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1. 

   Haney leads strong local group at Arcadia

   One of, if not THE, most competitive high school track and field meets in the country concluded tonight at the Arcadia Invitational, and a couple of local athletes were front and center in their events. At the top of the list is Stockdale...
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   Highland basketball player Derrick Duff killed in auto accident

   Highland senior Derrick Duff, captain and leading scorer for the Scots boys basketball team, died in a car accident on Highway 101 early this morning. Duff, 18, was laying in the back of a Jeep when the driver, another teen, lost control...
3. 

   McCall named Gatorade State Player of Year

   The honors keep rolling in for Ridgeview senior Erica McCall in what's been a banner senior year. The latest: McCall was named Thursday morning as the Gatorade State Girls Basketball Player of the Year by a panel of Gatorade and USA Today...
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   Ridgeview rolls into Southern Cal girls hoops final

   Ridgeview's terrific girls basketball team is having a season to remember, the latest evidence being a 92-73 rout of Riverside-John W. North at home Tuesday night in the CIF Division II Southern California semifinals. That's a really good...
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   Ridgeview grad Johnny Carter wins D-II national long jump title

   HIgh school track and field season got going in earnest tonight at the Kern County Invitational at Liberty, and conditions were so soggy they called off the 1,600-meter relays at the end of the night. But it wasn't all depressing and gray...
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   Winter sports All-Area publication schedule

   All-Area teams for the winter sports — boys and girls basketball, boys and girls soccer and wrestling — are being voted upon by coaches and will be selected in the coming week. If you're a Kern County coach or athletic director who has not...

7. Ridgeview girls hoops top SoCal seed in D-II state playoffs; Indy boys No. 3 in D-III

   Ridgeview's girls basketball team got exactly what it wanted when the CIF unveiled state playoff brackets Sunday afternoon. Instead of being bumped up to the ultra-competitive — and brand-new for this year — Open Division, the Wolf Pack...

9. Bakersfield High grad Tyrone Wallace abuses rim for Cal

   Independence boys basketball team was the local basketball story of the day Saturday, with its 11-0 run to end a dramatic 62-60 over Mission Oak in the Division III Central Section championship in Fresno. But a couple of hours to the...

10. CIF State Wrestling Championships, finals live blog

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11. CIF State Wrestling Championships, Day 2 live blog

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12. CIF State Wrestling Championships, live blog

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13. Wrestling live blog: Central Section Masters championships

    160: Isaiah Martinez, Lemoore, tech fall Hunter Hodges, Bakersfield, 18-3 170: Bryce Martin, Bakersfield, dec. Austin Flores, Clovis North, 5-4 2OT 182: Adrian Salas, Clovis inj. def. Kyle Pope, Bakersfield 195: Gabriel Gonzalez,...

14. Wrestling live blog: Central Section Masters

    UPDATED, 6:22 p.m.: Just got word that finals will begin at 160 pounds and then go straight through 152 to end the night with Coleman Hammond against Kyle Perreault. Here are team scores entering the finals, and then I'll flip it over to a...