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Prep girls hoops: Tables turned
The Canyon Cowboys girls basketball team's celebration Friday after their 52-45 win over the Valencia Vikings at Valencia High rivals only one other celebration in Foothill League play this year.
Prep boys hoops: The anti-Vikings
These are the anti-Valencia Vikings. For years, the Vikings have had this reputation - transition team, athletic team, defense comes second, led by a star. "I laugh at that," says veteran Valencia head coach Rocket Collins, acknowledging that he's heard the label. This season's Valencia team is nothing like that - it's a team that will beat you on the perimeter, beats teams with its diversity, is committed to defense and is a ...
The Day After Hoops: The chase is on
Last Friday was the marquee matchup for the Foothill League boys basketball season. This Friday is the marquee matchup for the Foothill League girls basketball season. First-place Valencia hosts second-place Canyon in the most significant remaining local girls basketball game of the regular season. The significance is simple for Valencia - win and the Vikings are two games up on Canyon with two to play, meaning a Friday victory would, at worst, give them a ...
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.
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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.
West Ranch's Bennett commits to Sonoma State
West Ranch senior side-slinging pitcher Cody Bennett has verbally committed to Sonoma State University, according to West Ranch Wildcats head coach Casey Burrill.
Valencia's J.D. Busfield: Method to the magic
John Busfield is mostly inconspicuous among the people sitting on the block cement seating at Valencia High's baseball field.
West Ranch baseball blows things open with 7-run sixth to beat Canyon
It’s looking inevitable for Vikings tennis in Foothill League race
Valencia baseball finds the right approach
Coming off one of Southern California's most challenging spring break tournaments, Valencia Vikings baseball has its trap week.
West Ranch boys golf looking back at the league
The consistency that West Ranch boys golf has shown this year leaves its closest competition in the Foothill League in quite a hole with three Foothill League matches remaining.
