Archive By Author - Cary Osborne
Valencia's Sean Murphy: The Metamorphosis
Looking back, it's hard to find such a striking year-to-year disparity as the difference between Valencia High quarterback Sean Murphy of 2011 and Sean Murphy of 2012.
Collin Keoshian: Back on his horse
In the United States of America in 2008 and 2009, Collin Keoshian was the biggest fish in the smallest pond of prep football - 8-man football.
CIF golf: No luck for locals in team playoffs
It's been a quiet Foothill League championship season for the West Ranch girls golf team.
Prep sports: District OKs lacrosse
For the last five years, the lacrosse community has argued just how popular the sport is and has tried to get it in the Santa Clarita Valley's high schools.
Prep football: Trinity reaches new heights
CANOGA PARK - When a program is so new, it's easy to say that this win or that win is the biggest in school history.
Foothill football: Vikes take first big one
For those who were expecting a shootout, they weren't disappointed. But someone had to make a defensive stop in the game and in the end it was Valencia.
Foothill tennis: Title goes to deuce, Hart wins share of league
It's been a long time since Newhall could be called the focal point of girls prep tennis in the Santa Clarita Valley.
Prep football preview: Contenders collide
Here it is. The first marquee Foothill League game of the year. Canyon and Valencia - two teams considered Foothill title contenders - will play tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Canyon High School. And there are a couple of similarities between both teams - both are undefeated in league play and both have explosive offenses. "To be honest, I don't know what to expect," said Valencia head coach Larry Muir. "I'm hoping our defense will ...
Foothill golf: Monumental finale
It's not an exaggeration to say Wednesday was a monumental day in the history of prep girls golf in the Santa Clarita Valley at the sixth and final Foothill League match.
Foothill golf: ’Cats ahead, but drama remains
With West Ranch girls golf having all but sewn up a second consecutive Foothill League title, and Golden Valley and Hart looking like the other two playoff teams from the league, it's the individual battle that highlights today's Foothill League finale and match No. 6.
Prep football: Indians set to retire Moore’s No. 17 jersey
Hart High graduate and NFL veteran quarterback Matt Moore will have his No. 17 retired in a ceremony prior to the Indians' Friday night game against Saugus at College of the Canyons.
The Cowboys' mixed news
It was good news, bad news for both Canyon and Saugus on Friday. For Canyon, it beat Saugus 41-14 on Friday night at College of the Canyons, but the Cowboys suffered a rash of injuries in the game. For Saugus, it actually won a game Friday, thanks to being told that Taft High had to forfeit a Sept. 21, 48-20 victory because it used an ineligible player in the game. The other good news is ...
Prep football: Saugus benefits from forfeit
Saugus football picked up a win Friday when it was found that Taft High used an ineligible player in its 48-20 victory over the Centurions on Sept. 21.
Prep football: Trinity forces the end
Trinity Classical Academy forced Milken to wave the white flag Thursday night. The Knights 8-man football team defeated the Wildcats 51-0 at Birmingham High in a game that didn't go the distance. After an early fourth-quarter touchdown by Trinity's Nick Spinello that set the score at 51-0, Milken stopped the game right there and the Knights accepted. It was Trinity's first-ever Heritage League win after spending two years in the Omega League. "I'm very, very ...
Foothill football preview: Hill’s top and bottom
Canyon football seems to feel like last week was a turning point. There was a three-week point during this season where the swagger was gone, the defense was vilified and the Cowboys were seen as a struggling team coming into Foothill League play. They lost 56-49 to Quartz Hill on Sept. 14, then had a week to stew on that, then tied Steele Canyon 49-49 on Sept. 28 in a game they led by 20 ...
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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.
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.
Prep girls hoops: Valencia falls against state 20th ranked team
This Valencia Vikings girls basketball game had so much going for it.
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.
Prep boys basketball: Vikings feel playoff pain
This one was a little more emotional than most postgame goodbyes.
COC baseball preview: Nice to see you again
It's 2011.
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.
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.
Prep girls soccer: The game tilts to SCCS
Santa Clarita Christian Cardinals girls soccer senior Colette Blake said the first half of her team's game with Rolling Hills Prep of San Pedro on Thursday felt like it was being played on a tilt.
Prep sports: G.V. lists coach jobs
Although the jobs have been listed on the William S. Hart Union High School District website, it doesn't mean that Golden Valley's current boys basketball and boys soccer coaches won't return next season to guide their respective teams.
