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4 days ago | 
mantecabulletin.com | Dave Campbell
TRACY — The Ripon Michigan Wolverines came up with two runs in the bottom of the sixth inning Monday night to walk off with the District 67 Majors Softball Tournament of Champions banner thanks to a 2-1 win over the Tracy Diamond Sluggers at Legacy Fields. Peyton Merrill (2 for 3, triple, run) led off the final frame for Ripon with a single and alertly took second when Tracy took their eyes off of her.
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1 week ago | 
mantecabulletin.com | Dave Campbell
Austin Barnes and Dane Anderson, a pair of Manteca High seniors, will hit the road this summer to compete in some prestigious fishing tournaments. Barnes, with teammate Niko Mirante of Delta Charter High School in Tracy, and Anderson, with teammate Joseph Curcio of Liberty High School in Brentwood, fish for the San Joaquin BassMasters, part of the California Bass Federation/The Bass Federation circuit. Both teams recently qualified for the Nationals which will be held in Grand Lake Grove, Okla.
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1 week ago | 
mantecabulletin.com | Dave Campbell
FOLSOM — Ripon’s Starla Skiles qualified for the California Interscholastic Federation State Track and Field Championships in two events after winning the girls 300-meter hurdles and finishing second in the 100 hurdles Saturday in the Sac-Joaquin Section Track and Field Championships at Folsom High School’s Prairie City Stadium. All top-three finishers will compete in the two-day state championships at Clovis High School beginning Friday.
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2 weeks ago | 
mantecabulletin.com | Dave Campbell
MODESTO — After losing to No. 1 Central Catholic twice this year in Valley Oak League play by a combined score of 11-1, fourth-seeded Manteca met its nemesis one more time on Tuesday in the semifinals of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division III softball playoffs. With the wind squarely on the side of the Raiders, Central Catholic eked out a 1-0 win at Ladd Softball Field and will play in the final Saturday against No. 2 Vanden.
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3 weeks ago | 
mantecabulletin.com | Dave Campbell
RIVERBANK — The Ripon boys and girls track and field teams won the Sac-Joaquin Division V championships, while the Lathrop boys won the Division IV blue banner Friday at Riverbank High School. Lathrop’s girls finished as runners-up. “This is awesome,” Indians coach Jorge Velasco said. “We did this is a few years ago, and this shows our hard work coming together. Marcus (Madoski) really showed up today, and Starla (Skiles) is someone we are going to miss.
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3 weeks ago | 
mantecabulletin.com | Dave Campbell
Clinging to a one-run lead Wednesday going into the bottom of the sixth inning No. 6 Ripon opened the frame with three consecutive doubles and six consecutive hits, capping it with a three-run, walk-off home run by Izzy Spurzem for an 11-1 mercy-rule win over visiting Woodland Christian to open the Sac-Joaquin Section Division V softball playoffs. “I was down on myself for my previous at-bats,” Spurzem said. “I needed a hit. “I knew it was there, so I just swung as hard as I could.
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3 weeks ago | 
mantecabulletin.com | Dave Campbell
It came down to the last match Tuesday, but Ripon Christian’s mixed doubles team of Christian Runnels and Annika Jung held off Summerville’s Mathew Wood and Bella Wickman 7-5, 6-4 to give the Knights a 5-4 semifinal win in the Sac-Joaquin Section coed tennis playoffs at Ripon Community Park. “That last match was exciting and it pumped up our kids,” Ripon Christian coach Melody de Abreu said. “It was a fun way to end the match, for sure.
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3 weeks ago | 
mantecabulletin.com | Dave Campbell
Mark Bondoc is taking his ball and heading east — way east. The three-year varsity starter for the Manteca High boys volleyball team, and 2024 Valley Oak League MVP, has committed to the University of Valley Forge in Phoenixville, Penn. and looks to make his mark with Patriots volleyball, an NCAA Division III team. “This feels amazing knowing that I have been around such a big community of people with volleyball for the four years I have been playing,” Bondoc said.
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3 weeks ago | 
mantecabulletin.com | Dave Campbell
SACRAMENTO — When Ripon Christian freshman Grant Wentworth slammed down the match point Saturday afternoon, the No. 3 Knights claimed their third Sac-Joaquin Section championship in four years with a 25-14, 25-16, 25-18 thumping of fourth-seeded Christian Brothers in the finals of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division III Boys Volleyball Championships on Clark Court at Cosumnes River College. “This feels fantastic,” Ripon Christian coach Kevin Tameling said. “I am proud of the guys.
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4 weeks ago | 
mantecabulletin.com | Dave Campbell
OAKDALE — Seventh-seeded East Union was the beneficiary of four first-inning walks but could only muster one run out of those gifts and turned around and committed four costly errors to allow No. 2 Oakdale to come from behind for an 8-5 Division IV second-round Sac-Joaquin Section playoff win. “The errors killed us,” Lancers coach Dan Bauer said. “You can’t give a good team like that errors, and there were some other plays we should have made. “But I am proud of the way the guys fought back.
