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The Foothill High boys’ volleyball team capped an amazing week by winning the top level of the Stockton Classic.
The tournament win was the Falcons’ first regular season tournament win since 2014.
But before getting to the weekend and the tournament, the Falcons won a pair of big East Bay Athletic League games.
They opened the week with a 17-25, 25-20, 25-18, 25-23 win over Amador Valley. The highlights came from Josh Salonga (25 assists, 15 digs, 8 kills), Dean Caudill (15 kills, 13 digs), Cam Hitchan (9 kills, 1 block) and Caleb Lai (15 digs).
Two days later the Falcons took down Granada, also in four sets, winning 25-21, 25-19, 23-25, 25-23. This time the highlights came from Thomas Paduraru (11 kills, 10 blocks), Salonga (28 assists, 7 kills, 5 blocks) and Lai (16 service points, 15 digs).
In Stockton, the Falcons beat Ripon Christian (2-0) and River Valley (2-1) in pool play, then beat Monterey Tail (2-0) in the semifinals.
In the championship Foothill beat Folsom — the top seed — 2-0 to win the title.
Foothill coach Dusty Collins had high praise for the players mentioned above.
Foothill boys’ lacrosse
The Falcons have gotten off to a strong start this year, going 7-4 overall and 3-1 in EBAL play.
Captains AJ Becker, Darrin Lau and Ethan Lam have led the offensive unit, while captain Alex Morgan has been strong in goal.
Last week the Falcons started the week with a 15-3 win over Dublin. Becker had three goals to lead the way, Darrin Lau and Nico Lau had two goals each. Karter Williams, Grady DeMichiel, Avery Fink, Micha Canales and Graham Nelson each had one goal.
The week ended with a 5-4 loss to Granada. Morgan was strong in the goal with 10 saves. DeMichiel (2), Becker and Ethan Lam got the goals for the Falcons.
Earlier this season, the Falcons honored longtime announcer Bob Gee (11 years). Gee passed away in the fall and was honored by a moment of silence.
Amador swimming
Amador Valley swept Livermore in all four meets, as well as winning every race. Top performers were:
JV girls: Nafisa Aurangabadwala won the 100 backstroke and 100 breaststroke. She also swam the back leg 200 medley relay with Lauren Lasserre, Caitlin Brown and Piper Vieler.
JV boys: Colin Kirschner won the 100 breast and swam breast leg in 200 medley relay with Liam Smith, Rishab Burli and Connor Robitaille. He also teamed up with Robitaille, Burli and Matt Svanyuta to win the 200 freestyle relay.
Varsity girls: Rylee Hutchinson won the 500 free in a North Coast Section automatic time of 5:10.52 (she is the defending NCS champion in this race). Francesca Lin won the 200 individual medley in an NCS automatic time of 2:11.53. The two teamed up with Lillyana Caples and Elayna Ling to win the 200 medley relay, and they teamed up with Ling and Susan Swyers to win the 400 free relay.
Varsity boys: In the closest race of the meet, Ryan Wong out-touched teammate Toby Huang by 0.01 seconds in the 100 butterfly. Wong was also on the winning 200 medley, swimming fly, with Cade Vieler, Oryan Liu, and Huang. He was also on the winning 400 free relay with Vieler, Liu and Kealan Tupper.
Foothill badminton
The Falcons turned in a perfect match, beating Clayton Valley 17-0, with every individual match being 2-0 wins for Foothill.
Boys’ singles winners: Hugo Chang, Shashwat Sahoo, Ernest Zhang and Hayden Zhang.
Girls’ singles winners: Sanjana Mahesh, Anoushka George, Kaashvi Varshney and Naisha Kapoor.
Boys’ doubles winners: Kevin Zhang and Scott Lin, Arnav Kameth and Axel Joseph, and Allen John and Bhagirath Bandigari.
Girls’ doubles winners: Patrice Xi and Joan Kim, Shayna Kamick and Anindita Guruaman, and Pratiksha Dubey and Sahana Balaji.
Mixed doubles winners: Vedant Reddy and Isha Ramakrishna, Aryan Nudurupati and Natalie Lo, and Joshua Kim and Tanya Shah.
In their other match last week, the Falcons beat San Ramon Valley 13-4.
Boys’ singles winners were Kevin Zhang, Hugo Chang, Shashwat Sahoo and Joshua Kim, and girls’ singles winners were Charvi Krishnamani, Sanjana Mahesh, Anoushka George and Kaashvi Varshney.
Boys’ doubles winners were Arnav Mameth and Alex Joseph, Scott Lin and Allen John, and Krishna Pranav Praturi and Rishnik Kasula. Mixed doubles winners were Ernest Zhang and Isha Ramakrishna, and Aryan Nudurupati and Natalia Lo.
Amador badminton
The Dons got a big 15-2 win over Monte Vista.
Boys’ singles winners were Kayosh Kumar, Aadi Koshal, Luming Wang and Jaewon Choi, and girls’ singles winners were Riya Natarajan, Shravanni Kurapati, Xizyuan Ou and Nidhi Kakarla.
On the doubles teams, boys’ winners were Benjamin Li and Geffen Kama; girls’ winners were Varshini Subramanian and Aishani Pramod, Jessy Yeh and Paige Xu, and Anupraya Sathiyananan and Sydney Lo; and mixed winners were Joyce Li and Allen Yi, Regina Mok and Aaron Kao, and Cara Li and Nachketh Nandish.
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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