SIMI VALLEY — The Paraclete baseball team had an uncharacteristic game on Tuesday in the semifinals.

LANCASTER — Two University of Antelope Valley baseball players recently signed contracts in leagues that have partnerships with Major League Baseball.

CARPINTERIA  — Desert Christian juniors Kody Del Frate and Lily Kreiger both finished in the top sixth in their events to earn All-CIF honors at the CIF-Southern Section Division 4 Finals at Carpinteria High School on Saturday.

MENIFEE — The No. 2-seeded Paraclete baseball team got some clutch hits when they needed it to back up solid pitching in a 3-0 victory over Heritage in the CIF-Southern Section Division 4 quarterfinals on Friday.

OXNARD — Quartz Hill sophomore girls golfer Kylie Warner’s main goal for the postseason was to reach the third round.

LANCASTER — The Lancaster baseball team’s lineup lived up to its motto "No one needs to be great if everyone is good."

The Quartz Hill girls golf team finished third out of 20 teams in the CIF-Southern Section Division 3 Team Championships at Santa Barbara Golf Club on Tuesday. 

ACTON — The Vasquez baseball team felt they played one of their best games of the season on Tuesday and it helped the Mustangs make their deepest playoff run in 13 years.

LANCASTER — Antelope Valley College announced the resignation of baseball coach John Livermont after 16 years at the helm on Monday.

PALMDALE — The Palmdale boys soccer team had come so close to achieving so much that when the final whistle blew Monday night, the Falcons were overcome with emotion.

ONTARIO — The Quartz Hill boys golf team finished fourth out of 16 teams at the CIF-Southern Section Division 7 Team Championships at Whispering Lakes Golf Course in Ontario on Monday morning.

Genesis Gymnastics’ Alyssa Bacelis Rivera won gold in the all-around at the 2021 Xcel Regionals in the Xcel Silver Sr. L Division in Reno on April 30. 

OKLAHOMA CITY — Mackenzie Donihoo hit two homers, and top-seeded Oklahoma beat No. 2 UCLA 10-3 in an elimination game at the Women’s College World Series on Saturday night to reach the semifinals.

LANCASTER — The Lancaster softball team played its second consecutive extra inning game to open the playoffs and for the second-consecutive game the Eagles got clutch hits in the late innings.

LANCASTER – The Lancaster girls basketball team will look back at Friday night’s game and think what could’ve been.

PALMDALE — The Highland softball team knew it had a big task ahead, taking on No. 1-seeded Whittier Christian in the second round of the CIF-Southern Section Division 3 playoffs on Saturday morning.

LANCASTER — The Paraclete baseball team started the postseason strong with a 13-0 victory over visiting Oxnard in the first round of the CIF-Southern Section Division 4 playoffs on Friday.

QUARTZ HILL — The Quartz Hill baseball team didn’t face many late-inning pressure situations during a regular season filled playing solely against Golden League teams.

Editor’s Note: Because of a deadline of 8 p.m., we won’t be able to get UCLA’s 6:30 p.m. games in the print edition of the Valley Press. We will try to put the story in for the next day’s publication (if space permits) and/or put it online.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Montana Fouts threw a perfect game with 14 strikeouts on her 21st birthday, and Alabama defeated UCLA 6-0 on Friday night to advance to the semifinals of the Women's College World Series.

QUARTZ HILL — The Quartz Hill softball team added another win to their undefeated record with a 7-2 victory over Dos Pueblos in the first round of the CIF-Southern Section Division 3 playoffs on Thursday.

Quartz Hill sophomore girls golfer Kylie Warner’s goal this season is to get to the third round of the golf individual playoffs.

QUARTZ HILL — It wasn’t that the Quartz Hill girls basketball did a lot of bad things, because they didn’t.

LANCASTER — The Palmdale boys soccer team played under tremendous pressure the final 40 minutes and that was before the match against Rancho Buena Vista went to penalty kicks.

ACTON — The Vasquez and Lancaster softball teams battled for eight innings in the first round of the CIF-Southern Section Division 6 playoffs on Wednesday afternoon.

LANCASTER — There was no special blueprint for Lancaster on how to beat Portola. Even a non-basketball fan knew what the game plan was.

LANCASTER — Even though the Palmdale boys soccer team had a one goal advantage at halftime, the Falcons weren’t happy with their energy level or performance in the first half of Tuesday’s CIF Southern California Regional Championship First-Round match.

LOS ANGELES — The Paraclete girls soccer team knocked out the No. 2 seed in the CIF Southern California Division 4 Regional Championships with a 2-0 victory over Los Angeles CES at Fairfax High School on Tuesday.

The University of Antelope Valley recently announced that its 2020 season forward Allex Austin has signed a professional contract with the Ponta D’Agua Gorillas in the Praia League in Africa, which starts its inaugural season in July.  

PALMDALE — With 4:40 remaining in the second quarter, Highland’s Eriel Banks stole the ball and cruised in for an uncontested layup.

The same seven schools that are sending softball teams to the CIF-Southern Section playoffs are also sending baseball teams to the postseason in the brackets that were announced on Sunday.

PALMDALE – Knight head coach Tom Hegre knows nothing will come easy.

Seven softball teams from the Antelope Valley earned playoff berths in the CIF-Southern Section brackets announced Saturday.

BRENTWOOD — The Paraclete baseball team won a share of the Gold Coast League championship with an 11-3 win at Brentwood High on Friday in the final day of the regular season.

LANCASTER – Prior to entering high school, Highland girls’ basketball coach Jeff Sisson made a promise to Kimberly Leon.

SANTA BARBARA — Just one goal on a bang-bang play separated the Paraclete and San Marcos girls soccer teams on Friday.

EL SEGUNDO — “Campeones!”