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Rosener stars on the track and court
Homestead is the top volleyball seed in CCS
By MIKE BARNHART
It was quite a week for Homestead freshman Luke Rosener.
First, he captured a couple of individual frosh-soph championships at the track and field finals in the El Camino Division of the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League. Then, he helped the Mustangs' varsity volleyball team close out a perfect run to the SCVAL crown.
Rosener, who gets a lot of leaping practice as an opposite hitter for the volleyball team, became the El Camino's frosh-soph high jump champion when he cleared 5-4. Rosener became the shot put king with a heave of 46-1, and he placed third in the discus by hurling the platter 109-10. His efforts reaped 26 points for Homestead's frosh-soph boys team, which went on to beat out Mountain View for the team title.
Back on the volleyball court, Rosener and the rest of Matt Hoffman's Mustangs claimed the 2006 title outright by dumping Saratoga 25-20, 25-12, 25-15 at home on May 2.
Two nights later at Mountain View, Hoffman's squad won 25-16, 25-20, 25-21 and finished league play with a 14-0 record. Senior Sam Kridl and junior Ryan Dedrick had seven kills apiece against Saratoga. Junior Weston Buckner led the charge at Mountain View with nine.
Finally, at week's end, Homestead received word that it received the top seed in the Central Coast Section playoffs, which begin on May 11.
The Mustangs will take an overall record of 25-4 into a first-round home match against No. 16 Monterey (23-9) at 7 p.m. In another tourney opener, No. 15 The King's Academy (18-8) will play at No. 2 seed Leland (25-6). Both matches begin at 7 p.m.
The King's Academy, coached by Philip Wang, tied Harker for first place in the Private Schools Athletic League with a 9-1 record, then received the nod to represent the league in the CCS tourney.
The Knights secured their playoff berth by posting wins over Woodside Priory and Eastside College Prep last week. Sophomore Joe Sereda put away 12 kills against Priory, and junior Colin Forshay had 15 to lead the way against Eastside.
El Camino swimming
With dual meet co-winners Cupertino and Los Gatos looking to outdo each other in order to gain the division championship, Paul Kim and his Homestead teammates rushed past the frontrunners to claim the top score at the El Camino Division boys finals May 5 at Fremont.
Kim displayed his versatility, sprinting to victories on his front side and his back. After winning the 50-yard freestyle (22.61), Kim took first in the100 backstroke (56.53). He also helped Homestead's two triumphant relay teams, leading off the medley and anchoring the 400 free.
The Mustangs won the medley in 1:44.19, with Kim's backstroke leg followed by Paul Chen, Simon Iacob and Geovid Kali. In the 400 relay, Kali, Jeff Meadows, Iacob and Kim combined to clock 3:27.54. Chen captured the 200 individual medley in 2:10.52.
Fremont junior Larry Wen and Cupertino sophomore Martin Chuang were double winners. Wen touched first in the100 butterfly (54.53) and the 100 breast (1:00.60), while Chuang won the 200 (1:53.77) and 500 (5:05.52) freestyle races.
Other winners were Cupertino junior Derrik Jarvis (49.48) in the 100 free and Los Gatos' 200 free relay team. Bryan Dunmire of Wilcox won the diving event.
In the girls competition, Los Gatos won half of the 12 events en route to the team title. Homestead, which went unbeaten in dual meets, claimed four events, and junior Michelle Camburn was involved in three of them.
Camburn impressed with wins in the 200 IM (2:13.61) and 500 free (5:09.43), and her anchor leg helped the Mustangs win the 400 free relay. Camburn teamed up with Kristen Peanasky, Yoshiko Shimizu and Megan Meadows to take the relay in 3:49.67.
Emily Pool of Homestead won the 100 breaststroke in 1:10.77, and Fremont's Aly Meyer claimed the 200 free in 2:03.08. Cupertino's Jessica Buzawa clocked 25.62 to win the 50 free.
Track and field
Homestead senior William Tsai was the only varsity athlete from Homestead or Fremont to become a division champion at the El Camino track and field finals May 3 at Santa Clara High. And he did it twice.
Tsai easily outdistanced the field of discus competitors, posting a best throw of 173-06, more than 30 feet better than the runner-up. Tsai's season best effort of 179-10 continues to lead the CCS.
The Mustang weightman added to his award collection by winning the shot put with a heave of 50-03.
Tsai is just one of many El Camino and De Anza Division athletes that will compete at the SCVAL Qualifier Meet May 13, at Los Gatos. The top five finishers in each event will move on to the CCS semifinals a week later.
Other Homestead boys that advanced to the qualifier are seniors Derek Okamura (400, long jump) Khang Pham (100) and Jay Atkins (100, 200), junior Rishi Agrawal (800, 3,200) and sophomore Derek Wong (long jump).
Fremont boys who qualified are junior Elijah Carrillo (800, 1,600), sophomore LaQuintin Cathey (100) and seniors Kevin Schneider (3,200), Joe Maes (discus) and Brian Wong (100, 200).
Junior Jennifer Garnet (800, 1,600), sophomores Sarah Engle (100 hurdles, high jump, pole vault), Michelle LaPointe (100) and Anisha Mazloom (400, 300 hurdles) and freshman Emily Evans (400, 300 hurdles) of Homestead advanced in the girls division. Fremont girls who earned spots in the SCVAL meet are juniors Kimberly Culclager (100, 200), Amber Moore (shot put) and Kiera Pinkney (200), sophomore Ashley Turbyfill (shot put) and freshman Aly Rajah (100).
Homestead boys that won frosh-soph events at the El Camino finals were freshman Nick Oliver (3,200) and Leo Haasbroek (400). Austin Lopez placed second in both the discus and shot put, and Dale Ishizahi-Brown was second in the high jump.
Homestead junior Madeline Weeks was a double winner in the girls junior varsity division, taking the 800 and 1,600 races. Homestead senior Lisa Danz was first in the 3,200, while Jackie Ha of Fremont won the 100 hurdles. Homestead's Amy Fredrickson (1,600, 3,200) and Laurie Sartain (discus, shot put) both placed second in two events.
