Acalanes survived a close game Saturday in Pleasant Hill against a stubborn College Park team that refused to let the Dons pull away after they overcame an early deficit. Both teams hit key shots down the stretch in the 4th, with Liam O’Keeffe scoring 6 points and ultimately fouling out a key College Park player with his post moves, ensuring…
The Lady Dons returned to the pool on Saturday morning for a match up with the Wolves of San Ramon Valley in the first round of the end of season tournament. The Dons have been steadily building their performance over the last weeks and this game showed more evidence of the developing strength in depth of the squad. The Dons…
The Dons varsity baseball team took on Campolindo on Thursday and Friday, and unfortunately came up on the wrong side of the scores. In the first game, the Dons started strong by loading the bases in the first inning with a single by Miles Bergman (jr) and walks by Kyle White (jr) and Brady Huchingson (sr). However, they were only…
Riding a 5-game winning streak, Dons continued their homestand by hosting Miramonte on a rare chilly mid-May day. Game 1 In what can only be perceived as a compliment to the Dons Frosh, Miramonte brought a couple of sophomores from their JV team to pitch against them in game 1 of the doubleheader. The Dons were slow to get the…
On Friday afternoon the Lady Dons made the long trip across the Richmond Bridge to San Anselmo and the high school formerly known as 1327. It was a cold evening but the Dons started quickly with Alana McCartney winning the sprint to start the game. The Dons attack failed to click on their first couple of possessions but at the…
In a Saturday matinee at College Park, the Dons boys’ basketball team shook off a slow start to take down the Falcons 74-47. It looked early like the Falcons might control the tempo, as they held the Dons to just 2 points in the first four minutes and took an early five-point lead. A steal at mid-court by senior Scott…
The JV Dons took Friday’s game in dramatic fashion, with a 5-4 walk-off victory over Campolindo. Dons win two games out of the three game series this week over the Cougars. In the Friday match-up, Campolindo got on the scoreboard in the first, second, and third innings. Giving the Dons the edge to fight back. Acalanes then answered when Ellis Burger…
The Junior Varsity Dons notched their 6th straight victory on Thursday, corralling the visiting Northgate High School Broncos 25-10 and 25-15. Dons serving dominated the game, as the team recorded a total of 16 aces. The two teams started the first set evenly, sharing kills and errors to a 4-4 tie before the Dons began to pull away on kills…
Acalanes overcame a slow first quarter start, turning an 8-0 deficit into a a 29-16 halftime lead, and running away with a 51-29 win over College Park Wednesday in Lafayette. Logan Farzan got the Dons started by exploding for 8 points to lead the first quarter comeback, in his breakout game of the season. Calvin Kotarba contributed multiple steals and…
The JV Dons nabbed the lead late in the game in a 4-2 victory over Campolindo on Thursday. The game was tied at two with Acalanes batting in the top of the sixth when Nikko Woodson homered on a 0-1 count, scoring two runs. ‘Hard hit’ is not even the right phrase…blasted, crushed, boomed it (is that even a phrase?), whacked the…