Saturday, February 3, 2024Record: 22-4 “We are going to Disneyland.” Stated versatile forward Spencer Clark. Spencer, who often goes by the nickname Bee-Rabbit in the Lafayette music community, had promised his teammates a trip to Anaheim if they could beat his mother’s alma mater, Bishop O’Dowd. Sadly, the Disneyland adventure will have to wait. The Dons lost to Jennifer Montague’s…
Congrats to JV Boys Soccer who won their game 3-1 against Miramonte last week! Scoring highlights: #19 Solera (#12 Lara), #19 Solera (PK) and #19 Solera (#21 Roberts). They also played great against Ygnacio Valley and deserved a better result, but ended 0-2. Next up is at Northgate Tuesday Feb 6th at 5pm and then their final game at HOME…
The Acalanes boys soccer team took on the Ygnacio Valley Wolves on Thursday at home. The first half followed a familiar script as the Dons controlled the ball with crisp passing and aggressive defense but couldn’t punch in a goal and both teams left the pitch scoreless at the break. The second half started no differently as the clock ticked under 30…
One of the exciting things about going to a sporting event, at any level, is you never know what you might see. Sometimes you get lucky and something magical might happen right before your eyes that you will remember for a lifetime. Friday night was the Regular Season Finale and Senior Night for the Dons who hosted Mt. Diablo (2-21,…
The last time I wrote about an Acalanes team playing a Redwood team was last year’s JV football matchup. Not surprisingly, the theme for the article was trees. Although it would be “tree”-mendously easy to repeat the theme or get “sap”-py as the season is coming to a close, I think I will just jump right into the game. Redwood,…
The Acalanes girls Frosh/Soph team’s second weekday game on Tuesday, January 30th against Miramonte started with a big battle in the midfield and a nice save by Don’s keeper Amelia Riley (#3). Shortly after, the Dons win a corner and winger Svea Staino (#14) ripped it in with a scramble that almost led to a goal. Then midfielder Kate Beaver…
We are grateful Coach Paul Curtis and his coaching staff require Freshman, Junior Varsity and Varsity teams to serve our Bay Area communities. Last Saturday, January 27th, all 3 soccer teams spent 3 hours at the Bay Area Rescue Mission in Richmond with the partnership of Project Peace East Bay. This homeless shelter welcomed the Dons to clean, paint, organize…
On yet another rainy winter night (what is this Groundhog Day?), the Dons travelled crosstown to face the Northgate Broncos (15-9, 6-4) in a must win game for the Dons to preserve a chance of getting an NCS berth, more on that later. Dons opened the scoring with a Cameron Hood corner three and were down 7-6 midway through the…
Wednesday January 31, 2024Record: 21-3 “We are going to beat you.” Declared Northgate Cheerleader, Grace. Grace, who is a close friend of the Dodge and Clark families, left with a broken heart. The young Dons have made it a habit of breaking opposing fans’ heart. By beating the Northgate Broncos 62-60, the Dons finished the Diablo Athletic League with a…
The JV Girls soccer team cruised to 8-0 victory over the Ygnacio Valley Wolves on Thursday. This one was never in question, which led to the girls passing the ball around most of the game. After getting some comments about using ChatGPT for the last article, I tried to go back to the well and queried “soccer not allowed to…
