Prep Track and Field: Dominant day for locals

It's far too early to start speculating about league titles and CIF competitions, but based on Saturday's track and field meet, the Foothill League has plenty of capable athletes.

Prep softball: Next for GV: A response

First-year Golden Valley softball head coach Hugo Castillo spent an extra few minutes talking to his team after Friday's game.

College baseball: Cougar barrage

In its final game before the opening of Western State Conference, South Division play, College of the Canyons baseball had one issue in mind.

College basketball: Long year comes to end

The Master's College men's basketball won its last three games of the regular season to earn a spot in the Golden State Athletic Conference Tournament.

College basketball: Mustangs can’t hang in tourney

The Master's College women's basketball team hoped to undo the poor finish it had to the regular season.

Prep soccer: Magic runs out

If the season for Hart boys soccer could be summed up in one game, Friday's contest would have been a good one to watch.

College baseball: TMC turns it up

Coming into the season, The Master's College baseball expected to be a team that relied on timely hitting and contact hitting.

Hart's Cody Seybold: Reverser of fortune

All kidding aside, this Hart boys soccer team is for real. As confident and carefree as senior defender Cody Seybold usually is, even he had to admit that a turnaround like the one his team has put together this season was unlikely from the start. "At the beginning of the season, it was like, OK, this team has potential, now we just need to get everyone together," Seybold says. And the team will get together ...

Prep soccer: The late show

It's a situation in which the Hart boys soccer team is becoming quite comfortable. Late in the game, the Indians needed a goal to win. Late in regulation, they couldn't find the back of the net. After regulation ended, they did. Midfielder Ben Kret scored midway through the first overtime period to lead Hart past University High School of Irvine 1-0 in the second round of the CIF-Southern Section Division III playoffs Wednesday at Hart ...

Prep soccer: SCCS runs out of road

NORTH HILLS - Santa Clarita Christian girls soccer was in uncharted territory. Since the program's formation in 2002, it had never appeared in a second-round CIF playoff game. The team had also never won a Heritage League title before this year, a feat it accomplished two weeks ago. But in a season of many firsts, the Cardinals played their last game of the season Tuesday, a 3-1 loss to Rim of the World of Lake ...

Prep basketball: Trinity runs out of firsts

In its inaugural varsity season, Trinity Classical Academy boys basketball had already exceeded expectations.

Prep basketball: ’Cats can’t keep pace

Against the top seed in its playoff bracket, West Ranch girls basketball was going to have to play nearly flawless basketball to keep pace.

Prep boys soccer: ’Cats bounced in round 1

Scoring goals hasn't been a problem for West Ranch boys soccer all season. On a rainy, windy day, the Foothill League champions failed to score at all, despite several chances in the second half. The Wildcats were eliminated in the first round of the CIF-Southern Section Division III playoffs, losing 1-0 to Santa Maria Friday at West Ranch High School. It was also the first time West Ranch finished a game without a goal since ...

Prep boys basketball: Cold Cards lose it late

The Santa Clarita Christian boys basketball team came into Friday night's game as one of the highest ranked teams in its division.

Prep basketball: Valencia storms on Diamond Bar

Valencia girls basketball didn't want to sit around and wait. So instead, the fired-up squad got into the action right off the bat and quickly turned the game into a blowout. The Vikings scored the first 19 points of the game and rode that lead to a 45-28 win over Diamond Bar Thursday night at Valencia High in the first round of the CIF-Southern Section Division IA playoffs. The 19-0 run, which spanned to the ...

'Cowboy Round-Up’ passing tournament a success

When Canyon High football head coach Rich Gutierrez thought of the idea of hosting a passing tournament in the spring, his goal was to get some top level football programs involved.

CIF track and field finals: Onward they move

Was it the traditional display of dominance for the Foothill League? Not exactly.

COC's Tim White wins state triple jump title

One year later, Tim White wasn't going to let anyone get in his way of a state championship.

Golden Valley's Azaria Hill: Athlete in her blood

Clusters of runners whiz by every couple of minutes.

Valencia can't handle Harvard-Westlake in Division I playoffs

Foothill League announces all-league boys volleyball

Einstein baseball is in and out

In its first playoff appearance in team history, Albert Einstein Academy baseball didn't get any breaks.

Valencia baseball wins CIF-SS Division I wild card

The bats may be coming around just in time for Valencia Vikings baseball. Patient and effective hitting put Valencia in front early and an A.J. Balta grand slam put the game out of reach as the Vikings beat the Westlake Warriors 11-2 on Tuesday in a CIF-Southern Section Division I wild-card matchup at Valencia High School. "We saw the pitches we wanted and we hit them," said Balta, who started for the first time in ...

Valencia tennis caps it off in the quarters

One break of serve here, another tough bounce there, and that was enough to prevent the Valencia Vikings boys tennis team from moving on in the postseason.

COC men's golf wins its sixth state title

College of the Canyons golf head coach Gary Peterson still vividly remembers when his men's golf team won its first state championship 20 years ago.

COC softball knocked out of playoffs

It isn't the kind of repeat College of the Canyons softball was looking for.

Season slips away from COC baseball

Everything seemed to be set up perfectly for College of the Canyons baseball.

COC softball inches closer to state

Once again, College of the Canyons softball is one win away from making the state finals.

Usuals get it done at CIF track and field prelims

Golden Valley, Saugus and Canyon were the three clear frontrunners throughout the Foothill League track and field season.

West Ranch tennis can’t match up

No matter how the lineup was arranged, West Ranch Wildcats boys tennis was going to have a tough time.