Friday, December 22, 2023Record: 8-2 Christmas came early for Coaches Eric Thomas and Matt Thomas. The Junior Varsity basketball team gifted the brothers a season high 82 points in their victory over the Concord Minutemen. The win improved the young Dons to 8-2 for the season. The Dons love to start each game with a Lorenzo Cangini three pointer, and…
After a grueling finals week before the winter break, the Las Lomas Women’s Varsity traveled across town to the Dons’ home pitch for a much anticipated match up. From the start it was non-stop high level play from the very talented Knights. That said, Acalanes showed up ready to fight, and seemed almost unphased after Las Lomas scored a goal…
Twas two nights before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was scoring, not a Knight or a mouse. The stockings and shinguards were put on with care, in hopes that a victory would soon be there. When late on the field there arose such a clatter, The Dons scored again and the rest didn’t matter! As they…
The 3-6 Dons (ranked 98th in the MaxPreps SF Metro rankings) took up arms against the Concord Minutemen (2-9, ranked 209th) in a Diablo League Friday night matchup. This was a nice break from finals and all the last minute holiday craziness on the streets and in stores. It took less than a minute for the Dons to jump all…
Las Lomas means “The Hills” in Spanish. Last year, when my son played the other type of football against Las Lomas, I connected the translation to reality shows. Although tempting to just cut and paste that introduction since I am pretty sure none of you would have read that article, a top notch journalist like myself, who just found out…
The Frosh soccer boys completed a busy couple weeks with De La Salle on Dec 14th and Northgate on Dec 16th. The Dons had an exciting match against De La Salle, taking them to the final minute of play before relinquishing the match 0-2. The boys tied 0-0 against Northgate, while again controlling the match, just unable to find the…
Following a couple of wins in their first two league games, the Dons boys soccer club travelled to De La Salle on Saturday for a morning match against Sequoia High from Redwood City in the DLS Soccer Showcase. After a back-and-forth 1st half that did not produce a goal, the Dons once again opened the scoring about 10 minutes into the 2nd…
The freshman Dons win their second game in a row outscoring the Rodriguez Mustangs 68-35. Before we get started we’d like to welcome Finn Rivera to the team after traveling with Varsity Football to Southern California where they won the Division 3AA State Championship against Birmingham. Congrats again Varsity Dons!! Finn contributed 11 points in his debut basketball game, great…
The Acalanes Frosh/Soph team is on a 5-game win streak, with a 3-2 victory over Clayton Valley on a surprisingly sunny Saturday afternoon. The Dons controlled the game from the start with slick passing and lots of 1-2’s. Any early chances for the Ugly Eagles were shut down by keeper Lily Cervenka (#1) and solid play out the back from…
Saturday the girls played in the Recognize Game Classic at Merritt College. The opponent was a highly regarded Caruthers team from the Fresno area. Thanks to intense full court pressure the Lady Dons jumped all over Caruthers early setting the tone for the game. It was 23 to 9 after 1. The lead stretched to 18 at the half and…
