

Klingaman finishes sixth in state championships
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Emma Klingaman (center) is on the starting line at state championships on May 20. She finished sixth out of 20 in the girls varsity field. Hemet High School earned fifth place overall in Division 1, which included 32 teams. Photo courtesy of Mike Morton

In four years, the Idyllwild Middle School cross-country team has grown from 10 runners to 32, said coach Lee Arnson. He and Misty Hitchcock, both volunteer coaches, have built a thriving sport in Idyllwild that few other Hemet Unified middle schools have. “Every year, the team is bigger and bigger. It makes it more fun,”…
Hemet High Schools sophmore runners (from left) Tanner Torrez, Jayden Emerson and Chad Schelly take off in Saturday’s race. Jayden finished third, Tanner fourth and Chad 19th, but the team of five was second to Beaumont by only 63 seconds.
The third trip to the state volleyball tournament was a repeat of the 2011 visit for the Hemet High School girls volleyball team, CIF SS champions. Cathedral Catholic of Del Mar defeated the Hemet team again in the first round of the state tourney. The scores were 25-9, 25-18, 25-14. Cathedral Catholic was the San…
The Hemet High School Girls Volleyball (23-6) team has returned to the state championships for the second consecutive year. On Saturday, they defeated the Cornelia Connelly School of Anaheim in games. Hemet took the first two games easily 25-11 and 25-6. Connelly came back from a 5-0 deficit in the third game and won 21-25,…
The Hemet High School boy’s volleyball team beat Saddleback High School (Orange County) 3 games to 1. The individual game scores were 25-10, 25-19, 14-25 and 25-22. Hemet plays Oak Park High School next. The game is Thursday, 7 p.m., at Oak Park, which is the number one seed in the division. Oak Park’s record…