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

ATHLETE SCHOOL SPORT COLLEGE Paris Austin Bishop O’Dowd-Oakland Boys BB Boise State Noah Blackwell Woodcreek-Roseville Boys BB Long Beach State Marquese Chriss Pleasant Grove-Elk Grove Boys BB Washington Chris Hansen Campolindo-Moraga Boys BB UC San Diego Sean Smith Campolindo-Moraga Boys BB Simpson         Erika Bean Bradshaw Christian-Sacramento... Read more

ATHLETE SCHOOL SPORT COLLEGE Seth Bartlett Serra-San Mateo Boys Crew Yale         Lindy Clute Carondelet-Concord Girls Crew Stanford Julia Giovanni Campolindo-Moraga Girls Crew San Diego Miranda Reyes St. Francis-Sacramento Girls Crew Portland Gray Strandberg  Bishop O’Dowd-Oakland  Girls Crew   UCLA         Quinn Carlsen Oak Ridge-El... Read more

ATHLETE SCHOOL SPORT COLLEGE Keenan Brigman Valley Christian-San Jose Baseball Pacific Chris Brown College Park-Pleasant Hill Baseball UC Davis Kris Bubic Archbishop Mitty-San Jose Baseball Stanford Noah Burnham College Park Baseball UC Santa Barbara Brendt Citta Leland-San Jose Baseball San Jose State Myles Coston De La Salle-Concord Baseball Fresno State... Read more

   Reviewing the first high school football event at Levi’s Stadium, and five suggested future matchups. State of Play: Mark Tennis    It wasn’t the Friday night lights of the Corral at Oakdale High, but for senior fullback Frankie Trent the Saturday afternoon sunshine he felt on Oct. 11 at Levi’s... Read more

   Last year’s cover story in SportStars by Ben Enos focused on football bragging rights being decided in games between teams from the Bay Area and the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section.    At the time Enos wrote the story, the Sac-Joaquin held a 114-90 edge in reported games from the 2009... Read more

State of Play by Mark Tennis    Heading into the closing weeks of the last two California high school football seasons, there weren’t many certainties except it was pretty obvious that whichever teams were going to play in the CIF Division II State Bowl game, the Northern California team was... Read more

  After two years of seeing the North and South eliminate one of their strongest candidates for the California Interscholastic Federation State Football Bowl Championships, the CIF announced Monday it would be doing away with the regional bowl for its Open Division.    The regional bowl games will still occur... Read more

 NEW RANKS OUT WEDNESDAY             RANK TEAM RESULT COMMENT 1 De La Salle-Concord (4-1) d. No. 17 Granite Bay 37-0 Spartans battle through penalties + mistakes to still post shutout on the road 2 Folsom (6-0) d. No. 10 Del Oro-Loomis 31-0 Bulldogs hold Golden... Read more

  20. JACK XIE  Saratoga, Swimming, JR.  A transfer-student from China, Xie made the most of his chance to swim in a state championship meet, taking gold in both the 200-yard individual medley and the 100 butterfly. He also won both of the events at the CCS Swim Championships, the... Read more

  5. ANTOINE CUSTER   De La Salle-Concord, Football, JR.  The speedy-yet-powerful 5-foot-8, 185-pound running back was the SportStars Bay Area Male Athlete of the Fall after he rushed for 1,942 yards, a single-season total which placed him No. 6 on the progam’s all-time list. He rushed for 24 TDs... Read more