By Jessica SHUMATE oming off of a victorious high from beating their biggest rival, Arcadia, on Friday, the Crescenta Valley Falcons girls’ soccer team fought to keep their perfect Pacific League season alive. On Tuesday the girls played the Burroughs Indians for the second time this season. The first half ended with the score of […]
By Jessica SHUMATE, intern After years of success with their athletic program, the athletes and coaching staff of Crescenta Valley High School have finally revealed their secret weapon. Junko Nakayama is the school’s athletic trainer and can be seen alongside the teams, ready to aid an injured player at a moment’s notice. Her intentions of […]
By Brandon HENSLEY week ago, the Falcon boys’ basketball team dropped its second game in a row, another road loss at the hands of the vaunted Pasadena Bulldogs. They also fell to the other Pacific League team with the Bulldogs moniker, Burbank. The Falcons weren’t scoring, weren’t crisp on defense and little resembled the team […]
By Brandon HENSLEY Ric Cly, a local area baseball coach who spent time with St. Francis High School, passed away on Jan. 12 due to complications from leukemia and pneumonia. He was 66. Cly grew up in the San Gabriel Valley, and played baseball and tennis. He turned his attention to coaching after high […]
By Brandon HENSLEY Still wet from another great performance and standing in the shadows, with the words at times struggling to escape her mouth, Audrey Taylor found enough of them to last a few minutes for a postgame interview. Dealing with the chills seems to be the only thing Taylor has trouble with when it […]
By Brandon HENSLEY After a Pacific League-opening win over Burroughs High School on Jan. 5, the Crescenta Valley High boys’ basketball team has stumbled in two defeats since, one to Burbank on Jan. 8 and another to Pasadena on Monday. The team was at Hoover High School on Wednesday before CV Weekly could post results. […]
By Brandon HENSLEY With every rough play, Adam Hochberg and his staff threw their hands up, more incredulous with every new non-call than the last one. The crowd behind them wasn’t too pleased, either. Burroughs High School had its supporters come to the Crescenta Valley High gym and voice displeasure over the way the officials […]
By Leonard COUTIN Flintridge Prep dual star scholars and pole-vaulters Barrett and Gareth Weiss had a very successful track and field season. Gareth won the Division 4 championship title with a height of 15-6. Barrett took second with one fewer miss at 15-6. Barrett won first place at the CIF Masters meet clearing 15-3. Gareth […]
The 2015 year in sports saw championships for Village Christian, the Special Olympics take over Los Angeles for a week and the end of Brian Gadsby’s career as a Falcon. January The train kept on rolling for the 2014 CIF champion Falcons varsity football team, as it was recognized at Supervisor Mike Antonovich’s office […]
By Brandon HENSLEY he roads around Elysian Park were tight and narrow, but runners from 29 Southland middle schools made the best of their day in the LA84 Foundation’s Run4Fun on Dec. 12. Rosemont Middle School was represented with 22 students, who competed in the 1.2-mile race which curved around Dodger Stadium. The Spartan eighth […]