High School Sports

A poker game yielded more than good eats and cash winnings for K.J. Monroe. He scored some Raiders gear.

Stephanie Tofft's decision to leave the struggling Northern Illinois softball program paid off in a big way for the former Lincoln High School star and Bee All-Metro first-team selection.

Natomas High School's boys basketball team won only six games last season, but the Nighthawks are now one of the intriguing teams for the 2013-14 season.

2012 Olympic silver medalist Haley Anderson of Granite Bay has been named to the United States' FINA World Championships open water swim team.

Elk Grove's Rowdy Tellez is one of seven Cal-Hi Sports Mr. Baseball State Player of the Year finalists.

What's next for the 6-foot-4, 230-pound Bee Baseball Player of the Year in Rowdy Tellez? He said he's bound for USC on scholarship, unless the Blue Jays surprise him with a signing bonus too good to pass up.

Not long ago, Sacramento was a track and field mecca.

Thirteen area players, including Elk Grove standout Rowdy Tellez, were selected on the third and final day of the Major League Baseball player draft.

Disappointed in watching his stock apparently drop on the second day of Major League Baseball's First-Year Player Draft on Friday, Dom Nunez decided it was time to get out of the house.

Andrew Knapp credits his father for helping him find the way in baseball. Mike Knapp was a pretty good catcher in his day.

Andrew Knapp credits his father for helping him find the way in baseball.

Here are the spring All-Sierra Foothill League teams that have been submitted to The Bee.

Here are the spring All-Metro Conference teams that were submitted to The Bee.

Less than six months after leading Granite Bay High School to its first State Bowl football championship, a teary-eyed Ernie Cooper stunned his players at the start of Wednesday's practice by telling them he no longer had the fire in his belly and was immediately stepping down as the school's football coach.

With bats in their hands, Ali Aguilar of Casa Roble and Rowdy Tellez of Elk Grove are naturals. They attack the strike zone and drive the ball to all fields - or over the fence.

The Evening Optimist Club of Sacramento is dedicating this Saturday's 42nd Annual High School Baseball All-Star Games at McAuliffe Field to U.S. Army Spc. Ray Ramirez.

Less than six months after leading his team to a CIF State Bowl Championship, a teary-eyed Ernie Cooper told his Granite Bay football players this afternoon that he no long has the "fire in his belly" and was immediately stepping down as the school's longtime football coach.

Ending weeks of speculation, Eddie Vanderdoes made it official Tuesday: He will not attend Notre Dame on a football scholarship and will instead play at UCLA.

CIF State Division I boys basketball champion Pleasant Grove, two-time D-II Sac-Joaquin Section champion Antelope and two-time D-V section champion Capital Christian are among 32 teams that will compete in this weekend's Cosumnes River College Summer Challenge.

Nia Dorner wasn't alone when she broke the tape Saturday night in Clovis.

Cordova's Nia Dorner learned well from last year's 400-meter race at the CIF State Track and Field Championships.

Three years ago, Dom Nunez and Rowdy Tellez absorbed a championship baseball beatdown in the final weekend of the season. They vowed to grow from the experience and to some day reverse the outcome.

Area scouts and national cross-checkers have made thousands of phone calls, worked out top prospects, watched video, studied medical reports, crunched statistics, consulted clairvoyants and discussed signability and bonuses with players, parents and advisers.

Elk Grove seeks its seventh D-I title since 1990, an ongoing section large-school standard.

State 400-meter girls leader Nia Dorner of Cordova made it look easy, and state boys high jump leader Xavier Howell of Center made it look hard on Friday at the 95th annual CIF State Track and Field Championships.

After the long baseball season, it comes down to two days to decide the champion.

The Southern California sprint field is so deep and talented that the primary goals for Jesuit's Austin Mitsch and Antelope's Robert Ellis are to make Saturday's finals of the 95th CIF State Track and Field Championships that start Friday in Clovis.

Six Sacramento-area players are members of softball teams competing in the Women's College World Series that started today in Oklahoma City.

Oregon State and Cal State Fullerton will enter the NCAA College Baseball Division I Regionals this weekend with a number of area players contributing to those teams' respective success.

Knapp was an All-Metro honorable mention in 2010 for the 22-9 Grizzlies, who lost in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division II final. He batted .315 with eight doubles and 19 RBIs. He had an on-base percentage of .426.