Mother Nature held off on her precipitation Saturday for the Acalanes freshman baseball team to begin their season with a doubleheader against the Tamalpais High School Red Hawks. The unproven saying that hitters always lag behind pitchers in the early spring would be a good description of the opening game. Branson Smith started for the Dons, and sat them down…
2023 CIF State Girls Basketball Championships Division I
The Acalanes Girls Lacrosse program has 50 players on the JV Lacrosse team. This amazing team has the new players playing in some weekday games but get their main playing time and a chance to develop on the “Saturday Squad.” On Saturday with most playing in their first organized Lacrosse game they beat the full JV team from Berkeley High…
In the second game of the NCS Open the Lady Dons defeated Heritage by a score of 77 to 38. Heritage finished the regular season 22-4 and was led by 6-4 UCLA commit and McDonalds All American Amanda Muse. The Lady Dons wasted no time in setting the tone with aggressive full court pressure. One could see from the start…
Instead of playing Mt. Tam at home on Friday as originally scheduled, the Dons traveled to Mill Valley on Saturday where the Frosh team split a double header last year. Although the team fell 5-1, what was even more disappointing was that there was no DJ, unlike last year when we heard classics such as the 80’s TV show theme…
They dealt with cold, wind, hail and rain and that was all before going out and beating Berkeley High School 18-0. The team played great once again with the assists, ground balls and scoring spread out amongst numerous players. Scoring was led by Emily Roberts once again as she scored five goals (also two loose balls controlled) and was helped…
It was another frigid night for Girls Varsity Lacrosse, but the Dons kept the heat on high, defeating Berkeley 17-6. The Dons managed to maintain possession of the ball for the majority of the game and picked up more and more momentum as the game went on. The flow of the game was interrupted by numerous Yellowjacket fouls, but that…
Wrestling has come to an end. With a young team we continue to expand the girls program and rebuild the boys. We sent 4 boys and 4 girls to NCS. Dakota Goyert and Anya HassHollenbeck made it to day 2 in the tournament. We look forward to big things from these two next year. Freshman Kiran Gracie, Bryce Birdsong, and…
The JV Lady Dons completely dominated their first game of the year against Granada High School 18-1 at Granada. The Dons raced out to a 9-0 lead in the first 11 minutes and never looked back. On this cold and windy evening the Dons controlled the ball in their end for about 47 minutes out of the 50 minute game.…
Welcome to the 2023 Acalanes JV Baseball season! Although many of you would have preferred that we make Acalanes Boosters history by having ChatGPT write all the articles this season, unfortunately you will all be stuck with the same person who brought you last year’s underwhelming frosh articles since the technology isn’t yet ready for prime time, and nobody else…
