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We're beginning to hand out the first batch of Central Section titles of the fall, beginning tomorrow with the girls golf team championships in Tulare and then a couple of team tennis finals later in the afternoon. One of those is Division V, where Bakersfield Christian will host Fowler in what...
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I was out in Taft (near Taft, really) today for the section's South Area girls golf tournament, so I thought it'd be a good time to check in on our non-football sports, two of which are already into postseason and two more that are rapidly approaching that point.
Girls golf
Frontier stole the...
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It's high time we took a break from football at School House Zach and took another look at the other fall sports going on. They're all well into league seasons, and I hate to pay so little attention to them. But they're up against football, and its vociferous demands on attention, so we'll just...
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While you're occupied with high school football (or even if you're not), the local high school volleyball, girls golf, cross country and girls tennis teams have all gotten their teeth into their respective seasons. Not much going on today, so it's a good time to look at what we know so far....
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An unfortunate note to pass along before we get going — Liberty two-sport star Mariah Alvidrez, who will be a senior tore an ACL a couple of weeks ago at a soccer camp and will miss volleyball season and at least part of soccer season. She's an outside hitter and striker and one of the...
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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...
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For those who have to work tomorrow and Friday, take solace: The Central Section, at least, is starting its Memorial Day weekend a couple of days early.
That's tomorrow and Friday, a couple of days' worth of softball and baseball quarterfinal goodness. Here's a rundown of the local games to...
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I don't think this exactly qualifies as a beacon of the coming high school football season, but the Kern High School District sent me some tentative schedules for fall sports today, and I thought I'd pass along some tidbits from the football portion.
Keep in mind, these could change slightly by...
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Before I get into my latest rant, let me explain a quick back story: I'm getting married to my lovely fiancée Ellen in August in her parents' town, which happens to be outside of London (yeah, I know, it's cool. Expensive, but very cool). My parents, feeling some of the...
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A couple of quick notes to pass along:
— The Californian's winter sports All-Area teams have arrived. The boys and girls soccer teams are unveiled in Friday's paper, the wrestling team on Saturday and the boys and girls basketball teams on Sunday. A bonus for my blog readers is the Players...
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I am going to make no attempt to explain away the scarcity of my posts, other than to say this is a slow time of year anyway and I've been hammering out All-Area teams for winter sports (for whatever reason, it seems like they're taking a lot longer this year than last).
OK, so I actually...
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Things have been slow at the School House in the past week as we recover from the hectic last few weeks of winter sports season. But spring is in the air, folks, and that means a whole other slew of sports to talk about.
I'm working on winter All-Area teams — they'll be released April 3...
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I'm not really sure I should be posting this, because maybe I'll get run out of town if I do, but I feel I have an obligation to admit my possible guilt.
There's a chance I've been jinxing Kern County high school teams (yes, I say this tongue-in-cheek, but it is...
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If you weren't a tennis fan after the Wimbledon final between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer a couple of weeks ago, you'll never be. But I'll bet if you saw Nadal's epic win, you're starting to like the game more and more. And if you like tennis, you'll like today's Year in Review segment....
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OK, so it's not Pete Sampras, but a U.S. tennis player who sits on the board of directors of the ATP, is at the center of a sexism row after his outrageous comments concerning top female tennis players.
The comments — which included describing some stars as 'sexpots' (and worse)...
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Forgive me for returning to a subject I've harped on before (and this probably won't be the last time, so ignore me if you like), but let's talk about the California Interscholastic Federation.
Why, oh why, do we have random sports with state championships and others with none? As great as local...
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It's championship week for high school sports here in the Central Section, and I've mentioned before this is my favorite time of year. It comes along three times, and for a fortnight at a time, the games and events don't just mean something — they mean everything for a lot of these kids....
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It's been an eternity since my last post here — if you hadn't noticed, we had a pretty big throwing story we ran this week, and we wrapped up section track finals. Anyway, my apologies. I promise to make up for it with a nice, long, involved playoff glance here.
Let's start in baseball....
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A big, big weekend in Kern County sports coming up. The last of the league titles will be decided tomorrow when SWYL play in baseball and softball finishes up. (Actually, 11-0 Centennial has already wrapped up that league title, regardless of what happens Friday).
Here's the spring league champs...
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Here's a quick update on the home run race I blogged about on Friday, which at first glance might appear to be over. Jarret Martin blasted three home runs, including a dramatic go-ahead shot with two outs in the seventh inning, giving him the Central Section record for home runs with 17....
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The idea of league tournaments seems a bit antiquated in high school sports these days. Football, obviously, doesn't have one. But neither do volleyball, basketball, soccer, baseball or softball.
In some of those sports (I'm thinking of basketball specifiically) it would be great to have a...
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I had quite a chat this afternoon with Stockdale boys tennis coach Dave Hillestad, so I guess I'm now knowledgeable enough to write a preview for the three local leagues.
No, that doesn't mean that Hillestad will influence me to make this pro-Stockdale, not anymore than it already would be...
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Hey, hey, everybody. Welcome back from Spring Break. Lots to talk about this spring, including teachers' involuntary transfers to other schools, which could split up coaches from their teams and from each other. We'll also keep an eye on some track and field standouts — Foothill's Dayshan...
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OK - you folks who know me, and those of you who've taken the trouble to read my profile, and even, maybe, visit my tennis website, www.aceyou.com , know that I play a lot of tennis.
I moved to Bakersfield from Ventura over 11 years ago. (Got transferred - you can still see my fingernail...
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