PALMDALE – Everyone in the gym knew who the West Ranch Wildcats girls basketball team needed to stop.
The strength of Valencia Vikings boys soccer all season has been the team's ability to hold onto leads, no matter the opponent.
Two playoff games and two impressive victories this week has the Hart Indians boys soccer team looking like it is peaking at the right time.
Canyon Cowboys boys basketball had its chance to take the upper hand. But once the host Lawndale Cardinals got into a rhythm, Canyon didn't have enough time to rally in the first round of the CIF-Southern Section Division IIAA playoffs. And after a 73-63 loss to Lawndale on Friday night at Lawndale High, time ran out on the Cowboys' season. "The defense got off balance, missed shots that we would normally make and (Lawndale) got ...
Hart Indians girls soccer will accept a mild pat on the back after Thursday's game. But the team might not spend too long celebrating. After a 1-0 win over the San Marcos Royals of Santa Barbara in the first round of the CIF-Southern Section Division II playoffs at College of the Canyons, the sentiment for Hart was, 'it could have been better.' "Overall, we played good enough to win today," said Hart head coach Justin ...
With Monday's revealing of the boys and girls CIF-Southern Section playoff brackets, the postseason picture is complete for this year's winter sports.
Santa Clarita Valley basketball teams are spread out all over the CIF-Southern Section playoff brackets, which were released on Sunday afternoon.
After enduring a painful first half of Foothill League play, Canyon Cowboys boys basketball continued to preach the importance of getting better each game.
It's hard to call the high school careers of Alia McCoy and Jaya Schultz anything else.
The Hart Indians came into Foothill League play as the hottest team in boys soccer.
With as rich of an athletic history as the Valencia Vikings have had in so many other sports, somehow a Foothill League boys soccer championship has eluded the program all this time.
Golden Valley Grizzlies boys soccer didn't get a lot of breaks to go its way this season.
The best way to describe how to play the center back position in soccer is to call that player the last line of defense.
In 20 successful years as head coach of College of the Canyons women's basketball, Greg Herrick has built the program with his signature fast-break offense.
It's becoming a habit for West Ranch Wildcats boys basketball.
Saugus Centurions baseball took one of the more stressful routes to victory.
Even before the NFL free agency period began, a few blockbuster deals were already made, according to reports around the league.
All the other schools that tried to recruit Jacqui Marshall were aggressive and almost pushy.
Toward the end of last season, Hart High boys volleyball was playing at a high level and showing signs of vast improvement from earlier in the year.
For a while, it looked like College of the Canyons men's basketball was going to keep this ride going.
With a new head coach coming in at the last minute and a young team trying to recover from graduation losses, Golden Valley boys volleyball has its work cut out this season.
Canyon boys volleyball is a team trying to develop trust among one another.
Don't close the book on this season just yet.
All three athletes had their separate reasons for taking the paths they took.
Even some of the coaches and parents in the community didn't realize a state championship existed for the American Youth Soccer Organization.
It wasn't the win itself, it was the reaction that said it all.
Call it a soft opening to the Santa Clarita Valley prep swim season.
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.
The Santa Clarita Christian girls soccer team dominated the Omega League from start to finish.
Not even a broken nose could stop Valencia Vikings senior Jake Veiga from playing.