Archive By Author - Paul Putignano
Soccer: Heating up again
The Santa Clarita Blue Heat ended the first half of United Soccer Leagues W-League play on a roll.
West Ranch Year in Review
New schools generally have an extensive vision for success in the future. West Ranch took a large step in that direction during the 2010-11 academic year. Several in fact. The football team made its first-ever trip to the postseason. The girls tennis team had its most successful season yet, advancing to the semifinals of the CIF-Southern Section Division I playoffs as the No. 1 overall seed for the first time. Softball notched its first postseason ...
Track and field: Low takes sixth in junior 800
College of the Canyons freshman Chris Low began his track and field career in the spring of 2010, after a hand injury to put a halt to his senior baseball season at Canyon High School.
Softball: Taylor, Shults add to hefty resumes
Valencia High graduate Jordan Taylor and Hart High graduate Jessica Shults were both National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-Americans, and they both saw their seasons end earlier than they would have liked.
Santa Clarita Christian Year in Review
Santa Clarita Christian has come to expect a lot out of its athletic programs. After all, the football team entered the year as the two-time defending CIF-Southern Section Division I 8-Man champions. The program got to the semfinals in the 2010-11 season, but it came up short trying to win another 8-man title. Next season, it won't have the chance to. The football team will play 11-man in the fall of 2011. Other things are ...
Trinity Year in Review
It was a year of firsts for Trinity Classical Academy. And most of them were positive. The Knights accumulated multiple Omega League titles, several postseason victories and a lot of recognition during the 2010-11 year. The impressive part? It was Trinity's first season of varsity athletics in four sports and only its second in another. The Knights made the playoffs in each of them, and they have a lot of talent returning next year, setting ...
Prep football: Saugus passing tournament crowns a champion
The final day of the 2011 Saugus Under the Lights Passing Tournament started with a surprise and ended with anything but.
MMA to make SCV debut
Fight Academy Canyon Country owner David Dunn remembers the days when it was illegal to hold mixed martial arts events in the Santa Clarita Valley and the rest of California.
2011 All-SCV Softball Team: Not on her watch
For three years, Saugus shortstop Jenna Kelly watched other teams ascend to the top of the Foothill League standings.
2011 All-SCV Girls Swim Team: Just beginning
There was only one girl that won two individual events at this season's Foothill League swim finals.
2011 All-SCV Boys Swim Team: Title of his own
Hart senior Alex Ngan was the 2010 Foothill League champion in the 100-yard backstroke. But he didn't attempt to defend that title. Ngan holds team top-10 times in the 500 freestyle, 100 backstroke, 100 butterfly, 200 individual medley, 200 freestyle and 100 backstroke. But he didn't swim those either. When Hart needed the Columbia University-bound Ngan to come through the most at the Foothill League finals, he did. But he did so in the 50 ...
NFL: In need of a stage
Matt Moore is ready to go. Unfortunately for the Hart High graduate, the National Football League is not. After a tumultuous fourth professional season that was cut short by a shoulder injury, Moore is once again healthy and waiting for an opportunity, while the NFL remains in limbo during an owner-imposed, court-upheld lockout. Moore remains a restricted free agent for the Carolina Panthers, who drafted Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Cam Newton with the No. 1 overall ...
Prep football: Unofficial start
Now that the 2011 spring sports are over, attention is quickly turning toward football. And Wednesday night at Valencia High School, four Foothill League teams took to the field for a four-team round-robin passing tournament. Canyon swept the Vikings, Hart and West Ranch, while Valencia won two games and Hart won one. But with the season-openers still nearly four months away, the focus is simply on finding a groove and bringing new players up to ...
MLB draft: Four more selected
Three baseball players now face very tough decisions. A fourth's may be a little more clear-cut. Hart High graduate Tyler Glasnow, Golden Valley graduate Scotty Barlow and College of the Canyons Western State Conference, South Division Player of the Year honorees Juan Perez and Brian Hernandez were all taken on the second day of the MLB First-Year Player Draft on Tuesday. Glasnow was taken with the first pick of the fifth round and 152nd overall ...
MLB: Bright spots in the minors
Valencia High graduate Danny Worth was called up to the Detroit Tigers on May 27. The infielder has since appeared in three games and is hitting .333 with a run scored on the heels of strong production for the Triple-A Toledo Mud Hens. But there are many other local minor leaguers that are hoping to join Worth, Hart grad James Shields and former Canyon pitcher Zach Britton at baseball's highest level, and they have seen ...
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