Golf, Golf, Tennis

Golf Coaches Craig Knowles (Cabrillo) and John Nielson (St. Joseph) tally up the numbers , but the clear winner on Wednesday was the golf course at VCC.


With spring sports rapidly winding down, the scramble for possible CIF berths is rising to a fever pitch. Swimming & Track hold LPL Prelim meets on Saturday, Lompoc tennis faces the only two teams above them in the standings, Cabrillo tennis plays its last match of the season, and the LPL golfers meet in Lompoc to see if anyone can dethrone St Joe.

Softball Note: The Lompoc - Coast Union game has been cancelled at the request of host Coast. The game, which was initially scheduled to be played at LHS, was postponed to Friday at CU due to the LHS bomb scare earlier this year. That was, of course, before Jeana Carrillo went on a tear - pitching 39 consecutive scoreless innings.

Boys Golf

Cabrillo
With the cold, gusting, and swirling winds on Wednesday, Cabrillo's home course at the Village Country Club was almost unplayable. Anything in the air would be blown toward the trees, and players were racing to mark their balls on the extremely fast greens before the wind blew them back into the first cut. The visiting St. Joseph Knights were horrified by their "high" scores from the front nine, until they realized that the Conqs had similar numbers. Furthering the St. Joe woes one of their players was disqualified due to a scorecard error, but they still prevailed over Cabrillo 231-243. Colin Crist (SJ) edged out Perry Naughton for Medalist honors.
Individual scores (including the few JV players):
Cabrillo: Perry Naughton 44, Aaron Hay 52, Drew Langston 49, Jeff Martin 47, Mike Morgan 53, Joe Pensabene 51, Ethan Pike 58, Garrison Haskins 59, Jake Moreno 58, Clarke Reiner 60.
St. Joseph: Chris Blystone 49, Colin Crist 41, Matt Dominguez 43, Travis Lynn 50, James Fosdick 48, James Weinstock 50, Conner Shanahan 57, Hunter Vail 57, Bryce Cooper 56.

LPL Tournament #6 [Story]
Tyler Grossi puts out on the ninth green at La purisima.



Morro Bay entered the fray in a big way today (Thursday). So did Templeton. Players in the later groups jumped the Pirates and Eagles ahead of what had looked like a tight two team race between Santa Ynez and St. Joseph. The win also tied Morro Bay with Santa Ynez in the season standing - giving both teams long shot possibilities to supplant the Knights as LPL Champs. Grayson Morain (Tmpltn) took Medalist Honors. Conditions at the La Purisima Golf Course were almost ideal, as the wind took the day off.
Morro Bay [421]: Hansen 74, Olson 82, Traughber 95, Weiss 89, Chesbro 81, Peters 107.
Templeton [433]: Morain 73, D. McCormack 83, Eliot 89, Pilg 92, R. McCormack 96, Birk 106.
St Joseph [442]: Blystone 78, Crist 80, Dominguez 93, Fosdick 94, Malin 109, Bachman 97.
Santa Ynez [443]: Shean 83, Woranovich 84, Colvin 84, Magallenes 104, Gray 118.
Cabrillo [470]: Perry Naughton 84, Jeff Martin 86, Drew Langston 94, Aaron Hay 96, Mike Morgan 114, Joe Pensabene 110.
Lompoc [488]: Brent Van Dyke 84, Alex Stone 110, Brian Magann 93, Abie Luna 103, Tyler Grossi 98, Tyler Grossini 127.
Santa Maria [555]: Castillo 93, Thompson 120, French 94, Nacar 127, Gomez 121.
Current Los Padres League Standings: St Joseph [46], Santa Ynez [40.5], Morro Bay [40.5], Cabrillo [25], Lompoc [21], Santa Maria [8].

Boys Tennis

Cabrillo
The Conquistadors finished their season on an up note - defeating the Santa Maria Saints 11-7 on the road. They struggled against the Saints singles, especially german exchange student Daniel Borcherding, but still managed to get three points in the category. Eric Wang won two sets (6-0, 6-1), and Ben Brady took one (6-4). Ricky Ruiz in his first singles action had a near miss dropping a set 4-6.
The strength of the team, as it has been all year, was the doubles. Casey Owen / David Terrones swept (6-0, 6-0, 6-2) for the second time this week, while Arjun Ayyar / Jordan Daniel also swept (6-1, 7-5, 6-4). The other two points were collected by Andrew Shewell / Ryan Anderson (6-1,6-0).
Although the squad doubled its win total from last year, it came up just short of the playoffs - concluding the season with a 4-8 LPL 5th place record (4-11 overall).
JV The JV also won 11-7 at the Cabrillo courts. They picked up six points in singles, with Franky Calderia winning one, dropping a tiebreaker and losing another (7-5, 6-7, 0-6). Ray Marino won 2 of 3 (6-4, 6-4, 3-6), and Jeff Rodriguez swept (6-1, 6-3, 6-2). In doubles Alex Hurd / Calvin Hoffeld took two sets (6-1, 4-6, 6-3), Ryan Brady / Ricky Cummings swept - including a tiebreaker (6-1, 7-6, 6-3), but Conner Galvan / Manny Contreras were shut out (4-6, 1-6, 0-6). Both tiebreakers went past the seven point mark.

Lompoc
The St. Joseph Knights (16-1, 10-1 LPL) steam-rolled the Braves 15- 3 in Santa Maria.
Alex Jensen won twice, but the Knights got three sweeps
(Jake Eszes,singles: Eric Okerblom / Brian Turton & Kji Hamill / Sam Orozco, doubles) and cruised to victory.

Third place Lompoc (11-5, 8-3 LPL) takes on LPL co-leader Santa Ynez on Tuesday.

JV No information yet, but with the forfeits caused by a a very short-handed Lompoc unit the Braves would have to win 10 of 12 to take the match.

Alumni

Hancock Tennis
Cabrillo HS grads Ashley Brady, Elysha McLain, and the AHC Tennis team traveled at their own expense to the prestigious Ojai tournament on Thursday. It was a rough trip. McLain (a sophomore) fell in the first round to Janette Molina (Southwestern) 7-5, 6-2. While Brady, and doubles partner Francesca Sanchez were some of the few Bulldogs to win in the first round, defeating Ani Fouse-Cabrera / Leticia Garcia-Rojas of Aptos-based and aptly named Cabrillo College (6-4, 6-3). Unfortunately,in the second round they were swept (6-1, 6-0 ) by Brena Bower / Shelly Slick of Antelope Valley.

Cal-Poly Golf
Julia Heath, a sophomore & Lompoc HS graduate, and her compatriots on the golf team competed in the Big West Conference Meet this last weekend. The Mustang women tied the school's best ever finishes (2002,2006) by placing fourth, while the defending Champion mens team dropped to seventh. The Mustang women have been plagued by inconsistancy this year. They have five golfers capable of scoring in the low-to-mid seventies but have not been able to get them all to do it at the same time, or to do it repeatedly in consecutively in tournament rounds. In the first round they posted a team score of 306 - one stroke back of the leaders (UC Davis). But in the second round they fell 10 strokes off that pace, carding a 316, while UC Irvine blasted a tourney best 295 which dropped the ladies from Poly into third. The slide continued in the third and final round. UC Davis posted a 298 & CSU-Northridge, after an abysmal 327 first round, had their second straight round of topping the CP-SLO score by at least ten to ease past the Mustangs into 3rd. Julia was in sync with that pattern putting up individual round scores of 74, 81, and 82 [237] - tieing for 15th place. The other Poly reps were Elsie Walker [77, 78, 79- 234, tied 11th], Maddy Fletcher [76, 77, 81-234, t11th], Hannah Brabb [79, 80, 80 - 239, tied 20th], and Stephanie Yokum [84, 85, 79 - 248, tied 26th].

MLB- NY Mets
Ryan Church continues to impress - going 2-4, double, walk, RBI, run scored, and a stolen base against his old club. He is now hitting .350 (.463 slg), with 28 hits, 14 RBI, and 19 runs scored in 20 games. And those lefties he supposedly couldn't hit? He is now hitting .375 vs left-handers. -- el stato