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Stampede Goes 2-1 In Weekend At The Corral The Oakdale Stampede youth football and cheer program went 2-1 in three recorded contests at home on Saturday.The Rookies, competing with no tallied scores, delivered a dominant performance from the youngest division with all players rotating in. Brayden Abell, Javyn Drobnick, Jayden Powers and a few others managed big rushes up the field in the wake of Christopher Kjeldgaard and an impressive offensive line. 
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It Takes “Will Power” To Win In Sonoma The air was ‘abuzz’ at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma over the weekend of Aug. 20-22 and it wasn’t from bees. The Indy Racing League cars were burning up the famous Sonoma “Wine Country” road course during the 2010 IZOD Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma. The IZOD Racing Series features 18 events run in Brazil, Japan, Canada and the United States. This was the ninth and final road course of the season. ...
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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 ...
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Mustangs Throttle Reigning State Champs In Season Opener Oakdale High’s 49-6 lead in the third quarter of their season opening varsity football game against Modesto Christian sent a distinct message that the Mustangs were simply too much for the reigning small school state champions to handle on Friday at The Corral.Oakdale rallied from a 6-0 deficit with seven unanswered touchdowns, closing with a 56-20 blowout in week ‘0’ of the young season. The Mustangs rallied ...
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Mustang Notebook - Off To A Good Start Talk about starting the season off on a good note.The first week of the high school football season — now referred to as Week 0 in Sac-Joaquin Section parlance — saw the Mustangs host Modesto Christian, last season’s small school state bowl champions.While Oakdale rolled to a rather easy and convincing win over Modesto Christian, the next two weeks will be more of ... |
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Athlete Of The Week - Lane Trapp Under-13 Oakdale United soccer standout Lane Trapp was at his best at the Shamrock Invitational earlier this month, netting three goals in a huge 5-2 pounding of NorCal Elite for a tournament title. Trapp, who also scored twice in a big 4-0 drubbing of host Dublin, earns Athlete of the Week honor for his efforts.
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Mustangs Offer Gridiron Sneak Peek In Los Banos Scrimmage You know a town appreciates its football when the parking lot and surrounding streets are packed with cars for a weekend scrimmage with no special teams or recorded scores.
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Athlete Of The Week - Anneliese Davis Anneliese “Shorty” Davis pulled out all the stops in a complete tournament shut out this month in four games of work at the Tracy United Girls Invitational. She earns Athlete of the Week honors from The Leader for her performance.
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Sandoval Tunes Up For Bout With Olympic Silver Medalist Oakdale High graduate and Last Stand Fight Team mixed martial arts fighter, Martin Sandoval, will enter the cage to take on one of the greatest wrestlers in United States history next month.
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Mustangs Eliminated From Playoffs By Inderkum His team gathered at the north end of the American River College stadium, Oakdale High football coach Trent Merzon tried to gather his thoughts following his team’s 49-30 defeat to top seeded Inderkum in the semi-final round of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division III playoffs.But nothing came out.Merzon stood silent for several moments before finally leaning close and speaking a few words that brought ... |
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Mustangs Vanquish Vanden, Ready For Inderkum With no time remaining on the game clock, Vanden High running back Damon Treat bullied into the Oakdale end zone from just a yard out, bringing the host Viking fans to their feet on the final play of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division III quarterfinals on Friday.But while Vanden fans celebrated their last score of the season, a louder, larger regiment of Mustang faithful bellowed cheers from nearly ... |
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Mustangs Upend Natomas In First Round Of Playoffs Oakdale High defensive back Daniel Gazdik intercepted a desperation pass with just over three minutes to play and rumbled 45 yards for the finishing touch on a 36-0 blowout of Natomas in the first round of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division III playoffs on Friday at The Corral.The pass went awry after Oakdale defensive end Marcos Velasco crushed Natomas quarterback Jakori Ford just as he let loose. Gazdik ... |
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Mustangs Throttle Sonora, Ready For Playoffs The distant beat of drums and the beckoning of thousands of onlookers to Sonora High’s spectacular Dunleavy Field made Oakdale High’s Valley Oak League finale seem like a scene from the British war movie Zulu on Friday.But this was no epic battle.Instead, Oakdale broke away from a 14-7 lead at the break with a dominating second half and 35-7 shellacking of the host ... |
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Oakdale Falls To Sierra In Heartbreaker In a game loaded with lead changes and spectacular plays, Oakdale High football coach Trent Merzon needed just one more of both as his team lined up for a 44-yard field goal into the wind with just 32 seconds to play on Friday.But Kyle Derby’s potential game-winning field goal never gained the necessary elevation, slicing to the left to hand away the final possession in a 44-42 ... |
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Oakdale Rallies Late To Beat Manteca After pummeling their last three opponents by a combined 167-34 advantage, Oakdale High’s varsity football team seemed hungry for a challenge heading into Friday’s home contest against Valley Oak League contender, Manteca.They got the challenge — and they still got the win.Oakdale rallied from a 23-21 deficit in the fourth quarter with two impressive offensive drives to take the lead and seal a ... |
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Oakdale Smashes Weston Ranch, 56-14 “It’s all next week fellas.”Those were the words from Oakdale High head football coach Trent Merzon as his team huddled at the south end zone at the Weston Ranch stadium after a 56-14 drubbing of the Cougars.Merzon was, of course, referring to this week’s highly anticipated Valley Oak League showdown between the undefeated Mustangs (7-0 overall, 4-0 VOL) and perennial league power, Manteca ... |
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Mustangs Spoil East Union Homecoming, 55-14 It’s not often that Oakdale High’s varsity football team gets to celebrate blowout homecoming victories in back-to-back weeks, but they capitalized on the opportunity Friday with a 55-14 shellacking of the host East Union Lancers at Dino Cunial Field.East Union’s elaborate float decorations and elegant halftime coronation did little to prevent 471 yards of total Mustang offense as Oakdale rolled to a 34-0 lead at the half ... |
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Mustangs Throttle Bulldogs For Homecoming After a one-sided win over Central Valley, Oakdale High football coach Trent Merzon said that Homecoming would be a funny week, and he mentioned the difficult task of keeping his team focused on Ceres in a week full of distractions.Mission accomplished.Oakdale exploded for 49 first half points and rumbled to a 56-6 blowout of visiting Ceres on Friday inside the Corral. |
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Mustangs Trample Hawks In Road Game Oakdale High football coach Trent Merzon paced the sideline anxiously before the start of the second half on Friday, Oct. 2, ultimately stepping up to a ball boy to offer a bold prediction as the Mustangs and Central Valley spaced out to prepare for the ensuing kickoff.“Don’t get so excited you drop the ball, but I think we might take this one to the house,” Merzon said. |
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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 ... |
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Oakdale Football Makes Statement With Win Over Novato When Oakdale High football head coach Trent Merzon mapped out his non-league schedule during the early portion of the summer months, he knew that the Novato Hornets would be a true test for his Mustang football squad.After Oakdale’s convincing 34-22 victory over the Hornets, it is safe to say that Oakdale is going to be a force to be reckoned with throughout the 2009 campaign. |
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Mustangs Trample Turlock In Season Opener, 56-6 It was hard to not start thinking about the Oakdale Mustangs’ huge upcoming non-league contest against Novato High as the Mustangs jogged off the Corral turf after crafting an unimaginable 42-0 halftime lead against the Turlock Bulldogs.The Mustangs kept their focus and continued to pound the Bulldogs in second half action on Friday night, finishing off Turlock 56-6 in arguably the worst beat down in the two ... |
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Oakdale Solid In Central Catholic Scrimmage The days of Tokay showing up to the Corral for the Oakdale Mustangs’ final preseason tune up are a distant memory and now it’s the Central Catholic Raiders who brought their army up for final action leading up to the important non-league schedule.Oakdale and Central Catholic banged helmets for a little over an hour in the Mustangs’ annual preseason scrimmage and the Mustangs were able to do ... |
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Mustangs Debut In Red-Gold Gridiron Scrimmage There were no referees, no huge crowd of cheering fans watching, yet when the Oakdale High varsity football team suited up for its annual Red-Gold scrimmage it was obvious football season had arrived.The Mustangs’ offensive and defensive units battled for a small crowd of Oakdale faithful in what is the team’s season opener for full contact football.The defense held the upper hand during ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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Mustangs Take On Rio Linda In Round Two Back-to-back wins to open the Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV playoffs set up Oakdale for the second game in a best-of-three series with Capital Valley Conference champion, Rio Linda, on Tuesday, though results were not available at press time. The Mustangs pounded Lincoln of Lincoln for a 10-0 mercy-rule decision in the postseason’s opening round on Wednesday, and added a 3-2 victory over Rio Linda on Saturday to continue postseason play. “Anytime you make the playoffs ... |
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Lady Mustangs Open Soccer Postseason Tuesday, May 18 marked the start of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV girls soccer playoffs, though results were not available at press time to highlight Oakdale High’s first round bout with top-seeded West Campus.The varsity Lady Mustangs made the trip to Sacramento to take on the Capital Valley Conference champions after an 18-3-5 overall showing and 11-1-4 journey through the Valley Oak League.Oakdale ... |
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Mustangs Face Zebras In Baseball Opener A split with Sonora High earned Oakdale’s varsity baseball team Valley Oak League title honors and a trip to the Sac-Joaquin Section postseason.The team will square off with Lincoln of Lincoln in today’s (May 19) 7 p.m. Division IV opener at Dan McAuliffe Memorial Park in Sacramento.Lincoln enters the postseason as the No. 3 seed from the Pioneer Valley League, despite four losses ... |
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Mustang Squads Grinding Toward Postseason Play With Valley Oak League contests on their final leg, Oakdale High athletes are preparing for runs at the Sac-Joaquin Section postseason, with individual or team advancements from every Mustang sport. Following is a summary of recent Oakdale contests and playoff lineups in baseball, tennis and softball. BaseballThe recent 1-1 split with Manteca set up Oakdale (12-2) ... |
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Deep Mustangs Ready For West Campus In D-IV Playoffs As Oakdale High reserve varsity soccer players began to flood the field in the Mustangs’ 2-0 win over Sonora last week, the visiting Wildcats may have felt their chances at victory were improving.This simply wasn’t the case.Substitutions controlled the ball well and kept pressure on the Sonora goal with a dominant second half as Oakdale rallied to their ninth straight win or tie ... |
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Mustang Golfers Tie For Valley Oak League Crown East Union High’s sterling 407-stroke performance at the Greenhorn Creek Golf Course awarded the Lancers top honors at the league championships, but couldn’t erase a full season of Oakdale success as the two programs settled for co-Valley Oak League championship honors on Tuesday, May 4.Oakdale (15-1) edged the Lancers (13-3) twice in VOL duals, and saw freshman Ian Stogdell finish just one stroke behind VOL MVP Kyle ... |
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Spring Success Continues For Multiple Mustang Squads Oakdale prep athletes were at their best in the past week in huge Valley Oak League and tournament performances. Following is a summary of Mustang action in track and field, golf, baseball and tennis. Track And FieldJaci Powell and Tim House each earned a trip to the high school record book with thrilling performances at the highly competitive Meet of ... |
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Lady Mustangs In Midst Of Stellar Second Half No team has been hotter in the second half of Valley Oak League play than Oakdale High’s varsity girls soccer team.The Lady Mustangs have won six straight games by a combined 33-5 advantage, including a dominant 4-0 rout of Central Valley on April 29 and an 8-3 drubbing of Weston Ranch two days prior.Early season losses and ties may have put the VOL ... |
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Mustang Boys, Girls Grab Swimming Championship A combined 17-1 meet record from Oakdale High varsity boys and girls swimmers proved to be no fluke at the Valley Oak League championships on Saturday at Sierra High.With 10 Valley Oak League schools in attendance, Oakdale girls dominated for top honors at 132 points while the Mustang boys edged Sonora by three points at 136 notches on the team score.The dual dominance ... |
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Parker, Mustangs Rally To Huge VOL Wins Oakdale High pitcher Brianna Parker gave East Union a rare opportunity to score after booting Kourtni McCall’s soft grounder to start the bottom of the seventh inning in Monday’s battle (April 26) for sole rights to first place in the Valley Oak League at Northgate Softball Complex.Making matters worse, she fell behind in the count, three balls and no strikes, against East Union’s deadliest slugger, Cassie Waggy, ... |
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Stevens Takes Gold At Junior Olympic Nationals Showing savvy and athleticism well beyond her years, 11-year-old Oakdale resident and Fair Oaks sixth grader Sara Stevens sped to a fantastic leg of the 3200-meter relay and joined three other Central Valley runners in championship honors at the 2010 USA Track and Field National Junior Olympic Championships.
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Call Goes Out To All OHS Football Alumni Alumni Football U.S.A. team coordinator Tracy Cavender is on a quest to gather Oakdale High football alumnus for an Oakdale vs. Sonora alumni game on Oct. 17 at Dunleavy Field in Sonora. |
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Athlete Of The Week - Sara Stevens Eleven-year-old Fair Oaks sixth grader Sara Stevens closed her summer with a fantastic performance at the Junior Olympic Track and Field Championships at Hughes Stadium in Sacramento. Competing with the highly successful Modesto Roadrunners, Stevens and three other girls sped to a first place finish in the 4x800 meter relay. Stevens earns Athlete of the Week honor for her efforts. ...
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Athlete Of The Week - Emily Bennett The 11-12 age division standout for the Oakdale gators youth swim team, Emily Bennett, nabbed the highest score of any Mid Valley League swimmer in her group with 23 points at the MVSL championships in Turlock on Saturday, July 24. Bennett earns Athlete of the Week honor from The Leader for her efforts.
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Soccer Squads Prepare For Competition With Special Clinics Riding the wave of World Cup popularity and preparing for its own upcoming competitive season, the Oakdale Youth Soccer League has brought in some topnotch coaching for special clinics.
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Poolside - Gators Post Solid Times In Swim Championships More than a dozen Oakdale Gators youth swim team standouts improved times in all three of their events at the Mid Valley Swim League championships in Turlock on Saturday, July 24. It was a satisfying way for the 15 members of the team to culminate the summer campaign. The sharp times also led Oakdale to a sixth place finish out of ...
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Oakdale Native Sees Baseball Homecoming Alyssa Freeman, a 12-year-old Oakdale native and Boise, Idaho baseball star, delivered a thrilling homecoming performance in travel tournament action at Rainbow Fields in Riverbank over the weekend.
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Oakdale’s Medlen Leads Crew In Win At Infineon The 23rd Annual Fram-Autolite National at Infineon Raceway thundered to completion earlier this month, with the event featuring all the top professional categories, Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle. In addition many of the Lucas Oil sportsman categories were also contested.
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U.S. Olympians Train Oakdale Netters Participants in Oakdale High’s summer volleyball clinic received some expert tutelage from some of the best instructors in the sport — worldwide — earlier this month at the Mustang gymnasium.
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Athlete Of The Week - Sarah Peterson Talented Oakdale softball player Sarah Peterson on the Under-16 California Grapettes has been lights out in summer competition. She followed up a thrilling run to a Sac-Joaquin Metro title by playing her best in the Champions Cup premier tournament in Irvine. Peterson was one of five Oakdale players to combine for 28 hits across the tournament and belted her first career home run over the fence in a ...
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Oakdale MMA Notches A Perfect 4-0 In Placerville By the end of an action packed fight card at the Red Hawk Casino in Placerville, Oakdale Mixed Martial Arts Club’s “Last Stand” entrance song had a particularly ominous gloom of doom for opposing fighters on Saturday, July 17.All four Last Stand Fight Team fighters — including two Oakdale High graduates — won their bouts in impressive fashion ...
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Gators Show Big Improvements In Tri-Meet Nine Oakdale Gators swimmers saw big improvements and stellar times in a three-way Mid Valley Swim League tri-meet with Tracy and Ripon at Ripon High on Saturday, July 17.The Gators finished third to the two much larger programs, but saw faster touches in a successful meet.“This is a time of the season where we’ve been working our Gator swimmers harder in preparation to ...
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Grapettes Compile 5-3 Record In Champions Cup Competition The Oakdale based California Grapettes under-16 softball team went 5-3 among a field of 54 teams at the recent Champions Cup premier tournament in Irvine.With an expected 40 college scouts in attendance, the team was 4-2 in pool play and 1-1 in a difficult single elimination bracket.“It was an outstanding team performance, and one the girls should be proud of,” Oakdale coach Kelly ... |
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