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Freedom rings bell for fourth year
by Dave Roberts
Nov 14, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
There was a Zen-like sign on the Liberty High side of the football field at the 12th annual Bell Game Saturday afternoon. It read simply yet cryptically “0-9?” The question, which was facing the Fr...
Wolverines remain perfect against Patriots
by Kenny Lee
Nov 14, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Appropriately for Senior Night, Deer Valley seniors Brandon Williams, Damon Collins and Kristoff Williams led the charge for the Wolverines offense Friday night, allowing the football team to remai...
Heritage nets key volleyball victory
by Dave Roberts
Nov 12, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
You just knew the girls volleyball season finale last week between Liberty and Heritage would go down to the wire. Each team came into the game with a 10-4 record. Liberty had won its first encoun...
Patriots’ experience overwhelms Falcons
by Kenny Lee
Nov 07, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
It was Senior Night at Heritage High Friday night, and Patriots Stadium was the scene of senior dominance as the Patriots football team routed the Freedom Falcons, 32-6. The Patriots field more th...
Deer Valley rolls over Antioch
by Michael Dixon
Nov 07, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Deer Valley’s football team warmed to its task on a chilly Friday night, beating crosstown rival Antioch, 42-14, to notch their ninth straight victory and bring them one win away from a perfect reg...
Pirates sink Lions in blowout
by Dave Roberts
Nov 06, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
There was an air of inevitability about the Liberty football team’s blowout loss to Pittsburg Friday night, and the game pretty much lived up to expectations. Pittsburg is a much stronger team than...
Pre-polo provender
Nov 05, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
The Liberty High varsity water polo players enjoyed a team dinner at the Sarmento house last week as they got ready for their games against Heritage and Deer Valley. From left are Austin Kimbrell,...
First-class coach
Nov 05, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Freedom High golf Coach Neil Boden, who was recently awarded his NCS Coach of the Year certificate at Livermore’s Las Positas Golf Course, shares the spotlight with, front row from left, Stephanie ...
Liberty, Deer Valley share league title
by Dave Roberts
Nov 03, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Last year things were simple for the Deer Valley girls water polo team on its way to a 20-4 record and the Bay Valley Athletic League championship. Everything revolved around star senior Caitlyn Ri...
Patriots victorious at Homecoming
by Kenny Lee
Nov 02, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
The Heritage football team celebrated its second Homecoming before a raucous crowd of students, parents and alumni with a 42-19 victory over Antioch Friday. The Panthers got on the board first with...
Freedom can’t sustain strong start against Pittsburg
by Dave Roberts
Nov 02, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Freedom’s football team had just lost to Pittsburg 42-21 Friday night – it’s eighth straight loss in a winless season. But to listen to Falcons Coach Kevin Hartwig talk to his players after the gam...
Deer Valley keeps rolling in blowout
by Michael Dixon
Nov 02, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Deer Valley’s football team avoided a letdown Friday from an emotional win the previous week against Pittsburg, crushing Liberty 69-6. The Wolverines put together an opening four-play, 53-yard driv...
Liberty’s Costa to play for UCLA
by Dave Roberts
Oct 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
“I think this year we are going to definitely be a force to reckon with,” said Liberty volleyball star Corinne Costa after last week’s easy 3-0 victory over Freedom. Costa was actually referring to...
Deer Valley, Conder capture golf titles
by Dave Roberts
Oct 28, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
The soggy conditions on Oct. 19 were more conducive to a water polo game or swim meet than a golf tournament, but several dozen high school girl golfers slogged through the sprinkles and puddles at...
Brentwood still belongs to Heritage
by Kenny Lee
Oct 24, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
The Brentwood Bowl Game has been played annually between Heritage and Liberty high schools since the first varsity season for the Patriots in 2007. The Bowl trophy has resided in the trophy case a...
Deer Valley stays undefeated in thriller against Pittsburg
by Michael Dixon
Oct 24, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
In a high scoring game with several shifts of momentum, Deer Valley kept their perfect season going with a 35-33 win against defending BVAL champion Pittsburg. Kristoff Williams sprinted for a 55-y...
Freedom loses in overtime
by Dave Roberts
Oct 24, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Freedom’s football team came heartbreakingly close to winning its first game of the season Friday night against Antioch. The game went into overtime in which each team gets the ball on the opponent...
DV volleyball wins again and again
by Dave Roberts
Oct 20, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
The Deer Valley High girls volleyball team beat Freedom 3-0 last week, but to listen to both coaches afterward, you might think it was the Falcons who were victorious. “They dug a lot of balls,” sa...
Panthers maul Lions
by Dave Roberts
Oct 17, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Liberty High’s football game Friday night had an eery feeling of deja vu all over again. Last year after an OK 2-3 preseason, the wheels fell off when the Lions faced league opponents, beginning ...
Patriots plundered by Pirates
by Kenny Lee
Oct 17, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
It was “Senior Night” for the Pittsburg Pirate Marching Show Band on October 16, and the Heritage Patriots faced a surging Pittsburg squad that marked the start of Bay Valley Athletic League play f...