Baseball: One way or another, Ayala’s remarkable 2021 baseball season will come to an end today in South Orange County. The Bulldogs (26-3) will play for the CIF State Division 1 championship at JSerra Catholic. The first pitch is set for noon. JSerra (29-7) is the CIF-SS Division 1 runner up, having lost a 2-0 […]
Baseball: Rancho Cucamonga saw its record breaking season come to an end on Thursday evening in Bakersfield. The Cougars fell, 3-0, to Ridgeview, in the semifinal round of the CIF State Division 4 playoffs. Jorge Gutierrez went the distance and allowed just an unearned run to pick up the win. Gutierrez scattered three hits, walked […]
Photos by Josh Thompson of Champion Newspapers & Tara Masucci Baseball: What do you do in the semifinal round of the CIF State Division 1 playoffs when your No. 2 starter is out of state? You throw a couple of freshman and beat Bishop Amat, 13-3, in a five-inning, mercy-rule victory. Jeremy Byers went the […]
Baseball: Just when it looked like this record-breaking season was finally coming to an end, Rancho Cucamonga stages yet another dramatic victory. The Cougars trailed 4-1 in the bottom of the fifth and 6-5 in the final frame. But RCHS would get four fifth-inning runs and two more in the seventh to defeat Cajon, 7-6, […]
Baseball: The Palomares League champs are still standing. Ayala got out to an early 4-0 lead and held on to defeat Eastlake, 8-6, in the first round of the CIF State Division 1 playoffs. The Bulldogs made a 125-mile drive to Chula Vista and Thomas Cerecedes improved to 11-0. Cerecedes went five strong, allowing one […]
Baseball: The 2021 baseball season for Bonita was definitely a success. The Bearcats finished second in the Palomares League to Ayala and made it to the semifinal round of the CIF-SS Division 2 playoffs before falling to the eventual champions from Thousand Oaks. Bonita has likely already put Tuesday’s season-ending loss in their rearview mirror. […]
Photos by Adan Jaime Baseball: It’s not so much the fact that Royal defeated Rancho Cucamonga, 3-2, in the CIF-SS Division 4 championship game that will bother the Cougars the most. It’s more likely the way they lost that had to sting this proud and accomplished program. The Cougars had 14 base runners and scored […]
All-Pacific League: Player of the Year: Mikey Easter (Arcadia) Pitcher of the Year: Casey Spencer (Arcadia) First Team: Alex Dolan, Arcadia Brandon Nguyen, Arcadia Julian Eskridge, Arcadia Jameson Ferraro, CV Luca Cuneeo, CV Daniel Neria, Burbank Ryan King, Burbank Aiden Cremarosa, Burroughs Benjamin Griffith, Pasadena Milan Bugarin, Glendale Second Team: Matthew McIntire, Arcadia Ari Nurhadi, […]
Boys Basketball: It’s not easy to win a basketball game when 80-percent of your starters foul out. And it’s even more difficult when your opposition has everyone at their disposal. But that’s what Glendora was faced with in Thursday night’s second round of the CIF-State Division 3A playoffs. The Tartans led by 14 points in […]
Photos by Carlo Montalbo: For additional action shots from Carlo, please visit his website at:https://i4pix.smugmug.com/Sports Boys Basketball: After four days of rest and enjoying their CIF-SS Division 3A championship, Glendora was back on the court Tuesday evening. The Tartans took a 17-point lead into the break and went on to defeat El Camino Real, 56-44, […]
Boys Basketball: Layoff? What layoff? Apparently the 11 days since Damien had last taken the court didn’t affect the Spartans in the slightest. On June 4, Damien defeated Harvard Westlake, 77-72, in the CIF-SS Open Division finale. Fast forward to June 15, and the Spartans cruised to a 102-71 victory over visiting St. Joseph (Santa […]
Photos by Josh Thompson of Champion Newspapers Baseball: It took the top-ranked team in CIF-SS Division 1 to end Ayala’s title quest. JSerra scored six seventh-inning runs to pull away from the Bulldogs, 11-7, in Tuesday’s D-1 semifinal. The Lions hit three home runs and 10 of their 12 hits were of the extra-base variety. […]
Baseball: Through the first four innings of Tuesday’s CIF-SS Division 2 semifinal, Bonita held a one-run lead over top-seeded Thousand Oaks. The Lancers, though, scored eight runs over the final three innings and left La Verne with a 10-3 victory. Edrian Rangel got the loss after allowing eight runs on nine hits over his 5 […]
Baseball: A famous professional wrestler had a saying that went “to be the man, you’ve got to beat the man.” And while that’s a staged event, what the Rancho Cucamonga baseball program did on Tuesday was very real. The Cougars defeated top-seeded Murrieta Mesa, 2-0, in the semifinal round of the CIF-SS Division 4 playoffs. […]
Photos from the Brus Family & Carlo Montalbo. To view more action shots of Montalbo, please visit his site at https://i4pix.smugmug.com/Sports Football: By Brian Reed-Baiotto, Sports Editor Glendora’s Braydon Brus has decided where he’s going to play college football. In a Monday night phone interview, the soon-to-be GHS senior said he narrowed his list to […]
Baseball: And then there were three. Eighty-five days after the baseball season started, Ayala, Bonita and Rancho Cucamonga are this site’s final three programs remaining in the CIF-SS playoffs. The Bulldogs, Bearcats and Cougars each host the No. 1 seeds in Division 1, 2 & 4, respectively, in Tuesday’s semifinal round. RCHS has moved their […]
Division 1 Track & Field Finals at Trabuco Hills: Editors note: If time permits, we will try and get the results from the other divisions up over the next few days. The following results are from Saturday’s CIF-SS Division 1 finals at Trabuco Hills High School. Ayala senior Marcus Monroe had a big day, winning […]
Baseball: When Bonita scored six runs in the top of the seventh inning on Saturday afternoon, it turns out the benefit was more than just extending their season. The Bearcats claimed a 7-4 victory at Los Alamitos in the quarterfinal round of the CIF-SS Division 2 playoffs. When Bonita coach Ryan Marcos got back to […]
Baseball: Bonita found itself trailing 2-1 in the top of the seventh inning on Saturday afternoon. The Bearcats were 38 miles from home and just three outs away from a season-ending, CIF-SS Division 2 quarterfinal defeat at Los Alamitos High School. Bonita, though, stepped up big time, scoring six runs in the top of the […]
Boys Athlete of the Week: You had to be there in person to see just how relaxed and poised RCHS senior Jacob Billings was on Friday. The Cougars ace took his time getting to the mound each inning and once he stood atop the rubber, Billings controlled Friday’s CIF-SS Division 4 quarterfinal from the first […]
