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VAN NUYS — Highland senior Naomi Diaz won her weight class and was named the overall outstanding Wrestler at the Birmingham Tournament on Saturday.
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LANCASTER — Just 12.2 seconds from the finish, John Taylor finally got a call.
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LITTLEROCK — The Palmdale boys basketball team worked hard for its first Golden League win of the season in an 88-78 double overtime victory over Littlerock on Friday.
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LANCASTER — The Gregg Anderson Memorial Tournament is always personal for Antelope Valley College Basketball.
LANCASTER — For the second consecutive week, the Highland football team was lifting a championship plaque into the air after a victory.
LANCASTER — Antelope Valley College’s basketball men hope some homecooking will kick-start their season in the 68th Annual Gregg Anderson Invitational Tournament tipping off today in Marauder Gym.
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QUARTZ HILL — Both the Eastside and Quartz Hill girls soccer teams were playing just their second match of the season, but one that would have implications for the Golden League title, on Thursday.
LANCASTER — They played with more urgency. They got after the ball more. They outrebounded their opponent. They just wanted it more.
John Taylor arrived in the Valley in 1987.
LANCASTER — The Paraclete boys basketball team defeated Littlerock 91-58 on Thursday in the third of three games at the Tom’s Famous Family Restaurants Basketball Showcase at Paraclete High.
PALMDALE — The Highland football team had one focus the entire season — get back to a CIF championship game and win it.
PALMDALE — The Palmdale Aerospace Academy boys basketball head coach Keith Bennett said his team has had mental lapses in many of their games this season.
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LANCASTER — The Littlerock wrestling team defeated Antelope Valley 73-9 in a Golden League match at Antelope Valley High on Wednesday.
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Kyle Larson will race anything, against anyone, anywhere, any time.
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The Paraclete boys basketball program will host the Tom’s Famous Family Restaurants Basketball Showcase with three games today and three on Saturday.
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Fourth Saturday Classic Car Show: 4 to 8 p.m. the fourth Saturday of each month in the Rancho Vista shopping center at 30th Street West and Rancho Vista Boulevard (Avenue P). Registration is a $5 donation. For details, call (661) 816-2216.
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The colors on Colton Herta’s Harding Steinbrenner Racing IndyCar should have been the first clue.
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PALMDALE — The Knight boys basketball team fought back from a late 10-point deficit to defeat Palmdale 66-64 in the Golden League opener for both teams on Tuesday.
LANCASTER — The Eastside girls soccer team had no preparation to defend their Golden League title.
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They were thrown together by circumstance in 2011.
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QUARTZ HILL — There is no clear cut favorite to win the Golden League title this season.
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PALMDALE — Dean Gorder wanted to emphasize the importance of dreams and goals to his Palmdale Learning Plaza sixth graders.
It’s hard to believe we lost him 10 years ago Dec. 23.
MOJAVE — The Lancaster boys soccer team defeated Mojave 5-0 in a non-league match on Monday.
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Fresh off its first CIF-Southern Section Division title, the Highland football team will now look toward a state title.
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Four Valley athletes competed at the CIF-State Cross Country Championships in Fresno on Saturday.
They’ve been going on since 1876, and annually since 1933.
Todd Davis and his roommate ended every night in their rookie trying camp in 2014 reading the Book of Job.
PALMDALE — It’s been 371 long days.
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If you have had a conversation with Isaiah Creech this week, sooner rather than later, the talk turned to tonight’s CIF-Southern Section Division 9 championship game against North Torrance.
Arizona Cardinals cornerback Josh Shaw, a Palmdale High grad, has been suspended through at least the end of the 2020 season for betting on NFL games on multiple occasions this season, the first time in more than 35 years a player has been banned for gambling.
BLOOMINGTON — The emotions of the Lancaster Baptist players and coaches were hidden after their game Friday night by the rain that began when the team went into its postgame huddle.
John Alvarez is as much a life coach as a football coach at Lancaster Baptist.
LANCASTER — The Lancaster Baptist football team and coach John Alvarez relied on past players to get where the Eagles are this season.
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Families have all sorts of Thanksgiving traditions.
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It’s the second-oldest motor race in America.
Fourth Saturday Classic Car Show: 4 to 8 p.m. the fourth Saturday of each month in the Rancho Vista shopping center at 30th Street West and Rancho Vista Boulevard (Avenue P). Registration is a $5 donation. For details, call (661) 816-2216.
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