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Tennis D-I Section Playoffs Oak Ridge 9, Golden Valley 0 Singles (OR first): Brandon Sutter def. Nava, 6-0, 6-0; Jacob Zetlin def. Becker, 7-5, 6-4; Charlie Conarro def. Garcia, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4; Simon Chan def. Gallegas, 6-1, 6-2; Matt Fergerson def. Moua, 6-2, 6-2; Matthew Lai def. Smith, 6-2, 6-4. Doubles (OR first): Clarence Lai-Scotty [...]
Baseball Union Mine 1, Galt 0 — John Creason and Charles Simpson combined on the eight-inning shutout as the host Diamondbacks picked up Tuesday’s Sierra Valley Conference win. Each allowed a single hit in four innings of work while Creason struck out five. Carlos Romero’s RBI double plated Colton Merrill for the lone run. Sean [...]
RESCUE — Ponderosa’s Reid Lambres participates in his final races today and tomorrow for the Bruins’ ski team at the California Nevada Interscholastic Ski and Snowboard State Championships at Mt. Shasta. He’s one of the favorites. This past season, Lambres was the one to beat in the South I Division though no one did. For [...]
I hadn’t touched my father’s face, except to kiss him hello or goodbye, since I was a baby. Babies always explore the people they love — pulling noses, putting a finger on a lip or an eye, patting cheeks — but I outgrew that stage and Dad was always moving too fast. In the darkened [...]
March 1, 1966 — Oct. 2, 2012 Gregg Patrick Swars of Cameron Park, Calif., passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012, with his family by his side, at the age of 46. He was born in Sacramento and graduated from Oak Ridge High School, UCLA and Lincoln Law School of Sacramento. He practiced law, primarily [...]
Aug. 17, 1937 — June 4, 2012 Lewis (Lewy) Jacob McGaffee, 74, entered Heaven on June 4, 2012. A resident of Rescue, Calif., for the past 14 years, Lewy was born in Onslow, Iowa, on Aug. 17, 1937. Known to family, friends, customers and colleagues as a great and accomplished storyteller, his best story was, [...]
Jan. 22, 1990 — June 6, 2012 Alecia Kristen Doss Halk died suddenly on Wednesday, June 6, 2012, in Folsom, Calif. She was born Jan. 22, 1990. She was 22 years old. She leaves behind her loving husband, Daniel Halk; and their young son, Alexander, three years old. She is also survived by her parents, Bill [...]
SACRAMENTO — The Sacramento River Cats’ Triple-A baseball team, an affiliate of the Oakland A’s, named 36 local athletes to its 2011-12 Fall, Winter, Spring All-City teams. The athletes were honored in a ceremony prior to a River Cats’ game May 13. Those who chose to attend received a ticket to the game and an [...]
Editor’s note: Some names were inadvertently left off the Union Mine High School 2012 graduates list we printed in the Wednesday edition. Here is the complete list for the Class of 2012. Savannah Able Smith, Maegan Albright, Zachary Alder, Emmeret Aleman, Colton Aliff, Dustin Allred, Conrad Allshouse, Mason Anderson, Sean Anderson, Ciara Atchley, Gabriella Aveni, [...]
The personnel at El Dorado high School congratulate the El Dorado High School seniors who won scholarships on Wednesday, May 9. The school staff would like to thank the local community groups and scholarship donors for their generous contributions to the future of the students and for attending the Scholarship and Awards Night. The following [...]
Kristian Thomas Aahl, Chelsea Nicole Abelia, Carly Jean Abney, Ethan David Ackerman, Ryan Cass Adair, Alexander George Adams, Haley Robin Adams, Samia Anne Alaywan, Hailey Alexis Albert, Kathryn Danielle Allen, Amy Alvarez, Brigette Elizabeth Amidon, Maya Chunping Andrus, Roman Merrill Andrus, Dominac Vincent Angelucci, Madison Katlyn Arenchild, Alyssa St. Claire Armstrong, Holli Alexandria Arrieta, Khadija Baharah Atebar, [...]
Jack Devan Aadnesen, Grace Christine Abela, Zachary James Achterberg, Brett Ahola, Joseph Akin, Melinda Nicole Albertsen, Travis Allec, Josephine Rae Alvarez, Benjamin H. Anderson, Maggie Anderson, Allison Helen Armstrong, Dana Jo Aros, Stefanie Lorraine Avilla, Alexander Bahro, Lara Michelle Bangs, Claire Marie Barnett, Savannah Elizabeth Barnhill, Samantha Loren Bartolo, Cole Jackson Bates, Joshua Matthew Battersby, Brooke [...]
Dustin Allred, Conrad Allshouse, Mason Anderson, Sean Anderson, Ciara Atchley, Gabriella Aveni, Justin Baer, Gabino Bahena, Elizabeth Bailey, Neftali Baron, Graham Bennett, Madison Berridge, Brendan Blockus, Christopher Bol, Chelsey Bold, Jay Bonner, Jenna Boss, Louke Bourgeois, Boone Bragdon, Violet Brown, Raymond Burgess, Thomas Callonea, Stephen Canada, Anna Canales, Rebecca Carey, Narcisco Carrillo, Haley Caruthers, Melissa Charter, [...]
Baseball El Dorado 5, Union Mine 3 — The Cougars turned four hits into five runs, including four in the top of the first inning, to win Thursday’s intra-county game over the host Diamondbacks. Nick Bonniksen pitched a complete game for El Dorado. Offensively, Chris Swineford had two RBIs and Justin Dillon and Alex Alvarez [...]
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted,” graced the neon-yellow T-shirts of more than 70 young people who spent their spring break in a labor of love — transforming the Missouri Flat mill houses area on Wedge Hill off Missouri Flat Road from dilapidated to cheerful.
Dozens of students from the Solid Rock Faith Center, Cameron Park Christian Center and Cold Springs Community Church banded together on Wednesday and Thursday to build fences, create a new play area with a play structure, plant trees and flowers, cut back overgrowth, clean and revamp road beds and landscape for the common area shared by some 13 homes.
“We usually go on a mission to Los Angeles or Mexico during the break,” said Sean Pritchard, youth pastor for Solid Rock, “but this year we decided to do something in our own community. Often you don’t even realize the need is there.”
SHINGLE SPRINGS — No wind nor rain stopped runners from running, jumpers from jumping, throwers from throwing or vaults from vaulting as Ponderosa’s Track and Field team hosted its first annual Ron Ruptier Memorial Invitational Saturday at Simon Bruin Stadium. Sunshine opened the invite but eventually gave way to an encroaching storm system. The dire [...]
Baseball Oak Ridge 3, Elk Grove 1 — Sophomore Austin Root held the top-ranked Thundering Herd to three hits and one run in six and two-thirds innings to pick up his second win of the season Thursday. The Trojans scored three runs in the top of the first inning as Alec deWatteville doubled and scored [...]
Slalom team scores Sierra-at-Tahoe Feb. 20, 2012 Slalom Girls snowboard 1. El Dorado, 86 2. Ponderosa, 68 3. Union Mine 46 4. Oak Ridge, 28 5. Amador, 13 6. Capital Christian, 5 Boys 1. El Dorado, 207 1. Ponderosa, 207 2. Oak Ridge, 194 3. Union Mine, 154 4. Amador, 143 Girls ski 1. El [...]
EL DORADO — A Sierra Valley Conference victory Friday night at the Snake Pit would help the Union Mine High boys basketball team better its chances toward hosting a first-round game in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV playoffs and also give intra-county and conference foe El Dorado a share of the conference title. It didn’t happen as an [...]
SIERRA-AT-TAHOE — Snow managed to stick around for another prep alpine race as the South 1 Division reached its midway point with Monday’s slalom at Sierra-at-Tahoe. It’s wasn’t the fluffy white stuff but an icy base that skiers and snowboarders dealt with in their third race. Weather-wise, conditions were the best yet but without a [...]