The best of the best fought for 12 hours Saturday in the 23rd annual Chris Craft Volleyball Tournament at Oak Ridge and Vista del Lago high schools. The event, held in honor of Craft, a Trojan volleyball player who was killed shortly after graduation, draws top teams from all over Northern California. Following pool play [...]
By Mike Bush Riding the momentum of 11- and 14-point wins in its first two games, the Oak Ridge High varsity football team hosted former Sierra Valley Conference rival Cordova Friday in nonleague action. Scoring early and often, the Trojans rolled to a 59-0 win over the once mighty Lancers. The victory improves Troy to 3-0 [...]
Oak Ridge High School’s girls varsity volleyball team celebrated coach Becky Potter’s birthday with a 3-0 win against the Nevada Union Miners Tuesday night. With cake and balloons waiting for her after the match, Potter couldn’t contain her happiness, saying, “Thank you to my girls for the best birthday present ever.” The hard-fought third game [...]
El Dorado Hills Soccer Club U12 boys Hotspur Select Team coached by Chris Hunt competed in the “Fire in the Sky Tournament” in Truckee over the Labor Day weekend. They played up an age group to U13 and battled against four competitive teams ranked 4th, 8th and 12th in the state of Nevada and brought home [...]
FOLSOM — The Oak Ridge cross country team competed in the Willow Hills Relays in Folsom missing several key runners due to injuries. “It was a great first meet of the year for the Oak Ridge cross country teams,” Oak Ridge coach Rob Fairley said. “We didn’t field any varsity relay teams because of runners [...]
Preston Dean’s two touchdown runs in the last half of the fourth quarter broke a tie to give host Oak Ridge High a 21-7 defensive-oriented preseason win over Rocklin Friday night. Dean went up the middle from 9 yards out with 7:03 left to put the Trojans in the lead before rumbling in for a [...]
Delta River League Division I girls golf competition is underway with a few changes from last season. In 2010 the standings were based on total strokes per team compiled over four 18-hole tournaments — quite a difference for the two new teams, Oak Ridge and Ponderosa. The format in their previous Sierra Valley Conference awarded [...]
