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By Ben Enos Contra Costa Times

Just days after completing his senior season, Alhambra High’s Robert Stephenson has been named the Gatorade California Baseball Player of the Year. As a pitcher, Stephenson finished the season with a 8-2 record, 1.19 ERA, 142 strikeouts and only 23 walks. He did it with an ever-growing group of professional scouts at every game, and helped the Bulldogs reach the second round of the North Coast Section Division III playoffs. “To me, it’s a great honor,” Stephenson said. “Overall, I thought it was a pretty good season. I thought we had a pretty good year.” Stephenson also hit .324 with 14 RBIs and played right field when he wasn’t on the mound. His calling card, though, was a fastball that could hit 98 mph, a sharp curveball that often proved unhittable and poise on the mound. “I think it’ll be cool to look back and see all the accomplishments,” Stephenson said. Stephenson has already committed to attend Washington but is expected to be a first- or second-round draft pick in Monday’s Major League Baseball first-year player draft.

Its been a couple of years since we’ve seen JW MC Govern (St Ignatius). He used to make the trek from Oakland regularly but commute problems made it difficult recently. However, it looks like that early hard work and difficult commute  has paid off. I got a great call from his mom the other day.

She stated: “JW was selected to First team for the WCAL league and had signed to play at Yale. She wanted to thank Gamespeed for being instrumental in what he has achieved thus far and we played a big part in his development as a Lacrosse player.”

Hey JW, we still have that signed picture of you on the wall. Stop on by and bring us one of you at Yale.

The Foothill sophomore won both the NCS Tri Valley 200IM and 100 Fly. Her times also qualified her for the Summer Nationals competition. Celinia then competed the next day in the Sunday Senior Walk-on meet where she posted a  personal best time and Summer nationals qualifying mark in the 200m Breast and 400 IM and she also re-certified her summer junior time in 100 breast. The Valley of the Sun named her the  Athlete of the week.

Celinia will now regroup, beef up her dry-land training at Gamespeed and prepare for the Summer Junior Nationals.

Gamespeed had an off season program for track athletes that went from October of last year until mid February of this year. We had numerous high school athletes ranging in events from 100m to 800m. They  trained both as a group and on their own with independent programs. Of the 26 athletes who participated many qualified for NCS, won Conference titles and most except for two had personal bests. I am very proud of the results. Only six are seniors. 2012 is looking good!

Javion Robinson  Saint Marys    JV Champion 110 MH, 300LH

Colton Tyler  Monte Vista          EBAL JV Champion 300LH

David Griffith  San Ramon         personal bests  200m, 400m

Sara Griffith   San Ramon         400m EBAL Champ, NCS, Tri Valley Champ 400m

Alena Sinclair San Ramon         100m NCS 9th,                                 EBAL 200m 6th, 100m 4th

Jennifer Horton San Ramon       NCS 800m  11th,                             EBAL  800m 5th

Kelly Nordine San Ramon          NCS 800, 16th                                 EBAL 800m 7th

Eugene Chen Amador                Personal bests  Frosh

Jeff Chen  Amador                    NCS: 400m 14th, 1600 Relay             PB: 400m, 200m

Erica Serame Dougherty            NCS: 100m 22nd, PV 7th,

Alexis Earl Pittsburg                  NCS 800m 17th,

Hadley Swanson Campolindo     NCS: 400m 8th, HJ  3rd  LJ 2nd       DFAL 400m Champ,  200m 2nd,  HJ & LJ Champ

Jeff Chung Acalanes                 […]

Winning the same event one year earlier as a freshman. Celina Li of Foothill captures her second consecutive league title. She swam the 200IM in a time of 2:02.55.  Celina competes at national meets and also just recently competed in Russia. She has been doing “Dry land” training a special program for swimming athletes for the past 3 years one day per week.

Congratulations to Michael Carbone who has just signed with Montana State. A graduate of Freedom High and Los Medanos college Michael now moves on to the next level to play Defensive line. We were notified by his father Michael Sr who wrote:

Michael Carbone Sr here just wanted you to know that Michael Jr is going to play some more football at MONTANA State University – Northern. This is a school in NAIA at Havre Montana.

Thanks for your help in the early years.

Michael Carbone Sr.

We appreciate the notice and the kind words. Good luck to Michael as he moves on.