Sportstars
Heat Wave
A “Rebuilding Year” Didn’t Cool Off Mission Viejo Softball. Will Any Opponent Have An Answer For The Diablos In 2017? Story By Mark Tennis | Photos By Patrick Takkinen/SoCalSidelines.com If you are building an elite high school program in any sport — especially one that is nationally-ranked virtually every... Read more
Rising Son
Growing Up Amongst Major Leaguers Gave Darren Baker An Edge — But The Jesuit Standout Made Sure He Would Forge His Own Path Story By Jim McCue | Photos By James K. Leash Darren Baker may have been born with a baseball in his hand and grew up in... Read more
NorCal Preseason Softball Top 20
1. Pioneer-San Jose (25-3) It all starts with pitching and Holly Azevedo is arguably NorCal’s best coming into 2017. Just how good is the UCLA-bound fireballer? Over the last two seasons, she’s surrendered just six earned runs in 361 innings while compiling 587 strikeouts and 53 wins. But no... Read more
Almost Perfect
Few Programs In The State Have Had The Continued Success Of Buchanan-Clovis — And It’s Not Stopping Anytime Soon Story By Mark Tennis | Photos by Cary Edmondson In his 19 years as the head baseball coach at Buchanan High in Clovis, Tom Donald has become familiar with perfection.... Read more
Freedom’s March
Junior Pitcher Vanessa Strong Leads A Talented Freedom Roster Still Burning With Motivation Following An Emotional 2016 NCS Title Run. Story By James G. Kane It was, in retrospect, love at first sight. The diamond. The ball. The strike zone. The target. And the batter, of course. Don’t forget... Read more
NorCal Preseason Baseball Top 20
Here’s how we see the NorCal baseball landscape to start the 2017 season. 1. DE LA SALLE-CONCORD (25-3) Some of the most competitive games on the Spartans schedule each year are the intrasquad games played at Saturday morning practices. It’s in those games where De La Salle builds its... Read more
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Trent Denholm
SportStar Of The Week | Oak Ridge-El Dorado Hills | Baseball | Senior • The Trojans’ right-hander was selected to the Athletics’ Northern California team that will compete in the 2016 Area Code Games during the second week of August. Denholm was outstanding in his junior season for Oak... Read more
   The Trojans’ right-hander was selected to the Athletics’ Northern California team that will compete in the 2016 Area Code Games during the second week of August. Denholm was outstanding in his junior season for Oak Ridge, compiling a 10-1 record and 0.71 ERA to go along with three... Read more
High 5
Citrus Heights Little League Proved A Worthy Distrcit 5 Host Team At The Senior Western Regionals. Read more
D’s Day
After waiting most of her childhood, Danielle Williams is making her mark at Amador Valley Read more
Southern Grind
Tracy baseball didn’t let a late-season stumble keep it from its first SJS title Read more