I just saw that this NCS Open Championship is being held on the home court of Carondelet on Friday at 7pm. I thought these games are held at a Neutral site as it looks like the CCS and the SJS Championships are being held at Neutral Sites. Is this just the NCS appeasing Carondelet? Doesn't seem to align to history or the other sections.

Either way, it should be a good game and the game that many hoped would come to play.

Ton of great matchups tonight. Will be posting updates as I see them

Check for yourself CIFSJS.

Also have you seen the prices for Golden 1 for Section finals? 2 adult General Admissions tickets will set you back about $50.00 with fees. If you plan on being there all day and night not a bad deal, but otherwise.
$12 + 5.25 service fee for students.

Little Update.
Newman vs Santa Rosa for Classic Champ.
Newman got stud Gavin Vogesen cleared and at 6”3-6”4 he gives them another great scoring option. Look for newman to run off 8-10 wins in a row.

Montgomery lost a close one 46-41 to a solid Redwood team that should compete for MCAL along with Marin Catholic, Archie Williams, Branson.

My sleeper team is Justin Siena in d4. 10-3 with 2 of those losses to palma and capital Christian in DLS tourney. They have great size and are lengthy.

should be fun as we start league play coming up.

That was the best I've seen from PW this year. It was an 8 point game at the half. Pinewood started Q3 with three straight three pointers, and that was the game.
SI is a strong team with players at every spot, including two solid bigs, but it had no answer for Elle Ladine who logged 30 points (many of the spectacular variety), more than 20 boards, and a bushel of assists. Plus she played lockdown defense on SI's Sabrina Ma. Hard to imagine there's a better player in Nor Cal.

Great win for Folsom.

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Open (Wednesday)

Northgate at Campolindo
Miramonte at De La Salle
Granada at Dublin (extra game)

Division I (Tuesday)

Moreau Catholic at Dougherty Valley
Bishop O'Dowd at Clayton Valley Charter

Division II (Wednesday)

Montgomery at San Ramon Valley
Benicia at Salesian

Division III (Tuesday)

Archie Williams at St. Patrick-St. Vincent
Piedmont at Branson

Division IV (Wednesday)

Justin-Siena at Marin Catholic
Stuart Hall at University

Division V (Tuesday)

Urban at Cloverdale
Athenian at Head-Royce

It’s NCS semifinal time!

The 25-1 Campolindo Cougars face the 20-6 Northgate Broncos in their third meeting of the season.

As y’all know, it’s usually darned tough to beat a good team three times in a row, but that’s what the Cougars needs to do.

As I look down on the floor to watch the Cougs warming up, I notice that Logan Robeson is on the floor, dressed down, and NO BOOT. No idea whther he’ll play or how much if he does, but it’s sure nice to see him back out there!

Game summary

I mean...wow. Wrong on soo many levels.

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Some fun matchups coming on Wednesday especially the four games in D1 and D2

Division I

McClatchy at Oak Ridge
St. Mary's at Folsom

Division II

Antelope at Vista del Lago
Del Oro at Laguna Creek

Division III

Placer at Vanden
East Union at Lincoln

Division IV

Argonaut at Calaveras
Colfax at Dixon

Division V

John Adams Academy at Bear River
Woodland Christian at Bret Harte

CCS Open: St Ignatius leads SHC 32-14 at the half.

Division I

Monte Vista beat Dublin 47-33
Logan beat San Leandro 57-47

Logan at Monte Vista 7:00 PM Friday

Division III

Alhambra beat West County 51-45 (Alhambra has won seven in a row inclduing wins over Acalanes, Pinole Valley and WC)
San Marin at Moreau Catholic (Wednesday)

Alhambra at winner of Sam Marin/Moreau Catholic

Division V

University beat Mt. Diablo 78-46
Branson beat San Domenico 51-29

University vs. Branson at Novato HS 7:00 PM Friday

Early surprise in the CCS

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Open (Wednesday)

Bishop O'Dowd at Carondelet
San Ramon Valley at Salesian
Heritage at Cardinal Newman (extra game)

Division I (Tuesday)

Dublin at Monte Vista
San Leandro at Logan

Division II (Wednesday)

Alameda at Acalanes
Montgomery at Northgate

Division III (Tuesday)

San Marin at Moreau Catholic
Alhambra at West County (Alhambra beat Pinole Valley)

Division IV (Wednesday)

Gateway at Marin Catholic
Lick-Wilmerding at Piedmont

Division V (Tuesday)

University at Mt. Diablo
San Domenico at Branson

Division I

Sheldon at Inderkum
Modesto Christian at Folsom

Division II

Granite Bay at Whitney
Grant at Elk Grove

Division III

Manteca at Vanden
Burbank at Central Catholic

Division IV

Union Mine at Liberty Ranch
Venture Academy at Calaveras

Division V

Mariposa County at Denair
Bradshaw Christian at Ripon Christian

Rams hand Ponderosa their first loss of the season.

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Go Bruins!

Redwood beat Liberty 4-1: JR Rory Minty went 5.1 innings and gave up five hits and an unearned run. He struck out three. At the plate, SR Cole McGowen went 2-for-3 with a triple and a RBI.

Pittsburg beat Monte Vista 8-0: SO Cole Leschak threw a two hit shutout with six strikeouts for the Pirates. Pittsburg got hits from eight different players including two RBI apiece from Leschak and SR Khamani Blakney.

On Friday, California beat Liberty 4-3. SR Raoul Fabian went 3-for-3 with a double and two runs scored. SR Dom Tuyor went 3-for-3 with two RBI. SR Nick Bronzini tossed five no-hit innings with two walks and 11 strikeouts.

CVC is one of the loudest gyms around…. Student sixth man group is NUTSO, at least if anything near full capacity is allowed tonight…

Bishop O’Dowd hasn’t lost since I saw them get run down from behind by University in the MLK Showcase at DLS.

Total record is 17-5, a few games short of max, I suppose due to Covid cancellations or whatever….

CVC is 19-9, having played a tough nonleague sked and then going 1-5 vs. the top powers in the DFAL. Might be the best 9-or-more-losses team in Norcal.

CVC is ranked #7 in NCS by Maxpreps and O’Dowd is at #9.

I’ve picked CVC to win this, but it could really go either way.

The Warriors have ended the regular season with four straight wins.

It will be interesting how the CCS seeds the Open after Mitty

Pinewood (one loss to SI, beat St. Francis, O'Dowd, Moreau, SRV)
Valley Christian (split with SI and St. Francis, beat Vanden, Newman, lost to Moreau, Salesian)
St. Ignatius (split with VC, swept St. Francis, lost to Carondelet x2, St. Mary's, Antelope)

I’m down her in San Jose for the doubleheader…. Haven’t seen Mitty’s girls in-person this season, nor have I ever been in ths gym, ever.

Not expecting a real competitive game here, with Mitty having blown out St. Francis in their two league meetings…

The two teams split their league series…

Who’ll win the rubber match?