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Travis Dye is finally a USC Trojan, after four years as an Oregon
Duck and a few months of mixed emotions within the process of change.
The puzzle is why it had to take four years for the former Norco High standout to find his way back home.
The Trojans — the Clay Helton Trojans — certainly had their chance to recruit him. Dye was an all-CIF Division 2 performer as a runner, receiver and returner at Norco in 2017, and he was that season's Big VIII offensive player of the year in a league that features perennial power Corona Centennial,
a school that has sent multiple stars to USC including current Trojans Korey Foreman, Gary Bryant Jr. and Tuasivi Nomura.
So, Dye was asked last week, how hard did the Trojans try to recruit him out of Norco?
“Not at all,” he said.
Did he want them to?
“Of course,” he said. “I was always a big USC fan. My older brother (Tony, a safety) went to UCLA (2008-11), and so it would have been sweet from the jump to come
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to USC. But I was never a highly recruited running back coming out of high school. I had two offers, Oregon and New Mexico State, and I wasn't going to go play for New Mexico State, no disrespect.”
Danna Dye, Travis' mother — and an athletic trainer at Corona Centennial, before taking a leave of absence this school year to
In a season in which the bottom of the Angels' roster has so often failed to pick up the slack when the top players have been slumping or injured, games like the Angels' 5-4, 12-inning victory over the Oakland A's on Wednesday have been rare.
The pitching stars were Touki Toussaint and Jaime Barria, and the big hits came from Luis Rengifo and Magneuris Sierra. Barria was the only one of those four on the Opening Day roster. Their contributions led the Angels to finish off their first sweep of a series since April, and their first three-game winning streak of any kind since June.
Toussaint pitched five scoreless innings. Rengifo hit a three-run homer. Sierra drove in runs in the 10th and 12th innings. Barria pitched all three extra innings, stranding Oakland's automatic runner twice.
Barria now has a 2.52 ERA this season, having started and finished games in the last week. He earned the right to try both roles because he had been so good in mop-up duty for most of the season.
“Nothing fazes him,” manager Phil Nevin said. “He goes out and throws strikes and he's gonna make his pitches. He's gonna throw the same. He doesn't tinker. He doesn't waver. Obviously, no situation is too big for him. He throws
THE SCORE ANGELS 5, A'S 4 (12 INNINGS)
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