SPORTS Section
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RIPON’S RIVALRY REVISISTED Never mind the final score. Many have forgotten those digits anyway. What made the inaugural Ripon Bowl rivalry game on the night of Nov. 4, 2006 so memorable was the resounding (fashion) statement Ripon Christian made on Ripon High soil during Ripon High’s homecoming. Down 27-0 at halftime, Ripon Christian players came out of the locker room wearing their blue jerseys, typically reserved for home games. Yes, they started the game wearing the away whites. ... 
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Buffaloes want payback against Tracy There are three regular-season games that Manteca High’s senior class has mentally earmarked, and the first one is this Friday.
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Cougars’ hands full with Tokay; Spartans traveling to Sacramento As the Weston Ranch Cougars march into their second contest of the 2010 season, garnering the squad’s first win over the past six games will not come easy with the San Joaquin Athletic Association’s Tokay Tigers coming to battle the Cougars. |
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PK’s cost Manteca in loss to Escalon ESCALON – Manteca High jumped out in front of the Escalon Cougars in the first 10 minutes of their non-league contest, but a pair of penalties in the box would cost Manteca in its 2-1 loss to Escalon Wednesday at Escalon High. |
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Trail camera enhances hunting experience I’m sorry about not having a column in last month’s paper. I had rotator-cuff surgery for the second time, on the same shoulder … after injuring it again.
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INTO THE WIND The strong winds led to some high scores during a Valley Oak League match Tuesday at Manteca Park Golf Course, but it didn’t affect Oakdale High’s Jaylene Ponce.
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Ripon rolls Wildcats RIPON – When Sonora High came to Ripon to take on the Indians, the matchup between the two perennial Sac-Joaquin Section playoff teams had the potential of an exciting contest. Only, Ripon was clearly the better club, dominating Sonora 25-13, 25-17 and 25-16 in the two team’s non-league action Tuesday.
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East Union sweeps Tracy to notch first win of the season East Union High’s volleyball team appears to be on the right track after winning its first match of the season with a three-game shutout (25-13, 25-17, 25-12) of host Tracy Wednesday. |
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Cougars settle for tie in non-league finale It wasn’t the ideal way for Weston Ranch High to cap what has been an otherwise successful non-league schedule, but all things considered Coach Carlos Gaspar is still going into conference play beaming. |
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Sleeping in a bag at Buck’s It occurred to me just before I fell asleep that the sugar pine that stabbed at the speckled night above me would, if hollowed out, make a perfect mailing tube for shipping submarines.
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VARSITY SPORTS FOR THE OF WEEK SEPT. 8-11 Today Volleyball East Union at Johansen, 6 p.m. Ripon Christian at St. Mary’s, 6 p.m. Soccer Manteca at Escalon, 4:30 p.m. Golf Kimball at East Union, 3 p.m. Cross country Ripon at TVL Meet (Tuolumne Regional Park), 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 9 Volleyball East Union at Downey, 6 p.m. Stagg at Manteca, 6:15 p.m. Johansen at Sierra, 6 p.m. Gustine at Lathrop, 6 p.m. Soccer East Union at Elk Grove, 4 p.m. Downey at ... |
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Ripon Chiefs roll to stay undefeated in TVYFL The varsity Ripon Chiefs rolled to a 3-0 record in the Trans Valley Youth Football League behind solid all-around play in their 36-0 drubbing of the Salida Steelers at Salida Middle School Saturday. |
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Varsity squad crushes visiting Gustine, 53-0 The Manteca Jr. Buffaloes varsity squad bulldozed its way past the Gustine Redskins 53-0 at Manteca High’s Guss Schmiedt field Sunday.
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Lathrop freshmen tame Escalon Cougars ESCALON – Lathrop’s Kevin Rainey set the tone for Thursday night’s non-league freshman football contest with host Escalon when he returned the opening kickoff 80 yards for a touchdown on the way to a 32-12 win for the Spartans.
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ROLL BUFFS ROLL The Manteca High sophomore football team could not have opened its 2010 football season any better, blasting the visiting Galt Warriors 55-0 in non-league action Friday at Manteca High.
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T’WOLVES POUND EU The Valley Oak League season is still a ways away, but this weekend’s tournament soccer provided some quality glimpses as to how the 2010 season will shape up. Sierra was dominant in its VOL preview victory over East Union, dropping the Lancers 3-0 in the Timberwolves Cup opener Saturday at Sierra High.
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Manteca settles for consolation Manteca High would have obviously preferred to outlast its opponent in the 3rd Annual Buff Cup championship, but the Buffaloes will certainly accept a 6-4 win over Patterson for the tournament’s consolation championship.
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Cougars can’t close the deal The first 20 minutes seemed to be scripting perfect for the Weston Ranch Cougars, but a colossal collapse to a quality Los Banos squad left the Cougars on the short-end of the pursuit for the 3rd Annual Buff Cup championship. Om a 4-1 loss Saturday. The Cougars opened the contest playing on all cylinders, turning in the game’s first goal and asserting themselves as the team to beat. Only Los Banos proved to have more ... |
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2000: Frosh Daniel Teicheira leads SHS grid win Seventy years ago, on September 5, 1940, football practice at the local high school has gotten right into the thick of the sporting scene in Manteca again as Coach Larry Siemering and his assistant sarge Stan Hawkins are hard at work rounding the boys into shape for the coming season. Calesthentics and fundamental drills prevail. Rico Bianchi, former star Buffalo back and linemen, and last year’s standout blocking back for the University of San Francisco, ... |
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BUFFS’ RUN GAME STAMPEDES GALT Anyone anticipating the unveiling of what could be an explosive passing attack for Manteca High, known over the years more for its punishing ground-and-pound running game, might have been disappointed Friday at Guss Schmiedt Field.
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EU holds on for win with goal-line stand MODESTO – East Union and Beyer exchanged punches for the better part of 44 minutes, but when it was time to win a football game the visiting Lancers’ defensive unit landed the deciding blow. |
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Ripon controls tempo, Linden on the ground RIPON — Ripon High coach Chris Johnson may have a potentially good team. Indicative of that was the Indians’ 41-28 non-league victory over Linden at Stouffer Field Friday. “Our kids had to fight back after a tough first half,” said Johnson, who was frustrated by the 100-plus yards tacked off against his team during that span. The Indians (1-1) not only cut down on their mistakes – try two penalties for 10 yards in the ... |
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Spartans outmatched against Escalon LATHROP — The Lathrop Spartans were hoping to get their first varsity football season with seniors off on a positive note.
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Redskins torch undermanned WR SAN ANDREAS — Weston Ranch High was outnumbered, outmatched and ultimately outmuscled in its 34-7 season-opening loss to Calaveras Friday. |
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Sierra survives second-half scare MODESTO — Sierra was in no celebratory mood on a muggy Thursday night following a 38-28 win over Grace Davis at Downey High’s Chuck Hughes Stadium. |
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Buffaloes can’t recover from early minute lapse In the first 10 minutes of Manteca High’s 3rd Annual Buffalo Cup opener, the Buffaloes found themselves looking up at a 2-0 deficit to the Los Banos Tigers. The Buffaloes didn’t flinch; battling back to tie things up, but a goal in the final two minutes forced Manteca to deal with a 3-2 loss to the Tigers Thursday at Manteca High. |
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COUGARS CLIP INDIANS The Weston Ranch Cougars jumped out on Ripon High with a quick first-half goal, but the Indians would claw back only to see their come-from-behind hopes sliced by the last of five penalty kicks in the Cougars’ shootout win Thursday in the 3rd Annual Buffalo Cup opener.
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Eating what you catch: Tastes depend on lakes Every once in a while I run into people who talk about eating their catch. Usually, the first question I ask is, “Where did you go fishing?” Aside from all the warnings about mercury found in all local bodies of water, there really is a difference in taste from place to place. I rarely eat my catch, but every once in a while I do bring a few home for the dinner table. In my ... |
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Telles leads Lancers past Cougars STOCKTON – The fact that Weston Ranch only had three golfers didn’t stop the four-time reigning Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV champions from posting some low numbers in their first outing of their year.
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Lathrop proves no match for the Timberwolves Sierra High had no sympathy for the relatively young Lathrop Spartan squad, rolling over the second-year varsity program with ease Thursday in a 15-0 victory.
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BUFFALOES BANGED Things didn’t look promising for the Manteca High varsity girls Friday night when they found themselves down to match point against the Beyer Patriots with their best jump server up at the line.
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Buffs kick off tough non-league schedule The ride to the Valley Oak League season won’t be a smooth one for Manteca High. Starting with Galt Friday, Manteca will embark on a pre-league schedule featuring two tradition-rich programs and another that appears to be on the rise. The Buffaloes, who haven’t lost a season opener in the 2000s but has had some close calls, will find out just how good they really are before kicking off conference play Sept. 24. “Week 1 ... |
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Spartans face uphill battle with Escalon If the Lathrop Spartans are able to win their season opener it would be the biggest victory in school history. If the Escalon Cougars come into Lathrop and fall to the Spartans it would ruin the perennial powerhouse’s season in week one. |
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Changes to playoffs and other tidbits from section’s Media Day STOCKTON — The Sac-Joaquin Section overhauled its postseason format for football last season and has made a few minor tweaks for 2010. |
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A tale of poor man’s hunting Depending on what kind of hunting you examine, hunting can be either a rich man’s sport or a poor man’s sport. |
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BUFFALOES NETTED The Manteca Buffaloes did not get the luxury of warming up to the Valley Oak League schedule, drawing a match against perennial league front-runner Oakdale and falling 9.5 to 5.5 Tuesday at home.
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Navarro promoted to MHS head varsity coach Patience and persistence paid off for Corey Navarro. He enters his ninth year with Manteca High’s softball team this spring as its head coach, a position Navarro has coveted throughout his tenure with the program. He interviewed for the job and accepted it last week. Navarro, who is also on staff with the school’s varsity football team, coached at the lower levels for seven seasons before serving as an assistant under Todd Hardcastle last year. ... |
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Rebuilding Sierra falls to Kimball in league opener TRACY — The rebuilding has begun for Sierra’s girls golf team under first-year head coach Jack Thomson. |
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Ripon easily tames Lions LINDEN — It was a rather ho-hum official start to Ripon’s volleyball season Tuesday. |
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Reading between the (fishing) lines I’ve never shot a caribou, or moose for that matter, though I have had a moose burger with caribou chili in Talkeetna, which is reason enough to head back. |
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Lancaster prevails, but Papst holds onto Enduro points lead STOCKTON — On Saturday, while the NASCAR Whelen All American Western Late Models took a break before coming back in September for the final run at the Chase for the Championship, the West Coast Enduros splattered onto the historic quarter-mile paved oval to continue their Speedway Series Championship run. |
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Jimenez-Rivera fires five goals for under-14 Santos A hat trick wasn’t good enough for Oscar Jimenez-Rivera and Manteca Area Soccer League’s under-14 boys Santos Saturday at Woodward Park. |
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Ripon continues domination of former TVL rival RC RIPON — Keith Terpsma doesn’t know what to expect this season when his Ripon Christian boys soccer team heads into Southern League play for the first time.
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Tips for those living in snake country Over the past several years, I have developed a couple educational programs for presentation to the general public. |
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SOPH OPENERS MODESTO – The Ripon Christian sophomore football teamed kicked off its 2010 football season in style, pounding host Big Valley Christian 33-0 in both school’s season opener.
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1960: Manteca defeats Folsom Prison in baseball Fifty years ago, on August 28, 1960, the Manteca Merchants, using a lineup loaded with youth, made their last regularly scheduled game a successful one as they handed the strong Folsom Prison Eagles a 5-3 setback. Several athletes from Manteca High were used and the “youngsters” came through to pick up the win. Walt McDonald went all the way on the hill for the Merchants to pick up the win. The locals also dipped into ... |
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Enochs frustrate Sierra freshman at last second With just 1.5 seconds remaining in the game Enochs intercepted a tipped ball at the goal line that thwarted any last-second heroics for the Timberwolves in a 13-8 non-league win for the visiting Eagles at Daniel Teicheira Memorial Stadium.
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