Acalanes Track & Field hosts Miramonte this Wednesday, March 30th @ 3.30p! Come out and support the DONS before Spring Break! This past Tuesday, we hosted Northgate for our 3rd dual meet. The Broncos have historically been some of our toughest competition, but spirited performances in all events lifted the Dons to resounding victories of 82-53 (girls) and 97-24 (boys)!…
Before Tuesday, it had been several years since an Acalanes Varsity pitcher threw a complete game shutout. On Saturday, Ethan Rowland (sr) became the second Don of the week to do so. Before the game started, the team learned that planned reliever Dante Montgomery (sr) had injured a finger on his throwing hand and wouldn’t be able to pitch, so…
The Acalanes Freshman baseball team split their doubleheader versus Las Lomas High School, winning game 1 by a score of 13-6 and losing game 2 by a score of 9-7. In game 1, the team continued the momentum from the sweep last weekend against Las Lomas, recording a season high 17 hits. On offense, Cruz Lopez set the tone early, hitting a leadoff triple to begin the game. The hit parade kept coming as Cruz, Ben Pecci, David Gonzales, David Roux, Austin Wampler,…
The JV boys continued their great early season success with straight-set victories over Monte Vista, Northgate, and De Anza after enduring their first loss of the season to rival Campo in a thrilling three-set match. The Dons continued to deliver outstanding serves from a variety of players and backed it up with solid all-around play to cruise to the three…
Still unbeaten in 2022 and having just shut out Northgate on the road, the JV Dons returned home to face the formidable Monte Vista Mustangs on a pleasantly warm Saturday. Using the same proven recipe of stellar pitching, suffocating defense, and pouring it on against relievers late, Dons got almost the same result, a rock solid shutout win. James Stadt…
Well the JV lady lacrosse players made it 8 wins in a row by beating a very good Granada Team who had only one loss prior to being thrashed by the Dons 10 to 2 on Friday night. In an incredibly physical game Acalanes out toughed , out hustled, out played and outscored Granada. The Dons were led by multiple…
Lady Dons won big over Deer Valley Varsity Wolverines 8-2 on Thursday. Deer Valley Wolverines got things started in the first inning. An error scored one run for Deer Valley Varsity Wolverines. Hailey Stripling led things off in the circle for Lady Dons. Stripling lasted seven innings, allowing three hits and two runs while striking out seven. WOW! Tess Gundacker led Lady…
The Dons came to Concord, CA ready to battle the Spartans of De La Salle. Stunning serves by Joe T. and Big Ben W. helped to put the Dons in the lead while perfectly placed passes by Jack and Ben Jo paved the way for Trey’s sweet sets to Brendan for a kill and to Isaac & Rohan for some…
The Boys’ Varsity tennis team faced an extremely solid Miramonte squad on Thursday. Though we lost overall 1-8, many of the scores reflect some very tough battles. The boys did not go down without a respectable fight. Our one standout match was the #2 doubles line, which was an impressive victory by Matthew Muren and Aaron Brown. They both served, returned, and volleyed…
There was a good turn-out, on a beautiful afternoon, at Souza field on Tuesday. Several of last year’s Varsity seniors were on hand and even Principal Shawn came to check out the streaking Dons squad. Having been blanked in the first game of the series, the Northgate Broncos revealed they were going to play aggressively right from the start. Their aggressive play paid off as they went up 2-0 in the 3rd inning. However, with two runners on…
