TRACY - The good news for East Union's girls basketball team is that it is still tied for first place in the Valley Oak League.
SALIDA - One day after notching its biggest win of the season, the Ripon boys basketball team appeared ready to ride that momentum after a quality first-quarter effort against Merced in a third-round consolation game of the Modesto Christian Holiday Hoops Classic Tuesday.
BRENTWOOD - The Weston Ranch Cougars got another strong effort from sophomore Jazmin Strane, who led a 47-43 victory over the Amador Valley Dons of Pleasanton Tuesday in second-round action of the 10th Annual West Coast Jamboree at Liberty High.
STOCKTON - The East Union boys basketball team nearly squandered its nine-point halftime lead, holding on for a 58-57 win over Stagg in 4th Annual Bear Creek Bruin Shootout Tuesday.
Ripon High's sophomore girls basketball team outscored Tokay 8-0 in the first quarter and continued its solid defensive play en route to a 40-21 victory Tuesday at Sierra High.
TRACY - A tough first-round loss to Linden has the Tom Hawkins/Tracy Breakfast Lions Tournament's defending champion East Union Lancers in the consolation bracket.
Salida - Inglewood showed Manteca respect by slowing the pace after getting beat at its own game.
SONORA - Sierra doesn't want to give up its crown that easily. The Timberwolves turned the defensive effort up a few notches in the second half and rode the inside-outside threat of sophomore post Will Ward and senior guard Trevor Nogueira in their 66-54 victory over Summerville to open the Robert Dominik Fuchs Classic at Columbia College's Oak Pavillion. Sierra (6-3), which claimed last year's tournament title, was behind 40-31 at halftime yielded just three ...
RIPON - Ripon Christian kept Delhi scoreless in the third quarter to highlight a 56-13 victory in the first round of its own Lady Knights Classic Monday.
Zac Carrillo led all players with 23 points to lead East Union's sophomore boys basketball team to a 60-49 victory over Ripon in the first round of the Block M Tournament Monday at Manteca High's Winter Gym.
Kelsey Johnston opened the season as one of Ripon High's key ingredients for a team hoping to make another lengthy push in the Sac-Joaquin Section postseason. By the time the season closed Johnston was the main ingredient of an impressive Indian playoff run and The Bulletin's 2009 All-Area Volleyball MVP.
Jarrod Daniels finished what Daniel Teicheira started at the beginning of this decade. It began with promise for Sierra High's football team, as Teicheira, with legs as strong as they were fast, set program varsity records as a freshman and sophomore and gave Valley Oak League teams reason for worry. But the budding superstar running back died in a car accident on July 1, 2002. His legacy was forever preserved when the school's football facility ...
SALIDA – The Manteca Buffaloes wanted to close out its non-league schedule in the always-challenging Modesto Christian Holiday Hoop Classic for a reason and its 81-68 win over San Leandro High got things going in the right direction.
TRACY – The East Union Lancers were the defending champions of the Tracy Breakfast Lions Basketball Tournament, but that did not help the squad in this season's tournament opener, dropping their first round game 47-46 to the Linden Lions.
Braian Gomez's strength as a leader also served as a weakness. His infectious free spirit and competitive energy set the tone for Sierra's huge turnaround from back-to-back losing seasons. He produced one of the school's greatest single-season efforts for boys soccer. That same combination also kept him from putting together the greatest season. The Bulletin's All-Area Boys Soccer Player of the Year admittedly let emotions get the best of him at times during the Valley ...
The past along with the present is being recognized this week in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Central California Lions All-Star Football Classic, one of the state's four original prep contests of its kind.
A productive year at the plate might be an understatement when referring to the type of season Ripon Christian's now-graduated senior Dominic Nelson just had.
Guillermo Nunez was praised for his high basketball IQ.
Backed by a good-sized contingent of supporters - including former teammates, classmates, teachers, and friends and family - Will Brink played his final round as an East Union Lancer during Wednesday's CIF/CGA State Boys Golf Championship in scenic Carmel.
Nick Olmo reiterated on Tuesday that he doesn't put much stock into rankings.
Ripon's softball team certainly pitched and played defense this spring.
One of just two sophomores in the sprint events, Weston Ranch High's John McDonald was understandably wide-eyed upon his rival at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Clovis - the site of the CIf State Track & Field Championships.
Manteca High junior Jake Corn had an astounding season on the bump this spring.
ELK GROVE - The kid they call "Texas" is competing in the California Interscholastic Federation Track and Field State Championships for the first time next week.
Allie Walljasper has already won two section titles, three Valley Oak League MVP awards, two VOL crowns and was named this year's all-league Pitcher of the Year for the first time.
ELK GROVE - Run the straightaway or walk the podium?
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