Those of you who feel like The Californian ought to cover local high school sports more evenly, regardless of what teams are the best, might want to stop reading at this point.

That's because local high school sports news is just about synonymous with Stockdale sports news today. The Mustangs are the headliners in three different spring sports today.

We'll start with the team going for the championship. That's the Stockdale boys tennis team, which will head up to Clovis West this afternoon for the Division I Central Section team championship dual. The Mustangs girls already have won a D-I title, and Stockdale's No. 1 boys player, Jeremy Quiroz, will head up as the two-time section singles champ after his victory over El Diamante's Josh Lorentzen, who retired with an injury after the players split the first two sets.

The Mustangs and Golden Eagles appear to be pretty evenly matched, with Stockdale stronger at No. 1 and probably a bit deeper but CW much better in the middle. The teams  haven't played yet this year, but both own close victories over Bullard and close losses to the same Southern Section teams in the Clovis tournament earlier this year. Should be a good one.

Meanwhile, back in Bakersfield, things will be busy at Stockdale itself. The softball team plays its Division I semifinal against Fresno-Central at 4:30, and just behind the softball diamond, the baseball team plays its D-I semifinal against Fresno-Bullard — a game moved up a day because Stockdale's graduation is Wednesday. What a couple of days for some of these seniors.

If the softball team wins (it'll probably be behind sophomore pitcher Justine Vela, who no-hit Clovis West in the quarterfinals), the Mustangs play Thursday at home against either 9-seed Clovis, which upset top seed Bullard, or 4-seed Clovis-Buchanan.

If the baseball team wins, the final will be on the road Friday — either at No. 2 Clovis West or No. 3 Clovis.

Couple of other notes to pass along, since I was gone this weekend:

— Congratulations to a bunch of section champions crowned up in Fresno: Quiroz we mentioned. Bakersfield Christian's Alex Nichols was third in the singles tournament. Quiroz's teammates, Blaine Davenport and Pierre Tamer, teamed to finish second in the doubles tournament, and Tehachapi's Tyler Thoms and David Croy were third.

On the track, here's the list of champs, mostly expected by athletes who've dominated their events all year long, but also a couple of big upsets:

BOYS
Marty Affentranger, Liberty (long jump)
Johnny Carter, Ridgeview (triple jump)
Centennial's 1,600 relay team (huge upset by .01 of a second over Ridgeview, which had the state's fifth-best time)
Matt Darr, Frontier (shot put and discus)
Jerrid Lewis, Ridgeview (800)
Isiah Purvis, Ridgeview (200)
George Robbins, West (high jump)
Chris Schwartz, Foothill (1,600 and 3,200)

GIRLS
Taylor Jackson, Frontier (300 hurdles)
Anna Jelmini, Shafter (shot put and discus)

— It's also a big week for Ridgeview, which hosts a Division III softball semifinal against Hanford. The Wolf Pack are happy to have the arm of Carly Hummel, who had been sidelined with a biceps injury, to join freshman Nisa Ontiveros to form one of the section's most formidable 1-2 punches.

This after the Wolf Pack's boys track team was second to favored Buchanan at the section track meet. Ridgeview has several events — the 1,600 relay and Johnny Carter in the triple jump the foremost — where they'll be in contention at the state meet June 5-6.