2013 Archive Stories

OCVarsity has complete coverage of the CIF-Southern Section baseball playoffs, including updated  brackets from each of the seven divisions. Click on the links below to see all of this season's playoff brackets: DIVISION 1

Taking a look at Orange County baseball ... •It's been said that misery loves company, and Mater Dei had plenty of it Thursday. The Monarchs were one of three top-seeded teams to lose CIF-Southern Section first-round playoff games that day. Bonita of La Verne and Paraclete of Lancaster lost first-round games in divisions 3 and 5, re

LOMPOC – By La Purisima Golf Course standards the wind was rather calm Monday, feeling more like a gentle breeze than the wild, unforgiving 20 mph gusts that usually blow in the afternoon. So conditions were just about ideal to post a low score. But La Purisima still proved to be quite a challenge as only five players in the CIF-SS

Michigan pitcher Haylie Wagner, a former three-time All-County selection from El Modena High, will be providing OCVarsity with a daily blog throughout the NCAA softball championships and hopefully into the College World Series. Hi everyone! My name is Haylie Wagner and I play softball at the University of Michigan. I am from the C

Jake Arnitz Esperanza Arnitz, a junior opposite, carried the Aztecs to the CIF-SS Division 2 title, recording 44 kills on 72 attempts in the four-set victory over Santa Barbara Saturday. In the last three rounds, Arnitz averaged 37 kills a match.

Jesse Kuet Huntington Beach High School He was 5 for 8 with two runs scored over two Oilers playoff victories as they beat Martin Luther King of Riverside and national-No. 1 Mater Dei by 2-1 scores. Kuet, a junior shortstop, is batting .386 with four home runs and 18 RBIs. He has scholarship offers from Cal Poly S

Media polling concluded at the end of the regular season. If polling continued through the playoffs, this is how Steve Fryer would have voted: Ranking, School (League) Record 1. El Toro (South Coast) 21-6 2. Fo

Several of the county's top athletes will look to punch their tickets to the 2013 CIF State Track and Field Championships at the CIF-SS Masters Meet on Friday at Cerritos College. Here are the athletes that qualified and are scheduled to compete. Athletes that place in the top six in their respective events will automatical

Danielle Darden Aliso Niguel High School Darden produced a historic day of sprinting at the CIF-SS Divisional Finals. She set a new wind-legal county record in the 200 with a time of 24.04 and ran the fastest 100 (11.56) in county hi

Myles Hawkins Orange Lutheran The Lancers junior produced three lifetime best marks to win three individual titles at the CIF-SS Divisional Finals. Spurred by Hawkins winning the long jump (23-5¼), the high jump (6 feet, eight in

Several of the county's top athletes will look to punch their tickets to the 2013 CIF State Track and Field Championships at the CIF-SS Masters Meet on Friday at Cerritos College. Here are the athletes that qualified and are scheduled to compete. Athletes that place in the top six in their respective events will automatical

Kylee Vandenberg San Juan Hills High School Track and field GPA: 4.00 Vandenberg, the captain of the Stallions track team, has also been a high level achiever in her academics and in her school community. Her classes include: AP Psychology, AP Statistics, Anatomy, and Government/Econ

Bill Heisler Santa Margarita High School Baseball GPA: 4.73 Heisler, a team captain who has helped pitch the Eagles to the CIF playoffs, has also been exemplary in his scholastic accomplishments. He is currently taking IB Latin HL 2, IB Economics SL, IB Philosophy HL 2, IB English HL 2, Honors Physics, and AP Calc

Kylee Vandenberg San Juan Hills High School Track and field GPA: 4.00 Vandenberg, the captain of the Stallions track team, has also been a high level achiever in her academics and in her school community. Her classes include: AP Psychology, AP Statistics, Anatomy, and Government/Econ

University and Corona del Mar's third meeting of the season in last Friday's CIF-Southern Section Division 1 title match might not be the last. As expected, the now-four-time defending CIF-SS champion Trojans (21-0) drew the No. 1 seed in the CIF USTA Southern Regional Boys Tennis Championships, a new 16-team tournament that begins Tuesd

Bill Heisler Santa Margarita High School Baseball GPA: 4.73 Heisler, a team captain who has helped pitch the Eagles to the CIF playoffs, has also been exemplary in his scholastic accomplishments. He is currently taking IB Latin HL 2, IB Economics SL, IB Philosophy HL 2, IB English HL 2,

Marina softball coach Shelly Luth is expecting another tough game when the third-seeded Vikings play at Etiwanda in the second round of the CIF-SS Division 1 playoffs Tuesday at 3:15 p.m. Luth was looking for someone to throw batting practice Monday, so she called on Amanda Freed. Yes, that Amanda Freed, one of the

OCVarsity has complete coverage of the CIF-Southern Section softball playoffs, including updated  brackets from each of the seven divisions. Click on the links below to see all of this season's playoff brackets: Division 1

The season continues Tuesday for Huntington Beach, Esperanza, San Clemente, Saddleback Valley Christian and St. Margaret's boys volleyball teams. The teams were selected for the Southern California Regional tournament. First-round matches are Tuesday, followed by regional semifinals on Thursday. The regional finals are Saturday a

The CIF released the seedings and the pairings for the Southern California Regional on Saturday night. The first round matches are Tuesday at the home team school. The quarterfinals and semifinals will be held Friday at The Claremont Club, and the finals will be held Saturday at the same location. The seedings: No.

WALNUT – Though she didn't win either of her races, Aliso Niguel senior Danielle Darden can lay claim to running the 100 and 200 faster than any other sprinter in county history. Darden recorded the fastest 100 time under all conditions in county history and set the wind-legal county record in the 200 at the CIF-SS Divisiona

ORANGE – It had been nearly 20 years since the last CIF-SS finals appearance for the Huntington Beach boys volleyball program. Saturday night, it might have felt that long for the Oilers to finally end the drought. The fourth-seeded Oilers dropped two of the first three sets, the first two of the playoffs, but found enough

WALNUT – The best overall performance of junior Myles Hawkins' high school career spurred Orange Lutheran to the Division 3 title for the first time at the CIF-SS Divisional Finals for track and field on Saturday at Mt. San Antonio College. Hawkins produced three lifetime bests en route to winning three individual titles, an

Click through the slideshow to see photos from the CIF-SS Divisional Track and Field Finals held on Saturday (May 18, 2013).

ORANGE – Jake Arnitz delivered again when his Esperanza teammates needed him. Arnitz, a junior opposite hitter, tallied 44 kills on 72 attempts (.514) to carry the top-seeded Aztecs to the CIF-SS Division 2 title, defeating third-seeded Santa Barbara, 21-25, 25-20, 25-23, 25-17, Saturday at Santiago Canyon College. "We stru