Last Friday and Saturday, Acalanes Girls Water Polo welcomed 33 teams to their annual Acalanes Invitational. The Varsity team started the tournament with a match against Liberty High School just as the lunch bell rang. AHS students poured into the stands and cheered on their Lady Dons. Senior Wendy Heffelfinger put the Lady Dons on the scoreboard with a goal…
The Junior Varsity golfers tee’d off in a “friendly” with Campolindo at Moraga Country Club, in their first match of the season. The JV squad was represented by senior Samya Johnson, and freshmen GG Gallagher and Claire Morgan. Good shots and good fun, teaming with the Cougars in a scramble format. Next up at Rossmoor vs. Cougars on Sept 29…
In Tuesdays action on the tennis courts, Acalanes hosted the College Park Falcons and dominated with an 8-1 overall win. An encouraging home crowd was treated to many great matches. Thank you to all who came to cheer on the Dons! In singles play at Line 1, Sophomore Aamena Shipchandler handled her opponent in two sets 6-2, 6-0. Junior Piper…
How do they keep on doing this? Looking to give the Aca fans another heart attack with their ability to snatch a victory out of the jaws of defeat, the Lady Dons continued their winning ways with a hard-fought 5 set victory over the visiting Northgate Broncos on Tuesday night. In set one, #9 Piper Coy came out with guns…
Acalanes v. Northgate The Northgate Broncos found their way to the Acalanes Don’s Gymnasium for their matchup with the Dons, hot off of their impressive showing in the Sonoma tournament last Saturday. Game 1. A tale of epic rallies! Sydney Graves opened up with 3 straight serve points against the Broncos aided by some soft touches from Valeria Toledo at…
The Dons JV Football Team once again takes the home field with hopes of getting their first win of the 2023 season against the fellow Dons of Amador Valley. #10 Illias Kaplanes-Jones and #2 Matthew Schwarz set up to receive the opening kickoff for Acalanes. Amador Valley opens the game with a squib kick up the middle and Acalanes sets…