One last look at the North Coast Section’s boys soccer playoff picture as we head into the regular season’s final week.
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The record-breaking De La Salle running back confirmed Saturday evening that he has accepted a grayshirt offer to play for Oregon State.
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The Diablo Foothill Athletic League, the Bay Shore Athletic League and the Mission Valley Athletic League were decided tonight.
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Friday’s boys and girls varsity basketball games between Oakland High and McClymonds have been postponed until further notice because of concerns of potential violence.

“Continued conflicts between rival high school students have created additional security concerns around (Oakland Athletic League) games,” Oakland Unified School District spokesman Troy Flint wrote in an e-mail. “We’re erring on the side of caution and postponing events that could provide a forum for those looking to address preexisting disputes. At the same time, we’re working to better understand and resolve the underlying conflicts so they don’t jeopardize the students involved or the ability of the League to conduct its events in a normal fashion.”

No make up date has been announced.

The tradition of the Hayward Area Athletic League continued on Wednesday as two HAAL players on the grid-iron signed national letters-of-intent on national signing-period day.
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Acalanes’ Nick Hoversten, one of the most heavily-recruited boys water polo players in the class of 2010, decided today to continue his water polo career at Stanford. Hoversten, the Bay Area News Group’s Player of the Year, picked the Cardinal over Cal, UCLA and USC.

“One of the hardest parts was that I know so many guys at all four schools from various teams I’ve played on over time,” said Hoversten. “When it finally came down to Cal and Stanford it was especially hard because I played with pretty much entire Cal team for premier league and got to know all coaches. I knew all of them really well which made it really hard to branch out to something I didn’t know quite as well.
“It’s kind of a full-package deal. Stanford really had good combination of everything.”

In his senior season, Hoversten led the Dons to the Diablo Foothill Athletic League title and the North Coast Section title game where they fell to four-time defending champion Miramonte 6-5. Hoversten has led Acalanes in scoring the past three seasons and had 73 goals during the fall, despite focusing primarily on 2-meter defense. He was recently named to the California-Hawaii All-American first team and was also the DFAL MVP and NCS Co-MVP.

Miramonte goalkeeper Jon Sibley signed with Cal to highlight other local boys water polo signings.

Las Lomas High track star Sean Delfani signed an letter-of-intent with Arizona today. He also considered UCLA, Cal and Washington before choosing the Wildcats.

“What sold me was the overall people, the community, the coaches,” Delfani said. “They were really down to earth. I felt really comfortable vibes there … warm, comfortable vibes.”

Delfani placed fifth in the 2009 California Interscholastic Federation state boys 400-meter final with a personal-record time of 47.80. The day before in the trials, he also set a personal record (48.08).

With more important things on the line, like staying in the East Bay Athletic League race and positioning for seeding in the North Coast Section’s Division I playoffs, the Granada High School boys soccer team did something else in the meantime.
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Despite missing part of the season with a knee injury, San Ramon Valley’s Bobby Edwards will always remember his senior year as the year he signed with Stanford University to play soccer.
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