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LANCASTER — The Palmdale Aerospace girls volleyball team won the championship match at the Desert Christian Tournament on Saturday at Desert Christian High School.
LANCASTER — Lee Solomon hit a grand slam in the second inning, leading the Lake Elsinore Storm to a 12-4 win over the Lancaster JetHawks on Friday.
LANCASTER — There’s an old saying about, “taking one step forward and two steps back.”
LINDSAY — The California City football team lost its season opener to Lindsay 26-14 on Friday.
LITTLEROCK — The Rosamond football team built a 28-point lead and was able to withstand a Littlerock rally in the second half on Friday night at Littlerock High School.
SAN BERNARDINO — Devin Davis hit a two-run single in the seventh inning, leading the Inland Empire 66ers to a 3-2 win over the Lancaster JetHawks on Thursday. The win snapped a three-game losing streak for the 66ers and a four-game winning streak for the JetHawks.
Quickening Soccer qualified for its second straight Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. Qualifying amateur teams were announced by U.S. Soccer on Wednesday.
ACTON — The Antelope Valley girls volleyball team won its second consecutive match to open the season, in four sets 25-23, 17-25, 25-21, 25-18 at Vasquez High on Thursday.
It’s nothing new for Todd Davis to enter an NFL season playing for a new head coach.
It’s just a coincidence, of course.
LANCASTER — When the Valley’s ranchers and farmers got together 85 years ago at this time for some good-natured competition in something called the Harvest Festival, they had no idea of the history they were about to create.
One of the most intriguing championship chases in American motorsports resumes this weekend at World Wide Technology Raceway outside St. Louis.
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.
SAN BERNARDINO —Luis Castro hit a three-run home run in the fifth inning, leading the Lancaster JetHawks to a 4-1 win over the Inland Empire 66ers on Tuesday.
ROSAMOND — The Rosamond girls volleyball team won its season opener on Tuesday, in straight sets against visiting Immanuel Christian, 25-21, 25-13, 25-17, at Rosamond High.
Perry Jehlicka’s bride of 16 years blindsided the Antelope Valley College football coach with a question the other day.
Baseball
CARSON — Hold off on those Easton Stick third quarterback stories.
Diaz’s single leads JetHawks over Nuts
MODESTO — Julio Rodriguez hit a grand slam in the seventh inning, leading the Modesto Nuts to a 13-1 win over the Lancaster JetHawks on Friday.
Why do the gods of baseball always use us to demonstrate the hallowed canons of the game?
LANCASTER — It’s only one loss, the JetHawks reassured themselves after their ninth-inning collapse Wednesday night turned a 10-run lead into a one-run loss.
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.
Yankee Stadium is 103 miles from Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa.
At first blush, it’s complicated.
LANCASTER — After all the wind, after all the heat, after all the relentless sun and the grind of 121 games and thousands of unpaid frequent driver miles, it comes down to this for the Lancaster JetHawks:
LANCASTER — Her own pictures for the website and season-long publicity use long since stored in sports information director Monroe Bell’s cameras, the new University of Antelope Valley women’s volleyball coach figured to be done for Media Day last Friday.
Lakers or Clippers?
Nothing life ever so unfairly threw at Herb Wyre could remove the smile from his face.
LIMA, Peru — Highland grad Rachel Garcia has yet another medal to add to her ever-growing trophy case (which still needs to be crafted).
LANCASTER — That ol’ Saturday night black-(and-purple/silver) magic worked again.
LANCASTER — The Visalia Rawhide displayed why they have the best record in the California League Friday night, handing the JetHawks a loss, 8-3, in front of 4,060 at The Hangar. Visalia scored five early runs and never looked back.
LOS ANGELES — Russell Martin enjoyed having Will Smith, Dustin May, Matt Beaty, Edwin Rios and the test of the Dodgers’ Kiddie Corps jumping on top of him for change.
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