Glendora picked a great time of the year to have its bats catch fire. The Tartans have defeated Bonita, Claremont and Alta Loma in that order, and have moved into sole possession of second place in the Palomares League with just two games to go. The exclamation mark of the last three league victories came […]
By Brian Reed-Baiotto, Sports Editor: If there was one guy from the San Gabriel Valley wrestling community that had the mettle to resume a college wrestling program that hadn’t been competing since the early 1980’s, you couldn’t do better than hiring Caleb Flores. The 2006 Northview High School grad and four-time state placer accepted the […]
By Brian Reed-Baiotto, Sports Editor When news broke Friday that longtime Mount San Antonio College baseball coach Art Mazmanian had passed away, it evoked many, many memories. And most were good between my college coach and me. Looking back, 99-percent of any squabbles we had were my fault. I wasn’t mature enough to realize he […]
The South Hills-Charter Oak battle to capture the 2019 Hacienda League baseball championship was as competitive or more than any SGV-area race this season. Consider this: South Hills edged Charter Oak, 2-1, in Thursday’s title game. The Huskies earned the Hacienda League championship by one game, thanks to a game they won by one run. […]
By Brian Reed-Baiotto, Sports Editor Hailey Yoshida has accomplished so much in her high school career. And yet she just turned 15. Yoshida (and her teammates) led Westridge to the CIF-SS Division 7 title game for the first time in school history. The Tigers won postseason games over Coastal Christian, Vasquez, Whitney and Mayfield, before […]
Baseball: Division 1: Joe Naranjo, Ayala Blake Archuleta, Bishop Amat Jared Jones, La Mirada Michael DeHaro, La Mirada Division 2: Preston Howey, Arcadia Will Grimm, Crescenta Valley Jacob Gonzalez, Glendora Dawson Netz, Maranatha Zach Jacobs, San Dimas Division 3: Ryan Graves, La Canada Connor Buchanan, La Canada Kyle Ethridge, Los Osos Andrew Duran, Northview Division […]
High School Sports: By Brian Reed-Baiotto, Sports Editor La Salle took a big step in the right direction when it recently hired Brian Walsh to be the Lancers’ athletics director. Walsh spent the last 16 years at St. Anthony in Long Beach, which also happens to be his alma mater. Over that span, the Saints’ […]
Photo above: Coach Lou Farrar watching Charter Oak scrimmage Bishop Amat on Wednesday, July 24. High School Football: By Brian Reed-Baiotto, Sports Editor Over the past 40 years alone, the San Gabriel Valley has showcased a who’s who of talented, dedicated and highly successful and influential football coaches. Bonita High School coach Steve Bogan won […]
Softball: By Brian Reed-Baiotto, Sports Editor It was a sad day for Maranatha High School when Dawson Netz left the Pasadena campus for the final time in late May. Netz played out his career for Matt Shupper’s Minutemen, which included a starring role in a 2018 CIF-Southern Section Division 3 championship. Dawson Netz set school […]
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