{"id":219138,"date":"2026-03-14T04:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T04:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/219138\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T04:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T04:01:10","slug":"badminton-piedmont-beats-tennyson-10-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/219138\/","title":{"rendered":"Badminton | Piedmont beats Tennyson, 10-5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Highlanders off to 2-1 start<\/p>\n

Piedmont High School\u2019s badminton team is off to a 2-1 start to the season in West Alameda County Conference play after a 10-5 victory over Tennyson at Binks Gymnasium on March 12.<\/p>\n

The Highlanders eight of nine doubles matches en route to the victory. Piedmont\u2019s Mandy Tang and Maddie Tran defeated Cona Takasaki and Kylee Fowler, 21-5, 21-4 in the No. 1 match to lead a sweep in girls doubles. Ava Saephan and Sophia Li took the No. 2 match over Linh Dao and Zinnia Rae Sio, 21-9, 21-6. Chloe Hong and Maddie Lee beat Daleah Jara and Marina Janairo at No. 3, 21-7, 21-6.<\/p>\n

The Highlanders also swept mixed doubles with Johnny Phmah and Naomi Treichler beating Rakshith Natarajan and Karyl Angel Nievarez at No. 1, 21-8, 21-2. Edison Zhu and Sophia Clark defeated Ivy and Ivan Ly at No. 2, 21-10, 21-10. Nathan Tuan and Katie Tran downed Cam and Nestor Torres Javiel in the No. 3 match.<\/p>\n

\"\"Duncan Pan follows through a shot against Tennyson\u2019s Noah Inting. Pan won, helping the Highlanders to a 10-5 victory.\"\"Tyler Shaw during a doubles match against Tennyson on March 12 at Binks Gymnasium. Shaw and partner Bryan Heafey scored a straight set win.\"\"Nathan Tuan (left) and Katie Tran during their match against Tennyson.<\/p>\n

In boys doubles, Chase Hench and Mike Swei won the No. 1 match for the Highlanders while Brian Heafey and Tyler Shaw took No. 2.<\/p>\n

On March 10, Piedmont lost 12-3 at home to Berkeley. Tang and Tran took the No. 1 girls doubles match while Saephan and Li won at No. 2. Phmah and Treichler took the No. 1 mixed doubles match.<\/p>\n

On March 5, the Highlanders won at Encinal, 11-4. This time, Piedmont took seven of nine doubles matches, sweeping girls and taking two out of three in boys and mixed.<\/p>\n

Walden Pan won the No. 1 boys singles match and Shou Presley came from behind to take the No. 2 match for the Highlanders.<\/p>\n

Next on the schedule is a March 17 match at Hayward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Highlanders off to 2-1 start Piedmont High School\u2019s badminton team is off to a 2-1 start to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-219138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}