Calimesa’s Lori Becker grew up while skating at the Stardust Roller Rink, an iconic 1950s-era venue which burned down in 2019. The rink housed many memories, but now Becker and her charges are all about making new memories. Lori and her old coach Verda Asman guide the Academy of Champions Sk…

The Yucaipa High volleyball program, after a year’s absence due to the pandemic, is back.

The Yucaipa High football team remained unbeaten by defeating host Hesperia 41-13 on Friday, Sept. 10. The game was played at the school where Yucaipa coach Justin Price served his father, Butch Price, as a ball boy. Butch was the first-ever Hesperia football coach. Following a 6-6 first qua…

QB1 of the Bulldogs Nathan Martinez is 2good2btrue. The University of Redlands star is a modern version of Frank Merriwell (Google him kids), with a rifle for an arm and magic in his feet.

The Yucaipa High football team, led by the band, enters the stadium. AC-DC’s “Thunderstruck” blares. As the T’-Birds sprint onto the field, the crowd erupts.

The Yucaipa Valley American Little League won the minors (Under 10) baseball title in dramatic fashion on Monday, July 12 on a single by Cameron Urias in the bottom of the eighth inning.

Yucaipa Valley American Little League manager Jeff Scott missed his team’s 11-1 victory against Twentynine Palms on Saturday, July 10, because of vacation. But it was OK because acting manager Rob Eland did just fine in making sure the boys touched home plate on every run and smiled for phot…

Former Yucaipa High baseball stars are in the news lately.

Pleasant temperatures awaited Citrus Belt League track and field competitors for the league championship meet Thursday, May 27, at Yucaipa High.

It took the Yucaipa High baseball team until the final day of the Citrus Belt League to clinch a championship – but clinch, it did with its second victory against Redlands in three days.

Identical twins know the comments are coming. Having a sibling who is your mirror image is a magnet for silly remarks and mindless questions.

YUCAIPA – The strategy of the Yucaipa High basketball team was not complicated. It spread the floor on offense, left the middle open for forward Jonathan Stradford, and then let Stradford drive to the basket for shots or dish it to open teammates.

The Citrus Belt League Boys Golf Individual Prelims were held at Yucaipa Valley Golf Club on Monday, May 24.  Timmy C. from REV led the field with a 4 under par 68. The Yucaipa High School Varsity team was represented by Mason Montgomery (75), Spencer Payne (78), Connor Kendrick (81), and Ty…

Back in the 1960s, a few years after the Beatles first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, I was a brown-haired lad playing third base for Ram’s Sporting Goods of the San Bruno Pee Wee League.

Elijah James completed 15 of 20 passes for 220 yards and one touchdown and ran for 30 yards and two scores to lead the Yucaipa High football team to a 31-0 victory against Redlands East Valley on Saturday, April 10.

The Yucaipa High baseball team highlighted its week with a 7-2 victory against Capistrano Valley on Wednesday, March 31.

Beaumont High’s football team scored the final 24 points as the Cougars defeated the Yucaipa football team 37-24 on Saturday, April 3, in a Citrus Belt League game.

Butch Price, the father of Yucaipa High football coach Justin Price, has been coaching since the Nixon Administration of the early 1970s. The elder Price, following Yucaipa’s stunning 38-21 victory on Saturday, March 27 against Citrus Valley, gathered the Thunderbirds and recited a mantra.

Caiden Huber stepped into the batter’s box at Yucaipa High on Tuesday, March 23, under a fickle, overcast sky that couldn’t decide whether to dump rain or spread sunshine.

It didn’t take Matt Davidson long to let his new team know that he meant business. He homered in the first spring training game with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Taijuan Walker pitching against Matt Davidson?

By OBREY BROWN

By OBREY BROWN

Talk started drifting around Major League Baseball prospect Caiden Huber when he was a freshman at Yucaipa High School.

It might’ve been a gold mine interrupted.

If it seems like retired baseball coaching legend Jeff Stout is a million miles away from that Yucaipa High School diamond on which his sport was so dominant, there’s a simple answer.

A baseball career couldn’t have started out at a better place for Bill Mierzwik.

Coming from all corners of the nation, riding on machines, dirt flying in all directions, hundreds revved up their two-wheel motorcycles in search of a motocross title.

It took a second inning home run by the Angels’ Shohei Ohtani to darken last week’s performance by Yucaipa High’s former ace pitcher Taijuan Walker.

There were hurdlers and shortstops, freestylers, plus guys that could swing a club or a racket. There was a sprinter, a distance runner, a shortstop and a back stroker.

Even at six wins, five losses and a fully-loaded Citrus Belt League schedule lying ahead of Yucaipa High School, third-year Thunderbirds’ baseball coach Ralph Grajeda offered up plenty of hope for a successful season.

Yucaipa Valley National Little League held its opening ceremony March 7. Teams lined up left to right from T-ball to Farm to Minors to 50/70 to junior/senior.

The Yucaipa Calimesa Girls Softball league invited volunteers to join them in cleaning up the softball fields at I Street Park in Yucaipa on Saturday, Feb. 29. Around 50 volunteers, both adult and children showed up in force to get the tasks at hand done.

At the Yucaipa City Council meeting on Jan. 13, Megan Wolfe, Director of Community Services and Fermin Preciado, Director of Development Services/City Engineer submitted a letter of understanding to the city council regarding the Yucaipa Valley National Little League as one of the items for …

The Yucaipa Pickleball Club has much to be proud of. In two years it has grown to nearly 200 members and continues to add new players every week. Such phenomenal growth requires plenty of playing venues, and the club has met that need by expanding to three locations with 15 courts that fill …