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GLENDALE - It had been 10 years since the Glendale Community College football team had matched up with San Bernardino Valley College, which traveled to Sartoris Field Saturday. The Vaqueros may not mind if it's another decade until they meet again after the Wolverines defeated them, 35-0, at Sartoris Field. San Bernardino's offense vastly outproduced Glendale in the game, as the Wolverines racked up 500 yards of total offense compared to GCC's 54, including 200 to 16 through the air and 300 to 38 on the ground.

LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE — The Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy volleyball team will find out who its first-round playoff opponent will be Sunday. One certainty is that the Tologs will not face Mission League archrival Harvard-Westlake in the opening round. After what took place Thursday night, the Tologs are probably relieved. Flintridge Sacred Heart closed out its regular season with a 25-14, 25-10, 25-16 league loss to visiting Harvard-Westlake. Harvard-Westlake (10-0 in league)

NORTHEAST GLENDALE — The setting was different, but the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy soccer team had been in the exact same spot before — up a goal on Harvard-Westlake, with plenty of soccer left to be played. But whereas a momentary lapse allowed the Wolverines to come back and earn a tie on Jan. 6 at Harvard-Westlake, this time the Tologs filled the final 44 minutes of Monday night’s Mission League rematch with pretty near flawless soccer from end to end of Sartoris Field.

LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE — There would likely be nothing sweeter for the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy girls’ volleyball team than to exact some revenge on the Harvard-Westlake squad that foiled it at every turn during its championship-or-bust 2007 campaign. With the 2008 Wolverines looking every bit as strong as the version that edged the Tologs for the Mission League and CIF Southern Section Division I-A titles a season ago, that simply may not happen this year. It didn’t come close to happening on Tuesday night, as the Tologs fell to the Wolverines, 25-22, 25-15, 25-20, at Sacred Heart.

St. Francis High junior boys’ tennis standout Vinni Lodolo made history on Wednesday afternoon at the Studio City Tennis Center. Lodolo broke Harvard-Westlake’s decade-long streak of Mission League individual champions when he won the league singles crown. He bested Wolverines No. 2 singles player Matt Wagner, 6-3, 3-6, 10-4 for the championship. In the semifinal, which he advanced to a season prior, Lodolo, the tournament’s top seed, defeated Wolverines No. 3 player Andrew Berman, 6-1, 6-0. A Harvard-Westlake player had won the tournament every year since 1998.

LA CANADA-FLINTRIDGE ? There were no doubt a few scouts from other Rio Hondo League schools sprinkled into the stands at Spartan Stadium Friday night hoping to sniff out any weakness in La Cañada High's game. There can also be no doubt that those scouts left licking their chops with more than a few pages of notes following the Spartans' 38-14 collapse at the hands of Harvard-Westlake. Aside from the dependable play of running back Lavelle Peterson, who managed 195 yards rushing and two touchdowns in 21 carries, La Cañada's numerous vulnerabilities held center stage for most of the night.

Charles Rich NORTH HOLLYWOOD -- Think of the Harvard-Westlake High girls' volleyball team as a shiny new Lamborghini traveling at a high rate of speed on the San Diego Freeway. About the only object possibly capable of stopping such a powerful force these days would be a police spike strip. If only La Canada could have been such a deterrent Tuesday when it faced the Wolverines, the seventh ranked team in the state, in a CIF Southern Section Division IIIAA semifinal match.

Jim Riggio LA CANADA HIGH -- Stoping Russell Lakey is one way to beat the Harvard-Westlake boys' basketball team. La Canada High at times did a good job of that. But what the Spartans couldn't do was hold both Lakey and his teammates down, as the Wolverines ended the Spartans' season with a 70-51 CIF Southern Section Division IIIAA victory. "The biggest problem is they have the other shooters," La Canada Coach Tom Hofman said. "You have to make the other kids beat you and they did."

LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE — The end of one streak of dominance on Thursday night may very well lead to the end of another for the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy volleyball team. A 27-25, 22-25, 24-26, 25-16, 15-10 loss at Sacred Heart to Mission League archrival Harvard-Westlake ended an undefeated home streak dating back to the 2002 regular season. That loss came to the same Wolverines, who now are two wins away from denying the Tologs at least a share of the league title for the first time since 2003.

LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE — Despite a stellar club and Olympic Developmental resume, Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy freshman Tera Trujillo was foreign to all the pomp and circumstance that surrounded the Tologs playing rival Harvard-Westlake. After Wednesday night, she’s not. Trujillo’s goal in the 47th minute stood as the only score of the match, as Flintridge Sacred Heart upended the seven-time reigning Mission League champions, 1-0, in both teams’ league opener at St. Francis High’s Friedman Field.

LOS ANGELES - When the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy swimming team took its seat atop the Mission League back last year, it did so with depth. It takes a different approach this year for the Tologs, who relied on their stars of Kirsten Vose, Katie Altmayer, Emily Balog and Kate Herrill to deliver a 99-84 victory over host Harvard-Westlake in a league dual meet Tuesday at Loyola High. That foursome started the meet with a win and CIF Southern Section Division I postseason consideration time in the 200-yard medley of 1 minute, 54.39 seconds and at least one member of that group had a hand in all nine of the Tologs' wins on the day. Flintrdge Sacred Heart won just five events in a 99-77 win over Harvard Westlake last season.

BOYS' BASKETBALL St. Francis 65, Harvard-Westlake 55: Kyle Leufroy finished with a team-high 25 points Friday to spark the visiting Golden Knights in a Mission League game. Evan Crawford collected 13 points for St. Francis (13-12, 3-7 in league). Flintridge Prep 74, Rio Hondo Prep 67: Three Rebels finished in double figures Friday night with Jedrick Eugenio scoring a team-high 19, followed closely by Robert Cartwright and Kareem Ismail, who added 18 and 15 points, respectively.

NORTH HOLLYWOOD - Trailing by 26 points with less than 11 minutes remaining, the St. Francis High football team finally got back on track. A couple of recovered onside kicks led to two touchdowns. And the Golden Knights had one last chance to complete a miraculous comeback, but saw their bid fall short in the closing seconds. “It was a valiant effort and they fought to the end,” said St. Francis Coach Jim Bonds, whose team suffered a 41-36 road Mission League loss against Harvard-Westlake on Friday night.

LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE - There isn't a sense of panic surrounding the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy volleyball team. Not after splitting its first two Mission League matches. However, Flintridge Sacred Heart first-year Coach Ernest Banaag said there might be some tinkering with the lineup. “Right now, we are inexperienced,” Banaag said after Harvard-Westlake recorded a 25-17, 25-7, 25-13 against host Flintridge Sacred Heart on Tuesday night. “You can sit hear and nitpick, yell and scream, but we will get back at it and make some adjustments.

GLENDALE - It had been 10 years since the Glendale Community College football team had matched up with San Bernardino Valley College, which traveled to Sartoris Field Saturday. The Vaqueros may not mind if it's another decade until they meet again after the Wolverines defeated them, 35-0, at Sartoris Field. San Bernardino's offense vastly outproduced Glendale in the game, as the Wolverines racked up 500 yards of total offense compared to GCC's 54, including 200 to 16 through the air and 300 to 38 on the ground.

The top-10 individual performances by an athlete in a team setting from the 2011-12 season were voted on by the Glendale News-Press sports department. 1 Hakop Kaplanyan dries up Palm Desert, Nov. 12, 2011 - Once the Hoover High boys' water polo team received a last-second reprieve on the end of its season, its senior leader didn't let it go to waste. Kaplanyan scored a game-tying goal to complete a comeback from down five goals and send the Tornadoes' CIF Southern Section Division IV quarterfinal match against Palm Desert at Burbank High to overtime moments after a timekeeping error resulted in a replay of the final 30 seconds.

PASADENA - With virtually an all new lineup in play this season, the members of the St. Francis High golf team have an eye toward reaching the CIF playoffs for the first time since 2009. In trying to achieve that goal during the next two months, the Golden Knights figure to be involved in some close Mission League matches to test their fortitude. So far, the Golden Knights have met essentially every challenge thrown their way and, in the process, are off to an undefeated start to league.

LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE - For a St. Francis High soccer team that's been down on its luck for most of the season, getting a hard-fought scoreless tie against Mission League-rival Harvard-Westlake on Wednesday might have felt just as good as a win. One can only wonder then how the Golden Knights felt following the Wolverines' stunning game-winning goal inside the final minute of extra time that sent St. Francis to a 1-0 league-opening loss at...

PASADENA — The window of opportunity for the St. Francis High baseball team to make the CIF playoffs out of the Mission League remains open, although the Golden Knights' recently completed two-game series with Harvard-Westlake certainly didn't do much to help the cause. After losing by 10 runs in a shutout on the road Tuesday, St. Francis was beaten, 9-3, by the Wolverines at Jackie Robinson Field on Friday afternoon for their fourth loss in a row and third straight in league.

LOS ANGELES — As a showcase for two of the most talented and potent girls' soccer teams in the nation, Wednesday evening's clash between host Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy and archrival Harvard-Westlake more than lived up to the hype. But as a showcase to determine the best of the best as it relates to the Mission League, Wednesday's evening's battle left everything unsettled. The Tologs rallied from an early one-goal deficit only to relinquish a one-goal halftime advantage en route to a 2-2 tie with the Wolverines at Occidental College in both teams' league opener.