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Rolling right along with our spring sports Year in Reviews, today with girls track and field.
These reflections on 2008-09 will be finished next week. Shortly thereafter, we'll be talking football. The time's almost here, Kern County ...
2008-09 Kern County GIRLS TRACK AND FIELD
Overview: This...
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Sorry about the delay on this post. I'll have the girls track and field post up Sunday to make up for the missed Friday and will continue with swimming on Monday and Tuesday.
2008-09 Kern County BOYS TRACK AND FIELD
Overview: It was another grand year for the runners, jumpers and (duh)...
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I'm going to try to give as many quick updates as i can from here at Buchanan High School, the site of the 2009 State Track and Field Championships.
UPDATE, 12:40 a.m.: What a day it turned out to be for Kern County here at the CIF State Track and Field Championships. Let's do this in bullet...
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Hello to all from Fresno. I'm sure most of you won't see this until you wake up, but it's still Friday night for me after the first day of the state track and field championships at Veterans Memorial Stadium on the campus of Clovis-Buchanan High School.
Just a quick post here because I've got to...
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Every now and then, the news editors at The Californian will see something budgeted for sports publication that interests them and ask for the story or photo to put on the front page. It's not that common, but sometimes sports crosses over to the point where it's interesting to everyone instead...
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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 try to avoid superlatives as much as possible — how often is one really the "greatest ever" or a game the "most dramatic of all time?" Well, exactly once. There can only be one greatest ever at any given time, all around the world.
But I'm not exaggerating when I say...
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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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What gesture shows the most respect? Is it a bow? A salute? A blog post? Whatever it is, we owe it to Anna Jelmini, because the Shafter throwing standout, her of the double state championship last year, is at it again.
Today at the Triton Invitational in San Diego, Jelmini tied the...
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First things first: Some School House Zach congrats are in order for Bakersfield High's Bryce Hammond and two of his sophomore teammates on the Drillers wrestling team. Hammond wrapped up a sophomore national championship Saturday night by beating a Florida wrestler 3-0 in the 152-pound...
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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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There aren't many philosophy classes at School House Zach, but I received a phone-call complaint the other night that got me thinking.
The complaint centered around Frontier's softball victory over West on Tuesday, and this was no normal victory. This was 34-2. And yes, there is a mercy...
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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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These 100 degree days don't quit very easily, do they? I've always said I prefer extreme hot to extreme cold (I guess that's one reason I live here), but I could use an 85-degree respite or something. Eh. Guess I'll have to wait a month.
Anyway, another summer day means another sports' Year in...
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Those of you still awake after staying up late last night to watch the All-Star Game go to 15 innings (and just imagine what it would have been like on the East Coast) are in for a treat.
Track and field might have been Kern County's best sport in 2007-08. Better than football, where the area...
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As you might expect, and as you might have already noticed, the number of posts at School House Zach is going to lessen a little bit here in the month of June. Not a whole lot of high school sports action going on.
There was an all-city baseball game last Friday night at Gerry Collis Field at...
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Guess what? I'm actually not on the road or in the office! Sitting at home on the couch for the first time in what seems like forever, and it's a pretty darn good feeling.
It's been a hell of a finish to the high school sports year for Kern County, what with five state track and field...
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CERRITOS -- It's late, and I've had a long day (yes, it started with a workout, thank you very much), so I'll keep this short.
It was a pretty successful day for Kern County at the CIF Track and Field State Championships at Cerritos College in Norwalk on Friday. All of the athletes who were...
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This afternoon/evening sees the CIF track and field championships at Liberty.
Our prep writer, Zach Ewing, wrote a marvelous preview of the event in today's paper focusing on two local throwers who heavy favorites in today's meet. Read his preview here.
Zach's quick-hit preview can be found...
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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've returned from a weekend getaway down in Orange County and have spent the day working/freaking out about everything that's about to happen. I say freaking out because (1) it's going to be a lot of work to organize and keep tabs on everything (but, hey, that's why they pay me the small bucks,...
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How Frugatti's restaurant owner Ralph Fruguglietti of Shafter must have enjoyed his daughter Katina winning the hammer throw event at the UCLA Invitational last Saturday, beating four Bruin thinclads in the process. Quite a birthday present for the restaurateur and former USC Trojan, who turned...
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Every area, it seems like, has a few sports where it seems like the locals rise above the rest. Football, in Kern County, it seems like, is pretty darn good, with four section champions in the five divisions. Basketball isn't bad, but I'd say Fresno still has the edge there. Same with wrestling....
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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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