spent the afternoon pressing and pestering the Mustang defense. And in goal, Luke Skinner’s performance was exactly what the Gauchos needed: confidence playing the ball in the air and a couple of huge close-range saves to preserve the clean sheet.
HOW IT HAPPENEDIt helped that Santa Barbara came out in the driver’s seat, enjoying the majority of possession and largely controlling the game in the first half. They had to weather one early Mustang storm, but basically as soon as the Gauchos had finished fending that off, they took the lead at the other end. Utsumi’s goal, like the first two of his career in Blue and Gold, came from a corner kick. The kick itself went short to Villeda, who took two touches to evade his defender and then fizzed a low cross into the penalty area. Utsumi was waiting at the near post and just had to redirect the ball into the far corner netting.
After taking the lead, Santa Barbara remained on top, and they looked like doubling their advantage in the 21st minute. Standish found Steinar Bjornsson with a cross, and the Icelander made the smart choice to head the ball back across goal, where both Siebenlist and Martinez were waiting. Siebenlist got a touch to the pass, not to control it for himself but just enough that it fell kindly for Martinez to volley toward the back post. It may have been going wide in the end, but the venomous shot drew a last-ditch block from the Mustang defense.
There were a couple more storms for the Gauchos to weather on the road to halftime, as the Santa Barbara defense did well to keep Cal Poly from getting a shot on target in a 34th-minute goal-mouth scramble, blocking two shots then watching a third sail harmlessly high. In the 42nd, Skinner had his first big moment as a diagonal ball split the Gaucho back line to give the Mustangs a one-on-one. The Englishman stood his ground well for a crucial and impressive save at close range. As the final seconds of the half ticked down, he made two good plays in the air to keep Cal Poly from delivering the ball to his back post, first punching away a cross, then making a clean catch to snare another pass out of the air.
The game’s script flipped on its head for the second half, with the Mustangs testing Skinner and the Santa Barbara defense far more after halftime than they had before it, as the hosts enjoyed the majority of the possession and control of the match in the second 45 minutes.
The Gauchos did create a couple of chances to score, with Villeda getting the best of their second-half looks in the 54th minute but just lacking power on his shot. A minute later, the Mustangs clanged a drive off the crossbar as Santa Barbara did just enough to repel their attacks. They dodged a bullet in the 73rd minute, when Skinner came off his line to punch away a cross, only for it to fall to a Mustang right on the edge of the penalty area. Thankfully, the shot went safely wide of the post.
Also thankfully, the Gauchos had started to get better at disrupting Cal Poly’s attacking flow by that time; the hosts still spent plenty of time on the ball, but Santa Barbara was able to rattle off a couple of counterattacks or long balls the other way to force the Mustangs to start their build-up from scratch.
In the crucial final 10 minutes, the time in which the Gauchos had conceded late equalizers in each of their last two matches, Santa Barbara’s defense made three key plays to secure the win. In the 81st minute, it was Kamienski stepping in at exactly the right time to intercept and clear away a pass intended for a Mustang just six yards from goal. In the 84th, Skinner again raced off his line to punch away a cross and earned a free kick in the process, allowing Santa Barbara to slow the game down. The 87th minute saw the Gauchos’ final and decisive defensive stand. Mollerberg headed away back-to-back deliveries aimed at the six-yard box, and when the Mustangs recycled the ball and got off a shot, Skinner made another tremendous close-range stop. Cal Poly got one more shot from the rebound, but striker Nicolas Willumsen was back to block it. That would be the Mustangs’ final attempt of the evening.
BY THE NUMBERSIn total, Skinner and the Santa Barbara defense faced 14 Cal Poly shots. Skinner saved two and the defense in front of him blocked an additional seven of them.The Gauchos’ committed and tenacious defending secured their seventh clean sheet of the season, matching their total from 2024; two more will see this year’s squad enter the program’s all-time top 10 for shutouts in a single campaign.Four of the five Gauchos who started the match in the back line finished it there, with Utsumi, Kamienski, Mollerberg and Villeda all going the full 90 in the match.With the win, Santa Barbara (at least temporarily) re-takes the lead in The Big West standings, with 12 points. Cal State Bakersfield (11 points) and Cal State Fullerton (10 points) face each other later Saturday night; a win for either would see them take top spot off the Gauchos.
UP NEXTSanta Barbara plays its final home matches of the regular season next week, hosting Sacramento State on Oct. 22 and UC Irvine for Senior Night on Oct. 25 at Harder Stadium. The Hornets and Anteaters played earlier Saturday, with UC Irvine winning, 3-0. Tickets for both of next week’s matches are on sale now at ucsbgauchos.com/tickets, and UC Santa Barbara students get in for free.
(Article courtesy of UCSB Athletics)
Tracy Lehr
VENTURA, Calif. (KEYT) – More than Conquerors hosted a Ventura surf session on Saturday.
The group serves foster youth and others.
“We could not ask for a better day to take these kids surfing we are working with adoptive families, kids in foster care and human trafficing victims as well and so they get to come down to the beach and experience all that surfing has to offer,” said MTC Surf founder Elle Miller.
Miller used to teach kids from orphanages to surf in Mexico.
She created the nonprofit that hosts regular events to share the love of the sport that can be healing.
They taught children to surf at Faria Beach in Ventura County.
The event follows a major fundraiser they called rise with the tide.
They are saving up for two new surf vans to take kids to and from beaches up and down the coast.
The event follows a major fundraiser volunteers called “Rise with the Tide,” at the Museum of Ventura County.
Donors include Revolution Board Co., Betty Belt and Urban Cafe.
They are saving up for 2 new vans to take car surfboards and kids to California beaches.
Miller said the regular events they host are free to families.
For more information visit https://mtcsurf.org
Jarrod Zinn
SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) – The Central Coast Air Fest took flight on Saturday, right on schedule as the crowds flooded in at 9:00 in the morning for good seating.
“Planes of Fame is heavily involved as the title sponsor of this event,” says Brian Finnegan, Planes Of Fame Air Museum’s director of Education Programs and Museum Development. “It features two days, Saturday and Sunday of air show activity.”
At 11:00, the first performance flights roared into the sky over the Santa Maria Airport.
“A good part of the collection that you’ll see flying is the Planes of Fame Air museum collection,” says Finnegan. “We have about 100 aircraft in our collection and about 40 of those have been restored to flight. And some of them are incredibly rare. They’re the last flying examples of their kind.”
There are only three rules that were established as families set themselves up as close to the featured planes as possible—wear sunblock, stay hydrated, and most importantly, have fun.
“Watching performers back in the day and then being a performer, you know, now is definitely full-circle type stuff,” says Anthony Oshinuga, a Central Coast Air Fest Performer. “I mean, being around these, these old airplanes that like the P-51 Mustang I grew up watching, like the Tuskegee Airmen and the history about that, the Red Tails and, you know, the Thunderbolt and all these airplanes out here, they’re here. And I’m like, wow, this is like a dream come true almost.”
Organizers felt the impact of the ongoing government shutdown when all military air performances were canceled.
“This year is a little unique because of the government shutdown,” says Finnegan. “Many of the military acts that would have been here, the F-18, the F-35 and so on, they were not able to make it because of the shutdown.”
But attendees didn’t have much of a chance to feel that impact, as the Planes Of Fame Air Museum took spectators on a flight into the past, featuring planes from World War II.
“So really, this year is unique in that we are turning back the clock to make this really a history, a show of history,” says Finnegan. “This is aircraft that helped win the second World War.”
The Air Fest continues through the weekend, and you can visit either the Planes of Fame Air Museum’s website or the site for the Central Coast Air Fest, by clicking their respective links.
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Andrew Gillies
VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. (KEYT) – A Falcon 9 launch of 28 Starlink satellites destined for low-Earth orbit has been rescheduled to Sunday, Oct. 19 between 10:24 a.m. and 2:24 p.m. from Vandenberg Space Force Base’s Launch Complex 4E.
A live webcast of the launch will begin about five minutes before liftoff that you can watch here or on SpaceX’s X/Twitter account.
Following first-stage separation, the booster assigned to this mission will return to Earth to land on the Of Course I Still Love You drone ship awaiting in the Pacific Ocean.
A depiction of that sequence is shown in the image below.
There is the possibility that one or more sonic booms may be heard across the region associated with the launch, but how far the sound travels will depend on weather and other conditions.
This will be the 11th flight for the Falcon 9 assigned to this mission which previously launched: NROL-126, Transporter-12, SPHEREx, NROL-57, and six Starlink satellites.
Mike Klan
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT). – Channel League co-champions Dos Pueblos and San Marcos each received a first round home game to open the CIF-Southern Section Division 1 flag football playoffs.
DP will host Etiwanda while San Marcos will be home to Lakewood St. Joseph. Both games are scheduled for Wednesday, October 22 at 5 pm.
Also in D1 Camarillo is hosting Oxnard in a battle of Ventura County schools.
The Ventura Cougars are in D2 and will host Fullerton on Tuesday, October 21.
Rounding out D2, Newbury Park is home to Tesoro, Agoura hosts Corona del Mar and Westlake is at Mater Dei.
In D3 Santa Paula hosts Channel Islands while Moorpark is at South Hills. Both of those games are Tuesday, October 21.
In D4 Royal is at Hart on Tuesday, October 21.
Mike Klan
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – (KEYT). – Laguna Blanca High School in Santa Barbara announced a new head boys basketball coach with the following press release.
Darnell Campbell has been appointed the Head Varsity Basketball Coach at Laguna Blanca School. Campbell brings with him a wealth of experience in the sport of basketball.
Campbell was a standout interscholastic basketball player for Lake Erie College, a NCAA DIV II school located in Painesville, Ohio, where he received All Conference recognition for several years. Darnell was a key contributor of the 2006-07 team that went 25-3—a team that was inducted into the Storm Hall of Fame in September of this year.
Darnell brings to Laguna Blanca over ten years experience providing skill development training for elite basketball players on various NBA teams, including the Cleveland Cavaliers, Utah Jazz, and Los Angeles Clippers.
Campbell also has significant experience in the skill development of younger players, with twenty years of experience coaching youth camps and clinics for the Cleveland Cavaliers, and serving as director of youth basketball for the Los Angeles Clippers.
Coach Campbell continues to serve as a full-time faculty member and coach at The Riviera Ridge School, where he has worked for the past 11 years. Additionally, he is also the Director of Basketball at LevelUp basketball club and the Director of Basketball for Oakland Soldiers in the Central Coast Region.
Athletic Director Dan Peeters has this to say about Campbell, “I am thrilled that Darnell is joining our community; he will revitalize the program and I am confident the boys in the basketball program will thrive and reach their fullest potential under his leadership.”
Jarrod Zinn
SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) – A symposium on conflict resolution was held in Santa Maria at Boyd Concert Hall on the campus of Allan Hancock College, courtesy of California’s non-profit public benefit corporation, Fighting Back Santa Maria Valley.
“Today’s event is all about how to teach mediation,” says Edwin Weaver, Fighting Back Santa Maria Valley’s executive director. “Lots of us find ourselves in conflict. And so there’s many ways to resolve that conflict using a facilitative mediator. We do that for free for people who are in small claims court.”
A line-up of expert speakers started with a presentation that only scratched the surface of conflict resolution strategies, and was followed by a panel discussion just before a few break-out sessions.
“We also teach people to help participate in the mediation with young people through our restorative justice programs and our District Attorney’s Neighborhood Restorative Justice panel, where community members can volunteer and be panelists, helping people through a difficult situation where they’ve committed a crime,” says Weaver.
City leaders, students, and local advocates joined the crowd in the Boyd Concert Hall, participating in an interactive program designed to reduce violence, prevent substance abuse, and foster healthy environments for youth and families in the Santa Maria valley.
“This is a community that’s ready for change,” says Braedon Ervin, Freedom 4 Youth’s co-president. “And all these faces are here for it. And they’re going to learn a little bit more about it. I’m learning myself, and so it’s great to build these roots and really grow from there.”
Advocates say the symposium was ideally timed as the holidays approach a divided culture struggling with the balance between being true to oneself and honoring friends and loved ones.
“We’re not all going to agree,” says Weaver. “We probably shouldn’t agree. It wouldn’t make us challenge each other or try new things. But we do need to learn to listen to each other.”
Participants say many factors contribute to the need of youth support in today’s society, including our technological culture, varying worldviews, and divisive political climate.
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