Miramonte wins water polo title
Miramonte High's girls held off a scrappy Campolindo team to win their third consecutive North Coast Section Open Division water polo crown with a 9-7 victory on Saturday.
The Matadors (24-2) jumped out to a 4-0 lead early in the first quarter, and led 8-2 at halftime.
Rosalie Hassett scored three goals to lead Miramonte and Tali Stryker, Bea Hearey, and Audrina Kang all scored twice.
Campolindo didn't stop fighting after going down big early. The Cougars (197) scored the last three goals of the game.
Nikki Frazier got three shots past the keeper, Ana Pieper scored twice and London Menard and Ainsley Hogan both scored once. Goalkeeper Sydney Kring helped keep the Moraga school in the game with 15 saves.
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The Gators enjoyed balanced scoring to win the Central Coast Section Open title. Vivan Golub, Natalia Szczerba and Kiernan Hogan each scored two goals. Megan Newby and Margaret Brandin scored once for the Gators, and Brandin also tied Szczerba for the team lead with two assists.
Sophomore goalkeeper Ellison Brush saved six shots for the Gators, who improved to 23-3.
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Miramonte's boys (15-11) followed a similar script to the girls, jumping on De La Salle (18-8) early and leading 3-0 a few minutes after the NCS Open Division championship started.
Henry Engs scored three goals, as did Griff Tunney. Grant Kurtz also scored three goals, and Patrick Stice scored a pair for Miramonte.
The Matadors led 7-4 at halftime and 10-7 at the end of the third quarter. Davidka Skov scored five of DLS' last seven goals, including the Spartans' last two as the Concord school kept the game close throughout.
Aside from Skov's five goals, Breydon Congo scored twice and Jayson Hubbard scored a pair of goals.
CCS OPEN FINAL: SACRED HEART PREP 10, BELLARMINE 7 >> Sacred Heart Prep added another piece of CCS hardware to a crowded trophy case when it defeated Bellarmine in the Open Division title.
Sacred Heart Prep led by five goals late in the third quarter, and aside from a mini-comeback by the Bells in the fourth quarter, the result was never in doubt.
Andrew Spencer scored three goals and had four assists for SHP. Luke Kirincich, Oliver Marcin and Clay Carrington were right behind him with two goals each. Max Mason led Bellarmine with two goals. NCS DIVISION II FINAL: PIEDMONT 10, ALAMEDA 8 >> Piedmont won the program's first NCS Division II title in an all-Alameda County final match.
Declane Linnane scored six goals and had two steals to lead the team in both categories. George Stein scored once and had two assists and Quincy Scherman, Peter Krumins and Elles Krieckhaus each scored once.
Cross country
CCS CHAMPIONSHIPS >> Palo Alto senior Grant Morgenfeld won the boys Division II race and Menlo-Atherton senior Tatum Olesen reached the finish line first in the girls Division I race on Saturday at the Central Coast Section cross country championships.
Morgenfeld covered the 2.95-mile Crystal Springs course in Belmont in 15 minutes, 5.2 seconds, the day's second-fastest time behind only Division IV champion Eli FitchenYoung of Santa Cruz (14:55.1).
Olesen had the secondbest time among the girls, finishing in 17:54.8. Only Division IV champion Ashlyn Boothby of Scotts Valley (17:52.2) was faster.
Bellarmine had the best overall team score and celebrated another Division I championship. St. Francis finished with the top girls team result as the Lancers won the Division II title. Other highlights:
• Archbishop Mitty's Evie Marheineke won the girls Division II title and had the day's third-best time (18:05.2).
• Crystal Springs' Benjamin Bouie helped his team win the boys Division V title while winning the D-V individual crown. He posted a time of 15:11.6, the third-best overall mark.
• Pioneer's Carson Hedlund won the boys Division III race in 15:11.9, the fourth-fastest time overall.
• Girls team champions: Evergreen Valley (D-I), St. Francis (D-II), Burlingame (D-III), Scotts Valley (DIV), Crystal Springs (D-V).
• Boys team champions: Bellarmine (D-I), St. Francis (D-II), St. Ignatius (DIII), Archbishop Riordan (D-IV), Crystal Springs (D-V).
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Sarah Chow had 33 assists as the Fightin' Irish swept Notre DameBelmont 25-21, 25-11, 27-25 to advance to the Division II NorCal final vs. Clovis North on Tuesday.
Sarah Caulder and Hazel Nelson each had nine kills and Evelyn Law had six kills. Angel Gumboc had 22 digs and Chow contributed nine digs to go along with her multitude of assists.