With the spring season in full bloom Alameda high school athletes have made their treks from the basketball courts and soccer fields to the baseball diamonds.

The Alameda Friends of the Park Foundation will be holding the 2014 edition of the Play for the Parks Tournament Monday, Sept. 15 at the Chuck Corica Golf Complex.

Four Alameda Girls’ Softball Association contests took place on the weekend of March 22 and 23.

Ralph Walker, head track coach for the Don Grant Youth Track Club, is training young men and women in the sport that he loves.

The Alameda Island Aquatics swim team sent 19 swimmers to compete at the Pacific Swimming’s Short Course Junior Olympics March 14-16 in Concord.

The swimmers participated in eight different competition age groups with 16 swimmers racing in each meet.

The St. Joseph Notre Dame (SJND) men’s basketball team used a defensive shutdown in the second quarter to power its way to the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Division V NorCal regional championship Saturday, March 22.

Cheryl Saxton was the big winner at the Alameda Women’s Golf Club’s tournament event on March 20. Saxton blew away her competition with a net 66. Four players tied for second place overall, but they all shot net 71s.

St. Joseph Notre Dame (SJND) senior Temidayo Yussuf alonescored more than half the points of the team opposing him, in the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Northern regional men’s basketball quarterfinals.

The journey to a California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Division III title ended after four months for the Encinal High School women’s basketball team before it could reach its desired destination.

Both Peggy Miller and Louise Eilhardt came away victorious in the Alameda Women’s Golf Club’s (AWGC) club tournament held last Thursday, March 13, on the Earl Fry Course.