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The junior golfer shot a 3-over-par 70 to win individual honors and lead the Titans to a two-stroke victory over rival Palo Alto in the SCVAL Tournament, qualifying the team for a return trip to the CCS Championships.
The senior scored 17 goals in five water polo wins, including a tourney title and the winning goal in a 7-6 win over Los Gatos that clinched no worse than a tie for the SCVAL De Anza Division regular-season title.
Honorable mention Mehra den Braven Pinewood volleyball
Victoria Garrick* Sacred Heart Prep volleyball
Tess van Hulsen Palo Alto water polo
Sadie Bronk-Sarah Schinasi Menlo tennis
Sarah Robinson* Gunn cross country
Celeste Woleshyn Castilleja tennis
Will Conner Sacred Heart Prep water polo
Jack Heneghan* Menlo football
Brian Keare* Menlo-Atherton football
Ben Burr-Kirven Sacred Heart Prep football
James McDaniel* Priory football
Nelson Perla-Ward Sacred Heart Prep water polo * previous winner
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25-22, 21-25, 25-22, 15-11. The Titans (4-5, 9-11) had a strong team effort and were led by Erica Johnston and Meghan Mahoney, each with nine kills. In the PAL Bay Division, Menlo-Atherton held on to a share of second place following a 25-19, 25-22, 25-11 win over visiting Hillsdale. Paulina King had 15 kills and 12 digs for the Bears (9-2, 17-8) with Devin Joos adding 11 kills and 12 digs. Virginia Lane had 21 digs while freshman Kirby Knapp contributed 40 assists and 12 digs. The Bears were coming off a tough 24-26, 25-23, 26-24, 25-15 loss to nationally ranked Valley Christian last Friday. King and Joos combined for 35 kills. Cross country Gunn senior Sarah Robinson has run in seven cross-country races this season and won all of them. That makes her a heavy favorite for individual honors at the SCVAL El Camino Division Championships on Tuesday at Crystal Springs in Belmont. Robinson, however, will not go
into the girls’ varsity race (3:30 p.m.) at the 2.95-mile layout as the defending champion. In fact, she didn’t event compete last season. Robinson was dealing with some physical problems last year and missed the league finals. Without her, Gunn finished fourth. The story will be quite different this time around as Robinson leads a young, talented and deep squad coached by Olympian PattiSue Plumer. The Titans made their final tuneup before the league meet a good one by easily winning the annual Palo Alto City Championships on Tuesday on the 2.18-mile Bol Park course at Gunn. With Robinson running the second-fastest time ever on the course (11:49.6) while winning by nearly 50 seconds, Gunn finished 1-3-46-7 for 21 points without its best lineup. The girls’ course record is 11:41 by Tori Tyler in 2004. The Titans’ No. 2 runner, sophomore Gillian Meeks, ran in the first of two varsity races and won comfortably in 12:47.1. Palo Alto sophomore Bryn Carlson (12:38.5) and junior Katie
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rival Gunn in last week’s SCVAL Tournament, the Vikings compiled a score of 391 and captured the section championship. Paly junior Michelle Xie led the historic day by earning medalist honors with a 3-under 69. St. Francis was second with 395 strokes while Gunn was third with 412. All three teams qualified for the 14th annual NCGA/CIF High School Girls Golf Championships at Spring Creek Golf and Country Club in Ripon on Monday. “I knew we had a very good shot,” Knight said. “All season long I watched team scores and I figured it would come down to Gunn, St. Francis and us for the championship — unless we all had bad days.” As it turned out, Gunn and St. Francis had good days but Paly a great one. “Our captain, Annie Chen, sat down with the girls the night before and had a captains’ meeting with them,” Knight explained. “I wasn’t there, not sure what was said; just let my captain do what I feel a good captain should do . . . lead the team.” Chen, a senior, shot 78, senior Audrey Horn and freshman Emily Hwang each carded a 79 and freshman Elise Kiya provided the final score that counted with an 86 as the Vikings averaged 78.2 strokes per scorer. Paly was the only team to have four players under 80. “I’m not sure how many birdies were made or spectacular shots were hit, I just know the girls came together and played very well when they needed to,” said Knight. Xie led the Vikings with three Foug (13:16.7) prevented a Gunn sweep by finishing second and fifth, respectively. In the Junior-Senior boys’ race, Palo Alto junior Lucas Matison cruised to victory in 10:59.3, but Gunn took six of the next seven spots and won the team title with 21 points. Paly was second with 38. Gunn finished 2-3-4-5 behind the efforts of Thomas Rasmussen (11:24.7), Antonio Puglisi (11:31.4), Kushal Nimkar (11:33.0) and Noah Krigel (11:33.9). Paly actually had the secondfastest boy on the day, Kent Slaney, but the freshman ran in the frosh-soph race. He won easily in 11:15.3 to break the previous freshman course record of 11:37.0 by Paul Summers in 2006. Girls tennis Menlo clinched its 20th straight league title, the 18th under head coach Bill Shine, with a 7-0 blanking of visiting Sacred Heart Prep on Tuesday. The Knights improved to 9-0 in the WBAL Foothill Division and 20-1 overall. The triumph also was Menlo’s 207th straight in league play, an ongoing state record. N
birdies and no bogeys during her excellent round. “We should have the core of our team back next year,” Knight said. “Titles are hard to come by . . . we are all enjoying this moment.” Gunn earned its second straight NorCal berth, but missed out on medalist honors as defending champ Anna Zhou shot 75 —seven shots off last year’s low score. A double-bogey on the 328-yard par-4 ninth hole dropped Zhou to 3-over on the day and into a tie for 11th. Gunn senior Jayshree Sarathy helped earn another day at the course by shooting 78, teammate
Lianna McFarlane-Connelly shot 82 while tying for 31st. Gunn’s Tiffany Yang shot 84 and Sandra Herchen carded a 93. Castilleja finished sixth in the team race with a 426 and junior Chloe Sales was just two strokes from qualifying for NorCals after shooting a 75. Castilleja’s junior twins, Nicole and Danielle Mitchell, each shot 85, Paris Wilkerson came home with an 87 and Ellie Zales shot 94. Menlo School’s Jessie Rong shot 76 and tied for 14th overall, Menlo-Atherton’s Abbey Pederson and Naomi Lee each shot 80 and Sacred Heart Prep’s Jessica Koenig finished with an 89. N
PALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL CIVIC CENTER, 250 HAMILTON AVENUE BROADCAST LIVE ON KZSU, FM 90.1 CABLECAST LIVE ON GOVERNMENT ACCESS CHANNEL 26 ***************************************** THIS IS A SUMMARY OF COUNCIL AGENDA ITEMS. THE AGENDA WITH COMPLETE TITLES INCLUDING LEGAL DOCUMENTATION CAN BE VIEWED AT THE BELOW WEBPAGE: http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/knowzone/agendas/council.asp
(TENTATIVE) AGENDA – SPECIAL MEETING – COUNCIL CONFERENCE ROOM MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2013 - 6:00 PM STUDY SESSION 1. Meeting with Supervisor Simitian CHAMBERS SPECIAL ORDERS OF THE DAY 2. Acknowledgement of Recipients of Mayor’s “Green Leader Business Award” CONSENT CALENDAR 3. Adoption of a Resolution Repealing Resolution No. 9225 and Expanding the City Manager’s Authority to Execute Transactions under the Master Renewable Energy Certificate Purchase and Sale Agreement with Thirteen Pre-qualified Suppliers in an Amount Not to Exceed $5,000,000 per Year During Calendar Years 2013-2018 4. Staff Recommendation to Allow Special Promotional Golf Course Fees for the Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course (Golf Course) to Include: Loyalty Cards - Play 5 Rounds And Get 1 Free, Limited Two for One Green Fee Offers, Saturday and Sunday - Kids Play Free With One Paid Adult and Good Deed Gift Certificates 5. Approval of a Utilities Electric Capital Improvement Fund Construction Contract with Express Energy Services Inc. in the Amount of $761,164 to Supply and Install New Light Emitting Diode Street Lighting Luminaires 6. Adoption of a Resolution Approving the City’s Revised Sanitary Sewer Management Plan and Designating Certain Employee Classifications as Legally Responsible Officials 7. SECOND READING PARKING EXEMPTION ORDINANCE: Adoption of an Ordinance to Repeal Ordinance 5167 and Amend the Palo Alto Municipal Code to Delete Sections 18.52.060(a)(2) and 18.52.060(c) Related to Parking Assessment Districts to Eliminate the “Exempt Floor Area” Parking Exemption Which Allows for Floor Area up to a Floor Area Ratio (FAR) of 1.0 to 1.0 to be Exempt From Parking Requirements Within the Downtown Parking Assessment Area and Floor Area up to an FAR of 0.5 to 1.0 to be Exempt Within the California Avenue Area Parking Assessment District; and adoption of an Interim Ordinance to Amend Chapters 18.18, Downtown Commercial (CD) District, and 18.52, (Parking and Loading Requirements) to Make the Following Changes to be Effective for a Period of Two Years: a. Delete Sections 18.18.070(a)(1), 18.18.090(b)(1)(C) and 18.52.070(a)(1)(D) to Eliminate the 200 Square Foot Minor Floor Area Bonus and Related Parking Exemption for Buildings not Eligible for Historic or Seismic Bonus. b. Delete Sections 18.18.090(b)(1)(B), 18.52.070(a)(1)(B) and 18.52.070(a)(1)(C)(i) to Eliminate the Parking Exemption for On-site Use of Historic and Seismic Bonus. c. Amend Section 18.18.080(g) to remove the On-site Parking Exemption for Historic and Seismic Transfer of Development Rights up to 5,000 Square Feet of Floor Area to a Receiver Site in the CD or PC Zoning Districts. d. Amend Section 18.52.070(a)( 3) related to Remove the Sentence Allowing Square Footage to Qualify for Exemption That Was Developed or Used Previously for Nonresidential Purposes but was Vacant at the time of the Engineer’s Report. These actions are exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) under Section 15061 and 15301 of the CEQA Guidelines (First Reading: October 21, 2013 PASSED: 8-1 Kniss no) 8. Recommendation From the CAO Committee to List a Salary Range in the Brochure for the City Auditor’s Recruitment ACTION ITEMS 9. Update from Rail Committee 10. From Rail Committee: Feasibility Study Grade Separation 11. Approval of Outreach Plan to Solicit and Encourage Input from the Community on Palo Alto’s Core Values (Continued from 9/30/13) STANDING COMMITTEE MEETINGS The Finance Committee will meet on Tuesday, November 5, 2013 at 7:00 P.M. to discuss: 1) Development Impact Fees – Approval of List of Infrastructure Needs, 2) Audit of Contract Oversight: Trenching and the Installation of Electric Substructure, 3) Draft User Fee Cost Recover Level Policy.
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