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…
The Varsity Softball team traveled to Concord last Thursday and won big with a 19-7 victory to improve their record to 12-4 and go to 4-1 in league play. The Dons are now on a five game winning streak and undefeated in April as we head into the last 6 games of the regular season. The Dons got things going…
The JV Lady Lax team just completed three more victories with blow outs over Northgate, Berkeley and Campolindo during the past week. None of the games were close and these running lady Dons continue to easily defeat every opponent that plays them. These games were clinics by the Dons of how to play lacrosse. Anyone watching their games saw the…
On a beautiful Friday night Acalanes took on Las Lomas on their home field donning colorful socks for the Matt Lynn Memorial Game. The Knights came out hot and scored 2 quick goals against the Dons. But after settling in after the first few minutes, the Don’s offense gained steam with Griffin Rotundo scoring the first goal of the…
In the second of two games against Campo this season, the Dons were hoping for a better showing than their first match up earlier in the season and to play spoiler for Campo’s Senior Night. The good news is that the Dons looked much stronger than the first match up and played with heart all game long, but the bad…