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Mike Klan

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) –

Channel League Baseball:

Dos Pueblos 6, Santa Barbara 2: Chargers used a 5-run sixth inning and a complete game by Liam Shea. DP is 6-3 in league.

(Evan Bean was one of three Chargers to have a multi-hit game. Entenza Design).

San Marcos 3, Oxnard 2: Royals lead league at 7-2

Ventura 4, Pacifica 3

Rio Mesa 4, Buena 2

Channel League Softball:

San Marcos 7, Oxnard 6 (10 innings): Lucy Dessert pitched all 10 innings and Sutera Raring delivered game-winning RBI single in top of tenth.

Ventura 16, Pacifica 2

Channel League Boys Volleyball:

San Marcos 3, Dos Pueblos 0: Royals improve to 23-2 overall and 8-0 in league. Owen Willer had 15 kills and 4 aces.

(Matteo Burdick added 10 kills for Royals. Entenza Design).

(Koji Hefner tallied 8 kills in the Royals sweep. Entenza Design).

Santa Barbara 3, Ventura 2:

Channel League Boys Tennis:

Dos Pueblos 14, San Marcos 4: DP is 9-0 overall and 6-0 in league. DP singles players Ciaran Tober-Bridges, Evan Harwin and Neil Sharangpani swept the singles allowing San Marcos only 11 games in the 9 sets.

(DP hosts Foothill Tech on Thursday. Courtesy Photo).

Channel League Girls Lacrosse:

San Marcos 13, Cate 5: Royals are 13-3 overall and 6-0 in league. Josephine Grossman led San Marcos with 5 goals.

Dos Pueblos 10, Thacher 9: Linnea Clapinski scored 8 goals for DP including the final two in the fourth quarter to erase a 9-8 deficit and give her team the win.

Channel League Boys Golf:

Dos Pueblos 376, Ventura 387

San Marcos 394, Rio Mesa 461

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Mike Klan

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (KEYT) – Dylan Kordic and Ryan Tayman belted multi-RBI home runs and Sean McGrath struck out six over 4 1/3 innings as Cal Poly rallied from an early 3-0 deficit to beat Pepperdine 7-3 in a midweek non-conference baseball game Tuesday afternoon.

Kordic smashed a three-run shot to right field, his third of the year, in the fourth inning to turn a 3-1 deficit into a 4-3 Mustang lead and Tayman added his 11th blast of the season, a two-run effort in the fifth, for Cal Poly, which beat the Waves for the sixth straight time.

In relief of starter Luke Kalfsbeek, McGrath (2-2) scattered five hits, walked one and the lone run he allowed was unearned for the Mustangs, who improved to 19-16 for the year. Pepperdine fell to 11-25.

Josh Morano (two innings) and Troy Cooper (one inning) did not allow any runs over the final three frames of the game as Cal Poly notched its 11th come-from-behind win of the season.

Third baseman Alejandro Garza blooped a single down the right-field line to knock in Cal Poly’s first run of the game in the third inning. Tayman accounted for the final Mustang tally in the seventh with an RBI single up the middle.

Garza continued his torrid hitting pace with a three-hit performance, his sixth multiple-hit effort in seven games, 11th in 16, and his team-leading 18th of the season. Garza, who was 8-for-13 in the Oregon State series last weekend, on Tuesday singled twice, doubled once, and over his last 16 games has lifted his average 100 points to .369.

Tayman also had three hits with a single, double and home run, while center fielder Casey Murray Jr. added two singles. Designated hitter Braxton Thomas and left fielder Xander McLaurin each contributed a double.

Cal Poly, which produced 11 hits in each of the last two games at Oregon State, added 13 more to the total Tuesday while holding Pepperdine to eight. Julian Nunez, Kai Laxa and Joe Cardinale each had a pair of hits for the Waves.

Nunez doubled down the left-field line to push across the first Pepperdine run of the game and Laxa followed with an infield RBI single for a 2-0 first-inning Waves lead. It was 3-0 when Nunez blooped a run-scoring single to shallow left-center field in the second frame.

Gabe Maya (0-1), who relieved Pepperdine starter Austin Plisinski and gave up the three-run home run to Kordic, the first batter he faced, suffered the loss.

Cal Poly, which beat Pepperdine 12-2 on March 3, visits Pepperdine in Malibu next Tuesday for the third and final meeting of the season.

Next on the docket for the Mustangs is a three-game Big West Conference series at UC San Diego this weekend. Game times are Friday at 6 p.m., Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m. At 11-4, the Tritons are one game ahead of Cal Poly and UC Santa Barbara, both 10-5.

(Article courtesy of Cal Poly Athletics)

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Mike Klan

UC SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – Beat LA!

The Gauchos go to Los Angeles and knock off top-ranked UCLA 4-0 to snap the Bruins remarkable 27-game win streak.

“Midweeks are different,” began UCSB head coach Andrew Checketts. “I don’t want to downplay it, our guys did a really good job — midweeks are obviously different than weekends. You see a lot of upsets that happen, but our guys played well and that’s a good team. I think we’ve got a good team, and it’s not very often you get to play the number-one ranked team in the country at their place and win.”

UCSB has the top pitching earned run average in the country and they limit mighty UCLA to just five hits.

The Bruins had outscored their opponents 255-85 during this win streak but they are shutout for the first time this year.

UCLA came close to scoring in the bottom of the first inning off of Gauchos starter Calvin Proskey.

With the bases loaded and two-outs, Bruins standout Will Gasparino lined a ball down the left-field line but Colin Beazizo made a diving catch to end the inning, most likely saving three runs on the web gem.

Rowan Kelly staked UCSB to a 2-0 lead with a single to left-center to drive in Cole Kosciusko and Xavier Esquer.

After Proskey pitched 3 scoreless innings in just his second start on the season, AJ Krodel came in and fired 3.1 innings of 2-hit shutout relief striking out 4.

From there Cole Tryba dazzled with an 8-out save which included working out of a bases-loaded jam with a strikeout of Bruins superstar Roch Chowlowsky.

The Gauchos added two insurance runs in the top of the eight inning on an RBI double by William Vasseur to plate Kelly and an RBI single from Beazizo.

Tryba pitched a 1,2,3 ninth inning to earn his second save on the season and he finished with five strikeouts.

The win is Santa Barbara’s first over the nation’s No. 1 team since March 3, 2020, when they beat UCLA, 8-5, at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium.

UCSB improves to 23-11 on the year while UCLA suffers just their third loss on the year (33-3) and first setback since February 24th.

UCLA is at UCSB on Tuesday, April 28th at 4:35 p.m.

(UCSB Athletics contributed to this article).

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Tracy Lehr

GOLETA, Calif. (KEYT) The Wild & Free Film Festival held its first Spring kick-off event in Goleta.

Movie lovers filled Camino Real Cinemas in Goleta to see 8 short adventure films.

The founder of the festival called it the Kendal Mountain Tour.

Gareth Kelly chose films featured in a similar festival in the United Kingdom.

“There’s a couple of films tonight that really remind me of where I grew up, there is one about Fell running, which is people that go run around in the hills, and there is one about skateboarding young girls, and there is even one about surfing grandmas in Australia, so there is a little bit of something for everyone,” said Kelly.

The second annual Wild & Free Film Festival will take place in the fall.

Thanks to sponsors including Santa Barbara Honda and Santa Barbara Acura the festival has been able to host more events.

For more information visit https://www.wildandfreefilm.org

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Tracy Lehr

VENTURA, Calif. (KEYT) Business owners are urging the Ventura City Council to reopen Main Street.

They packed Tuesday’s Ventura City Council.

They held protest signs and shared their stories during public comments.

Some of them said the closure put the Main Street locations out of business.

“It just really changed out whole business model and we were not able to survive that i am all for supporting everybody in their quest to get the streets reopened,” said Shannon Rice.

Alessandro Tromba of Immigrant Son said his cafe is doing well, but he said that is not the case with surrounding businesses.

“It was a really important band-aid when COVID happened, we were promised it was going to 12-weeks but it started feeling like Gilligan’s Island, you know, it was supposed to be a 3-hour tour and here we are 5 and a half years later,” Tromba.

Diego Gamba of Bombay Bar & Grill would like the council to rethink the closure before it is too, late.

“We should just reopen the street, we tried for 5 years, we all pushed it, but it effectively killed downtown,” said Gamba.

Others said they have noticed business dropping off on Mondays through Fridays.

“We would really love to see our locals come back and I think that the closure has run its course,” said Briana Critelli.

The council voted 6-1 last fall to maintain the 5 block closure on Main Street and 1 block closure on California Street that is known as “Main Street Moves.”

It is not clear if the council will reconsider that vote.

For more information visit https://www.cityofventura.ca.gov

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Caleb Nguyen

SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) – A woman died after a single-car crash on Highway 166 near Riconada Ranch just before 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, according to the Santa Barbara County Fire Department.

A three-year-old child also needed medical transport to Marian Regional Medical Center following the crash, according to the SBCFD.

Authorities pronounced the woman dead at the scene. For more information, contact the SLO County Sheriff’s Office.

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John Palminteri

CARPINTERIA, Calif. (KEYT) – The City of Carpinteria does not have any cannabis farms within its limits but angry residents fed up with odors are taking in all the air impacts, which may be changing soon.

A Santa Barbara County deadline to install multi carbon technology or “scrubbers” to filter the odors out has been missed by nine operators.

The sites were visited by inspections on April 1st and 2nd.

On April 3rd, letters went out to revoke the cannabis business licenses.

According to Daisy Weber with Supervisor Roy Lee’s office, the businesses that failed were:

– Blue Whale Agriculture, Inc.
– K&G Flowers, LLC

– Bosim 1628 Management Company, LLC
– Life Remedy Farms, Inc.

– Bronco Management, LLC
– New Generation Farms, Inc.

– CKC Farms, Inc.
– Pacific Grown Organics, LLC

– G&K Produce, LLC

The Board of Supervisors required the scrubbers in March under a new ordinance.

Other methods to reduce the odors had failed after years of issues and complaints to the county and even city leaders who did not have a direct legal option to respond.

Supervisor Lee, district representative and a former councilmember, said he believed the operators had enough time and “enough was enough.”

There is now an appeal option for operators to present evidence relating to their lack of compliance. In some cases it could be supply chain delays.

If not appeal is filed in ten days, the license is officially revoked.

The operator will be able to continue business during the appeal. That hearing is required to take place in 60 days and the appeal hearing officer has 30 days to issue a determination.

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Caleb Nguyen

GOLETA, Calif. (KEYT) – A woman and her dog died in a house fire at the 5000 block of Amberly Place just before 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to the SBCFD.

Neighbors said she was in her late 80s and on oxygen.

Your News Channel spoke to SBCFD Battalion Chief Adam Estabrook, who confirmed the two fatalities in the incident.

He said crews arrived within 5 minutes.

“We started an attack on the fire we made an entry we searched and we found the victim inside the fire it was too late though that individual had passed away in the fire before we could rescue them we also had a report that multiple pets we weren’t able to rescue all,” said Estabrook.

They did rescue cats.

Before fireman arrived a neighbor save one of her big dogs.

Police chaplains comforted the woman’s daughter while investigators went to work.

Another neighbor who lives in a home behind the house came by to say he saw flames reignite and coming from a TV inside the charred home.

A fire crew returned and quickly made sure that fire was out.

“It is a tough day, it is tough we did put a fire attack on the scene sometimes in these situations unfortunate things happen,” said Estabrook.

The SBCFD advised all residents and drivers to avoid the area to ensure emergency vehicles had clear access during the fire response.

More information on the fire will be provided as it becomes available to Your News Channel.

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Jarrod Zinn

SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) – A Santa Maria man has been reunited with his five-year-old daughter who was held in an ICE detention facility for 20 hours with her mom.

His wife remains in holding in Texas.

Milenko Faria moved to Santa Maria in 2017 after fleeing Venezuela, and his asylum case is pending after nearly a decade.

“Nothing is easy in Venezuela,” says Milenko Faria, who lives in Santa Maria. “So, for example, to get a passport it takes months, years. And also, if your opinion is very high against the government, they cancel your passport.”

He and his wife Dr. Rubeliz Bolivar, another Venezuelan, had their 5-year-old daughter in Santa Maria, and she is a U.S. citizen.

“She was born in Santa Maria,” says Faria. “Yeah. She was born in Marian hospital.”

An attorney for Dr. Bolivar says she has been lawfully in the u.s. under a work visa, and has her own pending asylum case during her residency in an underserved community in southern Texas.

“She has started, like, as a medical assistant, you know, and then she was I am an interpreter at the hospital,” says Faria. “She was a Spanish interpreter.”

Dr. Bolivar had their five year old daughter with her at a Texas airport, and they were about to board a flight back to Santa Maria.

They were going to be present in support for Milenko’s upcoming asylum hearing in Tustin.

“At the airport, she was question by the CBP,” says Faria.

Dr. Bolivar tried to show she had a right to be in the US, but agents disagreed.

“She shows them the work permit,” says Faria. “We have our work permit current until—hers is until 2030. Mine is until 2029. And they are like, “oh, this is from Venezuela. These are like—Venezuelan documents are not valid.” Which is not true.”

A relative traveled from Florida to Texas to bring the child back to Santa Maria.

“My daughter, she was detained for 19 hours because—since four in the morning until, like, past 9:00 pm, she was detained,” says Faria. “She was scared, you know. And that’s not good, that. She should be like just thinking, ‘What am I going to play with?’ You know?”

Customs and Border Protection provided your Newschannel with the following statement.

“On April 11, 2026, Rubeliz Bolivar was taken into custody at McAllen Airport. She has overstayed her visa since 2017, nearly a decade, and had no legal status. She chose to place her child in the care of a relative in the area.

CBP does not separate families or deport U.S. citizens. Parents are asked if they want to be removed with their children or if they would like CBP will place the children with a safe person the parent designates. This is consistent with past administration’s immigration enforcement.

Parents, who are here illegally, can take control of their departure with the CBP Home App. The United States is offering aliens illegal aliens $2,600 and a free flight to self-deport now. We encourage every person here illegally to take advantage of this offer and reserve the chance to come back to the U.S. the right legal way to live American dream. If not, you will be arrested and deported without a chance to return.”

Milenko said that while he doesn’t want to say too much too soon, there does seem to be a light at the end of the tunnel. And his wife says she is not being mistreated in any way.

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – The war in Iran, Oil Prices skyrocketing, Sudden Changes in Leadership… these are the topics making recent headlines and we want to talk about it. Former Santa Barbara City Councilman Dale Francisco and former State Representative Hannah Beth Jackson join us for a LIVE conversation.

Drop your questions, comments, opinons in the chat box below.

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