Playing with the pros

Saugus High senior golfer Tiara Wells said she was a bundle of nerves Tuesday. Stepping onto the course at Valencia Country Club, she was one of only 15 junior players selected to play alongside Champions Tour professionals for a Pro-Junior Tournament. Gary Hallberg, a three-time winner on the PGA Tour and competitor in this weekend's AT&T Champions Classic at Valencia Country Club, told her to drop her jaw. "It makes me tense," she said that ...

Dreams can come true

People are calling it a miracle. A Disney movie. Rich Contreras is living it. The 53-year-old Sylmar resident will tee off Friday morning at the 2009 AT&T Champions Classic at Valencia Country Club. The miracle was Contreras getting into the tournament. "It's a one-in-a-million opportunity," Contreras says. People like him don't get the opportunity to play in professional golf tournaments. They have to watch from beyond the ropes that cordon off the fairways and greens ...

’Stangs went wrong way

On Jan. 6, The Master's College's men's basketball team knocked off NAIA powerhouse Concordia in Irvine in a thrilling 91-86 overtime victory.

Cowboys honor slain player Josh Pipho

Ryan Pipho took his brother's No. 3 Canyon High School baseball jersey out of the closet and put it on Saturday morning.

Tough one to decide

You can throw out the story about Saugus finishing third in the Foothill League and making it all the way to the CIF-Southern Section Division II girls soccer final.

A Blur on the ice

He was a burgundy and black blur. The cold of the ice swept with him, bringing a freezing breeze.

Cents title ready, a new hall

The Saugus girls soccer team held its team banquet Wednesday night. And the season's not even over. The Centurions scheduled the banquet long before the CIF-Southern Section Division II playoffs because of the availability of a facility. Now Saugus is in the championship game for the first time in school history. The Centurions will play Harvard-Westlake of North Hollywood on Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Warren High School of Downey. The game will be preceeded ...

More than charity

When Chivas USA takes on the Ventura Fusion of the Premier Development League today at 5 p.m. at College of the Canyons' Cougar Stadium, some players would have reason to take it easy.

Golden Valley coach resigns

Next season will mark the fourth in a row that Golden Valley has a different girls varsity basketball coach. First-year head coach James Wilson resigned on Friday, citing medical issues within his family.

An evolution: Golden Valley's Maverick Ahanmisi

It was two years ago that Maverick Ahanmisi sat on a cold bench, head down, while the bright spotlights of a production company encircled the court of Golden Valley High's gymnasium.

Coach hires are in holding pattern

Two months after Steve Pinkston resigned as head football coach at Golden Valley and Mike Kane did the same at West Ranch, both schools are unable to make a hire because of California's budget deficit.

Believe it

Golden Valley's Maverick Ahanmisi was having one of the greatest games in this valley's playoff history, but that didn't hold back an unrelenting charge by Foothill of Santa Ana Tuesday night at Golden Valley High.

Step for success

Excitement. Reality. Confusion. Frustration. Those were the four stages experienced by Canyon High graduate Matt Warr in one year.

Lance rides through SCV: Still hopes of a future finish

He came. He rode. And he was gone. Just like that. Lance Armstrong, beginning on the edge, took off from the starting line of the Amgen Tour of California on Town Center Drive in Valencia Saturday, and that was the most that anybody saw of the cycling superstar. The last two years saw the Amgen Tour of California finish in Santa Clarita, which meant a couple of loops through the streets of the valley, the ...

The Golden Valley rollers: Grizzlies win big

Golden Valley head basketball coach Chris Printz was pretty incredulous after Friday's road matchup with Brea Olinda in the second round of the CIF-Southern Section Division IIIA 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.

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.