Gerardo Recinos

Gerardo Recinos is a journalist currently living in Concord, Calif. He is a recent graduate of San Francisco State University, with a degree in Journalism (History minor). Gerardo covers sports throughout Martinez and Pleasant Hill. It's his lifelong mission to get people in the U.S. to stop calling football "soccer," and to call American football "handegg."

Minutemen too physical for Lady Dogs

By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune Concord and Alhambra’s girls took to the pool on Wednesday afternoon as the sun started to descend and played on of the more physical games of water polo that pool has ever seen. Concord’s Lady Minutemen were victorious by a score of 11-8, but the …

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Dogs score 24 in big win over Concord

By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune So far so good for the Alhambra boys water polo team. Two games in league play, two 20-goal scoring outputs, those numbers are huge at any level. Ok, so we expected the Bulldogs to start off their league campaign hot, but the magnitude of how …

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Alhambra trounces Las Lomas 42-9

By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune It’s finally happening, Alhambra is starting to gel and settle in as a team. And as a team they settled in all over George De Klotz Stadium in Walnut Creek, destroying the Las Lomas Knights. Alhambra’s 42-9 win on Sept. 16, saw them put up …

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Girls water polo wins 10-6 in DAL opener

By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune Alhambra’s girls pushed the magic number to four for coach Frank Reichert, as they took care of St. Patrick-St. Vincent-Vallejo. The 10-6 win leaves their coach with 296 career wins as the architect of the girls water polo program. It should be said that before …

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Tennis setting solid foundation for new league

By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune The Alhambra tennis team started their season with back-to-back games to get themselves going this season. On Wednesday, Aug. 31, Alhambra went up against Salesian-Richmond. The Bulldogs went down 4-5 in a tightly contested pro-set style match up. So the Varsity played 10 game pro …

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