By GREG BEACHAM LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California fired football coach Clay Helton on Monday, two games into his seventh season in charge. Athletic director Mike Bohn made the move two days after an embarrassing 42-28 home loss to Stanford that dropped the Trojans (1-1, 0-1 Pac-12) out of the AP Top 25. Donte
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Desirae Krawczyk, a Palm Desert High School graduate, won the mixed doubles title at the US Open on Saturday. 🙌 MIXED DOUBLES CHAMPS 🙌@desiraekrawczyk | @joesalisbury92 pic.twitter.com/kmTOrFDu8K— US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 11, 2021 Lift it high 🏆🔝@desiraekrawczyk | @joesalisbury92 pic.twitter.com/9Ye5GBgw88— US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 11, 2021 Krawczyk and Great Britain’s Joe Salisbury defeated
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Week 4 of the local high school football season is over and done with. Check out the final scores and check out highlights from all 7 of tonight’s games. Paloma Valley – 0@Shadow Hills – 21FMurrieta Mesa – 16@Palm Desert – 35F FINAL: @PdhsFootball 35 – Murrieta Mesa 16@JohHanyi 4 tuddy’s?? Highlights in an hour
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Desirae Krawczyk is near the end of arguably one of the best doubles tennis years of any pro-level player. Krawczyk already has won the French Open and Wimbledon in mixed doubles this year and is seeking to add the US Open title in tomorrow’s final. We will have first-time #USOpen mixed doubles champions on Saturday.🇲🇽
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Another local team has been forced to cancel a football game due to COVID-19. Rancho Mirage has called off their game this Friday at home against Norte Vista because of positive tests within the program. UPDATE: Here we go again…..Rancho Mirage at Norte Vista football game Friday has been cancelled due to COVID. Norte Vista
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Former Palm Desert standout Brian Serven had a moment on Tuesday night that he will never forget. The 26-year-old Serven, who is currently playing for the Albuquerque Isotopes, which is an AAA affiliate of the Colorado Rockies, blasted a two-run homer off one of the greatest pitchers of all time in Clayton Kershaw. A moment
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Xavier Prep Volleyball Logan Harris was born to be an athlete. “Nothing fit me as well as volleyball. My mom was a D-1 athlete. She played libero at Colorado State University and my Dad was a D-1 basketball player. So me playing volleyball was my motivation to be like them,” said Logan Harris. After no
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Shadow Hills High School has won play of the week for the second week in a row! The Knights won it this week with a blocked punt that Kaleb Marquez managed to recover and take it to the endzone for a touchdown. It was a huge play in a close game. The Knights would go
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Week 3 is in the books but we need your help picking the Play of the Week. Vote below from our three nominees.
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Week 3 of the high school football season is here and a little early at that. We had four games already on Thursday, but it’s still a packed schedule of games. There are 6 games set to be played under the Friday night lights Watch the Best Local Sports tonight at 11 pm for full
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Cory Cornelius is the new head basketball coach at Shadow Hills High School. Cornelius was officially approved as the new coach during Tuesday’s DSUSD board of education meeting, Cornelius comes from Banning high school where he was the head coach for the Broncos, earning CIF-SS championships in 2016 and 2020. Looking to add to the
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Jeremiah Peffers of Shadow Hills High School has won our Play of the Week for week 2 of high school football. Peffers, a sophomore, won by 6 votes. More than 200 votes were tallied over the weekend. Peffers got the win with a great defensive play, wrapping up the running back as soon as the
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It’s week 2 of the high school football season! We’ve got 10 games this week, check out the schedule below. Watch the Best Local Sports Show with Blake Arthur at 11 p.m. for scores, highlights, and more from this week’s action. We’ll also announce our Play of the Week nominees! WEEK 2 – FRIDAY 8/27 Palm Desert
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Be sure to vote for the Play of the Week! Check out our three nominees and cast your vote. The winner will be announced Monday at 6 p.m. on News Channel 3 Check out our full coverage of the week 2 games
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A handful of high school mixed martial artists were honored on Thursday for their recent success at the 2021 IMMAF Youth MMA World Championships. Special moment here in Desert Hot Springs, Congressman Raul Ruiz honoring MMA standouts after bringing home medals🏅 from an overseas competition. We’ll have more tonight on @KESQ @BlakeArthur24 pic.twitter.com/rQSKgpykeJ— Bailey Arredondo
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The Conquerors missed the entire 2020 season but are back on the field competing here in 2021 with a full roster and full schedule. “What everybody can expect from DCA football is a team that’s not huge in size and numbers, but a team that will play until the final whistle. They will not give
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Palm Springs’ game at Grand Terrace this Thursday has been cancelled. https://twitter.com/PSHSAD/status/1430616983305736192 The Indians are currently working to find a new opponent but athletic director Mike Ventura tells KESQ he has not yet had any success in doing so. Stay with Sports Director Blake Arthur and KESQ News Channel 3 throughout the high school football
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29 Palms football has not practiced for a couple weeks due to positive cases within the program. NEW: 29 Palms’ game against Big Bear this week is not happening. In fact, the Wildcats have not practiced in weeks due to positive tests within the program. Big Bear has rescheduled to play Fontana. @29coachUsh @CoachStanford29 @KESQ
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Kevin Himes of Palm Desert has won play of the week honors for the first week of the 2021 high school football season. Himes earned the most votes over the weekend on our poll. Stay with Sports Director Blake Arthur and KESQ News Channel 3 throughout the high school football season for complete coverage. Watch
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It’s a whole new season! We’re back with week 1 of the local high school football season. Check out who came out on top to start the season off the right note. WEEK 1 Silverado – 14@Palm Desert – 33FPalm Springs – 28@Yucaipa – 34FXavier Prep – 26@St. Pius X – St. Matthias Academy –
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