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Alameda boys lose to Crossroads in Division 2 title game
Alameda boys lose to Crossroads in Division 2 title game
SACRAMENTO — The distance between Alameda and its fairy-tale finish of a state championship was 15 feet. The Hornets (28-6), who had not won even a Northern California regional game before this season, ...
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Sacred Heart Cathedral starts slow, falls short in title game
SACRAMENTO — Sacred Heart Cathedral’s girls basketball team began the season 5-12. Playing in one of the toughest leagues in the state, featuring the nation’s top-ranked team much of the season, the ...
Pinewood girls hoping for storybook ending
It would be so easy to revel in it all — big wins last week against national No. 5 St. Mary’s-Stockton and No. 1 Mitty in a matter of five days. In the Mitty game, Pinewood-Los Altos fought back from ...
Nathan Robinson powers Las Lomas-Walnut Creek to state title shot
It was a scene straight out of a classic coming-of-age movie. Nathan Robinson, a quiet, bashful sort, arrived at Walnut Creek Intermediate School as the new kid on campus. Not knowing what to say or do, ...
SF well represented in high school basketball state championships
First-year Lowell varsity girls basketball coach Matt Magsanay teaches advanced-placement world history and geography. Heading into his team’s CIF State Division 5 championship game Saturday, Magsanay ...
High school basketball: Title time memorable for Bay Area teams
Looking back on a remarkable NorCal final Saturday and ahead toward the state finals this weekend at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento: •Although action on the court was supreme, including one of the ...
High school boys basketball: O’Dowd falls in NorCal final
It wasn’t how it was supposed to end. Not for the players on Bishop O’Dowd-Oakland’s basketball team. Especially four-year lettermen and college-bound seniors Naseem Gaskin and Elijah Hardy, who ...
Pinewood girls defeat Mitty in three overtimes for Open...
Doc Scheppler has won nearly 600 games, six state championships and plenty of praise for his ability to get the most out of smaller, non-scholarship players. He hasn’t had a better win — a better ...
Tiny Pinewood seeks major title against big Mitty
History repeated itself in a good way Tuesday for Pinewood’s small but mighty girls basketball team. Now, the Panthers from Los Altos Hills hope it doesn’t happen again. Pinewood (26-2) tangles with ...
Bishop O’Dowd remains inspired by Steve Phelps
Bishop O’Dowd boys basketball coach Lou Richie never got to properly grieve the loss of Steve Phelps, his godfather and mentor, so he doesn’t bring him up at practice or in pre-game talks. “Frankly, ...
High schools: Like Warriors, Alameda boys have turned it around
When Cameron Quick started in ticket sales for the Warriors in 2007, the reaction from family and friends was laughter, then compassion. “They’d say, ‘That must be a very difficult job,’” he ...
High school basketball: NorCal championship game story lines
There are 13 Bay Area high school basketball teams playing for Northern California titles — and berths in the state championship game — on Saturday. A look at the story lines for each: BOYS ...
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NorCal basketball championships schedule
Here is the schedule for Saturday’s Northern California high school basketball championship games: BOYS Open Division No. 4 Sheldon-Sacramento (28-5) vs. No. 2 Bishop O’Dowd-Oakland (27-5) at ...
High school basketball: Tiny Pinewood takes down St. Mary’s...
Oops, they did it again. Or maybe it should be: Hoops, they did it again. The tiny team from Pinewood-Los Altos Hills went on the road and beat nationally ranked St. Mary’s-Stockton Tuesday night for ...
O’Dowd boys advance to Northern California final with win...
Anybody who is anybody in Oakland basketball circles jammed into Laney College on Tuesday night to see if Bishop O’Dowd would represent. But the Dragons weren’t just representing Oakland. They were ...
St. Ignatius, Monte Vista soccer rise to top
The first CIF Northern California soccer tournament furthered the case that has been known for years: The Bay Area is a hotbed for the sport. The St. Ignatius boys and Monte Vista-Danville girls each won ...
Palo Alto boys quiet Heritage-Brentwood duo for quarterfinal...
Before the game, Palo Alto boys basketball coach Peter Diepenbrock called the Heritage-Brentwood duo of Jonathan Ned and Ezra Manjon the high school version of former NBA teammates Kevin Durant and Russell ...
Miramonte-Orinda rolls past Antelope 90-57 in CIF N....
The Miramonte-Orinda girls basketball team was supposed to slow considerably once Sabrina Ionescu graduated in 2016. Not so. The host Matadors (27-5) broke their game open with a 24-9 run in the third ...
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Sacred Heart Cathedral starts slow, falls short in title game
SACRAMENTO — Sacred Heart Cathedral’s girls basketball team began the season 5-12. Playing in one of the toughest leagues in the state, featuring the nation’s top-ranked team much of the season, the ...
Pinewood girls hoping for storybook ending
It would be so easy to revel in it all — big wins last week against national No. 5 St. Mary’s-Stockton and No. 1 Mitty in a matter of five days. In the Mitty game, Pinewood-Los Altos fought back from ...
Nathan Robinson powers Las Lomas-Walnut Creek to state title shot
It was a scene straight out of a classic coming-of-age movie. Nathan Robinson, a quiet, bashful sort, arrived at Walnut Creek Intermediate School as the new kid on campus. Not knowing what to say or do, ...
SF well represented in high school basketball state championships
First-year Lowell varsity girls basketball coach Matt Magsanay teaches advanced-placement world history and geography. Heading into his team’s CIF State Division 5 championship game Saturday, Magsanay ...
Salesian girls rally by Folsom to advance in NCS basketball...
Salesian-Richmond girls basketball coach Stephen Pezzola was hoping his team would have jelled earlier than now. The Pride (27-5) procrastinated some more Friday, but they rallied for a 57-52 win over ...