The Shafter Commanders and the Spartans took to the football field at Centennial High to battle in the sophomore division of the Golden Empire Youth Football league Saturday. Cheer squads from each team were there to root for their team.
Bakersfield Youth Lacrosse League is hosting a two-day lacrosse clinic from 10 a.m. to noon on Nov. 11 and Nov. 18.
About 25 years ago, when I went to film a hunt in Canada for the first time, my guide Brent mentioned to me that he had heard that there was "no limit" Canada goose hunting in New Zealand. For all the years since that time, I had thought about trying to arrange a hunt in the so-called "Down …
The Bakersfield Heat 12-and-under team is competing this week in a tournament at the Cooperstown All-Star Village in Cooperstown, N.Y. The Heat had won its first three games, by scores of 10-1, 24-5 and 4-0. The Heat’s fourth game was Monday night, and two more games are scheduled today. Hea…
Reece Yaksitch is only 10 years old, but she gets the joke: Bakersfield isn’t exactly the most likely place to find a talented figure skater.
Lucas Dobrzanski from the Kern Athletic Fencing Foundation, finished third at the U.S. Fencing National Championships held in Salt Lake City. His strong finish placed him 5th in the nation, earning him the first alternate spot on the U.S. team going to the World Championships in Slovenia. Lu…
The NW Bakersfield 11-70s All-Star team won the Central California Cal Ripken State tournament Friday. The team went 5-1 including beating Kingsburg to claim the title. The team now moves onto the Pacific Southwest Regional tournament held in Long Beach.
Over the past years when I was giving shooting lessons to a number of people, I was often asked one question.
Carolina Geyer of the Kern Athletic Fencing Foundation won a gold medal at a Y14 mixed foil fencing tournament in Placentia on Sunday.
The Bakersfield Starz 10U baseball team traveled to Reno last week to compete against teams from across the nation in the Youth Baseball Nationals. The boys went 7-1 for the tournament scoring 86 runs while allowing 16. This is their second championship having also won the Nationals in Myrtl…
The Bakersfield Starz 10U baseball team traveled to Reno last week to compete against teams from across the nation in the Youth Baseball Nationals. The boys went 7-1 for the tournament scoring 86 runs while allowing 16. This is their second championship having also won the Nationals in Myrtl…
A couple of years after Steve Merlo and I returned from chasing the giant Canada geese in Saskatchewan, he called me and said he had found another place that supposedly had a few giants. It was a small lake just a mile from downtown Rochester, Minn.
Bakersfield BLAST 14u took second place last weekend in Arroyo Grande. This was the team’s second tournament together.
South Valley Thunder G05 took first place in the HB Sand Soccer tournament last weekend in Huntington Beach.
Cal State Bakersfield baseball will be holding a future prospects camp for 9th through 12th graders. 6 p.m. Saturday — for Two way players and position players only — and 8 a.m. to noon Sunday, for all players, at Hardt Field.
I first started shooting skeet in 1962 when I was invited out to the Kern County Gun Club by my friend Pete Lokey, who owned Westchester Bowl.
South Valley Thunder Soccer club girls u10 won the local crown soccer tournament recently.
Northwest Bakersfield Baseball AAA Pirate Champions. Finished regular season in second place with a 11-3 record but won overall division championship in playoffs with a 12-7 victory over the undefeated Dodgers.
All American Baseball Academy will be hosting summer baseball camps throughout the 2017 summer season. Camps will consist of individual work, small groups, team/game situations, arm strength, defense, fielding mechanics, footwork and hitting. Sign ups for our 2017 summer baseball camps with …
I remember bagging my first duck back in 1952 on my uncle’s duck pond he was leasing from the Gilbreath Brothers commercial club in the area northwest of Wasco.
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Hello Kern County golfers.
Before getting into today’s column, I would just like to thank Zach Ewing and the sports staff at The Californian for the coverage they allowed me three weeks ago for the story about my breaking the first 400x400 in skeet shooting history. I was really amazed that morning when I opened my pa…
The BCA Rockstars competed Sunday at The West Coast Cheerleading Championships in Baldwin Park. The results are as follows: Starlets, first; The Glam Squad, first/overall division winners; Showstoppers, first; Fame, first/overall division winners; Glitter, first; Paparazzi, first; Entourage,…
Students from the Japan Martial Arts academy of Bakersfield competed in the invitational organization karate tournament in Visalia. Seven schools with over 50 competitors participated in the event. The results are as follows: Renshi Jon Cobbs (second Kata, first weapons Kata); Kason Abair (f…
An 18U softball travel team is looking for players willing to commit to practices and the summer travel season. A meet and greet will be Saturday at 11 a.m. at Standard Park.
Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian ever and a living swimming legend, will be in Bakersfield on Tuesday evening for Hoffmann Hospice's annual Voices of Inspiration dinner and auction fundraiser.
Wow! Fifty years. Half a century. I am getting old. I still have a very keen memory of the last target I needed to become the first person in skeet shooting history to break a perfect 400 x 400. I was really grateful.
The third annual Sporting Clay Shoot at Five Dogs Shooting Range is next weekend and this year includes a scholarship awarded in memory of Steve Merlo.
The Associated Press of Sports Editors on Monday named an article written by Bakersfield Californian sports editor Zach Ewing as the winner of its 2016 Best Game Story award in the under-30,000 circulation division.
The Bakersfield Aquatics Club had several standout performances at the South West Age Group Regional Championship recently in Roseville.
The soccer rivalry between the United States and Mexico — the indoor version — is coming to Bakersfield next month.
A few weeks ago I wrote a column about the Pacific Black Brant, a sea goose that inhabits the coastal range of western America. Since that time I have been thinking about a couple of add-on stories that might interest you.
The Firecrackers Keene/Beam 16-U team is looking to fill out its roster and will have an open workout Sunday at 10 a.m. at Stockdale High School. Pitchers and catchers should report at 9:30 a.m. For more information, please contact James Beam at 661-633-4226 or email him at fc_lessons@yahoo.com.
Kern County Athletic All-Stars will be starting spring signups and training for the summer competition track season on April 17 at 6:15. Signups will continue through May 4. Practice and sign-up days are Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at 6:15 p.m. at Riverwalk Park near the amphitheater hill. …
The American Kids Sports Center’s Boys Level 4 Gymnastics Team placed second at the Southern California State Championships on Sunday in Carlsbad. They narrowly lost to defending champion Gymnastics Olympica of Van Nuys. The boys Level 5-10 gymnasts will compete this weekend at the Regional …
My readers may recall a few weeks ago, when I wrote about trap shooting, that back in the 1800s passenger pigeons were used as targets for a while. I quoted an excerpt from the book “The Silent Sky” about John J. Audubon seeing a flock of more than 1 billion birds pass over him for three day…
Norris Middle School 8th grade boys basketball team reclaims the County Championship title by defeating Warren Jr. High in a tough fought battle 38-36. Norris was up by three at halftime, and then quickly trailed by four going into the fourth quarter.
Ten-year-old gymnast Dominic Banducci won the “Mr. Handstand” contest at the Southern California State Gymnastics Championships in Aliso Viejo March 17-19. In the final, which Banducci qualified for earlier this year, he held his handstand without moving for one minute and thirty five second…
The BCA Rockstars competed in Bakersfield at Centennial High school on Saturday. The Sparkle, Divas and Starlets all placed first.
For the fourth consecutive year the Bakersfield Racquet Club is hosting the biggest USTA Pro Circuit event in California’s Central Valley.
The Norris Middle School 8th grade girls basketball team came out on top by defeating a very talented Actis Jr. High 36-34 for the 2017 County Championship. The game was like a perfectly written book, it was a battle until the end. Unfortunately one team would be crowned the champs and the o…
The Rams Junior Wrestling Club's inaugural season begins with an informational presentation and sign-ups at 6 p.m. Thursday at Valley Oaks Charter School at 3501 Chester Ave.
The Arvin Boxing Club will host this year’s Central California Golden Glove tournament. The event will be 5-9 p.m Friday and Saturday at the Bakersfield Dome, 2201 V St. The proceeds of the event will go to the Arvin Boxing Club to help raise money for a new van to take the kids traveling. F…
Donald Valpredo believes in the importance of service to the thoroughbred industry. It’s why he has spent more than 40 years on the board of every major organization in the state, beginning and continuing with the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association.
The American Kids Sports Center’s boys gymnastics team had a successful showing at the SCEGA California Classic Feb. 3-5 at the San Diego Convention Center.The competition featured over 750 athletes from across the nation.
American Academy gymnastics took their optional team to New Orleans. Here were the highlights from the competition: Level 6, Hannah Williams competed in her first optional competition and placed sixth in the all-around with a 34.3. Level 7 Haylie Sipe won third place all-around with a 36.05,…
11 of The BCA Rockstars cheerleading teams attended the Aloha Central Valley Cheerleading Championships Feb. 4-5 in Visalia.
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