It was a year of repeat success, disappointing endings and surprising postseason performances for a number of La Canada Flintridge teams in 2012.
Several squads managed to add to the impressive resumes they carried into the year, while others came painfully close to adding to their legacies or experienced dramatic turnarounds or setbacks in 2012.
Here are the La Cañada Valley Sun’s top 10 stories of 2012.
1.) La Cañada High softball repeats as CIF Southern Section Division V champion.
All eyes were on the La Cañada High softball team coming into 2012 after its previous campaign ended with a championship.
Despite losing two key pieces after capturing their first crown since 1995, it seemed the Spartans had a good shot at repeating in Division V. When all was said and done, it came back down to La Cañada and Beaumont — the same team the Spartans knocked off for the title, 1-0, in 2011.