Stories for 9/24

FOOTBALL PREVIEWS: Gold Country Media has a football preview roundup that talks about most of the games involving PVL teams. For Mike Ray's story, click here. ... For a Vallejo-Napa football preview, click here. ... For a Vintage-Clayton Valley football preview, click here. ... For a preview story on tonight's Wood-Davis Sr. game, click here. ... For a preview capsule on tonight's Tracy-Washington football game, click here. ... For a preview story on tonight's Hogan-Highlands football game, click here. ... For the Manteca Bulletin's Week 3 football previews, click here.

The Modesto Bee has a handful of football stories. First, there's a story on the talented quarterbacks throughout the Stanislaus District. To read Richard T. Estrada's story, click here. That story is combined with a second story on the two quarterbacks leading the Sac-Joaquin Section in passing yards. They're both from the MMC. Click here for that story. For a football notebook that looks at Escalon coach Mark Loureiro's sterling career, click here. And to see the ModBee's high school football athletes of the week, click here.

The Napa Valley Register has a story on versatile Napa football player Charles Boyett. He ranges all over the field as a safety and quarterback for the Indians. To see Andy Wilcox's feature, click here.

The Escalon News has a story off the Escalon football team's 30-13 victory over Patterson last Friday night. For Marg Jackson's story, click here.

The Tokay High athletics program has signed a deal with Nike for athletic equipment. To see Joelle Milholm's story in the Lodi News-Sentinel, click here.

The Manteca Bulletin has a story on the 50th anniversary of Guss Schmiedt Field. Several members of Manteca's 1959 will serve as honorary captains on Friday night. Click here for Jonamar Jacinto's story. And click here for many other stories on Manteca-area teams.

Shawn Jansen of the Merced Sun-Star has a column on the soccer players helping out their schools' football teams as well. To see his column, which includes several other notes, click here.

The Modesto Bee has a story on the three Powell sisters of Oakdale, leaders of the volleyball team. To see Stu Rosenberg's story, click here. To see a volleyball notebook that looks all over the Stanislaus District, click here.

The Sacramento Bee has a package on the Holy Bowl (the Jesuit-Christian Brothers football game) which will celebrate its 40th annual meeting this week. For Joe Davidson's story on the game, click here. For a look at 10 notable Holy Bowls over the years, click here. And for a SacBee high school notebook, click here.

The Stockton Record posted its high school notebook, which leads with St. Mary's football being ranked #4 in all of Northern California. For Stephen Roberson's story, click here.

The Vacaville Reporter has a feature story on one of the unsung leaders of the Vacaville football team, lineman Ben Holmes. For Tim Roe's story, click here.

The Colfax Journal takes a look back at the Colfax football team's loss to Truckee last week as well as the Falcons' game with Union Mine this week. For Mike Ray's story, click here. ... For Ray's preview story on this week's game, click here.

The Galt Herald has a story on the Galt football team's 19-7 victory over Lodi last Friday. It was the first Galt win over Lodi in five years. For the story, click here.

The Patterson Irrigator has posted its weekly update, which includes all sorts of stories concerning Patterson athletics. For Marc Aceves' stories, click here.

Del Oro football player Bryce Pratt is the Auburn Journal's Eagle of the Week. For the story, click here.

In its weekly predictions story, one of the seven games that ESPN/CalHiSports takes a look at is the Granite Bay-Vacaville football game this week. For the story, click here.

ROUNDUPS: Del Oro water polo beat Oakmont. Click here. ... The Escalon volleyball team went 2-0 last week. Click here. ... Granite Bay soccer beat Nevada Union. Click here. Or click here. ... Rocklin soccer beat Roseville. Click here. ... For the Grass Valley Union prep roundup, click here. Or click here. ... Tokay water polo swept Lodi. Click here. ... Merced soccer beat Golden Valley. Click here for James Burns' story. ... To see the Merced Sun-Star local roundup, click here. ... The Whitney girls water polo team took seventh at the Sierra Shootout. Click here. ... The Rocklin soccer team beat Roseville. Click here. ... For the Vacaville Reporter local digest, click here. ...