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Acalanes girls tennis sweeps College Park on senior day
Acalanes girls tennis followed an 8-1 loss to Campolindo with a 9-0 senior day victory over College Park. The Dons visit Miramonte on Oct. 20.
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Saint Mary's Silva wins first WCC defensive weekly honor
Saint Mary's senior defender Molly Silva earned her first WCC Defensive Player of the Week award after scoring the winning goal and making a key defensive clearance in a 1-0 victory over Portland. The Gaels return to Moraga on Oct. 17 to face San Diego.
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Moraga’s Saint Mary’s swept by LMU
LMU swept Saint Mary's women's volleyball 3-0 on Thursday, ending the Gaels' 2-0 WCC start, though sophomore Makenzie Jackson hit a career-best .600 and Alayna Pearson eclipsed 600 career digs.
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Acalanes girls tennis tops Las Lomas 7-2 in Walnut Creek
Acalanes varsity girls tennis beat Las Lomas 7-2 on the road Tuesday, winning five of six singles lines and two of three doubles lines, with Emery Stern rallying through a third-set super-tiebreaker.
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Saint Mary's Nelson goes 3-0 in Gael tennis debut
Senior Priya Nelson went 3-0 in singles as Saint Mary's women's tennis opened its season at the Cal Poly Invitational, with five players making their Gael debuts ahead of the ITA Northwest Regionals on Oct. 8.
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Acalanes sweeps both titles at Be the GOAT Invitational
Acalanes cross country won both the varsity boys and varsity girls team titles at the Be the GOAT Invitational on Sept. 26 at Pinole Valley Park, with senior Alexander Hagen and Naya Ellis leading the way with personal-best performances.
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Winkles throws for 427 yards in Acalanes homecoming rout
Acalanes quarterback Tyler Winkles threw for 427 yards and five touchdowns in a 42-15 homecoming rout of American Canyon, pushing the Dons to 4-1 and extending his lead atop the NCS passing charts heading into a bye week before the Las Lomas rivalry game Oct. 9.
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Saint Mary's volleyball beats San Diego, ends 15-match skid
Saint Mary's women's volleyball upset San Diego 3-2 in five sets on Thursday, snapping a 15-match losing streak against the Toreros and opening WCC conference play 1-0 for the first time since 2022.
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Saint Mary's water polo falls 22-8 to Cal in first meeting
No. 19 Saint Mary's fell 22-8 to No. 4 Cal in the programs' first-ever meeting, with Noah Bigara and Mason Black each recording hat tricks for the Gaels at Spieker Aquatics Center in Berkeley.
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Unbeaten Saint Mary's opens WCC play against USF
Saint Mary's men's soccer opens West Coast Conference play Saturday against rival San Francisco at Saint Mary's Stadium in Moraga, carrying a four-match unbeaten streak and chasing the program's first postseason berth since 2019.
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Saint Mary's opens practice chasing fifth straight WCC title
First-year head coach Mickey McConnell, a former Gael standout, leads Saint Mary's men's basketball into official practice in Moraga as the program pursues what it calls a fifth straight WCC title, with returning All-WCC guard Joshua Dent and a roster bolstered by transfers from Louisville, Stanford and Cal Baptist.
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O'Connell earns Saint Mary's cross country Athlete of the Week
Transfer redshirt senior Joseph O'Connell placed second among 140 runners in his Gael debut at the Saint Mary's Invitational, helping the team to its best finish since 2024 and earning his first SMC Student-Athlete of the Week honor.
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Acalanes girls tennis tops College Park 8-1
Acalanes varsity girls tennis rolled past College Park 8-1 on Tuesday in Pleasant Hill, with Delphine Fisher earning player of the match. The Dons host rival Miramonte at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24.
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Miramonte baseball jumps to 16-9 under first-year coach Hammond
Stanford field hockey (6-1) hosts UC Davis at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Varsity Turf in its Mental Health Awareness Match, the second game of a three-game homestand that opened with a 3-1 loss to No. 1 Northwestern.
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