Archive By Author - Dan Agnew
All-Foothill League boys volleyball: Coaches honor Oppler
The best players in any sport are usually the ones that want the ball in pressure situations.
Prep boys tennis: All Vikings on the forefront
Valencia waltzed its way through Foothill League play and the rest of the regular season. The apt result - nearly every player on the team was honored in the 2011 All-Foothill League boys tennis teams. Leading the way on the all-league singles team is junior J.R. Macalutas, who went 22-0 against Foothill opponents for the league champion Vikings. "I felt really accomplished this year because Jason Ferlianto is really good," Macalutas said of the second-best ...
Around the SCV: Two for Hart, one more for GV
As the spring seasons come to a close, colleges are already filling up rosters for next year.
College golf: UCLA's Carrie Forsyth, the sweet taste of success
The second time around can sometimes be even sweeter. At least those were the sentiments of UCLA women's head golf coach Carrie Forsyth, whose team claimed its second NCAA Division I national championship under her tutelage last week. Forsyth, a 1989 Canyon High graduate, also coached the Bruins to a title in 2004. "It was awesome. After our win in 2004, when you win it the first time it's such a big deal, but you're ...
TMC Golf finishes 12th
The Master's College men's golf team finished tied for 12th place at the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics championships.
CIF baseball: Vikings can’t rise this time
DANA POINT - After the usual postgame team meeting in left field, Valencia baseball coaches and most of the players walked back to the dugout like they always do.
TMC golf: Return to form
The kind of season Kevin Anderson is having warrants an explanation. Truthfully, not even Anderson himself is exactly sure why he suddenly put together a stretch of the best golf of his life for The Master's College this year. But he has. And oddly enough, the senior has done it a year after one of his most disappointing campaigns of his competitive career. "I guess I attribute it to, I don't know, more of a ...
CIF tennis: Foothill Leaguers exit early at Individuals
Often times, the CIF-Southern Section boys tennis Individual tournament simply comes down to draws.
College baseball: TMC finishes even
Playing in the National Christian College Athletic Association World Series for the first time in school history, The Master's College baseball finished just the way it did the regular season - with an even .500 record.
CIF softball playoffs: Trinity’s sports season comes to end
It had the offensive production. It had the pitching. But Trinity Classical Academy softball fell just short of its first-ever playoff victory.
CIF softball playoffs: West Ranch squeezed in
Haley Hineman had been asked to lay down a bunt several times before this season. Never had the West Ranch sophomore faced such a scenario with a CIF-Southern Section Division I playoff game on the line. Hineman successfully executed a walk-off squeeze bunt in the bottom of the seventh inning to lift West Ranch softball to a 6-5 win past Moorpark in Thursday's first-round game at West Ranch High School. It marks the first playoff ...
CIF baseball playoffs: Trinity debuts then exits
Just about every Trinity Classical Academy sport competed in its first varsity season during the 2010-11 school year and made strides, including baseball.
Around the SCV: Jackson named all-state
When Lonnie Jackson first took the court for Valencia basketball, he was told he had little chance to gain any significant recognition for his talents outside of the Santa Clarita Valley.
CIF volleyball: Vikes hit familiar wall
IRVINE - For a program like Valencia boys volleyball, watching a season come to an end in any match other than a CIF championship is a disappointment.
CIF tennis: First loss is last loss
All it takes is a couple of points and it can all come tumbling down. Valencia boys tennis dropped three neck-and-neck sets early in its CIF-Southern Section Division II match against Beverly Hills and couldn't recover, losing 12-6 at Beverly Hills High School on Friday. The Vikings (20-1) lost their first team match of the season and were thus eliminated in the second round of the playoffs. It started when Valencia lost five of the ...
Articles By Author - Dan Agnew
Colllege basketball: Upping the ante
It wasn't the win itself, it was the reaction that said it all.
Prep swimming: Hart boys, Valencia girls win at SCV Relays
Call it a soft opening to the Santa Clarita Valley prep swim season.
College women’s hoops: TMC loses in GSAC quarterfinals; awaits postseason fate
Ideally, The Master's College women's basketball team would have liked to head into the NAIA National Tournament with a little bit of momentum.
Prep girls soccer: Gallagher tops in Omega
The Santa Clarita Christian girls soccer team dominated the Omega League from start to finish.
Prep boys soccer: Center of the defense
Not even a broken nose could stop Valencia Vikings senior Jake Veiga from playing.
College men's basketball: Cougs fall in WSC final
Citrus College sophomore Stevie Thornton has made plenty of big shots in the Santa Clarita Valley over the years.
