Different Directions

Anna Jelmini is the major obstacle between Lompoc's Chelsea Cassulo and a State Championship. The Shafter HS junior has thrown the third best shot put distance in the country this year (49-2.5) & the 4th best discus distance (183-11) ever thrown by a high school girl. Cassulo begins her march to the hoped for match-up on Saturday.


Recap
The Lompoc tennis team bowed out of the CIF Playoffs, Cabrillo baseball evened its record and continue to await the decision on their playoff fate, the CHS swimmers have a decent showing at the finals, and track athletes from both local high schools prepare for the CIF Prelims on Saturday.

CIF Div IV Tennis

Lompoc
After a narrow wild card victory at home on Tuesday, it was a different story for the Braves on the road on Thursday. Lompoc was unceremoniously dumped from the playoffs 15-3 by the Whitney (Cerritos) Wildcats. The #1 seed of the Academy League swept all the Braves except LPL Singles Champ Alex Jensen, who swept his sets for the only Lompoc points. Broken in the first game of his initial set, Jensen immediately broke back against Whitney's #1 singles player Joel Kennedy and went on to win 6-4. Whitney, a college-prep magnet school, simply had more depth and experience than the locals, but the Braves have almost everybody back next year and we look forward to even more success in the future.
Lompoc Scores
Singles:
#1 Alex Jensen (6-4, 6-1, 6-2), #2 Robert Rodriguez (2-6, 1-6, 1-6), #3 Anthony Yang (1-6, 0-6, 1-6)
Doubles :
#1 Kyle Thumm / Marco Pasallo (0-6, 0-6, 4-6), #2 Joel Martin / Cooper Barrick (2-6, 0-6, 4-6), #3 Oscar Rodriguez / Carlos Diaz (0-6, 5-7, 0-6).
Other LPL Teams:
LPL #2 Seed St. Joseph (18-1) The homestanding Knights bounced the Downey Vikings (San Gabriel Valley #2, 8-4) from the tournament 14-4 (8-1 in singles) and will play Walnut HS on Saturday at a site to be determined by coin flip.
At Santa Ynez the LPL #1 Seeded Pirates thumped Mayfair to advance to the second round against the 12-5 Estancia Eagles in Costa Mesa.

CIF Div IV Swimming

The Cabrillo girls (72 points, 12th) & boys (26 points, T28) represented the valley at the CIF Finals on Thursday [Click on image to see individual results]. No LHS swimmers made the finals. There were 44 girls, and 46 boys teams at th Belmont Plaza competition. The top two finishers from each of the four CIF divisions and the next sixteen fastest times in an event qualify for the Masters Meet. Although the "upper" division results are not yet known it is unlikely that any of the local swimmers qualified.

Complete Results

Other LPL schools [Place (points)]:
Santa Maria - boys 40th (7), girls 11th (82)
Morro Bay - boys tied 34 (15), girls 7th (106)
St. Joseph - boys 30th (25), girls 15th (64)
Santa Ynez - boys 14th (54), girls 18th (46)

CIF Div III Track and Field

Even though the official results of the entire LPL Finals Meet have not yet been released - the following local student-athletes have qualified for the CIF Prelims on Saturday. Several of them have legitimate shots at advancing to the CIF-SS Finals and Masters Meets.
Complete Listings


Baseball

Cabrillo
At Carpenteria, Cabrillo defeated the Warriors 5-3. The Conquistadors couldn't do anything about their LPL record (finished at 7-5) or their playoff chances (they need Morro Bay to beat Templeton on Friday), but they could do something about evening their overall record (13-13) and staying sharp if they make the post-season. They did both, using the long ball to beat a quality Carpenteria team (14-7) that had won 10 of its last 11 games.

Cabrillo got a solo homer in the first and a double from starting pitcher Ryan McGinty, and a two-run homer in a three run sixth from Zach Pecyna.
Lompoc
The Braves host Santa Ynez at 4pm on Friday for the LPL Championship.
-- el stato