{"id":792776,"date":"2026-05-13T05:53:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/792776\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T05:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:53:19","slug":"playoff-bound-softball-teams-la-habra-and-foothill-face-coaching-changes-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/792776\/","title":{"rendered":"Playoff-bound softball teams La Habra and Foothill face coaching changes \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/checkout.ocregister.com\/subscriptionpanel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"La Habra coach Vince Peralta before a game against El Dorado on April 10, 2025, at El Dorado High in Placentia. (Photo by Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer)\" width=\"7957\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/OCR-L-HSSOFT-LH-ELDO-0411-20.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"10846399\" \/>La Habra coach Vince Peralta before a game against El Dorado on  April 10, 2025, at El Dorado High in Placentia. (Photo by Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer)<\/p>\n<p>Playoff-bound softball teams La Habra and Foothill have announced coaching changes.<\/p>\n<p>Second-year La Habra coach Vince Peralta on Monday submitted his resignation for medical reasons, he confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Foothill coach Jeff Wright announced that this season will be his last.<\/p>\n<p>La Habra (20-7), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2026\/05\/12\/orange-county-softball-top-25-fullerton-orange-lutheran-lead-entering-playoffs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ranked No. 4 in Orange County<\/a>, plays host to Los Altos in the first round of the CIF-SS Division 1 playoffs on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Highlanders athletic director Paul Caffrey said he will serve as interim coach and work with the team\u2019s assistant coaches.<\/p>\n<p>Caffrey said assistant coaches Robert Morales, Maleena Esparza, Savannah Tourville, Rilee Villacana and Steve Padilla will oversee the \u201cday-to-day\u201d coaching responsibilities and support the players in the coaching transition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appreciate coach Peralta\u2019s dedication and contributions to our softball program and wish him the very best,\u201d Caffrey said of Peralta, who guided the Highlanders to a share of the Crestview League title this season.<\/p>\n<p>Caffrey\u2019s daughter Makenna is a sophomore hitting .395 for the team.<\/p>\n<p>Wright, who is in his 11th season, said he will coach Foothill throughout the playoffs. He plans to move with his wife to Arkansas to be closer to his sons.<\/p>\n<p>Foothill (18-9), ranked No. 19 in the county, plays No. 2 seed Mater Dei (15-11) in the first round of the Division 2 playoffs on Thursday at Fountain Valley Sports Park.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been open with (the players) all year about the fact that there would come a time that my wife and I would relocate,\u201d Wright said. \u201cHowever, my move was dependent on getting the right teaching and coaching opportunity in Arkansas, which came about late last week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(I) felt (the players) deserved to hear the truth from me,\u201d the coach added.<\/p>\n<p>Wright led Foothill to the CIF-SS Division 4 title in 2023. The Knights have captured four league titles under Wright.<\/p>\n<p>This season, Foothill won the North Hills League crown with a young roster.<\/p>\n<p>Please send softball news to Dan Albano at dalbano@scng.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber.\u00a0Subscribe now La Habra coach Vince Peralta before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":792777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,194652,143099,285148,3102,2961,154072,224,5337,323576,1036,10453,62],"class_list":{"0":"post-792776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-dan-albano","11":"tag-high-school-all-sports","12":"tag-high-school-softball","13":"tag-high-school-sports","14":"tag-la","15":"tag-la-habra","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-north-tustin","19":"tag-orange-county","20":"tag-santa-ana","21":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116565719312226970","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}