Time to get out the bats, racquets, clubs and other ball striking devices - spring sports are upon us. Today we preview baseball & softball and catch up on the boys tennis season already underway. Swimming, track & field, and boys golf follow on Saturday. Remember all rosters and schedules are subject to change. First up ---
Softball
2006 Los Padres League
Templeton 19-6-1 (9-2-1)
St. Joseph 11-13-2 (8-3-1)
Lompoc 16-10 (8-4)
Morro Bay 18-10 (8-4)
Cabrillo 10-14-1 (6-6)
Santa Ynez 5-20 (1-11)
Santa Maria 4-23 (1-11)
Because the Braves return 11 players from a good team, some people believe that they could challenge for the title this year, even though most regard Templeton as the favorite.
Cabrillo
Roster [var-jv]
Schedule [var - jv]
The Cabrillo softball team played two scrimmages last Saturday (the 29th)
versus Nipomo and AG with some success, and open formal play by hosting their own tournament this Saturday (1 March). Second year head coach Doug Meeder is having to deal with the loss to injury of co-captain Levena Linderholm, one of the most experienced returning players on a young team. They hope to have her back before the start of league play. Projected starters for the tournament are: P-Aldridge, C-Radabaugh, 1B-Pino, 2B-Abayari, SS-Kuhlman, 3B-Goodchild, LF-Brown, CF-Pacyna, RF-McCarty.
Lompoc
Roster [var-jv]
Schedule [var-jv]
Despite the numbers coming back, there are only two seniors (Leanna Corral & Courtney Dosa), 6 juniors, 4 sophomores, and two freshmen on the currently 14-player squad.
Head coach Al DeMaria has decided that he will use the entire pre-season to determine his line-up and plans to rotate players at virtually every position until league play starts.
Following two scrimmages at Dos Pueblos, the Braves travel to SLO on friday and then head south to the Simi Valley Tourney on Saturday.
Baseball
2006 Los Padres League
Lompoc 18-9 (9-3)
Cabrillo 14-12-1 (8-3-1)
St. Joseph 17-9 (8-4)
Santa Ynez 15-10-1 (5-6-1)
Morro Bay 9-13 (5-7)
Templeton 8-14 (5-7)
Santa Maria 1-22 (1-11)
Lompoc, as two time defending LPL champs, and with a load of folks back is expected to repeat. St. Joseph (always tough), Santa Ynez (several key players return), and Cabrillo are expected to challenge.
Cabrillo
Roster [var- jv-frosh]
Schedule [var- jv- frosh]
Cabrillo begins the post Danny Duffy era with an alumni game on Saturday, but they also begin the post 'nine other guys' era as well. They only return seven players from last years group - four of whom were sophomores, so experience is at a premium. Pitching is looks to be by committee early on, but head coach Jonathan Osbourne is confident that valley legend pitching coach has the situation under control. The projected infield starters are: 1B- Harmon, 2B- Pecyna, SS- McGinty, 3B- Somers, C- Sullivan. The outfield line-up will change frequently since many of the leading candidates for those spots also will be pitching. Generally it will be Naputi (CF), Galvan (RF), and Fraats (LF), with Buttler and Elliot filling in. Naputi will start on the mound Saturday.
Lompoc
Roster [var-jv-frosh]
Schedule [var-jv-frosh]
Last year was supposed to be a rebuilding year for Jim Allen's Lompoc squad. After all, six of his 16 varsity players were sophomores. So what happens - six players made the All-LPL 1st team (two seniors, two juniors, and two of those pesky soph's) en route to a league title. So this year the youth movement is over, right ? Wrong. This season he has three freshmen and another sophomore on his 14 member unit. One of the most difficult elements to replace, they did lose six seniors, will be the consistant and reliable pitching of Matt Nunes - especially in relief.
Lompoc starts the regular season on Friday @ Santa Barbara, then continues south for a double-header @ Rialto on Saturday. Fridays starters are P- Bower, C- D. Mallory, 1B- Aguailar, 2B- Berryman, SS- Rouleau, 3B- Alonzo, LF- Erickson, CF- Whitaker, RF- Samaniego. Expect some more established players to start on Saturday.
Tennis (boys)
The boys tennis season is already underway - with mixed results for the two schools. Lompoc scrimmaged against Nipomo last Saturday, and eked out a 10-8 win at home against Righetti on Wednesday. Cabrillo scrimmaged Righetti last Saturday, then faced two of the better teams in the area (SLO, AG) on Tuesday and Thursday.
Lompoc [1-0]
Roster (as listed)
Schedule
The Braves are led by head coach Loretta Jensen's son Alex. The junior swept all his sets at #1 singles on Wednesday (6-2,6-0,6-1) for three of Lompoc's ten points. The other singles players for the Braves - sophomore Robert Rodriguez (#2) and junior Marco Pasallo (#3), each won a set 6-4.
The action in that first match, however, was in doubles. The #2 duo of Anthony Yang, the teams only senior, and junior Carlos Esparza won two uneventful sets (6-3,6-1). The #3 doubles - juniors Cooper Barrick (up from JV) and Jesus Abrego, won their first set 6-2 and were in a very competitive second set when Abrego tweaked a soccer injury. He was barely able to finish the set, a 6-7 (7-9) tiebreaker loss. But he was unable to compete in the third set - resulting in a Lompoc forfeit.
Those two losses put the match squarely on the shoulders of the #1 doubles team. Lompoc led 9-8 in sets, but was only up 68-67 in games, the deciding factor if sets are even, with one set to play. Since sets have to be won by two games unless they go to a tie-breaker, the Braves had to win at least six games in the set to win salvage a tie.
Juniors Kyle Thumm and Joel Martin, the #1 doubles, raced out to a quick 4-1 lead, but lost three of the next four games to make the score 5-4. The next game was a see-saw battle. Lompoc missed on several chances to break serve an win the match, but the game went to deuce, and then was won by the visitors to even the set at 5-5. The Braves then kicked things into high gear and surrendered only a single point in each of the next two games, winning the set 7-5 and the match 10-8.
One of coach Jensen's sayings is "gotta beat the threes", and Lompoc did just that against the Warriors. They were 1-6 versus Righetti's #1's, 3-3 against the #2's, but 6-0 against the # 3's.
JV
Coach Jim Steffey's JV squad won 14-4 over a short-handed Warrior team.
In singles Oscar Rodriguez won two sets (3-6,6-1,6-0), Wyatt Peterson won three (6-2,6-0,6-0), and Chris Aldama one (1-6,1-6,6-0).
Since Righetti only had one JV doubles unit the Braves received six forfeit wins. Two other sets wer won on the court by #1 doubles Carlos Diaz/ Devin Day (6-3) & #3 Ritchie Alvarez/ Robert Yang (6-4). The lone loss, by Edgar Solis/ Gabriel Hernandez, was a competitive 6-3.
Cabrillo [0-2]
Roster
Schedule [var - jv]
The Conquistadores faced a brutal week of tennis against two of the premiere units on the central coast. They lost at home to SLO 18-0 [story, story] and 16-2 on the road at Arroyo Grande [story]. The two points were scored by freshman Eric Wong against subtitutes.
The varsity has so far been represented by Ryan Anderson, Andrew Shewell, & Eric Wong at singles, and doubles units Arjun Ayyer / Jordan Daniel, Casey Owen / Alex Hurd (or David Terrones), and Peter Rapoza / Tanner Stark. Shewell, Owen, & Stark are seniors, Terrones a sophomore, and Wong a freshman - all the others are juniors.
JV
The JV lost to SLO 16-2, with the wins coming from Frankie Caldera (6-0) and David Terrones / Calvin Hoffeld (6-3). Against AG they came close in two sets but were unable to break into the win column.
Playing singles thus far have been Ray Moreno (11), Frankie Caldera (9), and Conner Galvan (9). Doubles were Ricky Ruiz (or Terrones) / Calvin Hoffield, Gary Laugen / Ricky Cummings, Ryan Anderson / Roy Moran, & Daniel Garmendia / Manual Contreras.
--- el stato
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