Antioch Sports Legends Class of 2014 inductees kick off their Hall of Fame breakfast at the Antioch Historical Museum preparing for tonight’s Hall of Fame Induction.
Brian White, Cross-Country AHS 1991
By Steve Dulas, Legends staff writer Though the season ended one victory short of the ultimate goal, and two matches away from perfection, the 2015 boys volleyball season at Deer Valley High School produced results against which other teams shall now be measured. The Wolverines won a third straight North Coast Section Division I championship,…
Antioch’s No. 23 nationally ranked Deer Valley High Wolverines (39-1) boys begin round one of the 2015 California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) NorCal Boys Volleyball Division l Championships
Just as in Kevin Costner’s movie, “Field of Dreams” the 1947 Antioch Bears played baseball in a cornfield. The Bears, a sandlot team made up of 9 to 13 year old boys played ball in a growing cornfield in Antioch’s old Prosserville District on Seventh Street. Each day after work, Penrose “Penny” Russell would watched…
This is a photo of the starting five of the Antioch High School 1962 basketball team celebrating their Coach, Thayer Johnson’s 85th birthday. Left to right are: Jerome Circo, Ron Morelli, Butch Rounsaville, Thayer Johnson, Gerald Circo and Bogie Edwards. This is the first time that all of the players and coach have been together…
Today Antioch Sports History- April 7, 1970- 51 years ago today Antioch High’s Gene “Butch” Rounsaville toes the rubber at Chicago’s White Sox Stadium as a relief pitcher and becomes Antioch’s first Major League Baseball (MLB) player. It would be eight long years before the 6’3’ 205 pound, 1962 graduate would stand facing his first…
