Bulldogs

BURBANK - While the likes of Arcadia High, Burroughs and Crescenta Valley are jockeying for Pacific League softball playoff positioning, Burbank, the top-ranked team in CIF Southern Section Division III, continues to ride roughshod over the league. The Bulldogs provided further evidence of that on Tuesday afternoon, taking a big step forward in the hopes of clinching a league crown, as they used big innings, powerful and opportunistic offense and the steady, if not spectacular, arm of Caitlyn Brooks to roll to a 10-2 league win over Crescenta Valley at McCambridge Park.

PASADENA - Burroughs and Burbank highs will be represented in the Pacific League semifinals in boys' tennis. Both the Indians and Bulldogs players earned the right to advance to the final day of league competition with fine performances in Monday's preliminaries at Pasadena High. Two doubles teams and a singles player from Burroughs and a doubles squad and singles athlete from Burbank will take part in the event at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the same venue. There is a guarantee that the locals will be represented in the finals, as two Indians doubles squads will go head to head in one semifinal Wednesday.

BURBANK - In the midst of a two-game skid, the Burroughs High baseball team likely couldn't afford another loss if it hoped to stay in the thick of things among the Pacific League frontrunners. That made Friday afternoon's league matchup against visiting Pasadena an important contest for the Indians. PHOTOS: Burroughs vs. Pasadena baseball Burroughs was able to respond, taking advantage of Pasadena pitching problems and receiving a solid performance from starting pitcher Miles Haddad to notch a 6-4 victory.

GLENDALE - Through three innings, there didn't seem to be much separating the respective first- and fifth-place Burbank and Glendale high softball teams Thursday - outside of an error. Those errors continued to pile up, as the Nitros committed seven in the game, turning a three-run game into a 14-0 mercy-rule, five-inning blowout for the Bulldogs, who improved to 18-1, 9-0 in the Pacific League, at Glendale High. “I think we did pretty good, we capitalized on them,” said Burbank's Julia Duarte, who was three for three with three runs batted in and three scored, of Glendale's miscues.

BURBANK — Heading into the second half of the Pacific League season, the Burbank High and Burroughs baseball teams have something in common: they are tied for the league lead. As the teams navigate their way through their final games, both will be trying to erase years of futility when it comes to capturing league championships. While the Bulldogs haven't won a title since 1991, the Indians' last crown came in 1997 — both coming in the Foothill League. Burbank climbed into the first-place ranks Friday by winning a slugfest against cross-town rival Burroughs.

BURBANK - For the past three years, Burbank High softball Coach Nicole Drabecki thought her team had enough talent to win a Pacific League championship. However, in each of the last three seasons, those title hopes were crushed by cross-town rival Burroughs, which has captured three consecutive league crowns. PHOTOS: Burroughs vs. Burbank girls' softball After Thursday's clash against the Indians, Drabecki and the Bulldogs might just be headed for the elusive championship.

BURBANK — The Burbank High boys' and girls' track and field teams look like squads ready to compete for their share of Pacific League championships. With just the league preliminaries and league finals left on tap in the Pacific League, the Bulldogs took part in a final tune-up Wednesday in their annual cross-town rivalry with Burroughs at Memorial Field. Burbank swept the contest, as athletes set several personal records, broke a school record and put up some solid marks. While the girls' team defeated the Indians, 94-42, the Bulldogs boys came away with a 91-45 win. "I think we're peaking at the right time and that's just what you want going into the league meet," Burbank Coach Darin Wolf said.

BURBANK - It is a cross-town rivalry any time Burroughs High goes up against Burbank in any sport. But in boys' volleyball the rivalry is a purely geographical based one as the Indians are a divisional powerhouse and the Bulldog program is in just its second year after being revived as a varsity program. As the two squads squared off Wednesday in Pacific league play on the Indians' home floor, the metaphorical gulf between the two programs was on display as the hosts quickly and easily handled the visiting Bulldogs, sweeping them, 25-15, 25-13, 25-11.

GIRLS' TRACK AND FIELD Burbank 112, Glendale 23 : The Bulldogs won 14 of 16 events Thursday to earn the Pacific League victory on the road. Burbank had a pair of double winners in Alicia McCord in the high jump (4 feet 10) and the triple jump (31-4) and Kynlee Vuncannon in the shot put (28-1/4) and the discus (87-3 1/2). BOYS' TRACK AND FIELD Burbank 94, Glendale 42 : The Bulldogs had three athletes win two individual events Thursday in notching the Pacific League victory at Glendale.

ARCADIA - The Burbank High baseball team has had a definite flair for the dramatic this week. In a Pacific League game Tuesday against Pasadena, the Bulldogs had to claw their way back from a seven-run deficit to salvage a victory. On Friday in a league contest against Arcadia, Burbank again found itself trailing - this time by two runs - headed into the final two innings. Undaunted, Burbank again mounted a spirited comeback, scoring two runs in the sixth inning to tie the score and two more in the seventh to pull out a 4-2 win against the host Apaches.