A group of the best local high school basketball seniors will clash this Friday night in the third annual MEL vs. SCAC All-Star Classic at Rodriguez High. Benicia High’s Brandon Barrett and Brady Christopher are expected to suit up for the Solano County Athletic Conference boys all-stars. No Lady Panthers are expected to play for […]

Benicia High’s boys golf team shot a 403 and finished a very respectable fourth out of 26 teams at the prestigious Transbay Tournament at Rossmoor Golf Course on Monday. It was Benicia’s best finish in years at the 18-hole Transbay Tournament, which this year featured 130 golfers from some of the best high school golf […]

Benicia High’s top swimmers competed at the Northern California Swimming Championship Invitational last weekend in Roseville and came in ninth place out of 15 teams. Benicia seniors Nathan Robertson, Evan Sousa and Cris Gomez and junior Matt “Moose” Simonson took third place in the boys 200 freestyle relay (1:31.56). Junior Xavier Quintana scored high points […]

The Benicia Oldtimers baseball team took a pounding from visiting Lodi last Sunday and lost 14-3 at Fitzgerald Field. It was the worst loss of the season for the Oldtimers, who dropped to 1-4 overall after winning last year’s Northern California championship. “It’s early and it showed,” said Oldtimers manager Rick Killough. “We couldn’t pitch, […]

Benicia’s Moyer family was quite proud when son Jackson and daughter Elle each won Northern California gymnastics championships late last month. Jackson Moyer, a 13-year-old seventh grader attending Benicia Middle School, took first place in the All-Around at the 2015 NorCal Junior Olympics State Championships held at Oroville Gymnastics Academy. Jackson competed in the Level […]

Niko Leon Guerrero pitched five solid innings and teammates Jack Bowles and Drew Saitz each drove in two runs as Benicia High’s varsity baseball team beat visiting Rodriguez on Monday, 7-2. It was the third victory in five days for the Panthers (10-6), who are enjoying their longest winning streak of the season. “You’re starting […]

  Benicia High School’s mountain bike team reached the midway point of the season after races in Granite Bay and Laguna Seca. Strong finishes by Benicia’s riders at Laguna Seca allowed the team to pass Bishop O’Dowd in the standings and move into 10th place out of 20 teams competing in the NorCal South Conference […]

Evan Phillips pitched six strong innings and Steve Urias drove in a pair of runs as Benicia High’s varsity baseball team beat visiting Wood, 4-2, in a non-league game last Saturday. Phillips allowed two runs in the first inning but was masterful after that as Wood had only two base runners over the final four […]

Benicia High’s varsity softball team wasn’t at the top of its game at the Livermore Stampede late last week, and it cost the Lady Panthers their first set-backs of the season. The Lady Panthers, who entered the tournament undefeated, beat Cosumnes Oaks in Thursday’s opener but lost two games on Friday and another on Saturday […]

Taylor Greene pitched a complete-game shutout and teammate Isiah Saguar shined offensively and defensively as Benicia High’s varsity baseball team blanked visiting Bethel on Friday, 8-0. It was a great bounce-back victory for the Panthers, who lost to Bethel two days earlier but rebounded to win the season series with the Jaguars. It was also […]