On April 15, Peninsula High School's varsity lacrosse team faced off against one of Orange County's top teams, Servite High School, hoping to make a late run for a CIF playoff spot. Through two quarters, it looked like the scrappy Panthers might pull up a major upset, as the score was tied 4-4 at the half.  But the third period was critical, during which the Friars outscored the Panthers five goals to two, on the way to a 12-8 victory that dropped the Panthers to 3-7 on the season.    
 
Peninsula had a close loss against Redondo on Wednesday. A clutch hit by Nicole Hay started a rally and she scored Peninsula's first run.  Jenna Henry smashed the ball to score two runs that tied the game in the 4th. Phenomenal pitching by Madison Denton and a fantastic double played made by Trisha Valukonis helped keep this game close until the end. Our Panthers now have their sites on a must win game against Inglewood this afternoon. 
 

Our Peninsula men played Mira Costa Tuesday and lost in straight sets.  All three games were highly contested with the final scores being 13-25, 13-25, 17-25.
John Skoblar had 8 kills to lead the Panthers!!  


Last week Peninsula traveled to the Klaus Barth Rock and Roll Invite where Ike Shirakata broke the meet's 58 year old record in the 200 yard I M. Congratulations Ike! Additionally, the girls' relay teams dropped their CIF qualifying times and Matthew Amano dropped his individual CIF qualifying time.

This past Thursday, Peninsula hosted Redondo at home.  Boys Varsity had a huge victory scoring 114 to Redondo's 56. Girls Varsity came up short, scoring 78 to Redondo's 92.

On May 2 and May 4, Peninsula will be hosting the Bay League  Swim Championship.  Come out and support Peninsula Swimming!  There is no charge to attend and the snack shack will serving its signature Spam musubi!




 
In a non-league match-up of the two best teams in CIF-SS, Dariush Jalali and Sahm Irvine both came from behind to win singles sets in the final round, breaking an 8-8 tie and giving Peninsula the 10-8 road win over number one ranked and previously undefeated Harvard-Westlake. Dariush fought off four match points to highlight the dramatic win. 
Connor Hance won all three of his singles sets, while the doubles teams of Louis DeWitt-Hoeger/William Mori and Adil/Nabeel Khan each won two sets. 

Peninsula, the defending CIF D1 Champions, are now 15-0. 


 
 Varsity Boys Golf went 3-0 this week in Bay League matches, beating Torrance(192-251) at home and Redondo both home(190-223) and away(182-201).  Darren Jeong turned in his best score of the year with 38 at Alondra on Thursday, while Matt Lim made 4 birdies for a career best 32!  Taku Yamashita was a model of consistency with rounds of 37, 35, 36.  The team is 8-0 in Bay league play and will wrap up a league title with a win against South next week.

The South Bay Championships, Saturday at El Camino College, fall at an interesting time in the track schedule.  They are sandwiched between the major invitationals, Arcadia, the Mt. Sac Relays and well as the upcoming CIF Southern Section championships.  Peninsula's Jacqueline Ahrens is back attempting to better last year's pole vault record of 12-6.   Field events begin at 4 PM with the pole vault and running events begining at 4:30PM.