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Patriots take hoops crown
Feb 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
The second round of the North Coast Section playoff starts tonight. The Heritage girls basketball team, which won the Bay Valley Athletic League and is ranked No. 1 overall in the tournament, makes...
DV advances in big win
by Kyle Szymanski
Feb 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
The Freedom girls basketball team compared the challenge of playing Deer Valley Tuesday night in the opening round of the North Coast Section playoff to climbing a steep mountain. The Wolverines ne...
Wolverines win BVAL title
Feb 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
The Deer Valley Wolverines clinched the Bay Valley Athletic League championship last Thursday in a back-and-forth battle against Freedom. With center Marcus Lee in foul trouble, junior guard Nzuzi ...
Frosh wrestler takes expectations to the mat
by Kyle Szymanski
Feb 14, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 24 24 recommendations | email to a friend
When Liberty freshman Nicole Diaz first stepped onto a wrestling mat at age 11, she was gripped by fear. Four years later, she’s ready to pin down success. Diaz will take the mat at the California ...
Win propels Falcons to league showdown
by Michael Dixon
Feb 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Freedom outlasted Heritage Tuesday night 66-60 in a battle between two teams fighting for a league title and position in the upcoming playoffs. In the end, the Falcons overcame playing on the road,...
Heritage wins league title
Feb 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Racing out onto the field to celebrate a league championship makes for a special memory, but so does finding it out over a cheeseburger and some fries. The Heritage girls soccer team beat Liberty 2...
Freedom defeats DV, advances to playoffs
Feb 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Ever since midseason, the Freedom boys soccer team has been knocking on the door of its first-ever berth in the North Coast Section playoffs. In its season finale Feb. 7 against Deer Valley, the do...
Wrestlers punch ticket to state competition
Feb 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Heritage junior Lania Dumdumaya, Antioch’s Courtney Rouse and Liberty freshman Nicole Diaz turned in impressive performances at North Coast Section girls’ wrestling championships last Saturday to a...
Near escape
Feb 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Heritage guard Sydney Berry gets a pass narrowly away during the Patriots’ 51-46 victory over Deer Valley on Tuesday night. Berry led Heritage in scoring, dropping 25 on the Wolverines in a battle ...
Sky-high skirmish
Feb 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Junior Aaron Berry defends a shot in the Patriots’ 93-80 defeat of Deer Valley Tuesday night. Minus senior Marcus Lee, the league-leading Wolverines struggled to remain undefeated in BVAL play. Se...
Dance team to show off
Feb 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
The Liberty High School Dance team is taking part in several big upcoming events. The team will make an appearance at the Lions’ junior varsity and varsity basketball games this Friday at home agai...
Freedom beats Heritage, commandeers first
by Kyle Szymanski
Feb 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Freedom head coach Paco Gonzalez has been waiting all season for his girls soccer team to play as a cohesive unit. In its third-to-last game of the season, and first place in the Bay Valley Athleti...
Falcons hoopsters fly past Liberty
by Michael Dixon
Feb 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Still fuming from its first league loss to Deer Valley three nights earlier, the Freedom boys basketball team wasted little time getting back in the win column last Friday in a lopsided game agains...
Wolverines hold off Falcons in showdown
by Michael Dixon
Jan 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Deer Valley dispatched Freedom 76-73 Tuesday night in a clash of the Bay Valley Athletic League’s two undefeated basketball teams. The visiting Wolverines opened a 61-40 lead through three quarters...
Trio of BVAL teams dominate hardcourt
by Kyle Szymanski
Jan 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
If there were any doubt about the depth of the Heritage girls basketball team, it slowly evaporated last Friday in the Patriots’ 72-33 victory over Freedom. Its top three players (guard Erin Asher,...
Action picks up on pitch
Jan 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
In a pair of 2-0 victories Tuesday night, the Freedom boys soccer team shut out Antioch and Pittsburg beat Heritage. The duo of Oscar Ledesma and Javier Valencia secured the victory for the Pirates...
Pushed to the brink
Jan 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Heritage junior Shon Briggs muscles to the hoop during the Patriots’ 81-73 victory over Liberty last Friday. Briggs finished with 18 points. Liberty went on a 20-11 run in the fourth quarter to tie...
Liberty develops unity in elite showcase
by Kyle Szymanski
Jan 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Although the Liberty girls soccer team might have gone only 1-2-1 at the recent National Elite Showcase in Fort Worth, Texas, the experience did nothing but help. “We went there as a team but came ...
Deer Valley wallops Antioch in hoops action
by Kyle Szymanski
Jan 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
The Deer Valley boys basketball team isn’t perfect, but for a quarter and a half of its 75-12 victory over Antioch last Friday, it came pretty close. The Wolverines (15-4, 3-0 in the Bay Valley Ath...
Patriots set sights on first league crown
by Michael Dixon
Jan 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
At every Heritage girls basketball practice, head coach Dan Swan directs the players’ attention to the team banner in the gym. And when they look up, they see nothing about a league championship. D...