All-SCV Girls Cross Country: Samantha Ortega, Centurions’ next in line

There was zero hesitation in his voice and almost an excitement to say it. Saugus High girls cross country coach Rene Paragas said after the Centurions won the CIF-Southern Section Division II championship on Nov. 17 at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut that sophomore Samantha Ortega was the next great Saugus cross country runner. Then he mentioned two other names that she is in the company of - Shannon Murakami and Kaylin Mahoney. For ...

College football: Hard to ignore

PASADENA - Who needs Luck or hype? Stanford, which could argue that it played better than nearly every college football team since mid-October, defeated Wisconsin 20-14 Tuesday in the 99th playing of the Rose Bowl Game. With a defense intent on limiting Wisconsin running back Montee Ball, the NCAA FBS all-time leading touchdown scorer, and a good-enough offense, the Cardinal showed just how significant it is in the college football landscape. This despite losing star ...

Prep baseball: Valencia's Balta chosen for prestigious series

Valencia High baseball player A.J. Balta has been selected to play in a prestigious U.S.-Japan series.

Prep golf: Corr makes her choice

Hart High senior golfer and 2012 Foothill League Most Valuable Player Jamie Corr said she has wanted to attend Cal Poly San Luis Obispo since she was a seventh grader.

Prep basketball: Hart’s test of wills

Culver City's been quite a test for Hart boys basketball the last two seasons. Two games, two Centaur buzzer beaters, one Hart victory. The Indians kept their undefeated run through preleague competition intact, surviving a regulation buzzer beater Wednesday night at Hart High to defeat Culver City 82-78 in overtime. Hart (10-0) presented every obstacle to itself - poor free-throw shooting, lesser games from its two key players, lots of turnovers, getting bullied on the ...

Prep wrestling: Trinity puts SCV back on mat

A group of no more than eight kids grab and slap and pull toward the back of a mixed martial arts gymnasium and training center.

Prep football: GV's Jacobs chooses Fresno State

Leon Jacobs came into the 2012 prep football season as a curiosity. This time next year he'll be a college football player. The Golden Valley senior verbally committed to play football at Fresno State, accepting a scholarship offer Monday night. He was recruited as a linebacker. Jacobs transferred to Golden Valley from Bishop Montgomery of Torrance this summer. The 17-year-old hadn't played football since his freshman year and was a basketball star at Bishop Montgomery. ...

Pro baseball: COC's Eveland also going to Korea

The Baltimore Sun has reported that former College of the Canyons pitcher Dana Eveland has signed a one-year deal with the Hanwha Eagles of the Korean Baseball Organization.

Albert Einstein Academy athletics: Elements of success

It wouldn't be inaccurate to say Santa Clarita public charter school Albert Einstein Academy's athletics program rose from the ashes of the demise of Montclair Prep.

MLB: Dodgers Nick Punto and Tim Leary to visit Westfield Valencia Town Center

The Los Angeles Dodgers Holiday Tour will stop at Westfield Valencia Town Center today. The tour has stopped at various malls throughout Southern California to encourage fans to come out to Dodger games in 2013. The Dodgers will hold a meet-and-greet and autograph session with infielder Nick Punto and 1988 World Series champion Tim Leary. Punto came to the Dodgers in the Aug. 25 blockbuster deal that brought slugger Adrian Gonzalez, pitcher Josh Beckett and ...

Prep basketball: Canyon back to its ways

There Canyon girls basketball goes again. Driving another team crazy. The Santa Clarita Valley's premier girls basketball program over the last three seasons defeated Highland 78-43 on Thursday night at Canyon High. And 15 minutes after the game, a group of Highland players were outside of the gym yelling at each other for being too slow down the court. Canyon was in control from the start of the game, looking like the well-oiled machine of ...

Prep soccer: Cowboys are paper shredders

On paper, things didn't appear to be promising for Canyon girls soccer. Coming off a fifth-place showing in the Foothill League in 2012, the Cowboys began the year at 0-4 under new head coach Derek Rusk and currently had only one returning all-leaguer healthy. On paper, it appears things are misleading. Canyon defeated a solid Burroughs of Burbank team 4-0 on Wednesday at Canyon High School and looked every bit like a team that will ...

MLB: Bauer reacts to trade to Cleveland

For the second time in three days, a Hart High graduate has been traded from one Major League team to another.

MLB: Preparing for the swap

Mike Montgomery said he went to bed early on Sunday night. The 2008 Hart High graduate awoke to the sound of banging on his front door in Surprise, Ariz. from fellow Kansas City Royals prospect John Lamb. "'Wake up. You just got traded'," Montgomery said he could hear Lamb saying. "I looked at the phone and saw all these missed calls and texts." Montgomery was one of four players, including the Royals' top prospect power-hitting ...

Prep basketball: Kaluna vs. Backboard

It was a moment that should live in Santa Clarita Valley prep basketball history forever. On Thursday night at Santa Monica High School, West Ranch guard Kevin Harris drove along the right side of the basket and tried for a layup and was fouled with 3:10 to play in the first quarter against Alemany of Mission Hills. Giant teammate Ako Kaluna came in to clean up the rebound as a referee's whistle sounded and the ...

Foothill goes three up, three down in golf playoffs

With so many strong teams in the field, not much was expected from the Foothill League's three teams in the CIF-Northern Team Divisional at Soule Park Golf Club in Ojai.

Hart baseball upsets West Ranch to sweep season series

Something didn't feel quite right about the Hart Indians being up six runs on the West Ranch Wildcats on Friday at West Ranch High.

Vikings in win-win situations at Foothill tennis finals

Foothill League tennis elite true to form

The Foothill League boys tennis prelims is usually an event of little surprise.

Hart's win causes Foothill fluctuation

This Foothill League continues to be the wackiest in one respect and the most competitive in another respect in recent memory.

West Ranch baseball's Tony Slauson has made a name for himself on varsity

It was the bottom of the seventh inning.

Golden Valley tennis still has hope for playoffs

There's hope at Golden Valley.

West Ranch locks up Foothill League title

West Ranch boys golfer Joey Downey would have really had to have a blow-up round on Wednesday at TPC Valencia in the sixth and final Foothill League match to not win the league's Most Valuable Player.

No longer in question as West Ranch golf locks in on title

Decisions, decisions, decisions and decisions.

Valencia tennis dominant in claiming 8th straight title

The Hart Indians had to do something to stop the oncoming locomotive that is Valencia Vikings boys tennis.

Canyon baseball: Up and running

Five years, 133 games, 486 runs.

Canyon baseball takes another path to victory

A sign of a good team is its ability to withstand adversity.

West Ranch baseball's Bennett counters Valencia

After watching Valencia's top starting pitcher J.D. Busfield pitch the Vikings back into a share of first place in the Foothill League standings on Wednesday, it was time for West Ranch's ace to respond.

Foothill tennis roundup: Hart, Vikes set for battle

Hart and Valencia boys tennis both took care of business on Thursday.

Saugus scores 13 runs in first two innings to beat G.V. 13-6

It's funny what one Foothill League victory can do.