March 16th, 2010 04:11pm
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Posted by Staff Writer Eric Branch:
Monica Mertle, a two-time Empire Player of the Year at Ursuline who was an all-conference player at St. Mary’s College, has been named the girls’ basketball coach at Windsor High School.
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March 16th, 2010 12:34pm
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(Thanks to my colleague here at the PD, Frank Marqua, for this post. I more or less stopped paying attention after the Empire teams were eliminated).
North Coast Section teams will occupy 11 of the 20 spots in this weekend’s NorCal basketball finals. The Sac-Joaquin Section placed six teams in the NorCal finals, and the Central Coast Section had three teams. The smaller Northern Section and Oakland City Section did not have a team reach the finals.
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March 15th, 2010 02:54pm
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The Casa Grande football team’s 2010 non-league schedule will include Ygnacio Valley, a perennial power from the Diablo Valley League. Ygnacio Valley has won at least one playoff game for the past five years, has a 23-11 record over the past three seasons and won the North Coast Section Class 2A East Bay title in 2005. The Warriors went 9-3 last year.
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March 12th, 2010 01:04pm
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Posted by Staff Writer Eric Branch:
Want to compete in college? Get in the pool. Really. Is there another sport in the Empire that produces more Division I athletes than swimming? The list below includes the 71 local swimmers who have competed at the NCAA level since 1999. (The six seniors who have signed with Division I schools this year are not included in that total).
Of the 71 who have competed in college, 52 went to Division I programs.
Many thanks to Ruben DiRado, unofficial Empire Swimming Sports Information Director, for providing the information.
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March 12th, 2010 05:15am
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Ursuline senior pole vaulter Michelle Stone didn’t break her own Empire record when she cleared 11 feet, 9¼ inches Saturday at the Big Cat Invitational at Santa Rosa High, but she did make a little history.
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March 11th, 2010 04:21pm
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In the final minutes of Analy’s 74-58 loss to Center on Tuesday in the NorCal playoffs, Tigers coach Brett Page pulled his starters from the game and put three sophomores and two freshmen on the court.
The game was over. The season was over. And for Analy’s seven seniors, their high school basketball careers were over.
At that moment, something significant and poignant was happening. But it didn’t register with me until Page called a timeout with about a minute left and began instructing his five underclassmen as if it were a one-point game.
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March 11th, 2010 01:48pm
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Petaluma’s Sam Banister, a former softball star at the University of Arizona, will be the headline instructor at the All-Pro Fastpitch Camp at Prince Park in Petaluma from April 8-9.
Banister will be joined by former Arizona teammate, Taryne Mowatt, the Most Outstanding Player of the 2007 Women’s College World Series, and former Petaluma teammate Sadie Dolcini, a two-time all-conference pick at St. Mary’s College.
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March 10th, 2010 09:56pm
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Posted by Staff Writer Eric Branch:
I wrote in this week’s high school notebook about the abnormal abundance of talented basketball players returning next year. Due to space limitations, the list only included some North Bay League and Sonoma County League teams.
Here’s a more comprehensive rundown:
BOYS
* Analy (29-3, SCL champions, NorCal playoffs): The Tigers will return junior point guard Max Fujii, the SCL MVP, and junior guard Eli Alcantar, the league’s Defensive Player of the Year. In addition, 6-foot-6 freshman Geddy Link figures to play a prominent role in the middle.
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March 10th, 2010 03:04pm
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Posted by Staff Writer Eric Branch:
The Montgomery softball team is one of 12 teams to be placed on the “On the Bubble” list on the CalHiSports preseason state top 20.
The Vikings return seven starters from last year’s team which went 26-2 and advanced to the North Coast Section Division II title game where it lost, 1-0, to Pinole Valley. Pinole, which went 24-3 last year, is also on the bubble list.
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March 9th, 2010 08:47am
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We will have live updates from the NorCal basketball first-round games tonight at pdpreps.com.
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PD sports writer Eric Branch leads our blogging team on every aspect of Empire high school sports. Other contributors to this blog include Phil Barber and Michael Coit.
