NorCal Baseball Preview 2012
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BASEBALL PRESEASON TOP 20 NorCal rankings only. Records are from 2011 1. Jesuit-Carmichael (25-6) If your ace is committed to Stanford and your SS to Oregon State, good things are happening. 2. St. Mary’s-Stockton (22-9) Switch-hitting star Gio Brusa leads the way for a Rams squad... Read more
NorCal Softball Preview 2012
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SOFTBALL PRESEASON TOP 20 NorCal rankings only. Records are from 2011 1. Archbishop Mitty-San Jose (28-3) Power, speed and pitching are all present for a Monarchs team which began the year as the state’s No. 1 team. 2. Sheldon-Sacramento (27-6) Huskies lose power-bat Danielle Henderson, but... Read more
Sweet Revenge
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NCS Div. III: Longrus wills O’Dowd boys to 14th title
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By ERIK STORDAHL | SportStars It wasn’t the finest game of his storied career, but Richard Longrus still brought his lunch pail to McKeon Pavilion at St. Mary’s College. Longrus helped the Bishop O’Dowd boys basketball team capture its second NCS championship in three years and the program’s... Read more
CIF NorCal Playoffs: Carondelet Narrows Focus
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By ERIK STORDAHL | SportStars It’s the same formula that got it this far in the season, so they saw no need in changing it “” even after a shaky first quarter. The Carondelet girls basketball team led only 19-16 against visiting McNair-Stockton in the California Interscholastic Federation... Read more
2012 NorCal Boys Golfer to Watch Austin Smotherman “¢ Senior “¢ Del Oro-Loomis It’s been more than nine months since Austin Smotherman fired a 1-under par 71 at Poppy Hills Golf Course in Pebble Beach to snag a Top 5 finish at the California Interscholastic Federation boys golf state... Read more
2012 NorCal Boys Golfer to Watch Will Brueckner “¢ Sophomore “¢ Acalanes-Lafayette Most high school golfers don’t enter their sophomore year with high expectations. Not, Will Brueckner. He set the bar pretty high for himself as a freshman in 2011, winning the North Coast Section on a drizzly afternoon... Read more
By George Maxe Anyone who plays the game of golf cherishes that one great shot they hit over the course of a round and only wishes they could replicate it. “If only”¦!” There’s one great “shot” at The First Tee of Silicon Valley that I cherish, and that... Read more
With top flight technology, Fisher Golf continues to produce some of the best putters in the game. Known for being silky smooth, Fisher Touch putters will turnaround your short game in a few rounds. Not all inserts are created equl. Most are injection molded plastic or injection molded polymers.... Read more
NCS Div. II: Newark Memorial boys finally break through
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By CHACE BRYSON | Editor It should’ve felt like a bigger deal “” a bigger moment. After 32 minutes of making the Windsor High boys basketball team wish it could be anywhere else, Newark Memorial was about to be crowned the North Coast Section Division II champion following a... Read more
STATE GIRLS ROUNDUP: Bishop O’Dowd dominates; Berkeley is overmatched
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By CLAY KALLAM | Contributor It was 10-0. Laguna Hills had eight turnovers “” and had managed to get off just two shots. One of them was an air ball. Multiply that by eight, and you have the story of the Bishop O’Dowd-Laguna Hills “game” that passed for... Read more