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The Foothill boys’ volleyball team split a pair of exciting matches last week in East Bay Athletic League play.
The Falcons opened with a 25-14, 24-26, 25-23, 25-21 over Monte Vista. Highlights came from Josh Salonga (21 assists, 5 kills, 5 aces), Wynter Alexander (9 kills, 1 block), Thomas Paduraru (8 kills, 1 block) and Alex Melnik (4 kills).
Two days later, they came out on the short end of a 15-25, 25-19, 25-27, 22-25 loss to San Ramon Valley.
This time the highlights came from Dean Caudill (13 kills, 12 digs), Caleb Lai (11 digs, 8 service points), Jeremy Sun (10 digs, 6 kills) and Cameron Hitchan (8 kills, 5 blocks).
Amador swimming
The Dons beat Granada in all four meets, taking varsity boys (91-79), varsity girls (104-60), junior varsity boys (116-48), and JV girls (104-60).
Highlights in the JV girls meet came from: Dori Selway winning both the 50 butterfly, in a 30.63, and 100 backstroke in 1:11.94. She also led off the winning 200 medley relay and the winning 200 freestyle relay (her leadoff split in the 200 free relay would have been good enough to win the 50 free individual event).
JV boys: Evan Crandall led the way by winning both the 200 free and 50 fly, 2:03.33 and 26.46 respectively. Matt Svanyuta also had a great meet, winning both the 50 and 500 freestyles.
Varsity girls: Francesca Lin had a great meet, winning the 200 free in a North Coast Section consideration time of 1:56.25 (eight one-hundredths off the automatic qualifying time). She also led off the winning 400 free relay team of Lin, Elayna Ling, Rylee Hutchinson and Lillyana Caples. Their time of 3:44.35 is an NCS automatic qualifying time.
Varsity boys: Oryan Liu won the 100 fly in an NCS consideration time of 52.33 and he led a 1-2-3 sweep of the 500 free in a time of 4:42.87 (NCS automatic qualifying time), Christopher Wang was second and Tyler Liu was third (both achieving NCS consideration times). Oryan Liu also anchored the winning 400 free relay which included Cade Vieler, Kealan Tupper and Christopher Wang.
Amador badminton
The Dons went into the Quarry Lane School and pulled out an 11-6 win.
Riya Natarajan, Shravani Kurapati and Xinyuan Ou all won their girls’ singles matches. The boys’ doubles teams of Benjamin and Zigian Wang, Geffen Kama and Nathan Han, and Philip Liu and Brandon Chen took their matches.
The Dons swept the girls’ doubles as well with the teams of Varshini Subramanian and Aishani Pramod, Jessy Yeh and Paige Xu, and Anupraya Sathiyanan and Sydney Lo all taking their matches.
Finally, the mixed doubles teams of Regina Mok and Aaron Kao, and Cara Li and Nachiketh Nandish took their matches for the final score.
Baseball and softball underway
The Dons and the Falcons are both sending out solid baseball and softball teams this season.
Amador Valley baseball (4-0) has plenty of talent and has been getting it done at bat, with 41 runs in four games.
Through the first four games, Aaron Soloman is hitting .538, with Gavin Whalley at .500 and Vince Maiorana hitting .467. The early leader in pitching has been Brennan Baptist at 2-0 with a 1.50 ERA, and 12 strikeouts in 14 innings pitched.
Foothill baseball (6-1, 0-0) is No. 5 in our Tri-Valley Preps Playbook Power Rankings thus far. Ryan Wescott (.529) and George Schmitt (.455) are leading the way at the plate. Take Sato-Kreis (3-0, 1.24 ERA) and Charlie Stearns (3-0, 0.88 ERA) are the top pitchers for the Falcons.
In softball is the defending NCS and CIF title-holders Amador. The Dons are top in the Power Rankings and have dropped a pair of one-run losses to solid programs.
McKenna Charbonneau and Mia Falcone are both hitting .500 at this point in the season, with Charbonneau blasting four home runs already.
Kaylee Davis has been tough in the circle with a 3-1 mark and a 1.98 ERA.
Foothill softball (4-2-1, 0-0) will count on senior leadership this year.
This year Ellie Novitske is hitting .600 for Foothill, with Kaycie’s sister and San Jose State bound Sophia Burdick hitting .435. Kaycie Burdick is at .381 with a pair of home runs.
Myra Galzie is 2-0 pitching with a 2.73 ERA in 33.1 innings pitched.
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.
