Prep basketball: Making their luck

What started as a way to help a group of students looking to increase their academic and athletic opportunities, has blossomed in just six years into a successful international studies program at Santa Clarita Christian School.

Around the SCV: Balta to play for the U.S.

Valencia High baseball player A.J. Balta has been selected to play in a prestigious U.S.-Japan series.

Prep sports: Pair of Cardinals earn high marks in the Heritage

Award season has arrived for Heritage League fall sports, and 12 Santa Clarita Christian athletes found themselves on all-league lists in football or girls volleyball.

Prep soccer: Sticking with it

It would have been easy for the Canyon girls soccer team to give up, down two goals after a half without being able to find the back of the net.

Prep basketball: A new Grizzlies

Maybe people don't know what to expect of Golden Valley boys basketball. At least that's what first-year Grizzlies head coach Al Vanhook reasoned as to why the crowd was so sparse Friday night during Golden Valley's home opener. What people missed was a game where a young Golden Valley led throughout the majority and defeated San Marino 62-50 - this despite the Grizzlies up-and-down play. Golden Valley (3-6) had 12 different players score during the ...

Prep baseball: Valencia's Balta chosen for prestigious series

Valencia High baseball player A.J. Balta has been selected to play in a prestigious U.S.-Japan series.

Youth cross country: Start of the run

The journey to Fresno can sometimes start long before high school. In a valley filled with some of the most decorated high school cross country programs in the state of California, at least a portion of that success can be traced back to some of the area's thriving youth programs. At the high school level, the Santa Clarita Valley has prospered in the sport for decades. In all, SCV high schools have combined to win ...

Prep golf: Corr makes her choice

Hart High senior golfer and 2012 Foothill League Most Valuable Player Jamie Corr said she has wanted to attend Cal Poly San Luis Obispo since she was a seventh grader.

Prep soccer: Vikes in total control

Controlling the match throughout, Valencia girls soccer beat Viewpoint of Calabasas 3-0 Wednesday at Valencia High School.

Prep basketball: Hart’s test of wills

Culver City's been quite a test for Hart boys basketball the last two seasons. Two games, two Centaur buzzer beaters, one Hart victory. The Indians kept their undefeated run through preleague competition intact, surviving a regulation buzzer beater Wednesday night at Hart High to defeat Culver City 82-78 in overtime. Hart (10-0) presented every obstacle to itself - poor free-throw shooting, lesser games from its two key players, lots of turnovers, getting bullied on the ...

Prep football: West Ranch picks new football coach

West Ranch High School has chosen former JV and freshman football coach Jan Miller Jr. as its new varsity football head coach, the school's athletic director Cassandra Perez confirmed Wednesday.

Prep wrestling: Trinity puts SCV back on mat

A group of no more than eight kids grab and slap and pull toward the back of a mixed martial arts gymnasium and training center.

Prep football: GV's Jacobs chooses Fresno State

Leon Jacobs came into the 2012 prep football season as a curiosity. This time next year he'll be a college football player. The Golden Valley senior verbally committed to play football at Fresno State, accepting a scholarship offer Monday night. He was recruited as a linebacker. Jacobs transferred to Golden Valley from Bishop Montgomery of Torrance this summer. The 17-year-old hadn't played football since his freshman year and was a basketball star at Bishop Montgomery. ...

Prep hoops: Cardinals show the upside

For most of the first half, Santa Clarita Christian boys basketball showed how young it is. After that, the team showed how good it can be. The Cardinals surged late in the first half and didn't look back in a 72-58 win over Frazier Mountain of Lebec on Monday at The Master's College. "We ran all the plays that we needed to run, and that's it," said SCCS forward Phillip Webb. "We were just trying ...

Albert Einstein Academy athletics: Elements of success

It wouldn't be inaccurate to say Santa Clarita public charter school Albert Einstein Academy's athletics program rose from the ashes of the demise of Montclair Prep.

Golden Valley High hires boys hoops coach

The most unstable coaching jobs in the Santa Clarita Valley over the last couple of years took steps toward stability on Friday.

Foothill League trio turns it on early in track and field opener

SCV Hoops Finale almost here

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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.

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.