Nevermind That Competitive Equity Forces Central Catholic Football To Play Up In Division II — The 28-Player Squad Is Ready To Cause Chaos • PICTURED AT TOP: Central Catholic defensive back Roland Brown (Ike Dodson photos) The most storied small school football program in California history — Central Catholic High... Read more

We Invite Four Special Guests To Celebrate The 20th Anniversary Of The Nation’s First No 1 vs. 2 Showdown Between De La Salle & Long Beach Poly • Wednesday Oct. 6, marks the 20th anniversary of what is arguably considered California’s most significant high school football game of all time... Read more

Brentwood’s Devon Rivers Is The Youngest Of A Family With Running In Its Blood — And The Patriots Football Standout Is Keeping Pace Just Fine • Updated With New Quotes And Stats: Oct. 7, 2021 Good natured competition is the name of the game in the Rivers household. If the... Read more

A Lightning-Fast Aerial Attack And Hard-Nosed Defense Has Rocklin Football In Contention For Serious Sac-Joaquin Section Success • PICTURED ABOVE: Senior wide receiver Nathan Kent To win games in the Sac-Joaquin Section’s premier football conference, you will have to find creative ways to score. Five Sierra Foothill League teams average under... Read more

Sacred Heart Prep Boys Water Polo Is No Stranger To Title Expectations — But This Fall’s Team Has Talent And Motivation Exceeding Perhaps All Of Its Championship Predecessors PICTURED ABOVE: Sacred Heart Prep senior, Gavin West There are more stories than are worth counting of high school programs from various... Read more

Fall High School Football Is Back, But “Normal” Is Defined Differently Campus To Campus. Coaches Weigh In On What Is Normal As The Lights Prepare To Come Back On • On a typically hot mid-August afternoon, everything felt normal at College Park High School. About an hour after the first... Read more

After Missing Out On A 2020 Season That Carried High Expectations, Cosumnes Oaks Football Is Ready To Play Underdog Behind A New Coach And Fearless Quarterback • It’s been three years since senior quarterback Steven Duran III worked closely with Martin Billings on the Cosumnes Oaks football field. As the... Read more

Senior Wideout Jackson Hagopian Hopes To Check All The Boxes While Leading Jesuit Football This Fall; PLUS Nos. 11-10 To Our Preseason NorCal Top 20 Rankings. This is the tenth of 20 installments to our Return To Fall Series — a daily component to our 2021 NorCal Football Preview coverage.... Read more

Editor’s note: Herald sportswriter John Devine is spending much of this month visiting Monterey County high schools to get a sneak peek of their football teams. This is the sixth in a series of previews. To see other previews once they are published, visit: montereyherald.com/sports/high-school-sports/ SALINAS — It hurt to... Read more

A Dominant Scorer With Relentless Drive, Antelope’s Jzaniya Harriel Closed Her Career As Our First Non-Bay Area Player Of The Year • After a cover feature, multiple All-NorCal Team honors and a 2021 Preseason Player of the Year story, we’ve found we may be running out of ways to say... Read more

Despite Never Getting To Climb A CIF Podium, Pleasanton’s John Lester Graduated From Amador Valley Last Month As One Of The Nation’s Best High School 800-Meter Runners — Ever The 800-meter event is one of the toughest in track and field. To be successful requires the endurance of a miler... Read more

Willed By Its Senior Class, Pittsburg Baseball Completed Its Rebirth As The Pirates Rolled To Their First League Title In More Than Three Decades Pittsburg High senior Michael Weber saw the sharp ground ball come right off the bat. It looked the same as the countless number of grounders he’d... Read more