After School

• Football: More from North’s 37-3 win in Wedemeyer all-star game - Thu, 24 Jul 2014 19:14:59 +0000
  
  
  
  
  Longer version of our Wedemeyer all-star game coverage, including quotes from Piedmont Hills’ Menlo College-bound quarterback Anthony McBride and The King’s Academy’s kicker Luke Vereschagin: SAN JOSE — The North took the field Wednesday night for the 40th Charlie Wedemeyer high school all-star game looking like a team determined for victory, a squad that had [...]
• NBA draft: Orlando Magic-bound Aaron Gordon makes family, friends proud - Fri, 27 Jun 2014 13:44:23 +0000
  
  
  
  
  Our print story from Thursday night’s NBA draft focused on all three Bay Area players taken — Aaron Gordon and two Stanford players, Josh Huestis and Dwight Powell. But if you are interested in reading only about Gordon, one of the area’s all-time great high school players, this is the place. Although Gordon was in [...]
• All-Mercury News softball: First team, second team and honorable mention - Wed, 25 Jun 2014 23:29:10 +0000
  
  The 2014 All-Mercury News softball team, which be published in Thursday’s newspaper. FIRST TEAM Marialena Ahern, SS, Los Altos, senior The SCVAL De Anza Division MVP batted .488 with 12 doubles, two triples and two home runs. She drove in 29 runs and scored 24. Danielle Bowers, OF, Archbishop Mitty, junior In addition to playing [...]
• All-Mercury News baseball: First team, second team and honorable mention - Wed, 25 Jun 2014 22:54:01 +0000
  
  The 2014 All-Mercury News baseball team, which be published in Thursday’s newspaper. FIRST TEAM Kyle Barret, SS, Carlmont, senior PAL Bay co-MVP had 41 hits and 27 RBIs, finishing with a .446 batting average. He had 15 doubles and four home runs and scored 23 runs. Kris Bubic, P, Archbishop Mitty, junior Stanford commit went 8-2 [...]
• Football: An amazing story as Greg Barber returns to prep coaching at Sequoia - Thu, 19 Jun 2014 17:35:36 +0000
  
  Greg Barber has been hired as quarterbacks coach at Sequoia High. But that’s just the beginning of this story. The 78-year-old Barber  has had all four limbs amputated. He gets around on a wheelchair with handlebars, sort of a motorized scooter. “I have half a thumb left,” Barber said. He suffered an aortic dissection — [...]
• Girls track and field: Mady Fagan takes third at state in high jump - Fri, 13 Jun 2014 19:22:33 +0000
  
  Saratoga senior Mady Fagan finished her high school high jumping career on a positive note with a third-place finish at the state finals. Fagan and Upland’s Skyler Daniel both cleared 5-8, but Fagan was awarded third place due to fewer misses. Quite a contrast to the way her junior season ended. Fagan was far and [...]
• Girls volleyball: Archbishop Mitty’s Lauren Speckman to play for USA at junior competition - Thu, 12 Jun 2014 23:54:35 +0000
  
  
  
  
  When Lauren Speckman returns to Archbishop Mitty to start her junior year, she should have some pretty good stories to share. Speckman was among 12 players chosen to represent the United States at the NORCECA Women’s U-18 Continental Championship this month in San Jose, Costa Rica. The competition is a qualifier for next year’s U-18 [...]
• Girls track and field: Piedmont Hills takes second at state - Mon, 09 Jun 2014 20:24:33 +0000
  
  
  
  
  The Piedmont Hills girls took second place in the team competition at the state finals, and did it with only four girls. “When you get to this meet it’s always about Southern California,” Piedmont Hills coach Chioke Robinson said. “We wanted to represent the CCS and show the CCS has competitors, too. We brought four [...]
• Water polo: Menlo’s Nick Bisconti makes debut with Team USA - Thu, 05 Jun 2014 15:22:34 +0000
  
  Nick Bisconti, a junior at Menlo School, made his debut with the U.S. national team when Team USA lost to Serbia 13-6 Wednesday at the University of the Pacific. Bisconti is one of two high school players on the team. In late March, Bisconti was among six junior players invited to train with the senior [...]
• CIF golf: New state champ Justin Suh of Evergreen Valley calls experience ‘intense’ - Thu, 05 Jun 2014 05:17:59 +0000
  
  
  
  
  Full version of our state golf story: Three weeks after he won the Central Coast Section championship, Evergreen Valley’s Justin Suh topped an even stronger field Wednesday. The USC commit shot 4-under 67 at San Gabriel Country Club in San Gabriel to win the state championship by a stroke. Bellarmine College Prep’s Jimmy Castles and [...]