Sports

By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune There was a definite size difference in a lot of things when you get to the Soda Aquatic Center on the campus of Campolindo High School. The pool, the size of the team. All things considered, the Bulldog varsity water polo team battled back from ...

By JOEL TIMBRELL Special to the Tribune The Bulldog cross country team traveled to Daly City’s Westmoor High School for the 34th Annual Ram Invitational this past Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015. Westmoor’s qualifications for medaling were to place in the top 25 finishers that were not on the overall winning ...

By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune Alhambra’s Lady Bulldog tennis team is in the middle of their toughest stretch of the 2015 season, and was caught by a good Campolindo team that outplayed them 9-0 on Tuesday afternoon. Campo always boasts a good team, but Coach Sarah Gallagher was able to ...

By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune The Lady Bulldog volleyball team dropped a real heartbreaker at home to Dublin on Tuesday night, ultimately losing in a tiebreaker fifth set after taking a 2-1 lead. Four of the five sets played on Tuesday night in the Alhambra gym were only decided by ...

By DONNA BETH WEILENMAN Martinez Tribune Bakersfield native and current NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Kevin Harvick gambled Sunday that he had enough fuel for the last three miles of the Sylvania 300 in Loudon, New Hampshire. He lost both the gamble and the race. Matt Kenseth sailed past Harvick’s sputtering ...

By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune The running joke in the Bulldog locker room at half time Friday night was that at least this time Miramonte spotted them five points, in reference to last year’s 34-14 deficit at the half. There weren’t many smiling faces when Miramonte came out in the ...

By JOEL TIMBRELL Special to the Tribune For the second meet of the 2015 cross country season, Alhambra’s distance runners met at Hayward High School for the 13th annual Farmer Invitational last Saturday. Unlike Martinez’s Ed Sias Invitational at Hidden Valley Park, which saw everyone race the two mile distance, ...

By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune As recently as last season the Lady Bulldog’s games could be described with a single clichéd phrase. “They made them earn it.” It was a catch-all term used as a form of consolation in the case of a loss wherein the team they matched up ...

By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune The popularly coined phrase, “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it,” has never applied to Alhambra’s junior varsity football team. The team was very much broken and needed to be fixed. That fix was made and generated results almost instantly Friday night, earning the Bulldogs ...

By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune On a night when Miramonte put up a 49-6 win, the Bulldogs nearly matched the Matador output by scoring 48 in a win over the Washington-Fremont Huskies Friday night. The win puts the Bulldogs at 3-1 overall, and sets up a dream match-up for the ...