The Varsity Baseball team handily beat the Vintage Crushers in the Championship game of the Concord Classic 7-1 on Wednesday to push their impressive record to 14-0. According to approximately 20 years of Max Preps data and after consulting with local Acalanes historians, this appears to be the greatest start for any Acalanes Varsity Baseball team in the history of…
The Varsity Baseball team stayed smoking hot with a tidy 7-2 win against the San Leandro Pirates on a beautiful Monday for baseball. The win puts the Dons in the Championship game of the Concord Classic Wednesday at 4:30pm at Concord High School against the Vintage Crushers. Coach Hornsby has his squad playing hard nosed, efficient baseball every time they…
The Varsity Baseball team kicked off their first game of the Concord Classic with a 6-4 extra inning win over the Antioch Panthers at Concord High School on Saturday. It pushed their record to 12-0 and advanced the Dons to play the San Leandro Pirates in the 2nd round of the tournament on Monday. Sometimes your future is so bright…
The Varsity Baseball team took on one of their local rivals on Thursday at home and walked away with a tight 1-0 win to push their undefeated record to 11-0. Senior hurler Peter Thorn threw a complete game no hitter with some absolutely filthy pitches that had Matador hitters guessing all game. He gave up no hits, a walk, a…
The Varsity Baseball team posted another workman like victory against the Pinole Valley Spartans on Tuesday in Lafayette to push their record to 10-0. Ken Souza Field has never looked better. The grass had just been cut, the skies were blue and the boys continued their winning ways. Fans are turning out in record numbers to see this impressive club…
There was so much scoring in Pinole on Tuesday afternoon that one might think that they were in Panama City Beach or South Padre Island in the middle of March, not on an all-dirt infield between the Pinole Dog Park and the Pinole Skate Park. It seems that the scenic batter’s eye of trees on a mountain past center field…
The Dons didn’t know what to think when they suddenly were looking up from a 2-run deficit after just one-half inning Monday afternoon at Ken Souza Field. No one will admit to taking the visitors from Walnut Creek lightly, but they do own a 11-0 loss to Miramonte this season and entered the game 0-3 in their league play. With…
Moments before first pitch, Coach Jim Burleigh was summoned by the opposing dugout to put a stop to some extracurricular activities in the visitors’ stands. Double checking that there was a stout tall chain link fence between him and the offending fans, he then strode over with the swagger of Dirty Harry to the squabble, ready to eject a couple…
The Varsity Baseball team headed to San Leandro on Thursday to take on the San Leandro Pirates. The boys came away with a hard fought 6-1 win to push their impressive record to 9-0 for the season. Junior Jake Colaco started on the hill for the Dons and went 3 scoreless innings, giving up a hit, a walk and striking…
The Varsity Baseball team notched another win on Wednesday on a warm Spring afternoon in Lafayette. The boys improved their record to 8-0 with a runaway victory over the Piedmont Highlanders in front of another lively home crowd. The student turnout has been outstanding! The Dons offense kicked in after Piedmont tied the game at 1-1 in the top of…