Sportstars

Gold & Silver Division

Blog December 28, 2016 0

BRACKETS Gold Division   |   Silver Division ROSTERS GOLD DIVISION CAMPOLINDO (Moraga) 2    Grace Mcguire    Sr. 11    Haley Van Dyke    Sr. 13    Kiana Thorson    Fr. 20    Aubrey Wagner    Sr. 21    Kate Brown    So. 22    Zoe Crouch    Jr. 23    Ashley Thoms    Sr. 24    Kailey Meyer    Sr. 35    Mariella Crudele... Read more

Platinum & Diamond Division

Blog December 27, 2016 0

BRACKETS Platinum Division   |   Diamond Division ROSTERS PLATINUM DIVISION ARCHBISHOP MITTY (San Jose) 3    Charlize Andaya    Jr. 5    Krissy Miyahara    Sr. 10    Kate Conaway    Jr. 11    Camille Morales    Jr. 13    Ania McNicholas    Jr. 20    Hunter Hernandez    Fr. 21    Nicole Blakes    Sr. 25    Camela Mataela    Jr. 30... Read more
The Show Goes On
Story by RONNIE FLORES | Photos by JAMES K. LEASH The scene was Haas Pavilion for the 2015 CIF boys basketball state championships. Chino Hills was in a dogfight with a tough senior bunch from San Ramon Valley-Danville. The Div. I  state title hung in the balance. The game... Read more
Jacqueline DiSanto
SportStar Of The Week | Menlo-Atherton | Volleyball | Senior • DiSanto helped put the Bears back in the CIF Division I State final by posting 15 kills, 14 digs, three aces and going 15 of 16 on serve receives in a 3-1 victory over Oak Ridge-El Dorado Hills... Read more
Candice Denny
SportStar of the Week | Archbishop Mitty-San Jose | Volleyball | Senior • Denny had a game-high 17 kills with an astounding 60 percent success rate to help lead the Monarchs to a straight-sets win over Santa Margarita-Rancho Santa Margarita in the CIF Open Div. State Championship on Dec. 3.... Read more
Li’Angelo Ball
SportStar Of The Week | Chino Hills | Basketball | Senior • If there was any doubt whose team Chino HIlls was now that Lonzo Ball is at UCLA, his younger brother answered that in a hurry. He scored 56 points in a 121-89 win over Orange Lutheran-Orange as part... Read more
Making Our List, Checking It Twice
   We’ve almost reached the end to another calendar year. Which is always a little weird in the world of high school sports because we’re only through a third of the academic year. So when it’s naturally a time to reflect back, it feels off because you’re considering two... Read more
Beware System Overload
   My basketball coach likes to press and run. Some players think we would be better off if we didn’t press, but my dad says we should focus on throwing the ball down to the block and trying to score from close to the basket. Then I keep hearing... Read more
Musings On The CIF State Bowls As Football’s Final Weekend Approaches
   If anyone out there remembers some of our ancient Cal-Hi Sports newsletters from the 1980s or 1990s, they’ll recall that founder and record book compiler Nelson Tennis (my uncle, who died in 2004) did a short series of comments he called “Random Remarks.”    With that in mind,... Read more
Raising The Bar
Story by MIKE WOOD | Photos by BERRY EVANS III An already towering bar of success has been raised to loftier heights for Salesian College Preparatory-Richmond’s basketball team. And that’s something the Pride’s players and coaches realize and fully embrace. It’s a natural progression for a team that shook... Read more
Perfect Storm
Story by CLAY KALLAM | Photos by NORBERT von der GROEBEN You may have heard of Kerri Walsh — but not that many are aware that the Olympic volleyball star was a superb basketball player at San Jose’s Archbishop Mitty High back in the day. And she wasn’t alone... Read more
Tell your athlete to track that fly down and rob the other team of a home run – without worrying about crashing into cyclone fencing and risking possible injury.   How? Glad you asked! Creative companies are the heart and soul of America and one such company, Grand Slam... Read more