Santa Clarita Sports Report, January 11, 2017. This is your place for Santa Clarita’s 2016/17 Foothill League winter 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

In last night’s Foothill League tip off Saugus (11-4, 1-0) edged out Hart (10-7, 0-1) with a 73-72 nail bitter. Zach Phipps led the team in scoring with 26 points, and Anthony McIntyre was right behind him with 25 points. Of those 25 points for McIntyre, 10 of them came in the fourth as he found his groove to close out the game. For Hart, Ben Kaufman put up 22 points in this contest. Saugus also snapped a 10 game losing streak against Hart with the win.

Golden Valley (7-9, 1-0) opened up league play against Canyon (5-11, 0-1) with a 51-48 win at home.

Valencia (8-8, 1-0) began play against West Ranch (8-8, 0-1) in what proved to be the most high scoring game of the night. Valencia took care of business with a, 83-79 win against the West Ranch Wildcats.

Heritage League play also opened up as well, and for 10 Santa Clarita Christian (7-1, 1-0) they kept the ball rolling against Lancaster Baptist with a huge 62-21 win.

Trinity Classical Academy (5-12, 0-2) lost in on the road against Faith Baptist, 47-35.

Santa Clarita High School Girls Basketball

Hart (6-10, 1-0) picked up a 60-41 league win over Saugus (8-11, 0-1) last night. Annie Christofferson scored 15 points in the winning effort for Hart.

Kayla Konrad and 10 Valencia (14-4, 1-0) dismantled West Ranch (5-13, 0-1) by the final score of 82-5. Konrad stuffed the stat sheets with 26 points and nine rebounds. Kenadee Honaker also picked up 20 points in the win for the Vikings.

Rachel Bowers helped lead the Canyon Cowboys (10-7, 1-0) to a dominant 80-40 win over Golden Valley (8-9, 0-1). Bowers recorded a triple-double last night with 17 points, 14 rebounds, and 10 blocks. Daisy Cardenas also put up 20 points in the win.

3 Santa Clarita Christian (6-0, 2-0) went up against Lancaster Baptist in a Heritage League game. The Cardinals won by a comfortable score of 40-13.

6 Trinity Classical Academy (8-5, 0-1) lost their Heritage League opener to Faith Baptist, 40-34. Taylor Oshiro has 22 points for Trinity in the loss.

Santa Clarita High School Boys Soccer

Saugus (7-4-3, 1-0) won its Foothill League opener against 4 Hart (10-4-2, 0-1) in impressive fashion, 4-1. Josh De Leon scored two goals in the win, and Matt Sayers made 10 saves for the Centurions.

3 Valencia (8-2-3, 1-0) opened league play with a 4-1 win against West Ranch (2-3-1, 0-1). Omar Darwish, Brennon Book, Sean Kim, and Ian Young each scored for the Vikings.

Canyon (0-8-5, 0-0-1) ended up drawing 1-1 against Golden Valley (1-7-2, 0-0-1). Darian Cerin scored first for Golden Valley, but Joshua Roque’s goal in the second half evened the match at one apiece.

Samy Couja scored a hat trick for the Albert Einstein Academy (2-2-2) as the Rockets cruised past Valley Torah, 4-1.

Santa Clarita High School Girls Soccer

Chances were limited in a tight Foothill League match between 9 Hart (12-2-2, 0-0-1) and Saugus (4-8-2, 0-0-1), as this one ended in a goalless draw.

Valencia (7-5-2, 0-0-1) and West Ranch (6-3-3, 0-0-1) also finished their game with a 0-0 draw.

Canyon (4-7-1, 1-0) were the only League winners in girls soccer Tuesday, with a 3-0 win over Golden Valley (4-6-2, 0-1). Claudia McKail put away two goals for the Cowboys.

TMU Basketball

Coming off of a impressive 83-73 win over Humboldt State, the Mustangs (12-3, 1-3) will face San Diego Christian today in El Cajon for GSAC league game. Tip-off is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.

The Lady Mustangs (10-4, 1-3) are also in action tonight against San Diego Christian. Dan Waldeck and his Lady Mustangs are coming off of a 76-47 over Hope International. Tonight’s GSAC league game is scheduled for 5:30 p.m.

COC Basketball

College of the Canyons is looking to make it four wins in a row tonight with the Cougars’ game at El Camino, tip-off is scheduled for 5:00 p.m.

Los Angeles Lakers

Just when it looked like the Lakers turned a corner and were playing more complete games, the bad habits that plague this young team flared up again.

Los Angeles was shredded by Portland’s superior guard play on Tuesday, getting blown out at home in the second half after holding a slight advantage (57-55) at halftime. LA proceeded to lose 108-87.

The starting backcourt of the Trail Blazers (Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum) outscored Nick Young and D’Angelo Russell, 45-17, and the Lakers only managed 30 points as a team in the second half Tuesday night, shooting 38.6% for the game.

It will never be a good thing when Luol Deng leads the team in scoring with 14 points.

Next up for the Lakers are the vaunted San Antonio Spurs in San Antonio on Thursday. Tip-off is at 5:30 pm.

KHTS AM-1220 is your place for the 2016/17 winter sports season and the Santa Clarita sports report. If you have any news and notes about our teams to share please send them to [email protected] and follow us @KHTSSports on Twitter.