In a neighborly battle in Walnut Creek on Monday afternoon, the JV baseball squad jumped to a quick 5-0 lead in the top of the first inning and never looked back, defeating the Las Lomas Knights JV team, 9-3. All of those first inning runs were unearned. Austin McManamon then took the ball for the Dons and provided yet another…
The Dons looked polished today in a routine win over the Falcons. Most of the matches were won easily and we are about as ready as we can be for the Campolindo showdown on Thursday. Our only loss on the card was the match against the two top players, #1 Nick Owens and Dibyam Dikhit. Dikhit is a household name…
On March 8th, the CLAM district dive team (Campo, Las Lomas, Acalanes, and Miramonte) hosted their first meet of the season at Acalanes against Berkeley High. Dons divers Dakota Goyert, Teagan Frase, and Anya HaasHollenbeck had an impressive start. Frase secured second place for the JV Team with a score of 157.5, only 4 points behind the first-place winner. Goyert…
The Varsity Baseball team continued their winning ways on Monday against the Las Lomas Knights with a 10-4 win that pushed their impressive record to 6-0. The campus was buzzing with a Varsity Baseball came against a local rival and a Varsity Softball game against a league foe going on simultaneously. Both teams were victorious. It was a great day…
Playing in their first league game of the season, the Acalanes Varsity Softball team came out with a purpose as the Dons defeated the Concord Bears 14-3 on Monday afternoon. The game was moved up to Monday to avoid the predicted rain on Tuesday and the Dons swung the bats early and often to score 4 runs in the first…
Last year, we trekked out to South San Francisco to play the Tigers. It was our first loss last season and the 3-3 tie was decided by a close and controversial line call on match point. Fast forward to earlier today when this year we hosted Lick-Wilmerding. We were without our #1 player Nick Owens, but that didn’t stop the…
On a beautiful Friday evening at home and the day after International Women’s Day Acalanes Running Lady JV Dons made a major local statement by beating Northgate 19 to 0. They represented the women of the world admirably! These young lady Dons played all 37 players in a game that was not in doubt after the first five minutes. This…
On opposite sides of the country the track and field team represented Acalanes well over the weekend with exciting runs, jumps and throws from coast-to-coast. At the Marsh Creek Invitational top finishers included: Boys– 1st place 4×100 varsity relay (Littlejohn, Roger, Glick, Kuhner) with a season best 42.89 1st place 4×100 frosh soph relay (Rivera, Krick, Kaplans Jones, Schwarz) also…
Apologies for the delay in this report! Would you believe me if I said “my dog ate my notes that I wrote up Friday night?” I promise that’s what happened! It could NOT have been a more beautiful day on Friday, March 8 as Acalanes prepared to take on a very strong Northgate team at their home pool. It was…
The Acalanes Softball Varsity Dons hosted the Mt. Eden Monarchs on Thursday and played a close game for the first three innings until the game got away later in the game. The Dons preseason schedule has been challenge facing larger D1 programs to get them ready for league play, which starts this week with home games against Concord on Monday…