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.

Prep athletics: Cardinals, Knights are honored

Santa Clarita Christian School athletics underwent a major change this season when its perennial championship football team left the 8-man game it had always played for 11-man football.

Heritage soccer: SCCS breaks out

The Santa Clarita Christian School girls soccer team was doing nearly everything right against Trinity Classical Academy on Friday at The Master's College in both teams' Heritage League opener. There was just one problem - despite taking longer than expected to find the opening goal, SCCS completed the shut out 3-0. Part of the struggle to score was because of the inexperience of a Cardinals team that features no seniors. The ...

Prep sports: Locals make impact at privates

Despite the six Foothill League teams having been eliminated from the CIF-Southern Section Northern Division football playoffs, a group of five kids with Santa Clarita ties will be taking part in a CIF state bowl game.

Prep soccer: West Ranch picks it up

The West Ranch girls soccer team didn't think it had played its best soccer of the season Thursday when it hosted Ventura at West Ranch High.

COC notebook: Canyons hoops now above .500

It was a quiet week for College of the Canyons athletic programs, with only the men's and women's basketball teams in action.

Canyon basketball: Canyon gets cooled off

The Canyon boys basketball team got off to a hot start this season, winning its first seven games and advancing to the championship game of the Canyon Classic on Saturday.

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

West Ranch lacrosse hosts first game

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.