October arrives as does the playoff hunt for many Mustang teams. With just a couple weeks left in league play, see how last week helped or hurt teams positioning. Plus another good week on the tennis courts, another frosh volleyball tournament title, and Homecoming Week has arrived!
Varsity Football
The annual City Championship was hosted at San Marin this year. The Mustangs took a quick 14-0 lead as RB D’Andre Wright took a carry around left end in for a 12 yard TD. On the next possession, the Mustangs recovered a Novato fumble, which setup a 1 yard plunge from RB David Marinoff. The Mustang defense held Novato scoreless in the first half behind the great line play of Chris Gorman and Jose Ochoa. Unfortunately for the Mustangs, the momentum swung on a 60 yard interception and TD by Novato early in the 3rd quarter. Novato finally got some offense going and scored two quick TDs to give them a 21-14 lead. San Marin still had a chance as they got the ball back with less than 4 minutes to go. QB Vince Cerruti came in for an injured Manny Wilkins and led the Mustangs down inside the Novato 20 with just under 40 seconds to go. On the next play though, Cerruti’s pass was intercepted and the title went to Novato for a second straight year.
This Saturday, San Rafael travels up for the annual Homecoming Game. Game time is at 2:00.
Junior Varsity Football
It was a tough day for the Mustangs as they took on undefeated Novato. The Hornets showed why they are undefeated in a dominant 49-7 win. SM looks to respond this weekend in the Homecoming Game vs. San Rafael at 11:30.
Frosh Football
The frosh boys moved to 4-2 on the season with a shutout win over Novato 20-0. RB Keith Bradshaw found the endzone again. QB Collin Moore moved the ball around well especially to WR Micah Martinson and WR Jeremiah Watts. The Mustangs have a bye this week and will next play at Justin Siena.
Volleyball
Varsity- The Mustangs went 0-2 on the week with losses to Justin Siena and Terra Linda. On Monday, Justin Sienna got some revenge after losing to the Mustangs the weekend prior at the Sonoma Tournament. In an exciting back and forth match, the girls lost 24-26 18-25 23-25, including a great rally to comeback at 24-24 in first game after being down 21-24. Jenna Sudlow had 6 kills, 12 digs and 2 aces. Kristin Robinson putaway 5 kills and 2 blocks.
On Friday the girls lost to Terra Linda 18-25 14-25 15-25 Kristen Robinson led the way with 6 kills and 4 blocks. The Mustang played without senior OH Jenna Sudlow who was injured in practice the day before and senior setter Casey Cunningham who was injured during match. The girls will look to bounce back this week against Redwood and Marin Catholic.
Frosh- The Mustang Frosh continue to play well notching two more MCAL victories this week! They beat Justin Sienna in two on Wednesday and TL on Friday. In their toughest match of the season, they beat TL 25-16, 25-20.
Allie Kradepohl had 9 kills vs JS and Abby Smith had 16 assists. In the TL match, the service game dominated as Abby Smith had eight service points (with 14 assists), Brianna Masarweh and Tyra McQuilla had nine service points combined and Tyra served out the last five points of set two.
Samantha Tong had another strong week passing and digging and Rebecca Simonetti had three blocks in each match. In the TL match, Victoria Maletesta had her best match of the season on defense and serve receive.
The girls closed the week on Saturday in the Vallejo High tourney and took home the Gold! Allie Kradepohl and Rebecca Simonetti led the way with 11 kills each and Simonetti added six solo blocks for the day. Abby Smith had 27 assists, Samantha Tong had 21 digs and passed nails again. Tyra McQuilla had six kills in her debut as an outside hitter and Victoria Maletesta was awesome in serve receive.
Water Polo – Boys
Varsity- The boys took on Bishop O'Dowd in a tight game, winning 9-8. Down 6-3 at the half, San Marin came roaring back in the 3rd quarter with 4 unanswered goals. In the 4th period with a 2 goal lead, they went into stall mode giving up one goal but finishing with the win. Ryan Campbell, nursing a hand injury, still netted 4 goals, William Hardman and Jimmy Fewell had 2 each, and Sebastian Bauer added 1 goal. Sebastian led with 3 assists. Jimmy Fewell also had 3 steals, followed by two each from Sebastian and Ryan. Ben Rosenbaum had a good game with 12 blocks.
JV- JV Boys played in the Marin Catholic tournament Fri-Sat and did a great job playing against tough teams, going 2-2. They lost to Campolindo 9-2 and Redwood 15-5, but beat Marin Catholic 6-4 and Justin Sienna for the second time this year 8-4.
Water Polo – Girls
The Lady Stangs polo team took on Bishop O'Dowd at Mills College. In a great match, the Mustangs came up just short losing in OT 10-9. The Mustangs who trailed by 2 goals almost the whole game came through to tie it with 3 minutes left. Veteran leadership provided by Jessica Iacovelli and support from Lydia Kao and Patty Dougherty were instrumental in the team's success.
Soccer
The Mustangs went 0-2 on the week losing to Tam 6-1 and Drake 3-2. Vini Souza had another big week scoring all 3 of the Mustang goals to make him one of the top goal scorers in MCAL on the season. The boys look to rebound this week against Redwood and Terra Linda.
Tennis
The Mustangs took on crosstown rival Novato 6-3 to record their 4th straight victory. Leading the victory were all three doubles teams, Rachel Teel/ Amanda Cardy won handily 6-1, 6-0. Rachel Cantor/Angela Ding and Julia Raven/ Nidhi Mamidi both won giving up only five games between the two matches.
In singles play, Meghan Harder, Julia Fager, and Christine Coll all won their matches to seal the victory.
Cross Country
SM hosted Marin Catholic and Novato last Thursday. The Mustangs split 1-1 at the meet beating Marin Catholic but losing to Novato. For the girl’s race, the top 3 finishers of the 2.88 mile race were Jan Grandi 20.18, Marissa Caldwell 21.32, and Jessica Arango 21.37. On the boy’s side, the top finishers were Nico Panela 16.47, Garrett Sutherland 17.24, and Paul Shin 17.57.
SCHEDULE FOR THIS WEEK
Tuesday, October 2
3:30 PM
Girls Varsity Golf
@ Tamalpais
3:30 PM
Girls Varsity Tennis
Redwood @ SM
Wednesday, October 3
4:00 PM
Boys Varsity Soccer
Redwood @ SM
4:00 PM
Girls Freshman Volleyball
Redwood @ SM
5:00 PM
Girls JV Volleyball
Redwood @ SM
5:30 PM
Boys JV Soccer
Redwood @ SM
6:00 PM
Girls Varsity Volleyball
Redwood @ SM
Thursday, October 4
3:15 PM
Girls Varsity Cross Country
@ Branson, San Rafael
3:30 PM
Girls Varsity Golf
Justin Siena @ SM
3:30 PM
Girls Varsity Tennis
Branson @ SM
4:00 PM
Boys Varsity Cross Country
@ Branson, San Rafael
5:00 PM
Girls Varsity Water Polo
@ Terra Linda
6:00 PM
Boys JV Water Polo
@ Terra Linda
7:00 PM
Boys Varsity Water Polo
@ Terra Linda
Friday, October 5
4:00 PM
Boys Varsity Soccer
@ Terra Linda
5:30 PM
Boys JV Soccer
@ Terra Linda
Saturday, October 6 ***HOMECOMING 2012 ***
11:30 AM
Boys JV Football
San Rafael @ SM-- Homecoming
2:00 PM
Boys Varsity Football
San Rafael @ SM-- Homecoming
