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The Amador Valley girls’ softball team will face the toughest test of the season since the Dons made their legendary run to the CIF Northern California championship last year when they play in the Livermore Stampede this week.
In fact, the Dons also saw the same teams in their North Coast Section Division I run as all four semifinalists entered into the 2025 Stampede in California, Amador Valley, Liberty and College Park. Granada and San Ramon Valley were quarterfinalists.
In the NorCal championships, Amador Valley — the winner — was joined by Saint Francis, Casa Grande, Mitty, and Whitney in the eight-team field last year. All five are entered in the Stampede this year.
Games start on Thursday (April 10) with pool play at the Ernie Rodrigues Fields beginning at 9 a.m. until after 9 p.m. The teams will be back at it in pool play during the same hours Friday.
Following two days of pool play, the teams are placed into bracket play depending on their standings. The last-place teams in each pool are paired and so on.
Amador boys’ lacrosse
The Dons took a pair of lopsided wins the week of March 24.
In the first game, Amador beat Dublin 18-2 behind six goals from Owen Heck.
Hunter Selkow added four goals, Brady McMillin had three, and Henry Wanis had two to round out the multiple goal-scorers. Brady Macisaac, Joey D’Onofrio and Evan Soares had one each.
In the second game, the Dons blasted Livermore 14-2, this time with Selkow leading the way with five goals. Heck had four and McMillin added two for the Dons. Macisaac, Soares and Alexander Michail scored one each.
Amador swimming
The Dons completed another sweep as they beat Dublin in all four meets.
The standout swimmer of the meet was freshman Piper Vieler for junior varsity girls, winning the 200 freestyle is a season’s best, as well as the 50 free. Vieler also teamed with Nafisa Aurangabadwala, Jade Selway and Lauren Lasserre to win the 200-medley relay, then with Lasserre, Evelyn Roe and Caitlin Brown to win the 200 free relay.
Evan Crandall and freshman Vedh Patchipulusu had great meets for the JV boys. Crandall won the 100 individual medley and the 50 butterfly. Patchipulusu won the 200 free. The duo teamed up with Artur Boulatov and JT Williams to win the 200 free relay and Liam Smith and Matt Svanyuta to win the 400 free relay.
For varsity girls, Elayna Ling won the 200 IM and the 100 fly. She teamed up with Rylee Hutchinson, Francesca Lin and Lillyana Caples to win the 200 medley and 400 free relays.
In the varsity boys’ competition, Evan Shackelford out-touched Will Campbell in an exciting 50 free race, 23.43 to 23.47. Oryan Liu won the 200 IM and the 100 fly.
Amador JV tennis
The Dons dumped Dublin 8-1 last week, sweeping the doubles competition.
The teams of Rohail Kjwaja and Erik Van Slyke, Henry Bull and Srikar Chidipotu, and Thomas Mantha and Decker Gillette all won their matches.
In singles, Julian Le, Avij Asarawala, Aaron Shaffer, Jonathan Liu and Thomas Ce won their matches.
Amador hockey
The Dons got four goals from William Harker as they beat San Ramon Valley 13-4.
Cali Byrd and Justin Buress scored twice each, with Ty Byrd, Owen Shane, John Super, Michelle Li and Tyler Causey each getting a goal.
Amador badminton
The Dons took care of business with a convincing 15-2 win over San Ramon Valley on April 3, including sweeping the girls’ singles, boys’ doubles and girls’ doubles.
Samanyu Kulkami, Luming Wang and Kevin Ke all won their boys singles matches. Shravani Kurapati, Xinyvan Ou, Nidhi Kakarla and Aishani Suri were the girls who swept the singles’ competition.
The winning boys’ doubles teams were Benjamin Li and Ziqian Wang, Geffen Kama and Nathan Han, and Philip Liu and Brandon Chen.
In girls’ doubles, the teams of Varshini Subramanian and Aishani Pramod, Jessy Yeh and Paige Xu, and Anupraya Saithyanarayanan and Sydney Lo all were winners.
Finally, the mixed doubles teams of Regina Mok and Aaron Kao, and Cara Li and Nachiketh Nandish also won their matches.
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.
