Prep girls hoops: Canyon advances to CIF quarterfinals for the fourth consecutive season

No Santa Clarita Valley winter sports team can say what Canyon girls basketball can. Four years, four playoff quarterfinal appearances. The Canyon Cowboys pulled off the accomplishment by defeating the Kaiser Cats in Fontana 74-40 on Wednesday in the second round of the CIF-Southern Section Division IIAA playoffs. Canyon (24-4) now plays at third-seeded Lynwood in Saturday's quarterfinal. "I think our kids have always pushed themselves," said Canyon head coach Chuck Johns on why his ...

Prep girls hoops: Valencia falls against state 20th ranked team

This Valencia Vikings girls basketball game had so much going for it. Leadership, inside players, outside players, depth and a co-Foothill League championship going into the postseason. Yet Valencia had something very big going against it in the postseason - a series of roadblocks. The Vikings never got to the second one as the first one - the Centennial of Corona Huskies - defeated Valencia 60-41 Wednesday in Corona in the second round of the ...

Prep boys soccer: Valencia’s best season in team history ends at the hands of Temescal Canyon

The Valencia Vikings boys soccer team was defeated by the Valencia Vikings - or in a more clearer terms, the Temescal Canyon soccer team playing Valencia style soccer.

Prep boys basketball: Wildcats come alive in fourth

Nothing was going right. A missed layup here, a turnover there, a missed dunk there and a technical foul. Soon, the West Ranch boys basketball team's 13-point halftime lead disappeared. Then a 3-pointer here, a dunk there and grit everywhere in the fourth quarter led the Wildcats to a 63-53 win against Huntington Beach on Tuesday night at Huntington Beach High in the second round of the CIF-Southern Section Division IA playoffs. Now the Wildcats ...

Prep boys basketball: Vikings feel playoff pain

This one was a little more emotional than most postgame goodbyes. Valencia players, filed one by one, made their way out of the team room and thanked head coach Rocket Collins, most with tears in their eyes. One prominent Viking couldn't talk. The Valencia Vikings lost 64-52 Tuesday night in the second round of the CIF-Southern Section Division IA playoffs at Valencia High to the Aliso Niguel Wolverines. The emotion stemmed from so much. Valencia ...

COC baseball preview: Nice to see you again

It's 2011. The Valencia High baseball lineup card features four guys who are considered vital to the team. It's 2013. The College of the Canyons baseball lineup card is supposed to feature four Valencia High graduates who are considered vital to the team. "It's interesting. Playing high school baseball, it gets competitive. Especially playing Valencia. Everyone wants to beat Valencia. That's the team to beat," said West Ranch graduate and COC No. 1 starter Steven ...

Prep girls basketball: Viking response

Valencia Vikings power forward Sandra Ikeora was in the doghouse early at Valencia High Saturday night in the first round of the CIF-Southern Section Division IAA playoffs.

Prep boys hoops: Hart’s end of the road

TORRANCE - For Hart Indians boys basketball, it's wait till next year. Hart was simply outsized and was relegated to a jump-shooting team in its 64-55 loss to West Torrance High on Friday in the second round of the CIF-Southern Section Division IIIAAA playoffs at West High. With most of its team expected to return next season, including star guards Lewis Stallworth and Myles Franklin, and two undefeated lower level teams, the Foothill League's second-place ...

Prep boys hoops: Arriving in time

The Valencia Vikings boys basketball team started the Foothill League season fast, then spun out to a 2-5 record in its last seven games.

Prep girls soccer: The game tilts to SCCS

Santa Clarita Christian Cardinals girls soccer senior Colette Blake said the first half of her team's game with Rolling Hills Prep of San Pedro on Thursday felt like it was being played on a tilt.

Prep sports: G.V. lists coach jobs

Although the jobs have been listed on the William S. Hart Union High School District website, it doesn't mean that Golden Valley's current boys basketball and boys soccer coaches won't return next season to guide their respective teams.

Prep boys basketball: Not this time

Quite the opening act. But not the way the Hart Indians basketball team would have liked it. The Indians survived - barely - and defeated the North Torrance Saxons 86-83 on Wednesday in the first round of the CIF-Southern Section Division IIIAAA playoffs at Hart High. The game was too much like Indians' 62-61 loss that cost them the Foothill League championship last Friday - a game in which they led early and lost the ...

Prep sports: Foothill’s other game

There was a game being played in the gymnasium. Two teams going at it with a goal to win. There were blowouts, close games and classics this season. That doesn't even include what happened on the court. The game was the one being played between the Foothill League's student sections. In a twice-a-week game of one-upsmanship, the six Foothill schools prided themselves on almost a fictional Foothill League title - the title of ...

Prep girls hoops: Valencia gets its share of Foothill title

No way the West Ranch Wildcats were going to keep up. Not with pressure, piled on top of smothering pressure by the Valencia Vikings girls basketball team. That was the mind-set of a determined Valencia team that defeated West Ranch at West Ranch High on Friday 71-52. With the victory, the Vikings (20-7 overall, 9-1 Foothill League) split the Foothill League championship with Canyon. It marks the first title for Valencia since 2005. "Finally," said ...

Prep boys basketball: West Ranch wins Foothill crown outright

One by one, as West Ranch Wildcats seniors exited the game late in the fourth quarter at West Ranch High, they kissed the school logo at center court.

COC’s winning streak ends at 10 straight

Hart graduate Chris Valaika is getting another shot at the Major League

Santa Clarita Valley athletes had mixed results in Spring Training

West Ranch golf and senior Joey Downey win again

West Ranch baseball gains steam

Proving again that it could be any team's day in the Foothill League, the West Ranch Wildcats knocked off the Saugus Centurions 13-6 on Wednesday.

Foothill League golf: Favorites first

No surprise and surprise.

Saugus' Braden Lewis: Quietly confident

One of the best compliments one could pay a golfer is calling their game "boring."

2013 Foothill League boys golf preview: Beginning of a tradition

Last season, West Ranch won its fifth straight Foothill League championship.

Hart baseball's Baggio Saldivar: At the head of the pack

The way coaches throw around the label "leader" makes it lose its impact.

SCV Hoops Finale: Kevin Harris MVP of boys game

Quite simply, it was Kevin Harris' night in the smaller picture.

Canyon baseball surges to front of Foothill League

Canyon Cowboys head baseball coach Adam Schulhofer can't be swayed away from his one-game-at-a-time thinking.

Golden Valley High hires boys hoops coach

The most unstable coaching jobs in the Santa Clarita Valley over the last couple of years took steps toward stability on Friday.

SCV Hoops Finale almost here

By Cary Osborne

West Ranch baseball picks up first Foothill League win of 2013

Regardless of how West Ranch Wildcats baseball got the win, the important thing is it got the win. The Wildcats are now on the board in Foothill League play after a 10-1 win over the Golden Valley Grizzlies on Wednesday at Golden Valley High. "It's a win and we needed to have one," said West Ranch head coach Casey Burrill. "If we want to find ourselves at the end of the season competing for a ...

Valencia baseball puts it all together

There's a reason why many people thought going into Foothill League baseball play that the Valencia Vikings were the team to beat.