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…
The Varsity Girls Lacrosse team ran into a buzzsaw on Monday night as they took on the Cougars from Carondelet and fell 17-3. The Cougars were fast and had great stick skills and ball movement. After getting down early, the Dons fought back. The defense, led by Avery Ives, Kelly Todhunter, Claire Zimmerman, and Jasmine Frost who replaced the injured…
This team found themselves in unfamiliar territory on Friday night as they entered halftime behind on the scoreboard. From the beginning, the JV Dons seemed to be a little caught off guard. Acalanes sent out the normal 10 starters to midfield to start the game, but Las Lomas only sent 7. As the referee asked the coaches for clarification, the…
Brady Wall knew it was coming. No one wanting to sit next to him on the bench. No one saying much about how he was lining up College Park batters and sending them back to the dugout shaking their heads. After being snakebit in successive bottom-of-the-seventh walk off loses, the Dons needed the stellar performance on the mound that Wall…