Archive By Author - Jon Stein
Prep basketball: Grizzly growth spurt
You might not notice Nick Billy in a gymnasium. The Golden Valley senior stands 6 feet, 2 inches, a tall frame for an average person but an average frame for a basketball person. Once the ball goes up in the air, however, you'll see something different. "Even though he's the smallest center in the league," says teammate Wade Rodriguez, "he plays as if he were the biggest." There's a tenacity to Billy that's turned him ...
Foothill League boys basketball: Wildcats hold off pesky Hart
Down three points midway through the third quarter and with momentum squarely in the opposite corner, the West Ranch boys basketball team was on the verge of falling out of its Foothill League opener with Hart at Hart High School on Tuesday night.
Foothill League girls soccer: Cents plot their course
The Saugus girls soccer team knows winning a third straight Foothill League title will be no easy task.
Hart's Ashleigh Tippet: Tough shoes to fill
Goalkeeping may have been in Hart senior Ashleigh Tippet's blood - but it certainly wasn't in her closet.
Foothill League girls soccer preview: There for the taking
Last season, the Saugus girls soccer team ran away with the Foothill League title, going 10-0 on its way to a second consecutive championship.
Prep basketball: The Knights stand taller
Trinity Classical Academy boys basketball team used a combination of size and speed to disrupt the San Fernando Valley Academy of Northridge from the opening tip on Thursday night at Velocity Sports Performance.
All-SCV Girls Tennis: Rebecca Ho, Step to perfection
There are few constants in life - and even fewer in sports. But this season, Golden Valley singles player Rebecca Ho proved to be one of them. She was infallible during league play - and with a few exceptions - throughout the 2011 season. Ho completed a remarkable run through the Foothill League, dispatching her opponents with ease and finishing the regular season with a 27-0 league record and 46-1 overall record during the regular ...
All-SCV Girls Tennis: Shenelle Trujillo & Michelle Savage, Even better, given time
The 2011 All-SCV doubles team of the year wasn't even a team at the beginning of the season.
Prep boys basketball: Fatigued in the final
It was an inside-outside game Friday night at Hart High School. That is, Hart High freshman point guard Myles Franklin dominated with mid-to-long range jumpers on one end, while Grant High's 6-foot-7 inch center Gor Plavchyan took control in the post on the other end when the two schools met in the championship game of the Indian's own Hart Holiday Classic. In the end, the inside game of Plavchyan and the Lancers won out, as ...
College hoops: COC's tank runs empty
The College of the Canyons men's basketball team entered the championship game of the Cougar Holiday Classic against Antelope Valley on Thursday night at College of the Canyons in search of their first championship at their own tournament since 1997.
College basketball: COC makes overtime count
The College of the Canyons men's basketball team had already climbed back from a series of holes to force overtime against Palomar College in the semifinals of the Cougar Holiday Classic on Wednesday night at College of the Canyons.
Prep sports: Under the stripes
The men and women officiating games across the Santa Clarita Valley likely aren't familiar to most fans.
Saugus girls soccer: Empty feeling
When the Alemany girls soccer team was walked off the field at Saugus High School on Thursday afternoon it was clear they were exhausted, yet ecstatic.
Women's college basketball: Stretched thin
The College of the Canyons women's basketball team played neck-and-neck with the state's top-ranked team, Ventura College, for 37 of the game's 40 minutes.
College basketball: TMC’s second gear
Down 10 points early in the second half to Grace College of Indiana, The Master's College's men's basketball team was on the verge of falling too far behind the NAIA Division II No. 7-ranked Lancers.
Articles By Author - 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.
Prep girls soccer: Indians turn for the worse
Things changed in a hurry for Hart Indians girls soccer on Tuesday.
Prep girls soccer: Save and a PK boost Vikings
After playing 100 minutes of scoreless soccer and four even rounds of penalty kicks, the Valencia Vikings girls soccer team needed a save and a goal to advance to the CIF-Southern Section Division II quarterfinals.
Prep girls soccer: Wrong place at wrong time for Cowboys
The ball just doesn't always bounce your way - and that's exactly what happened to the Canyon Cowboys girls soccer team in their CIF-Southern Section Division II playoff game with Wilson of Long Beach on Tuesday.
