Dublin overwhelms Dougherty Valley by 30
It was considered just a warmup, but consider Dublin’s boys basketball team toasty.
The eighthranked Gaels (215, 103), who already clinched the East Bay Athletic League Valley Division title, had little trouble downing No. 2, suddenly reeling Dougherty ValleySan Ramon 8252 on Thursday night behind 15 points apiece from Anthony Roy and Malik Jackson.
Visiting Dougherty Valley, winner of 15 straight before a 6051 loss at 13thranked De La SalleConcord on Tuesday, endured more than a defeat as combo guard Robby Beasley, a Montana commit, went down with a knee injury in the first quarter and did not return.
He’s questionable for Saturday’s 4 p.m. rematch between the two teams at Dougherty Valley to decide the EBAL playoff champion. The Wildcats (224, 112), who had clinched the EBAL Mountain Division last week, were led by Donovan Sevilla (16 points) and Aidan Sevilla (11 points).
Beasley was returning to the school where he played for three seasons, but sat out the last three quarters. He came into the week averaging 22.3 points per game. Monte VistaDanville 52, #15 San Ramon ValleyDanville 40: Evan Dunphy scored all 13 of his points in the second half as the host Mustangs (1511, 76 EBAL) beat rival San Ramon Valley for the sixth straight time. Nate Rutchena added 12 points and Noah Rivas contributed 10 for Monte Vista, which will enter the North Coast Section Division 1 playoffs next week. Tyler Isaac had 18 points for San Ramon Valley (188, 85), which will play in the NCS D2 playoffs next week. Football: Dave Fogelstrom is the new head coach at HeritageBrentwood, the school’s athletic director Nate Smith announced.
Fogelstrom replaces Don Sanders, who resigned in November after his seventh season. He was 2848, but had backtoback, secondround North Coast Section playoff runs in 2016 (84) and 2017 (75). The Patriots were a combined 318 the past two seasons.
Fogelstrom, the school’s third head coach in school history, previously coached at Antioch, Deer ValleyAntioch, FreedomOakley and Los Medanos College. He has been on the Heritage campus since 2005, and guided its golf team to four straight league titles and its waterpolo team to the NCS playoffs. He was also a Heritage assistant football coach for seven seasons.
He’ll join former Freedom head coach Kevin Hartwig, now Heritage’s offensive coordinator. Fogelstrom coached with Hartwig at Freedom.
“It feels like coming home,” Fogelstrom said. “I spent seven years coaching Heritage football and watched our program grow from a winless BVAL season at the lower levels our opening year, to varsity squads that won an average of seven games a year and made NCS in each varsity season. Both of my kids were studentathletes at Heritage, and I have been around this campus nonstop for 15 years now.”
New commissioner: Mountain View principal David Grissom will be the Central Coast Section’s commissioner July 1, it was announced this week by the section office. Grissom, the CCS president, will replace Duane Morgan, who resigned Jan. 2 after a 13year run in the section office, the last five as commissioner.