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Cardinal Newman Football: From The Ashes
Close To A Year After Its Community And Campus Were Ravaged By The Tubbs Fire, Cardinal Newman High Football Won A True Homecoming Game • SANTA ROSA — Nearly 11 months after the Tubbs fire ripped through Northern California, the pains remain for communities still rebuilding from the devastation... Read more
Berean Christian Football: Size Advantage
With A Roster Of Less Than Thirty, The Berean Christian Eagles Are Happy To Play Underdogs In A Much Larger League — And Prepare For A Real Run At A Division V Section Crown • As an outsider looking in, it would be perfectly understandable to argue a small... Read more
Football 2018: Liberty’s Encore Roar
A Liberty-Brentwood Team With A Stacked Roster Aims For More NCS Glory After 2017 Championship Breakthrough • What a night! Second one of December in 2017. They won’t forget it. Not Liberty High School, the 116-year-old school at the heart of Brentwood, the agricultural community of over 60,000 in... Read more
De La Salle vs. Folsom: Collision Course
De La Salle And Folsom Will Potentially Play NorCal’s Biggest Football Game Of The Season — On Opening Night •  From coffee shops to weight rooms, water coolers to dinner tables, there’s one game everyone in Northern California is talking about. This year, for the first time, Folsom High... Read more
Giles Jackson: Slot Machine
Freedom-Oakley’s Dynamic Running Back Turned Coaches Comments Into A Quick Decision — Now Giles Jackson Is NorCal’s Most Coveted Slot Receiver Recruit • It wasn’t a questionable gamble when Giles Jackson chose to run routes as a slot receiver during various spring and early summer football showcase events. The... Read more
St. Jos’ Caroline Evans • SportStar of the Week
EVANS ACE: St. Joseph Notre Dame-Alameda Freshman Softball Caroline Evans looked like anything but a freshman during the North Coast Section Division IV championship game on June 2.   She tossed the first no-hitter of her high school career, striking out five and walking none in a 4-0 shutout of Del... Read more
Spartans Of Swat
Paced By A Record-Breaking Offense, De La Salle Baseball Thundered Its Way To A Third Consecutive NCS Division I Crown • When a baseball team outscores its four North Coast Section playoff opponents by a combined 42-3, something exceptional is happening. How special? This finish came from likely the... Read more
Blinded Pilots
With A Freshman Phenom Pitcher And A Stacked Lineup, St. Joseph Notre Dame Softball Locked In On Winning — Until They Found Out They Won It All • A consistent mark of good teams is the ability of every player to stay locked in the moment. One would be... Read more
ONE for the Road. Seniors Lead San Ramon Valley To First Lacrosse Section Title
In Their Final Game Together, Eight Exemplary Seniors Led San Ramon Valley To Its First Boys Lacrosse Section Title Since 2015 • In the end, for the San Ramon Valley High boys lacrosse team, it was all about “this one.” The “one” on May 17 was big: the North Coast... Read more
SportStar of the Week: Christian Encarnacion-Strand
College Park Falcons Baseball Player, Christian Encarnacion-Strand  COLLEGE PARK-PLEASANT HILL – SENIOR – BASEBALL It’s been an up and down season for the College Park Falcons baseball team, but not for their senior shortstop. The four-year varsity player recently went 1-for-2 with an RBI double to help fuel a 9-5... Read more
Berkeley’s Center of Attention
With Talented Center Fielder Michael Dixon Leading The Charge, Berkeley Baseball Is Turning Heads In 2018 • Story By JAMES G. KANE | Photos By BERRY EVANS III Berkeley High School baseball coach Curtis Sandeford put his chin to his hand and gazed his glance downward. A few seconds... Read more
Full Speed Ahead
With Eight Wins In Its First 11 Games, Dougherty Valley Baseball Has Already Matched Its 2017 Total — And It’s Not Looking Back • Story by MIKE WOOD | Photos by CHACE BRYSON The Dougherty Valley High-San Ramon baseball team had just completed a loss to Monte Vista-Danville, one... Read more