CCOP girls conquer shootout
CCOP’s sixth and seventh-grade girls won their first and second round games in the 23rd annual Sierra Valley Shootout Tournament Jan. 17 and 18 in Loyalton, Calif. The championship games pitted CCOP against teams from Little Flower in Reno, Nev. who also won their respective brackets easily. The seventh graders avenged a loss in last year’s championship by defeating the Little Flower team 28-22.
Pressure defense, strong rebounding and an improved press made the difference. In their first year in the tournament, and despite suiting up only five players, the sixth graders played up tempo and used great ball movement to run past Little Flower’s sixth-graders bringing home the championship.
Pictured: Front row (l-r): Sara Pease, Olivia Brown, Cambi Cukar, Vanessa Villanueva, Sabrina Ehlert, Nikki Costello and Emily Christensen; back: Bailey Costello, Emily Barrett, Ariah Mack, Courtney Seams, Marianne Fernandez and Nisha Kale; not pictured Juliana Amante.
Seahawks’ Silverthorn sets new records
Pleasanton Seahawks swimmer Nick Silverthorn set three new USA Swimming Individual National Age Group Records. In addition, he has also set 10 new Pacific Swimming Records and was a member of six National All Star Relay Records.
Swimming World Magazine has selected Silverthorn as Age Group Swimmer of the Month and will run a feature piece in March. In January, he was named Pacific Swimming outstanding athlete for 11-12 boys in both long and short course season’s. He is also currently ranked No. 1 in the country in many events.
Ballistic are now the “Batmen”
The Ballistic U-13 Boys soccer team built on their success as Golden State Soccer League season champs to advance out of pool play in the CYSA State Cup Jan. 24-25. The team now moves on to the round of 16.
The Ballistic boys, who have taken on the team nickname of the Batmen, traveled to Hanford over the weekend. The first game Saturday was against the Madera Scorpions and Ballistic took an early lead and won 9-0. The second game was much tighter against Elk Grove Everton and they won 3-1. Joey Devivo put Ballistic up 1-0 on a goal about halfway through the first half, Everton came right back to tie the game at one. In the second half, Eric Toombs scored to put Ballistic up to stay and Devivo added an insurance goal near the end.
On Sunday, Ballistic played the North Fresno Cyclones. Halfway through the first half, Marco Neves broke a scoreless tie by splitting through the Cyclones back line and drilling a shot into the lower left corner of the net to make the score 1-0. After the halftime break, Ballistic broke the came open with three goals in the first seven minutes of the second half. Goals were scored by Devivo, Toombs, and a second be Neves. Ballistic played solid to the end with Nate Grixti and Brandon Inchauspe adding a goal each while the Cyclones got on the board at the end to make the final 6-1.
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