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Mike Klan

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) –

NCAA Football: Cal Poly 24, Central Washington 17: Ray Hall finished with a game high 125 yards and his first two collegiate touchdown receptions and Fidel Pitts caught a third from quarterback Anthony Grigsby, Jr., as the Cal Poly football program prevailed at home for the second time in as many weeks with a 24-17 victory against Division II Central Washington.

Grigsby closed with 204 passing yards for Cal Poly (2-0), which trailed Central Washington (0-1) after the first quarter, 7-0, before scoring 24 unanswered points.

(Article courtesy of Cal Poly Athletics)

Junior College Football: Bakersfield 28, Hancock 14: Tyson Scott rushed for 123 yards and a touchdown in the Bulldogs loss to the Roadrunners. Hancock is 1-1.

Pasadena 54, SBCC 21: Eli Gebbie had a 99-yard interception return for a touchdown for SBCC who fell to 0-2. Brooks Trimmer and Tua Rojas each threw for a touchdown pass in the Vaqueros loss on the road.

Ventura 33, Fullerton 20: LaRevious Woods rushed for 218 yards and three touchdowns, including a 59-yard breakaway score in the third quarter, as the Pirate football team got back on track with a solid 33-20 victory at No. 9-ranked Fullerton Saturday. Woods’ long touchdown restored a 16-point advantage after the hosts had pulled within three late in the first half, helping the Ventura improve to 1-1. (Courtesy of Ventura College Athletics).

NCAA Women’s Volleyball: UCSB 3, Utah State 1: Courtni Youngblood had 20 digs to finish off the Gaucho Invitational with a four set win. UCSB went 1-1 in the tourney and they are 4-1 overall.

UC Davis 3, Cal Poly 2: (21-25, 25-18, 25-23, 23-25, 12-15).

NCAA Women’s Soccer: UCSB 3, North Dakota State 3: For the third consecutive match, the UC Santa Barbara Women’s Soccer team had to settle for a draw. The Gauchos scored on goals from Olivia Howard and Delilah Vega-Aguilar to take a two-goal lead, but North Dakota State scored three unanswered goals over the next 33 minutes to take the lead. The Gauchos showed grit by scoring their third goal of the game in the 85th minute. Ava Jarolimek would level the game. A corner kick was awarded to UC Santa Barbara and Jarolimek stepped over the ball. A perfect shot beat the goalkeeper to the back post and scored off the corner kick. (UCSB Athletics).

NCAA Men’s Water Polo: #3 Stanford 24, #13 UCSB 13: Freshman Luigi Canepa scored a team-high 5 goals for the Gauchos in the loss. UCSB only trailed 11-9 at the half. The Gauchos had their 4-game win streak snapped. They are 9-4 on the season.

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Caleb Nguyen

SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) – Santa Maria Police officers arrested a 15-year-old for firearm possession just after 9:00 p.m. Saturday at the 800 block of East Sierra Madre Avenue.

The SMPD Gang Supression team contacted the individual in a group and found two guns and ammunition during an investigation.

SMPD officers later determined one of the two guns was stolen and took the teenagers into custody on firearm related chargers.

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Caleb Nguyen

VENTURA, Calif. (KEYT) – An Oxnard man died after his car crashed and caught fire just before 4:00 a.m. Sunday near Harbor Boulevard and Olivas Park Road, according to the Ventura Police Department.

VPD officers arrived to find the man’s car ablaze before finding the driver inside and pronouncing him dead at the scene.

A preliminary investigation indicates the car veered into the center median before hitting a palm tree cluster and crashing violently, according to the VPD.

Speed appears to be a factor in the crash while whether drugs and alcohol factored into the crash remains unknown, according to the VPD.

The Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office is withholding information on the deceased until next-of-kin notifications are made, according to the VPD.

The investigation remains ongoing and those with more information on the crash are asked to contact the VPD.

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Patricia Martellotti

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – More than 200 people gathered at the new Vic for a Women’s Fund forum on food insecurity in Santa Barbara.

Local organizations discussed the growing demand for food assistance across the region.

The forum also highlighted efforts to support families facing food insecurity.

“The hope is that we will raise awareness and people will develop empathy and understanding of our neighbors and the situations that we are facing,” said board member Roberta Collier of the Women’s Fund.

Community leaders shared what they see as the biggest challenges and how local groups are responding.

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Beth Farnsworth

GOLETA, Calif. (KEYT) – A group of local voters skipped the beach Labor Day Saturday and headed to a local brewery, not for social reasons but political.

Draughtsmen Aleworks in Goleta hosted a “Postcards from Paradise” Get Out the Vote event.

“I did this in 2024 and this is an advocacy pack called “Postcards to Swing States,” said Joni Kelly, who organized the event. “Basically, they tested the messaging that gets people to the polls.”

The so-called advocacy pack came with 2,000 postcards; volunteers provided the stamps.

Those participating in the local, grassroots effort were encouraged to handwrite personal messages to be mailed to Democratic voters in four specific battleground states, urging them to get out of their homes and head to the polls for November’s General Election.

One volunteer said Saturday’s event was a first for this group. 

“The more people are encouraged to get out and vote, the more there is an opportunity for us to change direction of where we’re going today,” said Andrew Lester, a Santa Barbara resident. “And I feel change is required.” 

The postcards were tailored for Wisconsin, Nevada, North Carolina and California’s 48th District which includes Temecula, Murrieta and, portions of Escondido.

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Beth Farnsworth

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – Energy from Hurricane Marie is kicking up big surf along local beaches that are normally described as “flat water” beaches, including East Beach.

“We’ve got waves out here six to eight feet face beach-break meaning that when it breaks hard it breaks all at once,” said Brittney Gamble, a beach lifeguard and EMT. “It can be a life threatening situation if you’re not a strong swimmer.”

The Harbor Patrol boat was spotted early Saturday afternoon patrolling off the coast in near shore waters while two lifeguards patrolled the sandy shore in the city’s mobile beach unit, looking for swimmers or surfers in distress.

All six city lifeguard towers are fully staffed through the long Labor Day weekend, with more than eight lifeguards on duty.

A crew of three met up at the tower in front of the landmark Chromatic Gate and said they’d already had to help a number of people struggling to get out of the strong surf earlier in the day, especially among the crowd swimming in front of the Cabrillo Pavilion.

“It is very steep out of nowhere and very rocky,” said Dino Ise, a city lifeguard. “People lost their footing and had a very hard time. We just had to go in, all (three) of us really, have had turns goin’ in.”

One couple from Visialia said the size of the waves was somewhat alarming.

“Big and aggressive!” said Brendan and his girlfriend, Jess, almost simultaneously.

“I swam in the ocean!” said Jess.

“Did it feel a little dangerous?” I asked.

“Yeah, a little bit. I think with the super shallow break, it’s a lot of water coming down on you all at once.” said Brendan.

Gamble said she’s been a lifeguard here for eight years and has never seen the surf this big at East Beach. 

The city lifeguard team works in hand with the Harbor Patrol and Santa Barbara City Fire Department.

The crew wanted to remind the public that large sets can pop up as far as 20-minutes apart so, remain extra cautious this holiday weekend and never turn a back on the ocean.

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Caleb Nguyen

OXNARD, Calif. (KEYT) – A scooter rider died after a crash and subsequent fall at the 2700 block of Rohdea Drive just before 6:00 p.m. Friday, according to the Oxnard Police Department.

OPD officers saw the 57-year-old woman lying on the walkway with the electric scooter just feet away from her.

Paramedics later declared the woman dead at the scene and determined unknown reasons why the fall and potential life-ending injuries occurred, according to the OPD.

The investigation remains ongoing and those with more information are asked to contact the OPD at this number.

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Caleb Nguyen

GAVIOTA, Calif. (KEYT) – Santa Barbara County Fire crews rescued a person via helicopter after a medical emergency at Gaviota State Beach just after 2:00 p.m. Saturday.

The person had a medical condition leading to moderate injuries and an airlift to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, according to the SBCFD.

The railroad tracks near the area are currently closed and those seeking more information should contact Union Pacific, according to the SBCFD.

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Mike Klan

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) –

NCAA Men’s Soccer:

Cornell 2, UCSB 1: Senior All-American Connor Miller scored with less than four minutes to go, and for the second straight year the Cornell men’s soccer team beat UC Santa Barbara on a late goal, this time in a 2-1 win over the 21st-ranked Gauchos on Friday night at Berman Field. The Big Red improved to 2-0 on the year, while UCSB slipped to 1-1-2.

“I thought it was an excellent game. It didn’t seem like just our second game of the season – tt was almost played with postseason intensity,” said John Smith, the Dr. Daniel P. Wood Head Coach of Men’s Soccer “Quite often that happens when you play against a really good opponent. I thought we were fairly dominant in the first half – probbaly could have capitalized on some of the opportunities we created, but we didn’t. The second half was a bit more even, although I do think we outweighed them in terms of chances created. We rode our luck when they hit the bar, but two great goals, and overall, really an excellent performance against a very good team.”

After a long halftime delay to repair a light bank that went out at the break, Adam Schaban put Cornell ahead in the 47th minute, taking the ball away from a UC Santa Barbara defender and sliding home a left-footed shot off a cross from Andrew Miles on the right flank. It was Schaban’s second goal in as many games to open the season.

UC Santa Barbara answered in the 68th minute when Steinar Bjornsson curled a right-footed shot from 25 yards off an assist from Donovan Sessoms, tying the score at 1-1 and setting up Miller’s late heroics. The visitors had narrowly missed leveling the score after hitting the crossbar two minutes before finding the equalizer.

(Article courtesy of Cornell Athletics)

NCAA Men’s Water Polo

#13 UCSB 11, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 10: #13 UCSB 15, Fresno Pacific 5: The No. 13 UC Santa Barbara Men’s Water Polo team got its first taste of overtime on Friday, needing an extra seven minutes and change to knock off hosts Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, 11-10, in the opening match of the Inland Empire Classic. Luigi Canepa scored the game-winner, one of three goals for him. Kai Ross also had a hat-trick on the day, leading the scoring in Santa Barbara’s afternoon rout of Fresno Pacific, 15-5. The center from Connecticut also picked up a goal in the morning action to finish the day with four.

(Article courtesy of UCSB Athletics)

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Mike Klan

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) –

Segment 1: Santa Barbara 21, Dos Pueblos 10; Nipomo 31, Santa Ynez 14; Lompoc 38, Cabrillo 2; Lancaster 50, Bishop Diego 34

Segment 2: Newbury Park 31, Arroyo Grande 14; Righetti 28, Pioneer Valley 6

Segment 3: San Marcos 35, Channel Islands 0

Segment 4: Heritage Christian 35, Carpinteria 0

Segment 5: Laguna Blanca 48, Cuyama Valley 12, Agoura 33, Thousand Oaks 0

More results:

St. Joseph 49, Paso Robles 13

St. Bonaventure 51, Trabuco Hills 14

Pacifica 39, Hart 20

Ventura 26, Lakewood 24

Fillmore 34, Buena 24

Santa Paula 39, Del Sol 31

Nordhoff 35, Mira Monte 7

Oxnard 28, Hueneme 26

Saugus 38, Camarillo 35

Moorpark 33, Birmingham 20

Grace 35, El Camino Real 10

Simi Valley 56, Bishop Montgomery 6

Liberty 20, Oaks Christian 17

Oak Park 28, Brentwood 7

Calabasas 47, Burbank 7

Westlake 49, Chatsworth 14

Royal 46, Contreras 7

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