16 Oct

Virtual Sports Give Richmond Kids a Chance to Play

The Richmond Community Services Department is offering online classes in soccer, tennis and basketball to kids in the first through eighth grades....

16 Sep

Richmond Sol Football Club Starts Practices, Hopes to Play By End of Year

With its 26 players chosen, Richmond Sol FC held its first practice Tuesday at Martin Luther King Jr. Park and hopes to start play in December or January....

21 Aug

Richmond Sol Football Club Joins National Soccer League

Richmond Sol FC will hold tryouts Aug. 30 before forming the second local team in the NSL's new Pacific Conference, along with San Pablo Football Club....

04 Aug

San Pablo Football Club Holds First Tryouts as National Soccer League Start Date Looms

Around 35 young players in face masks tried out for San Pablo FC, a member of the National Soccer League's new Pacific Conference....

23 Jul

School and Soccer Kept Me From Following My Brother to a Gang

A young man who grew up surrounded by gang activity describes seeing the pain it caused his parents and how sports and education put him on a better path....

16 Jul

San Pablo Football Club Joins the National Soccer League

San Pablo FC, which has played in various leagues since the 1970s, is now part of the newly formed Pacific Conference of the semipro National Soccer League....

01 Jul

CCCAA Fall Sports in Jeopardy as COVID-19 Cases Rise

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decision to potentially reverse the state’s reopening will undoubtedly impact the California Community College Athletic Association’s plans to resume sports in the fall....

14 Jun

CCC Women’s Soccer Recruitment Rebounds Despite the Coronavirus

Two years ago, the Contra Costa College women’s soccer team did not have enough players. Now, even among shutdowns and shelter-in-place, its enrollment numbers are back up....

18 Feb

Richmond, El Cerrito Bring Home TCAL Titles

The Tri-City Athletic League–Rock division champions in soccer played for their crown and earned their respective titles. El Cerrito High’s girls beat St. Mary’s 3-0 while the Richmond High boys’...

28 Jan

De Anza Gains Upper Hand Against Kennedy

De Anza pulled off a 3-2 victory, with the winning goal coming from one of its top scoring forwards, Anthony Vazquez, in the last five minutes of the game....

10 Jan

Boys Soccer: Richmond Ties St. Mary’s

Richmond High’s varsity soccer team was up by one right before the half during a home game Jan. 7, but they struggled to score again as St. Mary’s College High...

12 Nov

Marlins Defeat Panthers, Move on To NCS Semi-Finals

The Making Waves Academy Marlins defeated McKinleyville High School Panthers 2-0 Saturday during the fall North Coast Section (NCS) boys soccer tournament quarterfinals at Salesian High School. ...

16 Oct

CCC Goalie Finds Home Between the Posts

Sophomore Sicaly Sorrell stumbled into collegiate bliss when she joined the Contra Costa College women’s soccer team....

11 Jul

New Coach Breathes Life Into CCC’s Women’s Soccer

By Joel Umanzor Jr. Coaching at the collegiate level is often more detailed than many people anticipate, especially for first-timers in a newly revamped program with only a handful of players. That’s...

26 Feb

Unfocused Oilers Come Up Short, Lose North Coast Section Final to Montgomery, Again

As the final whistle blew, signaling the end of the 2019 North Coast Section Division 2 soccer championship, reality hit the Richmond High School boys’ team. The Montgomery High Vikings...