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Swarbrick’s sigh of relief
CLOVIS - For Saugus thrower Daniel Swarbrick, today may bring the celebration of a state championship in discus.
Drake blazes in Clovis
CLOVIS - Valencia's Aly Drake ran a smart 800-meter race at Friday's CIF State Track and Field Championship prelims.
Faith’s Role in their sport
A quartet of Santa Clarita-area athletes at various stages of life with a vast list of accomplishments behind them have one common bond - faith.
Holen hits clubhouse
West Ranch sophomore golfer J.J. Holen's season ended Thursday at the CIF/SCGA Tournament at Temecula's SCGA Members Club.
Fantastic foursome
They run the same event. They're all friends off the track. But Saugus' Anne Randall, Kaylin Mahoney, Stephanie Bulder and Karis Frankian are in different positions heading into the CIF State Track and Field Championships at Buchanan High School in Clovis. And together, they're a distance-running dynamo that is staking new ground for the tradition-rich Centurions. At last week's CIF-Southern Section Masters Meet, all four runners qualified for the state finals in the 3,200-meter run, ...
Mortensen, Shults share POY
One is a dynamic pitcher. One is a powerful hitter. Both were Foothill League champions – and now, Valencia's Carly Mortensen and Hart's Jessica Shults are co-Foothill League Players of the Year as voted by the coaches. Shults, a senior catcher, led the Indians by hitting .448 this season with 10 home runs and 27 RBIs. She saved her best for the postseason, hitting the game-winning home run in a 1-0 victory over Trabuco Hills ...
Hail suspends play at CIF/SCGA tourney
West Ranch golfer J.J. Holen spent an unexpected night at Temecula's Holiday Inn. And he is thankful for the opportunity. The sophomore was five holes deep into the CIF/SCGA Tournament Wednesday at SCGA members Club in Temecula before it started hailing. The weather suspended the tournament until today. It may have been good news for Holen, who is at 2-over after five holes. "From the way I started, I probably could have turned it around, ...
Grizzlies softball coach resigns
Golden Valley's second-longest serving head coach has resigned. Courtney Carr, who has been the school's varsity softball coach, is remaining at the school to work at its "Just Do It Center," a homework help program. She is also pursuing work in administration. "It is difficult to leave after devoting the past five years to the program," Carr said in a statement. "The hardest part is leaving the players who have worked so hard and come ...
Young golfers flourish in the valley
On Thursday, Valencia High golfer Max Homa graduated from high school. Homa played golf with some of the best this valley has ever seen. Golfers like Nick Delio, Louis Amira and Johnny MacArthur. Golfers who, like him, earned their way onto NCAA Division I golf teams. Homa will be playing at Cal next year. His 2009 marked a transition year to the future. He was the bridge from Delio (Saugus, CSUN), Amira (Valencia, Harvard) and ...
Replacing this class is a tough task
NORCO – It isn't often that a core of talent comes along like the group Hart softball featured in 2009.
This round goes to Norco
NORCO – Both Hart and Norco softball expected a battle. History told them so, as the two teams prepared to play each other late in the postseason for the fourth straight year. Unfortunately for Hart, the Indians came up short for the second season in a row and were denied their fourth trip to the CIF-Southern Section Division I finals, falling 2-0 to dominant senior starter Teagan Gerhart and the Cougars Tuesday in the Division ...
Hart faces familiar roadblock
Norco head softball coach Rick Robinson puts it this way. His team pencils Hart into its schedule. It just doesn't know exactly when the game will take place. For the past three seasons, the two schools have met in the CIF-Southern Section Division I softball playoffs. They meet again when the Indians (27-4) travel to Norco (30-2) to play the Cougars today at Norco High at 3:15 p.m. in the semifinals. Norco ended Hart's season ...
The ties that bind Hart
With less than three hours until their senior banquet, Hart senior softball players Heather Stiglich, Allison Lewis and Emily Henry sat in the stands adjacent to the dugout they had spent years in, while rooting each other on at Newhall Park.
Bauer scores major Pac-10 award
Hart High graduate Trevor Bauer had a big week for the UCLA Bruins without even stepping on the mound.
Here we go again
NORWALK - Saugus High School has a rich tradition of girls distance runners. Not even the distance teams of the past accomplished what the 2009 team did Friday at the CIF-Southern Section Masters Meet at Cerritos College. Saugus qualified four runners for the CIF State Meet in the 3,200-meter run, the most runners from a single school since the State Meet began holding the event in 1980. All four girls finished the race under the ...
Articles by Section - Prep Sports
Prep girls soccer: Cardinals’ conclusion
The core group of seniors on the Santa Clarita Christian Cardinals girls soccer players experienced a lot through the years.
Prep girls soccer: Save and a PK boost Vikings
After playing 100 minutes of scoreless soccer and four even rounds of penalty kicks, the Valencia Vikings girls soccer team needed a save and a goal to advance to the CIF-Southern Section Division II quarterfinals.
Prep girls soccer: Wrong place at wrong time for Cowboys
The ball just doesn't always bounce your way - and that's exactly what happened to the Canyon Cowboys girls soccer team in their CIF-Southern Section Division II playoff game with Wilson of Long Beach on Tuesday.
Prep sports: First polls of the spring
Forget what the calendar says, spring is practically here in the world of sports.
Valencia boys soccer: Stuck in the middle
It's a simple question with no simple answer.
