Twenty student-athletes make up the 2023 Boys’ Varsity tennis team; eight are seniors. The first official practice was on February 13, and it didn’t take long to realize that many of the players improved considerably during the off-season. The players took that dedication, hard work, and passion and applied it to a very formidable Piedmont team on Thursday. The results…
Congratulations to the following 16 players who will be competing this Spring for Acalanes Boys Golf: Luke Dulik , Jake Elerts, Brody Greenfield, Luke Gregovich, James Hanzel, Jackson Jones, Nate Lyons, Gus McKinney, Jake Megibow , Zach Murdin, Chase Regan, Spencer Voogt, Jackson Voogt, Guoan Wang, Dane Wilcox, Simon Werner. Varsity players will be competing in their first tournament at Wente on…
Acalanes Frosh girls tied Clayton Valley in a hard-fought match on Saturday morning. Dons dominated the first half with multiple scoring attempts by #8 Nina Bundy and #18 Julia Lyons but it was #22 Charlotte Gellman who scored the only goal, ending the first half 1-0. In the second half, things were not going the Dons’ way with multiple off-side…
Playoff hoops! On Wednesday the Dons headed north to Benicia to take on the Panthers. Both teams got off to a bit of a slow start with Benicia on the board first with 2 drives and Jake Davis opening the Dons’ scoring with a FT. A 3 from Benicia got them off to a 7-1 lead and forced a timeout…
The Dons met Rancho Cotate High at home for their first NCS game. One goal in the first half ended up being the deciding goal of the game- Eli Roth’s cross from right corner delivered into the box where Riley Bonner put it away. The Dons got fired up the second half with 2 goals by Eli Roth, 1 by…
It’s the NCS Championships and the Dons are the top seed in the Division 2 playoff bracket with home field advantage. Acalanes hosted the Washington Huskies of Fremont Tuesday night. The Huskies employed an offside trap defense, catching the Dons off guard with early penalties. The strategy failed to take into account the speed and physicality of the Don forwards…
Saturday was a long arduous 14 hour tournament. Acalanes wrestlers persevered and 8 of our wrestlers moved on to NCS next week. Senior Hunter Goyert took 1st in the 140 bracket and went undefeated in league this year. Freshman Kirian Gracie took 4th place in the 115 bracket. Junior Dylan Potter took 4th and looked good in all his matches.…
First, much thanks to coach Thomas and Malm for their dedication, time and instruction! This year’s frosh team turned out to be tough, well organized and competitive. Thank you to the boys basketball team for all their hard work, dedication and an exciting season. It was awesome to see how the players grew over the past months and really came…
The JV Dons made the trek up the hill to face an outstanding Campolindo squad that came into this game 23-2 overall and 11-0 in league play. The Dons dropped the earlier meeting in Lafayette 40-64. Starters were Freshmen Gavin Dodge and Josh Elerts to go along with the Sophomore trio of JB Frolich, Drew McKenzie and Maddox Malm. The pace…
On Saturday the Dons traveled to Campolindo for their rescheduled battle with the Cougars. After many clashes with Campo over the years this one had a melancholy feel as it was the last league game for the many Dons seniors: Jake Davis who has started every available game of his HS career on varsity, Theo Stoll who is one of…