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Since the city of Oakley recently completed its first-ever bocce ball season, the inevitable question that comes to mind is: when does the next one start?
The eight-week summer season begins the we...
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Not only do the NorCal Titans excel on the baseball field, the players also touch all the bases in the classroom, all carrying at least a 3.0 grade point average in their final semester. The NorCal...
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The Antioch Major League Twins 9-12 year old softball team went 20-0 during league play while inter-leaguing with East County this season, using a combination of unhittable pitching led by Kylie Ca...
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Richard Pappenhausen of Chico opened a sizeable lead that couldn’t be overcome by Bobby Hogge IV’s late charge in the Western All Stars feature event at Antioch Speedway on Saturday night.
Hogge IV...
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After Ron Mohr nailed his second strike of the 10th frame at Wednesday’s Senior Professional Bowling Association Northern California Classic at Harvest Park Bowl to come within three pins of victor...
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The Brentwood Wildcats 10U softball team took first place in the recent NSA Sanctioned Bilsons Father’s Day Classic VII, played in Turlock. The Wildcats cruised on Saturday to earn a No. 1 seed in ...
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The opening rounds of the California Little League District 4 Tournament of Champions provided no shortage of offense, as Antioch and East County teams found out – for better and for worse.
In the ...
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Michael O’Connell had a feeling, when his son was still in diapers, that the kid’s future would include four tires and a steering wheel.
The Discovery Bay resident fondly recalls a photo of Donovan...
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The 12U Delta Dawgs, comprising players from Brentwood and Oakley, won their second championship of the summer season at the recent TPR American Diamond Classic held in Tracy.
The Dawgs made a tot...
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The 9U Delta Dawgs baseball team outlasted seven other squads to win the TPR American Diamond Classic in Tracy last weekend. It was the 9U Dawgs’ fifth championship of the season.
Despite a record...
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The roar of the Antioch Speedway crowd drowned out the roaring pack of limited late models as Brentwood’s Fred Ryland tested all 50 years of Larry Damitz’s experience when they raced to the checker...
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The Contra Costa Diablos AAU basketball team represented East County by winning the championship title at the recent Northwest Sports Reno Memorial Day Tournament.
The Diablos took on players from...
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The words wouldn’t come out when Gary Nelson, Jr. of San Jose popped up through the top of his roll cage, fists clenched in the air, after winning his first All-Star Wingless Sprint feature event a...
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The recent unseasonable rain and wind didn’t deter 17-year-old Deer Valley High senior Andrew Kobayashi and his dad from competing in the Yamamoto Big Bass Challenge against more than 200 fishermen...
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After a successful motocross season last year, Oakley’s Adam Fink, 21, finished only two spots away from qualifying for a National Outdoor Race.
But then came a speed bump.
As Fink, a 2007 Freedo...
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Coming off what he admits was one of his worst PBA Tour seasons, the PBA’s all-time leader in Lumber Liquidators Tour titles, Walter Ray Williams Jr., has his game back on track as he prepares to c...
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The Brentwood Blast 12U Red travel baseball team recently won the Bulldawg Brawl tourney held in Walnut Creek. The team was victorious in five grueling games over the three-day weekend, finishing o...
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With the support of his second baseman and right fielder behind him, East County Little League AA Padres pitcher Calvin Suesue prepares to serve up a strike against the Rays on Tuesday. Baseball an...
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Bay Valley Athletic League teams in sports such as football and baseball have been known to struggle when they clash with teams from other parts of Contra Costa County and the Bay Area. A prime exa...
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Looking for a great introduction to sports for your 3-to-6-year-old? Biddy Sports, part of the Brentwood Parks and Recreation Department, offers an eight-week summer basketball and indoor soccer pr...