Photograph by George Sakkestad
A Fremont player attempted a bunt when the Firebirds were having trouble scoring runs in a tight game against Los Gatos to close out the league season. The Firebirds had trouble scoring again last week in a 1-0 CCS playoff loss to Bellarmine.
Top players in CCS tennis field
Homestead, Fremont lose baseball openers
By Dick Sparrer
Only the area's best tennis players make it to the Central Coast Section (CCS) tournament. And the best of the CCS will be in action this week when singles and doubles runs through May 23 at the Imperial Courts at Cabrillo College in Aptos.
Tourney play was to begin Tuesday with first round and quarterfinal action. The semi-final round begins at 10 a.m. Thursday, with the finals getting under way at 1 p.m.
Santa Clara Valley Athletic League (SCVAL) standouts Ken Kao of Monta Vista, A.J. Kerin of Saratoga and Dan Duong of Fremont will represent the area in singles action.
Kerin, the No. 5 in the singles tourney, opens against William O'Shea of Robert Louis Stevenson, and Kao, the No. 6 seed, opens against Nial Brash of Menlo-Atherton.
Duong, unseeded in the tourney, faces No. 8 seed Kareem Berdai of Pioneer in the first round of the event.
Saratoga, Monta Vista and Fremont will also be represented in doubles play.
Robert Yee and Bastian Bartels, seeded No. 4, open the doubles tourney against unseeded Kalin Lundquist and Steve Kwong of Valley Christian.
Saratoga's Garrett Wyatt and Ashvin Soin, unseeded, will take on No. 2 seed Matt Seeberger and Jonathan Sun of Mills, while Fremont's Matt Wong and Sidney Pang, also unseeded, challenge No. 1 seed Jaysen Chung and Joseph Lok of Bellarmine.
Will McAlister and Brian Brogan of Los Gatos will also represent the SCVAL in the doubles tourney. The Gatos pair, seeded No. 5, opens up against Nolan Paula and Yoshi Arakaki of Menlo.
Watch the birdie!
Ivan Lee of Monta Vista and Jacquie Pfyl of Gunn were individual singles champions last week at the SCVAL badminton finals in Palo Alto.
Lee won the boys singles title with the victory over Kiril Boulatov of Gunn, and Pfyl took the girls singles crown with a 7-1, 7-0, 7-2 win over An Ly of Monta Vista in the finals. Erica Lin of Homestead was third in girls singles action, with Annie Kao of Saratoga fourth.
Mountain View's Tri Tang and Anh Vo teamed to take the boys doubles title. Ta-ming Shih and Yen-min Chu of Lynbrook finished fourth.
In girls doubles play, Jessica Gasiorek and Julia Rotow of Palo Alto finished first overall. Susan Hwang and Asha Sukamar of Lynbrook clinched third.
Patrick Ku and Susana Wen of Gunn won the mixed doubles championship, with David Lamb and Mega Khiang of Lynbrook second. Ryan Aralar and Kailin Chou of Lynbrook took third, with Fremont's Tony Nguyen and Diana Ngo fourth.
First-round losses
Both the Homestead and Fremont baseball teams lost in the first round of CCS Division I play last week.
The Mustangs lost 12-8 in a 27-hit slugfest against Hollister, and the Firebirds lost 1-0 in a pitchers' duel.
Senior hurler Vince Klumper threw a three-hit gem, but Fremont lost a 1-0 heartbreaker to Bellarmine.
The Bells scored a run in the first innings, and they held onto that slim lead throughout the game.
Fremont, 14-16-1 for the year, could manage just two hits in the game.
Hits were coming fast and furious, though, in the Hollister-Homestead match-up the same day. The Mustangs ripped 12 hits and the Haybalers ripped 15 in the 12-8 Hollister victory.
Matt Whiteman homered and singled to drive in four runs for the Mustangs, and Brad McGee doubled and homered to knock in three. Bryan Beres singled and doubled for Homestead, and Brandon Dougherty had two hits.
Homestead finished the year with a 17-11 record.
Gleeson wins
Lynbrook's Kim Gleeson was a double winner in the weights to lead the local effort at the CCS track and field trials held Saturday at San José City College. The talented senior will lead a host of local athletes into the CCS finals on May 24, 6 p.m., at the oval at City College.
Gleeson took the shot put with a heave of 41-10, and she was tops in the discus with a 146-9 effort. Her closest rival in the discus threw 127-1.
Homestead had a big day at the CCS track trials with Will Faules and Brittany Reynolds starring for the Mustangs.
Faules raced to a win in the 300-meter intermediate hurdles in 38.82, and he added a second in the 110 high hurdles in 15.02. Ben Verstegen was seventh in the high hurdles in 15.24.
Reynolds supported with a third in the girls long jump. Reynolds, who holds the top mark of the year in CCS at 18-6.5, flew 17-8 for third.
The Mustangs also ran third in the 4x100 relay in 43.07.
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