Live Oak High School

After the postgame handshakes, Randy Bartholomew had to take it all in. He sat down, hands touching the sides of his head, and took several deep breaths.  Finally, it was over. The Live Oak High boys basketball team had just secured its first league win...

The 2022-2023 Live Oak High wrestling team is on track to go down as one of the program’s best in recent memory.  The Acorns are coming off a strong performance in the Jim Root Memorial tournament Jan. 13-14 at Prospect High, finishing third behind De...

The Live Oak and Sobrato girls soccer teams started their respective league seasons on Jan. 3, with both sides facing different challenges.  The Bulldogs are in the Blossom Valley Athletic League’s top division, the Mount Hamilton, which boasts two teams that won CIF NorCal Regional...

To say the 2021-2022 season was a tough one for Mike Kiefer would be an understatement.  The longtime Live Oak High girls basketball coach—this is his 19th year in the program and 13th as the varsity coach with a lot of success—endured a 4-17 season...

After graduating nine seniors off last year’s team, Live Oak High boys basketball coach Randy Bartholomew knows this season will have a lot of growing pains.  But the fourth-year Acorns coach also sees an opportunity for the players to learn, grow and develop into a...

It was all there for the taking for the Live Oak High football team. Up by two touchdowns and seemingly in full control in its Central Coast Section Division III playoff semifinal home game against Menlo School on Nov. 18, the Acorns couldn’t have...

Four Live Oak High student-athletes—Aidan Keenan, Landon Stump, Diego Castellanos and Kaitlyn Silva—signed their college letters of intent on Nov. 9, the first day of the early signing period for high school athletes in sports other than football.  The quartet gathered at the Live Oak...

For one team, nirvana. For another team, sheer and utter disappointment.  Those were the raw emotions on display in the aftermath of the Christopher High football team’s 21-19 win over Live Oak High in their regular-season finale on Nov. 4. Although the two teams finished...

In one match, the Live Oak High girls volleyball team showed the impressive turnaround it had this season and how far it still has to go to become league champions.  The Acorns’ five-set loss to Independence High on Oct. 19 cost them a share of...

For most of the game, the Live Oak High football team felt the frustration of not being able to finish drives on offense.  But when plays had to be made from both the offense and defense, the Acorns got it done. Bo Rizzi’s pass breakup...