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The Amador Valley girls’ water polo team ended the regular season with a 9-6 win over rival Foothill.
Susan Swyers ended her regular season high school career with six goals to pace the Dons. Anusha Shelatkar, Zahra Alami and Abigail Jones each scored one goal. Deepika Suresh made 12 saves for the Dons.
The East Bay Athletic League was well-represented in the North Coast Section water polo tournament that began this week.
On the girls’ side, Amador, led by high-scoring Swyers and standout goalie Suresh, were awarded the No. 1 seed in the Division II tournament.
The Dons were set to host Irvington (16) on Wednesday in a 4:45 p.m. contest.
The Foothill girls were the No. 2 seed in the tournament and scheduled to play Cardinal Newman (15), also at Amador, at 6 p.m. Wednesday.
Fellow EBAL schools California (5) and Dublin (6) are also in the tournament. Cal was set to play Pittsburg (12) at Granada at 7:15 p.m., with Dublin to host Heritage (11) at the Dublin Wave facilities.
In the girls’ D-I tournament, San Ramon Valley was the top seed and set to host Mission San Jose (16) on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Monte Vista (6) was scheduled to play San Marin (11), also at SRV, with a 3:45 p.m. start.
Amador is represented on the boys’ side in the D-I tournament. The Dons were seeded No. 14 and set to play No. 3 Alameda on Thursday at San Leandro High at 4:45 p.m.
Monte Vista (5) and California (15) are also in the D-I tournament, with Monte Vista opening with Clayton Valley (12) at Las Lomas at 6:30 p.m. and Cal facing Northgate (2), also at Las Lomas in a 4 p.m. game.
In the D-II tournament, Granada was seeded No. 2 and set to host Alhambra (15) in a 6 p.m. match Thursday. Dublin (13) was scheduled against Cardinal Newman (4) in a 7:15 p.m. match.
In the boys’ Open Division tournament, San Ramon Valley (4) faces Miramonte (1) on Saturday (Nov. 8) at a site and time to be determined. De La Salle (3) faces Campolindo (2), also a site/time to be determined.
Foothill girls’ volleyball
The Falcons split a pair of NCS games last week to bring their season to a close.
The team opened NCS play with a 25-21, 25-15, 25-18 win over Northgate. Highlights came from Paige Nelson (12 kills, 5 digs), Olivia So (10 digs, 3 aces), Ale Sioco (9 digs, 4 aces) and Emily Evans (5 kills, 2 blocks).
Foothill fell to Carondelet in the quarterfinals 18-25, 25-23, 15-25, 22-25. Highlights came from Nelson (19 kills, 5 digs), Danielle Yeh (26 assists, 5 digs), So (13 digs, 11 receptions) and Ilayda Caglar (6 kills).
Winter sports looming
We are not out of the fall at this point, but with winter sports starting this week, it’s never too early to start working on getting results turned in each week.
Parents’ meetings should be taking place soon, so step up and volunteer! Here’s what I am looking for regarding winter sports …
Basketball: As easy as it gets. The game ends and you take a picture of the scorebook and send it to me. All I need is the final score and who you played, which is usually at the top of the scorebook sheet. Over the years I have had parent volunteers, as well as the team scorekeepers fill this role. Honestly it takes less than five minutes following a game to get me the information.
Soccer: Not too hard as well. Just send me the final score, who you played, and who scored goals or had assists. Other highlights from the game are fine as well.
Wrestling: If it is a tournament, send me who won medals, what their record for the tournament was, and if possible, a link to the tournament results page.
Pictures are always appreciated! Just include who is in the picture and the name of the person that took the picture.
My only favor I ask is to send the results win or lose. Please don’t be the type of parent who only responds when the team wins. It’s a bad look and takes away from the efforts the athletes put in every day.
My contact information is acesmag@aol.com or 925-200-0719.
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.
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