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Now the fun begins … When the baseball season started, the so-called experts had tuned out Davis High when talking about potential Sac-Joaquin Section contenders. Three months later, the Blue Devils are being mentioned in the same breath with Elk Grove, Pleasant Grove and Jesuit. After dismantling Monterey Trail 31-1 on Monday, DHS ran its […]
Timing is everything, especially in swimming, where timing is a double-edged sword. A swimmer’s time is always posted on the board, for all to see, and in prep pool competition, establishing a strong enough time to qualify for section finals is the season-long key. When schools in the Sac-Joaquin Section gather for the championships at […]
There was no mystery at the Delta Valley Conference girls swim meet on Friday. Alternating with boys events, the Davis High distaffers won their 24th consecutive league crown at Arroyo Pool, topping second-place Laguna Creek, 641-350. Beverly Nguyen, Tara Halsted and Rachel Johnson each captured two individual events, the Devil relay teams swept those three […]
What off-season? If you don’t think this is prep football season, guess again. This semester, Davis High football players have been surviving a 6:15 a.m. training course, called Zero Period. Some have been in involved in after-school tutoring or a Blue Devil gridiron homework club. There are afternoon weight-room sessions, allowing potential players from the […]
Swimming fans will have to go back to 1588 — when the English defeated the seemingly invincible Spanish Armada — to find a more intriguing “high-seas” adventure than what might be ahead at the Sac-Joaquin Section meet May 12-14 at Tokay. Once the spray from Friday’s Delta Valley Conference finals evaporates, Davis High’s boys and […]
Davis Youth Softball Association under-12 Giants brought out the big sticks in an 18-8 victory over The Other Guys this week. Mickey Cross hammered two home runs, Shasta Fields had three singles, Allison Mitchell and Claire Michael had two hits apiece. Jaime Browne, Megan Hanley and Angelica Tujo singled for the winners. DeWit and Fields […]
With a pitching staff whose earned run average is under 1.19 for the season, Davis High hurlers can make 2-0 leads stand up all day long. But in addition to the miserly mound members, the 16-3-1 Blue Devils have seen some renewed pop at the plate over the past few games. For example, in Wednesday’s […]
When a school plays team golf — competition in which the five best scores are counted from six chosen players — any congregate score under 400 is considered powerful. On Tuesday, Davis High shot a brilliant 385 at Wildhorse Golf Course … and it still needed every par, birdie and lucky shot to squeak out […]
It’s kind of a formality, these Delta Valley Conference swimming championships. Davis High’s girls and boys teams have been dominant over the years, regardless of which league the Blue Devils are asked to grace. For much of the last decade, it’s been the DVC and, like veteran Blue Devil girls coach Doug Wright recalls, before […]
If you were lucky enough to be on hand to watch Blue Devil distance runner Trevor Halsted win the 1,600-meter race at the rebirth of invitational track at Davis High, you’re probably still rubbing your eyes in disbelief. Halsted, the reigning Sac-Joaquin Section cross country champion, turned in a performance without peer in the 25-school […]
The prep track world came back to town Saturday as the Halden Invitational drew more than 3,000 athletes and fans to Ron & Mary Brown Stadium. Members of the Davis High Blue and White Foundation promised six years ago that a refurbished campus stadium would mean renewed pride, greater safety for athletes, a focal point […]
With the Kentucky Derby just around the corner, visions of my own personal sugarplums begin to dance in my head. The most revered horse race in history will celebrate its 137th running on May 7 — and I feel like this one is of the most wide-open competitions ever. Twenty horses will go postward, I […]
