Check below for some state bowl game stories as well as a lot of basketball and wrestling. Have a great weekend!

Rocklin defensive leader Daniel Lessard is playing with a knee injury suffered from a couple of weeks ago. Click here for the feature. Also, the Rocklin team is preparing for state while mourning the loss of two students. Click here for the story.

Click here for a Modesto Bee preview on the Modesto Christian-Parker CIF state bowl small schools game. Click here for the MC and Parker players to watch. ... And click here for the keys to the game.

Vintage senior Jesus Gomez is the Napa Valley Register soccer player of the year. Click here for the story.

Atwater's Eriq Belt may only be 5-foot-6, but he's scoring points by the bushel this year. Click here for the feature on the basketball player.

Oak Ridge's Sara James, a basketball standout, is the ESPN/CalHiSports.com state player of the week. Click here for the story.

A Placer High counselor has a son who plays for the Rocklin football team and will be watching the Thunder play Servite in the D2 state bowl game on Saturday. Click here.

BASKETBALL: The rebuilding Bear River boys are off to a 7-1 start. Click here. ... The Del Oro boys beat Oak Ridge. Click here. ... The Vista del Lago girls beat Laguna Creek. Click here. ... Click here for the Grass Valley Union girls preview roundup. ... Click here for the Grass Valley Union roundup. ... Click here for the Lodi News-Sentinel roundup. ... Click here for the Manteca Bulletin girls roundup. ... Click here for the Manteca Bulletin boys roundup. ... The Merced and Golden Valley girls teams lost. Click here. ... Mariposa beat Bret Harte in the Hilmar Tournament. Click here. ... The Vintage boys beat St. Helena. Click here. ... The Whitney girls beat Rocklin. Click here. ... Click here or here for a roundup from the Tracy boys tournament. ... Click here for the North Hills Christian boys and girls previews. ... The River City boys beat Woodland. Click here.

WRESTLING: Lathrop beat Cosumnes Oaks for its first-ever varsity dual-meet win. Click here. ... Lindhurst beat Wheatland. Click here. ... Golden Valley beat Buhach Colony. Click here.