El Cerrito Football Punches Its Return Ticket Into CIF Bowl Playoffs With Last-Minute Comeback Win Over Windsor PICTURED ABOVE: Jayvon Bolds celebrates his go-ahead touchdown with a little more than a minute left in the game. (Ben Enos photos) It would be easy to understand if the El Cerrito
High...
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Rushing For Video-Game Like Numbers, Herschel Turner Jr. Has Energized
Concord’s Mt. Diablo
High Football Program — And Put It Squarely In The League Title Race Herschel Turner Jr. looks restless. Midway through the first quarter of Mt. Diablo-
Concord’s homecoming game against Ygnacio Valley-
Concord, Turner hasn’t played a snap yet....
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A Physical, Grind-It-Out Victory At Folsom Puts De La Salle Football Back At No. 2 In NorCal Rankings And On A Trajectory Many Have Seen Before For the better part of four decades, watching the De La Salle-
Concord football team at the beginning of the season and then watching again...
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San Ramon Valley Football Has Playmakers All Over The Field, But Its Multi-Purpose Running Back John Pau Mendoza That Has Even The Wolves Talking During a recent appearance on SportStars’ podcast 7 Friday Night, San Ramon Valley-Danville quarterback Luke Baker singled out Wolves running back John Pau Mendoza as a...
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SportStars Takes A Nine-Plus Hour Road Trip With The Pittsburg
High Football Team As It Takes Shape Under New Coach Charlie Ramirez Since being appointed head coach of the Pittsburg
High football team over the summer, Charlie Ramirez has received his share of congratulations from friends, family, community members and...
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Our NorCal Football Rankings Get Their First Real Shake-Up Of The Season, Including A Flip-Flop Of The No. 2 And No. 3 Teams • PICTURED AT TOP: Wayshawn Parker of No. 9 Grant-Sacramento. (David Gershon Photo) After three weeks of football in Northern California, the picture is becoming just a...
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The 2023 Sac-Joaquin Section Football Season Opens Friday Along With Plenty Of Intrigue And Expectations In what has become a tradition in recent years, it’s the Sac-Joaquin Section that gets to usher in a new season of Northern California football. We know it’s been a minute since readers were dialed...
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As The 2023 Season Nears Kick-Off In The Sac-Joaquin Section, We Continue Our Preseason All-NorCal List With The Region’s Top Linemen • PRESEASON ALL-NORCAL LIST SCHEDULE: Quarterbacks/Running Backs | Receivers & Tight Ends | Linebackers/Defensive Backs PICTURED UP TOP: Manuel Serna of Clayton Valley-
Concord. (Chace Bryson photo) Our 2023 Preseason...
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As The 2023 Season Nears Kick-Off In The Sac-Joaquin Section, We Continue Our Preseason All-NorCal List With Our Top Downfield Targets • PRESEASON ALL-NORCAL LIST SCHEDULE: Quarterbacks/Running Backs | Offensive/Defensive Line | Linebackers/Defensive Backs PICTURED UP TOP: Trevor Rogers of Acalanes-Lafayette. (Ben Enos photo) Our 2023 Preseason All-NorCal Roster adds...
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Our 11th Annual Bay Area 75 Athlete Rankings For The ’22-’23
School Year Continues On With Nos. 50-26 PICTURED ABOVE: No. 39, Money Williams of Oakland
High Welcome to our 11th annual Bay Area 75 rankings — SportStars’ countdown of the top 75 Bay Area athletes from the 2022-23
school...
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Our 11th Annual Bay Area 75 Athlete Rankings For The ’22-’23
School Year Begins Here With Nos. 75-51 PICTURED ABOVE: No. 54, Jonathan Guerrero of De La Salle-
Concord Football, Track Welcome to our 11th annual Bay Area 75 rankings — SportStars’ countdown of the top 75 Bay Area athletes from...
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RELENTLESS: Nolan Stevens Set Out To Do Everything In His Power To Lift Franklin-Elk Grove To Its First Section Title — And Delivered • PHOTOS: David Gershon Franklin baseball coach Bryan Kilby estimated he heard it at least 50 times. Nolan Stevens made a habit of telling his coach the...
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