Close, but no See-gar.... [ + Wednesday Updates]

It was not a good day for most of the local squads, both Cabrillo Volleyball and Lompoc Tennis varsity outfits took their opponents down to the wire - then tripped over it.

{UPDATES: Girls Volleyball, Boys Water Polo, Girls Golf}

And the new SMT Football Poll: 1. Arroyo Grande (4-0), 2. Atascadero (4-0), 3. St Joseph (2-1), 4. Righetti (3-1), 5. Lompoc (2-2), 6. SLO (2-2), 7. Paso Robles (1-2), 8. Cabrillo (1-3) , 9. Santa Maria (2-2), 10. Templeton (2-2). Both Santa Ynez (8th) & Morro Bay (10th) fell out of the Top 10 this week.
Three Comments -
1) Since AG hosts Atascadero, and St Joe crosses the street to Righetti on Friday night, there is likely going to be room for the Braves to move up with a Homecoming win vs Santa Ynez.
2) The other PAC-7 game has SLO going over the grade to Paso. If Cabrillo can cover the same ground and come back from Templeton a winner, we may see both valley teams in the top 5.
3) That would not necessarily be a major accomplishment however. In the current list only 4 squads have winng records, and the AG Eagles & the Greyhounds aside, the rest of the list is only 15-15 on the season.


LPL Girls Volleyball [Story]
Wednesday
Santa Ynez 3, Coast Union 0
[25-4, 25-9, 25-14]
The visiting Broncos were in over their heads, as the Pirates rolled.

Tuesday
Righetti 3, @ Cabrillo [1-1 LPL] 2
[25-13, 25-12, 22-25, 19-25, 20-22]
The Conqs had the Warriors on the ropes, but never could quite put them away.

Morro Bay [1-2 LPL] 3, Lompoc [1-5, 1-2 LPL] 0
Nipomo [2-0 LPL] 3, Templeton [2-1 LPL] 1
[25-19, 20-25, 25-11, 26-24]
The Eagles made it interesting, but the Titans prevailed in this match-up to keep pace with Santa Ynez for the LPL lead.

Santa Ynez [8-7, 2-0 LPL] 3, @ Santa Maria [0-16, 0-3 LPL] 0
[25-4, 25-13, 25-9]
Those front-running Pirates took care of business at Wilson Gym.

Lower Levels
Junior Varsity
@ Cabrillo 2, Righetti 0 No Adittional Info
Morro Bay @ Lompoc No Info

Frosh
Righetti 2, @ Cabrillo 0


Girls Tennis
LPL Contests
Morro Bay [2-2] 9 (85), Lompoc 9 (80)
Another squeeker where the locals came up just short. The Braves have been in the hunt recently, but can't seem to get over the top. Singles went 5-4 for Lompoc, Doubles 5-4 for the Pirates. Sierra Wicox/ Jessica Wagner won a crucial tiebreaker [7-6 (7-4)], and swept three sets for the Pirates.

Singles: Pirates - Megan Hansen [2-6, 6-1, 6-0], and Joyce Lo [4-6, 6-4, 6-1] captured 2 sets each. Braves - A Sameeha Sweep (Sameeha Husayn), and 2 set wins by Nicole Nomany.
Doubles: Pirates - Sierra Wicox/ Jessica Wagner [6-4,7-6 (7-4), 6-1] accounted for 3 of the 5 Pirate points. Lompoc - Pairs Cera Mitchell/ Ashala Martin, Julie Abrego/ Marielle Tabin, and Catalina Perez/Amargiete Larios all reportedly won at least once.

@ Santa Ynez 13, Santa Maria 5
The Pirates won the Battle of the Santa's. They also used a fair number of non-regulars.

The Templeton / Nipomo match was postponed due to heat conditions, and is now slated for next Monday. Cabrillo had the Bye.

Other
ON Monday-
Orcutt Academy 11 @ Cabrillo JV 7

Boys Water Polo
Wedesday
It was a rough day for the locals, as all 6 LPL squads (No Templeton team) started league play -
Nipomo 14, Cabrillo 13 [Story] - Big comeback falls short. Theme this week, apparently.
Santa Ynez 20, Lompoc 0 [Story Scroll Down] - Momma said there'd be days like this...
Santa Maria 7, Morro Bay 5 [Story] - Big win for Saints.

Tuesday
Oxnard 14, @ Cabrillo 8
Junior Varsity
Oxnard @ Cabrillo strong>- No Info.

LPL Girls Golf
@ Cabrillo 247, Nipomo 293
[at the Village Country Club]

Medalist - Any Guesses ? Yup ! Morgan Salm's 35 (1- under) was believed to be the 1st round under par by an LPL golfer this season, and was at least her 3rd round under 40 in LPL action. There are only known to be 6 such rounds so far - the others by two Santa Ynez players.

Cabrillo [247]: Morgan Salm 35, Isabel Tejada 47, Mariah Hall 54, Jade Stevens 55, Gabby Hott 56.
Nipomo [293]: Sara Clark 44, Courtney Cuzick 56, Ashley Gonzales 59, Melissa Panzardi 63, Kaity Kendrick 69.

The other two LPL matches were held on Monday.