The Freshman football team continues to dominate as they walked away with a 38-8 win against College Park last Thursday night. The Dons are undefeated thus far with a 5-0 record. Let’s go Dons! Getting right down to business, Acalanes scored on the first drive of the game and successfully converted for 2-points immediately putting the Dons up 8-0. Between…
In front of the largest home crowd the season, the two teams put on an amazing show, with both teams getting to large leads in different sets and comebacks galore. You could feel the tension in the gym in warmups with first place in league at stake. This was set to be a battle of wills, and everyone had a…
The Acalanes Dons Girls’ Football team decided to throw a party on the field, hosting the Miramonte Matadors and the Clayton Valley Ugly Eagles for their home opener. Miramonte brought their A-game with a small but talented team, while the Ugly Eagles arrived with what seemed like half the bird population, boasting over 30 players. The opening kick-off at 5…
Throughout most of tennis history, rackets were made of wood. Heads were around 65 square inches, and some rackets came with fashionable trapezoid-shaped “cases”. Although graphite composites rackets came out in the early 1980s, Swedish tennis legend Björn Borg tried to stage a comeback in 1985 in Monte Carlo with his standard small-headed wood racket because “he hadn’t tried the…
Acalanes v. Campo To say the air was filled with anticipation is an understatement. Our home gym was cool in the late summer evening as the freshman Dons fought tooth and nail, point for point against a tough Campo team. Ultimately falling in 2 sets, but what an effort! All eyes were on the JV squad as they warmed up…
The Acalanes campus was electric on Wednesday afternoon with volleyball, flag football, and water polo games happening simultaneously! The Las Lomas Knights showed up confident and ready to battle and even gained the first possession of the game. However, they were unable to score due to the powerful Lady Dons defense. Once the Dons gained possession, sophomore Ella Del Rosario…
The Lady Don’s beat the Cougars in an afternoon match at Moraga Country Club 244-265. Our golfers survived a difficult course, poor air quality, and a bitter wind to outduel our Campolindo hosts. Low rounds were scored by Campbell Evans, Hana Chelemedos and Miracle Gu, and Haley Chelemedos improved on her team and season low score, shooting a stellar 39.…
Anyone who follows tennis knows that the point scoring in a game goes “Love”-15-30-40 (plus “Deuce” and “Ad” if needed in order to win by 2 points), 6 games generally win a set, and 2 sets win a match in the women’s game. The rules for high school girls are the same except if the players split the first 2…
With the upcoming monster game against Campolindo on Wednesday night, it would have been easy to overlook the visiting College Park Falcons. With a few of the Lady Dons under the weather and sitting out, the rest of the team needed to dig deep into their energy tank to make sure they would head into the Campo matchup with an…
This week, the USA Water Polo announced their 2023 Junior Olympics All-American Athletes selections. Sophomore Ella De Rosario was awarded the honor in the 16&U division and alumni Audrey Cox for the 18&U division. Audrey graduated in May and is continuing her water polo career at Indiana University. A big congratulations to our Lady Dons! Sophomore Ella Del Rosario Goalie…