After blowing out Concord and Campolindo last week, the Varsity Softball team dropped a nonconference tilt against the D1 Monte Vista Mustangs 12-2 on Monday. The full moon brought outsome interesting umpiring escapades, but in the end it just wasn’t meant to be. Senior Lana Cerejo got the start in the circle and went 3 innings, giving up 3 hits,…
Strong Pitching Performances at Home by Martin and Michlitsch and a Hot Winkles Bat Help Beat Panthers 6-5. After an afternoon on the breezy banks of the Carquinez Strait on Tuesday, in a contest that can be called nothing but Diamond Welfare, the Dons needed a bounce back win back at home on Thursday against the same Panthers from Benicia.…
On Thursday afternoon, the Dons Varsity swim team took a bus to Campolindo High School for the Diablo Athletic League Championship Swim Meet. Swimmers from all 13 DAL schools were there to compete in this season-ending meet! Yesterday was the preliminary races, with the top 24 qualifying for the A/B/C finals on Saturday morning. The 200 Medley Relays started off…
The Varsity Baseball team lost to Benicia on Tuesday, 8-1. The boys suffered their first home loss of the season. Jake Colaco started on the mound for the Dons and lasted 1.2 innings before he was relieved by Branson Smith. Branson went 2.1 innings and gave up 4 hits, a walk and a run in his 9th appearance of the…
On Tuesday night the JV Boys team finally got to play a regular 10v10 game! Admittedly, to those in the stands, it looked like there were a lot of players on the field… we had gotten a bit used to watching 7v7 matches. Acalanes looked very comfortable in this regular formation and dominated the game from beginning to end, despite…
On an unseasonably cool April evening Tuesday night the Acalanes boy’s varsity lacrosse team took on College Park in their last home game of the season. The game got off to a fast start with a goal from Simon Appel followed quickly by another from Brody Darin. College Park retaliated with their first goal at the end of the first…
On Friday, April 19th the Dons continued their strong play beating Campolindo 213 to 236. The team was led by junior Maddox Malm posting a 40 followed by junior Brody Greenfield at 42 and freshman Grant Gebhardt at 43. Also playing for the Dons were freshmen Rocco Stassi, Isaac Topp, and Owen Curley. This Friday is the season’s final match…
It was a sunny Monday afternoon when the JV Ladies Lacrosse team traveled to Carondelet’s field to face the power house Carondelet Girls Lacrosse team. The Lady Dons were fresh off their massive victory over Campolindo on Friday night and were feeling pretty good about their chances in this game against Carondelet. Heck they had not lost yet and did…
Leave it to Mother Nature to wait until we schedule our senior night so she can drop the temperature and turn up the wind. However, it didn’t stop us from having our fun at this season’s last league match. The contest would have been perfect if our top players Owens and Eagens could have got the wins as well, but…
After beating the College Park Falcons last Thursday, the JV baseball team took to the road to ground another flying foe, this time taking down the Falcons of Pleasanton’s Foothill High. Before any of the spectators even had time to wonder how many fly balls the left fielders would lose in the evening sun, the Dons struck for 3 runs…
