Cavaliers wrap up season with strong showing
The Pleasanton Cavaliers Rugby Club won third place in Varsity Silver at the Pacific Coast Invitational Rugby Tournament, which was held at San Jose State University on April 25 and 26. The team won two out of three games played and ended their season with a strong finish.
The Cavaliers won the first game on April 25 against the Vacaville Rugby Club, 24-19. James Raynel sent the team off with a try within the first two minutes of the game and Ryan Maples followed up with a conversion, 7-0. Nearing the end of the second half, Vacaville seemed uncoordinated and lacked organization, but scored later on, 17-7.
After a three-hour rest period, the Cavaliers had a difficult time getting their heads back in the game and lost to the Sacramento Islanders Rugby Club, 31-20.
Overcoming the Sacramento loss, the Cavaliers dominated 42-14 in their last game of the season against the San Mateo Rugby Football Club.
With this successful season now over, the Cavaliers bid adieu to departing seniors Alex Herzfeldt, Michael Young, Teddy Gatanis, Charles Jones, Estavan Ibarra, James Raynel, Kingston Cameron, Michael Bailey and Scott McEtchin.
Three MVPs emerge from T-Ball game
In the T-Ball Division of the Pleasanton National Little League the Braves played the Mets last weekend. There was great fielding by the entire team as they chased down ball after ball. All the Mets had big hits, some off the tee and some off of coach pitches. There had to be three MVPs this game including Michael Priscaro, Jeffrey Priscaro and Austin Nicolas.
Amador boys JV and Varsity diving and swimming team results
It was a day for record breaking performances as six Amador Valley JV boys swim team records fell at the EBAL Championship meet. After
finishing fourth in the dual meets, the Dons surpassed that performance, taking third place at Championships, narrowly edging out San Ramon Valley 274-262.5.
The Amador Valley Varsity boys Swimming and Diving team finished off the EBAL Championship meet in a big way, breaking the meet record in the 400 free relay. The team of Krish Rajagoplan, Kyle Surber, Andrew Seitz, and Scott Arellano finished second in the event (De La Salle also broke the meet record) to lead the Dons to a fourth place finish overall.
Anne-Marie Harrison
