De La Salle sweeps NorCal golf crowns
De La Salle's Jaden Dumdumaya shot 4-under 68 on Monday at the Berkeley Country Club to win the California Interscholastic Federation NorCal boys golf championship.
His sizzling round helped the Concord school capture the team title with a score of 357, 13 strokes lower than runner-up Crystal Springs Uplands.
Campolindo and Stevenson tied for fifth, each finishing at 386.
Dumdumaya had six birdies and two bogeys in his round. He was 2-under on the front nine and 2-under on the back nine.
The junior edged Luke Price of Rocklin by one shot. Four others tied for third, two strokes back. That group included Foothill's Brandon Knight, Nueva's James Lee and DLS's Joshua Kim.
The top three teams and nine individuals who were not on a qualifying team advance to the CIF state championships on May 31 at Poppy Hills Golf Course in Pebble Beach.
The locals who qualified for state as individuals include Knight, Lee, Amador Valley's Kush Arora and Serra's Trevor Moquin.
Arora tied for seventh at NorCal with a 71 and Moquin tied for 13th at 72.
Boys tennis
Menlo School claimed the NorCal team championship on Saturday at the Broadstone Sports Club in Folsom with a 4-3 victory over Cupertino, avenging a loss to the same opponent and by the same score in the Central Coast Section final a week earlier.
“That made us hungry,” senior co-captain Tudor Braicu said in Menlo's news release. “The only way we could improve was our mental game. And we were ready to fight.”
Menlo defeated Oak Ridge and Mission San Jose to reach the final round.
“It was a true team effort,” said longtime Menlo coach Bill Shine, who announced this spring that next school year will be his last. “There were some really long rallies, and these kids persevered and they're happy they're bringing the championship back.”
Crystal Springs Uplands' Anthony Lim won the CCS singles championship when he defeated Half Moon Bay's Charlie Underwood 6-4, 5-7 and 1-0 (12) on Thursday.
Cupertino's Tommy Kim and Ethan Chung defeated Leigh's pairing of Kollin Nguyen-Ngo and Magnus Weng 6-1, 6-1 on that same day to win CCS doubles.
Boys volleyball
Carlmont defeated Berean Christian 25-21, 2325, 25-20, 18-25, 15-4 to win the NorCal Division III championship.
Junior Sean Murphy led the team with 33 kills, and junior Eric Fadeyev had 15 kills. Senior Bryson Lan added three aces.
Juniors Cyrus Wong and Kevin Tomita combined for five of Carlmont's nine blocks. Junior Will Won led the Scots with 30 digs and Tomita had 20.
Junior Simon Hua contributed 32 assists, and Tomita had 25 assists for the champions
In Division IV, Branham swept Carmel 3-0, easily winning the first two sets 25-12 and 25-18. The third set was a marathon, with Branham triumphing 3533.