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Area Code Baseball: Six Snapshots From NorCal Tryouts
SHORT CODES: Six Quick Profiles From The Northern California Tryouts For The 2019 Area Code Baseball Games Each year the top 220 or so high school baseball players from across the country come together to compete in the Area Code Games — a five-day showcase at Blair Field in... Read more
MARCUS BAGLEY, Sheldon Basketball Sr. Honored SportStar of the Week
Sheldon-Sacramento Basketball Senior Nets Another Star Sheldon basketball Sr. Marcus Bagley, SportStars Magazines’ reigning NorCal Boys Basketball Player of the Year, made his college choice official. The younger brother of the Sacramento Kings’ Marvin Bagley III, gave his oral commitment to Arizona State on July 29. He chose the... Read more
Oakland Raiders Legend Hosts First Ever Race for Life 5K
Race for Life with the Biletnikoff Foundation The Biletnikoff Foundation announces the inaugural Run For Life 5K on September 28, 2019. The event features one of the NFL Oakland Raiders most legendary Super Bowl MVPs and Hall of Famer, Fred Biletnikoff and his wife Angela. The event takes place... Read more
SportStars 2019 Football Preview Cover Vote
SportStars Football Preview OFFICIAL Voting Welcome to the 2019 Cover Vote! Tell us who should grace our SportStars Football Preview covers next month. We’ll have our two covers, Bay Area and Sac-Joaquin. So tell us who you believe are the most deserving players for each region. GOT A WRITE-IN VOTE? EMAIL... Read more
Luke Dugger: Davis Golfer Reaches National Stage
Davis High 2019 Grad Gets A Taste Of The Big Stage After Qualifying For And Competing At The U.S. Junior Amateur Championships In Ohio • Like many kids, Luke Dugger grew up playing basketball and baseball. It wasn’t until age 13 when he and his friends decided to give... Read more
Lexi Webb: NorCal Softball Player Of The Year
Oakdale Slugger Proved Just As Dominant In The Circle On Her Way To Leading Mustangs To 29 Wins, Sac-Joaquin Section Title • If Oakdale’s Cal-Hi Sports State Championship softball team is the Avengers, then Lexi Webb is surely its Iron Ma’am. The Mustang’s home-run clubbing, strikeout pitching, Thanos-killing senior... Read more
Last State Honor for Levelle Bailey
LeVelle Bailey received potentially his last All-State honor as a high school athlete in late June when we named him SportStar of the week and Cal-Hi Sports named him 1st Team Grid-Hoop All-State. The Grid-Hoop All-State teams are comprised of California’s top performers in both football and basketball. Bailey... Read more
Team NorCal Battles on National Level
NorCal Juniors Honor Roll: May 2019 In May, Team NorCal traveled to Florida and Southern California to battle on the national level and on the ITF tour. Team NorCal started the month by heading to Delray Beach, FL, from April 29, to May 4, at the Delray Beach ITF.... Read more
SJS Boys Volleyball: Granite Bay, Elk Grove Lock Up Titles
SJS Boys Volleyball Power Granite Bay Hauled In Its Sixth Section Banner While Elk Grove Claimed Its First NorCal Title • In the 10 years that the Sac-Joaquin Section has held championships for boys volleyball, Granite Bay has stood atop the SJS boys volleyball world. The Grizzlies have won... Read more
Vacaville Baseball: Simply Spectacular SJS Repeat
Third Generation Vacaville High Athlete Devereaux Harrison Sends 31-Win Baseball Team To The Sac-Joaquin Championship “Bulldog”-Pile • One does not simply win a section baseball pennant without a massive infield dogpile. Something Vacaville baseball star Devereaux Harrison knows all too well. The obligatory title celebration of Sac-Joaquin Section baseball... Read more
All-City Team Recap: SportStars, River Cats Hang 10
SportStars And The Sacramento River Cats Successfully Celebrate 10 Years Of All-City Athletes In The Sac-Joaquin Region • Double figures! SportStars and the River Cats reached that milestone on May 12 when they worked together to honor more than 600 athletes from the Greater Sacramento region to the outer reaches... Read more
Ben Dillard: Oak Ridge Swim’s Speed Racer
Just A Junior, Ben Dillard Leads The Oak Ridge Boys Swim Team At A Torrid Pace • Amphibious Oak Ridge-El Dorado Hills junior Ben Dillard has an insatiable thirst for high-speed races inside 25-meter pools. The lanky, shaggy-haired USC-commit set a CIF State Championship meet record in the 100-meter... Read more