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Wrestlers shine
Nov 12, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Dallas Ranch Middle School competed in the recent Diablo League M.S. Wrestling Championship Tournament at Albany High School. Placers, from left, are Nyrobi Stewart (third), Rangel Lowry (first), J...
Score a strike against hunger
Nov 12, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Bowlers looking to earn a free game and do something good for the community will soon have the opportunity to do both, thanks to the Strike Out Hunger campaign at the Harvest Park Bowl in Brentwood...
Guns roll into Oakley
Nov 12, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
The Elite Sports Express, a rolling gun showroom on wheels, will be making its only stop in the Bay Area at Hook, Line & Sinker in Oakley on Sunday, Nov. 15 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. See and feel the c...
Roddy ropes in Diablo cup
Oct 22, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Team Roddy Ranch defended its 2008 title in the recent second annual Diablo Cup Matches between Roddy Ranch and Shadow Lakes/Deer Ridge. Due to increased popularity of the Diablo Cup, each team’s r...
Borel shines at Utah State
Oct 22, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Freedom alumnus and Utah State junior quarterback Diondre Borel threw for a career-high 353 yards in State’s 35-32 recent loss to Nevada. Borel, who also tied a career high with three touchdown pa...
Black Diamonds sparkle
Oct 15, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
The Black Diamond All-Stars, Brentwood’s own cheerleading and dance team, kicked off their 2009-10 season in impressive fashion at the recent Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. The All-Stars competed in f...
Rugged cop pedals to the medals
by Ruth Roberts
Oct 08, 2009 | 2 2 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
Cycling legend Lance Armstrong might have seven prestigious bicycling medals to his credit, but Jeff Bilodeau isn’t far behind. In June, the Brentwood police officer and biking enthusiast rode away...
Moto mojo
Sep 30, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
On Aug. 23, the ABA-BMX (American Bicycling Association-Bicycle Motorcross) hosted the NorCal State Championship series finals in Roseville, attracting youth and adults from all over Northern Calif...
On a roll at 89
Sep 30, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Summerset Octogenarian Tom Lococo recently wowed the folks at Brentwood’s Harvest Park Bowl. Tom bowls regularly with his wife of 65 years, Janet, in the Summerset Senior League on Friday mornings,...
Achieving perfection
Sep 30, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
The O’Hara Park Middle School Softball A team went a perfect 12-0 for the 2009 season. The girls played against Bristow, Edna Hill, Adams, Knightsen, Excelsior and Delta Vista. Way to go, girls!
Ace in the hole
Sep 30, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Brentwood resident John Reed nonchalantly pulled an 8-iron out of his bag, stepped up to the second tee at Poppy Ridge Golf Course and swatted his ball 150 yards – and right down the jar. Reed notc...
Undead Bettys at Rave
Sep 24, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Join the area’s local roller derby league, the Undead Bettys, at Rave Cinemas in Brentwood on Friday, Oct. 2 at 5:30 p.m. for the premiere of Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut, “Whip It.” Watch t...
Getting her kicks
Sep 24, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Katrina Nahe, 12, of Antioch, attended the 2009 IKF Kickboxing Tournament in Orlando, Fla. in July, where she fought two girls. She won the first bout by a TKO in 38 seconds of Round 1, then beat ...
Scoring for USMMA
Sep 24, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Adam Leines, a 2009 graduate from Liberty High School who is now a midshipman at the United States Merchant Marine Academy in New York, played his first football game against Gallaudet University S...
Big honor for Short
Sep 24, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
William or Bill "Stormy" Short was inducted into Lompoc High School's alumni Hall of Fame Friday, Sept. 4 at the annual Lompoc Valley Historical Society Dinner. Stormy Short was born in Lompoc, up ...
Extreme Water and Air Show makes a splash
Sep 21, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Water skiing’s most renowned athletes, including the world’s fastest female barefoot skier, Teresa Wallace; six-time national barefoot skiing champion Jerry Kanawyer; and Discovery Bay’s own world ...
Liberty volleyball alum honored at UC San Diego
by Michael Dixon
Sep 17, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
For Gerald Houseman, success in volleyball didn’t end when he graduated in 2005. After Liberty, Houseman attended college and played at UC San Diego. Upon completion of his senior season at UCSD, H...
Making waves in Florida
Sep 17, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Discovery Bay resident and Liberty High senior Justin Payton, 17, took third place in the Junior Men’s Division at the recent WWA (World Wakeboard Association) World Championships in Orlando, Fla. ...
Raising the curtain
Sep 17, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Karina Nowlan, who tied the world record last year at the Diablo Shores Pro Am Waterski event in Brentwood, skis up a wall of water at this year’s event held last weekend. Chris Parrish, Karen Tru...
Diablo Shores Spray
Sep 16, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
It was curtains for photographer Stacey Chance last weekend. Nothing terminal mind you, we're talking water curtains, and lots of them. Stacey's high-speed lens got a hefty workout at the Diablo S...