Sonora ace Ryan Stevenson (10, above) hurls Tuesday during his complete game one-hitter with 15 strikeouts against the Summerville Bears at Bev Barron Field. Maggie Beck / Union Democrat

Stevenson pitched a complete-game one-hitter with 15 strikeouts and made the defensive play of the game to lead the Wildcats to a 7-1 baseball victory over their county rivals the Summerville Bears at Bev Barron Field.

“That was vintage Stevenson,” said Wildcat head coach Scott Johnson. “We just seem to play a lot better when he’s on the bump. Our guys don’t want to win when he is pitching, they expect to win.”

The Sonora Wildcat girls’ soccer team opened Valley Oak League Tuesday with a 1-0 victory over host Weston Ranch.

The Wildcats survived a Cougar first-half surge that produced 12 shots on goal keeper Hannah Taylor, who let nothing get by.

More than 45 vendors have donated thousands of dollars worth of merchandise to be raffled later this month at a special event honoring two fallen Bret Harte students.

Big ticket items include a HovieSUP standup paddle board and cosmetics package worth more than $2,000, plus gift certificates for restaurants, massages and other goods and services will also be offered, said Sean Plummer, mother of Alex and Macaila Marshall, who were killed earlier this year by their father, Philip Marshall, 54, in a murder-suicide at the family’s residence in Murphys.

“There’s going to be something for everyone,” she said. “It’s going to be a big event, but the raffle alone will raise a lot of money for the school and community that gave so much to Alex and Macaila.”

Get ready Mother Lode League because here come the Sonora Wildcats.

Schools seeking to prevent Sonora High’s football team from competing in the MLL were dealt what could be the final blow Tuesday, when a committee tasked with overseeing the Sac-Joaquin Section’s four-year realignment plan again failed to act on an alternate proposal that would send the Wildcats elsewhere.

MLL officials unsuccessfully argued in favor of an alternate proposal that placed Sonora gridders in the Trans Valley League rather than the MLL at the final committee meeting before its 2014-18 Realignment Plan is considered by the CIF’s Board of Managers for approval in April.

Iconic slugger Reggie Jackson is scheduled to appear at Bret Harte’s first home game of the 2013 baseball season March 20 to honor a Bullfrog player and his sister, who were both slain by their father in a murder-suicide earlier this year.

Jackson, also known by the nickname “Mr. October” for his clutch postseason play, will wear Alex Marshall’s jersey, No. 15, and sit in place of the fallen student-athlete in the Bret Harte dugout for the duration of the game.

He will also be on-hand to talk with players and fans at the special opening day event intended to raise money for a scholarship fund in the names of Alex and his sister, Macaila, as well as serve as a token of appreciation to a community that has helped surviving family members cope with the tragedy.

“I think it’s going to give back to the community that gave to me,” said Sean Plummer, mother of Alex and Macaila.

Bear Logen Foster (above, left) makes a leaping catch while Central Valley’s Austin Burns (right) slides to the base. Maggie Beck / Union Democrat

Brocchini, along with Bryce Farrell, Logen Foster and Connor Morningstar, made his return from the Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV Championship-winning varsity basketball team that suffered a loss in the first round of the state playoffs Wednesday night. 

Brocchini faced seven batters over two innings against the Central Valley Hawks on Friday in a 12-3 loss at home. He had two strikeouts and held them to only two hits and no runs.

Former Bret Harte football head coach Scott Edwards says questions surrounding the future of his teaching position at the Angels Camp school prompted him to accept a job offer from University of Mary in Bismarck, N.D.

Edwards will serve as offensive coordinator/offensive line coach for the University of Mary football team, a position he had already filled for a time before he returned to Angels Camp in 2006.

Edwards expressed his reluctance to resign from Bret Harte in a letter addressed to both the high school and members of the community, which he distributed via e-mail on Thursday.

“I am grateful that I found a job, and yes, I am excited about the opportunity and the new challenges ahead,” Edwards wrote. “But, as well, I want it to be known that I would have never left home had I not been forced into this situation.”

Bears head coach Ben Watson sat in his office at Summerville High Wednesday after his team was just defeated by the Orland Trojans in the first round of the CIF State Boys Division IV Basketball Championships and marveled at what they have accomplished this season.

“I’ve never been associated with anything like this,” he said. “You just don’t go and win a section championship. I’ve had a couple close runs before, but what these kids accomplished is pretty amazing.”

The Bears came into this season, following a difficult 2011-12 in which they missed the playoffs, with one goal in mind — go down as one of the greatest Summerville basketball teams in school history.

 And these Bears certainly made an impressive argument for that.

Bear co-captain Rosendo Amaya-Wood (above, center in white jersey) shoots a reverse layup against Orland at Summerville High in the first round of the 2013 CIF State Boys Division IV Basketball Championships at Summerville High on March 6. Maggie Beck / Union Democrat.

Brocchini drained six treys, three in each of the final two quarters, for a team-high 18 points that kept the Bears in the game through the final minutes.

“I was just open and shooting with confidence,” Brocchini said. “But my teammates got me open, so I’m not taking any credit for that.”

Calaveras Redskins grappler Justin Brown earned a medal placing seventh at the CIF State Wrestling Championships in Bakersfield last weekend.

Brown, one of the top-ranked wrestlers in California at 160 pounds, won his first two matches at Rabobank Arena before suffering a loss to Lemoore’s Isaiah Martinez, the eventual champion.