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FULLY OPERATIONAL | Healthy Rancho Cotate, Scrappy Heritage Roll In Div. II

High School Football NewsTicker North Coast Section November 12, 2023 0

Jacob Pruitt, Physical Run Game Power Rancho Cotate Past Granada; Heritage Takes Down Redwood With Its Own Physicality PICTURED ABOVE: Rancho Cotate quarterback Jacob Pruitt, left, and Heritage running back Mekhi Adenandus. (Ben Enos photos) Look good, feel good. Feel good, play good. The Rancho Cotate football team is... Read more

NorCal Team Of The Week, May 15-20 | Pittsburg Baseball

High School Baseball/Softball NewsTicker North Coast Section SportStars of the Week June 1, 2023 0

Pittsburg Baseball Embraced Its Inner Bad Guy To Win Its First NCS Game Since 1996 And Ignite A Run To The Division I Semifinals • IMAGE CREDIT: Pittsburg High Baseball/Twitter Sometimes it pays to be the villain. That was the mindset the Pittsburg High baseball team adopted as an... Read more

Rising Above | Heritage Football Uses Gutsy Effort To Get To 5-1

High School Football NewsTicker North Coast Section October 2, 2022 0

With Multiple Starters Out, The Heritage Football Team Had Big Nights From Devon Rivers And Its Defense In A League-Opening Win At Freedom • PICTURED ABOVE: Heritage Running Back Devon Rivers Delivers A Stiff Arm To Freedom’s Herschel Turner Jr. (Chace Bryson photos) Even before the first snap of... Read more

Proving Perfection | Heritage Softball Opens ’22 Ready To Roll

High School Baseball/Softball North Coast Section February 24, 2022 0

A Team Shouldn’t Need To Prove Itself After Any Undefeated Season, But Heritage Softball Is Ready To Take NorCal’s Best Shot PICTURED ABOVE: Seniors Tianna Bell, Right, And Kasey Aguinaga Heritage Softball made it look easy in 2021. In a 25-0 season, the Patriots played just two one-run games.... Read more

Pirates’ Gold | Pittsburg Treasures Its First NCS Title In 30 Years

High School Football North Coast Section November 28, 2021 0

Backup Quarterback Christian Aguilar Shines As Pittsburg Football Tops Clayton Valley In North Coast Section Div. I Final • Victor Galli and the Pittsburg High football program didn’t need a North Coast Section title to validate two decades of success on School Street. But in the moments after a... Read more

Rivers Run Wild | Heritage Star Back Just Keeping Up With Fam

High School Football High School Sports Features North Coast Section September 23, 2021 0

Brentwood’s Devon Rivers Is The Youngest Of A Family With Running In Its Blood — And The Patriots Football Standout Is Keeping Pace Just Fine • Updated With New Quotes And Stats: Oct. 7, 2021 Good natured competition is the name of the game in the Rivers household. If... Read more

Pittsburg Baseball | Ready Crew

High School Baseball/Softball North Coast Section June 3, 2021 2

Willed By Its Senior Class, Pittsburg Baseball Completed Its Rebirth As The Pirates Rolled To Their First League Title In More Than Three Decades Pittsburg High senior Michael Weber saw the sharp ground ball come right off the bat. It looked the same as the countless number of grounders... Read more

High School Sports | A Spring For All Seasons

High School Baseball/Softball High School Football HS / CLUB Soccer March 5, 2021 0

Athletic Directors And League Commissioners Want Nothing More Than To See Kids Back Competing — But Getting To That Point Has Never Taken More Work. So are the administrators who make high school sports tick breathing a sigh of relief that sports are coming back? Only if by some... Read more

Rochelle Mosley | Heritage VB Junior Set For Success

High School Sports Features North Coast Section VOLLEYBALL — Served by NCVA February 12, 2021 0

Meet Heritage Volleyball Junior Setter Rochelle Mosley. She Rocks A 4.8 GPA And An Impressive Inner Strength Formed From Learning And Loss • For anyone concerned that young athletes might short-change their study time during this virtual school year, they should meet Rochelle Mosley. Mosley is a junior at... Read more

From Callero To Zuardo | One Coach’s #NeverStop Thanks To His Mentors

#NeverStop Project Central Coast Section High School Baseball/Softball North Coast Section May 5, 2020 0

Heritage High Baseball Coach Kevin Brannan Offers A #NeverStop Salute To Mike Callero And Lou Zuardo, The Coaches Who Shaped His Career • As several players have thanked their coaches as part of this project, sometimes coaches need to do the same. There are two people — Mike Callero... Read more

Brock Hammer (Liberty ’19): #Scrapper | A #NeverStop Salute

#NeverStop Project High School Football North Coast Section April 8, 2020 0

Liberty High Football Coach Ryan Patridge Opens SportStars’ #NeverStop Project With A Tribute To 2019 Graduate, Brock Hammer — A Lion Who Embodied The Term #Scrapper • All ball coaches are looking for scrappers, high school coaches especially. It doesn’t matter their size. We want tough dudes who just... Read more

Pittsburg Football’s Swashbuckler Survival Guide

High School Football North Coast Section November 20, 2019 1

The 2019 Pirates Have Battled Their Way Through The Types Of Adversity That Have Derailed Pittsburg Football Teams Of The Recent Past • In most cases, the loss of a quarterback to injury would qualify as one of the most adverse circumstances a high school football team could face. That... Read more