April 28, 2010
By Ike Dodson
Oakdale High students Savannah Stender and Hayley Benson competed with United States Olympic Development Program teams in a shot at the U.S. Junior National water polo roster the last two weekends. Stender and Benson were selected to join A and B Central California teams for a run ... [Read More]
With an awful looking scratch taking up a good portion of Robbie Earle’s back, you would have thought the senior water polo player got the worst of a match-up between Oakdale High and eventual section champions, St. Mary’s, in the Mustangs’ Sac-Joaquin Section Division I quarter... [Read More]
Oakdale High’s Tyler Lee has been watching way too many And-1 mix tapes for a water polo player. The senior juked out Franklin’s goalkeeper with a duck-and-roll through the water, spinning to his left for a wide-open goal he lazily finger-rolled across the invisible score line. It wa... [Read More]
Their heads held high, Oakdale High’s girls water polo team gathered at the southwest corner of the Johansen High pool on Saturday for their last post game talk of the season. No one was sobbing uncontrollably, and none of the girls seemed at all bitter about their 14-2 loss to reigning Sa... [Read More]
When a Beyer High shooter lobbed the ball over the outstretched fingers of Oakdale goalkeeper Garrett Porter with 4 minutes, 56 seconds remaining in the two teams’ Modesto Metro Conference water polo match on Thursday, the Patriot bench erupted with cheers. But Beyer players weren’t ... [Read More]