This is the archive for October 2006
By Michael Goodwin
New York Daily News (MCT)
High school football is all the rage. Teams are ranked nationally like college and professional ones. ESPN and Fox Sports Net are televising games across the country and more teams are traveling for out-of-state games. McDonald's and Nike are among the corporate sponsors. Then there's "Friday Night Lights," an NBC prime-time show about a Texas team that spins out of the book and film of the same name.
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By Jezza Pimentel, Courier Sports Editor
The Logan Colts moved one step closer to the Mission Valley Athletic League varsity football title as they defeated chief rival Irvington last night at Tak Fudenna Stadium.
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By Nathanial Lealao, Courier Staff Writer
James Logan's undefeated Freshman football team shut out Irvington, 30-0, Thursday afternoon at Judsen E. Taylor Field.
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Logan's best golfer, Samantha Kang, is headed to her fourth straight NCS tournament this year, and her teammates on James Logan's Girl's Varsity Golf team may be joining her.
Samantha Kang (Jezza Pimentel/Courier Photo)
Posted by courier at 11:10 AM. Filed under: Sports
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By Matt DiPietro, Courier Staff Writer
Matt DiPietro, #5 for the James Logan Varsity football team,is one of the team captains, and the team's quarterback. He's writing a weekly diary of his experiences, exclusively for The Courier
At the beginning of the game there was not as much excitement as usual. Most of the players were thinking about how big the next game against Irvington is. When the game started the defense went on the field and stopped Kennedy. Our defense played very well in this game. The key players on defense were Josh Neal who had four interceptions, Fenuki Foketi who had big hits and an interception, and Nathanial Lealao.
Matt DiPietro
Posted by courier at 12:43 PM. Filed under: Sports
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By Jezza Pimentel, Courier Sports Editor
The Logan Colts remain undefeated with an MVAL record of 4-0, as they defeated Kennedy High School at Tak Fudenna Stadium, Saturday night.
The Colts pulled through with an early lead, scoring 28 unanswered points during the first half and another seven points during the second half. They defeated the Titans by a score of 35-6.
Josh Neal had four interceptions and a touchdown for the Colts(Courier Photo)
Posted by courier at 03:52 PM. Filed under: Sports
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James Logan's Freshman football team beat the previously unbeaten Kennedy team 22-12 Thursday at Judsen E. Taylor to preserve a 5-0 record for the season.
Right Tackle Nolan Lealao, Running Back T.J. Matsumoto
Posted by courier at 01:10 PM. Filed under: Sports
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The first of what is intended to be an annual middle school volleyball tournament, the Colt VolleyFest, debuts at James Logan High School tomorrow morning.
Girls Volleyball Coach Danielle Anderson, organizer of the event, said that eight teams from Union City, Fremont and Newark-area schools will participate in the tournament. Alvarado and Barnard-White Middle Schools will represent Union City and compete against Thorton, Horner and Hopkins schools from Fremont,two teams from Holy Spirit in Fremont, and one from Newark.
Posted by courier at 12:47 PM. Filed under: Sports
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By Matt DiPietro, Courier Staff Writer
Matt DiPietro, #5 for the James Logan Varsity football team,is one of the team captains, and the team's quarterback. He's writing a weekly diary of his experiences, exclusively for The Courier.
Throughout the week before the game against Washington, Coach Zuber was telling us that this game could dictate whether or not we go to playoffs. We had great practices throughout the week and prepared hard for the game. We knew that Dejon Gomes and I should have big games.
Matt DiPietro
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By Rebecca Soltau, Courier Staff Writer
As you watch him teach his English 1 and 2 classes, you‘d never guess that an important part of George Moore‘s life is street fighting.
Logan Teacher George Moore, circled, is learning a martial art with his classmates at the Dragon‘s Den KaJuKenBo Club.
Posted by courier at 04:16 AM. Filed under: Sports
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By Jessica Mutch, Courier Staff Writer
With all the hype over the homecoming game in the week leading up to it, there was no doubt it was going to be entertaining. The crowd went wild as Logan pulled into the lead early, and made a clean 21-7 finish.
Colt Dejon Gomes scored two touchdowns in the team's victory (Carmen Shiu/Courier Photo)
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By Matt DiPietro, Courier Staff Writer
Matt DiPietro, #5 for the James Logan Varsity football team,is one of the team captains, and the team's quarterback. He's writing a weekly diary of his experiences, exclusively for The Courier
Going into the game I could tell that all the players were really relaxed and not worrying about what they had to do. We were all just relaxing and trying to stay focused. As we came out of the locker room I knew we were going to have a great game. As the game was going on and we were handling Mission, I noticed how poised everyone was. there was not much confusion on players not knowing what they had to do.
Matt DiPietro
Posted by courier at 11:30 AM. Filed under: Sports
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By Jezza Pimentel, Courier Sports Editor
Even though they had just crushed their opponents 55-0 and earned a 2-0 league record Friday night, the Colts had compliments for the defeated Mission San Jose Warriors.
"They had a tough running game and they kept our defense on their toes.” Logan coach George Zuber said, “I give credit to them too, even though they were down by a lot they still kept on going.”
Colts’ team captain Mark Taylor said, “Their offense gave a lot of effort, they didn’t give up. Same goes for their defense, and we give them credit for that.“
Posted by courier at 11:27 AM. Filed under: Sports
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By Jezza Pimentel, Courier Sports Editor
To say the James Logan Junior Varsity squad had a good game yesterday would be an understatement. They defeated the Mission San Jose Warriors 61-0. It was over quickly.
“I’m proud of the guys, we put a complete game together and that was our goal from the beginning of the week. I was overall very proud. “Head Coach Jon Nord said, “I was definitely expecting for us to win, I knew that if we put a good game plan and executed we could possibly score 40-50 points."
Posted by courier at 09:28 AM. Filed under: Sports
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Logan's Varsity Girls Water Polo team earned its first league victory of the season, beating American 20-10.
Veronica Brown scored in the Colts' victory.
Posted by courier at 12:23 PM. Filed under: Sports
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By Naweed Zemaryalai, Courier Staff Writer
James Logan's Varsity Boys Water Polo team, struggling to end a series of losses, got back on the winning track against American High of Fremont Thursday at the Dan Oden Swim Center.
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Courier Staff Report
Fresh off a narrow defeat at the hands of Castro Valley Monday, the Logan Varsity Girls golf team roared back with a "personal record" match against San Leandro Tuesday.
For the first time ever, according to Coach Neal Fromson, the varsity girls combined for a team score of 200 strokes, and three players had sub-40 rounds, the first time three were under 40 in the same match.
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By Matt DiPietro, Courier Staff Writer
Matt DiPietro, #5 for the James Logan Varsity football team,is one of the team captains, and the team's quarterback. He's writing a weekly diary of his experiences, exclusively for The Courier.
Playing against Cardinal Newman was very tough considering our team played really well. The first half went really well for us and we executed the plays greatly. When they scored the players could tell that our defense was losing confidence in winning the game. We ended up losing 31-13, but with our heads up high.
Matt DiPietro (Michele Morimoto-Courier Photo)
Posted by courier at 12:23 PM. Filed under: Sports
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By Jessica Mutch, Courier Staff Writer
The Colts varsity football team won their first MVAL game of the season against the American Eagles convincingly Friday night, 60-16.
“We didn’t expect to win. We expected to play well, and we did. “ Logan Coach George Zuber said.
“The team was really happy. It was such a commanding win. The whole team had practiced so hard, and many of them played tonight, not just the starters.” Colts’ team captain Mark Taylor said,” It felt good to see everyone out there getting their fair share of playing time.”
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