Sports Briefs: Tam secures top seed for field hockey playoffs

Senior Rowie Scobie notched five goals Thursday as Tam locked up the MCAL regular-season field hockey title with a 12-0 victory over Marin Academy. Senior Alya Duggan had two goals and three assists in the Red-tailed Hawks’ final game of the regular season. Stela King, Veronica Ray, Dola Tibbs, Ali Jampol and Lucy Mollner also scored for Tam.

Tam (13-2-1) sits on top of the MCAL standings with 41 points. Second-place University (11-1-2), with two games left to play, can finish with 40 points at most. Third-place Redwood (10-2-2) still has a chance to capture second place with two games remaining.

• Lucy Jeffers scored twice and added an assist in Redwood’s 4-0 victory over Convent on Thursday. Lucy Tonderys and Mackenzie Wilkinson also scored for the Giants.

Girls tennis

Terra Linda rallied for a pair of key singles wins and a doubles victory to edge Archie Williams High, 4-3, on Thursday in a key battle for the final spot in the MCAL playoffs. The Trojans’ Mimi Kemp stepped up for a 4-6, 6-2 (10-8) win at No. 4 singles over the Peregrine Falcons’ Kathleen Schalit. Chloe Sason gave the Trojans a 7-6, 6-3 win at No. 3 singles, and Terra Linda won the No. 1 singles match by default. The Falcons’ Siena Mickelson battled to a 7-5, 7-5 win at No. 2 singles over Jamie Schmidt.

Terra Linda’s top doubles team of Leona Liskey and Sahaj Malik held tough for a 6-1, 7-5 win over the Falcons’ Sarah Chamberlin and Chloe Dupont.

Terra Linda (5-9) is in fifth place with two matches remaining, while Archie Williams (4-9) is in sixth place with three matches remaining, meaning the teams could both finish the regular season 7-9. A play-in game is scheduled for Oct. 25, if needed.

Boys water polo

Tam was invited to the prestigious invitational, the annual North-South tournament and lost two games Friday against top-flight Southern California competition.

In the tournament opener at Gunn High in Palo Alto, unbeaten Newport Harbor (23-0), the nation’s top-ranked team per MaxPreps, beat Tam, 14-1. Senior Fields Palmer scored Tam’s lone goal and Reed Hanna made four steals.

In a consolation bracket game, freshman goalie Ethan Wallace made 11 saves, but Mater Dei of Santa Ana held off a spirited Tam effort, 8-6. Hanna scored three goals and freshman Jasper Feldman scored two for the Red-tailed Hawks (10-9).

Tam plays Greenwich (Ct) Saturday morning at Gunn.

• Junior Charlie Bussi scored a team-high six goals as San Rafael beat Lick-Wilmerding, 13-10, Thursday. Senior Gabe Cabrales scored three goals and had three assists, and junior Sherwood Critchfield scored three goals for the Bulldogs. Jack Charlesworth also scored for San Rafael. In other action Thursday, Marin Academy beat Novato, 11-8.

Girls water polo

Freshman Alex Markwick scored eight goals and junior Alma Camacho tallied four goals as San Rafael defeated Lick-Wilmerding, 15-13, on Thursday. Maya Kux scored twice for the Bulldogs and Maya Budesa added a goal. Freshman goaltender Madelyn Janzen had five saves for San Rafael.

• Senior Jessa Dunn had seven goals and two assists to lead Terra Linda past San Marin, 18-7, Thursday. Trojans senior Emily Erickson had three goals and three assists, while Josephine Fetterman-Riggle had three goals and four assists. Junior Alina Noyes had two goals and two assists, and Evelyn Noyes scored twice and added an assist, and Elizabeth Berringer’s goal rounded out the scoring. Trojans goaltender Haley Brown had nine saves.
• Tam beat San Domenico, 10-2, although the Panthers got goals from Lauren Kurtzman and Kayla Li.
• Marin Academy won two games Friday during tournament action in Napa. The Wildcats, coming off Thursday’s 17-2 league win over Novato, rolled to a 17-2 win over host Vintage on Friday, then beat Pittsburg 14-2.
• Marin Catholic suffered a 8-6 Non-league loss to Washington on Friday.

Women’s water polo

Delaney Mannor scored five goals and Annabelle Phillips netted two goals, but College of Marin fell to Diablo Valley, 15-7, on Friday.

Girls volleyball

Novato resident Claire Ellis, a sophomore at St. Vincent De Paul in Petaluma, has emerged as the team’s kill leader this season.

Ellis missed her freshman season due to a torn ACL but is enjoying a breakout campaign with 213 kills for the Mustangs (19-6). Ellis is also third on the teams in aces (67) and fifth in digs (80).

The Mustangs, who are 6-2 in the North Bay Redwood League with two games to play, have only faced one Marin team so far this season. Ellis had a team-high nine kills in a three-set win against San Domenico on Sept. 28.

Reporting scores

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