Archive By Author - Cary Osborne
HOLLEN ONE
It's kind of difficult for West Ranch golf coach Jeff Holen to gush about one of his freshman golfers.
Finding home
His wife sits in the faded peach-colored seats beyond Reese Field, clutching a pastel-colored fleece blanket.
Hart's turn again
Hart center fielder Trevor Brown carefully crafted out an answer as to what two Hart wins this week against previously Foothill League first-place Valencia meant.
Valencia eases into title share
There are a couple of things you can expect this time of year. Taxes are due on April 15 and around a week or so of that date, Valencia boys tennis is clinching a Foothill League title. For the third consecutive season, the Vikings will wear the crown after an 18-0 victory over Saugus clinched at least a tie for the championship with two matches remaining in the regular season. It was another in a ...
Video: Valencia Vikings Volleyball No. 1
This valley has produced some fine programs this decade - a national champion in Valencia softball, two-time state champion Saugus cross country, a state champion in Canyon football, but there is little argument as to what the dominant program has been in this valley.
Any room for wrestling?
He said it's now a running joke. Paul Strickland, a board member for the William S. Hart Union High School District, said items for future consideration are brought up at the end of board meetings. Strickland has brought up wrestling so often, it's now expected that he'll raise the issue every time. "At the last meeting, we had a number of people there for the ratification of the teachers' agreement. Also there were people there ...
TPC Valencia tries to let secret out
Some might argue that this is a football town. Others might say baseball, softball or even volleyball. But golf has entered the equation lately. With the success over the last five years of junior golfers and one professional, Jason Gore, and the abundance of courses in the area, golf is thriving. Identifying that, TPC Valencia, just five years old, is seeking to increase its membership. The country club opened up its course Monday to over ...
Angels bombed by Laird
ANAHEIM - The perception of the Texas Rangers going into 2008 is that, among other weaknesses, they don't have much hitting.
A selfless athlete is rewarded
The prep basketball season is well past us now, yet stories of selflessness are timeless. The amount of time Valencia High basketball player John Otavka will remember his senior season is the rest of his life. Otavka can tell people he was good enough to be selected to the Southern California Interscholastic Basketball Coaches Association (SCIBA) Division II-AA first team for his contributions during the 2007-08 season. He was the only boys basketball player from ...
Vikes get the full seven again
Valencia's Robbie Mouselli kept an incredible streak going Friday at Canyon High. He reached base for the ninth consecutive plate appearance with a single in the first inning. Wait, wrong streak. Mouselli lost that one with a ground out in the third inning, but the more important one was Valencia receiving a fourth straight complete game - two of which being his. The senior pitcher bobbed and weaved through trouble late, relying on a steady ...
Foothill Leaders stay hot
For a good hour and a half, the best question to ask at Valencia High's baseball field Wednesday afternoon was what would come first - the anticipated rain or any energy from either side?
It's not over, but it's close
The West Ranch boys golf team continued to distance itself from the pack Tuesday. With the Wildcats latest first place finish at Robinson Ranch's par-71 Mountain Course, the young squad has continued to assert itself as the best team in the Foothill League. So after three straight first-place finishes, it's over - right? "The way I look at it, it's not over until it's over," said West Ranch head coach Jeff Holen. "I tell my ...
Torre changes the culture
LOS ANGELES - With 25 reporters surrounding him in the Los Angeles Dodgers' dugout Monday morning, manager Joe Torre proved to be the main attraction at Dodger Stadium on Opening Day.
Pure hitter
The fastball that Robert Stock threw in 2005 was accompanied with a sound. At 95 miles per hour, it came with the hiss of a snake. At the time, the Agoura High junior was one of, if not the most talked about prep players in the country. He wasn't exactly the kind of pitcher a 14-year-old would want to see in his first high school at bat. Yet Zachary Vincej, who already pulled off the ...
Local MLBers, play ball!
Young Major League Baseball is now the selling point for the National Pastime. It's on the cover of Sports Illustrated's 2008 baseball preview. It's a theme down the Interstate 5 at Chavez Ravine. And it's represented by the amount of success young players with ties to the Santa Clarita Valley have had in spring training. A total of six locals, five under the age of 27, competed on big league clubs at some point this ...
Articles By Author - Cary Osborne
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 ...
Saugus baseball does number on Golden Valley
Lost in a 15-1 pounding of the Golden Valley Grizzlies on Friday at Saugus High School was the pitching of Saugus Centurions pitcher Chris Danielson.
Hart baseball survives better than Canyon
It was said on Wednesday that the story in Canyon's Foothill League opening win against West Ranch was the Cowboys' offense.
SCV Hoops Finale adds a clinic
The Signal's fourth annual SCV Hoops Finale is now days away and since the announcement of the game earlier in the week, an addition to the game has been made and players have given their commitments to play.
Canyon Cowboys baseball proves it can hit
All the signs were there.
