All in the Vikings family

Christian Lopes hasn't spent much time at home this summer. Just the last five days to be exact. And in those five days, and three games the Valencia sophomore-to-be has managed to go 5-for-5 in a Valley Invitational Baseball League game against St. Francis on Friday and hit a home run Sunday against Royal. Even more intriguing, when Lopes looked over to his left from his shortstop perch on Friday, he saw another Lopes. Timothy ...

For Hart player, summer is no time to relax

For Hart High's Devin Rodriguez, it's been a busy summer. According the senior-to-be, the busiest ever.

Younger but still strong

Hart's spring 2009 baseball team will have an entirely different make-up. Spectators, coaches and players got a glimpse of what the Indians squad could look like in the first round of the Valley Invitational Baseball League, or VIBL, summer playoffs. Hart defeated Oak Park 13-3, at Bud Murray field on Friday. With the loss of 13 seniors from this season's Foothill League first place finishers, Hart head coach Jim Ozella said alterations in the roster ...

Saugus hires new swimming coach

Vicky Donnelly once swam for James Klipfel. Now she's replacing him as the head swimming coach at Saugus High School.

Travel softball coach hired by West Ranch

A soon-to-be retired motorcycle police officer with seven years of travel ball coaching experience will take over next spring at West Ranch High School.

Valencia goalkeeper named an all-star

The U.S. Soccer Development Academy tournament finals continued at the Home Depot Center. Valencia's Eric Shannon was one of eleven athletes named to the Southern California Conference All-Star Team. His All-Star team status ranks him as one of the top eight goal keepers in the country in his age group. Shannon's LAFC BU18 club team, which is sponsored by Adidas, defeated CASL soccer club 5-2 on Wednesday to advance to the championship game which will ...

Spigner wins national award

Jessica Spigner is cleaning up in the postseason like she did during. The Vikings pitcher and RBI machine was named the EA SPORTS Softball Player of the Year yesterday. For Spigner, who knocked in 37 runs during her senior season, it's the first national award she's received. "I was in shock," said Spigner, who found out in an E-mail from her mom Dyan. "I almost didn't believe it." The link in the E-mail, which sent ...

All-Star future, check

NEW YORK - His jersey neatly folded on a chair in front of New York Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano's locker Sunday afternoon, 2003 Hart High graduate Chris Valaika smiles and draws a check mark with his index finger.

Vikings oust Hawks to win championship

Put another one on the board for Valencia. The Vikings girls basketball team played for the championship in the Santa Clarita Girls Varsity Basketball Summer Shootout on Saturday. The Vikings were victorious in their 47-44 win over Knight High School of Palmdale. Valencia went undefeated in the tournament having defeated Quartz Hill and the Wildcats of West Ranch before seeing Knight in the finals. While some Foothill League coaches prefer not to play league teams ...

Hart wins at Shootout

Girls varsity hoops action continued from the College of the Canyons on Friday. In the Santa Clarita Girls Varsity Basketball Summer Shootout, Hart edged Notre Dame 28-25. Indians senior-to-be Briana Fitchpatrick led the squad in points with 14. Hart was defeated in Thursday's game against Burroughs and Indians head coach Zach Koebel said that this season it's all about development. "We're still learning," Koebel said. "We're just starting to get to a point where we ...

Getting their kicks

Playing in the same venue as star athletes David Beckham and Edson Buddle would be a dream come true for any young soccer player.

Mac of all trades

The best high school golfer in Southern California says his biggest moment of the 2007-08 school year, wasn't on the course - it was on the football field.

Wildcats shoot out Palmdale

By the time West Ranch's opponent scored its first points in the Santa Clarita Summer Girls Basketball Shootout Thursday, Erin Ruiz had already sunk a trio of 3-pointers.

Girls go shooting

The swish of the net and the squeaking of tennis shoes - oh, the sounds of basketball. Local teams are already gearing up for girls varsity basketball season. Valencia, Hart and West Ranch are participating in the 2008 Santa Clarita Girls Varsity Basketball Summer Shootout at the College of the Canyons. Palmdale, Quartz Hill, Notre Dame, Burroughs, and Knight will also be apart of today's action. The tournament was started in the summer of 2003 by ...

Freshman phenom raises racket

Marching band, check; 4.3 GPA, check; Key Club member, check; the Foothill League's No. 1 freshman tennis player, check.

Saugus baseball holds off Valencia

So much for the possibility of a frontrunner emerging early in the Foothill League.

West Ranch baseball back on track

The West Ranch Wildcats didn't panic after losing their first two Foothill League games.

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

By Cary Osborne

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