The Dons opened the season on the road last week in frigid Marin County against perennial powerhouseMarin Catholic and nearby Tamalpais High School. The first game was last Tuesday at Marin Catholic.The temperature was in the 40’s with brisk 25 to 30 mile an hour winds. Yikes! The fans and playerswere freezing. Benji O’Rourke started on the mound for Acalanes.…
Scott Espinosa-Brown has long found sanctuary teaching basketball, perhaps now more than ever. “It’s something to look forward to every day,” Espinosa-Brown said in a recent interview. “I cross the threshold of that gym and I’m not thinking about my Kaiser appointments or the medications or anything along those lines. It’s glorious. It’s cleansing.” An assistant coach for the Acalanes…
Mother Nature held off on her precipitation Saturday for the Acalanes freshman baseball team to begin their season with a doubleheader against the Tamalpais High School Red Hawks. The unproven saying that hitters always lag behind pitchers in the early spring would be a good description of the opening game. Branson Smith started for the Dons, and sat them down…
2023 CIF State Girls Basketball Championships Division I
The Acalanes Girls Lacrosse program has 50 players on the JV Lacrosse team. This amazing team has the new players playing in some weekday games but get their main playing time and a chance to develop on the “Saturday Squad.” On Saturday with most playing in their first organized Lacrosse game they beat the full JV team from Berkeley High…
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In the second game of the NCS Open the Lady Dons defeated Heritage by a score of 77 to 38. Heritage finished the regular season 22-4 and was led by 6-4 UCLA commit and McDonalds All American Amanda Muse. The Lady Dons wasted no time in setting the tone with aggressive full court pressure. One could see from the start…
Instead of playing Mt. Tam at home on Friday as originally scheduled, the Dons traveled to Mill Valley on Saturday where the Frosh team split a double header last year. Although the team fell 5-1, what was even more disappointing was that there was no DJ, unlike last year when we heard classics such as the 80’s TV show theme…
They dealt with cold, wind, hail and rain and that was all before going out and beating Berkeley High School 18-0. The team played great once again with the assists, ground balls and scoring spread out amongst numerous players. Scoring was led by Emily Roberts once again as she scored five goals (also two loose balls controlled) and was helped…
It was another frigid night for Girls Varsity Lacrosse, but the Dons kept the heat on high, defeating Berkeley 17-6. The Dons managed to maintain possession of the ball for the majority of the game and picked up more and more momentum as the game went on. The flow of the game was interrupted by numerous Yellowjacket fouls, but that…