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By Loren Kopff LA CANADA-It had been 14 long, grueling years since the John Glenn boys basketball program last advanced to the California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section divisional playoffs. With nine…
By Loren Kopff Last season, Cerritos girls basketball head coach Arial Adams hoped her team would win the Suburban League. That title went to Norwalk as the Lady Dons finished…
By Loren Kopff Longtime Valley Christian girls soccer head coach Kim Looney hasn’t had too many must-win games in the final week of past regular seasons. But that’s what the…
By Loren Kopff With no playoffs in sight for the third straight season, Linda Parra was still in the John Glenn gymnasium on the final Saturday morning of the regular…
By Loren Kopff With two weeks left in the regular season, every game is important for playoff positioning and such was the case when the Norwalk boys basketball team hosted…
By Loren Kopff As the Whitney girls basketball team steamrolls towards its fourth straight Academy League title and sixth in the past eight seasons, competition for the Lady Wildcats is…
By Loren Kopff LA HABRA-It wasn’t the prettiest of wins but for Ally Wade, she will block out all of the negatives for a moment and take her Valley Christian…
SUBURBAN LEAGUE BOYS SOCCER By Loren Kopff The Artesia boys soccer program has been the best in the Suburban League over the past three-plus seasons, going 31-0-3 since it last…
By Loren Kopff After finishing in fourth place in the Suburban League with identical 6-6 marks in each of the past two seasons, the Cerritos boys basketball team is moving…
By Loren Kopff There are few teams that the Artesia girls soccer program has dominated over the course of time, but one of them is Norwalk. The Pioneers entered last…
SUBURBAN LEAGUE BASKETBALL By Loren Kopff Once again, the Norwalk boys basketball team saw its grasp of a Suburban League victory snatched away in the final minutes. This time, Artesia…
By Loren Kopff When Cerritos joined the Suburban League to begin the 1998-1999 season, the boys basketball squad was treated rudely by then-powerhouse Artesia. The Dons had lost 18 straight…
By Loren Kopff The Norwalk High girls soccer program has experienced life in the playoffs only once in school history, which came at the end of the 2008-2009 season. Since…
By Loren Kopff One of the bright moments in the Valley Christian boys basketball game against Paramount last Thursday night was a 13-0 run late in the third quarter and…
By Loren Kopff With little time to relish her team’s third place finish in the Gahr Girls Varsity Winter Classic, Cerritos girls basketball head coach Arial Adams had one…
By Loren Kopff While the Valley Christian girls soccer team had one of its better December’s, and now early January’s, in a few years, the 2013-2014 squad had also recently…
By Loren Kopff The John Glenn boys basketball team did something this past Wednesday night that it had done only twice in at least the previous 17 seasons. The Eagles…
CANTWELL SACRED HEART OF MARY CARDINAL CLASSIC By Loren Kopff MONTEBELLO-On Dec. 14, John Glenn girls basketball head coach Linda Parra decided not to play Suburban League rival Norwalk in…
By Loren Kopff It was a win that Cerritos girls basketball head coach Arial Adams will gladly take but that doesn’t necessarily mean she was completely satisfied. On most days,…
By Loren Kopff DOWNEY-During a timeout with 6.3 seconds remaining in the championship game of the 20th annual Calvary Chapel Downey Grizzly Classic and up by two points, Artesia…