ONE for the Road. Seniors Lead San Ramon Valley To First Lacrosse Section Title
LacrosseNorth Coast Section May 31, 2018 0
In Their Final Game Together, Eight Exemplary Seniors Led San Ramon Valley To Its First Boys Lacrosse Section Title Since 2015 • In the end, for the San Ramon Valley High boys lacrosse team, it was all about “this one.” The “one” on May 17 was big: the North Coast... Read more
Collection of Best of the Best Form NCVA Teams at Italy World Cup
VOLLEYBALL — Served by NCVA May 21, 2018 0
Success was measured for the NCVA, which made its first appearance at the Cornacchia World Cup in Italy. At the end of March, the NorCal Volleyball Association (NCVA), and its parent organization USA Volleyball, sent two regional volleyball teams to the Cornacchia World Cup in Italy. It was a trip... Read more
Turn It Up! Freedom High Softball Is Blasting Confidence After 11-0 Start When the going gets tough, the Freedom High softball team GETS LOUD! Really, really loud. L-O-U-D loud. The noise generated by the Falcons isn’t just the typical dugout chatter. Their April 17 Bay Valley Athletic League opener... Read more
West Campus Girls Basketball on a Championship Run
High School BasketballSac-Joaquin Section April 6, 2018 0
West Campus Girls Credit Their Track Coach, Conditioning Program In The Wake Of Winning A Second Consecutive State Championship • West Campus Story by MIKE WOOD | Photos by JAMES K. LEASH You might not expect to hear groans, gasps and cackles from a girls basketball team that just... Read more
With Eight Wins In Its First 11 Games, Dougherty Valley Baseball Has Already Matched Its 2017 Total — And It’s Not Looking Back • Story by MIKE WOOD | Photos by CHACE BRYSON The Dougherty Valley High-San Ramon baseball team had just completed a loss to Monte Vista-Danville, one... Read more
Monte Vista Girls Soccer: Old Reliable, New Ground
HS / CLUB SoccerNorth Coast Section March 14, 2018 0
Monte Vista Girls Soccer Goes Where No Monte Vista Girls Soccer Team Has Gone Before — And That’s Saying Something Finally, the Monte Vista Girls Soccer-Danville girls soccer team could celebrate something it had never done before. The Mustangs became the first CIF NorCal Division I girls soccer champions... Read more
March Of The Mustangs
HS / CLUB SoccerNorth Coast Section March 10, 2018 0
Monte Vista Prepares For Showdown With Mitty-San Jose — A Match Between Two Nationally Ranked Teams For The First CIF Div. I NorCal Title Monte Vista High-Danville girls soccer player Rachel Anderson loves this kind of matchup: just her against the goalkeeper. Awarded a penalty kick after a foul... Read more
Burlingame Boys Soccer “Super” Motivation
HS / CLUB Soccer March 8, 2018 0
Embracing The Role Of Underdogs, Burlingame Boys Soccer Reached CIF NorCal Semifinals By Attempting To Mirror Mindset Of Super Bowl Champs • Though this was a CIF NorCal soccer playoff game, the Burlingame boys soccer team took a Super Bowl team’s mindset. “When we entered CCS, we were given... Read more
Foothill High School Softball: Queens Of The Hill
High School Baseball/SoftballNorth Coast Section February 22, 2018 0
Recent History Shows Repeating As North Coast Section Division I Softball Champs Is No Easy Task — But Few Teams Have Been Built For It Like Foothill-Pleasanton • Winning the North Coast Section Division I softball championship with a very young, extremely talented team in 2017 was an impressive... Read more
Pride On Pace
High School Basketball January 18, 2018 0
Salesian-Richmond Is A Team Built For The CIF Open Division — And Has The Look Of One That Could Win It • Story by MIKE WOOD | Photos by SAMUEL STRINGER In watching the Salesian High-Richmond boys basketball team, the magic is very evident right now. The Pride (17-1) is... Read more
Las Lomas And Northgate: Battle of the Creek Rivalry Meeting
High School Basketball January 8, 2018 0
Rivalry Meeting Of Walnut Creek’s Two Public School Boys Hoops Teams Reaches New Hype Levels • The “Battle of the Creek” is always a big deal in Walnut Creek, pitting the city’s two public schools — Las Lomas and Northgate — against each other. But, this year in boys... Read more
October’s Devastating Tubbs Fire Erased Her Home And Ravaged Her School — But It Couldn’t Damage The Spirit Of Cardinal Newman’s Maiya Flores. • Fans who witnessed Cardinal Newman High play in its West Coast Jamboree championship game on Dec. 30 didn’t just see a top-notch girls basketball team... Read more
