{"id":145944,"date":"2026-01-23T06:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145944\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T06:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:43:12","slug":"sophia-rangel-leads-a-balanced-attack-to-beat-anaheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145944\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophia Rangel Leads a Balanced Attack to Beat Anaheim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:1\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/anaheim\/loara-saxons\/basketball\/girls\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Loara<\/a> hadn&#8217;t done well against <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/anaheim\/anaheim-colonists\/basketball\/girls\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Anaheim<\/a> recently (they were 1-6 in their previous seven matchups), but they didn&#8217;t let the past get in their way  on Friday. The Saxons snuck past the Colonists with  a  44-39 victory. This was payback for the Saxons, who suffered  a  62-50  defeat the last time these two teams met.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"IDd5ff1ce03c254e2d9529ba8d16e4170a\" style=\"width:48px;height:48px;border-radius:24px;\" class=\"infosentience-float-left \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769150592_21_95ac0f6b-7206-4386-b7a6-c4faaf44711d.gif\" alt=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display=\" none=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"ID83f1aae3220f414b9c1fc0e03f846768\" style=\"color:#000000;margin-left:10px;margin-right:10px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:12px;font-family:Siro-Semibold,Siro;font-size:16px !important;font-weight:500;\" class=\"infosentience-standard-text infosentience-float-left \" tabindex=\"-1\"> Sophia Rangel<\/p>\n<p>01\/09\/26 @ Anaheim2312\/26\/25 vs Portola1612\/23\/25 vs Walnut1912\/22\/25 vs Woodbridge1712\/18\/25 @ Katella24<a id=\"IDa2de31cfdb62495da012d41776d2a0be\" style=\"color:#212021;font-family:Siro-Semibold,Siro;font-size:14px;font-weight:500;text-decoration:none;\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/anaheim\/loara-saxons\/athletes\/sophia-rangel\/?careerid=u5hma0dik3hp9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">+ 10 more games<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:2\"> Loara&#8217;s success was the result of a balanced attack that saw several players step up, but <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/anaheim\/loara-saxons\/athletes\/sophia-rangel\/?careerid=u5hma0dik3hp9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Sophia Rangel<\/a> led the charge by  dropping  a double-double with 23 points and ten  rebounds. Rangel&#8217;s evening made it 15 games in a row in which  she has scored at least 16 points. Another player making a difference was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/anaheim\/loara-saxons\/athletes\/dulce-espinoza\/?careerid=md7meicq3b733\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Dulce Espinoza<\/a>, who  posted 12  points and three  steals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\">The  win made it two in a row for Loara and  bumps their season record up to 9-7. As for Anaheim, their loss dropped their record down to 3-7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:4\"> Loara wasted no time getting back out on the court and has already played their next  game,  a  44-15  victory against La Quinta on the 13th. As for Anaheim, they also didn&#8217;t take long to hit the court again: they&#8217;ve already played their next  matchup,  a  42-28  win against Los Amigos on the 13th.<\/p>\n<p>Article generated by <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/infosentience.com\/\">infoSentience<\/a> based on data entered on MaxPreps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Loara hadn&#8217;t done well against Anaheim recently (they were 1-6 in their previous seven matchups), but they didn&#8217;t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-145944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}