Cal State ʦapp announced Monday it has selected a new head baseball coach with 20 years of coaching and recruiting experience who most recently led Michigan's University of Oakland to its first 30-win season in 27 years.
Player of the year
The Houston Astros selected CSUB pitcher Ryan Verdugo with the 28th pick in the 12th round Tuesday of the Major League Baseball Draft.
Fresno State senior Tommy Hopfe, a 2020 Frontier graduate, was selected in the ninth round on Day 2 of the Major League Baseball Draft on Monday, taken 258th overall by the Colorado Rockies.
It was an amazing high school baseball season, with two area teams winning a Southern California Regional championship and two others capturing Central Section titles.
ʦapp Condors head coach Colin Chaulk and assistant coach Keith McCambridge have signed contract extensions to remain in their current positions, the team announced through a news release issued Monday.
Volleyball season for Cal State ʦapp will open Aug. 30-31in Orem, Utah, at the Utah Valley Invitational.
A double dose of racing and aerial fireworks shows are on tap this weekend as both ʦapp Speedway and Kevin Harvick’s Kern Raceway are holding major events on different nights.
Kamren Larsen refers to himself as a “normal ʦapp kid” who grew up riding his bicycle around the neighborhood with his friends. But now, Larsen can call himself a U.S. Olympian for the BMX racing team after he qualified for the Paris Olympics this summer.
With a four-run lead and nine outs left from its first regional baseball title, No. 2 ʦapp Christian was primed to close out a dominant performance against top-seeded Bellflower-St. John Bosco on Saturday night.
No. 8 Chavez scored two runs in the top of the ninth and then held on for an 8-6 victory over No. 2 Azusa at Azusa Pacific University in Saturday's Southern Californian Regional Division-V championship game.
The list of Liberty's baseball heroes is about as long as the Patriots' roster.
And then there were three.
SHAFTER — It’s one thing to ready oneself for the palpable excitement around a rivalry game against a league rival in the state playoffs.
Don’t let the relatively pristine uniform fool you, as one opposing player said it best, ʦapp Christian pitcher Mason Brassfield “was filthy” on Thursday afternoon.
There’s a good reason Liberty baseball coach Tony Mills has so much confidence in Brock Thompson’s ability to come through in the clutch.
Talk about a perfect storm. It's been more like a tornado the last few weeks, as Kern County’s remaining baseball and softball teams continue to blow away the competition.
The last time Liberty’s Chance Gerecke stepped on a mound, things didn't go as well as he had hoped.
At this point it’s almost expected that the ʦapp Christian softball team is going to win every time it takes the field.
ʦapp Christian standout McCoy Silicz said he felt comfortable long before delivering the first pitch for the Eagles in Tuesday's playoff game.
Jeremy Beard will no longer be head baseball coach at Cal State ʦapp, the university announced in a news release Tuesday.
ʦapp Christian senior Austin Cusator was honored with the Hank Pfister Sportsmanship Award from by the Kern County Tennis Association.
A jammed-packed postseason of Kern County high school baseball and softball will continue this week when the Southern California Regionals playoffs begin Tuesday.
VISALIA — With trophy in hand, the Liberty baseball team couldn’t contain itself any longer, celebrating in unison across all corners of Valley Strong Ballpark Saturday night.
The old South Sequoia League rivalry between Taft and ʦapp Christian had that old-school, grind-it-out feeling.
Jalen Ford’s confidence was sky-high, even if his even-keel personality didn’t show it.
VISALIA — It wasn’t the ending that Chavez baseball coach Scott Neal anticipated, but the 16-year coach will take it nonetheless.
VISALIA — The Independence baseball team certainly deserved better.
VISALIA — Just when you thought ʦapp Christian was going to roll to its second straight Central Section baseball title, the Eagles’ Division-II opponent Atascadero went and made things interesting with a seventh-inning rally.
VISALIA — Ninety-six years in the making, the Shafter baseball team finally got its Central Section championship.
Mia Torrecillas put away the heartbreak of last season and made the most in her final CIF State Track and Field Championships.
Kern County track and field fans have seen this play out before.
With the school year winding down, the spring high school sports season is making one last push in what promises to be a busy weekend of track and field, baseball and softball for Kern County schools.
TAFT — There were no nervous moments or feelings of apprehension this time for the Taft softball team. After winning a nail-biter in the quarterfinals, the top-seeded Wildcats turned Wednesday's Central Section Division III semifinal against visiting Tulare Western into a foregone conclusion…
In a season of the long ball, ʦapp Christian’s 36th home run of the season may have been the Eagles' biggest.
Liberty junior Ty Weaver shot a 1-under-par 73 Wednesday to finish tied for 29th in the CIF Southern California Regional Boys Golf Championship at Los Serranos Golf Course in Chino Hills.
Famoso Dragstrip will host the West Coast Classic beginning today, drawing bracket racers from across the country.
Tuesday’s Central Section Division II baseball semifinal between Lemoore and ʦapp Christian reaffirmed that the Eagles have more than one pitching ace.
With a spot in their second Central Section Division-I baseball final in four years on the line, Liberty tripled its efforts against visiting Clovis North on Tuesday.
Heading into Wednesday’s Central Section softball semifinals, Kern County is assured of having at least one local team in this weekend’s championship games at Fresno State’s Margie Wright Diamond.
As we head into the final week of the Central Section baseball playoffs, six teams are still alive heading into Tuesday’s semifinal matchups.
