Press Luncheons

“Gunnar Shades” are everywhere, including Harry’s

BY BLAKE DORFMAN, PRESIDIOSPORTS.COM The UCSB Athletics marketing crew certainly nailed this one. The Gauchos’ video promotion of “Gunnar Shades” — plastic neon sunglasses named for…

Athletes of the Week: Briggs Deardorff and Kailey Snyder

Male Athlete of the Week Briggs Deardorff has been a star distance runner for Santa Barbara High for a few years now, and he had…

Athletes of the Week: Pepe Gil and Hannah Harris

Male Athlete of the Week Pepe Gil had 10 RBIs, a pair of doubles and a homer as the Santa Barbara High baseball team went…

Big stats, small crowd at Harry’s

BY BLAKE DORFMAN, PRESIDIOSPORTS.COM There have been some pretty impressive statistical performances being turned in by local athletes lately. Take Hannah Harris, for example. The…

Phil Womble Ethics Award: Erin Ristig, Dos Pueblos

Dos Pueblos soccer and track star Erin Ristig is the recipient of the last Phil Womble Ethics Award of the year. Her parents, Dave and…

Local sluggers have been hitting the longball

BY BLAKE DORFMAN, PresidioSports.com Home runs never get old, and while the Major League Baseball season was just getting underway on Monday, our prep players…

Athletes of the Week: Hannah McDaniel and Trey Barrett

Female Athlete of the Week Hannah McDaniel of San Marcos High recorded the state’s second-best girls high-jump mark of the season by clearing 5-8 against Buena….

SPORTSPERSON OF THE MONTH: Retta Slay

SPORTSPERSON OF THE MONTH RETTA SLAY started the Dos Pueblos Little League Challengers, a baseball organization for children with disabilities, back in 2004 for her…

It’s a small community, after all

BY BLAKE DORFMAN, PRESIDIOSPORTS.COM What a tangled web the Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table can weave. Let’s take Monday’s luncheon in the Ranchero Room at…