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Halfway there

LOS ANGELES -- The Pauley Pavilion crowd and UCLA seemed stunned when Cal State Bakersfield controlled Friday night's game for much of the first half.

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Condors solve power struggle, put away Aces

Perhaps the Aces, the most penalized team in the ECHL, figured they could take liberties with the Condors Friday night at Rabobank Arena.
Hawks grind one out

Centennial football coach Bryan Nixon told his Golden Hawks in the locker room Friday before their first-round playoff game with Clovis East the story of a welder, who was told again and again that he would never make anything out of a block.
Nov. 20 high school football playoff scores

Central Section playoffs
No. 6 Rams start fast, never let up in rout

Garces used a familiar formula in its playoff opener against Reedley:
Van Horne loving BC's aerial attack this year

Vince Van Horne is no stranger to playoff games, thanks to his years at Bakersfield High School and now as a sophomore wideout at Bakersfield College.
Dogins, Wolf Pack survive shootout

No. 6 Ridgeview rode a big third quarter on its way to a 42-30 victory against No. 11 Hanford West in the first round of Division III playoffs at Wolf Pack Stadium on Friday night.
Nov. 20 local report: CSUB softball program signs 4

Cal State Bakersfield has signed four high school seniors to softball letters of intent, Roadrunner coach Kathy Welter announced.
Trojans stand pat, stun South

Foothill coach Mike Gregg didn't give a fiery pep talk. He knew his players didn't need it. His players down 6-0 at halftime, Gregg calmly told them to just keep doing what they doing.
Warriors draw early blood on young Lions

TEHACHAPI Tehachapi put its first-round Division III playoff game out of reach on its first three possessions en route to a 49-16 victory over visiting Mira Monte on Friday.
CSUB grinds out a win

Cal State Bakersfield is going to look to its veterans to make big plays when games are on the line.
Nov. 19 local college roundup: BC seals outright WSC volleyball title with three-set win

Bakersfield College wrapped up the outright Western State Conference South Division volleyball title with a 25-17, 25-12, 25-20 win over Glendale in the regular season finale.
CSUB players won't be intimidated by UCLA's storied program

UCLA. Arguably the most storied program in college basketball's history.
Frontier outlasts Garces in five games for Division II volleyball crown

Four years ago, with a bunch of athletes who didn't look like much of a volleyball team, Frontier coach Steve Bentley told his players to believe.
Tehachapi KOs Exeter for Central Section Division III volleyball title

TEHACHAPI -- With four finals appearances in five years, and still nothing to show for it, something was bound give for the Tehachapi volleyball team.
BC football players get jackets from sponsor Clifford & Bradford

The Bakersfield College football team and others at BC received jackets Thursday from Clifford & Bradford Insurance, the game sponsor for Saturday's sixth annual Golden Empire Bowl.
Steve Merlo: Annual Sportsman's Night banquet draws 700-plus

More than 700 people attended the 59th annual Sportsman's Night dinner and banquet last Tuesday evening, with lots of prizes, including 25 guns, given away through the various raffles and door prizes. But, on a sour note that marred an otherwise great evening of fun, two 15-foot-tall inflatable advertising displays, shaped like Budweiser beer bottles, mysteriously disappeared and need to be returned, practical joke or not, as soon as possible. The missing items are owned by Advance Beverage Co. and cost over $2,000 each. The bottles can be picked up or returned by Monday, November 23, no questions asked, prior to charges being filed with the Bakersfield Police or Kern County Sheriff's Departments. Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of said displays needs to contact Jim Roberts at 661-805-5766.
Condors' Weller a 'great leader of men'

Shawn Weller had just completed a round of golf in early September when he noticed there were several missed calls from the Ottawa Senators on his phone.
Prep football playoffs can be a good thing even for losing teams

Highland's football team lost seven games in a row to end the season, all of them by at least 14 points. In recapping the season, Scots coach Tim Hartnett bemoans his team's youth, lack of depth and bad luck with injuries and scheduling.
Nov. 19 fish report

Kern County and southern San Joaquin Valley
Cool under pressure: Condors win in shootout

The Bakersfield misfires were numerous for 65 minutes Wednesday at Rabobank Arena, but the Condors were dead-on when the game against the Ontario Reign came down to a skills competition.