NorCal Boys Hoops Rankings (Feb. 21)
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NorCal Boys Top 20 All records through end of regular season. Rankings are not updated during the playoffs. Rank (Last Wk.) School Record 1 (1) Salesian-Richmond 26-2 2 (2) De La Salle-Concord 24-2 3 (3) Archbishop Mitty-San Jose 24-3 4 (4) Newark Memorial-Newark 22-4 5 (6) Sheldon-Sacramento 22-5... Read more
Boys Hoops Playoff Preview
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NCS/OAKLAND: By Chace Bryson | SJS: By Jim McCue To quote a popular ad slogan, “Here we go.” The road to the California Interscholastic Federation state basketball championships at Sacramento’s Power Balance Pavilion began on Feb. 21. More than 150 teams will lace up their sneaks and put it all on the... Read more
Campolindo-Moraga boys soccer player Harlan Raine leaps in celebration following a goal in the Cougars’ North Coast Section quartefinal match on Feb. 18. Concord won the match 3-2 in a penalty kick shootout. Photo by Jonathan Hawthorne/SportStars Read more
Picked out of the SportStars Archives, River-City-West Sacramento Kasey Chapan shows the ball to the umpire after tagging out a sliding Mike Barron of Pioneer-Woodland during the Junior Optimist All-Star Game at American River College on June 6, 2011. Chapan was the first River City baseball player to earn... Read more
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