Maybe next season would have been a better time to revive the girls basketball rivalry between the Crusaders and Knights.

Kurt Ruegg seemed right at home during his first try at the Foot Locker Western Region Cross Country Championships on Saturday.

The Indians finished third at the three-day Elk Grove Tournament by holding off Granite Bay on Saturday.

Chris Lopez scored 17 and Dominic Pruett 12 to lift the Braves to a win in the battle for third place in Kelseyville’s Stokes Invitational.

The JV Girls Basketball Wine Valley Classic continued Friday.

The Braves (5-0) widened a 24-22 halftime lead to 41-32 after the third quarter and held off the Crushers for their third straight Wine Valley Classic title on Saturday.

In the Braves’ Petaluma Tournament opener on Thursday, freshman Trey Boles made his first high school start memorable with a team-high 23 points in a rout of Novato.

The Braves (3-2) breezed to the consolation championship at the Napa High Tournament on Saturday, as Ashley Ford anchored the Braves with 11 points and 13 rebounds.

Peter Hauscarriague led St. John with 16 points in its final regular-season game on Saturday morning.

Justin-Siena High’s win in the North Coast Section Div. IV football championship game doesn’t necessarily end the Braves’ season.

SACRAMENTO — Ashton Foster poured in 27 points Saturday to lead Napa Valley College’s men to a 77-66 win over Merced Saturday in the James Clark Memorial Tournament at  Cosumnes River College.

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When Sly Stallone in “Rocky” — a beat-up, second-rate boxer from Philadelphia — stood up to the heavyweight champion of the world toe to toe, punch for punch, Philadelphians echoed Rocky’s shouts to his girlfriend ... “Yo Adrian!”

In Oct. 2006, the Pacific Rivers Council and the Center for Biological Diversity sued the Department of Fish and Game over fish stocking programs it has engaged in for more than 100 years, claiming that no Environmental Impact Report had been completed for the programs.