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Joined by Cate School coach Trevor Thorpe are the school’s top tennis players Summer Christensen, Eva Herman, Sarah Polowczak, Jackie Cai, Grace Fuss and Carol Cai.
Cate’s Cai sisters claim TVL championship
Cate School’s heavy-hitting tennis sisters Jackie and Carol Cai became triValley League doubles champs on oct. 27 in a 6-3, 6-4 match against their own teammates Summer Christensen and Sarah polowczak. the same afternoon, Cate singles player Cate freshman Grace Fuss fell to La Reina senior Sophia Aulicino to end the tVL tournament as runner up. The Cais came into the finals as the number two seed. Jackie, a junior, could have been a seeded player in the singles draw, but chose instead to partner with her freshman sister. the combination has been deadly, said coach trevor thorpe. Carol Cai went 18-0 in doubles league play with several different partners and, with her older sister at her side, the pair proved unstoppable. they breezed through both matches played in the oct. 25 semifinal, dropping just three games in four sets played.
Christensen/polowczak came into the tVL tournament 23-0 (17-0 in league) as the top seed. they finished their first match without dropping a game, then beat the sister-duo Summer and Sherlynn Khouvilay from Foothill tech 6-0, 6-2 in the semifinal round. Coach trevor thorpe said, “they make a great combination, with Summer’s powerful baseline game and Sarah essentially owning the net.” Fuss pulled through a nail-biter in her TVL semi-final round. She won the first set 6-0 against sophomore tiara Nourishad of La Reina, but was forced to a third set super-breaker, which she came out of 10-7. In her quarterfinal match, she had managed a 6-0, 6-0 victory over Cara dienst of thacher. All five of the Cate players in the finals will compete in the CiF tournament next month.
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Cross country dispatch: Warrior runners set the pace PHotoS by bill and RoSana SwinG
Carpinteria high School cross country runners have been preparing all season to cross the finish line in their fastest form at the Nov. 3 tri-Valley League Finals at Lake Casitas. At the oct. 27 Santa barbara County Championships, Mikela Keefer finished in fifth place for the girls with times of 5:59 in the mile, 12:50 in the two-mile and 18:33 at the three-mile points. Sam truax finished in 53rd for the boys with times of 5:39, 12:12 and 17:58 in the one, two and three mile marks, respectively. brian Garcia took 73rd and Kevin Guzman 83rd. At the oct. 21 mt. Sac invitational, Keefer finished in ninth place in 20:04. Notably, in the boys frosh race, which was reduced to 2 miles due to extreme heat, CHS freshman Caleb Classen finished in fifth with a time of 10:43. The varsity boys team landed in 12th place with manuel basave, bernardo Cardona and Albert Medel finishing in the top team spots. the tri-County Athletic Association’s (tCAA) League meet number-two at the elkins Ranch Golf Course in Fillmore on oct. 13 found Classen leading the way for the Warriors with a 23rd place finish in 18:02. Truax finished 24th at 18:10 and Cardona in 27th with 18:14. the girls were led by the consistently speedy Keefer who finished in sixth place with a time of 19:47. Alondra Campuzano took 41st place at 23:20, and emmelly Santillan placed 50th with a time of 24:33.
CHS freshman Caleb Classen pushes to the finish line at the Santa barbara County Championships. Classen is wrapping up a fine first season for the Warriors.
Mikela Keefer zooms toward the finish line at the Santa barbara County Championships last week.