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Caleb Nguyen

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. – SpaceX plans to launch 27 Starlink satellites in support of a Falcon 9 Rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 3:41 p.m. Sunday.

Backup opportunities for the launch are available until 5:45 p.m. on the same day. Added launch opportunities are available Monday starting at 1:39 p.m..

Central Coast residents may feel the sonic boom from the impact of the launch.

Following stage separation, the first stage will land on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship stationed in the Pacific Ocean.

Live webcasts of the mission will be available five minutes before liftoff on both the Space X website and social media page.

Viewers with images or videos of the launch are encouraged to share them with KEYT at the following link.

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Mike Klan

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Nohl Williams will be sitting pretty in Kansas City.

The defensive back was selected in the 3rd round of the 2025 NFL Draft by KC with the 85th pick overall.

Williams is a 2020 Pacifica High School graduate and he helped the Tritons win a State Bowl Game title in 2019.

He initially went to UNLV but then transferred to Cal where he led the nation last year with seven interceptions.

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Mike Klan

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The UC Santa Barbara Baseball team (27-13, 12-10 Big West) opened their four-game swing through San Diego with two big swings as both LeTrey McCollum and Nate Vargas left the yard against UC San Diego (21-19, 10-9 Big West) on Friday night. However, the two home runs were not enough to put away the Tritons as the Gauchos dropped the series opener, 6-4.

HOW IT HAPPENEDIt was a shaky start for Santa Barbara, as the Gauchos surrendered runs in both the first and second innings. The tally in the first was unearned, as an errant throw went from nearly cutting down a runner trying to grab an extra 90 feet to granting that runner 90 more feet, and with them a run. After Santa Barbara left the bases loaded in the top of the second, a two-out double gave the Tritons another run in the bottom half of the frame.

Another two-out double in the bottom of the fourth gave the hosts a 4-0 lead, but the Gaucho offense clicked into gear in the top of the fifth to provide a response. After Rowan Kelly’s lead-off walk, Corey Nunez drove in Santa Barbara’s first run of the night with a double into the right field corner. Then, McCollum cracked a two-out home run to cut the deficit to one, a frozen rope that bounced off the top of the right center field fence on its way out.

But the Tritons got two runs back in the bottom of the sixth with more two-out hitting, this time a ground ball hit so hard through the right side of the Gaucho infield that it ended up being un-fieldable. Santa Barbara was able to loosen UC San Diego’s grip on the game in the top of the ninth, which Vargas led off by hitting the first pitch he saw out to right field, his team-leading seventh home run of the year. Kelly legged out an infield single to keep the rally alive, bringing the tying run to the plate. However, the Gauchos were unable to put any more runs on the board.

BY THE NUMBERSFor McCollum, his fifth-inning home run was his fifth of the season and his second in as many games. McCollum joins Jonathan Mendez, Jack Holman and Isaac Kim as Gauchos to homer in consecutive games this season. Holman has done it a team-high three times, while Mendez was the most recent to do it, leaving the yard on March 23 and March 25Despite working only four innings on the mound Friday night, Tyler Bremner continued to rack up the strikeouts, tallying eight K’s. He is now 12 away from matching Dan Yokubaitis’ UC Santa Barbara record for career strikeouts. With a repeat of his career-best 13 in a game, Bremner could take the record outright next weekend.Bremner is not the only one hunting a record, as McCollum’s home run extended his on-base streak to 36 games, nine away from matching (and 10 from breaking) the longest on-base streak in program history of 45 games, set by Christian Kirtley in 2022.

UP NEXTThe Gauchos will be back at Triton Ballpark on Saturday, April 26 at 2 p.m. for the second game of this three-game series. The game will be live on ESPN+ with live stats and an audio broadcast available through ucsbgauchos.com.

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Mike Klan

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. – Jack Collins blasted a three-run homer to give the Mustangs an early foothold, but Cal Poly (28-12, 15-4 BW) eventually fell behind by two games in conference play after a 4-6 loss to No. 12 UC Irvine (30-9, 17-2 BW) on Friday night.

Collins went 2-for-4 and looked like his usual self with one home run, a double, and three RBIs in accounting for all but one of Cal Poly’s runs. That makes for Collins’ team-leading 14th multi-RBI game this season. With 47 RBIs on the year, Collins sits third in the Big West.

Cam Hoiland was the only other contributor in terms of runs, hitting 1-for-3 with one RBI in the fifth to tie the game at four-all before UC Irvine pulled back ahead. Elsewhere, Zach Daudet’s 17-game on-base streak ended (0-for-4), but Casey Murray Jr. and Nate Castellon each enjoyed 2-for-4 efforts.

Griffin Naess started on the mound for Cal Poly and went 6 2/3 innings before giving way to Jake Torres. Aside from a challenging four-run third inning, Naess needed no more than four batters in any other frame to retire the side. Torres (2-3) was given the loss after allowing two runs (one earned) through the final two innings.

After receiving a 1-2-3 frame from Naess at the top of one, the Mustangs surged ahead in the bottom with a three-run bomb from catcher Jack Collins, his 11th home run of the season to tie for second in the Big West.

UC Irvine strung together five hits in six at-bats to start the third inning and tied the game on three combined runs from James Castagnola’s solo homer and Colin Yeaman’s RBI double. Chase Call knocked a sac fly to left field that scored another Anteater to flip the lead on its head at 4-3 for UC Irvine.

Nate Castellon crushed a ball to left field that came within a few feet of leaving the park but dropped off the wall for a double. A few pitches later, Cam Hoiland singled to right center, scoring Castellon and leveling the game at four apiece.

Both teams fell silent again until the top of eight when a fielding error brought home a fifth UC Irvine run for the 5-4 lead. The Anteaters added another run for a two-score lead with Castagnola’s solo homer in the top of nine. UCI reliever Ricky Ojeda blanked the Mustangs through the final four innings, allowing just three hits, which were all stranded.

Weather permitting, Cal Poly and UC Irvine battle again tomorrow for game two at Baggett Stadium with first pitch set for 3 o’clock. Josh Volmerding (4-2) and Irvine’s Ricky Hansen are slated to duel from the mound.

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Alissa Orozco

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The Federal Government is reinstating F-1 visas for many international students around the country after the Trump administration had their visas revoked or terminated.

Associated Press reports that more than 1,200 International students will have their legal status restored after many court challenges against the administration.

On April 8th, UC Santa Barbara made a statement to staff and students that seven current students and three recent graduates had their visa records terminated with no advanced notice. According to the UC system, about 50 students and recent graduates across several UC campuses had their visas terminated recently with no coordination in advance from the federal government.

Associated Press says “at least 1,220 students at 187 colleges, universities and university systems have had their visas revoked, their legal status terminated or both, since late March…”

A statement from a UC Santa Barbara spokesperson says though the situation remains fluid, seven students have had their visa returned to active status.

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