Elk Grove Sports Corner

Today I remember my father, Dick Hull, who went to be with Jesus in 2011. A year ago I made a website, as my dad's last request, dedicated to my father's high school football team. In 1947, the Okmulgee Bulldogs, from a town of 30,000 people, won the O...

An excellent local baseball website, Baseball Sacramento.Com, has named Elk Grove's Rowdy Tellez and Herd coach Jeff Carlson as its player and coach of the year. Their "All-Capitol Team" also included Elk Grove's Dave Smith and Derek Hill, along with F...

Kyle Larson continues to race where ever he can do quite good at it. Read about the latest win on the racing circuit in today's EG Citizen. .... I have heard from both his former Sheldon baseball coach, John Misplay, along with a story in the Fre...

If there was one professional baseball organization that seemed to court Dom Nunez a little more than any of the others it was the Colorado Rockies. The past three falls he played for the Rockies’ Area Code team, getting to know...

Maybe the most surprising angle to this year's Major League Baseball Amateur Draft was that Elk Grove slugger Rowdy Tellez was still on the board going into the third and final day of the draft Saturday.  Baseball America had...

A pair of Elk Grove-area baseball players were selected in day two of Major League Baseball's Amateur Draft Friday. Elk Grove catcher Dom Nunez was taken in the sixth round by the Colorado Rockies. He was the 169th overall selection. Former Sheldon an...

The best place to do so right now is on the MLB.Com's Draft Tracker. We're watching for guys like Elk Grove's Rowdy Tellez and Dom Nunez. Also, former EGHS stud Jake Rodriguez who is in his junior year at Oregon State. Sheldon's Tyler Linehan, also a ...

School is out at Elk Grove Unified and with that comes the hot months with kids trying to find things to do and stay out of their parents' hair. Almost every interscholastic sport has a summer program now, so our local athletes won't exactly be looking...

The Elk Grove Thundering Herd won its fifth Sac-Joaquin Section Division I baseball championship over the past 11 seasons Saturday by defeating St. Mary's, 11-2. Rowdy Tellez had three hits including his fourth home run of the post-season and drove in...

Elk Grove took advantage of four St. Mary's errors and starting pitcher Dave Smith threw a complete game four-hitter as the Herd took game one of the Sac-Joaquin Section's Division I championship series, 9-1, at Sacramento City College Friday night. T...