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The Foothill swim team pulled off wins in all four meets against a tough Granada team last week.
The Falcons swept the two varsity meets as well as the boys’ and girls’ junior varsity meets, getting some great swims in the process.
In the varsity boys’ meet, Luka Mijatovic won the 200 freestyle, the 100 free and swam the last leg for the winning 200 free and 400 free relays.
In the 200 free, Mijatovic was followed by Connor Kann and Kaden Wong for the Foothill sweep. The 500 free saw the Falcons finish in the top two spots with Ethan Wang and Phil Lin getting the job done.
Lin also won the 100 butterfly for the Falcons.
Kann, Wang, Lin and Liam Alexander started the meet off right for Foothill, teaming up to win the 200 medley relay.
Alexander, Wong and Cameron Jones also swam legs in the 200 free. Lin, Wang and Kang swam the other legs of the 400 free.
On the girls’ side, Clare Alexander won the 50 free and the 100 free to lead the way.
Chloe Xu was first and Mckinley Scobie was second in the 100 fly. In the 100 backstroke, Kristen Der was the winner, and Scobie was second for Foothill.
The Foothill girls started the meet off strong with the team of Kristen Der, Emerson Muise, Xu and Scobie winning the 200 medley relay.
Xu, Addison Southern, Der and Scobie won the 400 free relay.
In the JV meets, the Falcons also got several great performances.
On the boys’ side, the Falcons started things off with a win in the 200 medley relay from the team of Mohamed Aboutaleb, Jason Gadd, James Shirk and Robert Begley.
The Falcons also ended the meet with a win in the 400 free relay. This time it was Mohamed Aboutaleb, Khaled Aboutaleb, Jared Burnes and Charlie Orr.
Burnes won the 200 free and the 500 free, and Drake Alexander the 100 individual medley. Gadd was the winner in the 100 free. Mohamed Aboutaleb won the 100 back, and Khaled Aboutaleb took the 100 breaststroke.
On the girls’ side, Olivia Liu won the 100 IM and later in the meet Jessica Dowling won the 50 free. Sarah Overton took the 500 free, Lauren DuBos the 100 back and Liu the 100 breast.
The team of Liu, DuBos, Lauren Eaton and Dowling took the 200 free relay.
Amador Valley swimming
The Dons took all four meets against Dublin, with the varsity boys winning 123.5-45.5 and the girls winning 115-53.
On the JV side, Amador won 113-57 on the girls’ side and 90-80 in the boys’ meet.
In the boys’ JV meet it all came down to the 400 free relay. Dublin had the first two spots at the end of the third leg, but the Dons Jac Jorgenson turned in a thrilling anchor leg, leading the Dons to a win by six-tenths of a second.
Landon Kenney, Evan Crandall and Gavin Heilig swam the other legs.
Jorgenson also won the 200 free and the 100 breast, and swam a leg on the winning 200 medley relay.
Francesca Lin was a double winner for the varsity girls, winning both the 200 free in 1:58.95 (North Coast Section consideration time) and 100 free in 56.45 (also NCS consideration time).
Cade Vieler was a double winner on the varsity boys’ side, winning the 100 fly in 54.38 (NCS consideration time) and 100 back in 54.38 (also NCS consideration time.)
Addi Drain (28.04) led the JV girls to a strong 1-2-3 sweep in the 50 free with Dori Selway getting second (28.57) and Avery Shea getting third (28.79).
Foothill volleyball
The Falcons took two more matches, staying unbeaten in EBAL play with an 8-0 mark heading into spring break.
The week started with a 25-15, 25-12, 25-20 win over Monte Vista.
The highlights came from sophomore Jeremy Sun (12 receptions, 10 kills, 6 digs), senior Noah Mitzenmacher (11 service points, 10 receptions, 5 digs), senior Caden Stedman (8 kills, 1 block) and senior Jason Choi (13 service points).
Foothill into the break with a 25-10, 25-6, 25-12 win at Cal.
This time the highlights came from Josh Salonga (17 assists, 15 service points), Mitzenmacher (18 service points/4 aces), Yun Bae (8 service points/5 aces) and junior Cameron Hitchan (6 kills).
Editor’s note: Dennis Miller is a contributing sports writer for Embarcadero Media Foundation’s East Bay Division. To contact him about his Pleasanton Preps column, email acesmag@aol.com.
