This is the time when sports from the fall and winter overlap just a bit. Here’s a quick tour of what’s going in high school athletics in the West Orange County area. […]
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Jump ball for local basketball
The focus now shifts to high school basketball and other winter sports, although a lot of attention is still focused on allegations of violent hazing in the Mater Dei High football program. […]
Saxons win CIF-SS football title
The Loara High football team on Friday night completed a most unlikely journey in winning the CIF-SS Division 14 football title at Glover Field in Anaheim. After building an early 14-0 lead, […]
Number one in Division 14
In this new era of “competitive equity” for high school football, one of the premier success stories is Friday’s game between the Rialto Knights and the Loara Saxons at Glover Stadium in […]
Loara advances to title game
The Loara High Saxons football team, which finished fourth in the Garden Grove League, is now just one victory away from winning a CIF-SS championship. On Friday night the team defeated the […]
Saxons into the semifinals
The realignment of divisions for football teams this fall by the CIF-SS is working out pretty well for Loara High of Anaheim. On Friday, the Saxons (8-6) will visit Alhambra (6-6) in […]
Edison falls, but Saxons win
Edison High’s football team was knocked out of the CIF-SS Division 2 quarterfinals by Inglewood 22-16 on Friday night. The Chargers, who finished the season 8-4, led at one point, but couldn’t […]
WP titles Sat.; hoops Monday
It’s not surprising that two of the schools competing for CIF-SS Division water polo titles on Saturday are from Huntington Beach, considering their proximity to the Pacific Ocean. Ocean View (10-13) will […]
Basketball to follow football
It was a rough week for area high school football teams in the first round of the CIF-SS football playoffs. Seven of 10 teams lost, some of them in upsets to teams […]
Argos fall; Edison, Western win
Northview came to Monsoor Stadium Friday night for a CIF-SS Division 10 first round football game against Garden Grove looking perhaps like a bit of an underdog. But that 4-6 record was […]
