Archive By Author - Jon Stein
College basketball: Overtime woes
The Vanguard College men's basketball team erased a 10-point second-half deficit and took advantage of poor free-throw shooting from The Master's College to defeat the Mustangs 80-76 in overtime.
The Day After sports: All eyes are on Canyon High
Canyon High School is the place to be on Tuesday. The West Ranch boys basketball and boys soccer teams travel to Canyon High on Tuesday in the two marquee matchups of the day. The Wildcats' boys soccer team made it clear early on Friday that they wouldn't be looking ahead to Tuesday, though. West Ranch scored six goals and shut out Golden Valley in a 6-0 victory Friday. German Hernandez, Brett Karson, Connor Ashlock, Chris ...
Foothill League girls soccer: Saugus runs streak to 16
Angie Weiner scored two goals for the Saugus High girls soccer team and the Centurions extended their Foothill League unbeaten streak to 16 games with a 2-1 victory over Hart on Friday afternoon at Hart High School.
Foothill League boys basketball: Wildcats flex size advantage
If it isn't broken, why fix it? That seems to be the idea behind the West Ranch boys basketball team this season. The Wildcats, behind another dominant performance from 6-foot-7-inch center Ako Kaluna, defeated Golden Valley 82-43 on Friday at West Ranch High School. Kaluna posted a double-double - scoring 19 points on 8-of-11 attempts, pulling down 11 rebounds and blocking four shots - as he disrupted the Grizzlies (5-13, 0-2) on both ends of ...
Prep soccer: SCCS can’t find equalizer
The Santa Clarita Christian boys soccer team couldn't overcome goals in the first and second halves by Milken Community High School of Los Angeles and lost 2-1 on Thursday afternoon at Canyon Country Park.
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.
Articles By Author - Jon Stein
Valencia softball walks-off on 3-run HR by Nicole Joseph
2013 Foothill League softball preview: Rife with talent
There's no secret who should win the Foothill League title this season.
Saugus' Mariah Lopez: Sooner than later
Ask your typical high school freshman where they want to attend college and you'll be lucky to get an answer.
Hart's Jessica Shults drafted by USSSA Pride
USA Softball player and University of Oklahoma catcher Jessica Shults has another option for her post-collegiate career. The Hart graduate was selected fifth overall by the USSSA Pride of the National Pro Fastpitch softball league this week. She would join Valencia High graduate Jordan Taylor as the only Santa Clarita Valley products currently playing in the league. Taylor, coincidentally, is also on the Pride's roster. Shults would also join currently Oklahoma teammate, and arguably the ...
2013 All-SCV Girls Soccer: Valencia's Taylor Venegas, Rapid Ascent
Canyon's Connor and Logan Ferris: Striving siblings
Diving isn't exactly a team sport.
Four Santa Clarita Valley athletes named All-CIF
Hart baseball one ups Grizzlies
With their backs up against a wall from nearly the beginning, the Hart Indians never stopped battling.
Saugus volleyball ends Valencia's 112 match Foothill winning streak
Hart swim storms out of gate, Valencia sweeps Golden Valley
The Hart Indians swim team didn't waste much time flexing its muscle in opening up the Foothill League season.
Bats carry Canyon High baseball over Saugus
The Canyon Cowboys baseball team stuck to its script on Wednesday afternoon. Once again, Canyon's bats got hot early and the Cowboys jumped out to an early lead en route to a 9-4 victory over the Saugus Centurions at Canyon High School. Canyon (7-3 overall, 2-1 Foothill League) was aggressive from the start, scoring four first-inning runs to put Saugus in an early hole. Canyon starting pitcher Max Weinstein held up his end as well, ...
Foothill league boys tennis teams play openers
The Valencia Vikings picked up right where they left off last season, defeating the Saugus Centurions 15-3 in Tuesday's Foothill League opener at Valencia High School.
Five girls receive All CIF-SS honors from Foothill and Omega leagues
Led by Hart High's Sophie Cortes and Valencia's Taylor Venegas, five athletes from the Santa Clarita Valley earned All CIF-Southern Section honors when the teams were announced on Monday.
