Sports Briefs: Big hits lift Branson baseball past Middletown
Branson School baseball reigned supreme in a 10-3 victory over non-league foe Middletown on Saturday behind some big hitting. Luke Shane, Cooper Tenney and Kaden Gustafson each doubled as the Bulls collected 10 hits. Noam AuYeung and William Ashley each contributed two RBI to the offense.
Branson pitchers Charlie Zwibelman, Cooper Tenney, William Ashley and Wilson Wendt, held the Mustangs to only three runs.
• Colin Day accounted for the bulk of Tam High’s offense in a 3-1 non-league loss to Rancho Cotate in Mill Valley on Saturday. The Red-tailed Hawks had four hits, including two doubles by Day, who also scored Tam’s lone run. Colin Lam and Charlie Blau had Tam’s other hits, one each. The Hawks (4-7) are scheduled to host Terra Linda on Monday.
• Ozzie Shenk threw three scoreless innings as San Domenico roared past Urban 11-1 in 5 innings on Saturday at Novato High School. Alec Clark boosted the Panthers’ offense with a double to the wall, and Will Rothstein was 2-for-3 with three RBI and two runs scored. Gytis Gervickas was 2-for-2 with a pair of RBI and Shenk was 1-for-1 with two walks for the Panthers, who are scheduled to face rival Marin Academy on Wednesday evening at Albert Park.
Boys tennis
Shaking up its lineup a little, the Branson School still cruised to a 7-0 sweep of Terra Linda on Friday. In the only match that went more than two sets, the Bulls’ Roshan Belani defeated En-Yu Liu at No. 4 singles. Branson’s Andrew Peng held on for a 6-4, 6-4 win at No. 3 singles, and Max and Oliver Goldman both won at No. 1 and No. 2 singles, respectively.
• Marin Catholic’s Andrew Gorczycki knuckled down for a three-set win at No. 1 singles as the Wildcats’ swept visiting Novato 7-0 Friday. Gorczycki turned away the Hornets’ Matthew Moyer 6-3, 0-6, 10-4 in a thrilling matchup. Jack Millar, Colin Johnston and Ian Parnes also won singles matches for the Wildcats.
• Tam swept doubles play on its way to a 6-1 victory over Archie Williams on Thursday. Charlie Dunn and Race Sallady held off their counterparts from Archie Williams, 7-5, 6-3, at No. 1 doubles. Tam’s Tyler Byrne, Emmett McEvilley and Diego Castillo each won their singles matches. The Peregrine Falcons’ PJ Krill pulled off a 6-2, 6-2 win at No. 4 singles to help Archie Williams avoid the sweep.
• Jesse Chi and Arseniy Korolev picked up singles wins at the top two spots in the order to help clinch Friday’s win for San Marin, which went on to sweep San Rafael 7-0. Cash Connors and Anton Bogak also won singles matches.
Boys volleyball
Will Hatch had a team-high eight kills as Tam topped International, 25-17, 25-22, 25-17 on Friday night. Adrien VanDoren added four kills and three aces. Freshman Dante Styles had five kills and a key nine-point service run to help Tam rally to win the second set.
Women’s basketball
Redwood High grad Jenny Walker, a senior forward at New York University, is a second-team selection to the College Sports Communicators Women’s Basketball Division III Academic All-America squad.
Walker, a Media, Culture, and Communication major in NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, is one of eight recipients to maintain a perfect 4.0 GPA. She averaged 12.3 points, 6.4 rebounds, 1.1 blocks, 0.9 assists and 0.8 steals per game to help NYU claim its second straight UAA title.
The senior forward was also a Second Team All-UAA selection and UAA All-Academic honoree this year. Walker scored in double figures 16 times on the season, highlighted by a career-high 34 points with 10 rebounds, two blocks and two steals in a home win over Emory University on January 20. She ranked sixth in the Association in blocks per game, seventh in field-goal percentage (49.1), ninth in rebounding and 10th in scoring.