Damien has long been a preparatory school for young athletes, from Mark McGwire to Ian Johnson, looking to make an impact at the next level Carrying on that tradition are four Damien seniors who indicated their intent on National Signing Day, Nov. 9, to continue their athletic careers. Kalani Matton , a four year varsity […]
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Great players have a gift for slowing down time. They operate on their own clock. With his team trailing, 72-71 with 3.2 seconds left in overtime against Mission Oak High School, Damien sophomore sensation Jeremy Hemsley, who already had a game-leading 28 points, needed one more basket to give his team the victory in the […]
Don’t cry a tear for Argentina or Damien basketball coach Matt Dunn just yet. While Dunn loses four-year starting center Chris Reyes now playing for St. Mary’s and playmaker Clayton White, he brings back a stellar back court in sophomore Jeremy Hemsley and senior Jared Dizon and a supporting cast of experienced players that should […]
Damien High School’s varsity water polo team helped new coach Grant Miller win his first Orange Crate trophy by dunking Bonita 11-5 at Las Flores Park in the cross-town rivalry match. “This kind of remains me of when I played in this a couple of years ago when we got this thing going,” Miller said. […]
 There are three things you can count on in this world: death, taxes and the Damien Spartans going to the CIF-Southern Section semi-finals every year. To get there, the Spartans had to win the bruising Battle of La Verne, as they shut down the Bonita Bearcats late to win 52-44 on their home court before […]
  The Damien Spartans snapped a 1-1 tie in the bottom of the fifth inning on a solo opposite-field home run by Fernando Larez and held on to defeat the Glendora Tartans, 2-1, at Tom Carroll Stadium in La Verne on Wednesday afternoon. Both teams, now 4-2 in the Sierra League, square off again on […]
Behind a powerful 13-strikout performance by Glendora senior pitcher Adam Plutko on Wednesday afternoon, the Tartans on their home field defeated Damien High School, 6-1. “He was dominating today,” said Damien head coach Al Leyva about Plutko’s command that seemed to grow stronger with each inning. “Quality pitching is going to beat good hitting every time, […]
It’s not every day that you have a stadium named after you. But that’s exactly what happened on Saturday afternoon at the newly christened Tom Carroll Stadium, named for Damien High School’s beloved coach and athletic director of 37 years who signed on with the Spartans when the baseball field was no more than a […]
There are universal truths that apply as much to the game of basketball as to the laws planetary motion. The number four, for instance, will always be greater than the number two. That simple fact played out last night as Eisenhower High School defeated a never-say-die Damien team 82-74, paced by their four outstanding shooters, […]
Two La Verne teams meeting in a hotly contested game for local bragging rights happens as often as a solar eclipse, but there they were on Wednesday night in the Bonita gym, the Bonita Bearcats (12-3) vs. the Damien Spartans (12-2). Public school vs. private school, Bonita kelly green vs. Damien dark forest green, free […]