Pleasanton Monsoon boys lacrosse win sudden death
The U13 B1 Boys Lacrosse team won in overtime in a sudden match against Livermore Phantom March 28 by a score of 5-4. Phantom scored four in a row before Monsoon really started coming together as a team. Monsoon had good individual plays with Imhof winning a hard-earned faceoff, great defense moves by Sereda and Johnson, save after save by goalie Watkins, fast-dodging footwork and smart teammate blocking by Brawley, a wicked check-from-behind by Zatorski, and interceptions by Beston and Burnap. Steiner began a trend of always being in the right place at the right time, and assisted Klahr to the first Monsoon goal right before the half for a score of 1-4 Phantom.
Woo finishes 1st on bars at state championship
Alicia Woo from West Coast Olympic Gymnastics competed at the Level 7 State Championships last weekend in Stockton. She had a great season taking first place AA in every invitational meet she competed. Her results were: third place on the vault with a score of 9.450; first place on the bars with a score of 9.550; fourth place on the beam with a score of 9.525; a score of 8.87 on the floor.
Thunder pound Firehawks 8-1
The Pleasanton Lacrosse U15A Thunder won their game before the Easter break against the Burlingame Firehawks with a convincing score of 12-4, pushing their record to 8-1. Outstanding defense was led by George Curtis, Colin Dal Porto, Trent Morgan and Ryan Almeida controlled the Firehawks offense. The team also got excellent middie plays from Zack Wilhite, Brandon Becker, Elijah Caluya, Conner Francesca, Cale Rubinson, Daniel Arthur, Tommy Yozzo, Mike Barbier and Josh Yu. Attackmen Josh Allen and Jeff Snyder played hard and kept the offense moving.
Amador cheer team finishes with sixth place
Amador Valley Cheer’s journey to the Nationals competition was fought with challenges March 28-29. Although the team had a winning Regionals season, being plagued with injuries in January and February hampered their skilled team from practicing enough to have a flawless performance as second nature by Nationals only weeks later. Varsity Novice did make it to finals only to be awarded sixth place, which is something to be proud of despite injuries on the team.
Team members include: Ashley Patula, Danielle Butler, Michelle MacNamara, Sarah Mahoney and Shelbie Chubb placed second in their division out of 49 teams. The Advanced Stunt team of Alexa Pullen, Alyssa Browning (injured), Casey Caspersen, Lauren Bayly, Lauren Bricker (injured), Lisa McFarland and Morgan Cater placed first in their division out of 22 teams.
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Hurricanes remain undefeated
The Pleasanton Hurricanes under-13 boys A lacrosse team moved to 12-0 on the Northern California Junior Lacrosse Association season, after beating a pair of teams by a combined 29-5 last weekend. Thus far this season, the Hurricanes have outscored their opponents 136-20 in the 12 games.
The weekend started off with a 15-5 win over the South Valley Chiefs in San Jose and on Sunday, the Hurricanes made the trip up to Napa and pounded the
Napa Force by a 14-0 final.
PGSL and Community Appreciation Day
Amador Valley’s Softball Program will host its first PGSL and Community Appreciation Day Tuesday, April 21. The program will hold its home game against Foothill at the Pleasanton Sports Park; JV will play at 5 p.m. and Varsity will play at 7:30 p.m.
This is a way for the Amador softball players and coaching staff to say thank you to all the hard work of the many volunteers in Pleasanton.
Dons swimming teams beat Granada
It was closer than expected, but in the end, the result was as expected–Amador Valley varsity girls swimming and diving team came in as heavy favorites in their meet with Granada High School. The match was tied 86-86 going into the final event, the 400 free relay. The winner of the event would take the meet. The Matadors took an early lead, but Catherine Breed, swimming the second leg after Casey Coughlin, pulled away, and Danielle Stickler and Casey Wong expanded the lead to secure a 96-90 win for the Dons.
Amador came into the meet down two points from the diving competition held previously. Alex Hernandez finished second for Amador in that event. The meet was tied 16-16 after the 200 free in which Wong and Marie Schmidt went 1-2, but Granada swept the IM and gained two points in the 50 free, despite Breed’s first-place finish, to take 45-33 lead.
The men’s Amador Valley swimming and diving team got off to a slow start, but dominated the short freestyle events to win their meet with Granada 102-82.
Despite Tyler Pullen’s first place finish in the diving event, held earlier, the Dons trailed 9-6 coming into the meet and even with Jake Bahls winning the 200 free and Andrew Seitz taking the 200 IM, the Dons trailed 32-28 going into the 50 free.
In an extremely tight race, Amador went 1-2-3 with Kyle Surber edging out Scott Arellano by .04 and Jason Cunningham, only .50 out of first, in third. The raced vaulted the Dons into first 41-35. They expanded their lead to 51-41 when Seitz took the fly with Edward Zhang finishing third and essentially put the meet away with a 1-2-3 finish in the 100 free. Arellano got to the wall first this time with Cunningham second and Eric Gates third.
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