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3 days 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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5 days 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.
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1 week ago | 
mantecabulletin.com | Dave Campbell
STOCKTON — Ben Holt College Prep Academy showed that it deserves the top seed in Division IV with a 25-21, 25-16, 25-15 sweep of visiting No. 8 Ripon on Friday in a Sac-Joaquin Section quarterfinal. The Indians (24-10) put up a tough fight in the first set, leading much of the second half of that game with their last lead at 21-20 before Ben Holt (36-1) went on a 5-0 run to finish the first game. Ripon did not enjoy a lead the rest of the night.
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2 weeks ago | 
mantecabulletin.com | Dave Campbell
In what turned out to be a classic 8-9 playoff matchup Wednesday night, ninth-seeded Antelope eked out a thrilling 25-18, 24-26, 17-25, 25-20, 16-14 win over No. 8 Manteca in opening-round action of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division II boys volleyball playoffs at Manteca High.
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2 weeks ago | 
mantecabulletin.com | Dave Campbell
East Union’s Gabriel Holguin had four blocks Monday night, but one of them ended the Sac-Joaquin Section Division III play-in match with visiting Buhach Colony. With momentum hanging in the balance and the Thunder (8-13) of Atwater having scored three of the previous four points in the fifth and deciding set, Holguin went high to hammer down the last shot from Buhach Colony for a thrilling 25-19, 25-17, 19-25, 19-25, 15-10 win.
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2 weeks ago | 
mantecabulletin.com | Dave Campbell
The Lathrop softball team could not get in gear offensively in an 8-0 Western Athletic Conference loss to visiting Central Valley on Monday. The Spartans (7-6 WAC, 10-10 overall) were held to just three hits, while striking out seven times. Lathrop leadoff batter Tianna Gonzalez did her job, reaching base three times on a single and a pair of walks.
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2 weeks ago | 
mantecabulletin.com | Dave Campbell
Asleep for the first six innings Friday with just one hit through six innings, the Manteca bats woke up with a vengeance in the seventh inning with eight runs behind a three-run homer and a pair of two-RBI doubles to stun host East Union 8-5 in the Valley Oak League baseball finale at Maurice Agostini Field. “Going into the seventh, we wanted to mix up the flow a little bit and get a couple of guys like Carson (Sablan) and Devon (Richardson) an at-bat,” coach Mark Ruiz said.
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2 weeks ago | 
mantecabulletin.com | Dave Campbell
In a game that included 22 miscues — either errors, passed balls, wild pitches or hit batters — it was only fitting that Lathrop would escape with a 10-9 non-league baseball game win over visiting Delta Charter on a walk-off passed ball on Thursday. Lathrop (6-15) entered the bottom of the seventh trailing, 9-8. Carson Scott led off the frame for the Spartans and reached when he was hit by a pitch. Josue Nerio hit a grounder to second, forcing out Scott but leaving Nerio at first.
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3 weeks ago | 
mantecabulletin.com | Dave Campbell
Behind a two-error second inning for host Manteca, the pitching prowess of Central Catholic’s Braelyn Avila and the big bat of her battery mate Madie Harrison, the Valley Oak League champion Raiders rolled to an 8-0 win on Tuesday in VOL softball action. “That one bad inning with the errors, including the two-out error which led to a home run, really hurt us,” Buffaloes coach Josh Farris said.
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3 weeks ago | 
mantecabulletin.com | Dave Campbell
Ripon’s Trent Olmo came up big down the stretch of the deciding fifth set Thursday with three kills and three blocks for six of his team’s final seven points in a 25-22, 20-25, 28-26, 22-25, 15-10 non-league boys volleyball win over visiting Sierra. Olmo finished with six kills and five blocks. “We knew that last set was a quick one to 15, so we had to come out fired up and we did,” Olmo said. “We picked up momentum and got through it.
