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My random thoughts as we enter the third weekend of August. n If you’re looking forward to reading how this year’s Davis High football team does in its games this season, then you cam read the stories and view photos on The Enterprise’s Website at www.davisenterprise.com come late Friday night entering Saturday mornings.
But if you’re going to wait until the Sunday print edition, your best bet is to visit our Website on weekends through the season.
Earlier this summer, The Enterprise switched to an earlier deadline for the Sunday print edition on Fridays at 7 p.m. The prior deadline was later in the evening.
The early deadline means Blue Devil football game stories and photos will be run in Wednesday’s print edition which begin Wednesday, Aug. 24.
All of the Blue Devil football games home and away that I will be covering start at 7 7:15 and 7:30 p.m. Davis closes out the regular season in a Delta League game at Jesuit, which plays all of its home games at its stadium that has no stadium lights on Saturday, Oct. 29 at 1 p.m. n All stories and photos of UC Davis football team’s games which will be all played on Saturdays this season will continue to run on The Enterprise’s Website on late Saturday evening entering Sunday morning hours.
Staff writer Bob Dunning will have his game stories, along with photos run in Wednesday’s editions, starting Sept. 7.
The Aggies begin their season at Cal on Saturday Sept. 3.
After playing at the South Dakota State Jackrabbits on Saturday Sept. 10, UCD plays its first home game of the season at UC Davis Health Stadium against San Diego on Saturday Sept. 17.
The Aggies will be breaking in their synthetic turf, which was replaced this summer in the home opener. n You’ll want to keep an eye on the Davis High girls field hockey team this summer and fall.
The Blue Devils enter this season riding on a 64-game Eastern Athletic League winning streak. Davis’ league foes are schools in Yuba City, Chico, Red Bluff, Lassen and Red Bluff.
Davis head coach Elizabeth Hogan a 1995 DHS graduate, and her team play their first home game of the season against Pleasant Valley of Chico on Wednesday Sept. 7. That will be an EAL contest.
Henry Krueger, who has been interning at The Enterprise this summer, will have a preview story on this year’s team in Sunday’s edition and online. n The San Francisco Giants can still grab one of the National League’s Wild Card playoff berths.
But the clock is ticking for Giants.
The Arizona Diamondbacks wrapped up their four-game series in the Bay Area on Thursday with a 5-0 win. That loss put the Giants at 59-59 and remain at third place in the National League West.
The San Diego Padres are in second place at 66-54 and the Los Angeles
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UC Davis women’s soccer player Leslie Fregoso uses her head to move the ball in a home game in September 2019.
UCD booters picked in coaches’ preseason poll
Enterprise staff
The UC Davis women's soccer team came in at fifth in the Big West Conference Preseason Coaches' Poll.
Aggie players Leslie Fregoso and Risa Yamada were named to the Big West Preseason Coaches' Team, the conference announced Monday.
The ranking is the highest preseason mark under head coach Tracy Hamm, who is in her fourth season leading UCD.
A junior entering her third season, Fregoso was named the 2021 All-Big West Conference First Team last season and earned a preseason team selection for the second straight season.
Fregoso was also named to the 2019 Big West AllFreshman Team, giving her a conference honor each season of her career.
She started all 18 games in 2021 and led UC Davis in goals (7), assists (8) and shots on goal (31) with four game winners — all career-highs.
Her assist total was the best single-season mark in the program's Division I era, while her 22 points and four game winners both tied the program mark in the D-I era. She enters this season sixth in the D-I era in career points, tied for third in game-winning goals, fifth in assists and sixth in total shots.
Yamada was named to the 2021 All-Big West Conference First Team. She made 13 starts and scoring six goals with four assists in her debut season.
The sophomore went on a five-game stretch from Sept. 5 to Sept. 26 recording at least a point in games against Idaho State, Sacramento State, Saint Mary's, CSU Bakersfield and CSUN.
She was twice responsible for the scoring in Aggie wins, netting both goals of a 2-0 win over Cal Poly on Oct. 13, 2021 and had a goal and an assist in a 2-1 win over UC Irvine on Oct. 17, 2021.
UCD officially began the season at UTEP on Thursday.
Then the Aggies play at Santa Clara on Sunday at 1 p.m.
The Aggies will have their home opener coming on Aug. 25 against Pacific.
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A group of Davis High linemen (left) push back a pair of Delhi High linemen during their Under the Lights scrimmage at John Knight Middle School in Dixon on Aug. 12. Tonight at 7:15 p.m., the Blue Devils open the regular season hosting Vacaville at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium.
Blue Devils welcome Bulldogs
BY Mike BuSh Enterprise sports editor
Mother Nature turned the heat up in the Sacramento area and Northern California this week.
But the Davis High football team took advantage of triple-digit temperatures in preparing for tonight’s season and home opener against Vacaville’s squad at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium.
Game time is scheduled at 7:15 p.m.
Davis head coach Nick Garratt had his squad practice in the late afternoon to early evening hours in recent weeks. But thanks to the triple-digit temperatures, the Blue Devils moved their sessions to early to mid-late evening hours in preparing for the Bulldogs.
“We actually had the opportunity to practice under the lights, which was really cool,” said Garratt of Tuesday and Wednesday’s evening drills. “Gives us a sense of how Friday night lights will be like. This brought out some enthusiasm. We had a real good practice (Thursday). I think they are really starting to get the sense of how to play good, fast football.”
The Blue Devils picked their four team captains picked for this season this week. Two each on offense and defense.
C.J. Millican, a junior defensive end, and Sonny Huitron, linebacker, will be Davis’ captains on defense. AJ Hasson, tight end and quarterback Braulio Acevedo will be the captains on offense.
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Blue Devils running back Jude Vaughn looks for a running lane during their Under the Lights scrimmage at John Knight Middle School in Dixon on Aug. 12. Vaughn, a senior, is one of two running backs in the team’s backfield for Davis this season; sophomore Prince Flores is the other.
