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Howard, recently named the TCAL MVP, said he had more energy than usual before Friday's contest, even if it was the third game he had played in five days. Earlier in the week Bethel beat John Swett and El Cerrito. He had 18 points and four steals in the win against Swett and 12 points in the victory over El Cerrito.

Howard scored 17 points in a win over Hercules and 19 points in a nonleague loss to Benicia.

Not many freshmen begin their high school careers playing varsity games. However, when Jesse Bethel High first-year girls basketball player Zarriah Hall started playing at the top level last week she didn’t have many butterflies and wasn’t that nervous. The main reason for this she says is due to her older brother Zoltan Kent. “I […]

CLOVERDALE — The letter-shaped balloons floated skyward in an alphabet of grief Saturday as a family mourned the still-unsolved shooting death of Roanoke toddler Nazim Shimin Claytor. Mixed among balloons spelling out the boy’s first name were more shaped like the numeral 3 – Nazim’s age when the vehicle he was in was sprayed with bullets one year ago, killing him in his car seat. And the rainy skies above Old Dominion Memorial Gardens were briefly decorated with more balloo...