By Brandon HENSLEY On the heels of winning a share of the Pacific League championship for the first time since 2014, the Crescenta Valley High School boys’ basketball team opened its CIF Division I playoff season Wednesday night at home against Crespi High. If the Falcons won, they would play Friday at Valencia at 7 […]
Brandon HENSLEY When a regular season game on a Tuesday night in January feels like a Friday night playoff game in February, it usually means the big dogs are in town. More specifically, the Pasadena Bulldogs, the team that wins Pacific League championships the way Meryl Streep racks up Oscar nominations. But something happened on […]
By Brandon HENSLEY During its Jan. 16 meeting, the Crescenta Valley Town Council swore-in the members who were elected in November. LA County Supervisor Kathryn Barger did the honors of welcoming back president Harry Leon, Donna Libra and Aram Ordubegian. The alternates for this year will be Ted Lu, Jeffrey Rodriguez and Ruben Gonzalez. Barger […]
By Brandon HENSLEY Major League Baseball came down on the Houston Astros on Monday for its involvement stealing opposing teams’ signs via video technology in 2017 and 2018. Commissioner Rob Manfred issued a nine-page report on his findings, which led him this week to suspend Astros manager AJ Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow for […]
By Brandon HENSLEY Upsets happen all the time. Just last week in the NFL, the Tennessee Titans, who were 9-7 in the regular season, defeated the 14-2 Baltimore Ravens, who had the presumptive MVP, quarterback Lamar Jackson. Now the Ravens are out, while the Titans will try another near impossible task this weekend against the […]
By Brandon HENSLEY The Crescenta Valley girls’ basketball team has had an up-and-down season so far in the Pacific League. After Tuesday’s 50-47 loss to Glendale High School, the Lady Falcons sit at 2-3 in league (12-7 overall) and in fifth place, a game behind 3-2 Arcadia. CV led Glendale 24-17 at the half, but […]
By Brandon HENSLEY As everyone rings in the new year, Crescenta Valley High School will refamiliarize itself with teams from the Pacific League as both the boys’ and girls’ basketball squads will host the Muir Mustangs on Friday. The beginning of the new year and the return from winter break used to mean that the […]
By Brandon HENSLEY Historic seasons for Crescenta Valley basketball, swimming, softball and football highlight a successful year January It was announced that CVHS would debut its boys’ lacrosse program this spring. The team is composed of mostly freshmen, along with two sophomores, and is hoping to compete in the JV level of CIF – […]
By Brandon HENSLEY With the winter break upon Glendale area schools, it’s tournament time for both the Crescenta Valley boys and girls’ varsity basketball teams. Both squads were off for the beginning of the week as final exams took precedent, but today the boys’ team will be back at it at Burbank High to take […]
By Brandon HENSLEY With football fever gripping the Falcon community this season, it might have been easy to overlook the unofficial start to basketball season last week. The annual alumni game between former Falcon greats and the current varsity squad went head-to-head on Nov. 27 inside the main gym at Crescenta Valley High and, as […]