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Here’s a quick look at this weekend’s games. Which ones are you most intrigued by, and what’ll you be looking for? I’ll be in Arroyo Grande to take in the Eagles’ nonleague rivalry game against Nipomo, and I’ll be tweeting score updates here. I also wanted to mention that our area ...

The first week of the San Luis Obispo County prep football season is in the books (except for San Luis Obispo High’s home opener against Kingsburg at 7 tonight). Here were the final scores to get us started: • Atascadero 35, Salinas 7 (Thursday) • Arroyo Grande 13, Lompoc 7 • Fresno Central 54, ...

Well, it’s finally here — welcome back to San Luis Obispo County high school football. Of course, it started Thursday night as Atascadero routed Salinas 35-7. But our final general preview issue will run Friday, with an overall look at how various league and divisional realignments may affect local teams this season, ...

The wait is just about over, as high school football training camps open throughout San Luis Obispo County this week. So who do you expect to look good coming out of the PAC 7 and Los Padres League? On paper, there don’t appear to be outright favorites in either. I’ve already gotten ...

With the summer collegiate baseball season wrapping up this past week, I thought I’d take a quick look back, recapping how recent San Luis Obispo County products fared over the past couple months. For the San Luis Obispo Blues: • Max Duval, Inf. (San Luis Obispo; Cuesta) — .175 AVG., 7 RBI, ...

Last year at about this time, we posted a Top 10 list of the best prep teams from San Luis Obispo County for 2008-09. Now that some time has passed and given a chance to reflect on 2009-10, I was wondering if you all would like to put together Top ...

A pair of San Luis Obispo County prep football standouts have recently generated online college recruiting chatter on statewide and even nationwide levels. Leading the pack is Templeton High’s Tyler Gray, a 6-foot-3, 215-pound linebacker entering his senior year. Gray is currently rated as a three-star prospect by Rivals.com, which ranks ...

In case you missed it, last week we named Paso Robles High senior shortstop and pitcher Thomas Bernal as The Tribune’s San Luis Obispo County Baseball Player of the Year. Sorry for the delay in posting here, as I was on my first vacation of the year. From the complete ...

Today, we named Atascadero High junior right-handed pitcher Jill Johnson as The Tribune’s San Luis Obispo County Softball Player of the Year. As for the all-county baseball team, it’s completed and tentatively slated to run in the immediately near future, likely within the week, depending on news flow on given ...

Two former San Luis Obispo County prep stars, both of them 2006 grads, were selected in this week’s Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. Matt Drummond, a former Paso Robles standout now a redshirt junior pitcher at UCLA, was chosen in the 20th round by the Baltimore Orioles. Cal State Bakersfield senior ...