Photo Credit: Max Landon
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November 11, 2009
Kaylee Miu
The rescheduled meet between Washington and Newark Memorial was combined into a tri-meet at Coyote Hills Nov. 4 with Irvington and Kennedy High Schools, sealing the last league meet of the year. The varsity boys came out strong as senior Ben Rich, junior Jesse Chestnut and senior Max Landon swept the first three places against Newark Memorial, and junior Marc Leprince taking fourth against Kennedy. The boys varsity squad ended their league season with a 4-2 record, losing to Mission San Jose and James Logan.
Freshman Nolan Peterson took his fifth win in the Frosh/Soph boys division against Kennedy. Recovering from muscle detachments, he will join the varsity boys at North Coast Sectional Championships after league finals.
“I’ve been out injured most of the season, but I’m healing pretty well right now, and am planning to have a good meet at MVALs,” Peterson said.
The varsity girls have powered their way into a 5-1 league record, losing to Mission San Jose. Lead by juniors Jessica and Rachel Gerards, the girls season came out stronger than their previous season. The girls squad crushed Newark Memorial as juniors Jessica Gerards, Rachel Gerards, Maggie Sullivan, freshman Jessica Yee and sophomore Kelsi Ocon swept the top five times. Junior Laura Dunford and sophomore Emma Johnston followed behind against Kennedy, as all seven girls dominated in the meet.
“A lot of us were injured or not feeling well [when we raced against Mission],” sophomore Kelsi Ocon said. “We plan to peak at MVALs, so hopefully we’ll all perform at our best.”
The Huskies will compete at the MVAL finals Nov. 12 against the league schools for entrance into sectionals.
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October 16, 2009
Christine Harms
A lockdown at Newark Memorial High School forced the cross country meet against Washington to be postponed.
Police were called to the area due to a disturbance caused by a group of teenagers on Sept. 30, at about 11:15 a.m. One teen was arrested for the possession of a loaded handgun while several of the teens fled onto the Newark Memorial campus. After the lockdown was called, SWAT teams searched the campus room by room for the suspects and other weapons. After the rooms were searched, students were taken to the gymnasium and were released individually to parents shortly before 3 p.m.
Newark Memorial’s lockdown led to the cancellation of the scheduled cross country meet that was to take place at the Niles Community Park that afternoon. Head coach Robert Raymond spoke to Newark’s head coach that evening about the situation.
“The Newark coach and I talked at length about how we could make the situation work out for the best,” Raymond said.
Ultimately, this situation has worked to Washington’s benefit. The team was able to run a meet against themselves on the Niles course and will have a chance to race Newark at Coyote Hills, giving the team extra practice on the league meet course.
Through a mutual agreement between the head coaches of the Washington, Newark Memorial, Irvington and Kennedy teams, the Washington-Newark meet will be combined with Irvington and Kennedy at Coyote Hills on Nov. 4. Washington will score against both Kennedy and Newark.
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October 4, 2009
Kaylee Miu
The cross country team arrived at Coyote Hills, Sept. 29, after weeks of training, ready to start off their MVAL season racing against Newark Memorial High School. However, due to unfortunate circumstances involving a violent weapon, Newark was put on a lockdown during school hours, and the race was called off.
“We ended up just racing against each other,” sophomore Sameed Siddiqui said.
According to Coach Robert Raymond, the team still intends on racing against Newark, and will have a combined dual-meet Nov. 4 at Coyote Hills. In accordance to schedule, Newark will race against Irvington, while Washington will race against Kennedy. However, Washington will score against both Newark and Kennedy.
The huskies’ next meet will be Oct. 7 against Mission San Jose High School.
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