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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." ...
Par for the course
Once again Valencia came oh so close to winning its first Foothill League boys golf match of the season, but just as the three previous League matches, West Ranch carded a lower score to win its fourth straight Foothill League match with a score of 390 at Valencia Country Club Monday afternoon.
A volleyball legacy
Caio Schmitd's first memories of volleyball began when he was a young boy cheering his father on at matches in Brazil. "I would sit on the bench and during every water break my dad and I would go on the court and pass balls back and forth," says Schmitd, an outside hitter for West Ranch . "I knew I wanted to be just like him."
Video: Valencia Vikings Volleyball No. 1
This valley has produced some fine programs this decade - a national champion in Valencia softball, two-time state champion Saugus cross country, a state champion in Canyon football, but there is little argument as to what the dominant program has been in this valley.
Last chances
Amid all the stresses of college applications and tests that a senior year can bring, Canyon's Stephen Wirthlin is a good reminder that the final year of high school can be about something else too.
Articles by Section - Prep Sports
Prep girls soccer: The game tilts to SCCS
Santa Clarita Christian Cardinals girls soccer senior Colette Blake said the first half of her team's game with Rolling Hills Prep of San Pedro on Thursday felt like it was being played on a tilt.
Prep girls soccer: Valencia gets by
It was far from the Valencia girls soccer team's prettiest win of the season, but it's certainly one the Vikings will take.
Prep girls soccer: Hart’s Valentine’s victory
Hart Indians girls soccer will accept a mild pat on the back after Thursday's game.
Prep sports: G.V. lists coach jobs
Although the jobs have been listed on the William S. Hart Union High School District website, it doesn't mean that Golden Valley's current boys basketball and boys soccer coaches won't return next season to guide their respective teams.
Prep girls soccer: Cents’ trend downward
The Saugus Centurions girls soccer team knew it would have its hands full with the Marmonte League No. 1 Westlake Warriors on Thursday afternoon at Westlake High in the first round of the CIF-Southern Section Division II playoffs.
Prep girls soccer: One gets the job done for the Cowboys
As Canyon Cowboys girls soccer head coach Derek Rusk said after his team's CIF-Southern Section Division II playoff game on Thursday afternoon, all it takes is one.
