#13 Tommy Terhar ran for 149 yards on 9 carries. The Dons JV Football Team, winners of two in a row, hit the road once again to face the Vallejo High School Redhawks for the last preseason game of the season. #10 Illias Kaplanes-Jones receives the opening kickoff and makes a nice return up the left side to set up…
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…
Dons JV Shows Improvement in All Facets of the Game, but The San Ramon Valley Wolves Prove Too Much to Overcome. The Dons JV Football Team welcomes the San Ramon Valley (SRV) Wolves to our new football field for a brisk September home game. #9 Santi Vignoles kicks off for the Dons to start the game with a nice boot…
The Dons JV Football Team begins the 2023 season with a road trip to San Marin High School to take on the Mustangs on their home turf. After the captains exchange handshakes at midfield, the Dons win the coin toss and defer the ball to the second half. A good kickoff by #9, Santi Vignoles, opens the season for the…
The Dons JV football team enjoyed a special end of the season party at the home of Will Roberts and his parents’ Matt and Katie. Coaches Randy Henderson, Bill Frazier and Francisco Trejo presented gifts to Team Mom’s Gina McKenzie and Kristie Darin, and Gina and Kristie returned the favor with gifts to the coaches from all of the JV…
A cliché is a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought. Sports clichés such as he is a “team player” or she gives “110 percent” are commonly used both in sports and in business. Another, “Football is Family”, was on full display in the JV Football season finale against the Northgate Broncos as the family grew…
The Acalanes Dons JV football team had not lost to the Miramonte Matadors since November 4, 2016. Nearly 6 years later, with a first down on the Mats 34-yard line, a 28-15 lead, and 3 minutes and 27 seconds left in the game, the Dons were probably confident that they would be able to keep the winning streak going. In…
A White Elephant gift exchange is a holiday tradition where participants vie to walk away with the best present by either picking a wrapped gift or taking a previous participant’s unwrapped gift. The game between the Acalanes and Benicia JV football teams seemed to follow a similar format given the number of gifts exchanged in the form of penalties, fumbles,…
A pun is a joke exploiting the possible different meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings, such as when a kid says “I need some new jeans” and the parent responds “Why? You don’t like the great genes I gave you?” So why the theme of puns on a…
The first reality TV show, “America’s Candid Camera”, aired in 1948. Reality TV emerged as a distinct genre in the early 1990s with MTV’s “The Real World” followed by shows such as “Survivor”, “American Idol”, and the “Bachelor”. In football, there is HBO’s “Hard Knocks” which follows NFL teams through training camp, and of course “Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders: Making the Team” which…