Sports with Anthony Dion

Just wanted to deliver a congratulations to the Ukiah boys' varsity Golf team. They finished a 12-2 season on Thursday with a heartbreaking defeat to Cardinal Newman (14-0) which left them in a second-place finish in the North Bay League but it is certainly nothing to be ashamed of. In two matches against the Cardinals, the boys from Ukiah lost by a grand total of three strokes. Newman is certainly no slouch; that's a very good golf squad they got over there in Santa Rosa.

Both teams now move on to NCS qualifier at Rooster Run in Petaluma on Cinco de Mayo, May 5th, for you Spanish illiterates out there... We here at the journal wish the entire team the best of luck in qualifying for NCS. Go Wildcats!

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I've been hearing quite a bit of backlash on the "Local Restaurantuer has Giant change of heart" article that ran in Wednesday's (4/23) issue of the Daily Journal and I have to say I'm pretty angered by it.

If you don't find the above article, or any article for that matter, to be particularly newsworthy or interesting to you then DON'T READ THE FREAKING ARTICLE! How hard is it people? I'm sorry that for one day you missed out on an AP story detailing the most recent torch protests going on in South America. There's other places you can go for your daily sports news. Do what I do. Start your day with espn.com and then head on over to cbs.sportsline or some other site for a different take.

This happens to be a small town newspaper and it just so happens that a certain individual who has helped me a lot with the local sports coverage asked me to publish an article he had written about the experience his good buddy had recently. There wasn't much else going on that day and I decided to do something nice for him when he has done nothing but help me out since the day I got here.

So again, if you don't like something in the paper then turn the page. No one is requiring you to read the whole thing. And it was just one day, one paper. I'm not going to make this a weekly thing or even monthly so please relax and enjoy our sports section because I really think we're doing some good things here.

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Wednesday, April 23rd brings about another big game for the Ukiah baseball team as they make a run at the North Bay League (NBL) playoffs as 1st place Rancho Cotate comes to town. The Wildcats are coming off a big win against the Cardinals of Cardinal Newman on Friday and own a win over the NBL-leading Cougars from earlier in the season in Rohnert Park. With Wildcats star sophomore pitcher Matt Hall still sidelined for another couple of games, the likely starting pitcher for Ukiah looks to be Eric McBurney for the showdown with Rancho. The game is at 4 p.m. so all you Wildcats fans should get over to Anton and support the team.

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So I'm Anthony Dion, Sports Editor of the Ukiah Daily Journal and you most likely are residents of Mendocino County, passionate about your sports that range from Ukiah Lions football to Mendocino College and back down to recreational yet competitive roller skating. I understand that. My goal with this blog is to try to help you all understand my job and to comment as much as I can on the various goings-on of Ukiah sports. Hopefully you will feel inclined to post your comments and we can make this more of a discussion forum rather than a podium where I sit and preach. That's not what I want to do so please participate in discussing sports ranging from local Mendocino to the state of California and the occasional national news. So welcome and I hope you enjoy.

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