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Lower and Middle School Athletes Celebrate Successful Fall Season

October 27, 2015 by Theresa "Smitty" Smith

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The fall sports season was a huge success, with more than 300 participants in grades 4-8.

We are very appreciative of all the parental support we received this season. So many parents stepped up to provide snacks and support for the coaches. We also appreciate the hard work and dedication of our athletes.

Here are the final West Bay Athletic League standings and award winners for the lower and middle school fall sports teams.

Varsity A (grade 8) flag football: Finished in fifth place in the WBAL at 2-4, 5-6 overall. Team awards went to Naveen Mirapuri (MVP), Jeffrey Liu (Eagle) and Vedanth Sundaram (Coaches).

Varsity B (grade 7) flag football: Finished in third place in the WBAL at 4-1-1, 7-3-1 overall. Team awards went to Srinath Somasundaram (MVP), Marcus Anderson (Eagle) and Nikhil Gargeya (Coaches).

Junior varsity A (grade 6) flag football: Finished in second place in the WBAL at 5-2, 6-2 overall. Team awards went to Eric Bollar (MVP), Anquan Boldin Jr. (Eagle) and Richard Amarillas (Coaches).

Junior varsity B (grade 5) flag football: Finished in second place in the WBAL at 4-2. Team awards went to Rohan Gorti (MVP), Frederick Hoch (Eagle) and Drake Piscione (Coaches).

Intramural (grade 4) flag football: Team awards went to Om Tandon and Jack Ledford (Eagle) and Jerry Li and Enzo Lucketti (Coaches).

Varsity A (grades 7 and 8) softball: Finished in third place in the WBAL at 3-1-1, 4-2-1 overall. Team awards went to Alaina Valdez, grade 7 (MVP); Hunter Hernandez, grade 7 (Eagle); and Alex Baeckler, grade 7 (Coaches).

Junior varsity A (grades 4-6) softball: Finished in first place in the WBAL at 4-1-1. Team awards went to Brooklyn Cicero, grade 6 (MVP); Annalyn Bean, grade 5 (Eagle); and Maya Kelly, grade 4 (Coaches).

Intramural (grade 4) softball: Team awards went to Cecilia Yang, Maria Chrysafis and Claire Bauschlicher (Coaches).

MS cross country: Team awards went to Courtni Thompson, grade 7 (top runner); Mihir Sharma, grade 8, Anna Weirich, grade 7, and Kevin Chen, grade 8 (MVP); Arya Maheshwari, grade 7, Grant Miner, grade 8, and Anna Gert, grade 8 (Eagle); and Raj Patel, grade 6, Minali Kapadia, grade 6, and Annabelle Ju, grade 8 (Coaches).

First place finishers were:

Courtni Thompson (Harker meet, Rolling Hills meet, JD Morgan Park meet)   

Arya Maheshwari (Harker meet)            

Grade 6 boys team (WBAL final meet)                

Grade 7 boys team (Harker meet)            

Grade 8 boys team (Harker meet)            

Grade 8 girls team (Harker meet)

MS swimming: Team awards went to Allison Jia, grade 8 (MVP); Nina Gee, grade 7 (Eagle); and Elizabeth Fields, grade 7, and Rishab Parthasarathy, grade 6 (Coaches).

LS swimming: Team awards went to Alexis Nishimura, grade 5 (MVP); Rani Patel, grade 4 (Eagle) and Linette Hoffman, grade 5 (Coaches).

First place finishers at the Castilleja meet were:

William Zhao, grade 6, 100 IM

Rhys Edwards, grade 7, 100 IM and 50 fly

Leland Rossi, grade 7, 50 free and 200 free

Alyssa Huang, grade 8, 50 fly and 50 breast

Kurtis Tong, grade 5, 25 back

Arjun Akkiraju, grade 8, 50 back

Brittany Shou, grade 6, 100 free

Anish Pai, grade 6, 200 free

Avery Young, grade 7, 50 breast

Grade 6 boys, 100 free relay

Grade 7 boys, 100 free relay

Grade 6 boys, medley relay

Grade 7 boys, medley relay

Grade 8 boys, medley relay

Grade 8 girls, medley relay

First place finishers at the WBAL finals meet were:

Rhys Edwards, grade 7, 50 fly 

Alyssa Huang, grade 8, 50 fly and 50 breast

Grade 8 boys, medley relay

Grade 8 girls, medley relay

Grade 8 girls, free relay

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