Girls Soccer: Jaguars cruise
The Cooperative girls soccer team finished the season in the championship game Saturday as it had started with an overwhelming shutout victory defeating Christian Learning 9-0 with an impressive show of offensive firepower.
The Jaguars completed the season with a perfect 10-0 record.
The game had looked to be a closer match-up than it proved to be. The Eagles had erased the Jaguars' claim of being "unscored-upon" earlier in the Championship Tournament by scoring twice. Though they lost that game 5-2, the Eagles could certainly claim to have put up a respectable fight.
Moreover, the Eagles had put on their own display of scoring might when they had defeated Cambridge Friday night in the wind and rain 7-0. The field was still soft Saturday morning and there were those in the large crowd who thought the Christian Learning girls might prove to be "good mudders" as is said of horses that run well on a wet track.
However, as the game unfolded it was Cooperative that was hitting on all eight cylinders, while the Eagles seemed to have trouble getting traction. For the Jaguars, the game spotlighted the return to form of Fernanda Vaca Diez, a tenth grader who was out of action last year due to academic eligibility problems, and had not, until the Tournament, played up to the potential she had shown as a high scoring eighth grader two years ago.
Vaca Diez scored four times in the championship. Tania Landivar, who played the opposite wing, added two more goals, demonstrating the "double-barreled" nature of the Cooperative offense. (Both players will be back next year. In fact, they´ll probably be back for the next several years.)
Aldana Roda, Maria Paz Rivero, and Maria Fernanda Antelo also scored for the Jaguars, who led 3-0 at the half.
The line-up for the Jaguars: Tania Landivar, Maria Paz Rivero, Maria Jose Rivero, Florencia Arnera, Ludovica De Rosmini, Tali Rozenman, Carla Limpias, Ana Paola Peredo, Maria Fernanda Antelo, Estefania Sauto, Paola Querejazu, Cecelia Aponte, Camila Adriazola, Fernanda Vaca Diez, Alexia Dabdoiub, Sofia Sotelo, Aldana Roda, Roseleny Kefer.
For Christian Learning: Miranda Hosanna, Abby Philips, Jenny Zimmerman, Jessica Smith, Ae Lin Lim, Mariela Salinas, Rachel Kienzle, Ji Hea Ahn, Erica Kienzle, Kaylynn Lampen, Susan Pedraza, Laura Lindahl, Maryodette Ribeiro, Sandi Wilcke, Rebekah Kienzle, Samia Dajbura, Isabella Diaz, Emily Ordoñez.
The Cooperative girls soccer team finished the season in the championship game Saturday as it had started with an overwhelming shutout victory defeating Christian Learning 9-0 with an impressive show of offensive firepower.
The Jaguars completed the season with a perfect 10-0 record.
The game had looked to be a closer match-up than it proved to be. The Eagles had erased the Jaguars' claim of being "unscored-upon" earlier in the Championship Tournament by scoring twice. Though they lost that game 5-2, the Eagles could certainly claim to have put up a respectable fight.
Moreover, the Eagles had put on their own display of scoring might when they had defeated Cambridge Friday night in the wind and rain 7-0. The field was still soft Saturday morning and there were those in the large crowd who thought the Christian Learning girls might prove to be "good mudders" as is said of horses that run well on a wet track.
However, as the game unfolded it was Cooperative that was hitting on all eight cylinders, while the Eagles seemed to have trouble getting traction. For the Jaguars, the game spotlighted the return to form of Fernanda Vaca Diez, a tenth grader who was out of action last year due to academic eligibility problems, and had not, until the Tournament, played up to the potential she had shown as a high scoring eighth grader two years ago.
Vaca Diez scored four times in the championship. Tania Landivar, who played the opposite wing, added two more goals, demonstrating the "double-barreled" nature of the Cooperative offense. (Both players will be back next year. In fact, they´ll probably be back for the next several years.)
Aldana Roda, Maria Paz Rivero, and Maria Fernanda Antelo also scored for the Jaguars, who led 3-0 at the half.
The line-up for the Jaguars: Tania Landivar, Maria Paz Rivero, Maria Jose Rivero, Florencia Arnera, Ludovica De Rosmini, Tali Rozenman, Carla Limpias, Ana Paola Peredo, Maria Fernanda Antelo, Estefania Sauto, Paola Querejazu, Cecelia Aponte, Camila Adriazola, Fernanda Vaca Diez, Alexia Dabdoiub, Sofia Sotelo, Aldana Roda, Roseleny Kefer.
For Christian Learning: Miranda Hosanna, Abby Philips, Jenny Zimmerman, Jessica Smith, Ae Lin Lim, Mariela Salinas, Rachel Kienzle, Ji Hea Ahn, Erica Kienzle, Kaylynn Lampen, Susan Pedraza, Laura Lindahl, Maryodette Ribeiro, Sandi Wilcke, Rebekah Kienzle, Samia Dajbura, Isabella Diaz, Emily Ordoñez.
POURING IT ON I -- Griffin Beatriz Nallar (3) served for 12 consecutive points in the deciding secon set. Jonatan Muñoz, International
Girls Volleyball: Griffins rise to the top
For sheer excitement that had the fans for both teams standing and screaming, there was no better contest in the Tournament than the first set played between the International and Cooperative girls volleyball teams, which International won 29-27.
For an example of the way the complexion of a volleyball contest can completely change complexion with one team becoming totally dominant, there was no better example than the second set of the same match, which International won 25-8.
For sheer excitement that had the fans for both teams standing and screaming, there was no better contest in the Tournament than the first set played between the International and Cooperative girls volleyball teams, which International won 29-27.
For an example of the way the complexion of a volleyball contest can completely change complexion with one team becoming totally dominant, there was no better example than the second set of the same match, which International won 25-8.
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POURING IT ON II -- Griffin coach Eli Vilar gets an ice water shower after Griffin victory. Jonatan Muñoz, International
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And thus did the Griffin girls become the SCISL volleyball champions Saturday morning against a Jaguar team with which they had dueled evenly all season.
The match had seemed a toss-up at the start. Each team had won one of the two regular season games. International had won their first meeting in the Tournament, but it had been a knock-down, drag-out, three-set donnybrook. One of those games where you felt it was too bad that somebody was going to have to lose.
Further clouding the picture was the fact that International had lost to Christian Learning in the Tournament , a team that Cooperative had defeated with relative ease.
In the first set the two teams fought each other point-by-point. International appeared to be in the driver's seat when it fashioned a 23-20 advantage, but Cooperative surged to tie the game at 24-24.
Then things got really intense- The two teams traded points in rallies that saw the ball go back and forth 20 times or more with both sides firing slashing cross-court hits and digging out apparently lost balls.
The cheering sections of the two teams, seated at the two ends of the south stands in the Cooperative gym, took turns standing and exulting as their team made an amazing save or an astonishing hit. Sometimes the outstanding plays came in such rapid succession that both sides were up and screaming simultaneously.
In between points the two sides sat down and screamed to the point where play was delayed because the referees could not communicate with the players. (The noise did not appear to bother the players, who kept signalling to their fans to turn up the volume.)
The final tie was at 27-27, after which International outlasted Cooperative on two intensely contest points to win 29-27. It was the closest contest of the entire year, boys or girls, varsity or junior varsity.
The loss seemed to visibly deflate the Jaguars. Coach Misty Skidmore would say later that she could tell that her team had lost its equilibrium during the first several points.
Several Jaguar players had finished the championship soccer game only fifteen minutes before the start of the volleyball championship game, and the strain now started to really show. Several Griffin players had also, of course, played soccer earlier in the day, but had gotten more of a rest before the volleyball contest.
The rallies continued to be long and well played, but increasingly it was the Griffins who prevailed as they moved out to an 11-6 lead.
At that point Griffin star Beatriz Nallar went to the service line. Her strong and unerringly accurate serves seemed to strengthen her teammates even further, and she took the Griffins all the way to 23-6. The two teams then traded points until the Griffins won 25-8.
The line-up for the Griffins: Ana Laura Gurierrez, Ciara Harriague, Laura Adriazola, Beatriz Nallar, Inez Fernandez De Cordova, Noelia Quinteros, Maria Rita Velasco, Diana Melgar, Maria Victoria Gutierrez, Flavia Nostas, Adriana Ocampo, Maria Paola Acosta. Coach: Eli Vilar.For the Jaguars: Karla Flores, Aldana Roda, Carla Limpias, Ana Paola Peredo, Ana Paola Justiniano, Sofia Sotelo, Luciana Adriazola, Veronica Richter, Tania Landivar, Vivian Froelhe, Ximena Guzman. Coach: Misty Skidmore.
The match had seemed a toss-up at the start. Each team had won one of the two regular season games. International had won their first meeting in the Tournament, but it had been a knock-down, drag-out, three-set donnybrook. One of those games where you felt it was too bad that somebody was going to have to lose.
Further clouding the picture was the fact that International had lost to Christian Learning in the Tournament , a team that Cooperative had defeated with relative ease.
In the first set the two teams fought each other point-by-point. International appeared to be in the driver's seat when it fashioned a 23-20 advantage, but Cooperative surged to tie the game at 24-24.
Then things got really intense- The two teams traded points in rallies that saw the ball go back and forth 20 times or more with both sides firing slashing cross-court hits and digging out apparently lost balls.
The cheering sections of the two teams, seated at the two ends of the south stands in the Cooperative gym, took turns standing and exulting as their team made an amazing save or an astonishing hit. Sometimes the outstanding plays came in such rapid succession that both sides were up and screaming simultaneously.
In between points the two sides sat down and screamed to the point where play was delayed because the referees could not communicate with the players. (The noise did not appear to bother the players, who kept signalling to their fans to turn up the volume.)
The final tie was at 27-27, after which International outlasted Cooperative on two intensely contest points to win 29-27. It was the closest contest of the entire year, boys or girls, varsity or junior varsity.
The loss seemed to visibly deflate the Jaguars. Coach Misty Skidmore would say later that she could tell that her team had lost its equilibrium during the first several points.
Several Jaguar players had finished the championship soccer game only fifteen minutes before the start of the volleyball championship game, and the strain now started to really show. Several Griffin players had also, of course, played soccer earlier in the day, but had gotten more of a rest before the volleyball contest.
The rallies continued to be long and well played, but increasingly it was the Griffins who prevailed as they moved out to an 11-6 lead.
At that point Griffin star Beatriz Nallar went to the service line. Her strong and unerringly accurate serves seemed to strengthen her teammates even further, and she took the Griffins all the way to 23-6. The two teams then traded points until the Griffins won 25-8.
The line-up for the Griffins: Ana Laura Gurierrez, Ciara Harriague, Laura Adriazola, Beatriz Nallar, Inez Fernandez De Cordova, Noelia Quinteros, Maria Rita Velasco, Diana Melgar, Maria Victoria Gutierrez, Flavia Nostas, Adriana Ocampo, Maria Paola Acosta. Coach: Eli Vilar.For the Jaguars: Karla Flores, Aldana Roda, Carla Limpias, Ana Paola Peredo, Ana Paola Justiniano, Sofia Sotelo, Luciana Adriazola, Veronica Richter, Tania Landivar, Vivian Froelhe, Ximena Guzman. Coach: Misty Skidmore.
Boys Volleyball: Cooperative rules!
The Cooperative boys volleyball team has dominated its opponents all season long, losing only a single set and no matches, and they continued that dominance in the championship game by beating International 2-0.
The Jaguars led virtually all the way as they took the first set 25-11, and the second 25-10. The Jaguars never gave the Griffins a chance to get rolling, as they had in the round-robin game played Friday night. Cooperative had won that match in straight sets too, but had been pushed hard in the opening set, which the Jaguars won 28-26. The result indicated vast improvement for International, which had been 1-5 during the regular season.
The Jaguar victory represented the first time that a Cooperative boys team has won a championship since 2006, when the boys track team turned the trick.
The line-up for the Jaguars: Juan Alfredo Abuawad, Juan Pablo Roda, Jorge Melgar, Milan Marinkovic, Wilson Salvatierra, Mateus De Carvalho, Josué Abuawad, Eduardo Ribera, Jose Miguel Gutierrez, Sebastian Kyllman, Alejandro Rosas. Coach: Jesus Flores.
For International: Eric Takayama, Juan Sebastian Narvaez, Francisco Gonzalez, Mauricio Nostas, Marco Parada, Johann Voss, Julio Ribeiro, Maycol Villavicencio, Andres Estenssoro, Daniel Roempler, Renato Guzman, Santiago Maldonado. Coach: Eli Vilar.
Knowledge Bowl: Jaguars edge Eagles
In a new competition for the SCISL added this year, Cooperative managed a narrow and exciting 40-38 win over Christian Learning in the finals of "Knowledge Bowl" Friday afternoon in the Cooperative cafeteria. before a large crowd.
In it, five-person teams took turns answering "toss-up" questions on general knowledge about geography, history, science, literature and other fields. If a player knew the answerr he or she pressed a buzzer. The first person to hit the buzzer got the chance to offer an answer. If correct, the team then had a chance to answer a follow-up "bonus" question in the same field.
Cooperative and Christian Learning had won the right to play in the finals in the preliminary round Thursday afternoon, during which the team from International School was eliminated. Cambridge did not field a team.
The big gun f0r Cooperative, and high scorer in the tournament, was tenth grader Sebastian Kyllman, who provided perhaps two-thirds of his team´s correct answers. The others on the Jaguar team were Maria Cristina Espinoza, Jonathan Reichsfeld, Augustina Rodriguez, and Gustavo Vaca Diez.
The Eagle team was comprised of Andrew Burgin, Kiuchi Hiromi, Carlos Sandoval, Sarah Miura, and Steven Hause.
The International School team was Maria Rita Velasco, Jorge Harriague, Andre Estatuti, Marco Parada, and Brenda Lee.
