Amanda Lisberger, a sophomore at Brentwood School, won two gold medals and one silver in last week’s Olympic League track and field finals at Oaks Christian High in Thousand Oaks. Lisberger won the 800 meters in 2:27 and anchored Brentwood’s silver medalist 4 x 100 meter relay team. However, she saved her best performance for the final event of the day–the girls’ varsity 4 x 400 relay. She received the baton for the final lap trailing Maranatha’s anchor runner by 80 meters. Lisberger closed to within 40 meters on the backstretch and continued gaining around the final turn, finally overtaking the leader a few steps before the finish line to complete her lap in a blazing 58 seconds. Lisberger was named first team All-CIF by the Division V Southern California Soccer Coaches’ Association after tallying 26 goals and nine assists this season. In her two years on varsity, the Eagles’ striker has scored 45 goals and assisted on 16 others in 38 high school games. She made first-team All-League in cross country in the fall and again in track this spring. Alex Ghiannini won the boys’ 12-aund-under division of the sixth annual Manhattan Beach Junior Open last Sunday. A member of the Palisades Tennis Center’s Westside League team, Ghiannini defeated fellow Team Palisades member Franco Rubio in the semifinals, 6-4, 7-6 (9). Two days earlier, both boys participated in the PTC’s Friday Night Live, a rigorous workout for ranked juniors that culminates in a one-hour “LiveBall” tournament. Team Palisades defeated the Santa Monica Acers 8-1 on Sunday to remain undefeated. Alexa Merz, a junior at Harvard-Westlake High, took first place overall in the Women’s Cadet Sabre division at the Pacific Junior Fencing Championships in San Jose. Merz, 17, is nationally ranked in her age group. She also finished 12th out of 130 competitors at the Junior Olympics in Hartford, Connecticut.
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