The annual post-season JV Freedom Invitational tournament was forced to reschedule from the original date of April 26th due to untimely rain. The new date was the following Saturday, May 3rd. The JV coaches were originally planning on bringing two 8-player squads to compete in the day-long event, however, with this new date, it also meant that not all of…

Last week, the DAL-Foothill (DAL-F) division singles and doubles tournament ended with the Acalanes duo of #1 Sze Ting Chen and #2 Nick Owens finishing as runners up.  The winners automatically secure a spot in the NCS singles/doubles championships, so the Campo team of Kiumars Koopah/Daniel Schpolanski advanced in division 1.  Because Chen/Owens did so well in the DAL-F tournament…

Today, Acalanes hosted the semifinals and finals of the DAL-Foothill Division singles and doubles tournament.  Three of our boys were still in contention to take home a first-place medal.  Though that ended up not happening, they made their school and coaches proud and put up a great fight in both singles and doubles.  The conditions were a little windy but…

The first event in varsity tennis post season is the DAL-Foothills Division singles and doubles tournament.  The four teams (Acalanes, Campolindo, Miramonte and Northgate) in that division enter players into either singles or doubles, the head coaches complete the seeding, and then an open draw takes place.  We pull names from a hat, and the only time we modify the…

The Acalanes boys really needed a win today for several reasons.  The last two matches against Campo and Miramonte were tough losses, we wanted to go into post season with a positive vibe, and what better way for our seniors to end their high school league careers.  I try to find some humor in each match, but todays was going…

Miramonte hosted Acalanes today, and it was another rough day at the office for the Dons.  Though several of the matches were very close, it felt like the wins were slipping through our fingers.  The boys put up a valiant fight and both teams were pretty vocal from the sidelines, but we did fall short in the end. The Dons…

Today was an extremely tough day for the team.  After suffering our worse loss of the season, we were then given the tragic news about the passing of an Acalanes classmate, Amin Noroozi.  Though I did not personally know Amin, fellow school staff members have told me only amazing stories about him as not only a student, friend and citizen…

Today Acalanes played the last of four interleague teams, Clayton Valley.  We knew going in that the Eagles were soundly defeated by our peers, so the lower half of JV was activated today and they came through like champs.  Because most of the scores were convincing wins, I won’t break down each match – see the line scores towards the…

With the continued absences of the Chen and Hoeberechts brothers due to illness, we were fortunate that our opponent today was Las Lomas.  The Knights are considered interleague play now, and they are continuing to rebuild as a team.  That being the case, we won the match convincingly even with a short-handed roster.  It’s always a good thing to get…

With spring break behind us, Acalanes kicked off April with a practice match against Bishop O’Dowd.  We knew going in this would be a tall order as the Dragons are division 2 league contenders and we were missing critical members of our team including both the Chen and Hoeberechts brothers and Gorham.  Without five of our top twelve players available,…