The Washington High School baseball team may be the defending Academic Athletic Association champion with a key core of seniors returning, but its first two games of the season have shown it has plenty of room for improvement. The Eagles were in contention for most of their nonleague game on the road against El Camino and held a 2-1 lead in the fifth inning, but gave up nine unanswered runs in two innings to lose 10-2. Read More

On the strength of two second-half turnovers by Lincoln High School, Washington High overcame a three-point halftime deficit to advance to its second consecutive Turkey Bowl with a hard-earned 21-10 victory on Thursday. “I tell the guys all the time that nothing is going to be easy, and I told them at halftime we didn’t really need to fix anything other than to just play harder,” Washington coach Karl Finley said. Read More

As the BCS rankings came out for the first time Sunday, one thing was clear: Stanford was not getting help from the computers. The Cardinal (6-0, 4-0 Pac-12 North) placed eighth in the BCS rankings, but with two high-profile games on the horizon that ranking could change quickly. The first comes Saturday when No. 22 Washington (5-1, 3-0 Pac-12 North) comes into Stanford Stadium having won three in a row and scoring at least 30 points in every game this season. Read More

No one is shocked to see defending champion Washington High School entering the annual Bell Game rivalry undefeated in Academic Athletic Association play. Lincoln, however, is a different story. The Mustangs (2-3, 2-0) have been the biggest surprise of the early AAA season, upsetting 2010 finalist Balboa and 2009 champion Galileo after a winless season last year. Read More