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On Friday, the Hercules Titans boys’ basketball team marched into the Coach Dolly Felix Gym and defeated the Kennedy Eagles 70-55. It was the Eagles’ fourth loss in a row, dropping the team to last place in the league. The game started out promising for the Eagles as swingmen Charles Smith and Kevin Snowden knocked down several three-pointers. By the end of the first quarter, Kennedy held a five-point lead. But things fell apart for Kennedy in the second quarter when…
The score was tied 1-1, and the Richmond High School boys’ soccer team was on the counter-attack. Kio Arriola streaked down the left side of the field, closest to the Oilers’ home crowd, with the ball at his feet.
The first time that the Richmond High School Oilers boys’ soccer team took on the St. Mary’s High School Panthers this season, the Oilers were lucky to escape with a 1-1 draw, and players and coaches were disappointed with how the team performed.
For a moment, it looked like they had a chance. League opponent St. Joseph-Notre Dame High School from Alameda did not start out playing like other opponents the Richmond High girls’ soccer team had faced all year; the Pilots’ ball handing skills, passing, and intensity seemed to match that of the Oilers. The first eleven minutes featured back and forth play, resulting in scoreless soccer. But the even nature of the contest was broken by two goals in eight minutes for…
On Friday, the day the world was supposed to end according to interpretations of the Mayan calendar, the Kennedy Eagles defeated Stellar Prep High 70-36. Entering the game at 0-7, the Eagles were determined not be turned into winless cosmic dust. Kennedy came out hot and never trailed the entire game. Using their size and speed against an undermanned Thunder team, they regularly went to the line while building a 35-17 halftime lead. One first-half highlight was a thunderous dunk…
A cold, windy and rainy match against Salesian resulted in a 0-0 tie for the Richmond High boys soccer team. After a week in which they won their first three games of the season, all consecutively, the Oilers returned to the type of play that has frustrated co-head coach Jasko Begovic. “Too complacent, too cute,” Begovic said. “Way too cute.” Still, the Oilers’ record now sits at 3-2-4, much improved from the 0-2-3 record of a week and a half…
The Kennedy High School Eagles vie for a win at the playoffs despite a tragic loss.
The Oilers’ home match against Salesian on Thursday night turned out to be another loss, 1-0, but it was a much-improved effort all around by the Richmond squad, particularly the Oiler’s goalkeeper Eleana Ellner. “I just felt really confident,” said Ellner, after the game. “And my team was playing really well and that made me feel better.” Playing goalie for the Richmond girl’s soccer team is not an easy task. The Oilers have yet to win one game this season,…
Eleven games into the season and sitting five games over five hundred, the Kennedy High Lady Eagles basketball team is still learning what it means to be part of a team—or at least how to play like one. Having just shellacked Vallejo High by 61 points, Lady Eagles head coach Rae Jackson said his team still lacks three key ingredients: focus, discipline and execution. From the opening tip against Vallejo it was obvious the Lady Eagles were stronger and more…