By Loren Kopff DOWNEY-The Gahr High softball team had not played since a Mar. 24 loss to Los Alamitos and after it’s San Gabriel Valley League opener…
By Loren Kopff Last season, John Glenn High’s Victor Sanchez was simply brilliant when he faced Norwalk on the road, throwing a no-hitter in an 11-0 victory. The senior southpaw…
OLYMPIC LEAGUE BASEBALL By Loren Kopff Valley Christian is showing that it is a serious contender to win an Olympic League crown for the first time since 2012. After the…
By Loren Kopff Destiny Lucero picked the right time to hit her first home run of her brief high school career. The sophomore third baseman for the Cerritos High softball…
By Loren Kopff Jake Carr may not be the number one or number two pitcher on John Glenn’s baseball staff, but the senior righty is definitely a valuable number three…
By Loren Kopff While the area schools take a break from their studies, there won’t be any time off for many baseball and softball players. Usually, the St. Paul Easter…
By Loren Kopff LAKEWOOD-The first three innings of the Cerritos-Mayfair Suburban League softball opener this past Wednesday is what many expected between a couple of competitive teams vying for a…
By Loren Kopff LOS ALAMITOS-Gahr’s softball team, fresh off a solid performance in the 20th Annual Dave Kops Tournament of Champions 10 days ago in which it went 4-2 and…
By Loren Kopff Two teams that are going in the opposite direction through the first eight games of the season met last Thursday when Norwalk, behind freshman sensation Breanna Vasquez,…
By Loren Kopff Don’t laugh now but the Artesia and Cerritos baseball teams, stuck in the bottom half of the Suburban League for over five years, are talking playoffs and…
By Loren Kopff The rematch between Deidra Genera and Jennifer Iseri, the two senior pitchers for the Gahr and Cerritos softball teams respectively, didn’t quite go the same way as…
By Loren Kopff ANAHEIM-The top two teams in the California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section Division III-AA played like they belonged in the championship game at…
By Loren Kopff This is it. There’s no sugarcoating the expectations laid upon the Cerritos and Gahr softball teams for 2015. Not only are the two predicted to win their…
CIF-SOUTHERN SECTION BOYS BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS By Loren Kopff It was the type of atmosphere you want in a California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section semifinal boys basketball playoff game. Inside a…
CIF-SOUTHERN SECTION BOYS SOCCER PLAYOFFS By Loren Kopff It was as close to a déjà vu situation as you could get when Valley Christian hosted Whitney in a California Interscholastic…
CIF-SOUTHERN SECTION GIRLS BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS By Loren Kopff WEST COVINA-It didn’t take long for the Gahr girls basketball team to realize it was in trouble against South Hills in a…
CIF-SOUTHERN SECTION BOYS BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS By Loren Kopff One could say that it was Valley Christian junior guard Stedmon Bryant’s three-point play with 31.7 seconds left in the first half…
By Loren Kopff LAWNDALE-Early on, it looked like the Artesia boys basketball team would blow out Leuzinger on its home court in a California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section Division III-A first…
By Loren Kopff The 2014-2015 season has been one that the Valley Christian girls soccer program isn’t used to seeing. The Lady Crusaders, who have been a major force in…