Golf

Tracy 265, West 290

Tracy High’s golf team won its first match of the season, 265-290, over the West High team Tuesday at Tracy Golf and Country Club. Sophomore Jennifer Kim shot 41 on the par-36 course. Devin Nicholson shot 48, Emily Dellagana 54, Sarah Price 59, Annie Fox 63 and Rachel Haro 69.

Scores for West were: Alice Trisri 41, Emma Brackett 53, Julia Ramirez 61, Kaitlyn Adams 65, and Ashley Gonzales 70.

Tracy 252, Pitman 308

Tracy High’s golfers won another on Wednesday on the road against Pitman High at Stevinson Ranch Golf Course. Sophomore Jennifer Kim shot a two-over-par 38 in her second match of the season. Emily Dellagana shot 49, Devin Nicholson 50, Shelby Devlin 54, Sarah Price 61 and Annie Fox 70. Tracy (2-0) will host Stagg High next on Tuesday at Tracy Golf and Country Club.

Granada 216, West forfeit

Wednesday’s match at the par-36 Poppy Ridge Golf Course against Granada of Livermore was a loss for West, which didn’t have a minimum five-player team. Scores for the West golfers who did play were: Alice Trisri 39, Julia Ramirez 59, Kaitlyn Adams 66 and Ashley Gonzales 66.

Kimball 316, Sierra 318

Kimball’s girls won their first Valley Oak League match against Sierra High at Olf River Golf Course Tuesday. Top score was Sierra’s Allison Smith with a 49. Kimball’s Lydia Nolen took second overall, 54, and Lilly Craig was third, 59. Other Kimball golfers are Daysi Gonzalez 66, Savannah Dunniway 67, Jannah Estruth 70, and Emily Craig 79.

West vs. Patterson

The first match of the season at the par-36 Diablo Grande Golf Course on Monday didn’t include team scores because some girls had not finished nine holes by the time the match was called because of darkness. Coaches ruled that West won it based on incomplete scores. Alice Trisri shot 38 through nine holes, and Kaitlyn Adams shot 62 over nine holes. Shooting eight holes were Julia Ramirez, 46, and Ashley Gonzales, 58, and finishing seven were Emma Brackett, 41, and Nicole Danielson, 57.

Tennis

Tracy 4, West 1

The Tracy High tennis players beat their rivals from West High Thursday with a sweep of the doubles matches and two singles matches, playing in the 3-2 format familiar to Tracy’s league, the San Joaquin Athletic Association.

Tracy (2-0) had to win some tough doubles matches over West (3-1), with Becca Reinin and Cassidy Dolstra beating Angie Juan and Ashley Vergel de Dios 6-4, 7-5. The number-two Tracy team of Paige Johnson and Aubrey Boehm beat Lesley Baires and Allison Pokorny 7-6(7-4), 6-3.

“West did really good,” Tracy junior Reinin said. “We played good too. We just got a burst of energy and pulled it out.”

Tracy also dominated the number-two and three singles matches, as Michelle Kouda beat Gabi Herrera 6-0, 6-2, and Chiara Adamo beat Tiful Koul 6-1, 6-2.

West’s win was in the number-one singles, where Emma Bell beat Renata Guzman.

“Renata is a great player. I think she just had an off day today, but it was a great match, with great rallies,” Bell said. “They have a lot of great players and it will just make us stronger throughout the season.”

The teams will have a rematch with the 6-3 Tri-City Athletic League format on Wednesday, Sept. 8, at West High.

Kimball 8, Manteca 7

The Jaguar tennis team posted its first win on Thursday against the visiting Manteca team. In round-robin play, Kimball’s singles players won five of nine games, and the doubles teams won two of four games.

Singles scores included: Andrea Candalla 3-6, 6-2, 6-2; singles Krishna Sankara 1-6, 6-1, 6-3; and Aloukika Shah 0-6, 2-6, 7-5. In the doubles, Perliza Delgado and Kiana Amirehsani won both matches, 10-0, 10-1, and Natasha Cardosa and Tara Adeniran lost both matches 1-10, 0-10

Kimball plays next at home against East Union on Sept. 7

Volleyball

Sierra 3, Tracy 0

Tracy High’s second match of the season Thursday was a contest of which team could come back from a deficit, and make it hold until the end.

The visiting Sierra High Timberwolves were the players who would hold off the Lady Bulldogs’ comeback attempts in the first set, and Sierra made its own comebacks in the second set after Tracy briefly held the advantage a couple of times. Sierra stayed just out of reach in the third set to take the win.

Outside hitter Angela Mariani was one of the keys to getting Tracy back in the game each time Sierra took the lead. She recorded nine kills for the night and also had five digs. Middle hitter Jazmin Clarke, a freshman, had four kills and senior middle hitter Lynsie Zellmer had four kills. Jenny Barwig had 21 assists, and Briana Aldridge had six digs.

“I think we really worked hard this game,” Zellmer said. “For a lot of these girls it’s their first time playing on varsity.”

She and coach Mahina Tankersley both said that the team has to keep its morale up even when it’s behind.

“We just need to learn how to cheer it up, pick up our energy and fight back a little harder,” Zellmer said.

Tankersley said that energy level was probably the difference between Sierra and Tracy on Thursday.

“We let them score a bunch of points, and by that time our spirits are down and to try to get fired up is playing catch-up. That doesn’t work too well. They need to come out with fire in their eyes from the beginning.”

Tracy’s sophomores (2-0) won the first set, lost the second set 17-25 and 15-9 in the third set, with strong serving from Julia Jurado and Aspen Alves. The freshmen (0-2) lost in two, 14-25, 18-25.

Cross-country

Millennium at Patterson

Millennium High runner Anneliese Bradley took first place Wednesday at a three-way meet in Patterson with Patterson and Orestimba high schools. Bradley finished the 3.1 mile course in 23:19.

Patterson won both the girls and boys meet, 20-40 for the girls, and 17-41 in the boys meet. Orestimba forfeited in the girls division, and beat Millennium 26-31 in the boys division.

Other times for Millennium runners were: Daisey Aguayo 27:20, Sarah Diaz 27:22, Kenny Lipich 21:38, J.D. Linford 22:55.

Soccer

Liberty Ranch 3, Kimball 2

The Jaguars hosted the Hawks from Liberty Ranch High School of Galt on Wednesday. After going scoreless for most of the first half, Kimball took the lead when sophomore Mauricio Rodriguez send a corner kick in front of the goal, where freshman Alberto Flores headed in the ball. Joseph Yun scored with one minute left in the half after he got a pass from freshman Brett Lassiter, dribbled down the right side and made a 20-yard running shot.

The Hawks got a break early in the second half, scoring on a penalty kick in the 47th minute. In the 72nd minute the Hawks scored on a short shot, and with a minute left the Hawks broke the tie on a long kick that bounced high over the Kimball goalkeeper, but a Liberty Ranch player was there to head it in.

The Jaguars (0-2) play next at Stagg High on Sept. 7.