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Mark Cummins inducted into Live Oak High Athletics Hall of Fame. From a young age, Mark Cummins knew he wanted to be a teacher and coach. And for 37 years, Cummins has served in both of those capacities at Live Oak High. The 60-year-old was honored in a ceremony before the Sept. 23 El Toro Bowl...

For most of the game, the Live Oak High football team felt the frustration of not being able to finish drives on offense. But when plays had to be made from both the offense and defense, the Acorns got it done. Bo Rizzi’s pass breakup in the back of the end zone in overtime capped Live Oak’s 14-7 win over host Santa Teresa High in a Blossom Valley Athletic League Mount Hamilton Division contest on Oct. 14.

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Emily Lopez has come a long way since she started playing field hockey in her freshman year at Live Oak High. Now a senior and one of the Acorns’ captains, Lopez has worked hard to improve and become one of the team’s best all-around players. “When I first...

Live Oak High football coach Mike Gemo likes where his team is at as it enters the stretch run in the Blossom Valley Athletic League Mount Hamilton Division season. The Acorns are 5-1 overall and 1-0 in league play following a resounding 41-14 win over former nemesis Oak Grove on Oct. 8. Diego Castellanos had a breakout game receiving, hauling in a career-high six catches for 151 yards and a touchdown.

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After a near sweep of Paradise on Sept. 20, the RedHawks tennis team was edged at home 5-4 by Live Oak in its second match of the week. On the road against the Bobcats, Colusa won each of the six singles matches in straight sets. No. 1 Olivia Nair prevailed...

From a young age, Mark Cummins knew he wanted to be a teacher and coach. And for 37 years, Cummins has served in both of those capacities at Live Oak High. The 60-year-old was honored in a ceremony before the Sept. 23 El Toro Bowl for his induction into the Live Oak Athletics Hall of Fame.

Acorns beat Bulldogs 41-20 in first cross-town rivalry game since 2016. The last time high school gridiron gladiators met to play the El Toro Bowl was six years ago. The cross-town rivalry between the Sobrato Bulldogs and the Live Oak Acorns still showed a fiery spark and passion at the 2022 game as the hometown tradition returned.

Two athletes from Shasta County stood brightly from the rest last week. A U-Prep outside hitter led her team to a tournament championship in Oregon last Saturday and a senior West Valley running back helped his team secure its first win of the season last Friday in Butte County. Here...

With over 2,000 people in attendance to watch host Live Oak beat Sobrato 41-20 in the much-anticipated return of the El Toro Bowl on Sept. 23, Bulldogs coach Joel Rueda might have summed up the mood best afterward. “It was Live Oak over Sobrato, but today, I felt like the...

OROVILLE, Calif. - On a day honoring its newest Hall of Fame inductees, Butte College Football put on a Hall of Fame type performance. The No. 15 Roadrunners upset No. 1 City College of San Francisco 35-14. The victory snapped CCSF's 16-game win streak. Butte College made a statement in...

DURHAM — Durham High School and Paradise had a battle of the defenses in the first half Friday night at the Durham Coliseum. Paradise led 7-6 at halftime, but Durham battled back in the second half and won 19-7 on the Trojans’ home field. Paradise started with the...

YUBA CITY, Calif. — Several varsity football players at River Valley High School in Yuba City are out for the rest of the season after a video of them acting out a slave auction surfaced. Because there aren't enough players now, the varsity team will also forfeit the rest of the season as well.

After a tough 2021 season in which it finished second to last in the Blossom Valley Athletic League’s middle-tier Santa Teresa Division, the Live Oak High girls volleyball team got demoted to the league’s lower West Valley Division this season. Given their history as a proud program and...

Colusa 3 – Winters 0 (9/6) Colusa 3 – Live Oak 0 (9/8) Colusa flexed its muscles last week, crushing two Sacramento Valley League opponents in the process. Playing at home for the first time this season, the RedHawks overwhelmed a young Winters team with the serve, as they recorded 19 aces en route to a 25-16, 25-7, 25-13 win.

Mike Gemo and his assistant coaches had a message for the Live Oak High players following their 34-0 loss to Los Gatos High on Sept. 9. “We moved the ball pretty well against Los Gatos; we just needed a little more effort and that shows with a little more effort in practice and being tuned into that,” he said. “If we give that effort, we can play with the top 10, top 5 teams in CCS right now. It teaches the kids that every practice is important and giving that effort all the time is important.”

Pleasant Valley stormed past the Thunderbirds 48-0 in this week's Game of the Week. Pleasant Valley stormed past the Thunderbirds 48-0 in this week's Game of the Week.