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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.
Honored Falcon will be a Bobcat
Mar 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Freedom soccer player Anna Carter signed her letter of intent to play for UC Merced on Friday, March 2. “I am looking forward to her being here and to next season,” UC Merced head coach Megan Ato...
Baseball and softball teams take the field
Mar 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
The Liberty junior varsity softball team scored six times in the first inning en route to a 19-2 victory over Berkeley Feb. 28. Liberty starting pitcher Tracy Bourassa allowed two hits and two runs...
Wrestlers shine at NCS
by Michael Dixon
Feb 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
When the area’s best wrestlers clashed in last weekend’s North Coast Section tournament, five from Bay Valley Athletic League schools decided they weren’t ready for their seasons to end. Heritage s...
Deer Valley, Heritage advance to North Coast Section championship games
by Kyle Szymanski and Michael Dixon
Feb 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Updated 12:25 Feb. 28. No. 2 Deer Valley 51, No. 3 De La Salle 48 The Deer Valley boys basketball team rallied to defeat De La Salle 51-48 Wednesday night to advance to the North Coast Section...
Freedom's NCS run ends against De La Salle
by Kyle Szymanski
Feb 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
The Freedom, Antioch and Deer Valley boys soccer teams, and the girls soccer teams from Freedom, Heritage, Deer Valley and Liberty all entered the North Coast Section playoff Feb. 13, but after two...