The girls varsity lacrosse team ended last week with a convincing win against Clayton Valley Charter school. The first half was overwhelmingly favorable for the Dons as we witnessed some nice moves to the goal by #61 Tea Smith, good hard play and smart field positioning by #35 Sammy Hess and nice takeaways by #17 Haley Rurka. #21 Gabriela Benveniste…
The Lady JV Dons beat the always dangerous Monte Vista Mustangs 12 to 5. At the five-minute mark, Acalanes was behind 2 to 1 but Jenna Steele scored one of her four goals to tie the game and the Dons never looked back racing to an easy victory over a Monte vista team that had not lost a game. Ella…
Congratulations to Ethan Torres, Kyle Bielawski, Trevor Rogers and Paul Kuhner for breaking the Acalanes relay record running 42.46 beating the old record of 42.57. This record was established over 35 years ago in 1987 in the 4 x 100 relay race. Ethan and Kyle are in the class of 2023 and Trevor and Paul are in the class of…
The Boys’ Varsity tennis team lost yet another player to injury – bringing the total to four who were unable to compete today. Those who played battled valiantly against Campolindo. The #2 and #3 doubles lines consisting of Matthew Muren, Aaron Brown, Juzer Shipchandler, and Sammy Foster won their matches. Four other singles and doubles matches were extremely close and…
In a match-up between the two undefeated DFAL teams, the Dons travelled to Northgate on Tuesday to take on the Broncos. As it turned out, heads-up baserunning and brilliant pitching ruled the day. For the 3rd game in a row, Miles Bergman’s (sr) lead-off hit led to the 1st run of the game. Bergman started the 3rd inning with a…
Baseball is not a sport known for an abundance of tie games, and yet the JV baseball Dons got a second tie of the season on Tuesday, when the Northgate Broncos came across town for the first leg of the Home/Away two-game series. The game started late, due to a last-second bus cancellation, and that proved to be material in…
The Acalanes Freshman baseball team couldn’t ride the momentum of their home sweep of Las Lomas over the weekend into their game at Monte Vista on Monday, falling by a final score of 8-2 in a game that lacked suspense. Acalanes got on the board first. After being hit by a pitch, Cole Gwaltney stole second and was driven in with a RBI single to right field by David Roux. Sam Bishop got the start on the mound.…
Dublin Distance Fiesta The Dublin Distance Fiesta, the largest track meet in North California, in which over 3,000 student athletes competed, was PR City for the distance crew! Every single runner that competed walked away with a PR or SB for at least one of the events that they raced. This meet also awards a T-shirt or drawstring bag for…
The Lady Dons newcomer team played and won two fantastic scrimmages on Saturday against Bishop O’Dowd and Moreau Catholic. It was amazing to see how first year players like Katherine Leamy, Lucy Thomas, Molly Schofield, Jasmine Frost, Mika Bokoba, Audrey Peatross, Campbell Evans, Annie Baker, Emma Seelenbacher, Hanna Burkes, Rutherford Protass, Channler Ottobre, Nina Von Schaffer, Kendal Geddes, Claire Zimmerman,…
The Acalanes Freshman baseball team won both games in their doubleheader versus Las Lomas High School, winning game 1 by a score of 3-1 and game 2 by a score of 1-0 in 10 innings. The team flipped the script on what had plagued them in the last few games, errors and walked batters, in a big way. Brendan Miles…
