Sports

Swimmers earn third consecutive top 5 finish in CCS

Coming off a momentous season, the boys' swim team made its mark again by earning a third consecutive top-five finish, placing fifth place and emerging as the top public school at the CCS finals meet on May 21 at Santa Clara International Swim Center. Bellarmine won its 26th consecutive title.

Girls Lacrosse still improving as second-year team

1.Season Record: 4-12-0

2. Highlight: "Bonding I'll never forget that, it's always crazy and fun. Our best game was Harker because it felt great to win, but I also really liked the game against Leland even though we lost in overtime because everyone put 100 percent into it and more," said Jodi Huang

Toga girls make waves at CCS

Saratoga Girls dominated CCS this year coming in at sixth place. Seniors Megan Nolet, Elizabeth Murray and Laurnen Opatrny all gave stunning performances in their last meet of their high school career. Despite set backs in which a confusing meet schedual caused missed races, the Falcons went on to achieve best times in CCS Finals. Lauren Opatrny achieved 56.10 in her 100 yard backstroke, placing second in finals.

Girls' Swimming Season Recap: Swimming ends solid season ranked 6th in CCS

1. Season Record: 3-3

2. Highlight of the Season: At CCS, the Toga girls ranked 6th overall. Lauren Opatrny, Natalie Cheung, Elizabeth Murray and Megan Nolet swam the 200 Medley Relay and placed third. The 400 Free Relay swum by the four seniors Christine La, Elizabeth Murray, Megan Nolet and Lauren Opatrny placed fifth.

Boys' Golf Season Recap: Young team looks to next year after disappointing finish

1. Season Record: 7-5
2. Highlight of the season: Beating Monta Vista even with many sick team members
3. Lowlight of the season: Losing at Deep Cliff against Milpitas and Monta Vista on Mar. 15

Boys' Volleyball Season Recap: After season-long struggles, boys wrap it up with a 'W'

1. Season Record:1-11

2. Highlight of the season: The match against King's Academy went to 5 games, instead of the usual two or three. In the last game, Saratoga won by only 2 points. Sophomore Brandon Pak thought it was "one of the most intense games of the season."

Softball Season Recap: Hard work pays off on senior day

1. Season Record: 3-13

2. Highlight of the season (something like a win against LG or something): A season's worth of work paid off in the team's senior game against Los Altos on May 11, finishing with a score where they pulled ahead in the 10th inning. "[Our senior game against Los Altos] was good. We had a bad season, losing almost every single game, but we wanted to go out playing our hardest," said senior Nicole Gragnola. "We all wanted to do it for each other so we made fewer errors and played pretty well." The final score was 3-2.

Baseball Season Recap: Count this one as a rebuilding year

Record: overall: 10-20, league: 3-11

Highlight of Season: 8-3 victory over Monta Vista to stay in the upper league. After finishing 7th in the regular season standings, the Falcons needed to beat 6th-seeded Monta Vista in a best-of-three series to stay up in the De Anza League. After beating Monta Vista 9-7 in the series opener, Saratoga lost the second game 11-2 but finished off the Matadors with the third game win to solidify their spot in the De Anza league schedule next year.

Girls' Track: Nguyen hopes to leap to the state meet

When most people think of track and field, they tend to ignore the "field" part and simply concentrate on the runners and sprinters. And, of course, the sprinters, such as freshman Melodie Bellegarda and senior Sarah Guy, to name a few, do their share for the team, but they are not the only ones.

Boys' Track: Chuang excels in long jump

In sixth grade, junior Eric Chuang tried out for the track team as a way to stay in shape but came to find that he had a real passion for it. After trying long jump for the first time, he discovered a natural talent for the event and has stuck with it since, excelling at it and becoming one of the best long jumpers on the team.

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