High School Sports

Taylor Cotton was among those in a record attendance of 1,200 at Sacramento State's softball game in which Cal's Jolene Henderson pitched the nationally ranked Bears to a 1-0 win over the Hornets.

Al LoGiudice has coached softball at St. Francis for a quarter of a century, but he's not so set in his ways that he won't try something new.

Rankings for The Bee's top 20 high school softball teams, including school records and previous ranking.

Rankings for The Bee's Top 20 high school baseball teams, including school records and previous ranking.

College and high school sports results from around the region and nation, including results and schedules for the men's/women's NCAA and NIT tournaments.

For high school baseball teams blending new faces with older ones, the early part of the season can be fraught with ups and downs.

Over a long, emotionally taxing night in January, three foreign students told Roseville police how they had been abused by a man who brought them to this country to play at his fledgling basketball academy. At 2 a.m., they were done, and the question arose: Where do they go now?

Jolene Henderson struck out a season-high 15 in throwing a two-hitter, and No. 4 Cal beat host Sacramento State 1-0 Saturday in a nonconference softball game in front of a Shea Stadium announced record crowd of 1,212.

Sacramento High's Joseph Barnes had 24 points to capture team MVP honors and lead the South over the North 113-105 in tonight's Optimist All-Star boys basketball game at Center High School.

Former Sheldon High star Jolene Henderson struck out a season-high 14 and allowed two hits and no walks as No. 4 Cal defeated Sacramento State 1-0 this afternoon in front of a Hornets' record softball crowd of 1,212 at Shea Stadium.

Community college and high school sports results from around the region, including the lineup for the Optimist All-Star basketball tournament.

Many of the area's top seniors will compete in the 36th annual Evening Optimist boys and girls all-star basketball games Saturday at Center High School in Antelope.

High school sports results from around the region.

Bee No. 6 Pleasant Grove has advanced to the championship of the Boras Baseball Classic April 13 at the University of Pacific in Stockton after beating top-ranked Elk Grove 11-1 in today's Northern California tournament finale at Sacramento State.

Menlo-Atherton scored three times in the first inning then held off Cordova 3-2 in today's 43rd annual Cordova Easter Tournament championship baseball game at Hagan Park in Rancho Cordova.

Here are the winter All-Tri-County Conference teams as submitted to The Bee.

Here are the All-Sierra Foothill League boys and girls basketball teams that were submitted to The Bee. For corrections, email bpaterson@sacbee.com

Here are the winter All-Golden Empire League teams that have been submitted to The Bee

Long before they were high school basketball stars, Lynette Johnson and Dakarai Allen struggled to grasp the game and their growing bodies. They were nonfactors on their middle school teams, planted at the end of the bench.

High school sports results from around the region.

Here are the top players and coaches in girls high school basketball for the just-completed season.

Here are the top players and coaches in boys high school basketball for the just-completed season.

High school sports results from around the region.

Rankings for The Bee's Top 20 high school softball teams, including team records and previous rankings.

It was an emotional Saturday for the Rocklin softball team.

High school sports results from around the region, including spring baseball tournaments.

Even the assistant coaches for Pleasant Grove High School's basketball team embraced the Eagles' theme of "Get dirty," the battle cry Bill McCoin used to implore players to dive for loose balls, to box out.

Rankings for The Bee's Top 20 high school boys baseball teams, including school records and previous rankings.

Former Sheldon High School football player Mansel Simmons, a redshirt freshman wide receiver at Washington State last season, was hospitalized with head injuries after being involved in an altercation early Sunday in Pullman, Wash.

When Scott Boras played baseball for Elk Grove High School in the late 1960s, teams faced only opponents within Sacramento County.