The Yuba City High football team is champions of the Mayor’s Cup for a sixth straight time.

The Marysville High football team was able to snap a two-game slide against Gridley with a 22-19 win on the road over the Bulldogs Thursday night at the Boneyard. 

Week five of the prep football season will kick off 24 hours earlier than usual as the Marysville-Gridley game was bumped up due to a shortage of referees, according to school officials. 

Strapped with masks on covering the bottom portion of their faces, players and coaches on the Marysville High volleyball team returned to competition Tuesday to begin Pioneer Valley League play at home against Colfax. 

Another week, another round of cancellations and changes in the 2021 high school football season.

The Marysville High volleyball team lost a home game on Wednesday after its opponent, Western Sierra Collegiate Academy walked out during pregame over concerns of the lack of facial coverings worn inside the gym, according to Marysville Athletic Director David Chiono. 

In a last-ditch effort, the Sutter High varsity football team was able to schedule a week-three opponent that it had never faced before in what turned out to be great preparation for another first-ever meeting this week on the road against Foothill. 

The Marysville High varsity football program is the latest mid-valley school to fall victim to the COVID-19 surge with the Indians electing to proactively pause all football activity for the entire week. 

Week three of the high school football season is here and tonight (Friday) seven Yuba-Sutter-Colusa region schools are scheduled to have a game. 

The community has scheduled a fundraiser dinner and candlelight vigil in honor of a Sutter High School graduate and former football player who was killed in a car crash last week. 

Yuba City High product Max Stassi was out of the starting lineup Tuesday in the Los Angeles Angels’ series opener at San Diego. Stassi, who hitting just .182 in the last week with eight strikeouts, lowered his season average to .264 (62-235) through 138 games. 

The Pleasant Valley High football team fought all evening to try and secure a lead, but ultimately fell short by the final buzzer.

Marysville at Oroville 

The Yuba-Sutter Special Olympics returned to Black Burn Talley Sports Complex in Yuba City this year, capping a shortened season and the first in-person activity for Yuba-Sutter Special Olympics since the pandemic began. 

There was little doubt once the Sutter High football team took the field last weekend that the Huskies were the better and more physical football team. 

Yuba City High product Max Stassi was inserted in the seven hole Tuesday at home for the Los Angeles Angels as they hosted the New York Yankees. 

The dog is part of her warmup routine, a ritual that Kym Crosby performs before stretching and jogging around the track. She sits on the ground and Tron, her big yellow lab, lays his paws across her legs.

For the second straight week, the Yuba City High football team had a home game taken away, at least temporarily this time, when poor air quality in the area forced administration to cancel Friday’s night’s contest between the Honkers and Lincoln. 

The stage has been set for family ties to be broken this Saturday night at Marysville Raceway.

Ashley Baggett dished out 16 assists, while Abbi Redfield (6 kills) and Angelica Lewis (5 kills) combined to lead Marysville High’s volleyball offense during a four-set (25-20, 20-25, 25-22, 25-23) victory at home over Forest Lake Christian of Auburn Thursday night. 

The Marysville High football team returned to the field at War Memorial Stadium for the first time in a year-and-a-half to begin a full, 10-week season. 

Yuba City native Kym Crosby is gearing up for her second stint at the Paralympic Games starting Tuesday in Tokyo. 

 Big-time dirt track racing returns to the Silver Dollar Speedway in Chico tonight (Friday) with the eighth rendition of the Tyler Wolf Memorial.  This will be the first auto race the speedway has hosted since July 4. 

Yuba City High product Max Stassi collected his first home run since Aug. 1 – a two-run shot to left to help guide the Los Angeles Angels past Detroit, 13-10 Thursday in Detroit. 

Yuba City High School has reopened its football facility following last week’s quarantine period and is scheduled to begin its 2021 fall campaign at home Saturday against Vanden of Fairfield.