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De La Salle Baseball: Spartans Bring Crossover Appeal
Boosted By Its Vaunted Football Program, De La Salle Baseball Opened 2020 As The State’s No. 1 Team — And Chasing A Record Fifth Straight NCS Title • De La Salle will always be known as a football school.  For as many championship banners as the Concord school’s other... Read more
St. Francis Soccer Wins Section D2 Title
St. Francis Soccer Wins Section D2 Title over Ponderosa (Feb. 17, 2020) Junior Jackie Stanco scored the game-winning goal in the final minutes of the second half to give St. Francis soccer a 3-2 win over Ponderosa in the Sac-Joaquin Section D-2 title game at Whitney High School. “What... Read more
Lilly Freitas (Pitman) SportStar Wrestler of the Week
Pitman-Turlock Girls Wrestling Sophomore Phenom, Lilly Freitas Selected SportStar of the Week Lilly Freitas won her second CIF state title in as many years on Saturday after a dominant three-day performance in Bakersfield. The Pitman girls wrestling phenom went a perfect 5-0 and won all five matches by pin.... Read more
Susac Family Fun Time: All Aboard Jesuit Baseball’s Hype Train
Major League Hype Follows Jesuit Baseball’s Susac Cousins As They Seek Return Trip To SJS Title Game • Sitting in the bleachers at Sacramento City College, seven-year-old Anthony Susac wanted to be a part of the fun, so he asked his dad for a few bucks, hustled to the... Read more
2020 CIF State Championships – Semi-Finals Set
CIF Wrestling State Championships – Semi-finals For 2020 CIF State Championships Day 2 – Quarter-final Matchups, see next page. Feature image: 160 – TRENT SILVA (Windsor, NC, 12) High School Wrestling TOP 12 TEAMS (Entering Day 3) 1 – Buchanan (CS): 176.0 2 – Poway (SD): 133.5 3 –... Read more
CIF Wrestling Preview: A Weight-By-Weight Boys & Girls Breakdown
SportStars’ Wrestling Guru, Ike Dodson, Runs Down Each Division Listing Favorites As Well As NorCal’s Top Contenders, Dark Horses • 2020 CIF Wrestling Preview The walls of Mechanics Banks (formerly Rabobank) Arena will soon be singing the sweet melody of state championship wrestling. Thursday’s pigtail rounds open 28 brackets... Read more
Buchanan #1 in Final State Wrestling Rankings
Buchanan High School powerhouse takes #1 spot in Final California State Wrestling Rankings. St. John Bosco, Poway, Clovis and Gilroy round out top 5. TCW California State Ranking Finals by Michael Cho – February 26, 2020 TOP CALIFORNIA WRESTLERS (PRE-STATE) • State Wrestling Ranking Finals 106 – Andre Gonzales... Read more
Bret Harte’s Kodiak Stevens Named SportStar of the Week
SportStars’ #1 Ranked, Kodiak Stevens Bret Harte-Angels Camp – Wrestling – Senior All season long, SportStars Magazine has ranked Kodiak Stephens as its top NorCal wrestler at 170 pounds. This past weekend he showed why. Stephens blazed his way through the 170-pound field at the Sac-Joaquin Section Masters Tournament. Get... Read more
California State Wrestling Rankings | Feb. 20
Feature photo, 120 lb CARLOS NEGRETE (Buchanan, CS, 11) 2x CIF State Finalist. California Top Boys and High School Team State Wrestling Rankings compiled by Michael Cho, The California Wrestler. Follow TCW at www.thecaliforniawrestler.com CALIFORNIA STATE WRESTLING RANKINGS • TOP WRESTLERS 106 – Andre Gonzales (Poway, SD, 11) 113 – Richard... Read more
Lucas Cook, Lincoln Wrestling | THE TRANSFORMER
Lincoln Heavyweight And SJS Masters Hopeful Lucas Cook Finds Strength In Faith, Recovery And Transformation • A wrestling mom never gets the credit she deserves. Part dietician, manager, agent, publicist, taxi driver and bankroller, she also has to prep her vocal cords for that shrieking “Pin him!!” you can... Read more
SportStar Jackie Stanco St. Francis-Sac. Soccer
Arizona-committed forward Jackie Stanco, earned six points across two wins during the final week of the regular season. Stanco first notched two goals and an assist in a 4-1 win over SJS rival Davis on Feb. 7. She added another assist in the team’s regular season final, a 3-0... Read more
EBAL Wrestling 2020 Championships – Seeds, Finals
2020 EBAL (East Bay Athletic League) Wrestling Championship Finals, by SportStars INSIDER, Al (Coach) Fontes, editor of The California Wrestler. Get SportStars NorCal wrestling rankings here: SportStars Wrestler Rankings (106-145) and SportStars Wrestler Rankings (152-285).   TOP 3 EBAL WRESTLING TEAM FINALS 1 – De La Salle (Feature image:... Read more