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The Lassen College Lady Cougar basketball team picked up a much needed win, Wednesday (2/11), on the road against long time rival Butte College. 

Lassen got 20 points from freshman guard, Oceana Johnson as the Lady Cougars defeated Butte 63-51. Lorena Torres scored 16 points to help Lassen improve to 6-2 in Golden Valley Conference play. The Lady Cougars return home for a rematch with Shasta College, Saturday, Feb. 14th. Shasta handed Lassen one of it’s two conference losses in an earlier GVC match-up. That game was played on Shasta’s home floor in Redding, Ca.

Tip-off is set for 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the Lassen College Sports Complex.

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The NAL basketball games between the Lassen High Grizzlies and West Valley High School have been moved to, Thursday, Feb. 12th.

The games were originally scheduled to be played, Friday, Feb. 13th, but due to an impending storm front, the schools made the decision to move the games up one day.

The Lady Grizzlies will now host West Valley, Thursday, Feb. 12th, in the “Cave,” while the Lassen boys will travel to West Valley the same evening. Both Lassen squads are 1-6 in the NAL.

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The Lassen Grizzly basketball team dropped a 74-63 decision to the Corning Cardinals, Tuesday (2/10), at home in the “Cave.”

The loss was Lassen’s fifth in a row and drops the Grizzlies to 1-6 in NAL play. Lassen is 10-12 overall.

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The Lassen High Lady Grizzly basketball team traveled to Corning, Tuesday (2/10) for an NAL showdown with the Corning High School Cardinals. Lassen hung tough, trailing the first place Cardinals by just four points at the half, but Corning pulled away in the second half for a 62-46 win. 

Carlotta Kloppenburg paced Lassen with 17 points and nine rebounds. The loss drops the Lassen ladies to 1-6 in conference play and 7-12 overall.

The junior varsity Lassen ladies defeated Corning by one point, hitting a pair of free throws with .02 seconds left in regulation. The Lassen freshmen were defeated by Corning.

The Lady Vikings of Herlong High, clinched their third straight Pioneer League championship, Tuesday night, (2/10), with a 30-21 victory over Downieville.

Herlong was able to overcome a shaky offensive shooting night to defeat Downieville High, and clinch the teams third consecutive Pioneer League championship with defense and perseverance.

Herlong, playing it’s third game in five nights, hit just 12 of 56 field goals on the night, but Herlong’s stellar defense enabled the team to go into the locker-room at halftime tied with Downieville 11-11. The Lady Vikings found their legs in the second half, outscoring Downieville 19-10 to secure the victory, and a third straight conference championship.

Tina Berry led Herlong with nine points. Reanna Retterath had yet another double-double, this time with 13 rebounds and ten blocked shots. Retterath also contributed eight points to the Herlong victory. Andrea “Peanut” Owen chipped in with eight points.

The Lady Vikings wrap up the regular season, Friday night, Feb. 13th, at home against Elk Creek.

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The Lady Vikings of Herlong High may have simply forgotten how to lose. Herlong earned it’s 14th straight win Monday, (2/9) with a 33-11 victory over Greenville.

Much as wins have become the norm for the Lady Vikings, so too have double-doubles for Herlong senior, Reanna Retterath. Retterath had 12 points and 12 rebounds in Mondays non-conference win. Tina Berry chipped in with nine points for Herlong. The win pushes Herlong’s season record to 15-5.

Herlong will look to make it 15 in a row tonight, Feb. 10th, at home against Pioneer League foe, Downieville.

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Nope, I am not now, nor have I ever been a fan of Alex Rodriguez. And for previously publicized reasons of my own, but I do not hesitate to say:

Alex Rodriguez is one of the best baseball players I, or you, have ever seen play the game. Unless you just hate the guy or don’t get baseball, there’s no argument to be had. Was it the right thing to dabble in Performance Enhancing Drugs, (PEDs) from 2001 – 2003? (as he has confessed). That’s debatable. Was it the wrong thing? Probably.

I’m not one to judge the sincerity of an apology from someone I do not personally know, but I’ll say this for A-Rod, his coming-clean party  was the first time, outside of injury, that I felt an athlete gave a legitimate response as to why they did what they did. As I took it, Rodriguez told ESPN’s Peter Gammons, when asked why he took PEDs, and I’m paraphrasing here: “I just signed a ten year, 252 million dollar deal. Dude, that’s the biggest contract ever ! You don’t think I felt the pressure to be the best baseball player in history.” By no means am I advocating the use of  … Click the headline to continue reading this LSN Story

While the CIF playoff point standings are not the “official” CIF playoff seedings, they are a good indicator of what to expect when the seedings do, officially come out.

According to the latest CIF high school soccer playoff points, both the Lassen Grizzly boys and girls teams will be second seeds in the upcoming playoffs. That earns each team a first round bye. Under these rankings, Lassen will open the playoffs with semi-final games at Riverside Park, Tuesday, Feb. 24th.

Girls Playoff Point Standings

1. Sutter – 13-0-0

2. Lassen – 9-1-3

3. West Valley – 11-1-2

4. Las Plumas – 10-2-0

5. Wheatland – 4-4-2

6. Corning – 7-6-1

According to Lassen boys head coach Dennis Michaels, if these point standings represent the actual playoff seedings, the Lassen girls will face the winner of the West Valley – Corning match. 

Boys Playoff Point Standings

1. Corning – 14-0-1

2. Lassen – 8-3-2

3. Las Plumas – 7-4-2

4. West Valley – 7-4-3

5. Wheatland – 2-7-2

6. Sutter – 2-7-4

Again, according to coach Michaels, these seedings would have Lassen hosting the winner of the Las Plumas – Sutter match. 

Official playoff seedings will be confirmed by Saturday, Feb. 14th.

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We’ve got a little bit of everything from this past weekend, so here we go in no particular order.

High School Basketball (Boys) (2/06)

Yreka – 57

Lassen – 53

The Grizzlies inability to hit free throws proved costly. Lassen converted just eight of 22 free throw in the four point loss. Miles Maurino led Lassen scorers with 12 points. Loren Rainey finished with 11 points and Brandon Whitestone had 10 points. The loss drops Lassen to 10-11 on the year, 1-5 in the NAL. The Grizzlies will be at home, Tuesday, Feb. 10th,  to face Corning.

High School Basketball (Girls) (2/06)

Yreka – 49

Lassen – 47

The Lady Grizzlies came from behind to lead Yreka 47-45 but the Miners scored the games final four points to earn the win. Lassen missed a three-pointer as time expired. Carlotta Kloppenburg led Lassen with 13 points. The Lassen ladies are now 7-11 and 1-5 in tne NAL. Lassen travels to Corning, Tuesday, Feb. 10th.

Herlong – 31

Providence – 23

The Lady Vikings earned their 13th straight victory. Herlong’s Andrea “Peanut” Owen knocked in ten points while pulling down 12 rebounds. Reanna Retterath had a double-double of her own, with 14 rebounds and ten blocked shots. Herlong is now 14-5 overall, 6-0 in the Pioneer League.

College Basketball (Women) (2/07)

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The Lassen High School Lady Grizzlies secured the, “sole” spot atop the NAL soccer standings following a 5-1 victory over the Central Valley Falcons, (2/05).

The win caps a first place, 8-0-2 run through the NAL regular season schedule for the Lady Grizzlies. Lassen’s nearest competitor in the conference was West Valley, who finished at 8-1-1. The teams must now wait for the remainder of north section soccer season to conclude, before the playoff seeding committee will meet. Playoff seedings should be known no later than, Feb. 14th. Of course you’ll find them here first, at, The Lassen Sports Network.

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