Prep boys basketball: No need to wait on Trinity

One. Just one Santa Clarita Valley boys basketball team has won a CIF championship. The 1987 Cinderella story Saugus Centurions won the Southern Section Division 3-A title, winning a wild-card game to get into the postseason and beating the top two seeds in the tournament. Trinity Classical Academy, surprisingly, could be the second champion. The Knights play for the CIF-Southern Section Division VI championship against Arcadia's Rio Hondo Prep on Saturday at 9:30 a.m. at ...

Community: Moore to host blood drive

Hart High graduate and NFL quarterback Matt Moore and local protein water company Spartos, a company he is a partner in, are collaborating with Providence Blood Donor Center on Saturday for a blood drive in Valencia.

Canyon's McCoy is girls hoops POY

For all that Canyon senior forward Alia McCoy had accomplished in her stellar basketball career, there was one thing she couldn't say.

Wildcat Harris leads All-Foothill boys hoops team

It's sort of a no-brainer for West Ranch boys basketball player Kevin Harris. The senior guard said he'd rather still be playing in the CIF-Southern Section playoffs. But being named the 2013 Foothill League Boys Basketball Player of the Year is an honor he'll gladly accept. Harris, who averaged 19 points per game in Foothill League play leading the Wildcats to their first-ever outright league title, was selected for the honor. It was announced Monday, ...

Prep girls hoops: Canyon falls in quarters to Lynwood

LYNWOOD - Why has Canyon girls basketball been the best winter sports team in the Santa Clarita Valley over the last four years?

Prep boys basketball: ’Cats can’t quite close

DANA POINT - In so many cases, a team is a reflection of its leaders. In West Ranch Wildcats basketball, you have the coolest, calmest player in the Santa Clarita Valley in senior guard Kevin Harris. No wonder a Dana Hills 12-point, fourth quarter lead disappeared on Friday night. But with the ball in his hands with less than 10 seconds to play and with a chance to put the Wildcats ahead, not even Harris ...

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.

2013 All-SCV Boys Hoops: West Ranch's Kevin Harris, The deciding factor

West Ranch had one of the most imposing physical forces this valley has ever seen in power forward/center Ako Kaluna.

2013 All-SCV Girls Basketball: Canyon's Alia McCoy, Her best for last

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