Cabrillo Girls Swim Nominated; Smith Stars for UW

The Cabrillo boosters are busy! A nomination has come for another CHS aquatics team, this time the CHS girls swim team which went undefeated in the Los Padres League last spring and sent a 200-meter freestyle relay team off to win a CIF title. Pictured here are KATHERINE VEGA, BRIANNA MONTOYA, ASHLEY SMITH and KATHRYN NELSON of the champion relay team surrounding coach SCOTT ALVAREZ. Alvarez was also nominated for the Coach of the Year race.

YOU can nominate right now! Just e-mail your nominee to pressboxprod@verizon.net in any of four categories: Male Athlete of 2007, Female Athlete of 2007, Coach of the Year and Team of the Year. For the list of nominees to date just look in the right-hand column below our sponsors.

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BASKETBALL

JOEL

In Seattle Monday night JOEL SMITH was on his game as he put up three consecutive three-point baskets to propel the Washington Huskies on a 23-7 run and a 32-16 lead.
Long Beach State rallied to within 41-33 at halftime but the Huskies hung on for an 84-69 victory.

Smith was 4-for-4 from beyond the arc and totaled 13 points. He was Washington’s second high scorer even though he came off the bench and played just 18 minutes. He pulled down three rebounds.

Coach Lorenzo Romar had this to say about Smith: “If you've noticed in our games whenever Joel’s feet are set he is pretty accurate from three. Tonight he got a lot of open looks so he knocked those down. In preseason practices I remember specifically telling Joel, ‘Why would you turn that shot down, I think it is going in every time.’ It is just a matter of him getting open looks and tonight he got them.”