Macres Tourney Tips Off Thursday

The 9^th Annual Mark Macres Memorial Basketball Tournament begins Thursday and runs through Saturday December 12^th at Monterey Trail High School.

This year’s participants include; Pleasant Grove High School, Granite Bay High School, Yuba City High School, Merced High School, and Freedom High School. 

Tip off starts at 5:00 pm. on 12/10.  Games continue through Saturday, with the final game slated for 7:00 pm. 

Here at the Thursday games:

5:00—Freedom vs. Yuba City

6:30--- Granite Bay vs. Pleasant Grove

8:00---Merced vs. Monterey Trail

Tournament website;

http://www.markmacrestournament.com

Previous winners include;

2007—Monterey Trail

2008—Bella Vista

2009—Granite Bay

2010—Granite Bay

2011—Pleasant Grove

2012---Pleasant Grove

2013—Cosumnes Oaks

2014—Granite Bay

Carda On Team USA Softball

One of the top pitcher ever to come out of our area was Ally Carda. She was a star at Pleasant Grove, leading the Eagles to the 2009 Section championship. Then she went to UCLA and was a key part of several excellent clubs there. In 2014 she was a finalist for the top collegiate softball player in the entire country.

Carda is still playing, for Team USA. Here is a link to her page on the USA site.

McClatchy Beats EG for Cartwright Championship

The McClatchy Lions defeated host Elk Grove, 46-39, Saturday night to take the championship of the 2012 Cartwright Classic. The Herd was led by Connor Sutton with 12 points. Michael Wong added 10 and Danny Goldman, nine. That's the first loss of the season by Elk Grove, which has three wins, including an overtime victory over Florin Thursday and a five-point win over Lincoln Friday.

Saunders Arrested?

Oklahoma Sooner starting wide receiver Jalen Saunders was arrested Saturday for possession of marijuana, according to a media report in Oklahoma. There's been no official word from the school as of Sunday afternoon.

Saunders, a graduate from Pleasant Grove,  had seven catches for 108 yards in Oklahoma's win over TCU Saturday. It is likely Oklahoma will receive a BCS bowl bid after its 10-2 season, but whether Saunders will be in the lineup is unknown.

Macres Tournament Starts Thursday

The sixth annual Mark Macres Memorial basketball tournament starts this Thursday. In the opening round of the eight-team tourney, host Monterey Trail will take on West at 6 p.m. In the game that follows Pleasant Grove will take on Reno High School. Games continue Friday and Saturday at Monterey Trail High School.

Mettler Wrestling Invitational

Elk Grove wrestling coach Pat Coffing

Twenty-one schools will send their wrestlers to this Saturday's Curt Mettler Invitational Tournament at Elk Grove High School. Besides the host grapplers from Elk Grove, local schools participating will be Pleasant Grove, Sheldon, Folsom, Del Oro and Oak Ridge.

Last season Folsom was the Division I runner-ups in the Sac-Joaquin Section dual meet behind Vacaville. Elk Grove was third.

Coach Pat Coffing should once again have one of the area's top wrestling teams at Elk Grove.