The 2019 So Cal Level 5-10 and JD Division 1 State Gymnastics Championship was held March 15-17 at Crossroads Gym in Santa Monica. In attendance were 11 of Perfect 10’s Competitive Boys Team members. At this competition, all 11 gymnasts had the opportunity to qualify to the 2019 Men’s Region…

Warrior softball continued their winning ways last week, taking 3 of 4 games in a jam-packed schedule, starting Monday with a game at home against league rival Golden Valley. It took a while for the offense to get going, as the Warriors held on to a slim 2-0 lead into the bottom of the fifth.

Not sure if he coined the phrase, but college hoops broadcaster Dick Vitale certainly has made "diaper dandy" synonymous with himself by selecting an honorary team each season of the best freshmen players in college basketball. It’s one of the biggest honors for the best young players in the game.

Former Tehachapi High School softball standout Erin Askins has been named Rookie of the Week of the Liberty League for her contributions to the 19th-ranked Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute softball team. RPI is located in Troy, N.Y., near the capitol city of Albany, and competes in the NCAA …

Tehachapi Valley Wrestling Club has been busy with local Bakersfield mat action. TVWC competed March 30 at the KCWA Rebel Rumble hosted at South High School with 13 wrestlers bringing home medals.

The junior varsity Braves beat West 24-7 in a home game on April 1.

Vail Lake once again hosted the NICA, SoCal League’s mountain bike race, the weekend of March 30 and 31.

The Jacobsen Middle School track and field season is off to another great start. The team participated in the Ridgecrest Junior Olympic Track Meet on March 30.

It's good to be the home team.

When it comes to policy, not much good normally comes out of the Bay Area; those of us who have lived in this state long enough understand that. However, I’m never one for shorting credit where credit it due, and for the first time in recent memory, the Bay Area might be on to something.

The drought may be over for California, but all the rain and snow this winter and spring has caused a drought of a different sort for Warrior softball. After having their first home game delayed by three and a half weeks, one tournament delayed, another canceled outright, and several home ga…

Chalk this one up to social media once again getting it wrong, or at least blowing it completely out of proportion. Long before the ability to record every waking moment for later playback, review and outrage, we lived much simpler and rational lives. Sometimes I wish it were still that way.

The junior varsity Braves lost to Independence High on March 26. The score was 9-8.

Tehachapi Valley Wrestling Club had 12 wrestlers compete in Freestyle at the KCWA Foothill Jr. Tournament March 23 hosted by Foothill Jr. Wrestling Club.

Tehachapi Valley Recreation & Park District reported a successful season by wrapping up its youth basketball season March 16 with division championships.

Tehachapi mountain bike team had its second race of the season March 16 and 17. There were 990 Southern California riders registered. Our team brought home one fourth-place medal and one fifth-place medal and once again many top finishers. Heritage Oak School received a second-place award fo…

Last week I watched one of my alma maters and former broadcast gigs make history. My college team, Point Loma Nazarene University, clinched the NCAA Division II West Regional Men’s Basketball Championship and punched their ticket to the Division II Elite Eight in Evansville, Ind. In the Divi…

Tehachapi Valley Wrestling Club sent six wrestlers to the California USA Wrestling Folkstyle State Tournament held in Fresno on March 9 and 10.

I’m not about to join the $500 billion lawsuit filed by a parent who felt her child was denied access to college as a result of the admittance of fake athletes scandal uncovered last week by the FBI. This included several high-profile universities, among them and the closest to us, Universit…

The rain and snow clouds parted long enough last week for the Tehachapi Warriors softball team to finally play a pair of league match-ups. After a previous week of two canceled home games and a postponed Bakersfield Driller tournament, the team was understandably anxious to get back on the field.

Tehachapi High School boys golf has started the 2019 season, beginning the year at the North High tournament at North Kern Golf Course. The THS team competed against eight other Bakersfield high schools and finished in third place.

Friday evening, dozens of people sat in their warm homes under a heavy rainfall. They repetitively checked the forecast for the next day’s wavering rain prediction, with a 40 percent chance of rain to 60 percent, then 70 percent to 50 percent and high and low it went. They had committed to h…

Tehachapi Valley Wrestling Club started its spring season of Freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling.

All right winter, enough already. We get it, but it’s time to play ball.

Tehachapi Valley Wrestling Club recently finished their folkstyle season with the CVYWA Masters Tournament and KCWA Folkstyle Championships.

Spring has almost sprung, and that means the Tehachapi Warriors softball team is back in action for a new season. Despite a slew of game cancellations due to all of our wet weather, the Warriors finally took to the field on Wednesday, Feb. 27, for a pair of games at the North Lead-Off Classi…

The weekend of Feb. 23 and 24, Tehachapi mountain bike team had their first cross-country mountain bike race of the season. Thirty-four Tehachapi students went head to head against 1,057 riders from Southern California and brought home a third-place medal along with many top finishes.

I went down this road after football season, but I feel it’s customary to write something similar now that the Tehachapi basketball season has come to an end. Having completed my first season as the public address announcer for Tehachapi basketball, I owe everyone a heartfelt thank you, beca…

Local Tehachapi BMX racer Jeremy Ireland earned his 10th win in the Novice Class racing at Metro BMX in Bakersfield on Feb. 24. Jeremy, 30, will now move up in proficiency to the Intermediate Class.

Perfect 10’s Competitive Boys Team competed at the SCMGA North Conference Championships on Sunday, Feb. 17, at Victory Gymnastics in Newbury Park. All of Perfect 10’s boys team members met the qualifying placement to be eligible to compete at state championships.

Following the Lady Warriors' loss in the Central Section Division II semifinals, one could probably ask a lot of questions. First, how is a school like Tehachapi playing Bakersfield High, a team with more assistant coaches on the bench than the Warriors have players? Or, what is a school wit…

The Tehachapi High School Freshman Basketball Team won first place in League play with a record of nine wins and one loss.

Once again it’s mountain bike season. It’s the time of year when 40 Tehachapi students brave the cold weather and mountainous terrain to prepare for NICA’s SoCal mountain bike races.

It’s been a banner week for Tehachapi home basketball. The crowds were great, the support hit the next level and for the Lady Warriors, that helped them advance to the CIF Central Section Division II semifinals.

Tehachapi Valley Wrestling Club competed in the South Section Valley Qualifying Tournament in Porterville on Feb. 10. TVWC had 20 wrestlers putting their skills to the test with 17 of them qualifying for the Masters tournament.

The Lady Warriors wrapped up the soccer season "leaving it all on the field." Unfortunately, their passionate play was not rewarded with a win in the last five games.

Despite a 52-41 loss in the regular-season finale that cost the Lady Warriors the outright South Yosemite League championship, Tehachapi was still awarded the fourth seed in the upcoming CIF Central Section Division II Playoffs and could have two home games in their quest for a CIF Championship.

Well, here we go, it’s playoffs time, and as they say, “all roads lead to Selland Arena,” the home of the CIF Central Section Basketball Championships.

Senior Meghan Daffern joined a host of other Kern County athletes this past week signing a National Letter of Intent to continue their education and playing careers at a four-year institution.

Tehachapi Valley Wrestling Club Sent three of its middle school wrestlers to the Dinuba Invitational on Jan. 26.

Adam Lomonaco knocked down three fourth-quarter three-pointers and fellow senior Jarod Carol paced three Warriors in double figures with 16 points as the senior class shined on Senior Night with a 59-56 win over Ridgeview Friday night.