Alameda’s Flaming Skulls Over-40 soccer team recently won Bladium’s Soccer C League’s championship. The league plays every Thursday night. The playoffs ended with the Flaming Skulls winning the championship game, bettering their opponent on penalty kicks at the end of the match.

The Alameda Theatre & Cineplex will be showing a live simulcast of the National Football Conference (NFC) Championship game this Sunday, Jan. 19. The game will pit the San Francisco 49ers against the Green Bay Packers.

This year Encinal Junior and Senior High School (EHS) will be one of the schools to receive funds raised by cyclists in the Ride 4 A Reason (R4R) bicycle ride event set for Saturday, April 25.

Alameda native James Hahn played his first Professional Golf Association (PGA) tournament of the year at the Sony Open Jan. 9 to 12. Hahn, 38, competed with more than 150 other PGA golfers in the tournament played at the Wai’alae Country Club in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Valor Games Far West, held annually at Alameda’s Coast Guard Island, provides a venue for more than 100 injured, ill and wounded veterans from the Western U.S. to compete in various sports. Now in its seventh year, the games will take place June 11 through 14.

The 47th annual Alameda Elks Hoop Shoots Alameda City Finals takes place tomorrow at the Alameda Point Gymnasium at 1101 West Red Line Ave.

The winners in each division will go on to represent the City of Alameda and the Alameda Elks at the District Shoot-Off in late January.

Players selected to compete in Paradise Bowl in Hawaii

Four members of the Encinal High School (EHS) football team took part in the second annual Junior Prep Sports (JPS) Northern California Patriot Bowl Saturday, Dec. 28, 2019, at Diablo Valley College in Concord.

Dozens of Raiders fans congregated outside of the Raiders’ Alameda complex Monday, Dec. 30, 2019, to say goodbye to the Raiders players one last time before the team moves to Las Vegas. 

As 2019 comes to a close, it is time to look back at some of the Island City’s sports highlights of the last 12 months.

Part One
January

Dozens of jiu-jitsu enthusiasts congregated at Team Silva Martial Arts Academy to take part in a self-defense and jiu-jitsu seminar with the jiu-jitsu Red Belt Grand Master Carley Gracie.