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Motoring right along into girls basketball on our Year in Review train. Remember, when these are over, it'll be time to get into football football football all the time. Busy and we love it.
In the mean time, for baseball fans out there, I've been doing some work on the Bakersfield Blaze this...
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I've been so caught up in wrestling this weekend that I haven't had much of a chance to mention basketball. That's not acceptable, so let's get right down to business:
— Congratulations are in order to three Central Section champion hoops teams. Stockdale's girls won the Division I...
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We've just completed boys semifinal day in Central Section basketball, and it sounds like there was a batch of great games around the Valley tonight.
One of them I saw firsthand. Liberty started sloppy, played flawlessly in the middle and then got sloppy again in holding off...
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We've taken to calling this upcoming Friday and Saturday the Hell Weekend around the sports desk at The Californian. To wit: The Central Section boys and girls basketball championships will be contested those days in Fresno, the March Meet drag-racing extravaganza at Famoso Speedway...
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The Chinese are calling this the Year of the Ox, and that's fine and dandy. Oxen are strong, formidable animals with a good reputation, I guess, though I don't know the first two things about them.
But strong, formidable teams in Kern County aren't the story of the year so far in high...
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Instead of doing a paragraph on each team in the basketball rankings this week, I'm going to do a quick 'n' dirty version, then do some playoff predictions for each division in boys and girls hoops. Girls start tonight with first-round games in all divisions except the big one, which starts...
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Well, that was a lost weekend. Sorry I wasn't able to post more updates from Lemoore and the wrestling, but at first I had computer problems, and then I just got too busy. But I'll make up for it with an exquisite post tonight. Or at least an average one, right?
All three winter sports are...
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Welcome to the last week of the regular season, which in girls basketball is going to decide very little in the respective Kern County league races: Stockdale and Garces have clinched the two big leagues (and really, we knew that was coming a month or more ago) and Arvin has control over the...
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I swear I don't mean for this blog to become a ranking service, so I'm going to apologize in advance for four posts in a row — and six out of seven — being rankings.
That said, I don't want to cut out on basketball rankings in the middle of the season. I do promise to have some...
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So I was partly right on my Super Bowl pick: Arizona couldn't run the ball, and that did make their offense one-dimensional. But Kurt Warner didn't throw for two or three interceptions. He threw one, though it was enormous turning point in the game just before the half. Warner and his...
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Another week gone by, another week closer to the high school version of March Madness, a little time for the playoffs I like to call ... February Frenzy.
OK, so that was really dorky. Sorry about that. Really. But I do have another set of Central Section rankings. Girls are below (with a...
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Lots of folks talking inauguration this week, and since there was a nice story on Barack Obama's basketball days in last week's Sports Illustrated, it's time to celebrate with a basketball-themed week.
Today will be power rankings. The rest of the week, I'd like to discuss big games left on the...
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My apologies for posts being so few and far between. I'm still getting settled back into the flow of things in the office, and that includes coming up with content again when during football season, the blog was on a very tight schedule. I'm going to do better, I promise.
To that end, I...
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I'm going to attempt boys and girls basketball rankings in the Central Section, just like we did at School House Zach for football in the fall.
Before I start, I need to admit that this is going to be difficult and probably somewhat controversial among area basketball fans.
Football...
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Ahhh. Finally feeling back to normal, after a week or so back from Europe, my body's clock is finally back on good ol' Pacific Daylight Time. And you can tell that from how my Year in Review blog entries have slipped later and later into each day. Pretty soon, I'll be posting around midnight like...
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Before we get to the main post, let's play a quick word-association game. I'll let Garces junior Stephon Carter handle the first answer for me:
Campbell Hall and star guard Jrue Holiday? "As good as advertised," Carter said.
Garces' boys team? Poised for an even deeper run next year....
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Here's a quick update on some boys basketball semifinal scores from Tuesday:
Div. I
No. 1 Clovis West 58, No. 4 Fresno-Central 45
No. 2 Clovis East 87, No. 6 Clovis-Buchanan 70
Div. II
No. 1 Fresno-Edison 67, No. 4 Porterville 54
No. 2 Centennial 60, No. 3 East 52
Div. III
No. 1 Hanford...
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I realize there hasn't been a new post here for some four or five days (I don't even remember anymore). It's certainly not my intention to ignore this blog, though, so let me provide an excuse-laden story that, in its humor and stupidity, might make up for the neglected days.
I went up to Fresno...
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I guess I'm carrying some kind of jinx (or is it a blessing?) with me to the pitch this week. Last week, I saw East extend itself before beating Hanford minutes shy of double overtime in the Division II boys soccer playoffs.
Then, Tuesday night, West scored in the final minute of...
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Happy Groundhog Day everybody. Here's what to watch for in the coming week:
Tuesday, Feb. 5 — Centennial at Stockdale girls basketball
The last chance for the Mustangs to lose before the Central Section playoffs. I wouldn't count on it, but Centennial can be tough if the game's close....
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Let's put the spotlight on a couple of girls basketball games that took place earlier this evening. The first, which those of you who read the Preps Planner I posted over the weekend would have kept an eye out for, was a Southwest Yosemite League battle between Ridgeview and North.
Ridgeview is...
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A couple of items to note before moving on to the main post:
— Checked out Independence High School, the new school in Bakersfield's southwest corner, on Monday to attend a press conference for incoming football coach Sean McKeown, the Bakersfield High offensive coordinator. School looks...
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If you've been paying attention to the Californian's prep coverage in the past couple of days, you might notice it's been heavy on Frontier. Don't worry; no bias here. There's a couple of good reasons for it.
On Thursday, I was going to watch Bakersfield High take on Fresno-Edison in a matchup...
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