Archive By Author - Jon Stein
Prep basketball: Trinity halts the advances
Trinity Classical Academy hasn't been forced to win many close games this season. But on Thursday, the Knights had to hold off Providence Hall of Santa Barbara's comeback bid in a 64-59 victory at Velocity Sports Performance. The Knights came into the game with an average margin of victory of 16.2 points per game. Early on, it looked like Trinity (10-5, 5-0) was going to breeze to their sixth straight win. The Knights opened up ...
College basketball: A little Love late
At first it looked like a runaway victory for College of the Canyons' men's basketball.
The Day After Soccer: First boys, now the girls
The Canyon and West Ranch boys soccer teams entered their match on Tuesday looking to take sole possession of first place in the Foothill League.
Prep soccer: Saugus girls soccer earns top 30 national ranking
By Jon Stein Signal Staff Writer The Saugus and West Ranch high school girls soccer teams shot up the ESPNHS Powerade Fab 50 Girls' Soccer Rankings again this week. Saugus, which defeated Canyon and Hart last week, moved up six spots to No. 30 in the latest edition of the rankings. The rankings include teams from the eight states which play girls soccer during the winter season: Arizona, California, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada and ...
Foothill League boys basketball: Fire lit, Indians take off
For a few minutes on Tuesday night, the Hart High boys basketball team was being outworked and outhustled by Golden Valley at Hart High School.
Foothill League girls soccer: Hart strikes more
In a match up of two teams looking for their first Foothill League win of the season, the Hart girls soccer team got on the board early and held on for a 3-1 victory over Golden Valley on Tuesday afternoon at Golden Valley High School.
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.
Articles By Author - Jon Stein
Foothill softball roundup: Wildcats open strong
It was quite the Foothill League opener for reigning All-Santa Clarita Valley Player of the Year Kylie Sorenson on Tuesday afternoon.
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, ...
