Boys Basketball: Of Damien’s 27 victories in the 2021-22 season, this had to be the most consequential and impressive. The Spartans trailed by 20 points in the second quarter at Crean Lutheran. No biggie. Mike LeDuc’s boys regrouped, outscored the Saints 39-22 in the second half, and claimed a 64-59 victory in the first round […]
Boys Basketball: Pasadena saw its season come to an end in the first round of the CIF-SS Division 2AA playoffs. The Bulldogs fell, 70-62, at Simi Valley. Simi Valley’s Jack Benyshek scored 22 of his game-high 32 points in the first half. And Benyshek was 6-of-7 from the free throw line. Ryan Poole led Pasadena […]
Photos by Carlo Montalbo Boys Basketball: Glendora had a cold shooting night on Friday. And it was costly. The Tartans fell at Thousand Oaks, 59-46, in the first round of the CIF-SS Division 2A playoffs. After winning a Division 3A championship last season, GHS was moved up to D-2A. Braydon Wooldridge led Glendora with 15 […]
Boys Soccer: Marshall Fundamental picked up its second postseason victory this week. Two days after edging Ontario Christian in the Wild Card round of the CIF-SS Division 6 playoffs, Marshall Fundamental was back in action on Friday. The Eagles traveled to Elsinore, and were trailing 1-0 approximately 20 minutes into the contest. But who else […]
Boys Basketball: Who says entering the playoffs on a two-game losing streak is a bad thing? Not the Marshall Fundamental boys basketball program. After dropping consecutive Mission Valley League games to South El Monte and Mountain View, the Eagles opened the CIF-SS Division 5AA playoffs at home against Bassett. Marshall used an eight-point, fourth-quarter advantage […]
Photos by Alex Veliz Girls Water Polo: Talk about your tightly-contested postseason games. La Salle hosted Redlands in Thursday’s second round of the CIF-SS Division 5 playoffs. It was so close that two of the four quarters were decided by one goal each, and in the second (1-1) and fourth periods (2-2), the Lancers and […]
Pictured L-R: Damien’s Jimmy Oladokun & Spivey Word Boys Basketball: Wednesday’s Wild Card Score: Division 4AA: Muir 84, Mesrobian 16 Tonight’s First Round Games: Open Division: Damien at Crean Lutheran Division 1: Los Osos at Colony San Clemente at Etiwanda St. Francis at Santa Clarita Christian Division 2A: Glendora at Thousand Oaks Maranatha at Crescenta […]
Girls Soccer: Don Lugo scored three first-half goals and cruised to a 5-2 victory over Charter Oak in the first round of the CIF-SS Division 4 playoffs. The Chargers got second-half goal from Madeline Traylor and Sophia Stover. Jadyn Sabatino and Mia Almodovar tallied six saves apiece. The Chargers finished with a 6-9-1 record, but […]
Girls Water Polo: Dylan Robertson finished her junior season on a high note. And while Robertson would have preferred to extend the season, she did score all six PHS goals on Wednesday. The Bulldogs fell at Oxnard, 22-6, in the first round of the CIF-SS Division 4 playoffs. Robertson ended the season with 110 goals. PHS […]
Baseball: This is a story I wish I never had to tell. Former South Hills High School baseball player, Jeremy Giambi, was found dead in his family’s home in Claremont. According to TMZ, law enforcement stated that Giambi took his own life on Wednesday morning. He was just 47 years of age. And while it’s […]
Girls Water Polo: Glendora wasn’t messing around on Wednesday. The Tartans jumped on Sunny Hills early, and cruised to a 14-7 road victory in the first round of the CIF-SS Division 2 playoffs. GHS led 5-1 after the first period, and had a 10-1 advantage at the break. Liz Ramirez had six goals, three steals […]
Boys Soccer: Thanks to a ludicrous Mission Valley League rule about how a tiebreaker is settled, Marshall Fundamental had to play a wild-card game on Wednesday. The Eagles, however, didn’t whine like this reporter, went out and defeated visiting Ontario Christian, 1-0, in a Division 6 playoff game. As usual, Eduardo Reyes was Marshall’s offense. […]
Boys Soccer: Wednesday’s Wild Card Schedule: Division 4: Bonita at Bishop Amat Division 5: La Canada at Diamond Ranch Indian Springs at Chino Hills Division 6: La Salle at Environmental Charter Ontario Christian at Marshall Fundamental Bassett at Maranatha Burbank at Monrovia Friday’s First-Round Schedule: Division 1: St. Francis at San Marcos Division 3: Ayala […]
Pictured: The Marshall Fundamental Soccer Team Girls Soccer: Saturday’s First-Round Schedule: Division 1: Long Beach Poly at Etiwanda Edison at Claremont Alta Loma at Mater Dei Division 2: Flintridge Sacred Heart at Long Beach Wilson Rancho Cucamonga at Citrus Valley Los Osos at Downey Tesoro at South Hills Division 3: Bonita at Riverside Poly Murrieta […]
Football: Who: Cincinnati Bengals (10-7) at Los Angeles Rams (12-5) What: Super Bowl 56 Where: SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California When: Sunday at 3:30 With Super Bowl 56 just days away, I wanted to reach out to the SGV area football world, and ask for their predictions for Sunday’s showdown between the Cincinnati Bengals and […]
Photo by Alex Veliz Girls Basketball: Saturday’s First Round Schedule: Open Division: Windward at Etiwanda Division 1: Mira Costa at Bonita Division 2A: Upland at Ontario Christian Arcadia at South Pasadena Los Osos at Beaumont Division 2AA: West Covina at Woodbridge Millikan at Chino Hills Glendora at Covina Northview at Vista Murrieta Flintridge Prep at […]
Boys Basketball: Wednesday’s Wild Card: Division 4AA: Muir 84, Mesrobian 16 Tonight’s First Round Games: Open Division: Damien at Crean Lutheran Division 1: Los Osos at Colony San Clemente at Etiwanda St. Francis at Santa Clarita Christian Division 2A: Glendora at Thousand Oaks Maranatha at Crescenta Valley La Salle at Santa Monica Division 2A: Pasadena […]
Editor’s Note: I wanted to do a softball poll as well, but CIF only has a “watchlist,” which is made up alphabetically of 16 programs in each of the seven divisions. We will post every softball “poll” that CIF releases. If you’d like to see the watchlist, go to Polls – CIF Southern Section (cifss.org) […]
Pictured L-R: Bonita’s Owen Arbogast & Ayala’s Dominic Jauregui Wrestling: Alta Loma and Bonita dominated Saturday’s Palomares League finals. The Braves had a tournament-high five champions, while the Bearcats had four. But Glendora’s Marquize Brown and Andrew Grimaldi gave the Tartans a pair of winners. And Ayala’s Jacob Kim and Dominic Jauregui represented the Bulldogs […]
College Baseball: Mt. SAC won its fifth consecutive game, and their third in the last three days. The Mounties scored 10 runs in the first four innings and cruised to a 13-6 victory over College of the Desert. Over a 72-hour period, MSAC defeated San Bernardino Valley, Ohlone and COD at the David Buttles Memorial […]
