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 ...

Prep soccer: Preleague win is a win

It's always this time of year that Valencia boys soccer opens up with a home game under the lights.

Prep cross country: Grizzlies keep on running

It's not over for Golden Valley cross country. Second chances have presented themselves in the form of the annual Foot Locker West Regional this Saturday at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut. The event is the qualifier to the Dec. 8 Foot Locker Cross Country National Championships in San Diego - another U.S. prep championship like this Saturday's Nike Cross Nationals in which the Saugus girls team and Saugus boys cross country runner A.J. Yarnall ...

Prep basketball: Adapting early

There is no Santa Clarita Valley girls basketball team this season that has to change things up more from the last than Saugus.

Prep basketball: Adapting early

There is no Santa Clarita Valley girls basketball team this season that has to change things up more from the last than Saugus.

Prep basketball: ’Cats can close

It was a case of don't wake the sleeping giant at West Ranch High on Tuesday night. After a fast start, the Wildcats boys basketball team fell into a 2 1/2 quarter slumber against visiting Crespi of Encino and its big man Ako Kaluna was more frustrated than productive. Then a fourth-quarter surge keyed by an aggressive defense, a greater desire and the 6-foot-7-inch Kaluna led West Ranch to a 72-68 victory in the season ...

CIF football playoffs: Facing the curse

For the entire season, even before the season began, Valencia's wide receiving corps and skill position players in general have been held in high regard.

Anthony Costleigh: Valencia’s hammer

There's the hammer. And there's the nail. And regardless of Valencia senior linebacker Anthony Costleigh being just 5-feet, 10-inches tall and 185 pounds, he'll hammer any nail, any size. Valencia defensive coordinator Robert Waters says he is one of the biggest hitters Valencia has ever had. "I don't know why. You have to ask him," Waters says on how a kid of his size has a fearlessness beyond that of most players who have played ...

COC soccer's superb season ends

One loss the whole season and it came at the wrong time. College of the Canyons women's soccer lost 1-0 to Ventura College in the second round of the California Community College Athletic Association Regional Playoffs at Cougar Stadium on Wednesday. The loss ended one of the best seasons in program history. The nation's No. 3 team in Junior College Division III, according to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, finished the campaign at ...

CIF tennis: Still a little bit of life

Prep girls tennis season still has life locally as the Valencia doubles team of Ashley Keith and Tina Inchalik advanced in the CIF-Southern Section Division II tournament on Monday.

Golf: No luck for Delio, Gore

Two Santa Clarita Valley golfers fell short of making the final qualifying stage for the PGA Tour this past weekend. Jason Gore and Nick Delio both participated in the second stage of Q School at Bear Creek Golf Club in Murrieta. Had they finished in the top 19, they would have advanced to PGA West - TPC Stadium & Nicklaus Tournament Course in LaQuinta. The top 25 finishers at that event are eligible for PGA ...

Prep hoops: West Ranch's Kaluna commits to NAU

West Ranch senior basketball player Ako Kaluna has committed to play for Northern Arizona University, becoming the first NCAA Division I basketball player from the Stevenson Ranch school.

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.