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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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