Academics and athletics have long intertwined for student-athletes and another way — probably unbeknownst to many — is the connection that exists linking classroom results with hunting. Each year one student from El Dorado County, aged 12-16, is rewarded with a pheasant hunting trip to the R&R Hunting Resort, a Cabela’s certified desination, in Seneca, [...]
Cyclists will be riding in the Motherlode Century bicycling event on Sunday, and organizers warned drivers to beware of their presence. A schedule of the day’s shows the locations riders are expected to be on the course. Riders will go from Lotus to Pilot Hill on Highway 49 from 6:30 to 8:45 a.m.; go from Pilot Hill to [...]
The Oak Ridge and Jesuit boys golf teams were both 9-1 in the Delta River League standings heading into last week’s dual match at Ancil Hoffman Golf Course but when the day was over the Marauders were first all alone with a 184-197 victory. “Bottom line we got spanked,” first year coach Stan Iverson said. [...]
BEST OF LUCK — Diamond Springs’ John O’Neill will compete in his 10th Boston Marathon today. Today’s race covering 26 miles and 385 yard is the 116th running of the famed competiton. * * * Check out http://youtu.be/vEYKRbMnwnQ to see 12 El Dorado High cheerleaders: Gabbie Collier, Heidi Stewart, Lisa Rodriguez, Saige Polk, Ivory Fishel, Jessica Britton, Katie [...]
Union Mine will host an Athletic Information Night for incoming 2012-13 freshman Wednesday, May 9, at 6 p.m. in the West Gym. All current eighth grade students attending Herbert Green, Mountain Creek and Pleasant Valley Middle Schools are encouraged to attend along with their parents. The Athletic Handbook process as well as the athletic programs at [...]
El Dorado County Sports League Girls Basketball tournament results: 2011-12 Seventh grade Championship Markham 26, Herbert Green 21 — MAR: Caiyla Cotton 9 points and Taylor Quiada 5; HG: Ashley Boyd 11 and Lindsey Whited 4. Third place Sierra Ridge 26, Pleasant Valley 19 — SR: Amanda Logan 10, Hayley Hurst, N. Hanson, T. Bryte 4 each; PV: [...]
LOOMIS — Brandon Claiborne, 13, a member of the El Dorado Hills Wrestling Club, won the 135-pound weight class in the 44th annual Northern California Junior High Tournament of Champions Saturday. Claiborne, who took third last year as a seventh-grader in his third year of wrestling, breezed with a technical fall in his opening match [...]
