Big Thursday

The Lompoc Braves JV girls volleyball squad are now wearing patches to honor the memory of teammate Alyssa Miller.








Girls Volleyball
Lompoc
The Morro Bay Pirates came raiding in the Lompoc Valley, and won 2 of 3 matches...

Varsity 0-3 [20- 25, 19-25, 14-25] -
The Braves were competitive throughout this match. Unfortunately, they didn't have the results show up on the scoreboard.

Game 1 started off well for Lompoc, as they sprinted to 3-0 & 4-1 leads, but after they lost a side out to the Pirates, everything ground to a halt. Initially umpire Doug Lazek penalized Morro Bay for an illegal substitution and a point and the ball awarded to Lompoc. He then reversed that call and the Pirates were penalized a timeout and also charged for a timeout called by their coach. That call was also was reversed, by referee John Isel, since Coach Brian Plunkett argued that he had called his timeout before the call to serve had been made and therefore was no illegal substitution existed. After 10 minutes or so the situation was resolved but by then the formerly red-hot Braves had gone cold.

The Pirates slowly reeled them, passed them, and eased out to a 2 point lead. Then 3 points, 4 points, 5 points, and finally 6 points at 20-14. Lompoc was able to stop the bleeding, but was never able to catch up, dropping the game 25- 20.

Game 2 followed a simlar pattern, but without the official delay. Lompoc jumped out to an early 9-2 lead, but each team started siding out with regularity. It was 12-5 when the game changed. The Pirates recieved a side out point and Chelsea Mansfield started serving. And serving. And serving. When they finally got her stopped, on one of Jackie Townsend's many great hustle plays, it was 14-13 Morro Bay. Erika Slikker pounded one to the floor to tie it at 14, but the Braves were outscored 11-5 down the stretch. The kept trading 2-3 points for one and fell 25-19.

Game 3 was also close for a while. Lompoc lost a side out and Sara Hoversten went to the line. It was 9-8 Braves when she started, and 17-10 Pirates when she was done. She had 4 aces in that stretch. Lompoc never recovered and lost the game 25-14.

JV 2-1 [19-25, 26-24, 15-13] -
The JV squad which could really use some good news prevailed in a three game match that was close all the way. The total point differential for the match was 2, and that in favor of the losing team.

Lompoc leapt from the gate to a 4-0 start in game 1, but the Pirates clawed back to a 14-12 lead. Then came one of those service streaks, this time by Alexis Galena. When the Braves were finally able to stop her,and it took a great rally to do it, Morro Bay was up 19-13. Both teams traded short point spurts the rest of the way, but the margin held - with thePirates winning 25-19.

Game 2 was a dandy, with early ties at 3, 6, 7, & 8. Morro Bay then began to ease out to the lead again, at 15-10, 16-12, 18-12, and 20-15. That's when the Braves began serving light out for a change! Amanda Roman got 4 in a row, including a massive Jess Brundy block. After a MB timeout, the Pirates forced a side out on a great rally, but Lompoc won the ball right back. A couple of exchanges put the ball in Jesslyn Brundy's hands, the Braves facing match point, down 24-20. She proceded to win 6 consecutive points, including 2 aces. Amanda Roman finishing things off with a thunderous kill from the back row for the win.

In the tie-breaker Lompoc forged a 9-4 lead, before Morro Bay pulled themselves back into contention - first 9-7, the 12-10. Coach Savella called a timout and the Braves mostly traded points until the 15-13 conclusion.

Varsity head honcho Don Savella coached the team since Ramona Thomas was out of town to attend yet another funeral.


Frosh 0-2 [8-25, 18-25] -
Did we mention service errors yesterday ? Well, they reappeared big-time in this one. In the opening game the Braves had 10 serve chances and 8 services errors. They quickly fell behind 13-3 and never recovered, losing 25-8. The second game saw great improvement by the squad, but they hit a stretch in the middle of the game, as LHS v-ball teams are wont to do, were the just couldn't get a side out. Down 5-1, they fought back on the serving of Tawny Nunes, Lauren Pouliot, and Gabbie Armero to a 12-9 lead. They couldn't hold it. The two teams struggled back and forth until the game was tied at 14 all.
The Morro Bay servers then took over. Kylie Gacad pushed it to 19-14. A brief Lompoc resurgence to cut it to 20-17. Tia Gacad served 4 more straight points, and the visitors were soon after able to close out the match. The final was a 25-8, 25-18 sweep by the Pirates.

Cabrillo
The Conquistadors took on the visitors from Coastal Christian:

Varsity- Misty Sano's Conquerors came into the night with a win in their only prior match - a 3-0 (25-11, 25-13. 25-12) sweep of Lompoc last week. They weren't able to duplicate that feat, but they did take home a 3-1 [20-25, 25-21, 25-18, 25-16] victory.

JV- Jennifer Smith's charges swept in straight games 25-14, 25-7 over an out-manned CC unit that only had 7 girls. Kristina Goodchild put together a remarkable string of 16 consecutive serves in the second game including 3 of the 13 aces the Conquistadors had in the match. Kiley Shae Aldridge had 5 more of those aces while doing an "awesome job setting", and Summer Galvan had four kills.

Frosh- The Frosh did not play since Coastal Christian does not have a freshman team.

Girls Tennis

Lompoc
The Lompoc [0-3 LPL] varsity lost to Santa Ynez [6-1, 2-0 LPL] 14- 4.
In singles, the Pirates were led by two exchange students -#1 Nathalia Chaddad [Brazil] (6-0, 6-1), #2 Louise Gyllerman [Sweden] (6-1, 6-0) and Holly Adams (6-4, 6-4) each won two before being pulled for substitutes. Doubles #1 Lauren Swift / Emily Ineman won two (6-2, 6-0) and # 2 Alisa Silsbee / Erica Schroeder also swept 6-1, 6-0, for Santa Ynez.
The Braves recieved points from a doubles win over the #3 team and three wins over substitutes. The Maria Morales / Dana Campitelli combo topped Katie Manser / Brittany Feighner in doubles (6-3), and Renee Xiong (6-2 Rachael Welch), Nicole Nomany ( 6-0 Lauren Gerlach), and Sameeha Husayn (6-1 Heather Vellekamp) each picked up wins.
The final points went to Pirate doubles teams Brittany & Amanda Nelson (6-3), and Sophie Brandstater / Shelby Lee (6-1).
Lompoc's Karina Esqueda was called up to varsity to replace an absent member and teamed with Jessica Cosio at #3 doubles.

Cabrillo
At Templeton, the Conquistadores [4-1, 2-0 LPL] topped Templeton [1-2 LPL] 13-5. Julie Levya swept (6-1, 6-0, 6-0) in singles and the Montez sisters (Brissa & Jessica) swept at No.1 doubles for Cabrillo.

Girls Golf

LPL Tournament # 1
[Rancho Maria/ St Joe]
*** Preliminary Info ***
The medalist competition came down to a match-up between (surprise, surprise) St. Joseph's Danielle Gilaspy and Maddison Shean of Santa Ynez. This time Gilaspy (37) came out ahead of Shean (39).

Gilaspy's Knights also won the team contest, with no golfer carding higher than a 48 for the nine holes:
1. St. Joseph (215)
Danielle Gilaspy 37
2. Santa Ynez (220)
Maddison Shean 39
3. Cabrillo (270)
Morgan Salm 45, Mariah Hall 46, Gabby Hott 53,
4. Santa Maria (296)
Jackie Teniente 46, Greta Corsa 53
5. Lompoc (331)
Kaleigh Goethe 49, Betty Sullivan 64
6. Morro Bay (336)
Shanna Crawford 57
Templeton doesn't have a girls golf team












Football


Lompoc JV
The Braves and Chargers echanged big plays, but Lompoc had more of them - especially on special teams. After DP opened the scoring Lavon Haynes returned the kickoff (c.75 yds) for a TD. A long punt return TD by Jordan Collins, two TD runs (c. 65 & 5 yds) by Dillon "Moose" Morgan, and several missed conversion opportunities resulted in a 25-7 score in the waning moments of the 3rd period.

The Chargers John Dickenson then stepped in front a Braves pass in the right flat and cruised 38 yards for a score. The kick narrowed the gap to 25- 14 and had DP dreaming of a comeback. The dream was short-lived. Lavon Haynes took the resulting kickoff on an 80 yard TD gallop. Morgan drilled the PAT, and with 0:33 left in the quarter Lompoc was leading by 18 points again. DP tacked on late (2:16) TD on a 5 yard run by Michael Spiritossantos, but the EP was blocked, resulting in a 32-20 final.

The win was doubly sweet for Lompoc offensive coordinator Danny Lara since he was able to pull a few fast ones on the DP defense coached by LHS grad Nate Mendoza.

Lompoc Frosh
The freshmen didn't fare so well. They got a kickoff return TD from Virlin Donelson to cut the margin to 14-7, but trailed at the big break 35-7. Aaron "Big Train" Kucharski scored the only TD of the second half to make the final 35-14 Dos Pueblos.

Cabrillo Frosh
No Information received yet.

Coming Attractions
LLR regular features Alumni Update on each Sunday and LPL Round-up on every Tuesday during the season.

Football
On Friday, the Conquistadors JV and Varsity will host the St. Joseph Knights in Huyck Stadium at 7:30 pm. Meanwhile, the Braves will participate in the first ever varsity football game at Scott O'Leary Stadium on the campus of Dos Pueblos High School [Take Glen Annie to Cathedral Oaks, turn left and then left again on Alameda Ave.]. If you can't make to the game in person, remember you can listen to the game live on Comcast (Lompoc area) channel 23 or (hopefully) streaming audio on lompoclockerroom.com .

Boys Water Polo
The varsity teams from both high schools will be participating in the Buena tournament on Friday and Saturday.

Cross Country
Both schools X-C units will be in action this weekend. The Conqs heading north to the Big Ditch Invitational at Arroyo Grande, and the Braves head south to the UCSB Lagoon Run in Santa Barbara. Both events are on Saturday. --- el stato