This Saturday, the Freshman Volleyball Team participated in the Stockton Classic Invitational, finishing an impressive 6th out of 16 – the highest rank of any of the participating public school teams. They started out the morning breezily winning their first set 2-0. In round two, their skills were no match for the tournament’s dominant team, and they lost 0-2. In…
The Acalanes JV made the long trip to Seaside to take on the Marina High School Mariners on Saturday. Marina is a newer high school that has only one football team. They are loaded with juniors and seniors and were also undefeated, before Saturday. As usual, the coaches had the boys ready to play. The scoring started early when quarterback Jake Boselli threw a 50 yard…
It was definitely our game to win. We beat ourselves. The Varsity Football team lost a gut wrenching game on Friday night on their home field to the Damonte Ranch Mustangs, who were visiting all the way from Reno Nevada. The contest went back and forth all night, and it seemed that whomever had the ball last would end…
The Acalanes Freshmen played their hearts out against a bigger, stronger California High team, but came up just short on the scoreboard losing 16-14. It was an exciting game from start to finish and the young Dons have a lot to be proud of! Acalanes’ dynamic offense moved the ball up and down the field throughout the first half but…
Last Saturday the Acalanes Girls Volleyball team traveled to Sonoma Valley High School for a one day tourney with 20 teams. The day began with a flag and commemorative ceremony with a large contingent of first responders in attendance to honor 9/11/ In the first game against the host Sonoma Valley High School, junior Katelyn Olin killed an overpass to…
The first set started off with a bomb kill by middle hitter Tea Smith who followed it up with 3 serves in a row. At 9-5 outside hitter Sophie Walker hit a monster kill that lead to the serving streak of the night with setter Eva McGrath serving for 10 points in a row. 1st set down 25-8.The pirates were…
Freshman Girls Volleyball dominated in their pre-season game against Pittsburg, winning in two consecutive sets. In the first set, libero Fiona Roux and hitters Mimi Maycock, Emme Cain, Addy Ames and Addie McShane helped the Dons keep a wide lead. Both Grace Gallacher and Megan Churchill tipped the ball over the net to gain advantage. Most impressive was the Dons’ serving, with aces from Liza Gulberg, LilyMcKinney and Emma Seelenbacher. Emma had an amazing 13 consecutive serves including 8…
Stanley Middle School has 545 students. Marina High School has 587 students. Acalanes has 1384 students. Some cool numerical trivia before the Dons head out on Saturday to play the Marina Mariners with a 2pm kick off. 33 students of the 587 play Marina JV football. Those 33 Mariners will face 44 Dons football players. Marina’s record is 1-0 and…
Balboa won the toss and elected to differ to get the ball first after halftime. After their kicker put the ball in the end zone for a touchback. The Acalanes offense took the ball on the 20 yard line. Acalanes Starting QB this week was left hander, Sully Bailey – Who ran a quick pitch to Speedster Paul Kuhner towards…
Varsity Dons 56 Balboa Buccaneers 0 JV Dons 52 Balboa Buccaneers 0 A big thank you to the Acalanes Pep Band for adding a level of excitement to the game Friday night and contributing to the high-energy atmosphere of high school football. You made a big difference! From blasting the Fight Song-Let’s Go Dons! when Acalanes made touchdowns, the band…
