Thursday, April 10, 2008

Track, Field & Tournament Thursday (10 April)

Track and Field
Cabrillo
It was slightly surreal, a St. Joseph home meet held at Cabrillo HS. But that is what happened on Thursday as the Knights home track was under repair. St. Joseph certainly had no problems making themselves at home, as their domination of the field events led to a sweep of all four contests. The boys lost 55-81 (JV 61-70) and the girls lost 57-79 (JV 55-72).

Boys Varsity Winners:
4 x 100 relay unit (45.07)
Miguel Ortiz (mile 4:35.63 & 880 2:04.53)
Masimo Beeson (440 54.00)
Greg Watson (100 10.15 & 220 23.53)
Ben Li (2 mile 10:16.03)
4 x 400 relay #1 (3;38.88)

Girls Varsity Winners:
4 x 100 relay (52.91)
Genae Harrington (100 12.00)
Diamonne Mitchell (220 27.62 & Long Jump 16-7)
Kendall Reynolds (Triple Jump 35-2 & High Jump 5-2)

Boys JV Winners:
4 x 100 relay (49.94)
Armando Torres (mile 5:02.9 & 880 2:16.8)
Zane North (110 H 18.78 & 330 H 48.15)
Johnny Hernandez (2 mile 11:08)
4 x 400 relay #1 (4:03.50)
Joe Hernandez (High Jump 4-6)
Marko Marrero (Triple Jump 33-9.5)

Girls JV Winners:
4 x 100 relay (58.31)
Taylor Wagonseller (100 12.80)
Jennifer Hudson (330 H 58.47)
D. Brown (220 29.84)

Lompoc
It was a very tired group of coaches clustered in Tom Blanco's domain at LHS, after a long day and a longer bus ride back from Templeton. Coach Warrick summed up the meet - "the kids ran well, they just ran faster". Both boys & girls teams lost, but there were some bright spots for both squads. Masson Blow won the Long Jump (c. 20-1), Triple Jump (c. 43-7), and 200 Meters (c. 22.8). Chelsea Cassulo won the Shot Put (c. 38-2), Discus (c. 111 ft.), 100 M Hurdles (c. 17.12), and was 2nd in the 100M (c. 12.76). The coaches also mentioned Megan Wales approaching a PR in the 400 M (c. 1:01.8, 3rd), and a good all-around meet by Milton Royster.

Boys Golf

Cabrillo On Monday, the Conquistadors easily defeated Santa Maria on the Saints own turf. Results are incomplete, but the final score was estimated as being 228-257. Individual scorers for Cabrillo included Jeff Martin (41), Drew Langston (c.45), Joseph Pensabene (46), Perry Naughton (48), & Aaron Hay (50). Mike Morgan's score was unavailible.

Lompoc On Wednesday, Lompoc was clubed by the St. Joseph Knights 224-263. Chris Blystone led the Knights with a 39, and all five St. Joe scorers were under 50. Individual scores for the Braves were: Brent Van Dyke - 50, Alex Stone - 56, Brian Magann - 49, Abie Luna - 55, Tyler Grossi - 53, and Tyler Grossini - 69.

LPL Tournament #4 @ Templeton
Thursday at the Hunter Ranch Course, the Eagles hosted the LPL after missing the previous tournament at the VCC. Santa Ynez [Shean 72, Colvin 74] put on a show and ran away with the title, posting a 393. The other team scores (in order) were : St. Joseph 409 [Blystone 73], Templeton 427, Morro Bay 434, Cabrillo 473, Lompoc 484, and Santa Maria 517.

Individual scores for Cabrillo: Naughton 84, Hay 97, Pike 118, Langston 93, Morgan 100, Pensabene 99. And for Lompoc: Van Dyke 86, Stone 93, Magann 102, Luna 93, Grossini 110, and Grossi (unavailible).

Auto Sports

The Ford/AAA AutoSkills Competition

Two Lompoc High School students, Alberto Vasquez & Josh Taninowitz, have qualified for the State level finals of this prestigious competition.
Each instructor in the state is allowed to nominate 10 students for testing, with their top two scores constituting the team score. The top 10 team scores in the state advance to the state finals. Each state has a single competition except California which is split into two regions. The locals are training for the SoCal Championships (9 May @ Irwindale Speedway), by traveling on an almost daily basis to Vreeland Ford in Buellton which has provided new vehicles for them to practice on. The top teams in each State/Region advance to the National Finals this Summer in Dearborn, Michigan. The written & "hands-on" tests are generally considered to be at ASE qualification level.

Womens Golf

The Matador Spring Invitational

Earlier this week, LHS grad Julia Heath and her cohorts with the Cal-Poly Womens Golf Team won the 10th tournament championship in school history, the second one this year. Granted, the program only started eight years ago, but this group of players is clearly moving the program to an entirely different level than previous ones.
In the first round Heath, for the second straight tournament, "struggled", shooting a 79 on the 6,018 yard, par 72 Tierra Rejada Golf Course at Moorpark, CA. . But her teammates, with Hannah Brabb (75) leading the way, posted one of their better overall efforts to date and were tied for 2nd, two strokes (312) back of the leaders from Portland.
Round number 2 was a bit different, Julia dropped her score to 73, Brabb carded the only sub-par round (70) of the tourney and the Mustangs scored the lowest round total in school history (295) for a seven stroke victory over the host Cal St Northridge Matadors.

Brabb, the Medalist by three strokes, posted a 145 (75,70) total. Heath was 7th at 152 (79,73), Stephanie Yocum tied for 14th with a 157 (76 ,81), Maddy Fletcher tied for 19th at 159 (82,77), and Miquela Pendleton was 23rd at 162 (87,75). Competing as an individual, Kelly McEachern tied for 46th place 170 (82,88). There were nine teams and 60 golfers in the field.

Tuesday's 295 total broke the school record by one stroke and the 36-hole 607 total tied for 4th on Cal Poly's chart.In addition, Brabb's 70 tied the school record (Rebecca Norris 2003 & Maddy Fletcher earlier this season). While Brabb's 145 total is also one stroke better than the previous 36-hole record.

Sixty golfers (nine teams and 15 extras) competed in the event.

Next up for the Mustangs is the Big West Conference Championships on April 21-22 at the Tijeras Creek Golf Course in Rancho Santa Margarita.

Boys Tennis

Cabrillo
Varsity [3-5 LPL] Won @ Morro Bay 12-6
Ben Brady swept three sets at No. 2 singles and Andrew Shewell and Ryan Anderson swept 6-2, 7-5, 6-1 at No. 1 doubles for the Conquistadores.
JV: No Information availible. -- el stato

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