In their last regular season match before the DAL Championship, the Lady Don golfers put on an exhibition, beating Campo by 44 strokes, 227-271. The Lady Dons will enter the league championship match (to be held on October 17 at Contra Costa Country Club, home of the Dons) in first place with a 6-1 record in DAL, 7-1 overall. Haley…
It has been said that there are three parts to a high school football season. The five games before league games start, the five league games, and, hopefully, the playoffs. Many schools choose to schedule easy games during the pre-league schedule, especially in leagues that are very competitive, like the DAL Foothill. However, this was not the case with our…
Acalanes Ladies Varsity Volleyball: Dons knocked out the Knights! Last Thursday evening 9/29, the Dons hosted the Las Lomas Knights at Acalanes. A couple fun facts about this match up: Coach Haley is an alumni of our competitor, Las Lomas…AND, 9/29/22 marked Haley’s 25th Birthday! The Dons did their best to make it a happy one from the start of…
Acalanes Mens JV Water Polo went into the brutal game Thursday knowing the odds would not be in their favor against the 44 deep Miramonte Water Polo lineup (Acalanes has just 12 JV players this year, 8 of whom are Freshmen without prior playing experience) And as expected, the Dons lost. But what Miramonte did NOT expect was the fierce…
The Acalanes JV football team was planning to play one quarter against the Oakland Varsity team on Friday. If that had been the case, the team would have only played one full game and a total of 50 minutes of football over 50,400 total minutes from the end of the Bishop O’Dowd game on September 2 until kickoff against Las…
The Acalanes men’s water polo team hosted the defending North Coast champion Miramonte at the ‘Beast’ Thursday night. The first half was an absolute battle and the crowd was the loudest it has been in years! The waves of players Miramonte threw at the Don’s in the end was just too much! Shout out to Harrison ( the wall) Labrosse…
9/29 The JV team played hard but suffered a tough loss against Miramonte. The final score was Acalanes 1 – Miramonte 12. Jenny Haugner scored the only goal for Acalanes. Goalkeeper Hanna Mirzai kept very busy making 10 amazing blocks. The previous evening the Bundy family generously opened their home for a team pasta feed. The JV team next plays…
Girls Water Polo The undefeated and Nationally ranked powerhouse, Miramonte Matadors visited the Heaston Aquatic Center for the first game of two DAL matches this season. The Mats have rolled through every team they’ve played this year with an average margin of victory of 7 goals. Featuring a talented roster full of D1 recruits, the Dons had the toughest test…
With the big game looming Thursday vs Miramonte, the senior laden team led a focused attack against Berkeley High Wednesday at the ‘Beast’! The Dons kept the pedal to the metal until time expired coming out on top 20-9! Special shout out for senior Tommy Gallagher doing some good work setting hole! Also, Andrew Sappal hit Austin Bishop with a…
JV Girls Tennis is off to a great start this season! We had a large number of girls try out and have a strong roster of 26 Freshman, Sophomores and Juniors making up the team this year. At this week’s match against Miramonte, the team had a great performance winning the top 2 Lines of singles and top 4 Lines…