Bear senior Krysta Calkins scored a game-high 22 points in the Summerville girl hoopsters’ 57-33 rout of the Delhi Hawks on Tuesday night.

The Bears built a 10-8 first-quarter lead on the Hawks and extended it to 26-15 at halftime.

Summerville outscored Delhi 21-3 in the third to give the Bears a 19-point advantage that helped them clinch their third victory of the 2012-13 season on the road.

“There was a lot of stuff going on early and we had to settle down,” said Summerville head coach Dave Woods. “We outscored them pretty good in the third quarter once we calmed down. (Delhi) tries to fast break all the time and get you in a frenzied pace.”

Sonora guard Danny Matranga dribbles upcourt on Tuesday with Calaveras’ Kellen Hodgson defending. Matranga was clutch down the stretch, scoring seven out of the Wildcats’ final 12 points. Maggie Beck / Union Democrat.

Matranga scored seven of Sonora’s final 12 points to help lead the Wildcats to a 51-43 hoops victory over the Calaveras Redskins Tuesday night at Bud Castle Gym.

With 2:40 left in the game and the score tied at 39, Matranga canned a 3-pointer to put the Cats in front for good, 42-39.

The Columbia Claim Jumpers have waived all admission fees to this season’s non-tournament home basketball games in an effort to increase local interest and give back to the community that supports them.

Samantha Smith (1588) runs at the Junior Olympics in New Mexico on Dec. 8. She finished the 5K event 11th place out of 55 in a time of 20:43.59. Courtesy photo.

Smith competed with the Buffalo Babes team, a division of the Buffalo Chips running club, based out of the Sacramento area. She finished the 5K event in 20:43.59, which helped her team to a second-place finish. 

She is one of 10 runners from the Buffalo Babes team to earn All-American status.

In my early years of waterfowl hunting, very few of the hunters in the old Apple City Club, which we started in 1947, owned a dog. 

In those days, being young and healthy, we were content to chase down our own birds. 

My first experience of hunting with a partner who owned a dog was back in the 1980s with the late Dick Brown, formerly of Mi-Wuk Village.

Summerville’s Colton Ebbers (54, above) spins and cans a free-throw line jumper with Sonora’s Kyle Wolfe (5, left) and Cody Hansten (22) defending on Tuesday in Tuolumne. Ebbers finished the night with 12 points. Amy Alonzo Rozak / Union Democrat.

With less than 10 seconds remaining, Sonora took the lead 50-48 when Wildcat forward Ben Bates scored off a strong inside move, prompting Bears head coach Ben Watson to call a timeout.

Foster then buried the game-saver off a pass from guard Kyle McLaurin.

Jessie Fong has found the zone.

The junior scored 18 points, including five 3-pointers, and also grabbed seven rebounds Tuesday to lead the Sonora Wildcat girls basketball team to a 52-38 victory over Riverbank at Bud Castle Gym.

Fong picked up right where she left off last weekend at the Lodi Tournament where she earned All-Tourney honors. She has tallied 54 points and hit 14 3-pointers in the last three games — all Sonora victories.

Sonora got good performances from several players.

The stage is set for another chapter in the longtime rivalry between Sonora and Summerville, as the two teams go head-to-head on the basketball court tonight in Tuolumne.

Bragging rights for an entire year will be on the line in the cross-county battle that often pits families, friends and neighbors against each other in an intense but mutually respectful test.

“Someday when you’re old like me you’ll look back and say, ‘Remember when we beat you guys in 2012?’ ” said Sonora head coach Rick Francis. “And that’s the great thing about athletics ... You might gain some bragging rights if you win, but at the same time it’s not the end of the world if you lose.”

The Summerville Bears girls’ basketball team picked up their first victory of the season on Friday at the High Sierra Winter Classic in Reno.

Bret Harte grad Danny Radford led the Columbia Claim Jumpers with 23 points in a 104-77 thrashing of William Jessup JV at Oak Pavilion on Friday night.