After a tough late-game loss to Damonte Ranch, the Dons Football team came out of their BYE week with purpose and the whole ACA community behind them. The team was fired up and ready to go, facing the Castlemont Knights from the OAL league with the stands packed to capacity and the homecoming crowd whipped into a frenzy. After a…
The JV Don’s continued to roll this week shutting out Castlemont High School with the score of 56 to 0. What a great way to cap off a amazing Homecoming Week! Everyone was wondering if the opposing team was even going to show up at first – Game time was scheduled for a 4:30 start, but because of a transportation…
The slant pass from quarterback DAVID GONZALES to wide receiver JB FROLICH has been a good play for the Dons this year. Against Heritage it was a great play as Acalanes rolled to a 26-0 halftime lead and beat Heritage by a final score of 38-26. GONZALES repeatedly found FROLICH on the slant in the first quarter and two times…
On behalf of Acalanes Football, we thank the extraordinary excitement and enthusiasm from all the Don fans for the Homecoming game and week, including the Acalanes Pep Band, Cheerleaders and especially Mrs. Walton, school administration leaders, 17 class officers, 6 ASB Officers and 80 leadership students and many parent volunteers for an incrediBLUE week! This year’s homecoming was like no…
The Dons took care of business against Monte Vista winning by a score of 28-14. JAKE COLACO got his first start at quarterback and seemed comfortable immediately. COLACO threw two touchdown passes both to NIKO WHITE. WHITE AND KEEGAN GODDARD ran up and down the field all game long with WHITE finishing with 166 all purpose yards and GODDARD with…
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…
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…
Acalanes moved up one spot in this week’s San Jose Mercury News/East Bay Times Rankings to #14 just two spots below league favorite Benicia. The Dons face Damonte Ranch of Reno, Nevada this week, then a BYE, Homecoming vs Castlemont, then top 25 ranked Las Lomas on October 8, followed by rival Campolindo, and a big showdown with Benicia at…
