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NCS SJS Football: Small Schools, Big Goals
Storied Northern, Sac-Joaquin Section Small School Football Programs Prepare To Chase Hometown Glory Once Again • Story By IKE DODSON From the Oregon border to Merced, small-school football teams in the east half of California have become a utopia of civic pride. And hometown lore. An epic catch, a... Read more
Trojans’ Triple Threat
Led By A Trio Of Multi-Purpose Stars, Oak Ridge Football Is Off To Its Best Start In Years • Story by IKE DODSON | Photos by JAMES K. LEASH Though he’s just 6 feet and 170 pounds, dual-threat Oak Ridge-El Dorado Hills quarterback sensation Marco Baldocchino is impossible to... Read more
Gino Campiotti Has That Finishing Touch
Manteca’s Unsung QB May Not Stay Out Of The Spotlight Too Much Longer • Story By IKE DODSON | Photos By JIM JOHNSON A day after blasting Enochs-Modesto 41-0 in the Sac-Joaquin Section nonleague action Sept. 8, Manteca senior quarterback Gino Campiotti found his seat at Aggie Stadium and watched... Read more
Pump Up The VOL (Valley Oak League) Football Fans
Photo Above: Central Catholic-Modesto coach Roger Canepa raises one of his program’s four straight CIF State Bowl Championship trophies. Football fans across the state did a collective double take Sept. 8, when Sac-Joaquin Section results revealed the biggest NorCal upset of the season, a 20-7 takedown of St. Mary’s-Stockton... Read more
Defensive Shields
With A Talented Back Row, Oak Ridge Takes A Defense-Wins-Championship Approach • Story By IKE DODSON | Photos By JAMES K. LEASH Madison Shields could dig her way to China. The savvy senior libero on the Oak Ridge High-El Dorado Hills 
volleyball team is one of the top defensive... Read more
NorCal Preseason #18: Capital Christian-Sacramento
We begin our 2017 Football coverage by revealing teams #20-11 in our NorCal Preseason Top 20 in a daily countdown to Aug. 24 when #10-1 are revealed in our 2017 Football Preview Special. If you need to catchup, here are links to previous entries: | No. 20 Foothill (Aug.... Read more