The Condors were bottled up in their own zone, the starting three had been trapped on ice for nearly two minutes of overtime, but Cooper Marody and Tyler Benson were calm on the bench awaiting their turn.
LEMOORE - It was all about the hats for the Golden Valley girls wrestling team.
Cal State Bakersfield trailed almost the entire game and lost to Missouri-Kansas City, 75-67, on the road on Saturday. The Roadrunners (16-10, 7-5 Western Athletic) only led after scoring the game’s opening basket, taking their third loss in four games.
Neither Cal State Bakersfield senior guard Alexxus Gilbert nor head women's basketball coach Greg McCall wanted to divulge exactly what he said to her prior to the start of the fourth quarter. But McCall said a nickname he’s recently given to Gilbert and “got on me a little bit,” Gilbert said.
It was late August 2014 when I was sitting in the press box at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum prepping to cover USC and quarterback Cody Kessler.
LEMOORE — The confidence Trent Tracy had this weekend was so high that the Frontier senior never blinked an eye when he was walking outside the gym with his wrestling shoes still on his feet.
Rams win big in Central Section Division V quarterfinals.
Foothill forward Edward “Squid” Turner waited until the third quarter to really show the advantages of his 6-foot-8 frame. But when a missed shot came off the rim as Turner headed toward the basket, he used all of his wingspan to grab the ball at its highest point and slam it back down throu…
The Liberty girls soccer team tasted the bitter pill of defeat on Friday in the Central Section Division I quarterfinals.
Boys wrestling
All season long the second period has been the best for the Condors.
Welcome everyone to the Central Section Masters boys and girls wrestling live blog.
Five wrestlers from Frontier and Bakersfield High and another Kern Valley heavyweight advanced to Friday morning’s Central Section Masters boys wrestling semifinals in Lemoore.
Not only was Garces the far superior team talent wise Thursday night, they also outplayed Tulare-Mission Oak in every phase during a Central Section Division II girls basketball quarterfinal.
Bill Gallis watched with pleasure as the Kern Valley softball team won the Central Section Division V championship last May.
Bakersfield College baseball lost its second game in a row by one run, falling to Golden West, 5-4, at Gerry Collis Field on Thursday. The Renegades (7-5) led 4-2 after six innings before the Rustlers (5-4) took the lead with three runs in the seventh.
Cal State Bakersfield men’s basketball put an end to its three-game losing streak, picking up a 75-62 win over Chicago State on the road on Thursday. The Roadrunners (16-9, 7-4 Western Athletic) led by as much as 19 and for almost 39 minutes (out of 40) — a significant improvement from the f…
6:02 p.m. - Here is the list of the 20 Kern County wrestlers that have advanced to the quarterfinals on the first day of the Central Section Masters boys wrestling championships at Lemoore High.
When: 7 p.m. Friday
Cal State Bakersfield women’s basketball coach Greg McCall didn’t even have to leave his seat at the end of the bench during the fourth quarter. The usually loud and animated McCall stayed put while the ball was in play, voicing a few directions every now and then but mostly watching.
Make that a baker’s dozen.
Playing basketball at Bakersfield High for head coach Greg Burt is a little different.
Trent Tracy’s journey to becoming Frontier’s first boys wrestling CIF State champion last season proves just how tough the Central Section is compared to the rest of California.
Cal State Bakersfield players Jarkel Joiner, Rickey Holden and Justin Edler-Davis all described the feeling as hurt. Two double-digit leads that turned into overtime losses at home had them reeling.
Frontier girls basketball coach Deran Smith came up with a special game plan for his team's Central Section Division III first round playoff game against Golden Valley.
Bakersfield Christian girls basketball coach Brittnay Smith knew her team had a size advantage, and the Eagles took advantage of it.
More than anything, Cal State Bakersfield head baseball coach Jeremy Beard came away from the 2018 season thinking he needed to rework the team’s pitching staff. CSUB went 21-36, placing sixth in the Western Athletic Conference during the regular season.
Texas has always been a way of life for Richard Starrett, but he knew Bakersfield — a place he compares to “west, west Texas” — would someday be home.
The Central Section boys and girls soccer playoffs were scheduled to be begin play on Wednesday, but the commissioner’s office granted teams the opportunity to play the opening round matches on Tuesday.
The seeding for the 14 weight classes at the Central Section Masters boys wrestling tournament have been announced.
Three Kern County soccer programs will enter their respective Central Section tournaments as No. 1 seeds.
The Central Section girls basketball playoffs are set to tip off Tuesday with a number of games in and around Kern County and a handful of all-local matchups.
Cal State Bakersfield softball won both of its games Sunday, beating Montana, 3-2, and Sacramento State, 10-2, to finish the NorCal Kickoff. At 3-1 overall this year, CSUB has already won half as many games as it did during the entire 2018 season. It’s the Roadrunners’ best start since movin…
Jake Varner was born to wrestle.
Cal State Bakersfield players Justin Edler-Davis and Jarkel Joiner were looking forward to Saturday’s game against Texas-Rio Grande Valley to put what happened against New Mexico State on Thursday behind them.
SHAFTER — Anthony Lucas would be a top-five wrestler in his weight class in nine of the 10 sections in California.
Make that an even dozen.
Bakersfield College baseball’s Zach Williams drove in a the game-winning run with a triple in the bottom of the 11th to lift the Renegades (7-3) over El Camino (6-1), 4-3, on Saturday. Williams hit a sinking liner that El Camino’s left fielder dove for and missed before it rolled to the fenc…
Cal State Bakersfield wrestling’s “Feud on the Field” lived up to all the hype the program and the school put around it. CSUB edged Fresno State, 18-12, winning the final three matches in dramatic fashion on the Main Soccer Field at CSUB on Saturday afternoon. Fresno State received votes in …
Veteran defenseman Andrej Sekera began his road back to the Edmonton Oilers on Friday night in the American Hockey League with the Bakersfield Condors and by all accounts it was a very good first step.
In the 14 years that Paul Golla was head football coach at Bakersfield High, no other team in the area had as much consistent success.
Bakersfield had just tied the San Jose Barracuda early in the second period when Condors goaltender Shane Starrett found himself facing a pair of San Jose players racing in on him with nary a Condor around.
A total of 14 Kern County wrestlers, all from Frontier and Bakersfield High, are in the semifinals at the Central Section Division I boys wrestling championships at Clovis North.
The Bakersfield College baseball team lost to El Camino, 5-3, on Friday at Gerry Collis Field.
The Cal State Bakersfield softball team split its first two games of the season at the Sacramento State Tournament, beating UC Santa Barbara 4-3 in the opener before falling to Sacramento State 8-0 in the nightcap.
In a prelude to what could happen next week at the Central Section Masters girls wrestling championship, locals were superior on Thursday at the Southeast Divisional tournament.
If the first two games weren’t enough for the teams and fans, two budding basketball rivalries in Kern County get a shot to possibly play in championship games at Selland Arena in two weeks.
The Bakersfield High football head coaching position is the most coveted in the Central Section.
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