Saturday’s high school football scores
Saugus 25, Santa Barbara 21 The Centurion football team went on the road Saturday night and beat Santa Barbara in the 2017 season opener. Santa Clarita Christian 36, St. Bernard…
SCV Sports Report: Canyon, Trinity football fall in openers
Prep football Moorpark 41, Canyon 0 The Canyon football team started the season on a sour note after losing to Moorpark on Friday at Moorpark. The Cowboys found themselves down…
Hart quarterback JT Shrout throws a pass during an 11-on-11 practice against Crescenta Valley at Hart this summer. Katharine Lotze/The Signal
Mason Nesbitt: There is no preseason All-Foothill League team, but …
This is not a real thing. This is not The Signal’s preseason All-Foothill League football team. The Signal doesn’t publish a preseason All-Foothill League football team. That doesn’t mean, however,…
Valencia’s Luring Paialii finds an opening in Ventura’s defense to run the ball during a practice with Ventura during a practice in July. Katharine Lotze/The Signal
2017 Football Camp Series: Valencia High
You’d be hard-pressed to find many schools where a returning 1,600-yard rusher will be pressed as hard for carries as at Valencia High. Moises Haynes grabbed the reins of the…
Valencia Moises Haynes runs the ball down the field in the first quarter of a game against Arroyo Grande at Valencia High School in the playoffs last season. Jayne Kamin-Oncea/For The Signal
Mason Nesbitt: Division 2 is a blessing for Valencia football
High School Football America released a composite national top 25 on Wednesday, providing a sharp reminder for a certain Santa Clarita Valley football program to count its blessings. I’ll go…
Canyon High’s Joey Lopez (25) attempts to tackle Valencia’s Brendan Adam (12) during a football game at Canyon last season. Katharine Lotze/Signal
State football participation drops for 2nd straight year
For the second straight year, the number of athletes participating in 11-man football in California dropped by more than 3,000 in 2016, according to a census published by the CIF…
Valencia's Cole Edwards (53), Cody Paul (57) and Parker Kernek (67) all return on the Vikings' offensive line for this season. Signal file photo
What is Valencia football’s biggest weapon heading into 2017?
Amid all the weapons Valencia High football boasts at the skill positions, another aspect of the Vikings’ repertoire caught the eye of Canyon High coach Rich Gutierrez on Tuesday during…
Brothers Mike Herrington, center, Dean Herrington, left, and Rick Herrington, right, stand on the Hart football field on July 5, 2017 during an 11-on-11 practice against Paraclete. Katharine Lotze/The Signal
Hart’s 11-on-11 exercise holds connections to the past
The day featured a dizzying number of connections to the past, but to the Herrington brothers, it just felt like, well, football. When Hart High and Paraclete of Lancaster got…
West Ranch's Ryan Camacho (13) makes a catch in right field against Golden Valley at Golden Valley in March. Dan Watson/The Signal
West Ranch’s Camacho twins keeping up with dual-sport summer
Like many their age, Ryan and Jovan Camacho enjoy lounging around the house and relaxing during the summer. Of course, for West Ranch High’s most-athletic identical twins, that applies only…
Jaelin Kinney, second from right, lunges for a tackle during a football game in
Ireland. Kinney played for the United States team. Courtesy photo
Saugus football alum returns from playing in Ireland
For Saugus High football alum Jaelin Kinney, Ireland was a mixture of the familiar and the foreign. There was McDonald’s, but it was treated as a delicacy. There was football,…
Baltimore Ravens player Domata Peko, a COC alumnus, speaks about his experience at College of the Canyons at the 2017 Hall of Fame ceremony at the Hyatt Regency Valencia on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017. Katharine Lotze/Signal
NFL player Peko shares journey to COC
The most famous person in the room Thursday night at College of the Canyons’ Athletic Hall of Fame induction ceremony might also have been the most thankful to be there.…
Arnold Mann: Safety on the football field
In football play, on any level, “offensive holding” is one of the most difficult calls for any referee to make. I am not referring to “face mask” or “horse collar”…
SCV Sports Report: 12/29/16
The Hart High girls varsity soccer team handed Royal High of Simi Valley its first loss of the season, 1-0, in a Hart Soccer Showcase semifinal game at College of…
(Left to right) Sons Mike Herrington, Dean Herrington, mother June Wooley, and son Rick Herrington pose for a photo after a Paraclete High game this season. Courtesy photo
Mason Nesbitt: The mom behind the football men
Someone was missing. The Paraclete High of Lancaster football team had just defeated Mater Dei of Chula Vista to advance to Saturday night's CIF Division 3-AA state title game. Amid jubilant…
College of the Canyons’ Marquise Brown (6) caught 50 passes for 754 yards during the 2016 campaign at COC. John Bogna/COC Sports Information.
COC’s Marquise Brown commits to Oklahoma
Marquise Brown had a knack for putting exclamation points on College of the Canyons’ offensive drives this season. The 5-foot-11 freshman speedster caught a team-best 10 touchdown passes, often leaving…
2016 All-Foothill League Football Teams
Player of the Year: Aaron Thomas, QB, Valencia Offensive Player of the Year: Nick Moore, QB, Hart Lineman of the Year: Josh Washington, DL, Valencia Defensive Players of the Year: …
Golden Valley’s KJ Maduike (22) pushes off San Gorgonio’s Perrion Oforo as Maduike runs after a catch in the first half at Canyon High School on Friday night. Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/For The Signal
Golden Valley football’s playoff run stalls in semis
For 12 minutes of action Friday night, the Golden Valley Grizzlies were the only Foothill League team still playing football in 2016. Despite falling 39-35 at Canyon High in the…
Golden Valley's Fernando Bajo (50) congratulates teammate KJ Maduike (22) on the first touchdown of the night against El Segundo during a CIF playoff game at Canyon High School last week. Katharine Lotze/Signal
GV football aiming for greater glory
All of Golden Valley High’s jitters that came along with competing in the program’s first ever football playoff run have subsided. “That first game was uncharted waters, and they didn’t…
Valencia’s Moises Haynes (43) is averaging 131.2 rushing yards per game this season. Dan Watson/The Signal
Valencia football’s Haynes has only one gear
The backyard ritual continued for several months. A 10-year-old Moises Haynes would charge at his 6-foot-2, 250-pound father in an attempt to bowl him over. “He told me, ‘Run me…
Golden Valley’s Jalin Lewis (11) attempts to make a circus catch as El Segundo’s Danny Mcentee (5) reaches for the tackle during a CIF-Southern Section Division 7 quarterfinal at Canyon High School on Friday. Katharine Lotze/Signal
Where, when to watch prep football semis
As it turns out, there’s more football to be played for local high school teams, and you can watch both remaining squads in Friday night’s CIF-Southern Section semifinals without leaving…
