California High School Sports News

Manteca High's two-out struggles Saturday afternoon have left the Buffaloes with a do-or-die scenario in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV baseball playoffs.

Scott led the area efforts at the CIF-Southern Section divisional track and field championships at Mt.

Even with history staring her in the face – not to mention some sure-footed Davis kickers – Franklin senior goalie Marcela Young looked cool and calm Saturday as the two teams lined up for penalty kicks in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I girls soccer championship finale at Cosumnes Oaks High School.

Bonita unexpectedly fell to Cathedral in the opening round of the playoffs, 3-1, last Thursday at Bonita, ending an incredible season in which the team went 26-4-1. It was the earliest playoffs exit for the team since 2007.

Longtime Bella Vista girls coaches Christie Wheeler and Matt Contreras say they've been knocking at the door of a Sac-Joaquin Section girls soccer title for some time.

And the figurative mantle of the section's premier girl was passed during the Division I Swimming and Diving Championships.

Edison High's girls ran faster than ever at the Central Section Masters Track and Field Championships at Buchanan's Veterans Memorial Stadium on Saturday.

Due to many of the players on the team having sub-par grades at best, the team was not able to finish the season as it was cut short before Crosstown League play even began, and two of them would continue the season on the eventual two-time CIF-Los Angeles City Section champion varsity team as they were pulled up as a reward for keeping their ... (more)

Chaparral and Temecula Valley high schools play a soccer game at Temecula Valley High in this 2012 file photo.

If there is one team with a shot to threaten both of those streaks at Saturday's CIF divisional finals at Mt.

Claire Renk of Marin Catholic gets a congratulatory hug from Evora Bon-Acosta after Renk's goal in the second half of the North Coast Section soccer quarterfinal game against Branson in Kentfield, Calif.

Riverside North swept the six first-round matches and went on to beat Corona Santiago 13-5 on Friday for its first CIF-SS boys' tennis title, the Division 4 crown.

Great Oak shortstop Trae Arbet is ranked as one of the top MLB draft prospects in the country by Baseball America.

U.S. freestyle wrestler Obe Blanc, top, and Iran's Hassan Rahimi kick off an international wrestling exhibition at Grand Central Terminal on Wednesday, May 15, 2013, in New York.

Sophomore Ellen Tsay put an end to a five-hour marathon Friday, helping the 12th-ranked Stanford women's tennis team take some revenge on USC, as he recorded the clinching point in the Cardinal 4-3 victory over the Trojans in the Round of 16 at the NCAA tournament at Illinois.

With the opportunity to do some major damage against a nationally ranked opponent featuring a NCAA Division I-bound pitcher, Paige Reichle delivered Clovis High's biggest hit of the season.

San Pedro High softball had suffered two straight painful eliminations by El Camino Real of Woodland Hills in the CIF-Los Angeles City Section Division I playoffs.

Terry Bernal/Daily Journal Menlo School's Mikey Diekroeger singles home the game-winning run in the bottom of the seventh to beat Carmel 3-2 in the first round of the CCS DIII tournament.

Remember Bishop Amat, the team with the huge preseason expectations that dropped five of its first six and 10 of 16 to disappear off the radar and out of the CIF-Southern Section Division 3 baseball rankings? Bishop Amat routed visiting Santiago of Garden Grove 12-3 in the first round of the Division 3 playoffs on Wednesday.

Vista Murrieta's Natalie Baltas is mobbed at the plate after her two run home run off Poly's Janine Petmecky during the SS-CIF Division 1 first round game Thursday in Riverside, CA.