Sports

After winning just five regular season games, Lassen High School's boys' basketball team received the No. 5 seed in the Northern Section Division II playoffs.

After securing a 7-3 Westside League record, Lassen High School's girls' basketball team was awarded a home game to open the Northern Section Division III playoffs.

The Lady Cougars ran the table in the GVC after serving as the conference doormat last year.

Mike Skinner pulled alongside teammate Dale Earnhardt's car at the end last Sunday's Daytona 500. Less than an hour later he learned he lost his teammate.

Both were drivers for Richard Childress Racing, Skinner was lost for words about the news of his friend's death.