The Acalanes Girls Varsity Lacrosse team delivered a commanding performance Tuesday night, defeating the Berkeley Yellow Jackets 19-8 in a well-rounded team effort. Offensively, the Dons were firing on all cylinders. Meaghan Churchill and Catalina Liu each netted 4 goals, leading the scoring charge. Grace Colaco and Campbell Evans added 3 goals apiece, while Reese Imrie tallied 2. Christina Hageboeck…
The Dons faced their crosstown rival Campolindo Cougars on Tuesday evening at Acalanes. The game began with a moment of silence for Dons’ student-athlete Amin Noroozi, who tragically passed away last week. At the start of the game the Dons showed some rust with Campolindo’s defense applying significant pressure in the first and second quarters. This disrupted many passes and…
Miramonte hosted Acalanes today, and it was another rough day at the office for the Dons. Though several of the matches were very close, it felt like the wins were slipping through our fingers. The boys put up a valiant fight and both teams were pretty vocal from the sidelines, but we did fall short in the end. The Dons…
The varsity Dons lost a close 7-6 battle to the Piedmont Highlanders on Thursday to drop their season record to 8-4. They were missing star senior center fielder Emme Young as the squad narrowly lost a back and forth, cliff hanger of a game. The girls came out strong in the first inning to take an early 2-0 lead. Sophomore…
Today was an extremely tough day for the team. After suffering our worse loss of the season, we were then given the tragic news about the passing of an Acalanes classmate, Amin Noroozi. Though I did not personally know Amin, fellow school staff members have told me only amazing stories about him as not only a student, friend and citizen…
It was a cold and windy day, a day you had to fight hard to find success, and in Amin’s honor that is exactly what the team did, the girls beating Northgate 81-53 and the boys winning 91-44. The girls and boys 4×100 relay teams started the meet with victories and Amin’s throwing brothers completed the ‘Amin Sweep’, a 1-2-3…
The team traveled to Pleasant Hill to take on the always tough College Park Falcons on Tuesday. The Falcons came out swinging and scored three runs in their half of the first inning to take an early 3-0 lead. The Dons came back with two runs in the top of the third inning to tighten the game at 3-2, thanks…
If we had to venture across town, at least it was for some good swimming! The Dons were looking to get back into shape as the season winds down with three weeks left! Facing the Cougars at Campolindo High School last Friday, there were a lot of solid swims put forth by our Dons! The Varsity Medley Relays both put…
Acalanes Varsity Boys Golf took on the undefeated and reigning league champions Campolindo in perfect spring weather at Contra Costa County Club earlier this week. The young Dons pulled off the upset with a late comeback after trailing earlier in the match. In the last group, Grant Gebhardt (So) shot a team season low -3 (33) and Krish Veluthakkal (Fr)…
The Lady Dons faced a solid opponent last night, as the sun set over a bucolic Piedmont lacrosse field. “Where are all the weeds?” asked a visiting spectator. I don’t think they’re allowed on those 15 square miles of earth. Here are the quick stats: · Persephone (#76) – 4 saves · Chloe (#65) – 3 saves · Talia (#47) – 6 for…