At first glance Freedom did not have a particularly impressive season last year, finishing at 9-18 overall and 7-8 in league play. But, on the plus side, the Falcons made it into the NCS playoffs, ...
Deer Valley’s Erik Dwyer, left, was the 171-pound Division champion in the recent Ceres High School Invitational Tournament. Teammate Barry Harper was the 215-pound champion. Other Deer Valley plac...
The Lou Bronzan Gym at Freedom High School resembled a six-ring circus Saturday as scores of wrestlers from 16 schools arm-barred, backpointed, brokedown, bridged, cross-faced, ducked-under, escape...
Other than golfer Lauren Conder at Heritage, there was probably no East County high school girl athlete who was more dominant this fall than Liberty volleyball player Corinne Costa. The 6-foot-4-in...
A season ago the Antioch High boys basketball team lost in the final round of the Straw Hat Classic and went on to a 12-14 season, finishing fifth in the Bay Valley Athletic League. Looking to sign...
If Liberty’s boys basketball team is able to play this season as it did in the first quarter in its season/home opener against American last week, it should have no problems. The Lions chewed up th...
Pittsburg quarterback Julius Mozee runs away from the Washington defense Saturday to secure a 39-24 win. The Pirates get a rematch with De La Salle in the NCS title game Saturday night at Dublin Hi...
Freedom’s girls basketball team is looking to rebound this year from a disappointing 11-14 (3-11 in league) record last season. But the Falcons must play better than they did in their season opener...
There’s no greater contrast in high school sports than that between football – with its packed stands, roaring bands, dancing cheerleaders, sonorous PA announcer, fundraising raffle, signs, paid ad...
Four Heritage High School seniors recently confirmed their undergraduate scholarships by signing a Letter of Intent. From left are Cole Wells, who will play baseball for Fresno State; Megan Larmour...
Freedom High School senior Kim Westlund recently received a scholarship to play softball for the Big West champion Cal-Poly San Luis Obispo Mustangs next fall under Head Coach Jenny Condon.
Westlun...
In October Deer Valley went to Pittsburg and beat the Pirates 35-33 in the most exciting game of the BVAL regular season. The Wolverines were not so fortunate in Friday’s playoff rematch, as they w...
Heritage volleyball player Megan Larmour fell in love with volleyball at Bristow Middle School under the guidance and inspiration of coach Patrick Rockenbaugh. Megan played junior varsity as a fres...
When Heritage High senior Lauren Conder was 5 she took her first swing at a golf ball at Brentwood Golf Club – and the two-time MVP and three-time champion in the Bay Valley Athletic League and Nor...
The Monta Vista High girls tennis team won the CIF-USTA Nor-Cal Team Tennis Championship at Diamond Hills Sports Club in Oakley Saturday.
Monta Vista’s 4-3 victory over Saratoga was aided by the wi...
Corinne Costa, Liberty’s 6-foot-4-inch volleyball star, has been awarded the MVP trophy of the Bay Valley Athletic League, capping one of the most dominating seasons by a girl volleyball player in ...
Heritage High students Cole Wells and Jordan Heald-Mullins sign letters of intent to receive athletic scholarships to play baseball for the Fresno State Bulldogs.
In fall after the end of football season, a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of basketball. Such was the case Saturday morning in the Heritage gym, where the boys basketball team scrimmaged to a...
Although it was a mixed fall season for Freedom High sports teams, the main sport in high school is, of course, mental gymnastics: the four-year academic marathon comprised of semester-long dashes ...
The Freedom boys water polo team returned to the NCS Championship tournament for the first time in three years, this time as a 23rd seed facing 10th-seeded Washington High.
The Falcons fell behind ...