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Wolverines eye league championship
by Kyle Szymanski
Apr 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
The Deer Valley boys tennis team has won the past two Bay Valley Athletic League titles. Midway through this season, the Wolverines appear content at the top. Facing three matches to conclude the s...
Livermore Stampede yields mixed results
by Michael Dixon
Apr 11, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
The competition was fierce for the Freedom and Heritage softball teams at last weekend’s Livermore Stampede. The tournament was won by Amador Valley, one of the best teams in the nation. The Falcon...
Freedom, Liberty split dual meet
Apr 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
The Liberty and Freedom high school track and field teams notched a victory apiece in a recent dual meet. The Freedom girls team defeated the Lions 75-61, and the Liberty boys edged the Falcons 66-...
Wolverines seek seventh straight title
by Kyle Szymanski
Apr 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
The Deer Valley boys volleyball team has won six straight Bay Valley Athletic League titles, and since all but one starter returns from last year’s squad, number seven looks like a forgone conclusi...
Patriot needs public’s help
Apr 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Heritage High School volleyball player Heather Reed, named Volunteer Athlete of the Week by Cal-Hi Sports-Bay Area, has qualified for a contest to win one of five scholarships. Over the summer, Ree...
Lions make a splash at local invitational
Apr 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
The Liberty swimming and diving teams tore through the competition at the recent Jaguar Invitational at Jesse Bethel High School in Vallejo. The varsity boys team finished first, racking up 467 poi...
Wolverine Wise targets grand goals
by Michael Dixon
Mar 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
When Deer Valley’s baseball team takes the field, one of its best players is not officially a Deer Valley student. Senior centerfielder Marcus Wise made a decision with his family to go to Dozier-L...
New-look Wolverines shoot for replay
by Michael Dixon
Mar 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
As they enter the 2013 baseball season, the defending Bay Valley Athletic league champion Deer Valley Wolverines look like a team in transition. They lost their starting shortstop and three of thei...
Heritage catcher driven by passion for the game
by Kyle Szymanski
Mar 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Heritage senior catcher Malia Rivers admits she started playing softball at age 7 to satisfy her father. Today she thanks him – former NFL running back and Heritage head coach Ron Rivers – for help...
Patriots hope to repeat historic success
by Kyle Szymanski
Mar 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
If the Heritage softball team wants to improve on last year’s regular-season success, it had better shoot to be perfect. Coming off a season that saw them not give up a run during league play, Heri...
Bay Valley League honors winter stars
Mar 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Bay Valley Athletic League winter action has died down, but the league recently reawakened the memories by announcing its all-BVAL teams: Girls Soccer MVP – Haylie Grant, Heritage. First ...
Panthers fall to Cougars; Lions beat Broncos
by Kyle Szymanski
Mar 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
After Carondelet defeated Heritage, Deer Valley and Liberty earlier this season, Antioch entered its game with the Cougars March 21 believing it could save the Bay Valley Athletic League from going...
Deer Valley aims to stay atop BVAL golf
by Michael Dixon
Mar 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
For more than four years, the Bay Valley Athletic League boys golf title has belonged to Deer Valley. If the Wolverines are to maintain their run of league titles this year, they’ll do it through a...
Freedom basketball coach earns top honor
by Kyle Szymanski
Mar 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Freedom boys basketball coach Drew Torres entered the school’s winter sports awards ceremony last week ready to honor his players for their historic season. But halfway through the presentation, he...
Pleasant Grove defeats Deer Valley in Northern California Division I regional final
by Kyle Szymanski
Mar 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Pleasant Grove-Elk Grove defeated Deer Valley 73-60 last Saturday in the Northern California Division I boys basketball regional championship game at the Sleep Train Arena in Sacramento. The Eagles...
Patriots’ historic season ends in loss
Mar 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
The Heritage girls basketball team was defeated by Oak Ridge 51-50 Tuesday night in the Division I Northern California regional semifinals. Down three in the waning moments, the Patriots had a chan...
Deer Valley, Freedom split wins in dual
Mar 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
At a dual meet, the Deer Valley and Freedom track teams split a pair: the Wolverines girls team defeated Freedom 84.5-42.5, and the Falcons boys team beat Deer Valley 81-54. Deer Valley’s Jae’la Mc...
Falcons shot down by Wolverines
Mar 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
The Deer Valley boys basketball team defeated Freedom 83-69 in the California Interscholastic Federation Division I Northern Regional quarterfinal March 9. For a few brief moments in the third quar...
Local wrestlers triumph at state meet
by Leland Gordon
Mar 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
One local school wrote the first page of its state wrestling medal history, while another added to the novel at the California Interscholastic Federation state wrestling championships this past wee...
Wolverines win first NCS championship
by Kyle Szymanski
Mar 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Heritage, Freedom win first-round games of the Northern California Division I regional playoffs.