the story in athletics
The Tigers battled a hot and dusty trail at Prep League Finals this morning at LA Pierce College. Leading the pack was freshman Dylan Jack who ended the race in 17th place! Our five girls battled very hard and did the Tigers proud! Congratulations to Ashley, Dylan, Cheli, LIzzy and Catherine on a great race!
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JV Tennis beat Chadwick 13-5!! The team rallied in the third round to overtake the Dolphins! The Tigers are 9-0 in League!
Varsity tennis had a thriller down in Palos Verdes. The Tigers advanced to the final round down 5-7 and nearly pulled off a tie. Had the Tigers been able to tie Westridge would have won 76-75. However, it just wasn’t meant to be. After an amazing comeback, the Tigers fell 10-8. Varsity Tennis is now 14-1 overall and 8-1 in league. Not to worry, every match makes us stronger!!
Both JV and Varsity tennis are undefeated in Prep League play!!! The Tigers competed against the Polytechnic Panthers on Wednesday and did a FABULOUS! job!! JV had a close match, but edged out the Panthers in the third and final round, 13-5!! Varsity tennis went UNDEFEATED first round to launch a 6-0 lead!! Cameron Marsh ’14 had the comeback of the decade as she was down 1-4 in the first round and dug hard to win 7-5!! The Tigers continued to ROAR as they finished 14-4!! Varsity tennis now stands at 14-0!!!!
Way to go, Varsity Tennis!!!!
Our golf SUPERSTAR Jackie Pai placed 6th overall at Montview League finals and is our very first Tiger to make the Montview All League First Team!!! Congratulations, Jackie!!!
Let me just state up front — both White and Green teams won!!! However, the drama surrounding those two Rio Hondo Prep wins was almost more than the crowd could handle. Both teams went to three games — both teams won fighting off a point by point surge from the Kares! If you think that was fun, be in Hoffman Gym again today — who knows what might occur!!
It was an amazing day for our Tigers golf team as they, for the first time in Westridge history, joined the Montview league and competed in their first ever league prelims! Sophomore Jackie Pai ended the day in the top 10 as she shot a sizzling 46! Five of our six golfers advanced to league finals today — an 18 hole super challenge!
Here are the Tigers’ results on nine holes:
Jackie Pai ’14 – 46
Allegra Gutierrez ’15 – 48
Gabby Chan ’13 – 50
Niamh James ‘ 14 – 52
Sara Jane Stephens ’14 – 58
Rachel Fishman ’13 – 62
Hi Coach Horn! Yesterday was the awards ceremony, and it was really cool! We all got a medal and a stuffed animal of one of the three mascots. The medal is a diamond-ish shape, and really heavy! When we walked out of the venue we were swarmed with people wanting to take pictures with us, so we took about 25 pictures with people.
-Erica
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