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Seems like basketball doesn't get quite its due during the regular season, between football running into December and the state wrestling finals being the same week as section basketball, but there's no doubt hoops is one of the more popular games around. With that in mind, here's an extended...
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There's something about Division IV and the state basketball playoffs. For the second straight year, the only boys basketball team left from Kern County as we reach the Southern Cal semifinal (state quarterfinal) round is in Division IV with a star at guard andis traveling to the...
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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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It's a crazy one in the office tonight with boys and girls soccer Central Section championships and boys basketball quarterfinals roaring along all over the Valley. I went to Frontier to watch the school unveil the new lights on its stadium and then the Titans girls soccer team, which won...
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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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UPDATE, 10:15 p.m.: So, make it dejå vu all over again. Liberty falls behind Garces in the third quarter, stays with it and nips the Rams at the end. This one was a good bit more exciting, given the way Westin Hill banked home a 3 in the final seconds ("lucky shot," he...
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Girls rankings below or at this link.
One more week of rankings next week, then we'll let the playoff results speak for themselves.
BOYS
1. Clovis East (23-4, 8-0 TRAC, Division I, last week: 1) — For all the talk about how wide-open boys hoops was in the section this year, and...
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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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Girls rankings below or at this link.
These rankings and records do not reflect Tuesday night's games.
BOYS
1. Clovis East (20-4, 5-0 TRAC, Division I, last week: 1) — Remember when we thought the race for No. 1 in the section was wide-open? Maybe it still is, but 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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Girls rankings below or at this link. Again, I promise some soccer rankings by the end of the week.
BOYS
1. Clovis East (19-4, 4-0 TRAC, Division I, last week: 1) — Who would have thought the Timberwolves would be tested more by Buchanan than Clovis West? Goes to show...
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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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Here's the girls side of the inside look feature I tried the other day with some boys events. I'm going to have to fudge a bit on this one, because the games I'm using were played at the same time, so I obviously wasn't at one of them. In this case, that's the soccer game, but I'll do my...
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Last week I laid out a sort-of planner of big events for the rest of the regular season in the winter sports. This week I'm going to do some actual analysis, which, I'm told, is where I try to tell you what I think about some of those games.
Eh, at least I'll try. Let's go with a big...
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Girls rankings below, or click here.
BOYS
1. Clovis East (17-4, 2-0 TRAC, Division I, last week: 1) — Friday's game with Central became much more important after the Grizzlies knocked off Clovis West in the first round of TRAC play. Clovis East knew how to respond.
LAST...
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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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I was excited to see an e-mail in my inbox this morning with the three proposals the Central Section came up with for the new league alignment. I hurriedly printed off the proposals, went over to the printer and started looking them over on my way back.
Turns out, there was no need. The...
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Girls rankings below or at this link.
BOYS
1. Clovis East (14-4, 0-0 TRAC, Division I, last week: 1) — Of all the impressive things on the Timberwolves' resumé — some tough out-of-section wins and some routs of Valley teams — the best so far might have been its...
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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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See girls rankings below or at this link.
BOYS
1. Clovis East (13-4, 0-0 TRAC, Division I, last week: 1) — The Timberwolves solidified their spot at the top with a rout of Fresno-Edison last week. They have enough tests sprinkled into the rest of the schedule to keep things...
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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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Faithful School House Zach readers will remember a couple of weeks ago when I promised a winter sports podcast, then continually failed to deliver. Well, at long last, here it is. We had some technical problems while switching to a new Web server, but those should be in the past now.
Keep in...
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See girls rankings below or at this link.
BOYS
1. Clovis East (11-4, Division I, last year: D-I champion) — All of the Timberwolves' losses have been out of the section, and they've beaten Liberty, Porterville-Monache and East in winning the Kern Schools Federal Credit Union Lloyd...
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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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I've been in Bakersfield off and on for a week or so at a time since Thanksgiving, but I went for a run this morning and found myself thinking this was the first time in six weeks that I actually felt like I was sliding back into my routine.
After having company for Turkey Day, I've...
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In the middle of high school football playoffs, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that winter sports have also begun, and, actually, are humming right into league play this week.
In basketball, these early-season tournaments and non-league games are often the key to a nice run when things...
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We interrupt your regularly scheduled football programming to bring you this boys basketball note:
Very nice ceremony for Stephon Carter at Garces today, where he announced his intention to sign with Cal State Bakersfield to play for the next four years.
I've asked a few basketball people...
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