Family Weekend was full of excitement, kicking off Friday evening with seven Big Blue contests and six victories! Congrats to JV2 girls’ and boys’ soccer, varsity field hockey, varsity water polo, as well as varsity and JV volleyball on their wins. On Saturday afternoon, St. Paul’s traveled to Andover for matchups in girls’ and boys’ varsity and JV1 soccer, as well as JV field hockey. Our cross country teams competed against the Pelicans, NMH, Dexter Southfield, and Austin Prep. Congratulations to boys’ varsity and JV soccer, JV1 girls’ soccer, and girls’ cross country on their impressive victories.
Big Blue teams wrapped up the weekend with an impressive 10-2-2 record!
Highlights on the weekend include:
The varsity water polo team celebrated a 15-6 home-opening win versus St. John’s Prep, with eight players contributing to the goal scoring. Ryan Loh led the way with four goals and one assist. Captain Victor Hillier notched three goals and two assists. Lincoln Tomlinson and Jefferey Lim each tallied two goals. Goalkeepers Hugo Appen and Owen Burke combined for 14 saves.
In JV boys’ soccer, coached by Joe Nugent and Ben Duclos, a come-from-behind win with three second-half goals from Diego Jing '29, Domenic Pieroni '28 and Owen Price '29.
JV1 girls soccer, coached by Troy Turick and Lakshmi Jai, improved their record to 6-0-2 behind an impressive 8- 0 win over visiting St. Paul’s. Ninth grader Melina Binieris led the way with a goal and 4 assists, and Ashley Zhu tallied two goals. Also notching goals were Gauri Bhatka, Abby Duffield, Naia Kearins, Cat Smith, and Maddie Yang. Also of note, Sophie Lange-Geise stepped in to play goalie and recorded 5 saves to record her first shutout of the season.
Speaking of undefeated teams- shout-out to PAFH (varsity field hockey) and girls’ cross country, who also remain undefeated as we roll into the second half of the season.
Thanks to XC coaches Garrett Richie & Ashley Dennis for the great recaps from Saturday’s opening home meet:
Cameron Butler held off St. Paul's to take the individual win in a field of 102 runners with a PR of 16:28, followed closely by EJ Montero, who led for most of the race before finishing third with a near-minute PR of 16:31.
Andover's next two across the line in 10th and 11th place were Captain Henry Zimmerman ('27), who finished with a season-best 17:04, and Lincoln Strandberg ('30), who ran a PR of 17:10. Rounding out the scorers for BXC was Sebastián Vermut ('27) in 14th place with a PR of 17:48. In addition to the 33 PRs for BXC, all 38 BXC runners posted a season-best time, while 35 of them ran course-best times.
GXC ran a strong race against St. Paul's, NMH, Austin Prep, and Dexter Southfield, placing 1st. Out of the 23 runners who competed for PAXC, there were 19 who raced 5k personal records, including 23 out of 23 for season-best times!
The win was in large part due to a strong front pack consisting of Corinne Spade in 2nd place with a new PR of 19:05, followed by Sophie Stetson in 3rd place with a new PR of 19:12, next in was Anya Casey in 5th with a new PR of 19:37, then Maddie Marshall at 6th with a new season best of 19:42, rounding out the top five was Michelle Oh in 7th with a new PR of 19:51. Hannah Jung, Allysa Katana, and Sophia Schneeweiss crossed the finish line 8th, 9th, and 10th respectively- all with new PRs!
