On a beautiful night for football, the Dons took on the College Park Falcons on Friday. It was all gas and no break for the boys in white entering the Falcons home opener. The Dons exercised the demons from their early season losses and showed why they are still ranked #2 in Division 4 football. The YAC (yards after catch) Brothers where…
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…
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…
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…
The Freshman Dons took on Livermore High School last Thursday and walked away with their fourth straight WIN! And if winning wasn’t enough, the Dons shutout Livermore 40-0 — Let’s GOOOOO!!! The Acalanes offense powered through Livermore’s porous defense and scored 40 unreturned points. QB Tyler Winkles had teammates ready to put points up for the Dons! Offensive standouts for…
On Thursday the Varsity Girls Tennis team traveled the short distance to Moraga to take on a tough Campolindo Cougar team. There were a couple of very tight matches, but the Dons fell short on winning the overall match with a 3-6 score (note: 6 singles and 3 doubles play in normal league matches). In singles play, Line 3 Grace…
Hi everyone, I’m sending this email as the women’s volleyball coach trying to enlist the community to help us with our goal. As many of you may have seen through social media and the news, the University of Nebraska’s volleyball team just set an attendance record for a female athletic event a few weeks ago at 92,0003 fans. While we…
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…
The boys in blue performed valiantly on Friday night in Lafayette against another powerhouse team, the Amador Valley Dons. The stands were full on both sides on a warm September evening. The Acalanes Dons took the opening kickoff and marched down the field with a methodical drive that concluded with a touchdown pass from quarterback Sully Bailey to wide receiver Henry…
On Friday, the Girls Varsity Tennis team travelled to Union City for a 12 team tournament at James Logan High School. The team had a challenging match in the morning against San Ramon Valley, who appeared to be the strongest team in the field, but bounced back in the afternoon against Berkeley. Olivia Dawkins, Lauren Foster, Hanna Wisnewski, and Liv…