For three quarters, the El Dorado High girls basketball team used a variety of defenses Friday at Lawrence Brown Gym against Galt that paid off with another Sierra Valley Conference victory. The Lady Cougars forced the Lady Warriors into 24 turnovers. That paved the way toward a 58-28 victory for El Dorado, which improves to an [...]

GARDEN VALLEY –  The Golden Sierra High varsity teams took on Highlands Friday in Sierra Delta League action that were polar opposites of one another. In the girls opener, the Grizzlies could score enough and fell 43-32 while in the boys game Golden Sierra had trouble stopping a high-flying Scots squad that prevailed 69-38. This [...]

Night Jam to take place on World Cup HEAVENLY, Calif./Nev. — Heavenly Mountain Resort has teamed up with Nike Snowboarding to host the fifth stop of the Nike Winter Chosen Tour on Saturday. The slopestyle rail jam will take place from 4-7 p.m. on World Cup run at the California Main Lodge. Nike’s Winter Chosen [...]

EL DORADO HILLS — Seven Oak Ridge senior athletes signed their Letter of Intent forms Wednesday in the Trojan multi-purpose room. William Boule (Eastern Washington), Dylan Collie (Brigham Young) and  John David Smith (Southern Oregon) signed to continue their football careers, Mandi McBroom (UC Irvine) and Tiffani Reimers (Cal State Fullerton) go on in soccer, and Lance [...]

Are you ready for Super Bowl XLVI? Sunday’s game at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis between the New York Giants and New England Patriots should be as exciting as their 2008 matchup in Super Bowl XLII when Giants’ quarterback Eli Manning posted a 17-14 victory to take the Vince Lombardi trophy back to the Big [...]

GARDEN VALLEY — The Golden Sierra girls basketball team fought hard for the win Tuesday night in holding off visiting Encina 50-40 for the Sierra Delta League victory. The Grizzlies were plagued by turnovers and a lack of rebounds as Encina pressured the ball to keep the game close. Despite numerous mistakes the Grizzlies still [...]

Boys basketball Union Mine 56, Liberty Ranch 43 — Graham Bennett scored 18 points to lead the Diamondbacks to Wednesday’s Sierra Valley Conference road win. Union Mine outscored the Hawks in each quarter after the first where the two teams battled to a 4-4 tie. Jordan Jones scored 10 points for the D’backs, Tyler Sutorka [...]