First Track Meet -- Complete Chart of Results

Track and Field 1^st Meet 2012

Girls Results

Long Jump	School	Record	Place
Abby Phillips	CLC	4.17	1st  Place
Carolina Baldivieso	SCIS	3.68	2nd  Place
Paula Sakuma	SCCS	3.52	3rd  Place
High Jump
Abby Phillips	CLC	1.47	1st  Place
Daniela Barbery	SCCS	1.3	2nd  Place
Manuela Gonzales	SCIS	1.25	3rd  Place
Discus
Andrea Chavez	SCCS	17.8	1st  Place
Chiara Harriague	SCIS	17.4	2nd  Place
Claudia Benitez	SCCS	15.57	3rd  Place
Shot Put
Chiara Harriague	SCIS	7.91	1st  Place
Andrea Chavez	SCCS	7.82	2nd  Place
Pamela Suarez	SCIS	6.86	3rd  Place
100 m
Natalia Davila	SCISL	13’’68	1st  Place
Vanessa Flores	CC	14’’54	2nd  Place
Paula Sakuma	SCCS	15’’11	3rd  Place
200 m
Fernanda Vaca Diez	SCCS	30’’46	1st  Place
Natalia Davila	SCIS	30’50	2nd  Place
Josefina Rodriguez	CC	31’’37	3rd  Place
400 m
Abby Phillips	CLC	1’05’’50	1st  Place
Bianca Marinkovic	SCCS	1’14’’21	2nd  Place
Carolina Baldivieso	SCIS	1’16’’45	3rd  Place
800 m
Abby Phillips	CLC	2’53’’13	1st  Place
Valentina Chahin	SCCS	3’00’’08	2nd  Place
Nicole Fermin	CC	3’09’’78	3rd  Place
1500 m
Sofia Sotelo	SCCS	5’43’’74	1st  Place
Tamara Pereyra	SCCS	6’23’’83	2nd  Place
Nicole Fermin	CC	7’05’’79	3rd  Place

4x100 Relay	School	Record	Place
Christina Martin	SCIS	59’40	1st Place
Carolina Baldivieso
Ana Laura Gutierrez
Natalia Davila
Francesca Colanzi	SCCS	59’85	2nd Place
Fernanda Vaca Diez
Karla Aguilera
Tania Landivar
Josefina Rodriguez	CC	1’01’11	3rd Place
Julia Giampieri
Isadora Santos
Vanessa Flores

4x400 Relay	School	Record	Place
Vanessa Flores	CC	5’05’75	1st Place
Valeria Caceres
Lucia Candia
Josefina Rodriguez
Bianca Marinkovic	SCCS	5’14’40	2nd Place
Sofia Ward
Valentina Chahin
Karla Aguilera
Hyerim Ryu	CLC	5’29’90	3rd Place
Rebecah Kienzle
Susana Alvarez
Emily Ordoñez

Boys Results

 

Long Jump	School	Record	Place
Hyun Kim	SCCS	5.12	1st  Place
Josiah Canaviri	CLC	5.08	2nd  Place
Santiago Mac Lean	SCIS	4.96	3rd  Place
High Jump
Josiah Canaviri	CLC	1.65	1st  Place
Saul Torres	SCCS	1.55	2nd  Place
Percy Vidal	CC	1.5	3rd  Place
Discus
Andres Shin	SCCS	26.8	1st  Place
Tadeo Carmona	CC	23.65	2nd  Place
Saul Torres	SCIS	22.92	3rd  Place
Shot Put
Ezequiel Chavez	SCCS	11.42	1st  Place
Juan Velasco	SCIS	11.35	2nd  Place
Andres Shin	SCCS	10.80	3rd  Place
100 m
Esteban Sauto	SCCS	12’’28	1st  Place
Santiago Mac Lean	SCIS	12’’30	2nd  Place
Sergio Pacheco	SCCS	12’’53	3rd  Place
200 m
Sergio Pacheco	SCCS	25’’12	1st  Place
Sebastian Papadopulos	SCCS	25’’68	2nd  Place
Anthony Salvatierra	CC	25’’95	3rd  Place
400 m
Sebastian Papadopulos	SCCS	58’’88	1st  Place
Josue Abuawad	SCCS	1’00’’33	2nd  Place
Sebastian Rios	SCIS	1’01’’25	3rd  Place
800 m
Samuel Frith	CLC	2’27’’44	1st  Place
Daniel Hanley	SCIS	2’28’’80	2nd  Place
Jorge Zankiz	SCCS	2’29’’91	3rd  Place
1500 m
Samuel Frith	CLC	5’12’’29	1st  Place
Fernando Moscoso	CC	5’28’’57	2nd  Place
Fernando Antelo	SCCS	5’33’’21	3rd  Place

 

4x100 Relay	School	Record	Place
Sebastian Papadopulos	SCCS	50’05	1st Place
Sergio Pacheco
Josue Abuawad
Esteban Sauto
Seokhyun Hong	CC	54’03	2nd Place
Hankyu Kim
Adrian Gamarra
Kevin Pulis
Caleh Hwancho	CLC	54’03	3rd Place
Trevor Reed
Regan Janzen
Luke Phillips

4x400 Relay	School	Time	Place
Sergio Pacheco	SCCS	4’08’18	1st Place
Sergio Gonzalez
Sebastian Papadopulos
Josue Abuawad
Anthony Salvatierra	CC	4’08’90	2nd Place
Kevin Pulis
Diego Bejar
Tadeo Carmona
Cesar Flores	CLC	4’19’10	3rd Place
Mikah Kerney
Luke Phillips
Samuel Frith

BASKETBALL - WEEK 3

SCOREBOARD for Thursday, March 15

Varsity Boys Basketball

Cooperative 73, International 7 
Cambridge 47, Christian Learning 30  


Varsity Girls Basketball

Cooperative 102, International 8
Christian Learning 24, Cambridge 20 (overtime)

Girls Varsity Basketball

Jaguar girls overwhelm Griffins, 102-8

By Lucia Landivar

       The Cooperative girls varsity basketball team conquered the International varsity girls basketball team with an astonishing 102 to 8 victory at the Cooperative gym Thursday afternoon.

      

       Cooperative Athletic Director Alvaro Ludueña formally apologized to International for the way in which the Jaguar team had run up the score. Had he been present for the second half, he wrote in a letter, he would have transmitted to the Cooperative coach instructions to “make the players lower the intensity of the game.” Ludueña said his team had exhibited poor sportsmanship, which he regretted.

       Both teams had entered the court excited to play the game. There were a few SCIS Griffins cheering for their girls. The Jaguars were supported by the SCCS cheerleading squad along with a number of students and teachers. The Griffins’ nervousness, however, couldn’t be missed, while the Jaguars were confident-

       The game started off with Jaguar Giovanna Varalta scoring the first points for her team.  Varalta also scored the second basket with a layup that can only be achieved through skills and technique. Jaguar Ana Paula Peredo scored a free throw shortly after that, and the Jaguars were off and running, attacking the Griffins constantly, not letting them rest for a single second.

      With the score 17 to 0 in favor of the Jaguars, Griffin Carolina Baldivieso showed she wasn’t ready to give up. She grabbed a rebound and dribbled the length of the court to score a basket. Period one ended with the score of 19 to 2. 

        During the second period of the game, Jaguars Sofia Sotelo and Ana Paula Peredo passed the ball back and forth between them constantly, scoring several baskets in the process.  Tania Landivar didn’t miss a chance to score baskets any time she got the ball in her hands.

      In the opening minutes of the second period, Peredo and Griffin Diana Maria Salman fought over the ball, and Jaguar Ana Paula ended up having it, and scoring another basket for the Jaguars.

      Griffin Fabiana Zelada attempted several times to score a basket, but the Jaguar defense didn’t let her get away with it. Griffins’’ star player Carolina Baldivieso fell at one point and  injured her knee, requiring medical attention and forcing her to sit out the rest of the game,  further weakening the Griffins.

      However, the Griffins did get baskets from Zelada and Salman before the half ended with the score 40 to 6 for the Jaguars.

      Cooperative coach Max Farfan could not send in his second string for the second half since her had only seven players available including JV player Giuliana Varalta, all of whom played extensively.

      The third period started with Zelada demonstrating that she wasn’t ready to throw in the towel as she scored the Griffins third basket. But the Jaguars kept scoring. Karla Aguilera, an SCCS student who was watching, said, “I’m afraid to blink and miss a basket.”

      Jaguars Carla Limpias, Sotelo, Landivar, and Peredo were relentless, scoring at a rate of almost two baskets a minute. Jessica Maureira added a free throw. By the end of the third quarter the score had reached 76-6, and it seemed that the Jaguars simply couldn’t miss. Sotelo effortlessly tossed in a three-pointer, and Giovanna Varalata drove to the basket to make one lay-up after another, mixing in an occasional outside shot.

     In the last quarter the Griffins seemed ready to toss in the towel and were just going through the motions, though Pamela Hernandez was able to add their fourth basket. The Jaguar pace actually slackened slightly. They had scored 36 points in the third quarter, and would score only 26 in the fourth.

       But the Jaguar passing attack was as fast-paced and precise as at any point during the game. Peredo, who normally plays close to the basket, shot a three-pointer. The ball kept entering the Griffin’s basket constantly, until the game ended with a Jaguar victory of 102 to 8.

      The teams shook hands, and the Jaguars screamed with happiness over their hard-to- believe victory.

      The Jaguar seniors had played on the junior varsity team that had until Thursday owned the record for the largest victory margin as a result of winning a game against International 74-6 in 2008. In that game, several players had wanted to try for 100 points, but then coach Misty Skidmore had told them not to do so.

      
      This time there was no holding them back.


       For the Jaguars, Carla Limpias tallied 30 points; Ana Peredo 26, Sophia Sotelo 21, Tania Landivar and Giovanna Varalta 12 apiece, and Jessica Maureira one. 


       For Internmationa, Carolina Baldivieso, Fabiana Zelada, Diana Maria Salman, and Pamela Hernandez were each credited with a basket.     
  

       (Lucia Landivar is a junior and co-managing editor for Cooperative.)  

Eagles defeat Lady Knights in overtime, 24-20

By Laura Guillen and Flavia Berton

      Cambridge Knight varsity girls basketball team, hoping to surprise its home fans with an upset victory, suffered instead a tough overtime loss against the Christian Learning Eagles, losing 20-24 after the extra five minutes allotted after the two teams had tied 20-20.

      The game played at Cambridge Thursday was neck-and-neck almost the whole way through and you could feel the tension rising within the big crowd of Eagle and Knight supporters in the Cambridge gym. .

The game began with both teams struggling to score, and the first quarter ended with the Eagles on top, three baskets to two -- 06-4.

      Getting into the second quarter the Eagles took a small but steady lead as Abby Phillips made some free throws and Rebekah Kienzle tossed in a basket. The Lady Knights managed to narrow the gap back to two points on baskets by Nicole Fermin and Josie Rodriguez, both ninth graders, and Cambridge trailed by two points as the first half of the game ended with the score 10-8 for the Eagles.

       At half time the players took a break from the intense first half action, figured out new game plans, and soon were off to play the second half of the game.

       This was when things really started to heat up on several fronts.

        Knight Mako Ueno had really showed off her driving lay-up skills during the game. She fought for every ball. Anytime there were two players on the floor wrestling for the ball, the odds were good that one of them was the seemingly fragile, porcelainate Ueno, another ninth grader.

      Ueno did everything in her power to make baskets and, in the third period, it worked! She tallied four points in th e third quarter, and two more in the fourth.

      The Eagles, for their part, were not idle. Toward the end of the quarter Abby Phillips, a junior who would score 18 of Christian Learning’s points, put in three baskets that kept the Eagles in the lead, 16-14, at the end of the third quarter. .

      Approaching the end of the game, the mood was intense. Everyone has their eyes glued to the game, and both Cambridge and Christian Learning fans were going all out to support their teams.

      But now it was Lady Knight Nicole Fermin’s turn to show off as she stole balls and ran the length of the court twice to score four points for her team, and evened the score by making two free throws with a minute remaining.

      There was a breath-holding moment with nine seconds left on the clock, when a free throw by Phillips could have secured the victory for the Eagles, but happily for the Cambridge fans Phillips narrowly missed both her attempts, meaning the game would go into overtime.

      The pressure was on to win, and everyone was cheering loudly at the stands hoping that their team would triumph. This is to be the most intense 5 minutes this game will have, and it will be the time for the Eagles and their star, Phillips, to shine.

      Phillips immediately stole the spotlight, first by making two free throws and then a basket, giving her team its four-point victory margin.

       Cambridge is, at this point, was clearly a spent force. Phillips and her teammates ably blocked shots by Fermin, Rodriguez, Ueno and 10^th grader Micaelah Torrez. Cambridge got several chances to shave the Eagle lead from the foul line, but its fatigued players couldn’t t exploit them, and the game ends 24-20 for the Eagles.

      It is the Eagles second close victory over the Knights this season. It appears likely that the two teams, now in second and third in the League Standings, will meet at least one more time, in the playoff semi-finals. Knight fans will be hoping that the third time will be the charm.

       For the victorious Eagles, besides Phillips' 18 points, Samia Dajbura, Javiera Alipaz, and Rebehkah Hienzle each had two points.

       Fir the Knights, Fermin was the leading scorer with ten points; Ueno had six: Rodriguez and Torrez had two points each. 

      (Laura Guillen is managing editor for the website at Cambridge; Flavia Berton is a junior at the school.)

Boys Varsity Basketball

Cambridge pulls away in second half, wins 47-30

By Laura Guillen

      The game was what everyone was waiting for, the two rival teams, the Cambridge and Christian Learning boys’ varsity basketball teams, both a full strength, playing to decide the league lead.

       Though it proved a mighty battle, Cambridge Knights were there to make a statement, and left the court with the scoreboard showing a 47-30 Cambridge victory.  

      The game was played on Knight territory, and started with both teams scoring evenly and setting a mood of excitement as both Cambridge and Christian Learning spectators showed their enthusiasm. Knight Luis Mercado proved to be a key player as he scored nine points in the first quarter, which ended with the Knights up 11-10.

       Though it was expected that  the Eagles’ big center Andre Larson would give him a fair fight, things didn’t   quite work out that way as Larsen was held to four points, two on free throws.

       The second quarter got more interesting as players on both sides started showing a little bit more action. Eagle Cesar Flores showed some amazing jump shots. One spectator exclaimed “He looked like some kind of jumping spider” He intercepted passes and blocked out rival players. His quick ability to steal the ball and make it through all the Cambridge players added some quick baskets for the Eagles.

      With four minutes left of the second quarter the Knights led 16-12, but the Eagles summoned up their spirit and not only evened the score but went get ahead, leaving the court at halftime with the score  18-20 for the Eagles.

       Halftime gave both teams a chance to make adjustments and gave the fans time to gather their energies in preparation for the second half of the game. Curiosity was arouses when Cambridge Coach Victor Coronado took the Knights out of sight for a pep talk and rethinking of strategy. When the team reappeared there was fresh determination on their faces.

      The third quarter brings fresh excitement as Cambridge surges back.  Knight Gustavo Roca is back on the court, after being benched because he was in foul trouble and quickly makes an impression.  “That kid has basically been built up from scratch in these two years” says a Cambridge fan.

      The Knights comeback gives the enthusiastic Cambridge fans much to cheer about, and the gym gets a whole lot noisier. The Christian Learning crowd is as big and raucous as ever, and the Cambridge fans match them. It is almost as competitive in the stands as on the court as yells, applause, cheers and chants resound.  

       But by the end of the second quarter the Knights are up 35-24, and the question the Eagle fans have to be asking is whether the remaining ten minutes is enough time in which to catch them. The answer is no, but they don’t know that yet.   

      The Eagle players shout as they break their  huddle and this gets their fans quite pumped, as they start doing The Wave in their half of the stands, and cheering their team on. Larsen does finally get loose to score two baskets, and his teammates are all doing their best to steal balls, and then pass, run and shoot through Cambridge’s tough defense.  

   But now Knights Juan Carlos Paniagua and Gabriel Alonso make themselves quite noticeable, both making great passes to set up scores. Alonso is stealing the ball every chance the Eagles give him, then streaking down court and scoring.

      The Eagles are now pressing too hard, taking too many risks -- and making too many mistakes.

      As the five minute mark passes on the clock, everyone is still jittery. Fans getting louder, tired players getting nervous and coaches shouting commands.  Alonso makes the last basket of the day, moving the Cambridge margin out to 17 points, 47-30. The game leaves the Cambridge fans thrilled at their school’s victory.


      For the Knights, Luis Mercado tallied 27 points, Gustavo Roca had ten, Gabriel Alonso had eight, and Juan Carlos Paniague two. 


      For the Eagles, Larsen scored ten, Trevor Reed eight, Cesar Flores six, Haziel Martinez four and Jose Aldana two.


      (Laura Guillen is a senior and managing editor for Cambridge.) 


Jaguar boys victimize Griuffins, 73-7


     The Cooperative boys varsity basketball team had its biggest offensive explosion of the year Tuesday asd it down International 73-7 in the Cooperative gym.
    
      And, perhaps most remarkaby, the Jaguars did it without their star center Milan Marikovic, who is still sidelined with a knee injury. 


       The Jaguars broke on top in the first quarter, bursting out to a 27-2 lead in the first quarter, and were never headed. They led 41-3 at the half. At that point the possibility existed that the Jaguars would post their second 100-point plus win of the day. (The Jaguar girls had won  earlier 102-8.) However, the pace slackened in the second half as the Jaguar boys avoided any tendency to run up the score gratuitously.


       For the Jaguars, eighth grader Eduardo Ustarez tallied 18 points, followed closely by Josue Abuawad with 17. Giorgio Rodrigano and Andres Shin each had 14 points. Luis Peredo, another eighth grader, had eight points, and Rodrigo Chavez had two.      

Boys Junior Varsity CC vs. CLC

Boys JV Basketball -CC vs. CLC

Scoreboard for March 13th

Girls JV Basketball

Christian Learning 66, Cambridge 2

Cooperative 20, International 18

Boys JV Basketball

Cambridge 24, Christian Learning 21

Cooperative 32, International 18

JV Boys Basketball - March 13

Gallant Junior Knights avenge damsels’ humiliation

By Laura Guillen

      After a humiliating defeat for the Cambridge Lady Knights junior varsity basketball team, the JV boys took up the task of evening their school’s honor by evening the won-loss account with the green-and-yellow low Eagles for the day. They did so, if just barely, by winning 24-21, and thus also preserving their undefeated season and first-place status. .

       
       The Cambridge Boys got right on the job of recovering the school’s honor, scoring the first basket of the game on a shot by Santiago Hurtado. The Eagles big man, Luke Phillips, soon retaliated to make it 2-2. This back-and-forth pattern continued with the Knight gradually working an 8-4 lead by the end of the quarter.

      The Eagles were left further behind as the second quarter proceeded, and the Knights brought up the quality of their game, responding to the rising pressure of the ever active instructions from their coach to speed up and press on. The Knights also maintained a full court press defense almost the entire game to wear down the absentee-plagued Eagles.

       
      The Knights were also missing a key player in Percy Vidal, who reportedly hurt his back in Monday’s field events, where he won third place in the high jump, but the Knights still had ten players in uniform compared with six for the Eagles.

      Knights Santiago Hurt ado and Masayoshi Ueno accounted for much of the scoring as the Knights took a 16-9 halftime lead.

     
      However, neither team was shooting well. Storm clouds had moved in overhead and the game was being played in semi-darkness in the under-lit Cambridge gym. Cambridge may have set a League record – if such statistics were kept – for missed easy lay-ups and shots that bounced out off the inner rim of the basket.

       At the beginning of the second half, bursts of heavy rain made some people present wonder if we would see another rare event such as last week’s varsity game between the Knights and International, which was shortened by a flash flood. But Cambridge officials had taken care to put up tarps on the threatened sides to prevent such flooding, and though some water managed to spray onto the court, it only caused a few slips for the players and the puddles were cleaned up by Cambridge Athletic Director Eduardo “Presi” de la Riva, who demonstrated he was a man of many talents. 

      
      Well into the third quarter, Knights seem to be getting tired despite their greater numbers, and the Eagles were gaining strength, cutting the Cambridge advantage to 18-14 at the end of the thirds quarter.  

The pressure built up and the crowd supporting the Eagles, while unusually small, started to make to make some noise, as the teams matched baskets. With five minutes to go the score was tied 20-20 and the suspense intense.

      The Knights constructed their winning advantage in the last five minutes, though the Eagles sought to seize every opportunity to even things up. Cambridge was ahead 24-20 with a minute remaining. An Eagle free throw cut the margin to 24-21, meaning the Eagles could tie things up with a three-pointer and manage to at least tie the score.

      But the Cambridge defense stiffened, and the Eagles couldn’t get a clear shot at any distance in the closing seconds, leaving the score 24-21 at the final buzzer.  

      
      It was a well played game for both Knights and Eagles, giving both teams’ fans the satisfaction of a winning game for the day.  Now we’ll have to see how the Varsity games turn out on Thursday as the two  boys teams face their biggest challenge of the year. For the first time two the leading teams in the League will clash with their big centers – Cambridge’s Luis Mercado and Eagle Andre Larsen in this case – presumed to be present and healthy.
     
      In the junior varsity game, Santiago Hurtado had 12 points, Masayoshi Ueno six, Nando Boller four, and Horacio Morales two.
     
      For the Eagles, Micah Janzen had ten points, Luke Phillips seven, and Abraham Lopez four.   


      (Laura Guillen is a senior at Cambridge College and managing editor of the website for that school.)
      


Jaguars Take Down Griffins, 32-18


     The Cooperative boys junior varsity basketball team jumped out to an early lead and held onto it -- sometimes narrowly -- to prevail against International 32-18 in a game played at the Cooperative gym Tuesday.

      The Jaguars were up 8-0 at the end of the first period. International rallied in the second period and outscored the Jaguars in the second period, but Cooperative was still ahead, 14-11 at the halftime break.

      The Jaguars then went on a rampage in the third period, scoring 13 points while holding the Griffins to a single basket. The two teams played even-steven in the final quarter, but the Jaguar victory was secure.

    The Jaguars' Eduardo Ustarez led all scorers in the game with 14 points. Alejandro Lorna had eight. Rodrigo Chavez and Matias Belmonte each had two points. Raul Valle and Fernando Vicava had a point a piece.

     For the Griffins, Christian Suarez had seven, Jaime Barrenechea four, Leronardo Melgar two, Liam Hanley two, Alfonso Justinano two. and Jesus Ojedo one.      

JV Girls Basketball - March 13

Eagles Win Easily Over Knights

By Adriana Guzman

      The Eagles junior varsity girls basketball team had an amazing victory over the Knights, winning by 64 points, 66-2, in a game played at the Cambridge gym.

      It was evident from early on that the Eagles had decided to win,  and that’s exactly what they did. It was a very impressive game to see because the Eagles were playing incredibly well, especially eighth grader Rebeca Escudero, who scored 34 points, almost half of the Eagle total.

      Classmate Maria Anderson wasn’t far behind, tallying  20 points for the Eagles.

      The Knights were  behind 12-0 at the end of the first quarter, and by the end of the second quarter it was really tough for the Knights because they were losing 26-0.   

      The third quarter was even harder for the Knights as the Eagles added another 20 points to their total. But at some point the Knights had to do something to avoid a shutout, and in the third quarter Ariana Vidal  managed to score the Knights only basket.  It was a very nice shot, and Knights were celebrating that at least they had scored a basket. But at  the end of the third quarter the Eagles were destroying Knights 46-2.

      Just trying to defend the best they could, the Knights by the fourth quarter were just waiting for the game to end, which it finally did, but not before the Eagles scored another twenty points, making the final score 66-2.

      The  game was very easy for the Eagles. It seemed like Knights weren’t any type of rivals for the aggressive Eagles, and were powerless to do anything to recover the points they were losing throughout the game.


      Besides Escudero's and Andreson's points, the Eagles got six points fromShekinah Miranda, four from Emily Ordoñez, and two from Teresa Janzen.
  
       For the resord, it was not the biggest blowout in League history. In 2008 the Cooperative junior varsity  -- the ones who are seniors now -- defeated International 74-6. That was actually the single game high point record for any team, boys or girls, varsity or junior varsity, until the Christian Learning boys tam scored 76 in a game last year. However, the 2007 Jaguar JV girls team still has the record for biggest winning margin.  

      (Adrian Guzman is a junior at Cambridge College.) 

Jaguars Squeeze Past Knights, 20-18

     The Cooperative girls junior varsity basketball team held off a foiurth quarter surge by International to win the game by a single basket, 20-18, in a game played at Cooperative Tuesday. 


      The Griifins had been in control early in the game, and led 6-4 at the end of the first quarter- However, eight unanswered points reeled off by the Jaguars in the second quarter put them in the driver's seat at half time with a 12-6 lead.


     The Jaguars widened their advantage slightly in the third quarter, and were leading 18-11 headed into the final stanza. But then the momentum swung back to the Griffins, who outscored the Jaguars 7-2 in the fourth quarter, but that lone fourth quarter basket by Analee Davis gave the Jaguars their two-point margin of victory.


      Giuliana Varalta was the high scorer for the Jaguars with ten points; Andrea Chavez had six; while Davis and Isabela Peña and two points each. 


      For the Griffins Pamela Hernandez and Maria Zelada each had six points; Andi Ibañez had four; and Olivia Navarro and Camila Barrientos added a point each.  

Boys Track Meet (Field Events)

Jaguars leap into lead after first day 


By Jesse Mann and David Boldt
      The Cooperative boys track team found itself in a strong position after the first day of the two-day SCISL track meet, which was comprised of the high jump, long jump, discus and shot put events held at International Monday.
       The day ended with the Jaguars in the lead with 38 points, followed by International with 29, Christian Learning with 25, and Cambridge with  22.  
      The running events will be held Friday at Tahuichi Stadium, and the score from those events combined with Monday's results to decide the winner of this first meet of the season. Ultimately the League championship will be decided by combining the point totals of the first meet with those garnered at a second meet to be held April 13 and 16, at which championship medals are awarded.

Chavez' migty heave  takes shot put 
   

With a mighty heave, Ezekiel Chavez launched the metal orb 11.42 meters onto the field where it landed with a muffled thump, giving the Jaguars the edge they needed to claim first place in the boy's shot put competition on Monday.

Although Chavez's winning toss was one meter short of the league record set by Christian Learning's Esteban Eguez in 2008, it was a full seven centimeters ahead of second place winner Griffin Juan Velasco's 11.35.  Velasco had set the standard early on in the match with a beautiful throw that sailed over ten meters, and his dominance was not challenged until Chavez's final heave.

But can he do it again? 

After a slow start, the varsity boy's discus competition became an animated struggle between Cambridge's Tadeo Carmona and Andres Shin from the Jaguars that Shin finally won -- although everyone was waiting toi see if Jaguar Ezekial Chavez could launch another moonshot as he demonstated he was capable of.  

     
      Watching the contestants warm up for the varsity boy's discus contest on Monday, a bystander would have been quite bored with the floppy throws that were exhibited until Chavez, Cooperative's power launcher, stepped up and unleashed his disc. Onlookers first gasped and then cheered as Chavez's disc floated over twenty meters -- much farther than anyone else's and beyond the demarcated area -- before landing softly on the grass.


     Chavez's outstanding toss successfully awoke the other contestants from their lethargy, and the competition began in earnest. But ironically, all three of Chavez's subsequent attempts landed out of bounds.
     
      Chavez's teammate Andres Shin successfully kept Cooperative's hope for victory alive when his first disc flew 26.60 meters. A couple of rounds later Carmona flung his disc 23.75 meters; Shin responded by hurling his final disc 26.80 meters – short of the league record but enough to silence Carmona. 


Canaviri triumphs in high jump


     Christian Learning ninth grader Josiah Canaviri won the boys high jump with a leap of 1.60 meters , and made threee unsuccessful attempts to tie the League record of 1.70.
       His principal rival, and second-place finisher, was Saul Torrez of International, who had the most unorthordox jumping style in the meet. While all of the other competitiors approached the jump from the side  at high speed, Torrez trotted directly at the jump like a horse, then took off like an assault helicopter when he got to the  bar.
       After he missed his third attempt at 1.60 the Interneational senior gallantly trotted over to Canaviri and enthusiastically shook his hand in congratulations.
       Third place went to Cambridge eighth-grader Percy Vidal, who made it it to 1.55 before missing three times.
        There had actually been six jumpers who were still in the running at 1.50, but at that point Santiago Bedoya of International, Trevor Reed of Christian Learning, as well as Hyun Kim and Bruno Alvarenga all missed three times.
   
Kim outleaps all in long jump -- narrowly

     Cooperative's Hyun Kim made the longest leap of the day -- 5.12 meters -- to win the boys long jump, but Josiah Canaviri came within 8 centimeters on his final jump adding some zest to what had been a largely unsuspenseful event..

       Through the first two rounds Kim was dominating the event, with the two longest leaps of the day, and was the only leaper to break the five-meter mark. The closest anyone else had come was Santiago Bedoya of International with a jump of 4.83. Bedoya would also come up with his biggest jump of the day in the third round when he leaped 4.96 to take third place.

      Kim's third jump was no disgrace. He leaped 5.03, making him the only competitor to pass the five-meter mark twice. Indeed, he was nothing if not consistent. His first jump was 4.98.

      However, no one seriously challenged the League record of  5.55 meters, which has stood since 2009.

      (Jesse Mann is a senior at Christian Learning and managing editor of the website; David Boldt is the faculty advisor.) 

Girls Track Meet (Field Events)

Griffins take narrow lead Monday

 By Jesse Mann and David Boldt  
       The International girls track team took a narrow lead based on the field events in the season's first SCISL track, but could be overtaken in the running events that will take place Friday.
      On completion of the high jump, long jump, discus and shot put events, which took place at International Monday, the Griffins amassed 41 points, trailed closely by Cooperative with 37 points: Christian Leaning and Cambridge traikled further behind with 22 and 13 points, respectively

Phillips sets record in high jump

     Christian Learning junior Abby Phillips easily outclassed the competition to win the high jump with a jump of 1.35 meters and then went on to set a new League record at 1.47 meters. Phillips had set the old record of 1.45 last year.
       The field had been narrowed to four at 1.25 meters, with only Phillips Manuela Gonzalez of International, Mariel Palacios of Cambridge, and Daniela Barbery of Cooperative clearing the bar at that height.
         Gonzalez and Palacios were eliminated at 1.30. Gonzalez was awarded third place because she had one less miss at lower heights; Palacios took fourth.
        That left Phillips and Barbery for a short showdown. Barbery hurt her ankle on takeoff on her first attempt at 1.35. She hit the bar on the way up and landed on it, then got up limping and, after consulting with a trainer, withdrew.
          Phillips then went on to clear the bar, if only just barely, at 1.45 to to tie the old record, and 1.47 to set a new one. Both jumps left the bar -- and the crowd -- trembling, but the bar did not fall. It was Phillips' second first place of the afternoon.

Phillips dominates long jump

         Phillips of Christian Learning was the third competitor down the track in the girls long jum, clearing 4.06 meters, and that more or less was that. No other jumper came close, except Phillips herself who turned in a 4.17 meter second jump.
         Carolina Baldivieso came closest with a jump of 3.68 on her second jump to take second place, and eighth grader Paula Sakuma of Cooperative posted a 3.52 on her final jump to garner third.
       Phillips' jumps, while impressive, left Jaguar Dominique Harrison's record of 4.35 meters, set in 2007,  intact. It is one of the longest standing records on the books, and makes people who saw it set feel old. Harrison will graduate this year from Georgetown University.

        Harriague, Chavez battle in shot`and discus 

Griffin Ciara Harriague  delighted the International fans in the shotput  with a long toss that flew 7.91 meters, beating Jaguar Adrea Chavez by almost ten centimeters. But their roles were reversed in the discus, with  Chavez beating Harriague by a full forty centimeters with a throw of 17.80 meters that proved unbeatable.