After a pair of blowouts, Part III of the Buchanan versus El Camino Real girls soccer trilogy was a nail-bitter decided by the colossal throw-in launched by Carley McBeath. The San Jose State-bound senior’s extraordinarily long lob sailed to the far post, where Alex Marquez was waiting to head in the game’s only goal in [...]

It’s the Central Section championship with more sequels than the “Die Hard” movies. A week after the debut of the latest Bruce Willis action flick, it’s Buchanan High vs. Stockdale, Part 6, in the Division I girls soccer final. The third-seeded Bears (18-4-1) and fourth-seeded Mustangs (15-8-3) kick off at 2 p.m. today at Buchanan [...]

BOYS SOCCER – Clovis West earned a quarterfinal date Friday with top-seeded Bakersfield as Nick Marrone scored twice in the eighth-seeded Golden Eagles’ 4-2 victory over No. 9 Tulare Western in the opening round of the Central Section Division I playoffs. Fifth-seeded Clovis North — after Gerrardo Castillo scored two goals in a 3-0 win [...]

Jerrica Babb entered Caruthers High four years ago with a background as a defender on the club soccer circuit and the skills to play varsity as a freshman. But when Blue Raiders coach Jonathan Allen determined his 2009-10 team was lacking a legitimate scoring threat, he made Babb a forward. “It was a surprise to [...]

BOYS BASKETBALL Keonta Vernon scored 17 points to become Tulare’s career scoring leader, and Oscar Reyes put in a career-high 25 as The Bee’s Central Section No. 7-ranked Tulare beat Delano 79-49 in the East Yosemite League. Vernon now has 1,806 points in four varsity seasons, surpassing the 1,793 that Myron Epps scored from 1996-98. [...]

GIRLS BASKETBALL Brittany Sims scored 14 of Edison’s 16 fourth-quarter points as The Bee’s Central Section No. 9-ranked Tigers pulled away from No. 4 Bullard for a 56-51 win and sole possession of first place in the County/Metro Athletic Conference. Sims finished with 24 points. Aarion McDonald had 35 for Bullard. Jasmine Black scored 22 [...]