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Mike Klan

UC SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – The Gauchos shot just 26.6% from the field in a 58-52 home loss to Hawai’i.

After a strong start in the Big West, UCSB has dropped to sixth place at 10-7 in league with just three regular season games left before the conference tournament.

UCSB launched 41 three-point attempts but connected on only 10 of them for 24.4%.

(Skylar Burke had a game-high 16 points for UCSB. Entenza Design).

(Zoe Borter tallied 12 points for UCSB. Entenza Design).

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Mike Klan

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT)

CIF-Southern Section Open Division Quarterfinal:

Sage Hill 5, Oak Park 58

CIF-Southern Section Girls Basketball Semifinals:

Division 2: Saugus 48, Camarillo 46

Division 3: Murrieta Valley 55, Oxnard 52

Division 5: Bishop Diego 48, Godinez 42: Cardinals to face Burroughs of Burbank in next weekend’s finals.

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Tracy Lehr

OXNARD, Calif. (KEYT) A Celebration of a life well lived took place for the late Richard D. McNish.

Sailors from up and down the coast attended the celebration at the Pacific Corinthian Yacht Club in the Channel Islands Harbor in Oxnard in February.

The club has hosted the McNish Classic Yacht Race 48 times.

McNish raced a classic yacht named Cheerio II that was once owner by movie star Erroll Flynn.

The award-winning sailor and developer kept it in Bristol condition

Friends and family shared stories about how he developed River Ridge in Oxnard and how he loved to share his love of sailing.

His daughter Leslie said her father was also an avid ham radio operator.

She read a letter thanking him for saving a sailor’s life by communicating with the Coast Guard during an emergency.

His Son Jeff McNish said there was more than sailing to celebrate.

“It is a celebration of his life, we are happy to have had him as long as we did and in the course of preparing it I have been revisiting learning, made aware of the many things he accomplished which, some of it is sailing related some of it has to do with real estate in Oxnard, some of is has to do with his being raised in Santa Barbara, going into world war two when he was 17, he caught the end of the war in the Navy and the South Pacific going to Cal Poly, coming out working in agriculture and making the transition into real estate in the 1950s,” said Jeff McNish, and the stuff he learned there and the respect he had for the people, he knew and the appreciation and joy he had for everything he accomplished in his life, I mean it is very much worth celebrating.”

His son-in-law is nicknamed “Sugar” and friends of McNish said he often called them by nicknames he gave them.

They called him a true gentlemen who was never judgemental.

Some of his five grandchildren hung out on the Cheerio II at the dock before the event.

The winner of the McNish Classic wins their weight in champagne and Dick McNish was often a winner.

The celebration concluded with a Taco Bar.

The race committee is already planning the next one.

In July, the 49th McNish Classic Yacht Race will take place and add Memorial to its name.

McNish died in November at the age of 98.

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Tracy Lehr

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) The best doubles team of all time made a donation to support young local tennis players.

Bob and Mike Bryan, of Camarillo, are in the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

They made $5,000 donations to the Santa Barbara Tennis Patrons and Ventura County Junior Tennis Association.

The twins, who won 119 professional doubles titles, also played a few points against local juniors in front of the big crowd at the University of California, Santa Barbara on Saturday.

“We loved, coming up here watching the Gauchos. My dad was a Gaucho. I got this little guy as a 5-year-old, and he’s going to hopefully carry my footsteps. but, that’s what it’s all about, giving back,” said Mike Bryan.

After the event the Byran brothers and tennis fans stayed to watch the UCSB Gauchos take on the University of San Diego.

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Tracy Lehr

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) San Marcos High School is putting on its senior production of “Grease: The Musical.”

The 1950s classic features songs such as “Grease Lightning” and “You’re The One That I Want.”

The next show is Sunday at 2 p.m.

Tickets are available at the door at San Marcos High School Theatre located on Hollister Avenue in Santa Barbara on Hollister Avenue.

For more information visit https://smhstheatredept.com

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Mike Klan

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) –

CIF-SS Boys Soccer Semifinals:

Division 3: Calabasas 1, Camarillo 0

Division 4: University 1, Pacifica 0

Division 5: Santa Ana Valley 2, San Marcos 1 (2OT)

Esperanza 2, Camarillo 1

Division 8: Rio Hondo Prep 2, Thacher 2: Rio advances on PKs 4-3

CIF-SS Girls Soccer Semifinals:

Division 1: Newport Harbor 1, Westlake 0

Division 3: Quartz Hill 2, Simi Valley 0

Division 5: Del Sol 1, Hesperia-Sultana 1: Del Sol advances PKs

Division 6: Santa Ana-Segerstrom 3, Grace 0

Division 7: Azusa 2, Cate 1

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Mike Klan

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (KEYT) – Just four games into the season but Cal Poly may not see a better pitching performance than what junior ace Griffin Naess turned in against Washington State.

Naess pitched seven innings of 1-hit shutout ball while striking out 14 batters as the Mustangs won their home opener 9-0.

The only Cougars hit was an infield single to third base in the top of the seventh inning.

Naess struck out the side four times, the second, fifth, sixth and seventh innings.

Cal Poly erupted for 8 runs in the first four innings.

Thomas Braxton singled in a pair of runs in a 4-run first inning and Alejandro Garza had a 2-run double in the second inning to make it 6-0 Mustangs.

The 4-game series resumes on Saturday starting at 3:05 p.m.

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Mike Klan

UC SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – Gauchos ace pitcher Jackson Flora allowed just one run in five innings of work and reliever Chase Hoover dominated in a four-inning save as UCSB won their home opener 4-1 over Portland.

Flora gave up a solo home run to the Cole Katayama-Stall to lead off the third inning but he was able to work around trouble in the second and third innings.

The junior struck out six batters to improve to 2-0 on the year.

San Marcos High School alum Chasee Hoover pitched 4 scoreless innings out of the bullpen allowing just 2 hits while striking out 5 batters to earn his second save on the young season.

As for the offense Rowan Kelley had two hits, knocked in a run and scored a run.

Ball State graduate transfer Nick Husovosky hit his third home run on the year, a solo shot to left to give the Gauchos a 4-1 lead.

UCSB is 2-2 on the season and will host the Pilots on Saturday at 3:05 p.m. and on Sunday at 12:05 p.m.

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Mike Klan

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) –

CIF-Central Section Girls Basketball Semifinal:

Division 3: Shafter 52, Morro Bay 34

Division 4: Tulare Union 43, Atascadero 26

Division 5: Santa Ynez 62, Coalinga 55

CIF-Central Section Boys Soccer Semifinal:

Division 2: Liberty 2, Righetti 1

Division 5: Nipomo 4, Orosi 0 (Titans host Dos Palos in championship match on Wednesday, February 25)

Dos Palos 5, St. Joseph 1

CIF-Central Section Girls Soccer Semifinal:

Division 4: Sierra Pacific 2, Templeton 1

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Caleb Nguyen

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – Santa Barbara Police helped an injured biker to Cottage Hospital after a truck hit them just before 2:45 p.m. on Castillo Street.

Santa Barbara Police received help from firefighters and paramedics and shut down Castillo Street for an investigation on the crash.

The truck driver was not impaired during the crash and stayed cooperative in the investigation after first responders gave the biker medical attention, according to the SBPD.

Community members were asked to use a different route until Castillo Street reopened just after 6:00 p.m., according to the SBPD.

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