Who won league crowns in swimming, boys’ volleyball

The postseason has begun for the East Bay Athletic League, with the EBAL Swimming and Diving Championships taking center stage last weekend at Dougherty Valley.

Swimming is a different type of competition, where you can qualify for North Coast Section events over the course of the season, allowing swimmers to pick different events to compete in during the EBAL meet than they will compete in during NCS and CIF meets.

Highlighting the boys’ side of the meet are the league’s best two swimmers, Luka Mijatovic of Foothill and Tim Wu of Dougherty Valley.

Mijatovic is the defending CIF State champion in the 500 free and was second in the 200 free at state. Wu, Mijatovic’s training partner, is a threat in his events at state as well.

The duo won two events each, and Mijatovic swam the anchor leg on the winning 400 free relay for Foothill.

On the girls’ side, Raya Mellott of San Ramon Valley won two events, and the Wolves also took both the 200 Medley relay and the 400 free relay.

Here are the winners of each event, along with the final team scores.

Boys

Team scores: De La Salle 576, Amador Valley 434.5, Foothill 427, Dougherty Valley 343.5, Granada 293, California 271, San Ramon Valley 257, Monte Vista 217, Dublin 123, Livermore 52.

Diving: Tyler Galloway (DLS) 349.60.

200 Medley relay: DLS (Jordan Silvestri, Chase Lewis, Ryan Watson, Robbie Hamilton) 1:33.58.

200 Free: Tim Wu (DV) 1:36.10.

200 IM: Jef Johnson (DLS) 1:51.37.

50 Free: Matt Nakayama (DLS) 21.15.

100 Fly: Tim Wu (DV) 47.87.

100 Free: Luka Mijatovic (Foot) 43.65.

500 Free: Kaden Wong (Foot) 4:31.33.

200 Free relay: DLS (Matthew Nakayama, Finn Sepic, Jed Johnson, Tanner Lustig) 1:23.93.

100 Back: Cade Vieler (AV) 42.97.

100 Breast: Luke Mijatovic (Foot) 55.46.

400 Free relay: Foothill (Ethan Wang, Kaden Wong, Aiden Yeo, Luka Mijatovic) 3:40.80

Girls

Team scores: Carondelet 584.5, San Ramon Valley 505.5, Monte Vista 458, Amador Valley 410, Granada 364, California 195, Dougherty Valley 181, Foothill 175, Dublin 108, Livermore 104.

Diving: Madalynn Deswani (Cal) 467.75.

200 Medley relay: SRV (Daniela Linares Danzos, Raya Mellott, Alexis Parkinson, Maya Knapp) 1:44.29.

200 Free: Isabella Ferguson (Caron) 1:50.89.

200 IM: Raya Mellott (SRV) 2:01.91.

50 Free: Alexis Parkinson (SRV) 23.65.

100 Fly: Daniela Linares Danzos (SRV) 54.80.

100 Free: Mckinley Scobie (Foot) 51.22.

500 Free: Brooke Bennett (Gra) 4:51.12.

200 Free relay: Monte Vista (Zoe Venetta, Eva Busquets, Molly Lind, Addy VonderAhe) 1:35.57.

100 Back: Ella Busquets (MV) 53.69.

100 Breast: Raya Mellott (SRV) 1:02.72.

400 Free relay: SRV (Alexis Parkinson, Sasha Babushkina, Daniella Linares Danzos, Raya Mellott) 3:29.20.

EBAL/NCS volleyball

In another wacky week of volleyball, the EBAL finished the regular season, had its playoffs and qualified six teams for the NCS D-I playoffs.

For starters last week, Foothill beat Amador Valley 3-1 in the final regular season game to take the top spot in the Valley Division.

Then two nights later, the Falcons fell to De La Salle 3-2 in one semifinal and Amador beat San Ramon Valley, sending both the No. 2 seeds to the finals.

On Saturday the Dons claimed the playoff title with a 3-2 win over the Spartans.

Then came Sunday and the EBAL loaded up teams in NCS. Foothill received the No. 2 seed and will open play at home, hosting No. 15 Las Lomas. All games are at 7 p.m. and all take place Tuesday night.

Amador Valley got the No. 3 seed and will host No. 14 Deer Valley, with No. 5 seed De La Salle playing host to No. 12 Livermore.

Dublin got the No. 6 seed and will host No. 11 Bishop O’Dowd, with No. 7 San Ramon Valley hosting No. 10 College Park.

Finally, No. 9 Granada will open the tournament at No. 8 Liberty. Northgate was awarded the No. 1 seed.

If the seeds play out on Tuesday, Thursday in the quarterfinals Foothill would host San Ramon Valley and Amador Valley would host Dublin.

That would guarantee a spot for the EBAL in the NCS championship match to be played May 19.

In the upper-half of the bracket, the Liberty-Granada winner will face the Northgate-Castro Valley winner. The De La Salle-Livermore winner will face the winner of No. 4 Moreau Catholic and No. 13 James Logan.

Editor’s note: Dennis Miller is a contributing sports writer for the Pleasanton Weekly. This column originally appeared in Tri-Valley Preps Playbook, a weekly sports e-newsletter published by Embarcadero Media Foundation.