Home-field advantage is a powerful phenomenon. The players of the Bako Heat 55-and-over, 6.0-rating women’s tennis team, captained by Laurie Haagsma and Michele Buoni, feared they’d be its next victim.
Matt Picanso’s first run through Q-School met its end beneath the Santa Rosa Plateau at Bear Creek Golf Club on the outskirts of Murrieta.
It wasn’t a dominant performance, and it certainly wasn’t easy, but Derek Thorn continued his win streak on Saturday.
If anyone needed any extra validation of how dominant Bakersfield’s Derek Thorn has been this season, a local sponsor helped solidify things by sweetening the pot for the remainder of the SPEARS SRL Southwest Tour Series.
The age-old philosophical question, “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” was put to the test Monday at Sam Lynn Ballpark, albeit with a slight variation.
The Major League Baseball draft has continued to modify the process since first being implemented in 1965 with three separate events during the year.
Fresh off an impressive 2019 track and field season, Alex Collatz Sellens was looking forward to big things last year before events were interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The coaching carousel continues to gain momentum with the addition of two new volleyball coaches.
After losing all of 2020 to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bakersfield Train Robbers and the rest of the Pecos Baseball League are set to return to the field this summer.
All Kern County Art Williams League Baseball players who competed at Sam Lynn Ballpark during the 1960s, 70s and 80s are invited to attend a reunion on June 26.
Rock Your World may have had his world rocked a bit last week, but the locally-owned 3-year-old colt plans to return to the racetrack, albeit after a short layoff.
It wasn’t the finish they had hoped for, but the Hronis family’s first Kentucky Derby was memorable just the same.
A one-time dream of someday owning a racehorse has blossomed into a successful enterprise for Kern County natives Kosta and Pete Hronis.
While the return of high school sports is big news locally, outdoor youth sports have also been given the go-ahead to resume in Kern County.
By all accounts, Dick Witcher was a fantastic athlete, who was described as “tough as nails” on a recent Twitter post and a “legend” on another.
There was still plenty of golf to be played, but when Manav Shah chipped in his third shot on No. 18, the roar from the roughly 100-person gallery seemed to almost foreshadow what was to come.
Felix Mory of Palm Springs and Kolton Lapa of Mesa, Ariz., finished the first day of the Bakersfield Open golf tournament tied atop the leaderboard with a five-under par score of 65.
In a world where sporting events are constantly being forced to scale back, the Bakersfield Open is going the other direction in 2021.
I had the most amazing dream last night. It was the type of vision that was so vivid, that I woke up and immediately had to check my phone to confirm the details.
When all is said in done, the year that was 2020 will be more significant for what didn’t happen than what did — at least in the local sports landscape.
Some things are worth the wait.
Inspired by the first responders who raced into the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, Kercie Jung wanted to do something to show her support for the brave men and women who put their lives on the line every day.
With high school and college sports still on indefinite hold, youth sports are hoping to make a return to Kern County in the fall.
A pair of former SWYL rivals are duking it out atop the leaderboard after the first day of the Bakersfield City Golf Championships.
David Alamillo tends to be comfortable almost anywhere you put him on a baseball field.
When and how high school sports can safely return has still yet to be decided, but in the interim, several area football players still continue to generate interest.
Bobby Sharp has never really considered himself a handyman around the house.
As the area’s reigning Golden Empire USBC At-Large Male Bowler of the Year, Jesse DelaHerran is used to having plenty of success on the local lanes.
The calendar read Sept. 1 but it might as well have been Christmas morning for Bakersfield dove hunters.
Chris Sterling scored a game-high 40 points, but it wasn’t enough as NBA veteran Tyrone Wallace led the Bakersfield Elect squad past the Bakersfield Finest 121-120 in the Who You Got? All-Star basketball game Saturday night at West High.
Cliff Bolt has worked with more than his fair share of aspiring skeet shooters in his more than 50 years as a competitor and instructor in the sport.
Edilson Alvarez knows a little something about wearing many hats.
To say Nate Jessup was a long shot to win last weekend’s 40th annual Bakersfield City Championship is an understatement.
Getting to know Bill Moore is not a long process. Translation? What you see is what you get.
Dogs and cats. Oil and water. Giants and Dodgers fans.
The traditional "Take Me Out To the Ball Game" may look more like Take my bike out to ball game Monday.
Bakersfield College kicked off its summer junior tennis circuit on Saturday. The circuit is intended to empower junior tennis players and parents in order to increase player's skill level and help them learn and enjoy the game.
Kyle Shiloh seems to always be on the move.
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.
Positive Cases Among Kern Residents: 157,662
Deaths: 1,804
Recovered and Presumed Recovered Residents: 149,957
Percentage of all cases that are unvaccinated: 92.09
Percentage of all hospitalizations that are unvaccinated: 92.72
Updated: 11/30/2021. Source: Kern County Public Health Services Department
