Morgan Hill
– A look at the week that was in area high school sports: LO
girls’ volleyball Live Oak defeated Milpitas Tuesday in five games,
25-23, 25-15, 14-25, 20-25, 15-11, to win its first regular game of
the season. The Acorns (4-1) were coming off a first-place pool
finish in the Santa Cruz tournament
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Morgan Hill – A look at the week that was in area high school sports:
LO girls’ volleyball
Live Oak defeated Milpitas Tuesday in five games, 25-23, 25-15, 14-25, 20-25, 15-11, to win its first regular game of the season. The Acorns (4-1) were coming off a first-place pool finish in the Santa Cruz tournament.
Coach Laura Coleman was pleased that her club stayed focused after the holiday weekend.
“We didn’t practice like we should have on the holiday,” Coleman said. “But the girls still came out ready to go. We’re going to have a couple league games like that, so it is important to be able to stay focused.”
The Acorns won the first two rounds against Milpitas and then held on in the fifth game for the victory.
Katarina Cinkova led the Acorns with 13 kills, Kristen Russ had 12 and Kristina Giacalone added 10.
Russ also led the Acorns with 21 digs, and Giacalone had 17. Sabrina La Corte had six aces.
“We played pretty steady,” Coleman said. “Everyone is still getting used to each other. We’re just trying to get it going. We are still spazzy. But our defense and aggressiveness looks good. We’ve just got to get our offense going.”
The Acorns will try to get it going this weekend in the High Sierra Invitational at Galena High School in Reno, Nev. Teams compete in pool games Friday and Saturday morning and then play single-elimination matchers in the afternoon and evening.
Coleman said she hopes the tournament, which many teams from Northern California will compete in, will be a chance to work out some kinks, including her ever-changing rotation.
“What’s nice about having (a big tournament) early is that it helps you get in a rhythm,” Coleman said. “We don’t always do well, but it helps us prepare for league.”
LO, Sobrato Cross Country
Both Live Oak and Sobrato had strong showings at the Tri-County Athletic League Jamboree at Toro Park Wednesday. Both schools had runners finish in the top five.
In the girls’ varsity race, Live Oak senior Cobbie Jones finished second with a time of 19:35, 40 seconds behind race winner Amanda Boyd of San Benito. Live Oak senior Lisa Herrera finished fifth with a time of 20:37, and freshman Olivia Duran finished ninth with a time of 22:12.
Freshman Lance Wolfsmith represented Sobrato with a fourth-place finish in the boys’ varsity race with a time of 17:18. He finished behind San Benito’s Rigo Vasquez (16:13), Gilroy’s Arnulfo Velasquez (16:47) and San Benito’s Eddie Trujillo (17:09).
“He’s got some talent should do well,” said Sobrato coach James Feldman of Wolfsmith. “We made a pretty good showing our first time out. We have a lot of young runners, but we are growing each year. It is an enthusiast squad, eager to learn.”
Here are the other finishers:
Boys’ varsity: Live Oak senior Kenny Benner finished 10th (18:02), Live Oak junior Josh Levy finished 16th (18:20), Live Oak senior Andrew Taylor finished 24th (18:39), Live Oak senior Justin Mikykusu finished 26th (18:42), Live Oak junior Eric Matsumoto finished 28th (18:52), Live Oak senior Nolan Zandi finished 35th (19:13), Sobrato junior Chris Swanson finished 37th (19:27), Live Oak freshman Peter Sarllo finished 44th (20:34), Sobrato junior Case Schenkelberg finished 48th (22:25), Sobrato junior Will Cameda finished 49th (22:30) and Sobrato Junior Richard Hubbell finished 50th (22:30).
Girls’ varsity: Sobrato sophomore Remy Birchmier finished 27th (25:09), Sobrato freshman Kayla Nishimats finished 32nd (26:53), Sobrato sophomore Ashley Grose finished 33rd (26:54), Sobrato freshman Amber Masoni finished 34th (26:57), Sobrato freshman Kristen Kuwatan finished 35th (27:03), Live Oak freshman Maureen King finished 37th (27:20), Live Oak junior Joelle Jenkins finished 40th (29:03), Live Oak senior Christina Scrieber finished 41st (28:48) and Live Oak senior Brenda Le finished 42nd (31:39).
Boys’ JV: Live Oak senior Brent Hatakeyama finished 8th) 19:52, Live Oak freshman Anthony Macadaeg finished 14th (20:59), Live Oak senior Joel Seibert finished 15th (20:31), Sobrato freshman Ian Sandberg finished 46th (24:36) and Sobrato sophomore Justin Haim finished 48th (24:41).
Girls’ JV: Live Oak freshman Noor Khuzaie finished 21st (28:15), Live Oak senior Jenai Burdick finished 27th (29:22) and Sobrato junior Chelsea Sedlak finished 31st (33:47).
LO Boys’ Water Polo
Live Oak won one of its most lopsided games in recent history Thursday with a 31-1 pounding of visiting Monterey.
Coach Mack Haines couldn’t recall a bigger margin of victory for the Acorns, but said he would have preferred if it had been closer. Monterey has been on the decline the last couple years without a JV team.
“It sounds like we ran up the score, but we didn’t,” Haines said. “We let the starters play hard for the first quarter, then they came out. We told our kids not to shoot until there were five second left. We tried different defenses and goalies.”
Justin Short, Kyle Fast and Bryson Bailey led the Acorns with four goals. Cameron Peachey, Sam Cretcher and Mike Wu had three. Shea Coleman and Patrick Powers had two and Shevie Sendejas, Steven Rick, Lev Bakin, Ryan Listol, Patrick Acevedo and Mike Acevedo all scored single goals.
LO Girls’ water polo
Live Oak opened up its season Thursday with a 27-6 victory over visiting Monterey. The Acorns are hosting six teams this weekend in the round-robin format Wahine Classic and will have two teams playing themselves. Games Saturday begin at 9am and end at 3pm.
