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  1. McKee Middle School 6th Grade Girls Softball Team
  2. Garces' Sweaney, Ridgeview's McCall win Tyack Award as Kern's top senior athletes
  3. Garces' Sweaney, Ridgeview's McCall win Tyack Award as Kern's top senior athletes
  4. District to appeal sanctions levied on BC football
  5. May 21 community sports announcements, accomplishments
  6. May 21 community sports announcements, accomplishments
  7. May 21 community sports announcements, accomplishments
  8. May 21 community sports announcements, accomplishments
  9. May 21 community sports announcements, accomplishments
  10. Elite Force Wrestlers are the Kern County Champions for 2013
  11. Baseball Championship
  12. Soccer: Roadrunner United FC Oro Wins Legends Tournament
  13. Modesto Softball Paradise Champions, May 18-19
  14. Baseball: Playoff Champions
  15. Haney sets section meet record; Stockdale boys place 3rd

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  1. Community - MyBakersfieldSports.com
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    May 21 community sports announcements, accomplishments

    Announcements Golden EmpireYouth Football Tryouts for Irish team continue through May, from 6-8 p.m., at Garces High. Irish also seeking sophomore coaches. For more information on dates, visit irishyouthfootball.com or contact Chris Resendez (661) 201-1284. Tryouts for the Spartans, all divisions, 6-8 p.m., Mondays...

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    Garces' Sweaney, Ridgeview's McCall win Tyack Award as Kern's top senior athletes

    Jake Sweaney was flipping through a program Monday at Hodel's Fine Dining, but he wasn't just biding time waiting for the Jim Tyack Awards presentation to begin. Sweaney was looking for a name. "I saw it in there -- 'Junior Kennedy in 1967,'" Sweaney said. "That's one of my grandpa's good friends. I grew up with...

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  3. College
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    District to appeal sanctions levied on BC football

    Bakersfield College officials are going to fight to get back the state football championship that was taken away last Tuesday. The seven-member Kern Community College District Board of Trustees unanimously voted Monday afternoon to appeal sanctions levied on the football program by Southern California Football...

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  1. Community - MyBakersfieldSports.com

    Bette Addington: Summer bowling leagues taking shape

    Summer bowling ball leagues look to be the choice of local bowlers. What's better than bowling a summer league and receiving a new bowling ball at the league's end? These leagues are short (15 weeks) and open to new and regular league bowlers. Don't have a team? There are openings for individuals and it's a great way...

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    Local report: Wright powers Blaze to fourth straight victory

    Ryan Wright had a homer, two doubles, three RBIs and two runs scored to lead the Bakersfield Blaze to a 5-3 victory Monday over the High Desert Mavericks at Sam Lynn Ballpark. It was the fourth straight win for Bakersfield, it's best streak of the season. Bakersfield (15-29) trailed 2-1 before scoring four fifth-inning...

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  3. College

    Roadrunners drop finale, share title

    SAN JOSE -- San Jose State rallied late Sunday to prevent Cal State Bakersfield from securing the outright Western Athletic Conference regular-season baseball title. The Spartans scored five runs in the eighth inning to beat the Roadrunners 8-5 at Municipal Stadium, and CSUB settled for a share of the conference title...

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  1. College
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    Local report: Wright powers Blaze to fourth straight victory

    Ryan Wright had a homer, two doubles, three RBIs and two runs scored to lead the Bakersfield Blaze to a 5-3 victory Monday over the High Desert Mavericks at Sam Lynn Ballpark. It was the fourth straight win for Bakersfield, it's best streak of the season. Bakersfield (15-29) trailed 2-1 before scoring four fifth-inning...

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    Titans' Caneta defends section girls 100 breaststroke title

    Jorie Caneta seems unbeatable in the girls 100-yard breaststroke. Caneta, a junior from Frontier High, set a Central Section record in Friday's prelims, then won the event for the third straight year at Saturday's Central Section Div. I Swimming Championships at Bakersfield College. Her time Saturday was 1:02.89,...

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    Stockdale's Nisson, Flores win section doubles crown

    WASCO -- A complicated run to the Central Section boys tennis doubles championship ended with a very simple task for Stockdale senior Matt Nisson and his partner, John Matthew Flores. See ball, slam ball. And when Nisson completed a powerful volley at the net, the Mustangs had won the title, 6-2, 7-6 (7-3), over...

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    Haney sets section meet record; Stockdale boys place 3rd

    CLOVIS -- Turns out, even section-record holders get nervous at the section championships. Turns out, that's a good thing. Stockdale junior Blake Haney shook off jitters to win two titles at the Central Section Track and Field Masters Championships on Saturday at Buchanan High School, including a meet-record 4:07.16...

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    Garces' Sweaney, Ridgeview's McCall win Tyack Award as Kern's top senior athletes

    Jake Sweaney was flipping through a program Monday at Hodel's Fine Dining, but he wasn't just biding time waiting for the Jim Tyack Awards presentation to begin. Sweaney was looking for a name. "I saw it in there -- 'Junior Kennedy in 1967,'" Sweaney said. "That's one of my grandpa's good friends. I grew up with...

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  3. Preps

    May 18 high school roundup

    Baseball Division V No. 3 Exeter 2, No. 6 Shafter 1 At EHS (Friday). W: Farias. L: Parsons (5-6). 2B: SHS (Aguilar). Notes: SHS (Parsons 10K, 4H). W-L: SHS 9-17. Boys tennis Central Section Individual Championships At Wasco SINGLES Championship : Gong d. Wang, 6-0, 6-1 Third place : Batth d. Ramirez,...

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  1. Community - MyBakersfieldSports.com
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    May 21 community sports announcements, accomplishments

    Announcements Golden EmpireYouth Football Tryouts for Irish team continue through May, from 6-8 p.m., at Garces High. Irish also seeking sophomore coaches. For more information on dates, visit irishyouthfootball.com or contact Chris Resendez (661) 201-1284. Tryouts for the Spartans, all divisions, 6-8 p.m., Mondays...

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  2. Community - MyBakersfieldSports.com

    Bette Addington: Summer bowling leagues taking shape

    Summer bowling ball leagues look to be the choice of local bowlers. What's better than bowling a summer league and receiving a new bowling ball at the league's end? These leagues are short (15 weeks) and open to new and regular league bowlers. Don't have a team? There are openings for individuals and it's a great way...

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  3. Community - MyBakersfieldSports.com
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    McKee Middle School 6th Grade Girls Softball Team

    Congratulations go out to McKee Middle School's 6th grade girls softball team for winning both the 6th grade and 7th grade Bear Mountain League Championships. The team played in two different divisions and finished with a 15-0 record for a unprecedented double championship. Contact info Matt Ornelaz matt2123@aol.com...

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  1. Community - MyBakersfieldSports.com
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    Local report: Wright powers Blaze to fourth straight victory

    Ryan Wright had a homer, two doubles, three RBIs and two runs scored to lead the Bakersfield Blaze to a 5-3 victory Monday over the High Desert Mavericks at Sam Lynn Ballpark. It was the fourth straight win for Bakersfield, it's best streak of the season. Bakersfield (15-29) trailed 2-1 before scoring four fifth-inning...

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    Elite Force Wrestlers are the Kern County Champions for 2013

    Elite Force wrestling from Frontier High School took 1st place at the Kern County Championships in Tehachapi on 5/18/13. We had a total of 19 placers including 9 champions. First place - Jackson Shepard, Jason Mara, Johnny Becerra, Luke Combs, McKay East, Cole Reyes, Garrett Fletcher, Jacob Lightner and Nate Odom....

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    Baseball Championship

    The AA Dodgers went undefeated with a 16-0-2 record. The Dodgers beat the Nationals 8-4, in a very exciting Championship game played by both teams at Northwest baseball complex this past weekend. bottom row: Mason Galicia, Noah Stanley, Caleb Rosales, Moe Negrete, Nathaniel Negrete, Second Row: Brandon Pearce,...

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  1. Condors

    New GM Olver making 'short list' of coaching job candidates

    It's been just under three weeks since John Olver was hired as the general manager of the Bakersfield Condors, and he's already made a major decision. He's found a house in southwest Bakersfield and will soon being the process of moving from Boise. "That's one off my check list," he said on Tuesday. Finding a new...

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  2. Condors

    Local motor sports notes: Multiple drivers have feature wins at Speedway

    IMCA Modified drivers take to Bakersfield Speedway on Saturday night for their second straight race on the third-mile clay oval. Brad Pounds started the season with back-to-back wins but since then three different drivers have driven to Victory Lane, including Danny Lauer of Nipomo who raced to his first ever win at...

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  3. Condors

    Condors might play game at Dodger Stadium

    Could the Condors be playing a hockey game next year in Dodger Stadium? It's certainly a possibility. Perhaps a distinct possibility. Although there has been no confirmation from the National Hockey League, it has been widely reported there will be six outdoor games next season, including the Los Angeles Kings...

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    Condors hire veteran coach Olver as GM

    Back in February, with the Condors in the middle of a second straight woeful season, owner Johnathan Fleisig admitted that he had not put enough emphasis on the hockey operation side of the business and changes were going to have to be made. Ten days ago team President Matthew Riley, addressing the media about not...

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  2. College
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    Stockdale, featuring five skilled seniors, wins SWYL tourney by 30 strokes

    As Stockdale's boys golf team congregated to compare scores and trade barbs after Tuesday's Southwest Yosemite League mini-tournament at The Links at RiverLakes Ranch, two things became abundantly clear. (1) This team doesn't have a dominant player. (2) That doesn't matter, because it has a bunch of really good ones...

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  3. College

    Local report: Condors to announce new GM on Thursday

    For the past 15 years, the Bakersfield Condors have never employed a separate general manger to be in charge of hockey operations, as the duty has always fallen to Condors president Matthew Riley, or the coach. That will change on Thursday when the Condors will announce a new GM to head up hockey operations. "This is...

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  1. CSUB
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    Local report: Wright powers Blaze to fourth straight victory

    Ryan Wright had a homer, two doubles, three RBIs and two runs scored to lead the Bakersfield Blaze to a 5-3 victory Monday over the High Desert Mavericks at Sam Lynn Ballpark. It was the fourth straight win for Bakersfield, it's best streak of the season. Bakersfield (15-29) trailed 2-1 before scoring four fifth-inning...

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  2. College
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    Mike McCarthy: Adversity defines your life

    Zebulon , N.C. While most of the articles I write come from my own observations, this week's article comes with a lot of observations from others. Family and friends, teammates and coaches alike all come together in this article. My last start was in Myrtle Beach, S.C., against the Texas Ranger class High-A team....

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  3. College

    Local report: BC's Dial takes second in state in 800 meters

    SAN MATEO -- Bakersfield College sophomore Tejera Dial finished second in the women's 800 meters Saturday with a time of 2:17.61 at the California Community College Track and Field Championships at College of San Mateo. Dial, the Southern California champion, was beaten by College of the Sequoias' Melissa Leyva, who...

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  1. College

    Roadrunners clinch top seed in WAC baseball tournament

    SAN JOSE -- There's no questioning whether the Cal State Bakersfield baseball team belongs in the Western Athletic Conference. The Roadrunners scored 12 runs over the final two innings Saturday to clinch the top seed in the conference tournament with a 14-6 victory over San Jose State at Municipal Stadium. The...

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  2. College
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    Daly beats Pounds in Late Model race at Bakersfield Speedway

    Clay Daly held off Brad Pounds to win the Late Model feature Saturday night at Bakersfield Speedway. Cody Barnett, Robert Sanders and Nick Bartels rounded out the top five in the race. Other race winners were Chad Johnson in Hobby Stocks, followed by Jimmy Irwin and Devin Jones; Eric Silvius in American Stocks,...

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  3. College

    Roadrunners drop finale, share title

    SAN JOSE -- San Jose State rallied late Sunday to prevent Cal State Bakersfield from securing the outright Western Athletic Conference regular-season baseball title. The Spartans scored five runs in the eighth inning to beat the Roadrunners 8-5 at Municipal Stadium, and CSUB settled for a share of the conference title...

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  1. College
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    District, board of trustees non-commital about fighting BC football sanctions

    Bakersfield College President Sonya Christian has been urged by many Renegade football fans to appeal penalties announced Tuesday that stripped BC of the state football title, among other sanctions. But whether to appeal is not Christian's call. That's the word from BC spokeswoman Amber Chiang, who noted that the...

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  2. Bakersfield College

    Local report: State JC softball finals start today at BC

    Bakersfield College will host the state softball championships today through Sunday. The four-team, double-elimination tournament begins today with a 5:30 p.m. game between San Mateo (41-4), Northern California’s top seed, against Palomar (30-13), the No. 2 Southern California seed. Immediately following will...

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  3. College
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    District to appeal sanctions levied on BC football

    Bakersfield College officials are going to fight to get back the state football championship that was taken away last Tuesday. The seven-member Kern Community College District Board of Trustees unanimously voted Monday afternoon to appeal sanctions levied on the football program by Southern California Football...

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  1. Bakersfield College

    Local report: Renegades' Wemhoff 5th in high jump at state meet

    SAN MATEO -- Bakersfield College athlete Bevan Wemhoff cleared 6 feet, 6 inches in the high jump as the Frontier High graduate placed fifth in the event at the California State Track and Field Championships at the College of San Mateo on Friday. Teammate Evan Eggenberg, a Stockdale High graduate, placed in a tie for...

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  2. College
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    Chudy, local supporters react to sanctions against Renegade football program

    Tuesday was a gut-wrenching day for Bakersfield College football coach Jeff Chudy. He learned his program was stripped of its 2012 state football championship by the California Community College Athletic Association. The Southern California Football Association took away every regular-season win from the 2011 and...

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  3. College
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    Jeff Evans: Athletic Association showed no mercy toward Renegades

    Bakersfield College has been stripped of last fall's state football championship. The 2011 and 2012 seasons are now officially 0-10 years. The Renegades are ineligible for the postseason in 2013. And for what? Some minimum-wage jobs for a handful of players, a little help with housing for out-of-area athletes and...

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  1. Bakersfield Blaze
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    Local report: Wright powers Blaze to fourth straight victory

    Ryan Wright had a homer, two doubles, three RBIs and two runs scored to lead the Bakersfield Blaze to a 5-3 victory Monday over the High Desert Mavericks at Sam Lynn Ballpark. It was the fourth straight win for Bakersfield, it's best streak of the season. Bakersfield (15-29) trailed 2-1 before scoring four fifth-inning...

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  2. Sports

    Local report: Blaze extends win streak to 3 games

    Bakersfield matched its longest winning streak of the season as the Blaze won its third in a row with a 10-1 thumping of the High Desert Mavericks on Sunday afternoon at Sam Lynn Ballpark. Bakersfield exploded for seven runs in the fourth inning and had 15 hits total -- four doubles and 11 singles -- in scoring its...

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  3. College

    Local report: BC's Dial takes second in state in 800 meters

    SAN MATEO -- Bakersfield College sophomore Tejera Dial finished second in the women's 800 meters Saturday with a time of 2:17.61 at the California Community College Track and Field Championships at College of San Mateo. Dial, the Southern California champion, was beaten by College of the Sequoias' Melissa Leyva, who...

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  1. Bakersfield Blaze

    Blaze tops Ports, 1-0

    Jon Moscot and two relievers combined on a four-hitter to lead the Bakersfield Blaze to a 1-0 victory Friday over the Stockton Ports. Bakersfield scored the game's only run in th top of the first when Juan Perez singled, stole second, advanced to third on an error and scored on a ground out Yorman Rodriguez. Perez...

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  2. College

    Local report: BC's Dial wins 800 to qualify for state meet

    LANCASTER -- Tejera Dial won the 800 meters to highlight a strong performance by Bakersfield College in Saturday's Southern California Track and Field finals at Antelope Valley College. Dial bested the field with a 2:16.90, qualifying along with four teammates for the state meet, which starts Friday at San Mateo...

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  3. College

    Former Roadrunners star Zardes scores first MLS goal

    VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Former Cal State Bakersfield star Gyasi Zardes scored the first goal of his Major League Soccer career for the Los Angeles Galaxy in a 3-1 loss to the Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday night. Zardes, a MLS rookie, cut the Galaxy's deficit in half in the 86th minute as he headed in a cross...

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School House Zach Condors Talk

  1. Katie Cornford Cornford wins Mayor's Trophy; complete list of PEAAK Award winners

    The Kern High School District held its third annual Promoting Excellence in Athletics and Activities in Kern, or PEAAK, Awards on Wednesday night in Harvey...

  2. HS_track11.JPG VIDEO: South Area track highlights

    The Central Section South Area track and field meet on Wednesday featured four meet records, all in times that will make the high school stars who set them...

  3. Ex-Drillers star, coach to take over at Foothill

    Foothill reached into Bakersfield's past for its new football coach — but no, it's not just-retired NFL All-Pro Joey Porter. The Trojans have hired Jason...

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  1. condor_4_fa.JPG Coach Matt O'Dette's two year run with team is over

    A few minutes after the Condors finished their season with a 5-1 loss to San Francisco on Saturday night, Condors coach Matt O'Dette told his team he would not...

  2. Condors deal four players on trade deadline

      Shuffling the deck in a last-ditch effort to make the playoffs while looking to the future, the Condors made a major move on Thursday, trading four players...

  3. ECHL fines O'Dette for referee comments

    Condors coach Matt O’Dette was fined an undisclosed amount by the ECHL on Friday due to published remarks he made about the referee J.M. McNaulty in Thursday...

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