SECOND TEAM   DESIRE FINNIE  BASICS: Berkeley, Sr., Guard  WHY SHE’S HERE: Finnie was pretty much all the experience the young Yellowjackets could bring to the table, but she led Berkeley by example into the NorCal finals. She averaged 17 points and 11 rebounds a game and will play for Pacific next year.... Read more

   Hey kids, want to have some fun? Go see a wacky, zany Harlem Globetrotters performance.    Want to be part of the fun? Join Encore Gymnastics!    For years, gymnasts from Concord-based Encore have wowed courtside crowds at the O.co during Warrior’s home stands.    Now they’ve added the... Read more

  By MARK CARNEY | Contributor   On Jan. 24, high school rugby programs from throughout the North State will get their competitive scrum on for the first time in 2015. That will be the opening day to the two-day Sacramento Kick-Off Tournament “” an event with a modest 30-year... Read more

RECORDS ARE FINAL RANK LAST TEAM RECORD   1 1 De La Salle-Concord 14-0   2 2 Folsom 16-0   3 3 Grant-Sacramento 14-1   4 6 Campolindo-Morga 16-0   5 5 Sacred Heart Prep-Atherton 13-0   6 4 Clayton Valley Charter-Concord 15-1   7 7 St. Mary’s-Stockton 12-2  ... Read more

   If a proposal passes next month, CIF bowls will no longer exclude any section champion. There will just be a lot more divisions and some of them just might not be that exciting.    Two of the best football teams this season that did not get chosen to play... Read more

  CLAYTON VALLEY CHARTER 33, CONCORD 6   The game started like a carbon copy of the first meeting this season between these Diablo Valley Athletic League rivals on Oct. 24 (a 48-40 CV win) “” with Clayton Valley hitting on big plays and building a 21-0 lead after one... Read more

  “It’s not so much that we feel pressure,” Wildcats junior all-leaguer Yoonhee Kim said. “It’s more that we just really want to win again.” Lack of experience won’t be a problem.  Five of the six golfers who teed off at last year’s section tournament remain among the team’s Top... Read more

  There will be plenty on the line when six teams take the field this week for the final three Sac-Joaquin Section football titles up for grabs. We dig into each matchup and give our predictions.   DIVISION I   MATCHUP: No. 1 FOLSOM (13-0) vs. No. 7 TRACY (10-3) ... Read more

ATHLETE SCHOOL SPORT COLLEGE Mackenzie Arnold River Valley-Yuba City Girls XC/Track Utah Brighie Leach Campolindo-Moraga  Girls XC/Track  Princeton  Maggie McManis Davis Girls XC/Track Southern Utah Miranda Myers St. Francis-Sacramento Girls XC/Track Northern Arizona Caitlyn Opulencia  Presentation-San Jose  Girls XC/Track Whittier College         Jack Cole  Campolindo  Boys Volleyball... Read more

By Chace Bryson | Photos by Phillip Walton     Had he not been prepared for it, Rocco Fitzgerald almost certainly would’ve been convinced someone was trying to fool with him. Catch him off guard. Weird him out.     Because this batting cage was really talking to him.    A 10-year-old... Read more

  There will be plenty on the line when 10 teams take the field this week as five North Coast Section football titles go up for grabs. We dig into each matchup and give our predictions.   DIVISION I   MATCHUP: No. 1 DE LA SALLE (12-0) vs. No. 3... Read more

ATHLETE SCHOOL SPORT COLLEGE Kathleen Humphries Los Gatos Girls Field Hockey UC Davis Kaitlyn McLaren Los Gatos Girls Field Hockey UC Davis Lauren Mewes Archbishop Mitty-San Jose Girls Field Hockey UC Davis Melina Moore Los Gatos Girls Field Hockey Cal Ryan Arneson Granite Bay Boys Lacrosse Limestone Austin French San... Read more