June 30, 2010
By Ike Dodson
Soon-to-be Oakdale High senior Matt Butler earned notoriety for closing the Mustangs’ section championship baseball win over El Dorado on the last day of May. Less than a month later, the savvy left-handed pitcher was back on the mound and never missed a beat. Butler tossed ... [Read More]
Big swings from Broderick Medrano and a deep staff of strong arms propelled the Oakdale Baseball Association 11-12 all stars to a 1-1 start to the District 1 Cal Ripken Championships at Fair Oaks Field. The team played Escalon on Monday for a chance to advance deeper into the posts... [Read More]
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 ... [Read More]
Former Oakdale High Mustang Boone Whiting wrapped up a stellar junior season recently with Division I Centenary College in Shreveport, Louisiana. He tossed 120 strikeouts with a 6-2 win-loss showing from the mound to set a new record for most Ks in a single season. His 247 career s... [Read More]
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 Linco... [Read More]