UCD men B Section Forum B4 fall to Rainbow Op-ed B5 Warriors, Comics B6 Back page Classifieds B7 sportsTHE DAVIS ENTERPRISE — SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2019 Weather B10 DHS girls undefeated, ranked No. 1 BY EVAN REAM Devils 3, 13-0 on the season and 8-0 in the goals to put Davis up 2-0 at the Enterprise staff writer Delta League. midway point. Wildcats 1 Not that it was ever in question, “She’s used to it by now,” head Take high school soccer rank- but the win and other results coach Sara Stone said of teams ings how you want, but when Top Next game: Wednesday vs. meant DHS officially clinched a keying in on Doms. “(Franklin) Drawer Soccer’s most recent list Pleasant Grove, 3:30 p.m. spot in the Sac-Joaquin Section didn’t necessarily try to get num- came out on Tuesday, there was a playoffs as it maintains a six-point bers behind the ball, they tried to provide authoritative, responsible new No. 1: the Davis High girls lead over second-place St. Francis. play.” coverage of college and high soccer team. Despite the Wildcats man- That play was rewarded in the school aged soccer. Could The Blue Devils moved up from marking senior star Maya Doms second half when the Wildcats second on the Top Drawer winter And the Devils justified their everywhere she went on the field, pulled a goal back, only for junior rankings. TopDrawerSoccer.com lofty ranking again this week, Doms and classmate Paige the Sac was created with the mission to defeating Franklin 3-1 to move to Rubinstein each scored first-half SEE NO. 1, PAGE B2 Republic finally be Oliva scores MLS? 44 as Devils n 2014, Sacramento Republic FC was the darling of the nip Huskies Inational media who covered MLS expansion. The Republic broke lower- DHS girls in battle for division attendance records in selling out 13 of its 14 regular- second place in league season home games, won the USL championship and became the BY LEV FARRIS GOLDENBERG toast of a city that had been Enterprise staff writer searching for a winning pro sports Holy macaroni! team. When Blue Devil Cristina Oliva is cook- In 2015, MLS commissioner ing, it isn’t much fun for opposing teams. Don Garber told the Sacramento Bee’s Marcos Breton, “It’s less At Sheldon on Friday night, Oliva set a about if, and more about when, career-high in points for the third time in the Republic joins MLS,” and then the past six games as she sauced the Huskies followed that statement up with a for 44 points in Davis High’s 66-63 victory. visit to California’s capital roughly With the win, the Blue Devil girls basket- a year later. ball squad improves to 11-13 overall and 6-3 And then ... nothing. in the Delta League). DHS plays host to Sacramento fans watched as Franklin (18-6 overall, Miami was finally officially 7-2 league) at 7 p.m. on granted a start date in the league, Devils 66, Tuesday in a battle and bids from Minnesota, Cincin- Huskies 63 for second place. nati, Nashville and, most recently, Cosumnes Oaks (9-0 Austin, jumped ahead of the Next game: league) is top dog. It Republic in the MLS pecking Tuesday vs. would have to lose its order. Franklin, 7 p.m. remaining three league With 27 of the allotted plan of games and Davis 28 franchises spoken for — would have to win all though Garber said the league three of its to have a shot at the league would re-evaluate after 28 — it crown. appeared as if Sacramento to the But as Blue Devil head coach Heather MLS might be over. Highshoe always points out, her girls are After all, Sacramento is not a just taking it one game at a time. very sexy city. Davis built a 24-10 first-quarter lead In 2015, Sports Illustrated thanks to 10 points from Oliva, and four wrote this about Sacramento in buckets from Skylar Schouten. JASON SPENCER/UCD ATHLETICS the 1980s: “... the Kings had The Huskies (8-11 overall, 1-7 league) got recently fled Kansas City under a drubbed by Davis, 60-40, earlier this Aggie Morgan Bertsch (22) drives to the basket to score two of her 19 points against Cal State downpour of boos for the pasture- month, but they hung tough on Friday. Fullerton on Saturday. UCD took over first place in the Big West with the 75-39 victory. lands of Sacramento, the NBA With Schouten and Devil point guard equivalent of a witness relocation.” Alex Agnew on the bench in foul trouble for That same year in a hit piece on the entirety of the second quarter, Sheldon Ag women dismantle Titans then-mayor Kevin Johnson, cut into the lead and trailed 34-30 at the Deadspin wrote: “After securing break. BY BRUCE GALLAUDET league’s four mostly likely UCD hundreds of millions in public In the third, Oliva drilled three of her six Aggies 75, Enterprise staff writer threats. funds to pay for a new arena for 3-pointers to extend the Devil lead. Titans 39 During this streak, Davis has the Sacramento Kings, (Johnson) Nevertheless, the Huskies cut it to one FULLERTON — The Big improved its overall record to is now the most popular guy in the with less than a minute to go in the fourth, West needs to call for a water Next game: 13-6 and 5-1 in BWC. The least thought about city of half a with two treys from Suljit Dodd and eight drop. This UC Davis wildfire is Thursday vs. CS Aggies have a full-game lead million people in the country.” points from Shaidell Mambuay. spreading. Long Beach, 6 p.m. over second-place Cal State Really, it wasn’t until “Lady “She was just breaking us down,” High- In demolishing Cal State Ful- Northridge. Fullerton is now Bird” came out in 2017 that any- shoe said of Mambuay. “But the last few lerton, 75-39, on Saturday at 3-2 in Big West and 11-7. one from the national media really possessions, when we needed it the most, Titan Gym, the Aggie women have taken “It doesn’t matter who we’re playing. It thought about Sacramento — at the girls stepped up. control of their basketball conference race. doesn’t matter if it’s our second game of the least not since the Kings were get- “I’ll definitely give credit to Sheldon, they It was the locals’ 10th win in their last 11 week, or our first. We come out with the ting jobbed by the refs in the games. This current four-game win streak Western Conference Finals. SEE OLIVA, PAGE B3 has seen double-digit wins against the SEE WOMEN, PAGE B2 California already has three teams, including one just 120 miles away in the San Jose Earth- quakes — Sports Illustrated MLS expansion reporter Brian Straus Bagley puts on show, once told me that Sacramento needs the MLS more than the MLS needs Sacramento. Davis boys fall off pace And he’s right. And Sacramento (23-70) from the does. BY OWEN YANCHER Huskies 90, field in its loss to the Last week, for my upcoming Enterprise staff writer top-ranked school book on Sacramento Republic FC Devils 65 Marcus Bagley in the Sac-Joaquin (release date: ???), I sent out a came as advertised. Next game: Section. As a result, Google form asking fans for their Suiting up for his the Blue Devils thoughts on the seemingly stalled Wednesday at first game since dropped to 7-2 in process of MLS expansion to our Franklin, 7 p.m. being sidelined by a conference play and area. shoulder bug earlier 15-6 overall, while Club owner Kevin Nagle, who this month, the 6-foot-8 Shel- Sheldon — the recent victim of has spent millions of dollars just don forward (averaging 19.9 a four-win forfeiture following in the USL, had kept mum on the ppg) showed zero signs of a CIF player eligibility infrac- developments of securing the limitation Friday evening — tion — improved to 3-5 in the additional investment required to dropping 28 points as his Delta League. possibly garner a franchise. Huskies gut-punched the The 41 responses I got were all Bagley had a season-high 41 Davis High boys basketball over the board. Some were happy points in the Huskies’ previ- team, 90-65. and optimistic. Some had a few ous, 83-70, win over the Devils choice words regarding Nagle and “Davis ... they’re a good in early January. However, the the ownership group. Some didn’t team,” said Bagley, who out- two teams will split their pair want Sacramento in the MLS at all. scored his older brother and of encounters for this season, But what a difference a few days Sacramento Kings center Mar- since that 13-point Sheldon makes as on Tuesday the Republic vin, who netted 14 in Sac’s triumph is one of the school’s announced that additional invest- 99-96 victory over Memphis four forfeits. ment, coming in the form of the same night. “They’ve got a “Marcus is a monster,” Southern California-based billion- lot of shooters, but I felt like Husky coach Joey Rollings aire Ron Burkle, who previously we did a good job running told The Enterprise. “He had was part of an effort to help save them off the three-point line what, five? Six? Seven dunks and making them attack.” tonight? I don’t even know.” the Kings from re-locating to FRED GLADDIS/ENTERPRISE PHOTO Seattle.