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• CCS championships: Basketball, soccer finals schedule - Fri, 07 Mar 2014 23:31:57 +0000
  CCS PLAYOFFS Boys basketball finals Open Division: No. 3 Serra (21-7) vs. No. 1 Archbishop Mitty (24-4), 8 p.m. Friday at Santa Clara University. Division I: No. 3 Menlo-Atherton (18-8) vs. No. 4 Bellarmine (11-16), 8 p.m. Saturday at Independence High. Division II: No. 2 St. Francis (16-12) vs. No. 1 St. Ignatius (21-6), 8 [...]
• CCS basketball: Setting up championship weekend - Fri, 07 Mar 2014 17:29:25 +0000
  Some thoughts as the Central Coast Section basketball playoffs reach championship weekend: – The Archbishop Mitty boys seem to be functioning on all cylinders as they aim to repeat as Central Coast Section Open Division champions Friday night against Serra at Santa Clara University. – The Monarchs are 2-0 against Serra this season, winning 50-41 [...]
• Basketball: Not expected to play, Frankie Ferrari scores 46 in a win over Leigh - Wed, 05 Mar 2014 21:46:51 +0000
  Frankie Ferrari didn’t think there was any way he was going to be able to play Tuesday against Leigh. Neither did anyone else who saw him limp off the court Friday against Archbishop Riordan in the Central Coast Section Open Division quarterfinals. Count me among those. I was there in the locker room after the [...]
• Basketball: Serra’s Chuck Rapp pushes right locker-room buttons; Mitty keeps getting better - Wed, 05 Mar 2014 19:20:50 +0000
  Thoughts from Tuesday’s Central Coast Section basketball playoffs: – I am guessing there are some cracks in the paint in the locker room Serra used Tuesday night at Independence High. – As Serra players Sean Watkins and Danny Mahoney pointed out afterward, coach Chuck Rapp was not too pleased with the team’s first-half defense in [...]
• Basketball: Playoffs no friend to BVAL teams; WCAL rolling yet again - Tue, 04 Mar 2014 02:09:02 +0000
  
  
  
  A few thoughts on the eve of the Central Coast Section basketball semifinals: – It was a bleak playoff season for the Blossom Valley Athletic League. – And that is bleak with a CAPITAL B. – Of the three main public-school boys leagues in our coverage area — BVAL, Santa Clara Valley Athletic League and [...]
• CCS boys basketball: Homestead upsets Piedmont Hills - Sat, 01 Mar 2014 23:46:02 +0000
  Wins come in different shapes and varieties. For Homestead its 57-48 upset victory Saturday at No. 2 seed Piedmont Hills ranks as historic. “For Homestead basketball this is the biggest win, and I go back 15, 16 years,” Homestead coach Shawn Hook said. “We’re happy, but not done.” The No. 7 seed Mustangs (17-9) advance [...]
• CCS basketball playoffs: Archbishop Mitty rolls past Santa Cruz - Sat, 01 Mar 2014 07:54:23 +0000
  One year after barely beating a team from the Santa Cruz area in the opening round of the Central Coast Section Open Division basketball playoffs, Archbishop Mitty had no trouble this time. Santa Cruz was unable to duplicate Soquel’s near-miss, falling 21 points behind at halftime and never threatening in the second half as top-seeded [...]
• Video: Sacred Heart Cathedral beats Half Moon Bay on miracle 70-foot shot - Sat, 01 Mar 2014 03:53:10 +0000
  This one has to be seen to be believed. After watching the game-winner, check out Darren Sabedra’s game story.
• Basketball: Creighton Lane remembered, celebrated in moving memorial service - Fri, 28 Feb 2014 22:18:40 +0000
  
  
  
  To understand the impact Creighton A. Lane had on those he mentored and touched, one only had to watch when one of the speakers at his moving memorial Friday asked Lane’s former students to stand. Throughout the massive Jubilee Christian Center in North San Jose, people rose. The congregation center was filled with his former [...]
• Girls basketball: Westmoor looking to take the next step - Thu, 27 Feb 2014 17:31:11 +0000
  After winning the Peninsula Athletic League Tournament last Saturday, the Westmoor girls basketball team is also hoping to take it a step further in the Central Coast Section playoffs. Last year Westmoor lost in the PAL Tournament championship game to eventual CCS Division III champion Burlingame. This year the Rams beat South San Francisco for [...]