By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune Last year, Willie Marchesano’s girls broke new ground when they qualified for the playoffs, but it was clear that this year that wouldn’t be enough for the team. This year they qualified with ease, and won the program’s first North Coast Section match on Tuesday …
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By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune Alhambra’s varsity girls water polo team took one step closer to the playoffs with their win over the Pinole Valley Titans on Thursday afternoon. The girls, who have three games left on their season (as of Tribune deadline) needed a win badly, and took care …
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By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune On Thursday night Willie Marchesano honored his eight seniors in quite possibly the best way: he allowed the underclassmen to take a break and allowed the seniors to play the whole game in front of their friends and family. As far as coaches go, Marchesano …
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By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune With the bittersweet mood hovering over the pool at Alhambra on Wednesday evening, it was uncertain what you would get out of the Alhambra girls. On the one hand, they knew they had taken care of what they needed to get into the playoffs. But …
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By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune Alhambra’s boys don’t really like to play defense, it seems, but they survived a second-half onslaught from Clayton Valley Charter-Concord to escape with a 19-17 win on Wednesday night. Their Oct. 26 win really showed two different sides to the team. One where they can …
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By JOEL TIMBRELL Martinez Tribune Seven Bulldog runners took the eight hour car ride to Mount San Antonio College in Walnut, California last Thursday, Oct. 20, for the 69th annual world-famous Mt. SAC Cross Country Invitational. Like the Artichoke Invitational at Half Moon Bay High School, Mt. SAC is a …
Read More »By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune Alhambra’s girls closed out their season with a game left to play in regular season, assuring that the absolute worst-case scenario is that they’ll share the league title, but earn the automatic North Coast Section bid. After a rare blemish this season against Berean Christian …
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By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune For the 110th time Alhambra High School celebrated their Homecoming last week. They played their 62nd football game and came out the victors over Mt. Diablo-Concord. It seems appropriate that the oldest school in Contra Costa County played against the second-best (Mt. Diablo was founded …
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By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune The Alhambra girls’ tennis team got back to its winning ways on a breezy Tuesday afternoon when they took on Berean Christian. The Oct. 18, win went 7-2 in favor of the Bulldogs, leaving Alhambra with a season sweep of the Eagles from Walnut Creek. …
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By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune Big players can take over big games and in their game against Berean Christian Friday night, the Bulldogs saw up close that they can also live up to the hype. Four-star rated Rivals.com recruit Isaiah Hodgins and the Eagles hosted the Bulldogs at Clayton Valley …
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