Archive By Author - Jon Stein
Williams gets another nationwide honor
Valencia High baseball player Trey Williams has picked up another honor. The senior was named to the Baseball America 2012 Preseason High School All-America Second Team. This marks the second organization to name Williams an All-American this season, after Maxpreps.com named him one of top 30 players nationally. The Pepperdine University commit was listed as a third baseman by Baseball America and was one of nine players on the second ...
Prep baseball: Cents’ finish as they start
The Saugus High baseball team's season got off to a rocky start on Friday afternoon at Saugus High against Agoura - then it ended in a crash.
College baseball: Bats are no match
College of the Canyons baseball found out why Orange Coast is undefeated through the first 12 games of the season when the two met at COC on Thursday afternoon.
CIF soccer: Saugus falls in extra time
The Saugus girls soccer team accomplished a lot this season. The Centurions won their third straight Foothill League title and became the first girls soccer team in Santa Clarita Valley history to win a CIF-Southern Section Division I playoff game. But a second-round matchup with San Clemente High - ranked No. 7 nationally by ESPNHS - proved too much for Saugus in a 1-0 loss in extra time on Wednesday at San Clemente High School. ...
CIF soccer: Signs of hope after playoffs
For the nine seniors on the Santa Clarita Christian boys soccer team, the last four years have been an evolution.
College basketball: Wrong time to sink
The Master's College men's basketball team hung with NAIA No. 24 Azusa Pacific for as long as it could on Tuesday night at Bross Gym.
NFHS eliminates "soft red" for 2012-2013 soccer season
If you look closely, things might look a little different on some high school soccer fields next season. There will be a few changes to high school soccer rules next season.
Saugus moves up national rankings after round-one win
On the heels of Saugus girls soccer's penalty-kicks victory over Tesoro High in the first round of the CIF-Southern Section Div. I playoffs on Friday, the Centurions have climbed back into the top 40 of the ESPNHS Powerade Fab 50 Girls' Soccer Rankings.
Saugus' Stacey Atwater: A winning battle
There will always be that one spot on the field for Saugus senior Stacey Atwater. That one spot where her senior season went from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows in a matter of seconds. "I know exactly where the spot is," she says. "This is where I got hurt. This is where all the pain and all the feelings (happened). I remember the sideline and it's really weird, all the memories ...
CIF basketball: Valencia can’t handle one of nation’s best
The Valencia girls basketball team knew its opponents would be tough in the first round of the CIF-SS Division IAA playoffs.
CIF soccer: Vikings cool off
The Valencia girls soccer team entered the postseason on a hot streak that saw them end the year with three wins and a tie.
CIF soccer: All it takes is one
Three goals had already whizzed past Saugus goal keeper Maddie Hebert. Her team was deadlocked through three penalty kicks with Tesoro High of Rancho Santa Margarita in the first round of the CIF-Southern Section Division I playoffs, and she knew it was time to make a save. And so she did. Hebert cooly knocked away Taylor Thurmond's kick to give the Centurions a lead, and senior Serena Smith-Banas kicked in the final penalty kick to ...
CIF soccer: Future is bright for Trinity
Trinity Classical Academy boys soccer knew it was in for a challenge in its first year as a varsity program.
CIF soccer: Saugus stifled
It was a back-and forth-affair between the Saugus and Nipomo boys soccer teams in the first round of the CIF-Southern Section Division III playoffs at Nipomo High.
CIF soccer: ’Cats finish their best season
It may have been one game, but it was the culmination of so much more. The West Ranch girls soccer team entered the season with one goal - reach the playoffs for the first time in program history. And on Wednesday afternoon at Huntington Beach High School, they realized that goal. Even though that first playoff game ended in a 2-1 loss to Huntington Beach in the wild-card round of the CIF-Southern Section Division I ...
Articles By Author - Jon Stein
College baseball: TMC aiming at greatness
By Jon Stein
Prep boys basketball: Their Knight
A year ago, the Trinity Knights boys basketball team knew it had something special in a crop of seven incoming freshman.
Prep boys soccer: Soccer season ends with West Ranch loss
The West Ranch Wildcats boys soccer team felt like it left everything on the field during Thursday's CIF-Southern Section Division IV second-round matchup with the Oak Hills of Hesperia Bulldogs.
Prep girls soccer: Better is bested as Vikings fall
There was no question from either sideline who the better team was during Thursday's CIF-Southern Section Division II quarterfinal contest at Valencia High School.
