Santa Clarita sports report, February 16, 2016. This is your place for Santa Clarita’s winter 2015/16 sports. Find all the latest news and updates on your hometown schools here as they compete in the Foothill League, Heritage League, Western State Conference and GSAC.

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Santa Clarita High School Boys Basketball

It’s playoff season in high school basketball, and the Santa Clarita Valley is well represented in this year’s CIF-SS tournaments.

Four Foothill League teams made the tournament in their respective divisions, including West Ranch who snuck in the Division 2AA tournament as an At-Large team. Both Trinity Classical Academy and Santa Clarita Christian also made the field as the top two Heritage League teams.

Here is the First Round schedule for boys basketball on Wednesday, February 17, tipping off around Southern California at 7 pm (* denotes home team):

Division 2A

Hart* vs Santiago

Division 2AA

Canyon* vs Eastside

La Serna* vs West Ranch

Division 3A

Golden Valley* vs South El Monte

Division 4A

Trinity Classical Academy* vs University Prep

Division 5A

Santa Clarita Christian* vs Aveson Global Leadership Academy

Santa Clarita High School Girls Basketball

Valencia* enters the Division 1AA tournament as a seeded team and earned a first-round bye. The Vikings will play the winner of Downey and Rancho Cucamonga on February 20.

The next highest ranked team is the Hart Indians, who travel to Grand Terrace in the opening round of the Division 2A tournament on Thursday at 7 pm.

As the top team in Division 2AA, the Canyon Cowboys* earned the highest seed and a home game against Godinez on Thursday at 7 pm.

In Division 3AA, the Golden Valley* girls play at South Hills on Thursday.

The Trinity Knights* will take on AGBU at home Thursday. Tip-off is at 7pm.

Santa Clarita High School Boys Soccer

The CIF-SS soccer playoffs will begin Friday and there are some exciting opening round matchups for a couple of Foothill League schools as well as a seeded position for the league champion

Valencia earns the seeded spot in the Division 4 bracket and will play the winner of Baldwin Park/Oak Hills Friday. All playoff games across CIF-SS kickoff at 3:00, Friday.

Division 4

Hart* vs Leuzinger

Sultana* vs Saugus

Division 7

Santa Clarita Christian* vs Desert Christian

Santa Clarita High School Girls Soccer

In the girls playoff bracket, three Foothill League teams made the Division 2 field. All girls matches kickoff at 3 pm on Thursday.

Division 2

Hart* vs Agoura

Valencia* vs Mira Costa

Sunny Hills* vs West Ranch

COC Cougars

The Lady Cougars basketball team has been simply unstoppable in the Western State Conference. They are a perfect 12-0 with two games remaining and are on a 17-game winning streak, the most recent of which an 85-70 thumping at West L.A.

Only L.A. Valley (Wednesday) and Antelope Valley (Saturday) stand in the way of a perfect conference season.

Cougars Baseball continued its hot start to the season with an impressive 9-3 win over San Diego Mesa. Leadoff batter Colton Burns went 4-5 with 2 RBI and a run scored, and first baseman Jake Spurlin added two more RBI.

The Master’s College

The Mustangs’ basketball teams are still trending in opposite directions. Saturday, the men lost their 12th GSAC conference game getting blown out at home by a score of 82-53 to Hope International.

Mean while, the No. 10 Mustangs women keep on winning after dominating HI 67-52 for their 12th GSAC win.

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