The Saugus girls basketball team’s playoff run came to an end Wednesday night as they lost to Fairmont Prep 43-45 at home in the quarterfinals of the CIF Southern Section Division 2AA playoffs. The struggles started early for Saugus, as they could not find answers offensively for Fairmont’s man defense.  That defense helped Fairmont get out to a 2-15 lead ...

The West Ranch boys volleyball team was named to the CIF Southern Section (CIF-SS) 2020 boys volleyball preseason watchlist in Division 1/2 on Monday afternoon. The Wildcats proved themselves to be the class of the Foothill League in volleyball, as the West Ranch program has won four consecutive league titles and hasn’t lost a league match since 2015. They’ve been ...

The playoffs are in full swing for high school basketball and soccer teams in Santa Clarita, so here’s the latest on who is still alive and who has been bounced across the SCV. Boys Basketball It was a clean sweep for Santa Clarita boys basketball teams in the postseason on Friday night, as Valencia High School, Hart High School, Trinity ...

Valencia (24-5) looked evenly matched with Crepi (17-13) through the first half but the Vikings were able to put Crespi on their heels early in the second half and never took their foot off the gas on the way to a 78-65 win in the second round of the CIF Southern Section Division 1 Playoffs Friday night. The Vikings came ...

The Hart girls soccer team lost 2-1 at home in their Division 1 playoff opener against Centennial on Thursday. The loss made for a disappointing end after a highly successful regular season in which the Indians went 20-2-3, and didn’t lose a single match in Foothill League play. “It was a very good season, we won league again, so we ...

The CIF Southern Section Division 2AA playoffs kicked off last night where the Saugus Centurions fought hard against the San Gabriel Academy Eagles, but ultimately lost 59-49 in the postseason opener. From the start, the intensity was there from both teams as they each applied man-to-man full-court pressure. The Eagles seemed to be more aggressive and took advantage of the ...

The 2020 playoff brackets were released Sunday by CIF, and Santa Clarita is well represented throughout the Southern Section divisional brackets. Basketball Boys (First Round matchups are on Wednesday at 7:00) Division 1 6 Valencia (23-5) earned a First Round bye and will play the winner of Crescenta Valley/Crespi in the Second Round on Friday. Division 2AA Maranatha (12-15) vs 1 Santa ...

The CIF Southern Section (CIF-SS) approved a revision to their bylaws which reduced the required summer “dead period” for high school sports from 21 consecutive days to 14 consecutive days, but requires all sports at a school to have the same dead period dates, according to CIF-SS officials. The change was approved at the organization’s annual CIF Southern Section Council ...

Four Santa Clarita girls volleyball players were announced as selections to this year’s All-CIF teams on Monday, according to CIF Southern Section (CIF-SS) officials. The selections included West Ranch’s Allison Jacobs, Santa Clarita Christian’s (SCCS) Vanessa Gracia, and Trinity Classical Academy’s Nicole Amoroso and Paige Kim. Jacobs, who signed her national letter of intent committing to UCLA in November, helped ...

The student section at Friday night’s West Ranch playoff game, which was comprised of students from West Ranch, Saugus and schools across the district, was named the “SoCal Student Section of the Week” on Sunday. Following the tragic Saugus High shooting, West Ranch invited students from across the district to come out and show their support for Saugus with a ...