Prep baseball notebook: Mid-week downpour reschedules games, Hart pitcher almost at full strength

Mid-week downpours have rescheduled multiple games across the Foothill League. Valencia and Golden Valley’s game has been rescheduled from Wednesday to Monday at 3:30 p.m. at Golden Valley. West Ranch’s…

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Foothill League baseball roundup: Hart seals late win over West Ranch in Foothill League opener

With rain coming down, the bases loaded and no outs in the bottom of the seventh inning, Hart baseball’s Rocco Saldivar approached the plate. “I was just trying to stay…

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Read more about the article Former players come out in bunches for Hart Baseball Alumni Game
Members of the current Hart High School varsity and junior varisty baseball squds line up before the alumni game. Ryan Painter/The Signal.

Former players come out in bunches for Hart Baseball Alumni Game

It's not often that you get TV cameras and a plentiful crowd for a high school baseball alumni game, but that's become the norm for Hart over the years. When…

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Hart softball makes jump to Division 1, other CIF-SS playoff groupings announced

When Hart softball coach Steve Calendo learned that his team had leaped from CIF-Southern Section Division 3 to Division 1, he had mixed reactions. “It was an eyebrow-raiser for a…

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SCV baseball alums discuss what it takes to make it through minor leagues

Jared Oliva’s first day in the minors followed a similar script to many getting their first crack at pro ball. The Valencia alum, who spent four years at Arizona, was…

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Pat Valaika and other SCV baseball products take part in youth clinic

As far as Southern California club baseball teams go, few can tout a laundry list of players currently affiliated with Major League Baseball organizations like the Playa Vista Orioles. That…

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Read more about the article Former Hart High baseball coach fondly remembered
Former Hart baseball head coach Bud Murray, second from the left, sits with assistant coach Tim O'Brien, second from the right, in this undated courtesy photo. O'Brien died last week, according to family.

Former Hart High baseball coach fondly remembered

Tim O’Brien, an assistant coach on Hart High’s 1999 CIF champion baseball team, has died, his daughter Jennifer told The Signal this week. O’Brien, who was 68, died of an…

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Read more about the article Minor league report Pt. 1: Brian Mundell fine-tunes approach
Valencia High baseball alum Brian Mundell is Mundell is hitting .307 with three home runs and 13 RBIs with the Double-A Hartford Yard Goats. Courtesy of Hartford Yard Goats

Minor league report Pt. 1: Brian Mundell fine-tunes approach

Bad question: While hitting a modern minor-league record 59 doubles in Low-A ball last year, did Valencia High graduate Brian Mundell ever tire of watching the ball hurtle into the…

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