Among the 2025-26 Bakersfield Condors’ team goals entering the season was to return to the American Hockey League’s Calder Cup playoffs for the first time since the 2023-24 season.

The Bakersfield College men’s tennis team, coming off another championship performance, took its first step Tuesday toward the next goal, a team 3C2A state title by winning the opening round of the Southern California Dual Team regional playoffs at home.

The Bakersfield Condors lost a pair of 6-3 games over the weekend at San Diego Friday and at Ontario Saturday and, despite not gaining any points in the standings, the team is steadfast in trying to secure a playoff spot this week.

The Bakersfield Condors began the April postseason push by stalling with a 5-2 AHL Pacific Division home loss against Colorado on Wednesday night in front of 5,005 fans.

With nine games remaining in the American Hockey League season, the Bakersfield Condors find themselves in a familiar position: fighting for a playoff spot.

The Bakersfield Condors will resume pursuit of strengthening their spot in the AHL Pacific Division standings while hosting a two-game weekend series against the Texas Stars of the Central Division on Friday and Saturday. The games start at 7 p.m. both nights.

One night after giving up seven goals in a road loss to the San Diego Gulls, the Bakersfield Condors regrouped and collected an important 1-0 home victory Saturday night against the Calgary Wranglers in front of 6,406 fans.

The men’s $30,000 Bakersfield Tennis Open held its four singles quarterfinal and doubles semifinal matches on Friday at the Bakersfield Racquet Club.

The Condors took their AHL game outside of the Pacific Division and to Texas for a pair of games against the Texas Stars, earning a split decision. Bakersfield won 4-1 on Friday and lost 6-2 on Saturday.

The Bakersfield Christian High School boys basketball team, which is set to compete for its first-ever CIF state championship in a 4 p.m. Division 2 title game Saturday at Sacramento’s Golden 1 Center, is getting a campus community send-off at 9:45 a.m. today.

The Bakersfield Condors split a weekend home series against the Tucson Roadrunners, picking up three of a possible four points.

The Bakersfield Condors hosted a few thousand local schoolchildren for their annual Student Field Trip/Education Day game Tuesday morning at Dignity Health Arena.

Despite a second straight big-point game from Ron Jessamy, the Cal State Bakersfield men’s basketball team lost a Big West Conference home game to Long Beach State 88-87 on Saturday night.

On the same day California State University, Bakersfield administrators announced in a statement it will conduct a nationwide search for its next men’s basketball head coach, the current Roadrunners, under the direction of acting head coach Michael Scott, dropped their 12th straight Big West…

The Calgary Wranglers scored a goal with just over a minute left in regulation and then needed 31 seconds into overtime to defeat the Bakersfield Condors 5-4 Friday at Dignity Health Arena.

The Bakersfield Condors truly earned a 4-3 regulation victory over the Coachella Valley Firebirds on Wednesday at Dignity Health Arena.

The Bakersfield Condors-connected representation in the men’s ice hockey tournament at the Winter Olympics has concluded its run.

It was a memorable Tuesday for Josh Samanski at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

In baseball, the second year under Cal State Bakersfield head coach Jordon Banfield began with a four-game weekend home series against Southern Indiana.

At Wednesday’s Cal State Bakersfield Baseball Leadoff Dinner, which introduced the 2026 team, the university made another announcement — Hardt Field will be getting a makeover.

Vince Maiocco, who has been with the Taft College baseball program, first as an assistant coach in 2021 and then as the Cougars’ head coach since 2004, announced his retirement from coaching and teaching at the institution, effective in late May when the spring semester concludes.

The Golden Valley and Mira Monte boys soccer teams had plenty at stake Tuesday night with 80 minutes to determine the South Yosemite Horizon League title-holder and some momentum for the upcoming CIF Central Section postseason.

No doubt about it, Quinn Hutson’s rookie season with the Bakersfield Condors has been a whirlwind.

The Bakersfield Condors had a chance to move into the Pacific Division lead this past weekend with a home-and-home, back-to-back series with the top team, the Ontario Reign.

As a young hockey player growing up in Erding, Germany, Josh Samanski’s dreams were much like any other player — to make it to the National Hockey League and to play for his country in the Olympics.

Isaac Howard recently returned to the Bakersfield Condors’ AHL roster after a stint with the NHL’s Edmonton Oilers last month. On Tuesday night, it was quite apparent that Howard’s return to the Condors was helpful in a 3-2 overtime victory against the Calgary Wranglers at Dignity Health Arena.

The Bakersfield Condors had quite a momentum swing to close out their schedule in what was a solid January.

Seth Griffith hasn’t set down roots — he still spends summers back home in Canada — but he is well on his way to becoming the longest-tenured player in Bakersfield Condors history.

The Bakersfield Condors are suddenly on a two-game losing streak after a tough back-to-back weekend of games. AHL Pacific Division leader Colorado scored a 4-1 victory over the Condors last Friday at Dignity Health Arena. The next day, Bakersfield went to San Jose for a meeting with the Barr…

Seth Griffith, the Bakersfield Condors’ team captain and franchise leader in multiple categories, has signed a two-year American Hockey League contract extension, the team announced on Thursday.

The Bakersfield Condors’ recent surge in the American Hockey League’s Pacific Division got its biggest test to date as the co-division leading Colorado Eagles came to town for the first of two games in three days at Dignity Health Arena on Wednesday night.

Midway through the American Hockey League season, the Bakersfield Condors appear to be coming of age.

Rookie forward Quinn Hutson has been selected to represent the Bakersfield Condors in the American Hockey League’s All-Star Classic on Feb. 10-11 in Rockford, Ill., the league announced on Thursday.

What comes after a winning streak to start the new year ends? For the Bakersfield Condors, you simply want to begin another one, even if it takes until the third period to do so.

The Bakersfield Condors completed a two-game road sweep of the Abbotsford Canucks, the defending AHL Calder Cup champions, with a 4-1 victory on Wednesday night.

Bakersfield Condors center Josh Samanski will play hockey in the 2026 Winter Olympics, taking place Feb. 11-22 in Milan-Cortina, Italy.

Sam Poulin’s goal on the Bakersfield Condors’ second shot in a shootout and a subsequent miss by San Jose’s Cam Lund gave the host Condors a 2-1 victory on Saturday night.

Moments after the book on 2025 closed, the immediate questions about what awaits for the new year arise.

Bakersfield Condors rookie forwards Isaac Howard and Quinn Hutson received American Hockey League-wide recognition as the AHL’s top player and rookie for December, respectively, the league announced Friday.

If 2025 seemed like a year connected to fond sports memories for generations of Kern County community members, that’s because many entities were celebrating a milestone anniversary or, in two instances, christening a new one.

The Bakersfield Condors will open 2026 with a pair of 7 p.m. games against the San Jose Barracuda at Dignity Health Arena today and Saturday.

The giving continued for the Bakersfield Condors, as in goals allowed, two days after Christmas in a 5-2 loss on home ice against the San Diego Gulls on Saturday night.

With nearly 40% of the American Hockey League season in the rearview mirror, two things are crystal clear when it comes to the Bakersfield Condors: They score a lot of goals and they give up a lot of goals.

Thrust into being a goaltending nomad due to a glut of players at that position in the Edmonton Oilers organization, second-year pro Connor Ungar has learned to shop local.

Kevin Harvick’s Kern Raceway will celebrate the holiday season Saturday afternoon and evening with a Raceway Christmas show comprised of Christmas-oriented events and championship racing featuring two divisions of the SPEARS CARS Tour West Series and much more.

Working for the weekend, the Bakersfield Condors and Tucson Roadrunners surely put in their fair share in a pair of AHL games in Arizona. The teams split their two-game series 5-4 for Tucson on Friday and 8-7 for Bakersfield on Saturday with each taking an overtime win to earn three points a…

The Bakersfield Condors have had the Henderson Silver Knights’ number most of this season and in recent years, too. Wednesday night was an exception.

December is the chance for basketball teams to maximize their non-league schedule with competitive tournament games. Starting today, both North High boys and Shafter High girls programs will be hosting tournaments through Saturday. Several local teams will also be participating in these tour…