It was good old-fashioned run-and-gun, back-and-forth, smash-mouth, in-your-face, slam-jam-thank-you-ma’am street ball for much of the first three quarters of the NCS playoff opener between the Ant...
The Heritage High School girls basketball team became the first team from the Liberty Union High School District ever to reach the Nor-Cal Basketball Championships, clinching a spot with a 36-26 vi...
Deer Valley’s Imana Samuels flies in for a layup in a 68-58 second-round playoff victory over Livermore on Friday. The Wolverines hosted Castro Valley in a semifinal game on Wednesday.
Janelle Triplett, the first Heritage girl soccer player to sign a letter of intent, made it official on Feb. 23, signing with California State University Stanislaus, a Division II team.
Janelle is...
Three Brentwood football stars – Liberty freshman quarterback Cody Suckow, Delta Patriots Youth Football League linebacker Clark Butler and defensive end Simba Short – recently participated in a th...
Pittsburg’s boys tennis team beat Freedom 5-4 in the league opener at Freedom last week. On the plus side, the Falcons’ unseasoned players are gaining valuable match experience, according to Freedo...
For the first time in school history, the Freedom girls soccer team advanced to the second round of the NCS sectional tournament. “We knew we had something special going on after the outstanding sh...
The Heritage boys basketball had a season to remember, taking the title of the highly competitive Bay Valley Athletic League and posting a 13-2 league (21-5 overall) record in the process. On Frida...
Deer Valley’s girls basketball team appeared primed and ready to go for the NCS playoffs Friday night as it finished the regular season with a 90-41 drubbing of Freedom, smashing the team’s previou...
What a difference a year can make in one of the most intense rivalries in East County sports.
Last year the Heritage girls basketball team was on top of the world, making it to the second round of ...
The Heritage boys basketball team ended the regular season in convincing fashion, providing momentum for the opening playoff matchup against Freedom, which they won Tuesday in the Heritage gym.
The...
The sports metaphor “monkey on the back” is applied – sometimes unfairly – to players and teams that achieve excellence year after year but are unable to win the big enchilada.
The monkey gets arou...
In the opening round of the NCS basketball playoffs Feb. 23, the Heritage boys continued their magical season, defeating Freedom, 75-65, and sweeping them for the season.
The game was played in fro...
It may seem like an unpatriotic thing to do to a team called American, but on Tuesday, the Patriots girls basketball team overcame a sluggish start to handily defeat the visiting American Eagles, 6...
The Liberty Lions wrestling team was perfect on the championship mat Friday night at the Bay Valley Athletic League Championships, hosted by Antioch High School. But the host Panthers frequented th...
Having wrapped up the Bay Valley Athletic League championship prior to their match with the Heritage Patriots, the Liberty Lady Lions soccer team was on a mission to prove itself, having dropped a ...
Deer Valley’s girls basketball team is playing its best basketball at the end of the season. Friday night’s 78-40 victory over Antioch was the Wolverines’ 11th league win in a row, allowing them to...
It’s been a tough year for the Freedom girls basketball team. As of last week the Falcons had won only one league game (a 10-point win over Antioch on Jan. 12) and just three games overall. Liberty...
Prior to the start of this wrestling season, some doubted that a young Liberty wrestling squad would be able to repeat its conquest of the Bay Valley Athletic League. That question was answered in ...
Heritage’s boys basketball team is having an excellent season; it’s headed for the NCS playoffs and will likely win the championship of the Bay Valley Athletic League.
But into every life a little...