Nielsen does it all for Bear River track
Bear River High School junior Kendal Nielsen holds some bragging rights.
She alone helped the Bruins to the highest team total in Division III at the recent Sac-Joaquin Section Division II-III Track and Field Championships on May 18 and 20 at Bella Vista.
Nielsen scored all of Bear River's 28 points. Second-place Antelope had 18 points.
Nielsen won the long and triple jumps, and was fourth in the 100- and 200-meter dashes.
She followed that at the Masters Championships at Hughes Stadium last Thursday and Friday by placing second in the long jump (17 feet, 11 inches) and third in the triple jump (37-41/2). She will compete in both events beginning Friday at the CIF State Track and Field Championships in Clovis.
• Lawre'll Dobbins of Foothill won the Masters girls high jump (5-6) for the second consecutive year. She won in 2010 with a jump of 5-5. Dobbins is also a three-time Division III section meet champion.
• Sophie Meads, who chased down Granite Bay's Brooke Holt to win the Masters 3,200 girls race, will represent Davis at the state meet. But Meads doesn't attend Davis High. She is a ninth-grader at Harper Junior High of Davis.
Rocklin tops Jesuit in boys volleyball
It was a breakthrough season for the Rocklin boys volleyball program.
Visiting Rocklin beat Jesuit 25-19, 18-25, 22-25, 30-28, 15-6 for the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I title May 19.
Behind Sierra Foothill League co-MVP Grant Currey, who's headed to UC San Diego on scholarship, the first-time section champion Thunder (29-5) also finished as co-champion of the SFL with Granite Bay and beat the Grizzlies for the first time.
Granite Bay was the two-time defending section champion, having defeated Rocklin in last season's finale.
Rocklin coach Tyson Norton said Grant Wilson and Matt Laughrea were first-team all-SFL. Kyle Loria, Christian Mata and Konnor Elvick were honorable mention selections.
Earlier this year, the Rocklin girls won their first D-II section championship. The program won the D-III title in 1997.
Rio water polo star headed to Wagner
• Rio Americano's Madeleine Brown, an all-section water polo center defender, signed a letter of intent to play at Wagner College in Staten Island, N.Y.
Brown was a member of four Rio Americano Sac-Joaquin Section D-II championship teams.
According to her father, Mark Brown, Madeleine played her junior year with a cracked vertebra, an injury not diagnosed until after the season.
She spent almost five months in a body cast.
• Galt linebacker Jimmy Roberts signed with Willamette in Salem, Ore. The all-Sierra Valley Conference selection carries a 3.5 grade-point average.
– Bill Paterson
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