By Brandon HENSLEY The Crescenta Valley High School girls’ water polo team dispatched its CIF first-round opponent Downey on Wednesday at Burbank High, 13-3. The Lady Falcons entered the playoffs as reigning Division V champions, and were ranked third in the division at season’s end. They captured their fifth straight Pacific League championship last week. […]
By Brandon HENSLEY Last week the employees of Baked on Oceanview were getting ready for prom by using Styrofoam and sharing a hot glue gun. Makeshift dresses? Not quite. Behind the counter in the kitchen area, Danielle Ortiz, Leslie Garcia and Natalie Leist were pitching in for Baked’s involvement with a themed prom for elite […]
The CV High School senior may be preparing for graduation … but first, it’s the Pacific League playoffs. By Brandon HENSLEY Explanations can be tricky. For instance, one night in December one of Ella Stepanian’s black Converse shoes got jammed in one of the steps of the Crescenta Valley High School gymnasium bleachers. Don’t ask […]
Falcon basketball can win at least a share of league with a win tonight. It will have been a long time coming. By Brandon HENSLEY If you ask Shawn Zargarian how many games in a row his Crescenta Valley High School basketball team has won, he’ll say he has no idea. If you ask him […]
By Brandon HENSLEY For the Crescenta Valley High School boys’ basketball team, the theme the past week was “playing from behind.” The boys went 3-0 starting last Friday against Muir High School, Monday vs. Burroughs and Wednesdays vs. Burbank. They trailed in all three games, looking especially sluggish in the first two, but rallied for […]
By Brandon HENSLEY One night at the CrossFit Survival studio in La Crescenta, a man walked in to meet with coaches Shannon Franklin and Erik Boyd. He opened the doors and saw Boyd performing gymnastic moves on rings that hung from the ceiling, quickly dropping down and going into a “burpee” – a pushup when […]
Peyton’s legacy, Seattle’s defense and cold weather: CV Weekly’s sportswriters make their picks for the Big Game. Brandon HENSLEY The easiest Super Bowls to watch are the ones where your heart can sit comfortably without being pulled in every which way, where you don’t have to sit on the edge of your seat rooting for […]
By Brandon HENSLEY The Crescenta Valley High School boys’ basketball team went 1-1 this past week, falling to Pasadena on Friday 65-57 and winning at Hoover on Tuesday 68-43. Junior guard Kyle Currie scored 25 points on seven 3-pointers on Tuesday, as the Falcons improved their season record to 11-8, and 4-2 in a Pacific […]
By Brandon HENSLEY Toward the end of the second quarter of Tuesday’s game against Hoover High School, the Crescenta Valley varsity girls basketball team finally started looking like the team that has so far enjoyed a nice run in the Pacific League. After a stagnate quarter-and-a-half, the Lady Falcons upped their defensive intensity and put […]
Water Polo By Brandon HENSLEY Crescenta Valley High School girls’ water polo Coach Brent Danna wasn’t sure how to describe his team’s success midway through the season. So far, though, it appears the Lady Falcons’ play in the water has done most of the talking for him. “I don’t know if I […]