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Clayton Pioneer • www.claytonpioneer.com
January 12, 2018
Ugly Eagles get off to historic start in boys hoops JAY BEDECARRÉ Clayton Pioneer
Clayton Valley Charter High boys basketball has started this season with 14 consecutive victories, the longest winning streak ever at the beginning of a season according to head coach Eric Bamberger. The Ugly Eagles begin Diablo Athletic League in Dan Della Gym this Friday hosting Miramonte as they search for a repeat DAL title. CVCHS went undefeated in DAL Valley Division last year but they are now in the revamped Foothill Division with Miramonte, College Park, Campolindo, Acalanes and undefeated Las Lomas and will face a tougher task in repeating the 10-0 league record from a year ago. Last year’s DAL co-MVPs Nick Klarman and Garrett Pascoe provide senior leadership along with versatile center JD Williams. Last month the team won the Roy Ghiggeri Invitational in Oakley, beating host Freedom in the championship game 77-46. Pascoe was named MVP and Klarman all-tournament. Earlier in December they won the Warren Morse Memorial Tournament at Mt. Eden High in Hayward where the Eagles also beat the tourney hosts in the finals. They began their December tournament run by taking first place in the Richard Burke Memorial tournament at Antioch High with Klarman the MVP
ALEXA AVELAR CVCHS SOCCER
JOHN FUENTES CVCHS SOCCER
Coach Paul Kommer’s team was 2-1 in the West Coast Jamboree Ruby flight, which they hosted in Concord. The Eagles beat South of Torrance, CA in double overtime 59-56 of the third-place game. Coach Elgin Leslie’s Carondelet team was moved up to NCS D-I last year and won its 12th Section championship since 2003, significantly the first in the top division. With its reduced EBAL schedule this year the Cougars have loaded up on top nonleague opponents from throughout NorCal as well as playing in the Tarkanian Classic in Las Vegas and in the top Platinum flight of the West Coast Jamboree. At the Tarkanian Tournament they lost two of three
and Pascoe all-tourney. The CVCHS junior varsity and frosh teams were also first in the Burke Memorial. De La Salle under secondyear coach Justin Argenal is 94 including a 1-1 mark in the East Bay Athletic League. They split four games in Palm Springs at the MaxPreps Holiday Classic, losing to a pair of Southern California teams. Last week they began EBAL play by losing to Dougherty Valley and edging Monte Vista. GIRLS BASKETBALL Clayton Valley Charter is 76 in preseason games as they begin Foothill Division DAL play this Friday at Miramonte. All of the losses have been to teams with winning records.
Clayton Valley Jr. Eagles win Junior Pee Wee Turkey Bowl
ALI BAMBERGER CARONDELET BASKETBALL
but rebounded for the Platinum consolation championship at the West Coast Jamboree where they won two games after an opening lost to Folsom, the No. 9 ranked team in the state. Junior Ali Bamberger, daughter of the CVCHS boys varsity coach, was an all-tournament selection at the WCJ. They lost to No. 27 St. Joseph earlier this season and still have games against the No. 1 team in the USA Archbishop Mitty next Monday, USA No. 6 St. Mary’s of Stockton Feb. 3, No. 15 in the US Pinewood Feb. 10 and No. 11 in California Salesian in Richmond on Jan 31. BOYS SOCCER Coach Guillermo Jara’s Ugly Eagles have posted a 6-32 non-league record including five shutouts, including both draws. They begin DAL Foothill action this week hosting Las Lomas and Northgate. CVCHS leaked seven of the 12 goals it has allowed this season in the three losses and Jara says his senior-dominate defenders hold a key to their
season and a high seed in Division I North Coast Section playoffs next month. De La Salle has a nearly identical record at 6-2-2 including a win and draw in EBAL. Coach Derricke Brown’s squad has given up just six goals in 10 games. GIRLS SOCCER Clayton Valley Charter and new head coach Aaron Pomeroy are undefeated in 13 games with eight victories and five draws, allowing only two goals in that streak. The Eagles were 2-0-2 in the Tri-Valley Classic last month. They begin DAL Valley Division as a league favorite. They host Las Lomas this Wednesday in an early-season showdown and Northgate this Friday. Carondelet has lost heartbreakers in the past two NCS DI championship games and want to correct that trend this winter. They were undefeated in the Madera Showcase in December and are 1-1-1 in EBAL. They began the new year with four victories over Texas
KAT SEGOVIA CVCHS BASKETBALL
teams at the National Elite Prep Showcase in Fort Worth bringing their season mark to 9-2-2. They resume EBAL play this week with 10 league games to conclude their regular season.
WRESTLING Long-time coach Kyle Behmlander isn’t sure how his Eagles will do in league or NCS but he “thinks we should surprise. I think we could have 5-6 wrestlers sitting in the top 12 at NCS and hopefully they surprise and get into top eight.” He is counting on six seniors to lead the way: Chris Palacios (128 pounds), Jacob Coppa (134), Bryan Whitehead (147), Ben Acebo (162), Will Burton (172) and Anantvir Grewal (197). Acebo was third at the DAL tournament last year. The Eagles began DAL Foothill Division with a double dual this Wednesday against College Park and defending NCS DII dual champion Northgate. They will have dual meets on Jan. 24 and Jan. 31 before the league meet Feb. 16-17.
Local Terrapin swimmers meet Olympic hero Missy Franklin JAY BEDECARRÉ Clayton Pioneer
Brent Bowen Photography photo courtesy CV Jr. Eagles
For the second year in a row Clayton Valley Jr. Eagles football claimed a Turkey Bowl championship. Last month, the Junior Pee Wee team—-the second youngest of five CVAA teams—-completed an undefeated 10-0 season with an 8-7 win over the San Leandro Crusaders. The championship team is composed mainly of 9 and 10-year-olds with a few 11-year-olds who are allowed to play at a lower weight than the 9-10’s. The division weight range is 60-120 pounds. The Jr. Pee Wee team from CV outscored their opponents 269-80 for head coach Tony Brigance, who has coached in the organization for over 20 years. Last fall the CVAA Pee Wee squad won the championship in the East Bay Youth Football Conference, which is comprised of seven cities located throughout the East Bay.
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It was an exciting December for the Terrapins Swim Team. The local USA Swimming team traveled to Washington at the beginning of the month to take the combined team championship at the 69th annual Husky Invitational in Federal Way. The following week, Olympic and world champion Missy Franklin was guest of honor at the annual awards dinner. Franklin was the star of the London Olympics, where she won four gold medals and was voted 2012 World Swimmer of the Year. After the Olympics, she swam for the Cal Bears for two years before turning professional. She suffered injuries that limited her swims at the 2016 Rio Olympics, where she won a gold medal for a relay. At the awards dinner in Centre Concord, she signed autographs and took photos with all the young swimmers eager to meet the American icon. She reports that she is back training in Berkeley and will get her Cal degree next fall. The Terrapins scored 1,595 points to win the combined team score at the Husky Invitational over collegiate teams University of Nevada Reno, University of San Diego and UC Santa Barbara. TERA won the men’s division with 1,099
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Missy Franklin was the guest of honor at the Terrapins Swim Team annual dinner last month at Centre Concord. The Olympic and World champion signed autographs on her Speedo photo card for each young swimmer and then had her pictured taken with them. Franklin (center) posed with local Terrapin swimmers, from left, Anthony Vizental (Clayton Valley Charter), Niklas Weigelt (CVCHS), Sarah DeBack (Carondelet) and Mathew Dias-Martin (Diablo View Middle School). She is back in Berkeley training with her 2012 Olympic coach Teri McKeever of Cal and will get her UC degree next fall.
points, and the local women were third in their division with 486 points. The team had more than 50 lifetime best swims, led by 15year-old Andrei Minakov and Alexei Sancov. Minakov was the men’s high-point winner with 144, and his teammate was the runner up with 124 points. Sancov, a 2016 Olympian for his native Moldova, broke two meet records with blister-
ing swims in the 200 and 500 freestyle. He also broke Pacific records in those events, in addition to the 100 free. Minakov posted some of the fastest swims in USA for 15year-olds and also set two new Pacific records. Terrapin coaches said the Husky Invitational “was a breakthrough meet for many senior TERA swimmers, with huge time drops.”