May 27th, 2009 03:41pm
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Former Petaluma High star Sam Banister will help lead the Arizona softball team into the Women’s College World
Series in Oklahoma City when the Wildcats meet
the University of
Florida in a first-round
game which will televised at 6 p.m. today on ESPN.
Banister, a senior infielder, is hitting .313 with 16 homers
and 57 RBIs this season. She hit a homer in Arizona’s 6-5 win over Stanford last week in
an NCAA Super Regional, a …
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May 27th, 2009 03:02pm
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Santa Rosa
Junior College swimmer
David Hernandez has been named the Male Scholar Athlete of the Year by the
National Alliance of Two-Year College Athletic Administrators.
The prestigious award, in its 17th year, is given
to the male and female student athlete who best demonstrates outstanding
accomplishment and leadership in academics, athletics and citizenship.
Hernandez, a sophomore kinesiology major who had a 4.0 GPA,
was the captain of the Bear Cubs swim team which finished second in …
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May 20th, 2009 02:41pm
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May 13th, 2009 02:16pm
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Former Cardinal Newman star J.K. Withers served as a rabbit, a track term for pace-setter, as the University of Oregon’s four-by-mile relay team set an NCAA record in the seldom-run event Saturday at the Oregon Twilight Meet in Eugene, Ore.
The Ducks finished in 16 minutes, 3.24 seconds, breaking the mark of 16:04.54 set in 2005 by Michigan.
Withers, a senior, helped set the pace for the first three laps of the …
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May 12th, 2009 09:22pm
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Santa Rosa’s Jake Arnold won the Multistars Decathlon in Desenzano, Italy, on Sunday with 7,994 points to beat runner-up Roland Schwarzl of Austria by 81 points.
Arnold, 25, trailed by 13 points entering the final day of the 21-man event and rallied with the top mark in the pole vault (16 feet, 6 inches), the fourth-best time in the 100-meter hurdles (14.28) and the fifth-best mark in the discus (144-11 …
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May 7th, 2009 01:09am
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Ask Sonoma State senior pitcher Lindsay Emmel what pitches she throws and you are guaranteed to get an answer you’ve never heard before.
Emmel, the CCAA Pitcher of the Year, relies primarily on a rise ball and a mystery pitch.That’s right. A mystery pitch.
Emmel developed the mystery pitch by accident a few years ago. She was trying to learn how to throw a screwball and, well, the mystery pitch was born.
Emmel …
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May 6th, 2009 11:48pm
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In a story I wrote about Sonoma State senior pitcher Lindsay Emmel (click here), I mentioned she is superstitious about how the game ball is handled prior to the game.
But that’s not Emmel’s only quirk. Consider:
* Before road games, she must get ready for the game (apply makeup, put on uniform etc.) before she goes to breakfast.
* She has a mix on her iPod that she can only listen to …
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May 2nd, 2009 01:54am
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I wrote a story about Sonoma State outfielder Joe Slater in today’s paper that was long enough to make my editors cringe.
With their stress over my novel in mind, some Joe Slater stories were left on the cutting room floor.
My favorite one is about how Slater developed his work ethic. I kind of assumed he’s always had to be the hardest-working guy on his team due to his size (he …
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May 2nd, 2009 12:20am
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Former Montgomery High running back Kahlil Bell has signed a free-agent contract with the Minnesota Vikings.
Bell, who played at UCLA and was raised in Rohnert Park, spent his first two years in high school at Montgomery before his family moved to San Anselmo so he could attend Marin Catholic.
After an injury plagued career at UCLA and a subpar performance at the NFL Combine, Bell wasn’t selected in last week’s NFL …
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May 1st, 2009 11:27pm
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Billy Offill, a former star at El Molino High, has been named the men’s basketball coach at Mendocino College.
Offill had a record of 36-54 during his three years at College of the Siskiyous. He led Siskiyous to a 22-12 record and berth in the NorCal Regional playoffs this past season.
Offill was Empire Player of the Year at El Molino in 1996 and went on to play at Santa Rosa Junior …
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Eric Branch’s blog focuses on Sonoma State, Santa Rosa Junior College and former Empire athletes who are competing in college or professionally.
