OHS SPORTS WRAP – More Wins Pile Up For Mustang Athletes

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Athlete Of The Week - Jaylene Ponce

OHS SPORTS WRAP – Mustang Squads Enjoying Sweet Taste Of Fall Success

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Oakdale Volleyball Rallies To Big Wins

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Athlete Of The Week - Elise Derby

Elise Derby, a sharp-serving senior standout on Oakdale High's varsity girls tennis team, has been lights out in early Valley Oak League action. The returning No. 1 singles player hasn't missed a beat since 2009 success; shellacking singles players from Lathrop, Sonora and Manteca in one-sided wins and a 9-0 total tally. She went 18-5 in three ...

Fall Wrap - September Success For Multiple Squads

Oakdale High water polo, golf and tennis teams saw bountiful success in September action in the Sac-Joaquin Section preseason and the Valley Oak regular season. Following are recaps of the recent contests.

Mustangs Open Soccer Season With Home Wins

Three games into the Gregori Tournament, Oakdale High's Division IV varsity soccer team has played five consecutive games against Division I opponents, going 3-1-1 across that span.

Mustangs Open Soccer Season With Home Wins

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Tough Preseason Schedule For Lady Mustangs

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Athlete Of The Week - Antonio Munoz

Harriers Pushed In Tri-Meet

Oakdale High's girls and boys cross country runners got a taste of sharp talent in tri-meet scrimmage action with Escalon and Hughson on Thursday, Aug. 26 at Woodward Reservoir.Hughson's Becky Hobby dominated the girl's race with an easy top finish while Mustang runner Liz Erwin kicked strong to conclude as the first local girl. If the meet had been scored, Oakdale's girls would have tied Hughson and ...

Mustangs Gallop Past Whitney, 24-7

It was a match up of the past two Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV Football championship programs and the Oakdale Mustangs were the force to be reckoned with in a 24-7 win over Whitney High at the Corral.Oakdale came away as the team to beat in its bracket of postseason play running their non-league record to a perfect 3-0 as if they played Delhi, Gustine and Enochs instead ...

CHAMPIONS! Mustangs Top El Dorado For SJS Title

Trailing Oakdale High's baseball team late in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV title game, El Dorado players began to try out all kinds of superstitious hocus pocus.They donned rally caps, began uttering tribal chants and even started talking to loose baseballs scattered about the dugout.But destiny had another plan.Back-to-back strikeouts from Mustang reliever Matt Butler ended El Dorado's final ...

Powell, House Continue Seasons With Trip To State

Two of Oakdale High's most accomplished prep athletes in school history left one final stamp in the Mustang record books with qualifications to the California Interscholastic Federation Track and Field Championships.Seniors Tim House and Jaci Powell managed top-three honors in their respective events at the Sac-Joaquin Section Masters Championships, qualifying with only a handful of Central Valley athletes to the pinnacle of the state's prep track and ...

Mustang Softball Players Snare League Accolades

Oakdale High's varsity softball team outscored opposing teams 227-43 in a season that saw the Lady Mustangs accumulate an impressive 22-8-1 record, a Valley Oak League championship and a third place finish in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV playoffs. "Our season was really one to be proud of," Oakdale coach Larry Loger said. "We overcame a slow start, an emotional loss (for disciplinary reasons) of two key ...

Mustangs Take Second At Reno Wrestling Classic

Eighty-one high school wrestling teams from across the western states converged on the 64-man brackets of the prestigious two-day Sierra Nevada Classic in Reno on Dec. 27 and 28.

Athlete of the Week - Kylie Gust

Oakdale High's lanky guard/forward, Kylie Gust, is the Dirk Nowitzki of Lady Mustang hoops. Her exploits were a bright spot during the OHS girls basketball program in the 2011-12 season and she has already made a big impact this year. She drained two threes and landed a team-high eight points as Oakdale rallied to a 37-23 win over LeGrand on Thursday as the varsity girls captured their second win of the season. ...

BATTLE TESTED - Tumultuous Preseason Prepares Lady Mustangs For Conference Clashes

Valley Oak League girls basketball teams that saw Oakdale High struggle to a winless 2011-12 campaign may expect more of the same from the Lady Mustangs after learning of Oakdale's preseason struggles this year. But that could prove to be a costly mistake. Oakdale is just 2-7 in nonleague play, but features five defeats by 10 points or less and punished visiting Le Grand with an ...

Oakdale Bands Together

The miracle of social networking provided the platform for a miracle for the Oakdale High marching band this past week.

Basketball Starts Campaign 3-3 Without Football Players

Oakdale High varsity boys basketball coach Jeremy Fields had a hunch the football team was in for a long postseason when he scheduled most of his preseason action for late in the year.

Missing Pieces Spell Trouble For OHS Wrestlers

The deeper a football season goes, the larger a toll it has on winter sports programs.

James Riddle Classic - Short-Handed Mustangs Win Host Tourney

With a host of wrestlers still competing on Oakdale High's state-bound football team, the Mustang program is missing some serious depth.

Athlete of the Week - OHS Volleyball

The last non-pigskin selection for the Oakdale Leader Athlete of the Week this fall belongs to Oakdale High's varsity volleyball team. The girls bested Pioneer in four games to advance to the second round of the postseason, adding prestige to a terrific season that included a co-Valley Oak League championship.

Water Polo Girls Take Second In Section

Chasing a five-goal deficit in the fourth and final period of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division II championships water polo finals, Katie Vanderburg and Emily Stolken connected with stunning scores within a one-minute span to open the door for a possible Oakdale High comeback.

Lady Mustangs Fall In Volleyball Playoffs

Some postseason magic carried eighth seeded Oakdale High to a spirited 3-1 rout of No. 9 seed Pioneer in the first round of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division III playoffs on Nov. 6, but happy thoughts couldn't do the trick in a 3-0 loss to No. 1 seed Oakmont two days later.

Water Polo Girls Make Playoff Push

The first round of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division II girls water polo playoffs wasn't particularly kind to Capital Valley Conference No. 3 seed Del Campo, who fell 17-7 to Valley Oak League champion Oakdale on Saturday, Nov. 3 at Whitney High.

Soccer Mustangs Drop Playoff Opener

If Oakdale High's varsity boys soccer team had any questions on the type of game to expect from a Central Valley team in search of its third trip to the Sac-Joaquin Section finals in four seasons, they certainly had them answered quickly on Oct. 30.

Tennis Goes Down In Court Battle

Despite the tiebreaker that forced the Lady Mustangs to enter the 2012 Sac-Joaquin Section Division II playoffs with the lowest possible seed, Oakdale's girls tennis team didn't go down without a fight. They ended their season with a 5-4 loss to Whitney on Monday, Oct. 29 in the opening round of the postseason.