The Sonoma State softball team is 16-14.That may not sound like cause for celebration, but it's a sign of progress in Rohnert Park.The Seawolves, who went 16-36 last year, have had one winning season since 1998 and none since 2000. SSU did have a 32-32 record in 2007, but its record from 1998-2008 was 230-330-1.Senior [...]
Cal sophomore Amanda Sims, a seven-time North Coast Section champion at Montgomery High, won the 100-yard butterfly tonight at the NCAA Championships in College Station, Texas.Sims' victory is a stunner. She entered seeded seventh in the event, which included a pair of American record holders and former Olympians in Stanford junior Elaine Breeden and Cal [...]
Santa Rosa Junior College freshman forward Matt Cousins and sophomore point guard Andrew Gipson have verbally committed to four-year schools.The 6-foot-8 Cousins has committed to Division II Chaminade University in Honolulu. Gipson has committed to Division II Hawaii at Hilo. Chaminade and Hilo are both members of the Pacific West Conference.Cousins, who attended Cardinal Newman, [...]
Cal sophomore Amanda Sims (Montgomery) has qualified for this week's NCAA Swimming Championships in two events. The NCAAs begin Thursday in College Station, Texas.Sims, who helped lead the Bears to their Pac-10 title in late February in Federal Way, Wash., qualified in the 100-yard and 200-yard butterfly. Sims' time of 51.59 seconds in the 100 [...]
Yale senior guard Jamie Van Horne (Healdsburg) recently completed her decorated four-year college career.Van Horne, the team captain, set school records for games played (110), career three-pointers (216), single-season three-pointers (62) and she tied the school record for most three-pointers in a game (7).In 2006, she made 7 of 7 three-pointers in a game against [...]
Humboldt State point guard Zac Tiedeman didn't end his junior season with a win.But it wasn't due to lack of effort.Tiedeman crawled out of his sick bed to score 27 points in eighth-seeded Humboldt State's 98-84 loss to No. 1 BYU Hawaii in opening round of the Division II West Regional on Friday in Laie, [...]
Cal's Ian Lentz, a former star at Casa Grande High, qualified for the NCAA Swimming Championships in three events last week at the Pac-10 Championships in Long Beach.Lentz, a senior who was named to the Pac-10 all-academic team last year, qualified in the 200-yard individual medley, the 100 butterfly and the 200 butterfly. The NCAAs [...]
Santa Rosa's Jake Arnold defended his title last week at the 24th annual USA Indoor Combined Events Championships in Chapel Hill, N.C.Arnold, 24, a 2012 Olympic hopeful in the decathlon, won with a score of 5,748 points. Justin Johnson (5,514) was second in the nine-man field which competed in the seven-event heptathlon.Arnold, a two-time NCAA [...]
Biola University's Charrise Reece and Christina Barclay, former stars at Montgomery High, have helped lead the Eagles into the 32-team NAIA Tournament in Jackson, Tenn., for the first time in six years.Biola (19-11) will meet Trevecca Nazarene (25-7) in first-round action at 12:15 p.m. Thursday. Live video and audio broadcasts will be available at www.watchnaia.com.Reece, [...]
Sonoma State coach John Goelz got his 800th career victory Saturday as the Seawolves beat Cal State Stanisalus, 8-3, in the first game of a doubleheader.Goelz, who has a career record of 800-497-5, is the ninth-winningest active coach in Division II and ranks 24th all-time.SSU (9-4, 2-4 in CCAA) will host UC San Diego in [...]