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 ...

Prep soccer: Cards notch program first

Natalie Keoshian was jumping up and down and moving in every which direction - and that was during the game.

Prep basketball: Wildcats cooled in first round

VENTURA - West Ranch boys basketball won three straight games at the end of the regular season to get here.

Prep baketball: SCCS finishes

It may have taken all four quarters, but eventually Santa Clarita Christian School girls basketball went back to what got it here in the first place.

Prep basketball: Pair done at Hart, GV

It wasn't an easy decision for either coach, but they both had their reasons. A pair of girls basketball head coaches, Hart's Zach Koebel and Golden Valley's Marq Hawkins, resigned in the final week of the regular season. Koebel said there were two primary reasons he decided to step down. Their names are Riley and Taylor, his 5- and 3-year old daughters, respectively. "I've got two young kids, one (nearly) 6-year-old and a 3-year-old, and ...

COC baseball: No relief

In its 2011 home opener, College of the Canyons baseball won with its bats. A day later, it lost with its fielding. The Cougars committed four errors, opening the door for a 4-3 loss to East Los Angeles College on Friday in the second day of the Western State Conference Tournament at COC. After scoring early and often in a 7-2 win over Cerritos Thursday, the Cougars had to scrap for runs Friday when the ...

Day 1 TMC's day at NAIA nationals highlighted by 10K

In his first crack at a national championship this spring, The Master's College senior John Gilbertson came up a few seconds short. Gilbertson took third place in the 10,000-meter final on the opening day of the NAIA Outdoor Track and Field Championships on Thursday in Marion, Ind. His time of 30 minutes, 25.89 seconds was less than 30 seconds slower than Spring Arbor's Nathan Martin, who won the title. This was Gilbertson's first time competing ...

Canyon track's Jeremy Kimmer: A master of one

TMC baseball's A.J. Work: Homeward Bound

When A.J. Work last left Idaho as a high school baseball player, he was just a wide-eyed kid trying to figure out how he was going to compete with the "big boys."

West Ranch softball makes first quarterfinal

West Ranch Wildcat Julia Lombardi hit the ball into center field for what appeared to the final out of the softball team's season.

Golden Valley's Nolan Del Valle commits to UC Irvine

One of the best runners in Golden Valley High School history just finished his four-year career at the school.

Pair of Golden Valley coaches step down

Scott Drootin didn't guide the Golden Valley Grizzlies baseball team to any championships, but he built up the program in many other ways.

'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.