The JV Girls Water Polo team finished their season off strong with a 3rd place finish at the JV DAL Tournament at College Park High School!  The girls played three games – one each on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. 

The first game was Thursday, 10/31 against College Park High School. The Dons were in control the whole game, with multiple goals scored by many of our girls – Kelsey Gunderson, Erin Lerch, Santana Tamayo, Emi Kuniyoshi, Kylie Kaplan, Sadie Hendrickson, Amayel Guiro and Audrey Martin all scored for the Dons.  Final score was 16-3.  

The second game on Friday, 11/1 was against Campolindo – a rematch from our narrow loss on Wednesday, 10/30!  The girls showed up big time again to give Campo a run for their money! It was a close game, ending in a 7-5 loss. 

The final game was for 3rd place against Las Lomas, on Saturday, 11/2. The girls were ready – they have both beaten and lost to them this year, and they lost to LL in the DAL tournament last year so they were ready for some redemption! Here’s how it all went down:

Q1 – Jess wins the sprint, Amayel, Audrey and Jess’ shots were all blocked, but Cade scored! 1-0. LL answers, 1-1. 

Q2 – Lilah wins the sprint, Kylie’s shot bounces off the frame, Lucy blocks LL’s shot, Lilah’s shot blocked, Lucy blocks another shot! Erin shoots but it goes high, Lucy blocks another shot! Lilah assist to Santana for a goal! 2-1. LL’s shot bounces off the frame, recovers, shoots again, blocked by Lucy! Emi’s shot goes wide. 

Q3 – Jess wins the sprint, Kylie’s shot goes wide, Erin’s shot was blocked. LL had a couple shots that fell short. Erin takes another shot, Kylie has a steal! Santana assist to Sadie who scores! 3-1. Jess shoots but bounces off the frame back to her, she hasses to Emi who shoots and scores! 4-1. Erin’s shot was blocked, LL shot wide, Santana took a 5-meter shot and scored 5-1. Santana shot again – but it went wide. Kylie had a cross-pool shot at the buzzer that bounced off the top frame – so close!  

Q4 – Audrey wins the sprint, Lilah’s shot was blocked. Kelsey scores 6-1! Audrey swims down a LL breakaway, but LL gets a 5-meter shot, which was blocked by Lucy! LL recovers and scores 6-2. LL takes a few more shots – all blocked and one flies wide. Cade scores the final goal of the game 7-2! 

Dons take 3rd place, what a way to finish out the season!  Signing off for now!  GO DONS!