On March 8th, the CLAM district dive team (Campo, Las Lomas, Acalanes, and Miramonte) hosted their first meet of the season at Acalanes against Berkeley High. Dons divers Dakota Goyert, Teagan Frase, and Anya HaasHollenbeck had an impressive start. Frase secured second place for the JV Team with a score of 157.5, only 4 points behind the first-place winner. Goyert…
The Varsity Baseball team continued their winning ways on Monday against the Las Lomas Knights with a 10-4 win that pushed their impressive record to 6-0. The campus was buzzing with a Varsity Baseball came against a local rival and a Varsity Softball game against a league foe going on simultaneously. Both teams were victorious. It was a great day…
Playing in their first league game of the season, the Acalanes Varsity Softball team came out with a purpose as the Dons defeated the Concord Bears 14-3 on Monday afternoon. The game was moved up to Monday to avoid the predicted rain on Tuesday and the Dons swung the bats early and often to score 4 runs in the first…
Last year, we trekked out to South San Francisco to play the Tigers. It was our first loss last season and the 3-3 tie was decided by a close and controversial line call on match point. Fast forward to earlier today when this year we hosted Lick-Wilmerding. We were without our #1 player Nick Owens, but that didn’t stop the…
On a beautiful Friday evening at home and the day after International Women’s Day Acalanes Running Lady JV Dons made a major local statement by beating Northgate 19 to 0. They represented the women of the world admirably! These young lady Dons played all 37 players in a game that was not in doubt after the first five minutes. This…
On opposite sides of the country the track and field team represented Acalanes well over the weekend with exciting runs, jumps and throws from coast-to-coast. At the Marsh Creek Invitational top finishers included: Boys– 1st place 4×100 varsity relay (Littlejohn, Roger, Glick, Kuhner) with a season best 42.89 1st place 4×100 frosh soph relay (Rivera, Krick, Kaplans Jones, Schwarz) also…
Apologies for the delay in this report! Would you believe me if I said “my dog ate my notes that I wrote up Friday night?” I promise that’s what happened! It could NOT have been a more beautiful day on Friday, March 8 as Acalanes prepared to take on a very strong Northgate team at their home pool. It was…
The Acalanes Softball Varsity Dons hosted the Mt. Eden Monarchs on Thursday and played a close game for the first three innings until the game got away later in the game. The Dons preseason schedule has been challenge facing larger D1 programs to get them ready for league play, which starts this week with home games against Concord on Monday…
Lacrosse History: In 1881 the first intercollegiate tournament took place on the Polo Grounds in New York. In the final match of the tournament Harvard beat Princeton 3-0. In 1904 lacrosse is played in the Olympics. In the championship match Canada defeats the USA. On Friday March 8th the Dons travelled to Northgate HS for their first League match. Lacrosse…
This past Wednesday, 8 JV players traveled to the Bridges Golf Club in San Ramon to compete amongst 18 Bay Area teams in the Grizzly High School Classic. Lightning storms ended the day early allowing only 14 holes of competition but the Dons managed to finish 7th overall despite the tough conditions. The team was led by Freshmen Rocco Stassi…