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The Pleasanton RAGE Girls Soccer Club held its annual Honors Night Event on April 25 at the Pleasanton Marriott.
Celebrated at the event were the class of 2024, as well as the sophomore, junior and senior scholar-athlete award recipients.
The recipients of the Pleasanton RAGE Scholarship Award for Excellence in Academics and Community Service were Lena Garuda (Foothill) and Kathryn Go (Amador Valley).
Seniors who committed to playing college soccer include Skylinne Avalos (San Jose State), Savannah Battaion (Cal State Fullerton), Madelyn Funk (Linfield University), Jasleen Gasca (Linfield University), Kaiah Gentry (Santa Barbara City College), Sydney Head (Oregon State) and Summer Lane (Sarah Lawrence College).
Also signing with college programs were Gianna Masinter (Point Loma Nazarene University), Jenna McDonnell (Utah Tech University), Maddie Molkenbuhr (University of the Pacific), Kyndra Obermeyer (Cal State Stanislaus), Kate Phelps (San Joaquin Delta College), Sammy Schulze (Tarleton State) and Azariya Smith (Southern University).
Foothill boys’ volleyball
The Falcons kept the streak going as they went 3-0 and captured the East Bay Athletic League playoffs.
The week started with a thrilling 25-23, 25-18, 23-25, 21-25, 15-10 win over Amador Valley to end the regular season.
Leading the way was Yun Bae (30 assists, 14 digs, 12 service points, 8 kills), Noah Mitzenmacher (18 receptions, 12 digs, 12 service points) and Kayan Vohra (13 kills, 1 block).
Next up was a 25-17, 25-13, 25-17 win over Monte Vista in the EBAL semifinals. Highlights came from Casey Collins (11 receptions, 10 kills, 7 service points), Caden Stedman (7 kills, 2 blocks) and Cameron Hitchan (5 kills, 1 block).
Finally, a 25-21, 25-18, 25-21 win over Granada gave Foothill the league playoff title. This time highlights came from Bae (46 assists, 10 digs), Mitzenmacher (20 digs, 15 receptions), Dean Caudill (13 kills, 5 digs), Collins (10 kills, 5 digs) and Vohra (15 kills).
Foothill boys’ lacrosse
The Falcons ended the regular season with a 10-8 win over Amador Valley.
In a complete team effort, junior Darrin Lau had five goals, seniors Tyler Walsh and Wyatt Lam each had one goal, junior AJ Becker had one goal, and senior long pole Graham Zander had two goals for Foothill.
Sophomore keeper Alex Morgan had eight saves, and Foothill won seven faceoffs with Nico Lau, Ethan Lam, Jack Eaton and Walsh.
Amador ice hockey
The Dons won their first game of the weekend but closed the weekend out with a loss, which sets their season record as 4-2.
Their win was 11-5 over Foothill. Highlights for the Dons came from Dexter Harkness (5 goals) and Will Harker (3 goals, 2 assists).
Other goals came from Justin Buress, Tyler Causey and Tiara Yu. Five goals were scored by the Dons in both the first and second periods, but only one goal was permitted in the third.
Later in the week, the Dons were met with a loss against Granada (6-5), the No. 1 team in the league. The Dons held their ground, with help from Justin Buress (3 goals) and Harker (2 goals, 2 assists).
Amador swimming and diving
The Dons were third in the boys’ varsity and fifth in the girls’ varsity competition at the EBAL Championships.
In boys’ action, the 200-medley relay team of Cade Vieler, Devyn Caples, Oryan Liu and Andrew Lillie, got first in a North Coast Section automatic time of 1:33.41.
Viler also won the 100 backstroke and was sixth in the 500 freestyle. Caples was fourth in the 500 free, and second in the 200 individual medley. Christopher Wang was eighth in the 500 free.
Liu was third in the 200 IM, and Kealan Tupper was sixth.
Ben Lentz won the 1-meter diving, with James McGeown getting fourth.
In varsity girls’ action Rylee Hutchinson, Lillyana Caples and Francesca Lin all made the A finals in the 200 and 500 free.
In the 200, they finished fifth, sixth and eighth, respectively. In the 500 Caples was third, Hutchinson fourth and Lin was sixth.
In the JV girls, Adwaita Mohanty won the 100 breaststroke. In the boys’ JV Alan Deng won the 100 breast and was second in the 100 free.
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.