That included an undefeated regular season, the North Coast
Section team championship and the tournament's medalist, tying for second at the Northern California finals and finishing fifth at the state championships
Not exact matches
The Davis water polo program has owned the Sac - Joaquin
Section, and on Saturday the boys and girls team laid their claims with Division I section championships in back - to - back games at the Woodcreek Aquatics Center in Ros
Section, and on Saturday the boys and girls
team laid their claims with Division I
section championships in back - to - back games at the Woodcreek Aquatics Center in Ros
section championships in back - to - back games at the Woodcreek Aquatics Center in Roseville.
Winning the North Coast
Section Division I softball
championship with a very young, extremely talented
team in 2017 was an impressive feat for Foothill High - Pleasanton.
«First
team to win a
section championship for boys volleyball at our school, and then we come out and win NorCals for our
section,» Roseville outside hitter / libero Jason Cole said after the victory at Dublin High.
Shelton helped Chino Hills reach the CIF State Division I
championship game during his freshman season and was the sixth man on the Huskies record - setting 35 - 0
team that won the Southern
Section Open Division and CIF Open Division
championships during his sophomore campaign.
Watching his Del Oro
team and the Sac - Joaquin
Section's top young golfers develop through his four years on the high school scene, Smotherman enjoyed his CIF Boys Golf Tournament individual
championship with plenty of company from near and far in Northern California.
Even with the first
section championship and perfect season in the school's 10 - year history, the Jaguars were not selected for the CIF Division II Bowl Game, although they were Northern California's only unbeaten
team on the board.
Both
teams will be heavy favorites in their final two DVAL games and are all but certain to be on a collision course in the North Coast
Section Division II playoffs «'' where the
championship might very well determine a California Interscholastic Federation Northern Regional bowl berth.
That year he saw his 11 - 1 Central
Section championship team passed over when the committee of CIF commissioners voted on the Div.
«I told him after the
section championship that this
team wasn't mine anymore, and it was going to be his and a couple of other junior impact players»
team,» said Trajon Cotton from Oregon State, where he just began his collegiate athletic and academic career.
Back in May, Smotherman shot a record - breaking 65 at The Reserve at Spanos Park in Stockton to win the
Section Masters Tournament on the same day that the Grizzlies set a
Section Masters record 363 for the SJS
team championship.
A responsibility for the latest crop of senior stars to claim the
team as its own and lead the Tigers into the postseason with an eye on claiming the program's first Sac - Joaquin
Section championship.
Especially in the Division I - North bracket where more than half of the 12 -
team field will have a legitimate shot at advancing to the
section championship series against the South champion.
The senior already owns two Sac - Joaquin
Section basketball
championships, but greater success for the football program is a priority for Lealao, Grams, and the entire football
team.
Saco has since led the CIF in adding regional playoff games to qualify the
section championship teams for the state bowl games, and also added an Open Division — for
championship games between the state's top NorCal and SoCal programs regardless of division and enrollment — in both football and basketball.
Brown will be part of a talented senior class that brings back a strong contingent from the
section championship team.
Cosumnes Oaks has never won a
section basketball
championship or even appeared in a final, but the opportunity is not a major surprise despite the
team's sub -.500 record.
Central Catholic - Modesto, the Division IV champions from the Sac - Joaquin
Section and third - place
team at the
Section Masters
championship, shot a 382 to finish in second place and advance to state.
But when the postseason arrives, programs can
team up top players as doubles
teams to compete for the
section championship.
Branson Head Coach Boys Varsity Soccer 1989 - present Branson Head Coach Girls Varsity Soccer 1989 - 2015 (Ryan's
teams have won over 14 league titles and 11
section championships) Redwood Head Coach Boys 1985 - 1988
In knocking off the six - time North Coast
Section championship program from Danville — by a slightly sloppy, yet still convincing score of 34 - 7 — it had become the first Lions
team to begin a season 4 - 0 in more than 40 years.
Amat had come into California's Southern
Section Division I
championship game against Mater Dei High (from Santa Ana) as the top - ranked
team in the nation — unbeaten, untied and unseen by the person who had made Amat No. 1 for most of the season in USA Today's Super 25 national high school football rankings.
Since he and his twin brother, Tyree — the
team's quarterback — have been at the varsity level, Milpitas had gone 0 - 3 in Central Coast
Section championship games and 0 - 2 in regional playoffs games.
Players for the 2017 Christian Brothers football
team do not remember the program's last Sac - Joaquin
Section championship.
That
championship team featured plenty of young stars, ensuring that De La Salle will continue to be the
section's
team to beat for the foreseeable future.
It is no surprise the blue - chip baseball star, who batted a Sac - Joaquin
Section - best.627 while leading his team to its first section baseball championship, did so with a quiet, business - like ap
Section - best.627 while leading his
team to its first
section baseball championship, did so with a quiet, business - like ap
section baseball
championship, did so with a quiet, business - like approach.
It's just that in football we're only dealing with
section championship teams (with a few runner - up exceptions).
The Capital Christian girls» soccer
team understands the difficulty of defending and used it to their advantage to win the program's second consecutive Sac - Joaquin
Section Division VI
championship on May 16.
The Panthers advanced to the semifinals of the NorCal Open Division after Carondelet - Concord forfeited its game due to a violation of
team rules at a postgame party that followed Carondelet's North Coast
Section championship win.
On top of that, this could well be a preview of the California Interscholastic Federation Division II Northern regional
championship game, as both these
teams are favored not only to win
section titles, but also advance to the finals.
Last year, despite having a relatively young
team, the Crusaders rebounded from the rare occurrence of failing to win a
section title in 2011 and captured the Division IV
championship at Power Balance Pavilion in Sacramento.
St. Francis has certainly enjoyed having Palmeri on campus — and on the girls volleyball
team, as she helped bring home the last two of the program's 12 Sac - Joaquin
Section championships.
With solid goalkeeping a mainstay, the girls
team has won 10 of the 11 Sac - Joaquin
Section Division II
championships and the boys have collected four Div.
On the morning after the Monte Vista High boys basketball
team won its first North Coast
Section Division I
championship since 2009, the Mustangs players met for Saturday breakfast.
With a
team - high four goals, Klass closed out her extremely - decorated high school career by leading the Wolves to a 12 - 6 win over rival Monte Vista - Danville in the North Coast
Section Division I
championship on Nov. 15.
But the fact that this year's
team, ranked No. 3 nationally in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America rankings, won the program's tenth
section championship with such ease was a mild surprise to Rose, who is in his 34th year of coaching.
FAST BREAKDOWN: It will be a long day Sunday when the CIF sifts through 400
teams (boys and girls, north and south) to come up with the NorCal and SoCal brackets, but the picture will be a lot clearer after the
section championships wrap up this weekend.
In November of 2011, Jim Capoot, the former Vallejo High girls basketball head coach who led his
team to the 2009 CIF Sac - Joaquin
Section Division II
championship, was killed in the line of duty as a Vallejo police officer.
But, Wiese was quick to realize the talent she had inherited and the
team set a mission to return to the
section final and make a run at a state
championship berth.
Pleasant Valley, which beat Folsom, and Presentation, which has avenged its two losses to schools not named Mitty, are two more conundrums for the committee to ponder Sunday — so not only will the
section championships be worth watching for their own sakes, but they also will have a lot do with which
teams wind up cutting down the nets at Golden1 March 23 and 24.
SA Bronx 1 Middle School players pose with coach Alejandro Montalvo after finishing in fourth place in the Middle School
championship section — a division with 16
teams where only the top players compete.
PLATTSBURGH — The
Section VII / Class D boy's soccer
championship will come down to the top - ranked
team in the state and their closest competitor within the class this year in the Willsboro Warriors.