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• Bay Area News Group boys high school athlete of the week: Diego Enriquez, Bellarmine baseball By just 65 votes, Bellarmine baseball player Diego Enriquez edged Washington-Fremont lacrosse player Aaron Edelson to receive the Bay Area News Group’s boys high school athlete of the week honors for April 25-May 1. At the 5 p.m. deadline Wednesday, Enriquez had 6,968 votes (33.81%) to Edelson’s 6,933 (33.64%). Leigh baseball player Nate Miller (2,056/9.97%) took third. Congratulations to all the candidates for this week’s recognition. Enriquez, in a game Bellarmine had to win to remain in the West Catholic…
• Thousand Oaks boys volleyball sweeps St. Francis, advances to Division 2 semifinals Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now. THOUSAND OAKS — The strength of the Thousand Oaks boys volleyball team starts in the middle. Lengthy vertical reaches and years of training have made the Lancers’ blocking dominant. “We can block ourselves out of any deficit,” Tyler Linville said. “I don’t think we’d be where we are if we didn’t have the blocking knowledge and IQ that our coach has.” Thousand Oaks blocked their way to…
• High school roundup: California, Sacred Heart Cathedral beat top-ranked teams in league baseball finales Baseball No. 1 De La Salle, No. 2 Bellarmine stumble Whether it was a hint of upcoming playoff unpredictability or one of those days, the top two teams in the latest Bay Area News Group rankings ended the regular season Friday in defeat. Top-ranked De La Salle lost at No. 8 California 3-0. Second-ranked Bellarmine fell on the road against No. 10 Sacred Heart Cathedral 10-8. De La Salle had already clinched the top seed in next week’s East Bay…
• University of Utah baseball: C.J. Cron makes donation to U. baseball Colorado Rockies first baseman C.J. Cron watches the flight of the ball Saturday, April 30, 2022, in Denver. On Wednesday, the University of Utah announced that the former Ute standout has pledged a significant donation to the Utes baseball program.David Zalubowski, Associated Press Former Utah star C.J. Cron, now with the Colorado Rockies, is currently tied for the major league lead with nine home runs this season.   On Wednesday, in a figurative sense, Cron homered for his alma mater. The…
• Vote now: Bay Area News Group girls athlete of the week Welcome to the Bay Area News Group (Mercury News & East Bay Times) girls athlete of the week poll. For the entire academic year, we will provide a list of candidates who stood out over the previous week and allow you, the reader, to vote for the winner. This week, we consider performances from May 2-8. Polls close at 5 p.m. Wednesday. Vote as many times as you’d like until then. Candidates for future Athlete of the Week polls can…
• Pope decries divisions caused by old-school liturgy fans Pope Francis on Saturday blasted Catholics who, hewing to old-school versions of liturgy like the Latin Mass, have made an ideological battleground of the issue, decrying what he described as devil-inspired divisiveness in the church. Francis pressed his papacy’s battle against traditionalists, whose prominent members include some ultra-conservative cardinals. They have resisted restrictions, imposed last year by the Vatican, on celebrations of the old Mass in Latin in St. Peter’s Basilica and, more generally, for years have disparaged the modernizing…
• High school roundup: New league doesn’t stop tiny Fremont Christian from winning another baseball title Baseball Fremont Christian celebrates league crown Longtime Fremont Christian baseball coach Chris Gomez said he still couldn’t believe his team captured a league championship, even as he enjoyed a postgame dinner at a nearby Mexican restaurant. Elevated to a stronger league this spring, Fremont Christian wasn’t expected to rise to the top, Gomez said. But the Warriors found a way on their home field to beat an undefeated Redwood Christian pitcher Monday to clinch the title with one league game…
• Letters: ‘Arms race’ of spending Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Time to end colleges’ ‘arms race’ of spending Kudos to Colin Diver for his critique of U.S. News and World Report’s ill-conceived rankings of American educational institutions (“Why we should liberate students from tyranny of college rankings,” Page A7, April 26). As someone who has spent a career in higher education, I can attest to the corrupting effects these rankings have. Among other things, they…
• Bay Area Weekend: Smuin Ballet, Jon Nakamatsu plays ‘Emperor’ Pianist Aaron Diehl is a guest soloist as the San Francisco Symphony performs Florence Price’s Piano Concerto. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group archives) Classical picks: Composer Florence Price and more The classical music calendar has plenty of events to choose from this week; here are some of the highlights. Price at S.F. Symphony: Music organizations are still catching up to the music of the acclaimed African American composer Florence Price (1887-1953); this week, the American composer’s Piano Concerto gets its…
• Hiltzik: Why we need term limits for Supreme Court justices The Supreme Court’s now-confirmed intention of overturning the half-century-old protection for abortion rights in Roe v. Wade is energizing the debate over how to rein in the court’s extreme conservative slant. Expanding the court beyond its current complement of nine justices has long been the most widely discussed option. Another idea may be gaining traction, however: Eliminating the justices’ right to lifetime appointments by imposing a term limit. This option, which has been discussed for decades, received its most recent airing in March at…