Top frosh bids farewell to Moreau Catholic
The 6-foot-6, do-everything guard averaged 21.3 points, 6.5 rebounds and 4.0 assists a game for the Mariners.
Knight said Walker was moved to tears when the decision became final.
[...] the cost of living in the Bay Area, coupled with promised employment — Walker’s father, Khari Walker, accepted the team’s associate head-coach position — and the ability to move a grandparent into a larger home, made this more of a family decision than basketball.
Last season, Hillcrest added the nation’s No. 1 senior DeAndre Ayton (Arizona signee) and former Sacred Heart Cathedral player Alfred Hollins (Oregon State).
St. Ignatius tennis coach Craig Law, who ended his career as a player in college because of burnout, said he preaches the same message every year to his teams.
“I don’t care if they go winless as long as they bond, make lifelong friends and create memories,” Law said.
The Wildcats defeated perennial Northern California champion Menlo School-Atherton 6-1 for the CCS crown two weeks ago and 4-3 on Saturday in Folsom for the Northern California title.
Seven Metro individuals and Northgate-Walnut Creek’s 400-yard freestyle relay team emerged with state titles at the CIF Swimming and Diving championships at Clovis West on Saturday.
Other Bay Area winners were Menlo-Atherton senior Mia Paulson (diving, 514.80 points), Palo Alto junior Grace Zhao (100 breaststroke, 1:00.66), Northgate junior Alexei Sancov (200 freestyle, 1:34.25), Palo Alto junior Alex Liang (200 individual medley, 1:46.68) and Foothill-Pleasanton sophomores David Calvin (500 free, 4:21.66) and Jonah Cooper (100 backstroke, 47.34).
Owen Hamilton’s long home run to left Saturday ended one of the longest baseball games in recent history, a 19-inning, 2-1 Drake-San Anselmo defeat of Marin Catholic-Kentfield in the Marin County Athletic League title game.
According to the Marin Independent Journal’s Danny Schmidt, the game lasted 5 hours, 20 minutes and featured nine pitchers.