Photos by Wilson Baldelomar Wrestling: Valle Vista League Finals: Northview dominated the 2022-23 Valle Vista League finals. The top three placers at each weight class move on to next week’s CIF-SS individuals. The Vikings qualified all 14 wrestlers, including 12 individual league champions. Marcus Tolentino (106 pounds), Nick Arellano (113), Jovanni Evangelista (120), Rene Cisneros […]
Girls Basketball: Rio Hondo Prep finished Prep League play with a 49-40 victory at Chadwick. The Kares 9-3 record was good enough to finish second behind undefeated Flintridge Prep. It’s RHP’s best showing in at least 20 years. Sophia Tarampi led the way with 12 points, including three 3-pointers. Tarampi also had three rebounds, three […]
Photo credit to the Etiwanda boys basketball Twitter page, included are seniors Jimmy Baker, Alton Hamilton and Curtis Williams Boys Basketball: Etiwanda wrapped up an outright Baseline League championship on Friday night. The Eagles defeated visiting Damien, 57-49, and finished a perfect 10-0 in league games. Curtis Williams hit three 3-pointers and had a team-high […]
Girls Soccer: Marshall Fundamental wrapped up the Mission Valley League championship on Thursday. The Lady Eagles took a 1-0 lead into the half at South El Monte and cruised to a 4-0 victory. Esmeralda Jaquez continues to lead the Marshall offense, picking up her fourth hat trick in just over three weeks. Jaquez scored once […]
Girls Basketball: No one deserved this moment more than Ellie Chen. For two years, Chen had to battle through injuries, but she’s back for her senior season and when La Salle needed a clutch shot, she stepped up. Trailing by one point and with seconds to play, Ellie’s younger sister, Audrey Chen, got her the […]
Photos by Carlo Montalbo. To view more of Carlo’s photos, go to (www.i4pix.smugmug.com) Boys Basketball: Glendora won a share of its first league title since 2015. After knocking off Colony last Friday for the first time in 10 tries, the Tartans needed victories this week over Bonita and Ayala. On Tuesday, GHS defeated the Bearcats, 52-40, […]
Photos by Conrad Hunziker Boys Basketball: If Pasadena wanted to win back an outright Pacific League championship, they’d need a victory over rival Muir in the regular season finale. And the Bulldogs got it, but it did not come easily. PHS would survive in a 71-65 triple-overtime thriller at Pasadena High. Muir got a game-high […]
Boys Basketball: San Dimas closed out the regular season with an impressive 74-43 victory over a Charter Oak program that has been playing well of late. The Saints finished off their Valle Vista League championship record at 9-1. SDHS led throughout and got a game-high 18 points, 12 rebounds and three assists from Logan Hodson. […]
Girls Basketball: Of the three Palomares League co-champions, no one finished stronger than did Bonita High School. The Bearcats officially wrapped up their share of the league title with Thursday’s 56-24 victory over visiting Colony. To get to this point, however, BHS needed consecutive wins on Friday and Tuesday over first-place co-leaders, Claremont and Glendora. […]
Boys Soccer: On senior night, the Marshall Fundamental boys soccer program got two goals from a freshman. The Eagles knocked off second-place South El Monte, 3-1, to finish the regular season in the fourth spot of the Mission Valley League standings. Michael Henderson had goals in the first and second half of Thursday’s win. And […]
Photos by Carlo Montalbo. To view more of Carlo’s photos, go to (www.i4pix.smugmug.com) Girls Basketball: Glendora earned a share of their fourth Palomares League title in the last six years under the tutilege of Adam Nunemaker. GHS defeated visiting Ayala, 77-58, thanks to a 52-26 run between the second and third quarters. Glendora will share the […]
Girls Soccer: Heading into the final week of the regular season, Charter Oak trailed first-place San Dimas by two games in the Valle Vista League standings. It was almost a foregone conclusion that SDHS would claim another VVL title. But on Tuesday, Covina defeated the Saints, 1-0, while COHS dominated West Covina, 7-2, to pull […]
Boys Soccer: Winning a championship is never easy, or at least it shouldn’t be. And such was the case for the Maranatha boys soccer program. The Minutemen scored a pair of second-half goals to edge their host from Whittier Christian, 2-1, on Wednesday. George Peterson and Aren Tatevossian both scored off of assists from Miles […]
Girls Basketball: The only way to regain the Prep League championship with a little penache would be to sweep the defending champions from Providence. And Flintridge Prep did that on Wednesday night. The Wolves cruised to a 53-36 victory, and finished league play at 12-0. Prep got out to an 18-2 lead after the first […]
Photos by Taegan Maysami, @madeby.taeg on Instagram Boys Basketball: Damien did its part on Wednesday to make Friday’s trip to Etiwanda worth everything for the Spartans. DHS defeated visiting Rancho Cucamonga, 79-65, and improved to 8-1 in Baseline League play. Nate Garcia scored a game-high 31 points to lead the Spartans. Elijah Brown contributed 15 […]
Wrestling: When Larry Cutbirth took over the head coaching duties 20 years ago, none of his wrestlers had even been born. Fast forward two decades and Cutbirth, his staff and their athletes have delivered Etiwanda its first CIF-SS team dual championship. The Eagles defeated Chaminade, 39-33, in the Division 3 title match in West Hills. […]
Baseball: By Brian Baiotto, Sports Editor There is a universal desire among dedicated high school coaches that put in those long hours for little pay. And that’s to make a positive and lasting impact on the lives of the hundreds and hundreds of young people they are entrusted to lead. One of those dedicated coaches […]
By Brian Reed-Baiotto, Sports Editor This country needs more stories like this. On Friday, four San Dimas baseball players were going to Jack in the Box on Arrow Highway and Lone Hill for lunch. After they ordered their food and were about to head back to SDHS, they noticed an elderly man was stumbling a […]
Girls Basketball: It doesn’t get much more clutch than that. With three games to play in the 2022-23 regular season, Bonita trailed first-place Glendora and Claremont by one game. The Bearcats had to face the Wolfpack and Tartans on Friday and Tuesday, respectively. In the first round of Palomares League play, Bonita lost by three […]
Photos by Carlo Montalbo. To see more of his pictures, go to (www.i4pix.smugmug.com) Boys Basketball: Glendora kept its share of the Palomares League penthouse on Tuesday night. The Tartans defeated the visiting Bearcats, 52-40, behind 19 points, eight rebounds and three assists from sophomore Colton Gray. Landon Barragan chipped in with eight points, two rebounds and […]
