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HOLLEN ONE
It's kind of difficult for West Ranch golf coach Jeff Holen to gush about one of his freshman golfers.
Hastigan earns a full-ride
Valencia senior guard Chelsey Hastigan recently committed to NCAA Division II Western State College of Colorado after receiving a full basketball scholarship.
Hart's turn again
Hart center fielder Trevor Brown carefully crafted out an answer as to what two Hart wins this week against previously Foothill League first-place Valencia meant.
Gillies shuts down the Grizzlies
The West Ranch varsity baseball team shut out Golden Valley on Friday 9-0 at West Ranch High. Wildcat Charlie Gillies pitched a complete game shutout, striking out 12 Grizzlies, and allowing only three hits. The win is the fourth for Gillies on the season. West Ranch scored a run in the second inning off a Cal Vogelsang single. It was all West Ranch would need in the game. But the Wildcats kept the scoring going ...
Saugus attacks immediately
It was a 10-run first inning that led the Saugus varsity baseball team over Canyon on Friday. The Centurions defeated the Cowboys 12-3 on Saugus' home field. Saugus (14-6, 7-2) beat Canyon (6-12, 1-8) 2-1 in extra innings on Wednesday. The Cents have now won seven straight league games and have moved into a tie for second place in the Foothill League. Their offense gave starting pitcher Darren Schweitzer a lot to work with Friday ...
Nation's No. 1 preps for a huge tourney
With a big weekend tournament coming in Santa Barbara, it would have been easy for Valencia to overlook its Foothill league match Thursday against West Ranch.
Valencia eases into title share
There are a couple of things you can expect this time of year. Taxes are due on April 15 and around a week or so of that date, Valencia boys tennis is clinching a Foothill League title. For the third consecutive season, the Vikings will wear the crown after an 18-0 victory over Saugus clinched at least a tie for the championship with two matches remaining in the regular season. It was another in a ...
Cents softball make a run, give a run
Without glancing at the scoreboard after Saugus and Valencia's Foothill League softball game Thursday, the casual observer might have guessed Saugus had just pulled off a dramatic bottom of the seventh victory.
The Hart boys track and field in position
The Hart boys track and field team is now in position. With an 82-54 win over Canyon Thursday, the Indians will finish off the Foothill League season April 24 with a match against fellow league undefeated Saugus. However, Canyon did win the girls varsity side, defeating Hart 97-39. The Indians boys team won every event over the Cowboys with the exception of the hurdles. Canyon's Casey Adams placed first in the 110-yard hurdles coming in ...
On the right track
The Saugus varsity track and field teams defeated Golden Valley on Thursday on the Grizzlies' home field.
Hart and Valencia dead even
For all the drama that had unfolded in the seventh inning of Hart against Valencia in a Foothill League baseball game Tuesday, the final pitch turned out to be the least dramatic.
Vikings breeze by West Ranch
Valencia Vikings head coach Kathleen Perdisatt says that the budding boys varsity swim team has met the expectations she had for the squad going into the season.
Stiglich's blast gives Hart payback against Valencia
Junior Heather Stiglich's solo home run in the top of the seventh gave Hart High's varsity girls softball team its first victory over Valencia since the 2004 season.
Hart charges back to beat Cowboys
The Hart High boys volleyball team started and ended Tuesday's Foothill League match against Canyon the same way, playing with fire and passion.
Vikings stay perfect
The Valencia boys varsity tennis team defeated Hart 16-2 on Tuesday on the Indians home court. The Vikings remain the preeminent force in the Foothill League, still undefeated at 7-0. Vikings senior Jack Zapala remains the Vikings dominant No. 1 seed and continues to strive for excellence on the court. "I have goals that I have set for myself personally," he said. " And one of them is to be undefeated in all my sets." ...
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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.
West Ranch baseball picks up first Foothill League win of 2013
Regardless of how West Ranch Wildcats baseball got the win, the important thing is it got the win. The Wildcats are now on the board in Foothill League play after a 10-1 win over the Golden Valley Grizzlies on Wednesday at Golden Valley High. "It's a win and we needed to have one," said West Ranch head coach Casey Burrill. "If we want to find ourselves at the end of the season competing for a ...
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, ...
Valencia baseball puts it all together
There's a reason why many people thought going into Foothill League baseball play that the Valencia Vikings were the team to beat.
West Ranch's Kevin Harris chooses UCSD
West Ranch senior guard and 2013 Foothill League Boys Basketball Player of the Year Kevin Harris committed this week to play basketball for the University of California, San Diego. Harris averaged 19 points per game in Foothill League play leading the Wildcats to their first-ever outright league title. He was also an All-Foothill League and The Signal All-Santa Clarita Valley first-teamer as a junior. Harris, a 4.08 GPA student, had other interest, according to West ...
Canyon track and field's Devin Baldwin: Endless tenacity
Foothill League girls track and field preview: Turnover effects
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.
Foothill League boys track and field preview: Separation time
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.
Valencia's David Myers and Cameron Braun: Side change
A year ago, the Valencia Vikings boys tennis pairing of Cameron Braun and David Myers walked all over the Foothill League when they went undefeated in league play before capturing a first place trophy at the year-end Foothill League tournament.
2013 Foothill League boys tennis preview: Chasing the same favorite
In recent years, the Valencia Vikings boys tennis team enters the Foothill League season as the clear favorites to capture a title, and all but once in the past 10 seasons have they failed to live up to that billing.
West Ranch's Tanner Skabelund: Only one way
Tanner Skabelund grew up in an environment that demanded a lot.
Foothill League 2013 boys volleyball preview: Teams have a lot to live up to
It's hard to figure out which team has more pressure on it.
