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 ...

Prep basketball: Saugus works it

You want to call them scrappy or blue-collared, but those are just cliches when talking about Saugus teams.

Prep basketball: Canyon does just enough

There was a weird rhythm in this one. Yes, Canyon boys basketball was up from start to finish, but the Cowboys had to hang on to defeat St. Genevieve of Panorama City 67-57 on the second day of the Canyon Classic tournament at Canyon High School. "I couldn't even get in rhythm," joked Canyon head coach Sean DeLong. A big reason for the Cowboys' victory was a hefty lead in the first half that allowed ...

Pro baseball: Canyon's Seddon signs with S. Korean team

The choice was security over uncertainty for 2001 Canyon High graduate and Major League pitcher Chris Seddon and now the left-hander will pitch professionally in South Korea in 2013.

Prep basketball: One hurdle too many

It's hard to argue that Golden Valley girls basketball has been the most challenged Santa Clarita Valley team over the last calendar year.

MLB: Rumors swirl over two locals

Rumors, rumors and more rumors. At Major League Baseball's Winter Meetings, which began Monday in Nashville, Tenn. and conclude today, rumors of moves are being reported by the minute. Two names that have been popular ones this week are Hart High graduates James Shields and Trevor Bauer. Shields has proven to be one of the most dependable right-handers in the game and with an affordable contract and a pitching surplus with his Tampa Bay Rays, ...

Prep golf: GV golfer to sign on with college

Golden Valley senior golfer Amanda Hobbs will continue her golf career at Biola University, according to Grizzlies head golf coach Tony Moskal.

Trinity QB receives high honor

With success comes honors and with another successful season for Trinity Classical Academy comes some significant honors.

Prep football: Prochnow, Knights receive All-CIF nods

With success comes honors and with another successful season for Trinity Classical Academy comes some significant honors.

COC women’s basketball preview: Pressures from the past

It's just a little odd. One game the College of the Canyons women's basketball team scores 107 points in a victory and two weeks later it scores 54 in a win. The patented fast-break offense hadn't scored under 60 points in a game and won since Jan. 20, 2010. Another oddity is the roster. Not one girl played basketball for a Santa Clarita Valley school. That's a first in head coach Greg Herrick's 21 seasons ...

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.

West Ranch's Kevin Harris chooses UCSD

West Ranch senior guard and 2013 Foothill League Boys Basketball Player of the Year Kevin Harris committed this week to play basketball for the University of California, San Diego. Harris averaged 19 points per game in Foothill League play leading the Wildcats to their first-ever outright league title. He was also an All-Foothill League and The Signal All-Santa Clarita Valley first-teamer as a junior. Harris, a 4.08 GPA student, had other interest, according to West ...