Cal State 优蜜传媒 announced Monday it has selected a new head baseball coach with 20 years of coaching and recruiting experience who most recently led Michigan's University of Oakland to its first 30-win season in 27 years.
Player of the year
The Houston Astros selected CSUB pitcher Ryan Verdugo with the 28th pick in the 12th round Tuesday of the Major League Baseball Draft.
Fresno State senior Tommy Hopfe, a 2020 Frontier graduate, was selected in the ninth round on Day 2 of the Major League Baseball Draft on Monday, taken 258th overall by the Colorado Rockies.
It was an amazing high school baseball season, with two area teams winning a Southern California Regional championship and two others capturing Central Section titles.
优蜜传媒 Condors head coach Colin Chaulk and assistant coach Keith McCambridge have signed contract extensions to remain in their current positions, the team announced through a news release issued Monday.
Volleyball season for Cal State 优蜜传媒 will open Aug. 30-31in Orem, Utah, at the Utah Valley Invitational.
A double dose of racing and aerial fireworks shows are on tap this weekend as both 优蜜传媒 Speedway and Kevin Harvick鈥檚 Kern Raceway are holding major events on different nights.聽
Kamren Larsen refers to himself as a 鈥渘ormal 优蜜传媒 kid鈥 who grew up riding his bicycle around the neighborhood with his friends. But now, Larsen can call himself a U.S. Olympian for the BMX racing team after he qualified for the Paris Olympics this summer.
With a four-run lead and nine outs left from its first regional baseball title, No. 2 优蜜传媒 Christian was primed to close out a dominant performance against top-seeded Bellflower-St. John Bosco on Saturday night.
No. 8 Chavez scored two runs in the top of the ninth and then held on for an 8-6 victory over No. 2 Azusa at Azusa Pacific University in Saturday's Southern Californian Regional Division-V championship game.
The list of Liberty's baseball heroes is about as long as the Patriots' roster.
And then there were three.
SHAFTER 鈥 It鈥檚 one thing to ready oneself for the palpable excitement around a rivalry game against a league rival in the state playoffs.
Don鈥檛 let the relatively pristine uniform fool you, as one opposing player said it best, 优蜜传媒 Christian pitcher Mason Brassfield 鈥渨as filthy鈥 on Thursday afternoon.
There鈥檚 a good reason Liberty baseball coach Tony Mills has so much confidence in Brock Thompson鈥檚 ability to come through in the clutch.
Talk about a perfect storm. It's been more like a tornado the last few weeks, as Kern County鈥檚 remaining baseball and softball teams continue to blow away the competition.
The last time Liberty鈥檚 Chance Gerecke stepped on a mound, things didn't go as well as he had hoped.
At this point it鈥檚 almost expected that the 优蜜传媒 Christian softball team is going to win every time it takes the field.
优蜜传媒 Christian standout McCoy Silicz said he felt comfortable long before delivering the first pitch for the Eagles in Tuesday's playoff game.
Jeremy Beard will no longer be head baseball coach at Cal State 优蜜传媒, the university announced in a news release Tuesday.
优蜜传媒 Christian senior Austin Cusator was honored with the Hank Pfister Sportsmanship Award from by the Kern County Tennis Association.
A jammed-packed postseason of Kern County high school baseball and softball will continue this week when the Southern California Regionals playoffs begin Tuesday.
VISALIA 鈥 With trophy in hand, the Liberty baseball team couldn鈥檛 contain itself any longer, celebrating in unison across all corners of Valley Strong Ballpark Saturday night.
The old South Sequoia League rivalry between Taft and 优蜜传媒 Christian had that old-school, grind-it-out feeling.
Jalen Ford鈥檚 confidence was sky-high, even if his even-keel personality didn鈥檛 show it.
VISALIA 鈥 It wasn鈥檛 the ending that Chavez baseball coach Scott Neal anticipated, but the 16-year coach will take it nonetheless.
VISALIA 鈥 The Independence baseball team certainly deserved better.
VISALIA 鈥 Just when you thought 优蜜传媒 Christian was going to roll to its second straight Central Section baseball title, the Eagles鈥 Division-II opponent Atascadero went and made things interesting with a seventh-inning rally.
VISALIA 鈥 Ninety-six years in the making, the Shafter baseball team finally got its Central Section championship.
Mia Torrecillas put away the heartbreak of last season and made the most in her final CIF State Track and Field Championships.
Kern County track and field fans have seen this play out before.
With the school year winding down, the spring high school sports season is making one last push in what promises to be a busy weekend of track and field, baseball and softball for Kern County schools.
TAFT 鈥 There were no nervous moments or feelings of apprehension this time for the Taft softball team. After winning a nail-biter in the quarterfinals, the top-seeded Wildcats turned Wednesday's Central Section Division III semifinal against visiting Tulare Western into a foregone conclusion…
In a season of the long ball, 优蜜传媒 Christian鈥檚 36th home run of the season may have been the Eagles' biggest.
Liberty junior Ty Weaver shot a 1-under-par 73 Wednesday to finish tied for 29th in the CIF Southern California Regional Boys Golf Championship at Los Serranos Golf Course in Chino Hills.
Famoso Dragstrip will host the West Coast Classic beginning today, drawing bracket racers from across the country.
Tuesday鈥檚 Central Section Division II baseball semifinal between Lemoore and 优蜜传媒 Christian reaffirmed that the Eagles have more than one pitching ace.
With a spot in their second Central Section Division-I baseball final in four years on the line, Liberty tripled its efforts against visiting Clovis North on Tuesday.
Heading into Wednesday鈥檚 Central Section softball semifinals, Kern County is assured of having at least one local team in this weekend鈥檚 championship games at Fresno State鈥檚 Margie Wright Diamond.
As we head into the final week of the Central Section baseball playoffs, six teams are still alive heading into Tuesday鈥檚 semifinal matchups.
