Stories from the long weekend (9/5-9/8)

Look for a couple of entries. We'll have one post looking solely at the weekend's football games, then this one, which focuses on everything else. The football previews are really rolling through.

Casey Rhyan has been named the new wrestling coach at Oak Ridge. For Matt Long's story in the El Dorado Hills Telegraph, click here.

The Modesto Bee concludes its eight-day high school football preview package with stories on coaches, quarterbacks, the HCL, SL, and many more. For all those stories, click here.

The Lodi News Sentinel has two football preview stories. First, there's Richard Banas II's preview on the Galt football team. For that story, click here. And for Joelle Milholm's preview on the Lodi football team, click here.

The Appeal-Democrat has a preview story on the River Valley football team. Look for Ryan Klocke's story here.

The Stockton Record has a football preview story focusing on the SJAA title race. For Stephen Roberson's story, click here. And for Roberson's preview story on the TCAL, click here.

The Folsom Telegraph has a preview story on its own Folsom football team. For the story, click here.

The Auburn Journal has a preview story on the Placer football team. To see the story, click here. The Journal also has a preview story on the Bear River football team. For Ray Hacke's story, click here. The Journal's Eric J. Gourley also has a preview story on the Del Oro football team. For that story, click here.

The Tracy Press has preview stories on its two main football teams. For Bob Brownne's story on the Tracy squad, click here. For his story on the West Wolfpack, click here.

ESPN/CalHiSports.com concludes its football preview series with a story that features Del Campo and Franklin of Elk Grove. For the story, click here.

Defending Section champion Brooke Holt was the varsity girls winner at the Del Oro cross country Invitational. El Camino's Chris Kigar was the boys winner. For the story in the Auburn Journal, click here.

The Calaveras Enterprise has a preview story on its area volleyball teams. For Jeremy Malamed's story, click here.

The Stockton Record has a volleyball preview story focusing on Chavez. For Mark Godi's story, click here.

For multiple stories on local teams from the Manteca Bulletin, click here.


ROUNDUPS: The Calaveras Enterprise prep roundup can be found here. ... Oak Ridge tennis beat Folsom. Click here. ... The Oak Ridge girls cross country team won at the Willow Hills Relays. Click here. ... The Folsom golf team won its first match of the season. Click here. ... The Roseville volleyball team went 7-1 at the High Sierra Tournament in Reno. Click here. ... The Lodi News-Sentinel weekend roundup is here. ... Modesto won the Davis Spartan soccer classic here.