CALIPATRIA — Scoring on the ground and through the air while pitching a shutout on defense, the Vincent Memorial Catholic High School Fighting Scots spoiled homecoming for the Calipatria High Hornets winning 41-0 at Veterans Field here Friday night.
CALEXICO — After a strong defensive first half Friday night, the Calexico Bulldogs surrendered two more second half touchdowns to the Palo Verde Yellowjackets in losing 27-0 on homecoming night.
HOLTVILLE — Pour one out for parity, friends. It’s nowhere to be seen in these parts.
EL CENTRO — Central Union High School’s high-powered offense deservedly gets a lot of publicity, but championships are won with defense and the Spa…
It’s common for distance runners to display an unholy enthusiasm for their art.
EL CENTRO — Last week in Imperial Valley gridiron action the Central Union Spartans and the Imperial Tigers both got to take things relatively easy…
Daniel Caloca is not hard to pick out of a crowd.
CALEXICO — As of right now there are three games left in the 2019 Imperial Valley League volleyball season, and, in a nice bit of symmetry, there …
There were only three games Friday night involving Imperial Valley teams, and none of those games involved Manzanita League squads, which all had byes.
Editor’s note: This column is part of a continuing series examining how the current CIF playoff seeding system came to be and how that formula is a…
EL CENTRO — The 2019 Imperial Valley League cross country season is officially underway, with local distance runners gathering at Sunbeam Lake earl…
EL CENTRO — For the second consecutive year, the Central Union High football team dominated the city championship game against crosstown rival Sout…
IMPERIAL — A familiar script played out here at Shimamoto-Simpson Stadium on Friday night. The Calexico Bulldogs played an Imperial Valley League o…
BRAWLEY — Scoring on their first offensive play from scrimmage and never looking back, the Brawley Union High School Wildcat football team defeated…
CALEXICO — One week ago, the Brawley Wildcats lost their first Imperial Valley League game of the season. The perennial league champs looked shocki…
Against the Kofa High Kings last week, Calipatria High’s senior quarterback Kalin Sotelo had perhaps his best game of the season. He threw for thre…
EL CENTRO — It doesn’t seem possible, but the 2019 high school football season is already nearer to its finish than to its start.
Glancing at the Imperial High School volleyball team — 8-0 in the Imperial Valley League and alone atop the standings — the main driver of its succ…
EL CENTRO — Walking a fine line in the Imperial Valley League after losses to Brawley and Imperial over the past couple of weeks, the Southwest Hig…
Gridiron Greats
Round up the usual suspects.
Editor’s note: This column is part of a continuing series examining how the current CIF playoff seeding system came to be and how that formula is a…
YUMA — The Calipatria Hornets are going streaking. Again. But this time they’re headed in the right direction.
SAN DIEGO — Who will save the Manzanita League from the Holtville Vikings? That’s the question that’s got to be on everyone’s mind after the Vikes’…
BLYTHE — The Palo Verde Yellowjackets are an Imperial Valley League wildcard.
BRAWLEY — If Imperial Valley League teams didn’t know about Brawley Union High’s freshman quarterback Ethan Gutierrez before Friday, they certainly…
CALEXICO — On Friday night the Central Union Spartans were scheduled to play their first Imperial Valley League contest of the season here against …
EL CENTRO — The Imperial High volleyball team defeated Central Union High in three sets, 3-0, on Thursday night at Spartan Arena.
EL CENTRO — The defending girls’ Imperial Valley League golf champions look to be in good position to hold onto their crown for at least one more year.
With the Imperial Valley League girls’ golf season just past its halfway point, the Vincent Memorial Scots are cleanly out of the hunt for a team c…
BRAWLEY — With as many ups and downs as the teams that make up the Imperial Valley League have had this football season, it’s easy enough for an es…
It’s common knowledge that appearances can be deceiving. This particular nugget has punctuated parable after parable. Which is fine. As life lesson…
IMPERIAL — And then there was one.
Gridiron Greats
Apparently Week 5 of the high school football season exceeded the prescribed drama quotient for the month of September, because Week 6 had nary a s…
After the NFL
CALIPATRIA — It isn’t hard to pinpoint the flashiest item on Cedric Thompson’s curriculum vitae.
