Sportstars
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
SportStars’ All-NorCal Basketball Teams
THRILLING 30: Our first, second and third teams for boys and girls 2015-16 SportStars All-NorCal Basketball Teams BOYS FIRST TEAM PLAYER OF THE YEAR SOLOMON YOUNG | 6-7, Forward | Sacramento | Sr. The Dragons’ big man led Sacramento to a 30-win campaign that included a Sac-Joaquin Section Div.... Read more
When did May get here? Weren’t we just writing about our All-NorCal football teams and previewing baseball and softball? For whatever reason, it often feels like no high school sporting season goes by faster than spring. As a sports writer, it always feels like we emerge from the basketball... Read more
Welcome to SportsPlex Nation
HAVE BALL, WILL TRAVEL: If your neighborhood doesn’t have an oversized youth sports facility, it’s falling behind the times. Welcome to SportsPlex Nation! Outside it’s an unseasonably warm January weekday afternoon in Walnut Creek. But Mike Samuels is inside. And happy to be there. Samuels is showing off the... Read more
Danielle Williams – Amador Valley – Softball
Danielle Williams was the best pitcher in the East Bay as a freshman in 2015. So far in 2016, she’s making the case to be the best pitcher in the entire Bay Area. In a one week stretch from March 28-April 1, Williams pitched 18 no-hit, shutout innings with... Read more
Leading The Herd
A deep, experienced roster aims to lead long-established SJS power, Elk Grove, toward a 10th crown. Read more
Softball 2016: Big Blue Machine
Alhambra may have the Bay Area’s best 1-through-9 softball order — and it may not be close Read more
Vincent Byrd II Still Swinging so we went Byrd Watching
Four years after gracing our cover as an eighth-grade slugger, Vincent Byrd II is still swinging away Vincent Byrd II counts his blessings like he counts on the advice of four former professional baseball players. The 6-foot-7-inch graduate of Sacramento’s El Camino High sounds sincerely thankful when asked about... Read more