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The Foothill boys’ volleyball team clinched its first back-to-back East Bay Athletic League titles since the 2006 to 2007 seasons by beating Granada and Dougherty Valley last week.
In beating Granada 25-23, 25-20, 25-22, the eight Falcon seniors all played a big role.
Captains Casey Collins and Noah Mitzenmacher, along with Yun Bae, Carter Tsui, Caden Stedman, Ian Neuman, Jason Choi and Kayan Vohra, were all instrumental in the title run.
In a 25-22, 25-22, 25-19 win over Dougherty Valley, highlights came from Vohra (10 kills, 2 blocks), Bae (13 assists, 9 kills), Josh Salonga (21 assists, 5 service points) and Jeremy Sun (9 kills, 6 receptions).
Foothill swimming
The Falcons split the four meets with crosstown rival Amador Valley.
Foothill lost in JV girls’ meet 90-79 and the varsity girls 99-67, but pulled out wins in the JV boys (102-65) and the varsity boys (97-73).
The individual highlight of the day came from Luka Mijatovic who broke the school record in the 200 individual medley, beating the old mark by 2.5 seconds.
Originally set by Jonah Cooper in 2018 at 1:53.16, Mijatovic set the new record with a time of 1:50.66.
Another big highlight was the girls’ 200 and 400 freestyle relays achieving automatic qualifying times for the North Coast Section meet, with the 200 team only one second off consideration for the CIF State meet.
The quartet of Mckinley Scobie, Clare Alexander, Kristin Dur and Chloe Xu made up both relay teams.
Following are the swimmers who achieved best times in the meet: Khaled Aboutaleb, Mohamed Aboutaleb, Clare Alexander, Aritra Barua, Eli Chavez, Ashby Clark, Aadit Dasgupta, Ayan Dasgupta, Thatcher Douwes, Valentina Diaz Uribe, Jessi Dowling, Lauren Eaton, Trey Elson, Jason Gadd, Briana Gavril, Sam Goebel, Amelia Greene, Sydney Hood, Mark Iacoban and Cameron Jones.
The list also includes Leila Kabouzi, Blake Kann, Connor Kann, Kaisa Kelly, Parnika Khatri, Elvis Lee, Kane Lee, Nathan Lee, Peyton Lew, Olivia Liu, Nick Maehr, Emerson Muise, Emee Ogden, Gabriella Ogden, Charlie Orr, William Peng, Niko Price, Nishika Rath, Emma Saroukhanoff, James Shirk, Addi Southern, Vatsal Srivastava, Evan Surridge, Natalie Williams, Chloe Xu, Richard Xu and Emma Yang.
Amador track and field
Here are some highlights from Amador track-and-field athletes from the last couple of weeks.
Bob Warren/Charlie Eaton Invitational: Sophomore Rachel Schmidt cleared 8 feet, 6 inches in the pole vault, putting her in a tie 10th on the Amador all-time list.
Arcadia Invitational: The boys’ 4x800m team (Arran Gill Gulati, Jacob Camacho, Prithvij Rajesh, Tommy Hekl) finished seventh out of 22 teams, turning in an 8:08.43. The time is No. 5 in Amador history.
AVHS Spring Fling: The boys’ varsity finished first with 137 points, beating out second-place Dublin who had 111.
The girls’ varsity and frosh/soph teams were fifth, with the boys’ frosh/soph finishing second.
Nora Khansa’s discus mark of 107-1 is ninth in school history and currently ranks sixth in all of NCS.
Amador swimming
The Dons swept all four meets against Granada the week of April 8.
The finals were varsity girls 90-76, varsity boys 107-63, JV girls 87-44 and JV boys 106-41.
The varsity girls were paced by Rylee Hutchinson and Francesca Lin, both were double individual winners. Hutchinson took the 100 butterfly and 100 backstroke. Lin won the 200 free and the 500 free in 2:00.42 and 5:19.76.
The varsity boys were led by Evan Shackelford, who won the 50 free for the first time this season, with Alan Deng finishing second.
Oryan Liu won the 100 fly in an NCS automatic time of 52.29 and the 100 breaststroke in 1:00.54.
For the JV girls, Evelyn Roe had a great meet, winning the 200 free and 100 free. The JV boys started the meet out by doing a 1-2-3 sweep on the 200 free and never looked back. The sweep was led by JT Williams, Zaven Cornelius and Grant Montoya.
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.