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East Bay Athletic League athletes took their shot at qualifying for the CIF State Track and Field Championships this past weekend at the North Coast Section Meet of Championships at Dublin High.
Here are some of the top performers from EBAL athletes at the MOC.
Girls
Triple jump: 4. Rachael Osicka (Cal) 37-6.5.
High jump: 1. Osicka (Cal) 5-8.
4×100: 3. San Ramon Valley (Merryn Coupland, Ella Hoffman, Kyra Hansen, Hope Diekmann) 47.66.
1,600: 1. Gretchen Yakaitis (Carondelet) 4:48.83.
100 hurdles: 1. Tatum Trucks (Carondelet) 13.86; 2. Diekmann (SRV) 14.27; 4. Nia Chadiha (Dub) 14.73.
800: 3. Ava Padilla (MV) 2:10.79; 4. Lanie Hempel (Liv) 2:10.80; 5. Kacie Wong (AV) 2:15.96.
300 hurdles: 1. Diekmann (SRV) 42.53; 2. Trucks (Car) 43.89.
3,200: 1. Yakaitis (Car) 10:37.58; 2. Nadya Makarova (Car) 10:44.88.
4×400: 2. Livermore (Sophia Robinson, Divynity Matignas, Lanie Hemple, Francesca) 3:55.80; 3. SRV (Coupland, Katelyn McGinnis, Olivia Roden, Diekmann) 3:57.64.
Boys
Discus: 4. Tyler Gay (Dub) 162-0.
Pole vault: 3. Nikolas Brown (SRV) 15-2.
Long jump: 2. Damari Dean (DLS) 23-3.5.
4×100: 1. De La Salle (Deuce Jones-Drew, Dean, Jayden Nicholas, Dylan Rogers).
1,600: 2. Alex van Veen (Gra) 4:18.82; 4. Cooper Lowe (MV) 4:19.65.
110 hurdles: 1. Chase Young (DLS) 13.77; 2. Dasanni Goodspeed (Dub) 14.40.
400: 1. Ayden Parker (DV) 47.43.
800: 3. Jeremy Imbo (Dub) 1:54.34; 4. Nicolai Barron (Gra) 1:54.47.
300 hurdles: 1. Young (DLS) 38.08.
200: 1. Dean (DLS) 21.41.
4×400: 2. De La Salle (Dylan Scott, Rogers, Emery Speight, Young) 3:15.33; 3. Dublin (Shayden Crespin, Kazuma Meraz, Zaakr Thomas, Ladell Waiters) 3:19.72.
NCS softball
There are three EBAL teams left heading into the second week of the NCS playoffs.
In the Division I tournament, the league is guaranteed a finalist as San Ramon Valley (2) will host Livermore (3) in the semifinals on Tuesday.
San Ramon Valley, which beat Livermore in the EBAL playoffs to get the No. 2 seed, got a bye in the first round then beat American Canyon 6-3 to advance to the semifinals.
Livermore also had a bye then beat a good Liberty team 6-1 to make the semifinals.
Top-seeded Alameda faces No. 4 College Park in the other semifinal.
The big news came in the D-II playoffs where No. 9 Foothill beat three-time defending champion No. 8 Cardinal Newman 11-3 in the first round, then took out top-seeded Marin Catholic 8-6 in 13 innings in a game that took two days to finish.
The Falcons will host No. 12 Rancho Cotate in the Wednesday semifinals.
NCS baseball
EBAL has two teams left in the D-I playoffs and they are on opposite sides of the bracket, so there is no guarantee of a finalist.
Top-seeded De La Salle has survived by hanging on for a 11-10 win over Heritage in the first round, then got by Novato 4-3 to make the semifinals where they will host No. 5 Redwood on Tuesday for a spot in the finals.
Granada, the No. 6 seed, beat San Ramon Valley 6-5, then beat Alhambra 8-6 to advance to the semifinals where they will face Clayton Valley on Tuesday.
Editor’s note: Dennis Miller is a contributing sports writer for the Pleasanton Weekly. This column originally appeared in Tri-Valley Preps Playbook, a weekly sports e-newsletter published by Embarcadero Media Foundation. To sign up for free, visit here.
