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For a while it appeared that Freedom’s track team might be forced to practice at 6 a.m. – a time when it’s still so cold and dark that the football field lights would need to be on to make sure the...
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(Updated April 19)
Liberty and Freedom’s first dual league swim meet of the year went swimmingly for the Lions. The varsity boys won 120-48, and it appears that the varsity girls were also victorio...
Apr 15, 2010 | 0 | 8 |
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Taylor Morrow makes a splash during diving practice at Freedom High School this week. Morrow, a member of the diving team, took advantage of a break in the weather to work on her technique.
Apr 08, 2010 | 0 | 18 |
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The Freedom High School varsity cheerleading squad is known for exuding a lot of spirit, celebrating Falcon football and basketball victories. But now the squad has something new to cheer about: th...
Apr 08, 2010 | 0 | 6 |
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Through the preseason and early league season, Heritage and Deer Valley’s baseball teams separated themselves from the rest of the competition as the apparent cream of the crop in the Bay Valley At...
Apr 08, 2010 | 0 | 7 |
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The Liberty Lions swim team concluded its Survivor Week with a pancake breakfast on Friday, March 26.
The swim team’s Survivor Week includes twice-a-day practices during the second week of spring ...
Apr 06, 2010 | 0 | 10 |
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One of the appealing elements of sports is that it provides certainty in this crazy, mixed-up world. If you score more runs or points, run or swim faster, jump higher or longer, you or your team wi...
Apr 01, 2010 | 0 | 12 |
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Antioch High’s new varsity football coach won’t have much of a problem getting up to speed – John Lucido has been intimately involved with the program as a defensive coordinator for the last 14 yea...
Apr 01, 2010 | 0 | 6 |
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If not for a powerhouse Deer Valley boys volleyball team, the Heritage boys volleyball team would have gone undefeated in league play last year. Instead, the Patriots finished 12-3 in league (18-13...
Mar 29, 2010 | 0 | 9 |
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Last week’s sports pages discussed the appropriateness of the dynastic label being applied to the Deer Valley boys volleyball team, and several months ago in these pages the dynasty label was discu...
Mar 29, 2010 | 0 | 12 |
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For Freedom and Liberty’s baseball teams, last week’s league opener was an opportunity for a fresh start following winless preseasons. For the first 3½ innings it was all Lions, as they led 6-0. Bu...
Mar 25, 2010 | 0 | 7 |
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Although it wasn’t officially even spring yet, it definitely felt like “sumer is icumen in” (in the words of the Middle English song welcoming summer) on a warm, sunny afternoon at the Deer Valley ...
Mar 25, 2010 | 0 | 7 |
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Antioch High School senior Alyssa Thompson makes official her intention to play soccer for San Francisco State University Gators.
Thompson is one of several talented Lady Panthers to sign letters ...
Mar 25, 2010 | 0 | 5 |
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Kevin Harrity of Heritage slides into second in a 2-3 loss last Friday to Monta Vista – the Patriots’ first loss of the preseason. Heritage played at Amador Valley Tuesday and at Pittsburg Thursday...
Mar 25, 2010 | 0 | 6 |
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Freedom’s baseball team is still trying to find its form after last year’s NCS championship. In Friday’s home opener the Falcons were defeated 2-11 by an experienced Foothill team that in many ways...
Mar 22, 2010 | 0 | 8 |
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When it comes to sports dynasties, several come to mind for most fans: Bill Russell’s Boston Celtics in the ’60s, Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls in the ’90s and the Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio and Mick...
Mar 18, 2010 | 1 | 11 |
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It would be difficult for a baseball team to have a better season than Freedom’s 2009 campaign. The Falcons finished 23-4 overall, 14-1 in league and won the NCS championship over De La Salle – a g...
Mar 18, 2010 | 0 | 8 |
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On Saturday, March 6 both the Liberty High School and Edna Hill Middle School competition cheerleading teams placed first in their divisions at the America’s Best Championship competition in San Jo...
Mar 18, 2010 | 0 | 5 |
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On Friday, the Heritage swim and dive teams worked their way through the inclement weather to handily defeat the visiting Livermore Cowboys. The Lady Patriots won 123-59 and the boys won 105-78.
Th...
Mar 18, 2010 | 0 | 5 |
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Last year the Heritage baseball team had a ho-hum season, finishing 13-13 overall and 7-8 in league play, although the Patriots did make it to the second round of the NCS playoffs. This year, under...