STOCKTON — Then there were eight. Thursday, 31 El Dorado County wrestlers from Golden Sierra High, Oak Ridge, Ponderosa and Union Mine competed in the Sac-Joaquin Section Masters Tournament at the Stockton Arena. Friday, eight advanced to next weekend’s CIF State Championships by placing in the top seven in their respective weight classes, the cutoff to reach [...]
Mike Sundby was honored for more than 10 years of excellent community service and coaching, first at Marina Village and then with the El Dorado Hills Wrestling Club. Since 2000, Sundby has given starts to the careers of many Oak Ridge High and Ponderosa wrestlers including the following Trojan graduates who went on to wrestle at Division [...]
VALLEJO — Bethel High’s Daseion Cole and Rodney Cook combined for 43 points Friday as the host Jaguars knocked Oak Ridge out of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I basketball playoffs with a 74-59 quarterfinal victory. The duo had 21 in the first half. The victory advances Bethel (23-6) to the semifinals at Power Point Pavilion [...]
The Marina Village Middle School Mustangs seventh- and eighth-grade girls’ basketball teams coached by Terry Saufferer finished off their winning season in championship form before a sold out crowd at Rolling Hills last month. The seventh-grade Mustangs came into the tournament the second seed behind the undefeated Folsom Jaguars. Marina first had to beat the Sutter [...]
Immediately following Marina Village’a seventh-grade game last month, the stage was set for another head-to-head, cross town rival game between No. 1 seed the Marina Mustangs (10-0), and the No. 2 seed the Rolling Hills Bengals (8-2). Marina, last year’s undefeated seventh-grade champions, were on a 25-game league unbeaten streak. However, Coach Virgil Craft for [...]
STOCKTON — Oak Ridge High received 15 points from Jenna Klein and nine from Michelle Barkley to upend host Lincoln-of-Stockton 48-41 in Thursday’s Sac-Joaquin Section quarterfinal girls playoff action. The victory advanced the Lady Trojans to next Tuesday’s semifinal against Armijo at the Spanos Center on the campus of the University of Pacific in Stockton. [...]
TRACY — Scott Sanchez had a sinking, yet good feeling halfway through the fourth quarter of his Oak Ridge High boys basketball team’s Sac-Joaquin Section Division I playoff opener Wednesday at West. With 5:34 left in the game and West leading 44-42 after forward Robert Mason completed a 3-point play, Trojan guard Sean O’Donnell hit a [...]
