Gunn Sports Update

Submitted by Miriam Rotman

Wrestling
In a dominant show of strength, Gunn defeated Fremont tonight 50-18 in a De Anza Division match-up. Three Titans pinned their rivals - Ian Cramer (120), Marco Lopez-Mendoza (180) and JJ Strnad (285), and Casey Jackson (170) won by technical fall. In all, Gunn won 10 matches to Fremont's four. Photos

Gunn also honored the eight seniors that have all played a role in making this year's team one of its best. They include (in weight class order), Colton Haro (138), Derek Lai (145), Chris Jin (152), Julian Calderon (160), Casey Jackson (170), Marco Lopez-Sanchez (180), Jaxon Welsh (195) and JJ Strnad (220).

Over the weekend Gunn Sent 2 girls to the CCS wrestling meet Cadence Lee and Jessica Sun (placed 5th). Congratulations Cadence for your second consecutive win at CCS. Cadence will be representing Gunn at the California state meet - Good Luck!

103: Cadence Lee (Gunn) over Kayla Walker (Leigh), Dec 9-2.

Next week Gunn will have the last dual meet at Los Gatos (Gunn is currently in first place in the De Anza Division), followed by SCVAL championships on Saturday at Homestead High School.

Basketball
On Wednesday, Paly sent all their basketball teams to face fired up Gunn athletes, keen to claim basketball supremacy. Both Gunn JV girls and boys beat the cross-town rivals as did the Varsity girls (52-42).

The Lady Titans were fired up to avenge their early season loss against the cross town rival PALY and showed up for the game on Wednesday night with previously unmatched toughness and determination.

The Lady Titans took a 20-16 lead at half time and after Palo Alto's Lindsay Black hit a three pointer to cut the lead to one, Gunn's Zoe Zwerling nailed two three pointers in a row to push the Gunn lead up to seven and swing momentum back in Gunn's favor. Every time it appeared that Paly would make a run, Gunn would convert a key basket to squelch the threat. Gunn was helped tremendously by the all-out play of Julia Maggioncalda, who created havoc for Palo Alto. Leading 33-27 to start the third, Gunn scored two baskets to build a commanding lead. Towards the end, Palo Alto chose to foul hoping that Gunn would miss free throws, but it wasn't to be as Perez, Claire Klausner, Zwerling and Maggioncalda converted seven free throws in a row to ice the game. "I'm happy with all aspects of our game tonight," said Coach Stapp. "We were aggressive, made key free throws and played as a team. This is something we have do from here on out as there are no easy games in the De Anza."

The Lady Titans were led by Zwerling's 14 points, followed by nine from Perez, eight from Klausner, six from Redfield and Maggioncalda, five from Tapia and four from Meghan Mahoney.

The win was the second strong win in five days as they beat previously unbeaten Wilcox 43-37 last Friday night. On Friday night the Lady Titans played a tough Los Gatos squad and showed no let down as they won 44-28. 3 pt field goals - Zwerling, Shevick (3). Gunn out-rebounded Los Gatos 31-16.The lady Titans moved into a tie with Wilcox and Paly for 1st place in
the division.

Boys - In probably their best half of the season the Gunn Titans held Paly to a 3 point lead after leading most of the half. Unfortunately BJ Boyd proved difficult to contain for the whole game and the boys lost the game. Maybe this game proved to the boys that they can beat any team as they followed up with a great win at Los Gatos 58-56.

Soccer
Boys - Also faced Paly this week winning a tough and close game 1-0. The goal was scored in the first half by Cameron McElfresh, assisted by Kevin Macario. The boys played tough throughout the game with great defense. This Wednesday - Milpitas at Gunn 3:30 PM.

Girls - Lost to Paly 3-1. Sarah Robinson scored for Gunn. Friday 2/10 Monta Vista at Gunn 6:00 PM.