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From a wild fall that included Acalanes’ state championship run in football to a spring highlighted by Granada’s historic baseball season, the school year filled the notebooks.

Acalanes’ Trevor Rogers and Sully Bailey raise the CIF NorCal 3-AA championship football trophy after the Dons defeated Escalon 49-14 on Dec. 1, 2023, in Lafayette. Starting in the fall with Acalanes’ run to a state football championship and ending this month with Amador Valley’s stunning NorCal Division I softball title and Granada finishing an all-time great baseball season, the school year had a little bit of everything.

Dillon Daniels is hugged by Live Oak’s Raymond Ramirez following a football game on Friday, Sept. 1, 2023, in Mountain View. So you want to be a high school sports reporter? Here’s how Saturday, Nov. 25 went for me: I spent a few hours at Oakland’s Bishop O’Dowd in the afternoon to cover a season-opening basketball showcase and and then drove crosstown to McClymonds as the sun set to talk to football coaches Michael Peters and John Beam before Mack won yet another Silver Bowl.

Los Gatos’ Scotty Brennan celebrates a big play late in overtime of his team’s 82-80 victory over Santa Teresa in the CCS Division I semifinals at Fremont-Sunnyvale on Feb. 22, 2024. There was never a dull moment watching Piedmont’s Natalia Martinez light up the scoreboard. The San Diego State commit averaged 30 points per game this past season and dropped 52 on San Diego’s Scripps Ranch in a tournament in December.

Supporters of former Branham athletic director Landon Jacobs, including varsity baseball player Ryan Field, second from right, and junior varsity baseball player Riley Rhoades, far right, listen during a Campbell Union High School District board meeting in San Jose on April 4, 2024. – and still might not be over.

 

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