CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CA (May 18, 2025) — De La Salle’s swimming and diving team won a fourth successive North Coast Section team championship last week in Concord while the Clayton Valley Charter stunt team took second at NCS as the post-season high school schedule heats up.

The Spartans used team depth to win the Section meet, including firsts in the 200 freestyle and medley relays and second in the 400 free relay. Diver Tyler Galloway got the Spartans off to a strong start with a second place. Blake Hill, Tanner Lustig and Matthew Nakayama had top individual performances for the Spartans.

CVCHS’s Diego Castaneda had a pair of runner-up finishes.

Three-time defending NCS champion diver Molly Gray of Clayton Valley Charter sat out this season as the Stanford-bound State champion prepared for US Diving competitions.

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Ugly Eagles stunt has been second or third in four consecutive NCS championships post Covid and gave three-time winners Foothill-Pleasanton all they could handle in the Section finals before falling 16-12.

The NCS Division II boys golf tournament was this Monday with Northgate, Clayton Valley Charter and College Park having individual golfers taking part. De La Salle will be among the contenders next Monday when the Division I championship is played at Rancho Solano.

3 big Track and Field meets

The next three weekends, track and field will be center stage with the NCS Tri-Valley Area Meet at Clayton Valley Charter this Saturday, the NCS Meet of Champions May 23-24 at Dublin High and then the annual CIF State Track & Field Championships in Clovis May 30-31.

A number of local track and field athletes hold high hopes of strong performances at post-season competition. The Diablo and East Bay Athletic League meets were last week and gave an indication on what athletes may progress towards the Meet of Champions and State Meet.

On the girls side, Clayton Valley Charter’s Vivienne Magu won the 100, 200 and 400 DAL championships. Her teammate Santia Ali was second in the 100 and won the triple and long jumps. Hurdler Maya Maghoney was second in the 100 and third in the 300. Ugly Eagles Thea Jeffress took first in both the shot put and discus for the second-place CVCHS girls team, which also won the 4×100 relay.

Ygnacio Valley’s Savannah Sawyer was first in the 300 hurdles and second in the 400.

Carondelet junior Gretchen Yakaitis was second in both the 800 and 1600 meters. Malia Velasco was first in the 300 hurdles and fourth in the 100 for the Cougars. Kiana Kenion was second in the long jump and the CHS 4×100 relay was second.

De La Salle won the EBAL boys division as they prepared to defend their Tri-Valley and MOC team titles.

Jaden Jefferson won the 100 and 200 league championships while distance runner Trey Caldwell was first in the 3200 and fourth in the 1600. The Spartans won the 4×100 and 4×400 relays and were second in the 4×800. Sophomore Chase Young won the 300 hurdles and was second in the 110.

Anthony Dean won the triple jump for DLS while teammate Tadhg Murray was second to Caldwell in the 3200 and third in the 1600.

Clayton Valley Charter boys were second in DAL team scoring. Myles Tugbenyoh won the 100 and was second in the 200 for CVCHS. The Ugly Eagles were first over Northgate in the 4×100 relay and second in the 4×400.

Ugly Eagles weight man Logan Remington was second in both the shot put and discus. Julian Walker placed second in the high jump.

Ethan Cunningham of Northgate was first in the 400 meters while College Park’s Jack Rattary was second in both the 1600 and 3200.

Baseball, softball playoffs beckon

De La Salle (first) Clayton Valley Charter (10th) and College Park (15th) place high in the latest Bay Area high school baseball rankings. In the softball rankings, only Clayton Valley Charters at 16th makes the mark locally.

The Spartans have ruled the roost in North Coast Section baseball, reaching the Section championship game in Division I every year since 2011 including winning six straight titles from 2016-2023 before they were dethroned in a historic 1-0 extra inning defeat to Granda-Livermore last May in a game that took two days to decide. Granada is ranked second behind DLS in the Bay Area so a repeat matchup in league and section playoffs may be on tap.

Noticeably missing from those NCS playoffs last spring were the Ugly Eagles who ended the 2024 season with the program’s first losing overall and league records in the 21st Century. They have bounced back this year but lost a pair of games to Acalanes last week to trail league leader College Park by two games although the rivals split their DAL games last month.

Local volleyball rivals

Top seed Northgate and fifth ranked De La Salle each won their first two NCS volleyball matches to set up a semi-final showdown Tuesday hoping to reach the title game this Thursday. College Park lost its first-round Division I game.

In D-III Clayton Valley Charter was seeded third and lost a five-set match 17-15 in the fifth to Washington-Fremont in the quarterfinals.

De La Salle seeks lacrosse revenge

Marin Catholic stopped De La Salle’s run of three consecutive NCS lacrosse championships last spring and the two teams meet again this week, this time in the semi-finals after each won its first two Division I games.

College Park is in the D-II semis and faces upstart Berkeley which defeated No. 1 seed Dougherty Valley in the last round.