If being able to battle through adversity is a sign of future playoff success, the postseason is looking quite promising for the Bakersfield Christian volleyball team.
Hoping to see significant growth by his young team heading into conference play, Cal State Bakersfield women's soccer coach Sebastian Vecchio appears to be getting his wish.
When Frontier and Bakersfield Christian met on the volleyball court 10 days ago, it only served to wet the appetite of two of Kern County’s top teams.
Fresno-San Joaquin Memorial scored on two long touchdowns in the final five minutes and held off Garces for a 28-21 victory in the 54th Holy Bowl on Saturday.
A valiant effort and late charge in the fourth quarter wasn't enough to save the Bakersfield College football team from an 0-2 start.
The Highland Scots scored on nearly every offensive possession, taking advantage of a porous Tehachapi defense while cruising to a 48-15 victory Friday night at Scotland Yard.
Behind an undefeated showing by heavyweight Daniel Schoene, Bakersfield College went 3-1 at the BC Dual Tournament on Saturday.
With college football season in full swing, numerous local athletes are competing in big games across the Division I landscape.
Things didn’t start out very well for the Bakersfield Christian football team on Friday night.
Wesley Wilson Jr. knew someone needed to lift a stagnant Bakersfield offense, and the senior running back was happy to oblige Friday night.
During head coach Norm Brown’s tenure at North High, the team has typically struggled to come out of the gates, with two 2-2 and two 1-3 starts on their resume.
For most of the first three quarters, East High quarterback Willie Ball did his damage on the ground, rushing for 88 yards, while completing just two passes.
FINAL: Righetti 66, Centennial 6
The Stars moved to 3-1 with the win. Wasco is now 1-2.
It’s been a rough couple of weeks for Garces and first-year football coach Paul Golla.
A look at the numbers makes it crystal clear why the Bakersfield College football team found itself on the wrong end of a 34-7 final score in its season opener.
Cade Uehling scored two long touchdowns to help Clovis-Buchanan hold off Liberty for a 19-17 victory on Thursday night.
Ashley Quintanilla's 2017 ended on a very high note.
Four weeks into his first season as head coach at his alma mater, Bakersfield High’s Michael Stewart is still looking for a signature win.
The past three weeks, Liberty's defense has been a lot like the Farmers insurance commercial that seems to be dominating the airwaves these days.
Garces quarterback Joseph Campbell, who missed the first two games of the season with Valley Fever, is expected to be cleared in time for Saturday’s matchup at Fresno-San Joaquin Memorial.
Talk to any IMCA Modified driver who has been to Boone, Iowa, for the Super Nationals and they will tell you just making the 33-car field for the championship race is a huge accomplishment.
After an eventful start to the fall, the local collegiate sports season is in full swing as we work our way to the middle of September.
We're already three weeks into the high school football season and the landscape has featured some expected — and unexpected — results.
It’s still two weeks away, but if the Yucatan Lions and Montclova Steelers reach the Mexican Baseball League’s King Series, the frenetic sound of a large, raucous crowd might reverberate more than 2,700 miles away in Bakersfield.
As Benjy Taylor tried to focus on the task at hand in Bakersfield last winter, a wave of grief was washing over his family on the other side of the country.
Hoping to gain an edge on its slick new artificial turf field, Bakersfield College instead looked a step slow in its first game on the new surface.
TAFT — The offense stalled, the defense struggled, and the lights literally went out on the Tehachapi Warriors Friday night in Taft (2-1) as Tehachapi dropped to 0-3 following a 34-12 loss to the Wildcats at Martin Memorial Stadium.
The lunar calendar didn't indicate there was a Full Moon on Friday night. That distinction is apparently reserved for next week’s Harvest Moon, which is due to appear on Friday the 13th.
A look at Week 3 games:
It was a celebration more than 22 months in the making for the Golden Valley football team.
Golden Valley took on South in Friday night action.
To say first-year Bakersfield High head coach Michael Stewart was unhappy after Friday night’s 28-20 loss to Paramount is an understatement.
Wolf Pack beat Titans 63-43.
Paramount played the Drillers in Friday night action.
Braden Wingle didn’t exactly get what he wanted out of his first season at Bakersfield College.
The high school volleyball season is barely two weeks old, and it's much too early to be talking about playoffs.
It will be a reunion of sorts when Ridgeview hosts Frontier on Friday night.
In his first year as head football coach at his alma mater, Bakersfield High’s Michael Stewart inherited more than his share of things from his predecessor Paul Golla, who took the same position at Garces after 14 years leading the Drillers.
It's 4:45 a.m. and I'm driving across town to meet my son Mark and two grandsons before heading out for this year's dove opening day.
Liberty volleyball's early-season momentum lost a bit of steam on Saturday when the Patriots dropped a hard-fought match to Clovis North in the title game of the Clovis Challenge.
Entering 2019 training camp, there was a fair amount of local representation on NFL rosters.
Bakersfield College has earned a No. 16 ranking in the opening JC Athletic Bureau’s Poll of California Community College Football Coaches, released Tuesday afternoon.
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Rich Kellenberger was a private man and he often had difficulty verbalizing his feelings to the ones he loved the most.
The calendar read Sept. 1 but it might as well have been Christmas morning for Bakersfield dove hunters.
Zach Hartsfield admits there were moments of shell shock early in his first season playing football on the junior college level.
Bakersfield College women's volleyball team played against Mt. San Antonio College Saturday afternoon at BC.
Cody Kessler’s tenure with the Philadelphia Eagles is over almost before it even got started.
Bakersfield College women's volleyball had their season opener with a doubleheader on Saturday. First match against Mt. San Antonio college.
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