San Ramon Valley High School barely broke over .500 last year with a disappointing 11-10 record. This season, they have opened up with four wins, the most prevailing of which being last Wednesday against ’09’s California Central Coast CIF Champions, St. Ignatius. The San Ramon Wolves hadn’t seen a win against the Wildcats since March 30th of ’05.
| Date |
Opponent |
Result |
| 2/26 |
at Miramonte |
W, 17-9 |
| 3/06 |
at Redwood |
W, 17-6 |
| 3/09 |
UNIVERSITY SF |
W, 7-3 |
| 3/17 |
SAINT IGNATIUS PREP |
W, 10-8 |
| 3/23 |
at De LaSalle |
L, 17-10 |
| 3/26 |
at Livermore |
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| 3/30 |
AMADOR VALLEY |
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| 4/01 |
at Acalanes |
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| 4/02 |
at Granada |
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| 4/13 |
CALIFORNIA |
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| 4/16 |
FOOTHILL |
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| 4/20 |
MONTE VISTA/DANVILLE |
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| 4/23 |
DE LASALLE |
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| 4/27 |
LIVERMORE |
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| 4/30 |
at Amador Valley |
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| 5/04 |
GRANADA |
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| 5/07 |
at California |
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| 5/11 |
at Foothill |
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| 5/14 |
at Monte Vista/Danville |
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San Ramon Valley plays in California’s North Coast Section and as of the March 23 they received their first defeat to conference foe and last year’s section champion, De LaSalle. Peter Worstell is the head coach for the Wolves and has been able to guide his guys to a great start and what will hopefully continue to be a fulfilling spring season.
San Ramon Valley Boys Lacrosse Head Coach Peter Worstell.
How is the season going so far for the team?
Ahh, you’re catching us at a bad time because we lost to LaSalle last night but last week these guys accomplished something incredible. Not to take that away from them but we had a rough one with LaSalle. We were a big fat juicy apple to them and that’s the reason that they are NCS (North Coast Section) Champions. But I take absolute full responsibility for us not being able to put back to back big wins together, that’s on the head coach and I take responsibility for that loss.
Who are the guys leading the way for the Wolves?
Ross Rudow (midfield), Ryan Slee (defense), and Andrew Nuss (defense) are my senior captains and a lot of the responsibility falls on them.
5 of the 10 starters are sophomores and freshman and they are on varsity for a reason and they know that they have a burden to carry.
Michael Tagliaferri and Patrick Worstell made all league last season and they have been to the Sophomore Blue Chip and California Gold after their freshman year and got invited back again for both this year. As freshman they really created names for themselves. The other underclassman starters for me are Jordan Weiss, Zach Kline and Camrom Bowlby who is our freshman goalie, are all very talented and they too will be attending California Gold along with Michael and Patrick.
How is Ross Rudow looking for you this spring?
He is doing real well and you certainly lean on your senior leadership and we have a great group of guys. Ross is going to Cornell next year so we look for a lot from him.
How do you think the depth of your squad made it possible to get a win over State Champion St. Ignatius?
Despite our young arsenal they (sophmores) have a year of varsity ball under their belt and we knew that last year we had something special. I have to give credit to St. Ignatius for being the power house that they are though. This is an opportunity to play the best and it’s hard to stay on top for so long and I give them credit for doing it.
What are some up coming games that will prove to be challenging for your team this spring?
Ya know, this is the toughest league in northern Cal. We are like lions eating our young over here. We see each other two, in some cases, three times during the season and on any given night there is no wiggle room to not show up. If you want to add value to your schedule you have to play North Cal. teams.
Do you have any other guys that will be playing collegiate ball in the future?
Ryan Slee is going to play club ball at Oregon next fall and Nuss is entertaining offers from Cal Berkley right now as well as some other schools.
San Ramon Valley returns to action this Friday as they face a 6-1 Livermore team. They will look to see De LaSalle in late April to see if they can redeem their first loss of the season and continue on to contend for a North California State Championship.
No. 8 Stanford went on the road Thursday to face one of the top program’s in the nation in No. 2 Maryland. The Terrapins proved to be too much for Stanford, defeating the Cardinal, 20-8.
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