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Foothill High School Softball: Queens Of The Hill
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
Sheldon High School Softball: Details On Demand
Sheldon-Sacramento Has Built Its Sac-Joaquin Section Softball Dynasty Upon Mastering The Little Things — And The 2018 Squad Is Already At Work • There’s nothing simple about winning three consecutive Sac-Joaquin Section Division I softball championships and seven titles in the last 11 years. And it’s no simple task... Read more
Valley Christian High School Baseball: Version 2.0
With A Dugout Full Of Returning Talent, Valley Christian-San Jose Prepares For A Year Of New Challenges As It Chases A CCS Open Division Repeat • At 53, John Diatte is not nearly old enough to have come from the time of Satchel Paige. Maybe because he’s been guiding... Read more
Matt Kavanaugh Returns As Pacifics Manager
East Bay, De La Salle Baseball Alum Is Longest Tenured Manager In Pacifics History The San Rafael Pacifics, who open their 2018 season at Albert Park on June 2nd vs. the newest expansion team, the Napa Silverados, offer a high level of professional, minor league baseball as well as... Read more
Pacific Association of Professional Baseball Clubs to Host Annual League-Wide Tryout Camp
The Pacific Association of Professional Baseball Clubs will host its annual league-wide tryout camp for all accomplished baseball players. If you’re interested in playing at the professional level? Representatives from each of the six Pacific Association teams will evaluate players, then conduct an on-site draft immediately following tryout baseball... Read more
SportStar Of The Week: Archbishop Mitty Erika Yeager
SportStar of the Week: Next Level highlights former California high school athletes who are excelling on the collegiate or international stage • ERIKA YEAGER | ARCHBISHOP MITTY-SAN JOSE ’16 UNIV. RHODE ISLAND – SOFTBALL – SOPHOMORE If her first collegiate season was any indication. Rhode Island hit the jackpot... Read more
Redding Complex Takes A Swing To Ballpark Replicas
Ever wonder what it was like to stare down the Green Monster in left field like Boston Red Sox legend Ted Williams? Or call your home run shot like burly Babe Ruth in the 1932 World Series? In Redding, kids and adults get the chance to feel like they’re... Read more
Clemmens on the MLB Hot Stove
RECOGNIZING THE MLB All-BAWS TEAM By Blaine Clemmens; email me at [email protected] or Tweet me @BayAreaWS With National Letter-of-Intent week gone by, the MLB Hot Stove season (though even Luke-Warm-Stove seems like a stretch as of this writing), and Thanksgiving providing us a time for reflection, I started to think... Read more
Play In The Cepeda Baseball Caribbean Classic
Photos courtesy Glunaphotography.com Tryouts for the 5th Annual Cepeda Baseball Caribbean Classic Coming To NorCal The premier tournament showcasing young talent, The Cepeda Baseball Caribbean Classic is ramping up for it’s 5th season. Elite players from the USA, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and other Latin countries join to compete with the... Read more
National Letter of Intent Week For High School Student-Athletes
It’s National Letter of Intent (NLI) week for high school student-athletes. I have a twitter account. So, I have seen lots of posts, celebrating the accomplishments of many hard working and deserving student-athletes. Age Of Social Media However, in the age of social media and in the age of... Read more
CLEMMENS: Single Sport Overload
It’s Friday morning and I got a text from a good friend whose pre-teen son plays travel baseball.  Later in the day I received a phone call from a successful and long tenured high school head coach regarding some challenges he’s dealing with in his program, directly related to... Read more
USA Softball Showcase Set For September
USA Softball of Sacramento, Superior Showcase Softball and Placer Valley Tourism are teaming up again this coming Labor Day Weekend for the USA Softball Pacific Northwest Invasion Showcase. This Showcase will kick off with a camp on Sept. 1 at Foskett Park in Lincoln, and the tournament games will... Read more