CCS boys
Open Division
Sacred Coronary heart Prep 10, St. Francis 9
The Bay Space’s boys water polo dynasty added extra championship {hardware} to its crowded trophy case. Sacred Coronary heart Prep made it seven Central Coast Part Open Division titles in a row on Saturday night time because the Gators took down the Lancers.
“I really feel like I’m prime of the world,” senior Nelson Harris mentioned.
Clay Carrington scored 4 targets for SHP, and Harris bagged two whereas Oliver Marcin scored twice as properly
That didn’t imply it was straightforward.
St. Francis – which had already misplaced to SHP twice this season — gave the dominant program all the pieces it might deal with.
St. Francis’ Chase Krupitzer scored thrice for St. Francis, and Darius Sayers scored twice.
The Gators led 6-2 halfway by means of the second quarter, scoring 4 consecutive targets on five-meter penalties. However the Lancers regrouped, scoring three of the ultimate 4 targets of the interval to enter halftime down simply 7-5.
Krupitzer scored twice and Viollier put in a single to tie the sport at 8-8 with 47 seconds left within the third quarter. However Kirincich took the lead again for SHP simply 20 seconds later.
Carrington added a objective within the fourth quarter to offer SHP an insurance coverage rating, one they wanted when Robert Swanson reduce the result in only one with 1:32 left within the sport.
However SHP obtained the stops it wanted, and the Gators clinched their seventh Open title.
Division I
Los Altos 9, Serra 7 (OT)
Los Altos put in three extra time targets to seize the Division I title over Serra within the first sport of the day at Sacred Coronary heart Prep. Colby Sims, Joseph Tadros and Tiernan Braun every scored two targets apiece to assist energy the Eagles to the title.
It was Los Altos’ first CCS championship. The Eagles had misplaced all six of their earlier title sport appearances.
Goalkeeper Weston Carballar had seven saves. Senior Joshua Tang confirmed off his various skillset all through the match, scoring two targets, meting out an help and even getting just a few steals as Los Altos battled Serra to a 6-6 tie in regulation.
“This season, we’ve been down so much, so we knew what to do,” Tang mentioned. “We have been calm, however there have been nerves. We simply knew we needed to keep assured and simply hold capturing.”
Serra went from down two targets to up by one through the third quarter after Reed Hagmueller bagged a trio of targets in a seven-minute stretch, together with his final being a spectacular volley from the midway line as time expired. Blake Hagmueller, Henry Graham and Colin Wright additionally scored for Serra.
Division II
Valley Christian 13, Leland 11
In a showdown between Blossom Valley Athletic League and West Catholic Athletic League groups, the WCAL’s Valley Christian captured its first-ever boys water polo title in any division thanks largely to Garett Crabb’s 5 targets.
“That was his finest sport of the season,” VC coach Caleb Carlson mentioned. “Perhaps not probably the most targets he’s ever scored, however he had 4 blocks and was one of the best participant the entire sport. What an exceptional approach to exit as a senior.”
Leland stormed out to a three-goal lead within the first interval because of targets by Louis Descioli, Jake Primmer and Luke Raimondi. Crabb obtained the Valley Christian assault going with a made shot from in shut, and the Warriors used that momentum to pile it on within the second quarter.
Chase Blitzer scored a pair of five-meter photographs, and Crabb added one other five-meter objective. Kalob Hvesca and Kaden Cochran additionally scored one objective apiece to offer VC six targets at halftime. Raimondi scored yet another within the second quarter to make the halftime rating 6-4.
Crabb put in two extra third-quarter targets and teammate Darius Deac added one other to assist Valley Christian hold its distance from Leland. However after main 11-7 within the fourth, Leland scored 4 instances to chop Valley’s result in 12-11. Deac iced issues for VC with a late objective.
Crabb ended the day with 5 targets, and Blitzer had three. Raimondi scored 4 targets and Descoli had three for Leland.
CCS women
Open Division
Sacred Coronary heart Prep 12, Soquel 2
The highest-seeded Gators left little doubt as to who one of the best group within the CCS was on Saturday afternoon. In entrance of an adoring residence crowd, the Gators poured in seven third-quarter targets to place Soquel away in SHP’s second CCS Open title in a row.
The groups got here in with historical past. In 2021 and 2022, Soquel beat SHP within the Open closing. A 12 months in the past, SHP outlasted Soquel 9-6.
The 2024 version was over halfway by means of the third quarter.
“The entire season, we’ve emphasised a 3rd quarter push and never letting up” SHP senior Natalia Szcerba mentioned. “We simply clicked within the third quarter, and we simply went with it. Its been a pattern in our different video games as properly.”
She added, “That is the right approach to finish any season, and an ideal approach to prime off my senior 12 months.”
Szcerba scored 4 targets, Vivian Golub had 4 as properly, and Kiernan Hogan, Alexandra Krna, Lauren Rossi, and Megan Newby all scored as properly.
The Gators managed the primary half, with goalkeeper Ellison Brush appearing as the inspiration of a tenacious protection. She blocked photographs and started most assaults as a passer.
That offense put one objective on the board within the first quarter, a slick shot by Golub. The second quarter noticed Szcerba convert a nifty back-handed shot to double the lead, and Hogan blasted in a shot for a 3-0 lead.
Soquel’s Libby Forest was in a position to sneak one previous the SHP protection when her shot was deflected, however Szcerba obtained it again just a few moments later to ship the Gators into halftime up 4-1.
After the Gators put in seven third-quarter targets, the final being a spectacular Szcerba Hail Mary volley from three-quarters of the pool size away as time expired, SHP emptied the bench and obtained able to have a good time.
“It’s straightforward to do issues the precise method if you play such a excessive degree of competitors,” SHP coach Jamie Frank mentioned. “We knew that the opposite group was going to offer their finest effort, so we simply got here in able to execute our gameplan and play inside ourselves.”
Division I
Leigh 9, Los Altos 8
Leigh’s senior-heavy group survived a livid Los Altos rally within the closing quarter to clinch a second CCS Division I title in three years. After Taite Robbins scored a pair of targets within the third quarter to place the Longhorns up 9-4, the Eagles scored 4 within the closing seven minutes.
“I used to be slightly bit nervous in that fourth quarter, nevertheless it ended up being nice,” Leigh senior Emma Little mentioned. “I’m tremendous happy with this group.”
Little did her half to get that lead, scoring twice within the second quarter. Teammate Miya Pierre put in 4 targets to tempo all gamers, together with one on a breakaway. Carmen Kelly additionally scored as soon as for Leigh. Goalkeeper Katie Schader had an important sport for the Longhorns, and Los Altos keeper Alison Han had 14 saves.
The Eagles truly jumped out to a 3-1 first quarter lead thanks to at least one Ava Smith lob objective and two Sophia Boschken targets. However the offense remained principally dormant after that, other than a Kylie Barkovich objective within the third quarter.
That modified within the fourth, when Boschken, Barkovich, and Kylie Parman’s targets nearly introduced Los Altos all the best way again.
