Damien's Bobby Oatman entered the game hitting .529.
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 Friday [...]
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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, and [...]
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, Kirby [...]
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 [...]
Matt Dunn, Damien’s head basketball coach has anything but the seven-year itch. In his 7th campaign for the Spartans, he still loves coaching at Damien and seems particularly taken with this year’s team.
“Our chemistry is better than it’s ever been,” Dunn said on the eve of Damien’s first game of the season against Chatsworth in [...]
With the Chino Cowboys at 18-6 and the Damien Spartans at 18-7, the table was set: A victory by the Spartans would give them a share of the Sierra League title. The trouble was, only the Cowboys responded when the dinner bell rang. By the time the Spartans, showed up, the game was out of [...]
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