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CHS baseball takes city crown in battle over Rams By Alonzo Orozco
nKLOSURES, Inc.
Conceptual plans for a two-hotel project fronting Via Real feature underground parking and curved buildings.
Via Real hotels revised for revisiting
The Via Real hotel project pitched to business center, breakfast area, meeting an unimpressed audience last July is rooms, a state of the art fitness center and new and improved and seeking to ima common resort style pool. press the same audience that shot down Along with the issues of parking and the first concept nine months ago. A landscaping raised with the project’s special meeting of the City Council and former incarnation, community memPlanning Commission will be held next bers turned out to question the need for week to consider the reborn conceptual high-end hotels in that part of the city plans to demolish the Church of the and the potential for increasing traffic Nazarene at 4110 Via Real and construct congestion along Via Real. two upscale hotels with underground On the other side of the ledger, the parking and a shared pool. original project was anticipated to bring In its new form, the hotels, 60 and 80 in over $1 million in Developer Impact rooms each, have added onsite parking Fees to the City of Carpinteria as well as and landscaping, two areas in which the boost annual transient occupancy taxes. initial proposal fell short. By relocating A conceptual review of the project the parking underground and downwill be held on Wednesday, April 16, at scaling the smaller hotel by 10 rooms, 5:30 p.m. in the council chambers at city architect Nikhil Kamat of nKLOSURES, hall, 5775 Carpinteria Ave. Inc., freed up space to meet and exceed ––CVN Report the city’s landscaped area requirements. The two buildings, which are curved inward to maximize ocean and mountain views, are three stories tall in some sections but staggered to allow for garden terraces accessible to hotel guests. Maximum height of the buildings is 30 feet. In a description provided nKLOSURES, Inc. by the architect, the hotels’ A resort-style pool and rooftop terraces are amenities are described as “sophisticated and modern” among the amenities proposed for the 140and include a grand lobby, room project.
With the formation of the new TriCounty Athletic Association coming into play next fall, local schools Carpinteria High School and Cate School figure to see a lot of each other next year in the arena of athletics, as both schools will be participating in the new TCAA. On April 8, the two met on the diamond up on Cate Mesa, and the Warriors jumped all over the Rams with five runs in the first inning to cruise to a 10-2 non-league victory. Warrior coach Pat Cooney welcomed the win after a lopsided 16-1 loss to Cabrillo High School a few days prior. “We didn’t play well on Saturday (April 5); we didn’t have a good approach at the plate, and the other team took it to us. So it was real important for our guys to come back. They certainly did,” he concluded. Following a leadoff walk to Mo Sanchez and an infield single by Javier Jasso, Duncan Gordon’s single to left put the Warriors up 2-0 against Cate starting pitcher Humza Khurshid to open the game. Then Kevin Stein’s double down the line put runners on second and third for Salvador Delgado, whose
single to center gave Carpinteria a 3-0 lead. Delgado would end up going to second on the throw, and once again there were runners on second and third with nobody out. A bunt single by Nick Walker would bring home Stein. After Walker stole second, an errant throw on a pickoff attempt brought Delgado home for a 5-0 lead after one. “You certainly can’t get down 5-0 to a team that hits the way they do,” said Cate coach Ben Soto, who was down two players due to illness, one being pitcher-shortstop and leading hitter Carlos Fairbanks. To make matters worse for the Rams, Warrior starter Mo Sanchez looked sharp on the mound. Sanchez ended up throwing two innings, not giving up a hit and striking out one batter. He also helped his own cause with a double and a single, scoring two runs and driving in another. Diego Contreras finished the job with a strong outing, giving up only two runs and striking out two. Carpinteria scored two runs in both
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Bill Swing
Warrior baseball player Kevin Stein (#11) finds himself caught between Cate’s Nick Pajouh and Dylan Ell (#22) on the Cate School base path. Stein was tracked down in the pickle, but the Warriors had the upperhand in a 10-2 non-league victory.