Prep football: Two tabbed for tops in state

Two local football players made a statement on Tuesday. That statement is that they are All-State. Canyon High senior wide receiver Drew Wolitarsky and Valencia High senior quarterback Sean Murphy were selected as members of the CalHiSports.com All-State team. Wolitarsky was selected for the second-team offense and Murphy was selected for the third-team offense. Wolitarsky joins his quarterback, Cade Apsay, who was selected last week to the All-State Junior team. The senior wide receiver made ...

Prep boys hoops: Vikings pushed to brink

This could easily be a story about the Valencia Vikings boys basketball team's grittiness in escaping a second straight Foothill League game with a win.

Prep girls hoops: Valencia has little trouble against G.V.

Valencia Vikings girls basketball did what it had to do Tuesday night. Now it has set itself up to battle for its first Foothill League title since 2005. The Vikings (18-6 overall, 7-0 Foothill League) beat the Golden Valley Grizzlies 68-39 on Tuesday at Golden Valley and now faces second-place Canyon on Friday. If the Vikings win that game, they earn at least a share of the Foothill League title. Valencia head coach Jerry Mike ...

Prep football: Wolitarsky, Murphy are All-State

Two local football players made a statement on Tuesday. That statement is that they are All-State. Canyon High senior wide receiver Drew Wolitarsky and Valencia High senior quarterback Sean Murphy were selected as members of the CalHiSports.com All-State team. Wolitarsky was selected for the second-team offense and Murphy was selected for the third-team offense. Wolitarsky joins his quarterback, Cade Apsay, who was selected last week to the All-State Junior team. The senior wide receiver made ...

Prep girls hoops: ’Cats turn back charge

West Ranch Wildcats girls basketball almost gave the Hart Indians their biggest win in two years.

Prep boys basketball: Hart evens season series with Wildcats

We'll never know who's better head-to-head this season - Hart Indians boys basketball or the West Ranch Wildcats.

Valencia girls basketball's Kalia Summerlin: The calm

Every Valencia girls basketball game since the winter of 2009, there has been an antithesis in the gymnasium.

Emotions run gamut at HOF

Surprise. Honor. Tears. Those were some of the immediate reactions that the College of the Canyons 2013 Athletic Hall of Fame inductees felt when they were first informed of their honor. On Thursday, the reactions were results of appreciation as four former COC athletes, a coach and a team were inducted into the Hall of Fame at the Hyatt Regency Valencia. "Finally, at my age, I'm starting to develop an awareness. This is special," said ...

The Day After Hoops: Marquee Matchup II

Before the Foothill League season started, the first game was circled on the calendar as the marquee boys basketball matchup of the season.

Around the SCV: Honors are still arriving

Football season may be in the distance, but honors keep coming for Santa Clarita Valley athletes.

Prep boys hoops:’Cats’ knockout punch

There's one thing West Ranch has been lacking this season, and it almost came back to bite the Wildcats on Tuesday at Valencia High.

Prep girls hoops: Valencia survives the scare

If the Valencia Vikings girls basketball team needed a scare sometime in Foothill League play, it came on Tuesday.

West Ranch's Lambirth gives college commitment

West Ranch defensive lineman Jake Lambirth has verbally committed to play football for Cornell University.

Prep boys hoops: Hart makes a point of its own

They wouldn't admit it, but the Valencia Vikings boys basketball team knew that a win against the Hart Indians at Hart High would have put in concrete that they are a legitimate Foothill League title contender.

Prep girls basketball: Hart to honor Lilley

She's still trying to figure it out. Is it rehearsal, number retirement then rehearsal dinner? Is it number retirement, rehearsal then rehearsal dinner? Whatever order it will be, it will be a hectic Feb. 1 for Hart High basketball great and former WNBA player Taylor Lilley. On that day, Lilley's No. 1 will be retired in a ceremony at Hart High at halftime of the boys basketball game between Hart and Golden Valley. That same ...

Softball CIF brackets released, six SCV teams in

Coming into the 2013 softball season, there was a lot of hope within the Santa Clarita Valley that come playoff time, a Foothill League team could make a run.

6 area baseball teams make postseason

For one of the most competitive baseball seasons in Santa Clarita Valley prep history, the area gets no rewards in the CIF-Southern Section playoffs.

Hart baseball misses out on playoffs for first time since 1986

Golden Valley tennis sees school-best run come to end

The most successful boys tennis season in Golden Valley High history ended Wednesday with the Grizzlies losing 16-2 to La Canada High in La Canada in the first round of the CIF-Southern Section Division II playoffs.

Hart tennis clutches up to move on

The Hart Indians boys tennis team is still alive in the CIF-Southern Section Division II playoffs and it can thank two unlikely heroes.

Saugus' Dylan Freyre: Raised on baseball

Mother's Day is Sunday and Dylan Freyre will go camping with his mother, Stacy, to celebrate.

West Ranch's Slauson chooses CSUN

West Ranch outfielder Tony Slauson verbally committed to Cal State Northridge earlier this month, according to Wildcats head coach Casey Burrill.

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.