Sports Update

Submitted by Miriam Rotman

X-country -
SCVAL Division Championships - Gunn sophomore Sarah Robinson kept her
perfect season intact by winning her 4th race and becoming the No. 2
performer in school history while racing to victory in 17:32 at the
cross-country championships on Tuesday at Crystal Springs in Belmont.
Robinson should be favored for the CCS title and will have her teammates
there with her when the Titans go after a state berth at the section finals
on Nov. 12, also at Crystal Springs. The Lady Titans finished 2nd to
Mountain View and qualified to compete at CCS as a team. Kieran Gallagher,
Christine Prior, Melia Dunbar, and Eliana Ribbe put together a strong effort
and placed 9th - 20:04, 12th - 20:32, 19th - 21:02 , and 20th - 21:15,
respectively, to help the girls beat rival Palo Alto by just a few points.
With senior Andrew Prior clocking a personal best of 15:50, improving last
years time by over 20 seconds the Gunn boys' cross-country team also
finished second at the Championships. Peter Chen, Daniel Krigel and Michael
Underwood held nothing back and all had personal records finishing and
placing, 6th - 16:16, 12th - 16:36, and 15th - 16:47 respectively. Shaun Lee
returning from an injury helped round out the top five by placing 24th in a
time of 17:21. The Titans qualified for the Central Coast Section
championships, while finishing only eight points behind division champ Los
Altos.

Water Polo
Girls - With senior Elizabeth Anderson pouring in nine goals, the Gunn
girls' water polo team capped an outstanding league season by romping to a
17-9 victory over defending champ and No. 2 seed Los Altos in the SCVAL De
Anza Division Tournament finals on Saturday night at Monta Vista High. "Nine
goals for Elizabeth, probably the most dominant performance I've ever seen
in a championship game," said Gunn teacher and coach Mark Hernandez, whose
top-seeded team improved to 20-6. Anderson, who scored 16 goals in the two
playoff victories, now has 131 goals this season. Her sister, Sophomore
Caroline Anderson added five goals, Senior Soumya Kannan -2 and senior Missy
Barr another goal for Gunn, which topped Los Altos twice after losing the
teams' first meeting in overtime. Elizabeth will be playing water polo at
Santa Clara U. next year joining her older sister Jennie. We wish the
Anderson sisters success!!

Boys - Gunn beat Monta Vista 9-6 in the first round of the SCVAL
championships and followed that with a tough loss to the #1 ranked team Los
Altos. In the following game for 3rd place, Gunn found itself down 10-12 to
cross town rival Palo Alto with 2 minutes of regulation left and came back
in breath taking fashion to win 15-14 and take 3rd at the Championships.
Sophomore Coby Wayne scored 2 goals to tie the game and send it into
overtime. In the first overtime, the Titans were also behind and scored
with 13 seconds remaining to send the game to sudden death. Then, in sudden
death overtime, Gunn freshman Ari Wayne scored the game winning goal and was
instantly mobbed by his teammates celebrating the hard fought victory.
Scoring - Senior Gavin Kerr 5 goals, the Wayne brothers (Ari and Coby) - 4
goals apiece. Senior Tyler Wilson - 2 goals, to cap off a fantastic and
historic win for the Gunn Titans!


Football - Senior night Gunn beats Fremont 44-6
This game against visiting Fremont represented the final time these Gunn
seniors would take the field and two of them, Skyler Larson with 3 amazing
catches and J.J. Strnad, who scored 4 touchdowns, made sure it was a winning
night for Gunn as they combined for seven touchdowns in Gunn's 44-6 win
making sure that their feats will be remembered on the football field. Other
seniors who left their mark include Robert Kato who recovered two turnovers
and had an interception in the second quarter, offensive lineman Malik Gill
and "huge" Keenan Venuti who stopped all running efforts by Fremont and
backs Abel Abraha and Nick De LA Paz.