Greetings Archers!
This past weekend 21 of your Cal Bears traveled to El Dorado Park in Long Beach, CA to compete in the Western Region Collegiate Championship. With great weather and a lot of fun competition, your Bears emerged victorious in every division! The first day of competition consisted of a 72 arrow ranking round at 50m for compound and 70m for recurve, followed by team rounds. The second day consisted of exciting Olympic rounds and mixed team rounds.
Male Compound
After the ranking round, freshman Raymond Ma was ranked second, while Andrey Shmakov was just ten points short of third place. These impressive scores earned this male compound team, consisting of
Raymond Ma, Andrey Shmakov, and Justin Hagler, the first seed for team rounds. The men fought hard and won their semi-final match against Stanford, earning them a spot in the gold medal match. After an intense
battle against Long Beach, the men emerged victorious and won the gold! On the second day of competition, the men battled it out in elimination rounds. After a good match, Justin got eliminated in the 1/8th round,
while Andrey and Raymond faced each other in the quarter finals. Raymond won the round and eventually moved on to the gold medal match, where he beat Jeffrey Chan of Stanford, the #1 seed overall, and won the gold! During awards, Raymond was named the best new male compound archer in the west region, also earning himself a place on the All-West team. Congratulations, male compound!
Female Recurve
Our female recurve team proved they are the team to beat in the west region in the ranking round, with Stephanie Au placing first, team captain Lyndsey Wiles placing third, just three points shy of second, Madeline Elkins placing sixth, and Sarah Jedlicka placing 18th. Later that day in team rounds, Stephanie, Lyndsey, and Madeline competed in team rounds, earning the top seed with a combined score of 1511. After a bye, they faced Dine College in the semi-finals, earning 11/24 hits and setting a school record for women’s recurve team rounds. This won them a place in the gold medal match, where they beat UCLA 6:4 and proved they were the best female recurve team in the west region for the second year in a row! During olympic rounds on Sunday, Sarah Jedlicka fought hard and eliminated one person before the second seed eliminated her. In the quarter finals, Lyndsey unfortunately had to face Madeline, and moved on to the semi-finals along with Stephanie. While Stephanie had a close match with UCLA’s Arie Wong in the semi-finals, Lyndsey had an even closer match with second seed Kalie Sabajo. After a one arrow shoot-off where Lyndsey shot
an 9 and Kalie shot an 8, Lyndsey moved on to face Stephanie in the gold medal match. After a good match, Stephanie took gold while Lyndsey took silver, again proving our recurve women’s dominance in the West! During awards, Stephanie Au earned a place on the All-West team while Lyndsey was just 9 points shy of making it on again. Congratulations, female recurve!
Male Recurve
After the ranking round, our men’s team, consisting of Craig Wilson, Brandon Sagara, and team captain Jeffrey Dong, earned the second seed for team rounds. Also of note was Darryl Lieu, who shot a 501, a personal record for him. Later in the men’s team rounds, our team received a bye and moved into the semi-finals against Cal State Long Beach, where they came from behind to win and move onto the gold medal match. In the gold medal match, our Cal men put up a tough fight against the top seed UCSD and emerged with a silver medal! The next day in elimination rounds, our men had some interesting battles. In the 1/32 round, Ethan Lewis in his first Olympic round ever took Stanford’s Sebastian Karl to a 4-4 tie where Ethan fell just short. Chenyu Zhao fought a hard battle to fall just short of advancing. Steve Barillas, Wilson Tang, and Levi Yun each battled their way to the 1/16 round where they unfortunately met up with some of
Cal’s own. Jeffrey Dong unfortunately had to eliminate Levi Yun while Brandon Sagara unfortunately had to eliminate Wilson Tang to advance. Craig Wilson and Darryl Lieu each shot well enough to advance to the 1/8
rounds. There, Brandon barely missed a win while Jeff and Darryl battled one another and Craig battled a shooter from CSU Fullerton. After tying the 1st end, both Darryl and the CSUF shooter jumped out to 5-1 leads, putting Jeff and Craig in do-or-die situations. Jeff and Craig managed to buckle down, winning 2 ends in a row to force the 5-5 tie and the epic one arrow shootoffs. Darryl Lieu shot a solid 8 just outside the 9 ring, but Jeff managed to shoot just inside the 9, unfortunately eliminating Darryl despite his great shooting. Craig managed to nail the 10, eliminating his opponent as well. Both Jeff and Craig would then unfortunately fall to the eventual gold and silver medalists respectively in the 1/4 round.
Later on the second day, Jeff and Stephanie competed in mixed team rounds together to try and bring home another medal. After falling just short to UCLA in the semi-finals, Stephanie and Jeff battled CSULB into the final end but could not quite pull it off, earning fourth place overall, just shy of a medal.
Female Compound
Freshman Kristi Youn and team captain Stephanie Ranks shot some impressive scores during the 50m ranking round. With her score, Ranks earned herself overall second place in her division. During the second day of competition, Kristi and Ranks fought hard in the elimination rounds. After a good match in the quarter finals, Kristi was eliminated while Ranks ultimately moved on to the bronze medal match. In a very close match against the first place seed from Biola, Ranks earned fourth place in the Olympic rounds. Later that day, Ranks and Raymond competed in the mixed team rounds for compound. In the semi-finals against Dine College, they barely lost and moved on to the bronze medal match. In an exciting match against Cal State Long Beach, they emerged victorious and won the bronze medal! During the awards, Ranks earned a spot on the All-West team. Go female compound!
Overall, your Cal Bears proved that they are one of the best teams in the West Region. Us captains would also like to point out the archers who competed for the first time in outdoor competition: Chenyu Zhao, Steve
Barillas, Jaewoong Ko, and Ethan Lewis. We hope you had fun, and remember, you guys will be the medal winners in the years to come! Again, congratulations to all of our archers who competed; we hope you had a blast!
Your Captains
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2011-12 UC Berkeley Cal Archery Captains
Jeff Dong
Lyndsey Wiles
Stephanie Ranks
