Stories for 3/9

Check below for lots of NorCal previews. Also, we're making the transition to the spring. So watch this space for some spring sports stories as they heat up.

BOYS BASKETBALL: Click here for a story on advances on the Ripon Christian teams' games. ... Click here for a Merced-San Ramon Valley preview. ... Click here for a story on the seven Modesto-area schools who begin NorCal play tonight. And click here for the Modesto Bee's NorCal game capsules. ... Click here for a Sacramento Bee look at tonight's NorCal games. ...

GIRLS BASKETBALL: Click here for a Sacramento Bee look at tonight's NorCal games. ... Click here for a Vanden-Paradise preview.

WHAT OTHER NEWSPAPERS ARE SAYING: Here's the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat story on three of its teams playing three SJS teams (Oakmont and Center boys and St. Francis girls). ... Click here for a Paradise Post story on the Paradise-Vanden girls game. ... Click here for a Redding Record-Searchlight NorCal story that concerns several SJS teams (St. Mary's boys, Colfax girls, Ripon Christian boys). ... Click here for a Vallejo Times-Herald story on the St. Patrick/St. Vincent-Calaveras boys game. ... Click here for a great column by Gwen Knapp in the San Francisco Chronicle on the Mission boys, which play Capital Christian tonight.

The Yuba City boys tennis team won its division at the prestigious California High School Boys Tennis Classic in Fresno. Click here for the story.