Bruce Burton
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Youth softball: Woodland Rebels 16U team is ready for the west
They spent the month of June posting a trio of top-3 finishes against California-based competition in Amateur Softball Association tournaments.Now the Woodland Rebels 16-and-under squad is set to take on some of the best of the west.The → Read More
Babe Ruth: Woodland 14s handcuffed by Tri-Valley
Until Wednesday, the Woodland 14-year-old Babe Ruth All-Stars hadn’t had much trouble scoring runs this tournament season.Excepting two one-run victories — the first over Elk Grove in the District 7 Tournament and the second over → Read More
Track and Field: Camarena-Williams fails to make U.S. Olympic team
Jill Camarena-Williams will not be going to the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.The 34-year-old Woodland High School graduate sought a spot on her third straight Olympic team on a rainy Thursday at the USATF Olympic Trials in Eugene, → Read More
Track and field: Woodlander Jill Camarena-Williams takes another shot at Olympic glory
Woodland native and world-class shot put specialist Jill Camarena-Williams harbors no illusions.The old saying goes that Father Time is undefeated. Camarena-Williams, who turned 34 in March, is not about to challenge his record.“Y → Read More
When Muhammad Ali KO’d Woodland
He arrived early, spoke for 30 minutes, shook hands, answered any and all questions and charmed everybody in the room.In short, it was a typical post-boxing career public appearance for “The Greatest,” Muhammad Ali.And it h → Read More
Memorial Day tourney begins today at Clark
Yolo Post 77 is among the teams who begin play today in the District 6 American Legion Memorial Day Tournament in Woodland.Yolo plays games at Clark Field today against the Fairfield Expos at 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. Those are two of seven games to be → Read More
High school girls soccer: Woodland bound for second straight section final
The recipe the Woodland High School girls soccer team has used to score roughly a third of its goals during the 2016 season has been fairly simple.Find Ariana Coronado on the left wing. Or the right wing. Or in the middle.Then let her us → Read More
High school softball: Pioneer of Woodland shuts down Bethel in section playoffs
SACRAMENTO >> They wore initialed white wristbands and had bows of the San Francisco Giants colors in their hair. They also asked for and received a moment of silence at the Sacramento Softball Complex, all for their friend, schoolmate and Giant → Read More
Meet Woodland High’s Mia Marin of the USA Deaf Women’s National Soccer Team
For nearly all of her 15 years of living, Woodland High School sophomore soccer player Mia Marin has been a different breed from Amy and Robert Marin’s two older children. Not because she’s deaf — like her 25-year-old broth → Read More
Track and field: Pioneer’s Holden, Woodland’s Hernandez star at TCC meet
Pioneer’s Hannah Holden and Woodland’s Geronimo Hernandez were double winners on the track at the Tri-County Conference championships on Wednesday at Inderkum High School.Holden, a senior, captured the girls varsity 1,600- and 3,2 → Read More
River Cats: Sacramento swept away by Salt Lake
The worst start to a season in Sacramento River Cats history got worse on Monday.An early 12:05 p.m. start at Raley Field seemed to catch the hosts napping. Throwing errors, mental errors and so-so pitching by Sacramento helped the visiting Sal → Read More
High school baseball: Pioneer whiffs on scoring opportunities against Woodland
So far for Pioneer, the 2016 high school baseball campaign has been a season of what ifs.As in, what if the Patriots hadn’t committed six errors against River Valley of Yuba City last week. Then they might have handed the Falcons their f → Read More
High school baseball: Woodland hangs on to beat Pioneer
When Woodland won the Tri-County Conference championship last year, few people felt it marked a total changing of the guard. After all, it was long-time TCC standard bearer Yuba City that eventually went on in the postseason to win another Sac-Joaquin Section championship, while the Wolves were eliminated in the first round. Still, Woodland had at least announced it was no joke. And with a good… → Read More