Oak Ridge Trojan Freshman smoked the Rocklin Thunder Thursday night 26-6. Players Camden Cicchetti, Stephen Douglas and Nolan Book made a lot of great plays and kicker Adam Walter made all of his punts to help the Trojans beat the Thunder. The team, under the direction of head coach Vance Mueller, has been practicing daily. The freshmen [...]
By Kristi Speir Mother Lode News correspondent It’s been four long years since the Oak Ridge High volleyball team won a match against Del Oro. But with determination and strong leadership in Tuesday’s preseason match, the Trojans got it done decisively — sweeping the Golden Eagles in three straight games, 26-24, 25-23, 25-23. Oak Ridge is [...]
The U11 Thunder Girls team took second place last weekend in the El Dorado Hills Soccerfest. The girls battle three amazing teams to make it to the championship. The Thunder beat Davis and Eureka on Saturday to put them in a great position going into Sunday’s games. They beat the Eureka Crush 1-0 with Lexi Likins [...]
Special teams’ play factors into outcome By Cody Holliday Friday night’s Oak Ridge High-Vista del Lago football game to kick off the season featured just about all that could go right — and wrong — on a football field: Two tantalizing kickoff returns for touchdowns; several long passes going for scores; defenses that came up [...]
USA Pride (16U) Softball based out of El Dorado Hills won second place at the National Softball Association August Meltdown Tournament, Aug. 20-21. USA Pride went undefeated in the seeding and playoff rounds outscoring the competition 27-8 over four games. The only game they lost was the championship to a very strong team out of [...]
FOLSOM — Hundreds of people laced up Aug. 20 for the Fun Run/Walk to benefit the Prevent Alcohol and Risk Related Trauma in Youth (PARTY) program. PARTY aims to prevent teen injury while driving. Local Oak Ridge High School alumnus Amjed Aboukhadijeh ran “the just under 6-mile course” in 28:16, winning by 7 minutes and achieving [...]
Congratulations to American River Futbol Club Freedom ’02 Girls U10 soccer team on winning their first championship at the Davis Legacy’s Super Clasico Tournament, Aug. 13-14. After a tough 4-3 loss to North Bay’s ’01 Galaxy in the first game, Freedom ’02 came back to win game 2, 3-0, against Cal Blues’ Fury ’02. A [...]
