Middle School Wraps Up Season; Upper School Tennis, Volleyball and XCountry into Postseason Play

The fall sports seasons for cross country, swimming, flag football and softball have come to a close for the lower and middle schools. Here are the final results of what was a very exciting start to the school year!

LS/MS FOOTBALL grade 8 VA  football: 5-7 (fifth place); grade 7 VB football: 3-8 (fifth place); grade 6 JVA football: 9-0 (league champs!); grade 5 JVB football: 3-3 (T-fourth place)

LS/MS SOFTBALL
Grade 6-8 VA softball: 5-1 (second place); grade 4-5 JVB softball: 6-0 (league champs!)

MS CROSS COUNTRY
The team finished up their season with the WBAL cross country meet at Bayfront Park. In the grade 7-8 boys race Arnav Tandon, grade 8, placed third. In the grade 7-8 girls race, second place went to Niki Iyer, grade 8 and first place to Sarah Savage, grade 7. Both boys and girls grade 7-8 teams took third place in their races.

LS/MS SWIMMING
The team finished up their season with the WBAL swim meet at Sacred Heart Prep High School. In the grade 5-6 boys MR, taking second place were Edwin Su, Arjun Kilaru, Stephan Sokolov and Krish Kapadia, all grade 6; and in third place, Noah Salisbury, Rohan Arora, Kai-Ming Ang and Cole Smitherman, all grade 5.

Grade 5-6 girls MR third place: Angela Li, Sara Min, Anusha Kuppahally, Alexandra Janssen, all grade 6.

Grade 5-6 girls IM first place: Angela Li; Grade 5-6 girls 25 back, first place: Angela Li.

Grade 5-6 boys 100-free third place: Arnav Jain, grade 5.

Grade 5-6 girls 25 breast third place: Sara Min.

Grade 7 boys MR, second place:  Victor Shin, Jeffrey Ma, Alexander Wang, Derek Kuo.

Grade 7 boys IM first place and Grade 7 boys 50-free second place: Jeffrey Ma.

Grade 7 boys 50-fly: third place: Adriano Hernandez.

Grade 7 boys 50-breast third place: Aadith Srinivisan.

UPPER SCHOOL
Football
Quarterback Spenser Quash, grade 12, threw for three touchdowns and ran for two more in his final game as an Eagle, but Harker dropped their last game of the year, Homecoming, to Lynbrook, 49-35, finishing their season at 3-7 overall and 1-5 in league play. Robert Deng, grade 12, Devonte Smith, grade 10, and Keanu Forbes, grade 10, all caught touchdown passes.

Boys water polo ended their season a high note with two victories last Friday at the league tournament, following a 12-3 victory over Cupertino with an intense 9-8 win over Santa Clara. Karan Das-Grade, grade 12, scored four goals, with Eric Holt, grade 10, adding three, and Ryan Hume, grade 12, netting two against Santa Clara. The boys end the year 12-16 overall and 4-8 in league play.

Girls water polo’s historic season came to a close Tuesday in their first ever CCS appearance. The girls lost to Soquel High 13-3 in the first round game. Keri Clifford, grade 12, scored two goals and Rachel Yanovsky, grade 12, scored one. The girls end the season with a 20-7 record and a league championship! Congratulations on a great season.

Kristine Lin, grade 11, is the league’s individual golf champion after shooting a 73 at Poplar Creek. She then shot an 85 at CCS, placing 38th out of 90. Patricia Huang, grade 12, shot an 82 at CCS, the best score any Harker golfer has ever achieved at the tournament. The girls end their season in second place in the league with a 7-3 record.

Girls tennis doubles team Daria Karakoulka, grade 12, and Katia Miranova, grade 11, won the league championship, and the team is in CCS post season play now. Hosting their second round CCS match, Harker defeated fellow WBAL opponent, Crystal Springs, by a 10-4 margin. Junior Dora Tzeng led Harker, winning her round robin matches by identical 6-0, 6-0, 6-0 scores. Senior Jenny Chen also won by an impressive margin, 6-0, 6-1, and was leading 5-0 before the match was called after Tzeng’s third match which sealed the victory. The team travels to Cuesta Park today for their quarterfinal (final 8) match against #3 St. Francis at 1:30. Bracket:  http://www.cifccs.org/playoffs/results/12-13/Tennis_G_Team-12.pdf

Girls volleyball rolled through their first round opponent, Carmel, last night in three straight games 25-14, 25-16, 25-18. Divya Kalidindi, grade 11, Shannon Richardson, grade 9, and Shreya Dixit, grade 10, had 11 kills each as the girls advance to the quarterfinal round v. Soquel High School at Soquel Saturday night, 7 p.m. This should be a very exciting game and the girls can really use your support! There is an entry fee, $8 adults, $3 students with ID. Directions:  http://www.harker.org/page.cfm?p=245&locID=428
Bracket:  http://www.cifccs.org/playoffs/results/12-13/volleyballgirls%20D4%202012.pdf

This Saturday, four Harker runners – Ragini Bhattacharya, grade 12, Claudia Tischler, grade 11, Corey Gonzalez, grade 10, and Tyler Yeats, grade 12 – compete in the CCS championship in Toro Park, at 11 a.m. in Salinas. Directions:  http://www.harker.org/page.cfm?p=245&locID=344

GO EAGLES!