Jesuit Baseball Blows Out Oak Ridge

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For much of the game, Jesuit and Oak Ridge we're locked into a grind-it-out high school baseball playoff battle at American River College on Tuesday evening.

In a game that remained scoreless through nearly five innings, the Marauders broke through when the opposing team made a pitching change in the bottom of the fifth inning.

Jesuit senior Brian Celsi scored the first two runs of the game with a hit that would be the start of a seven run inning.

As Oak Ridge's pitching staff suffered a meltdown after the pitching change, Jesuit ran away with an 8-0 win, sending them to the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Division I North Regional Championship. The Marauders will go for their sixth North title since 1994, according to The Sacramento Bee.

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Kings staying in Sacramento

Over two months after NBA Commissioner David Stern announced that the Maloof family was in serious talks about moving the Sacramento Kings to Anaheim, the Kings will be staying in Sacramento.

Maloof Sports & Entertainment, the company the Maloofs own, released this statement, announcing that the team will not file for relocation and will play in Sacramento for the 2011-12 season.

Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson says that keeping the Kings in town was one of the proudest moments of his life.

"We've always felt it was bigger than basketball," the mayor said. "The Kings, they relate to a thousand jobs ‒ both full time and part time. If we go forward and build a new entertainment and sports complex, it's going to prove to all of us that we can find a way to make these things happen."

If the Kings were to leave Sacramento, it would have affected not only the city, but the surrounding regions as well.

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Kings lose to Lakers in overtime, possibly Sacramento's last game

In what could be the last NBA game played in Sacramento‘s Power Balance Pavilion, the Kings saw faced the two-time defending champion Los Angeles Lakers.

The Kings and Lakers were heated Pacific Division rivals in the early 2000’s, game and since then, the rivalry, at least for the Lakers, faded.

The Lakers remained a perennial playoff team while Sacramento had not appeared in the playoffs since 2006. In front of a sellout crowd of 17,641 these two teams would take a step back in time for perhaps one last time.

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Kings fans gather for Here We Build rally

Sacramento Kings fans came out yesterday to attend the Here We Build rally at Cesar Chavez Plaza.

Fans from all over the Sacramento region came out not only to support their team to stay in town, but also to find a way to get a new sports and entertainment complex built.

Spawned from a tweet of frustration from local radio personality Carmichael Dave, the Here We Build movement has gathered over $500,000 in pledge money toward a new complex through Here We Stay on Twitter, Facebook and its website.

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Kings owner outraged by city's letter to Anaheim

The City of Sacramento took another step in trying to keep the Maloofs from moving the Sacramento Kings to Anaheim. City Assistant Manager John Dangberg sent this letter to Anaheim City Manager Thomas Wood making three requests:

"Do not authorize issuance of ($75 million) in lease revenue bonds..."

 "Cease negotiating with the Kings."

"However, if Anaheim insists on continuing the negotiations...Anaheim must contractually require and condition bond issuance...to the Kings honoring their approximately $77 million financial obligations to the City of Sacramento..."

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