Archive By Author - Cary Osborne
Playing with the pros
Saugus High senior golfer Tiara Wells said she was a bundle of nerves Tuesday. Stepping onto the course at Valencia Country Club, she was one of only 15 junior players selected to play alongside Champions Tour professionals for a Pro-Junior Tournament. Gary Hallberg, a three-time winner on the PGA Tour and competitor in this weekend's AT&T Champions Classic at Valencia Country Club, told her to drop her jaw. "It makes me tense," she said that ...
Dreams can come true
People are calling it a miracle. A Disney movie. Rich Contreras is living it. The 53-year-old Sylmar resident will tee off Friday morning at the 2009 AT&T Champions Classic at Valencia Country Club. The miracle was Contreras getting into the tournament. "It's a one-in-a-million opportunity," Contreras says. People like him don't get the opportunity to play in professional golf tournaments. They have to watch from beyond the ropes that cordon off the fairways and greens ...
’Stangs went wrong way
On Jan. 6, The Master's College's men's basketball team knocked off NAIA powerhouse Concordia in Irvine in a thrilling 91-86 overtime victory.
Cowboys honor slain player Josh Pipho
Ryan Pipho took his brother's No. 3 Canyon High School baseball jersey out of the closet and put it on Saturday morning.
Tough one to decide
You can throw out the story about Saugus finishing third in the Foothill League and making it all the way to the CIF-Southern Section Division II girls soccer final.
A Blur on the ice
He was a burgundy and black blur. The cold of the ice swept with him, bringing a freezing breeze.
Cents title ready, a new hall
The Saugus girls soccer team held its team banquet Wednesday night. And the season's not even over. The Centurions scheduled the banquet long before the CIF-Southern Section Division II playoffs because of the availability of a facility. Now Saugus is in the championship game for the first time in school history. The Centurions will play Harvard-Westlake of North Hollywood on Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Warren High School of Downey. The game will be preceeded ...
More than charity
When Chivas USA takes on the Ventura Fusion of the Premier Development League today at 5 p.m. at College of the Canyons' Cougar Stadium, some players would have reason to take it easy.
Golden Valley coach resigns
Next season will mark the fourth in a row that Golden Valley has a different girls varsity basketball coach. First-year head coach James Wilson resigned on Friday, citing medical issues within his family.
An evolution: Golden Valley's Maverick Ahanmisi
It was two years ago that Maverick Ahanmisi sat on a cold bench, head down, while the bright spotlights of a production company encircled the court of Golden Valley High's gymnasium.
Coach hires are in holding pattern
Two months after Steve Pinkston resigned as head football coach at Golden Valley and Mike Kane did the same at West Ranch, both schools are unable to make a hire because of California's budget deficit.
Believe it
Golden Valley's Maverick Ahanmisi was having one of the greatest games in this valley's playoff history, but that didn't hold back an unrelenting charge by Foothill of Santa Ana Tuesday night at Golden Valley High.
Step for success
Excitement. Reality. Confusion. Frustration. Those were the four stages experienced by Canyon High graduate Matt Warr in one year.
Lance rides through SCV: Still hopes of a future finish
He came. He rode. And he was gone. Just like that. Lance Armstrong, beginning on the edge, took off from the starting line of the Amgen Tour of California on Town Center Drive in Valencia Saturday, and that was the most that anybody saw of the cycling superstar. The last two years saw the Amgen Tour of California finish in Santa Clarita, which meant a couple of loops through the streets of the valley, the ...
The Golden Valley rollers: Grizzlies win big
Golden Valley head basketball coach Chris Printz was pretty incredulous after Friday's road matchup with Brea Olinda in the second round of the CIF-Southern Section Division IIIA playoffs.
Articles By Author - Cary Osborne
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 ...
