Lompoc and Cabrillo split Surf / Turf Events

Cabrillo's Chaz Whitmore was the medalist at the Lompoc - Cabrillo golf match on Monday, although his team lost by two strokes, 231 to 233.





Lompoc and Cabrillo went head-to-head for valley supremacy on Monday - the Braves took the golf match-up [story] on a day that they honored a fallen teammate [story] [blog][photos], while the Conquistadors took home the victory in the swim meet delayed from Friday by the lock-down at LHS.

Monday, 10 March 2008

Golf: Cabrillo at Lompoc [La Purisima GC]
Varsity: Lompoc won a very competitive match on their own turf against a Cabrillo program that according to some reports had won the last 12 contests versus the Braves. It was made even more special by the pre-match ceremony honoring teammate Brandon Pate who died last summer. Throughout the day, the tension and pressure was palpable, especially for coach Chris Adams and team captain,and the squads only senior, Brent VanDyke.

VanDyke who competed in the same foursome as medalist Chaz Whitmore of Cabrillo was furious with himself after his round, stating "If we lose this thing, it will be my fault". He was upset because of he had to take a lost ball penalty on the next to last hole, when he couldn't find his ball in a bunker. This resulted in his scoring an eight on the hole, and an overall 45. [LPL duals are nine holes - on Monday they played the back nine]. He needn't have worried, on a day dedicated to team, the Braves scorers finished in a tightly clustered group.

That information wasn't known, however, until the third foursome had finished. The first group in, consisted of Whitmore (40), and Perry Naughton (52) of Cabrillo with VanDyke (45), and Alex Stone ( 46) of Lompoc - giving Lompoc a 1 stroke lead. Likewise, in group two, Cabrillo's Aaron Hay (46) & Drew Langston (47) surrendered a one stroke advantage to Lompoc's Brian Magann (45) & Abie Luna (47) - Braves up two. It would all rest on the best 5th place score. [Teams play six, and score five. The six man is used to break ties.]

The third varsity group was Cabrillo's M & M's vs Lompoc's "Tylers" - Jacob Moreno & Michael Morgan against Tyler Grossi & Tyler Grossini. When the scores were tabulated the low scorers from each pair (Martin & Grossi) were tied at 48. So the Braves lead had held up, they won 231 to 233.

Swimming: Lompoc and Cabrillo at COLAC

The Conquistadors easily swam away with the surf half of the Monday equation, but Lompoc did have its moments.

Varsity Boys: Cabrillo 120 Lompoc 57
Varsity Girls: Cabrillo 129 Lompoc 51
JV Boys: Cabrillo 90 Lompoc 42
JV Girls: Cabrillo 133 Lompoc 42
Complete Results will be posted this weekend.

Tuesday, 11 March 2008

On Tuesday baseball and tennis teams from both schools, and LHS softball were in action against opponents from the north.


Softball


Lompoc


Varsity vs Arroyo Grande @ LHS
The Braves scored a run in each of the 2nd and 3rd innings and made it stand up. Great pitching by Brianna Vickery (complete game, 1 hit, 3 walks, 4 strikeouts) and solid defense, like Jeana Carrillo's shoetop grab in rightfield to end the top of the 6th, made the difference. Paty Martinez & Dana Campitelli both had a double and single while Courtney Dosa & Lauren Lopes each had a hit.


JV vs Arroyo Grande @ LHS
The Braves beat the visiting Eagles 3-1. Catrina "Catachill" Chill got the win going 5 innings, before Adrianna Davis came in to mop up the last two.


Baseball


Cabrillo


Varsity (2-3) vs Righetti (1-2) lost 9-0.
Burn the tape. The Warriors walked all over the Conq's. Cabrillo gave up 10 walks, 4 hit batsmen, and 5 errors in the game. They gave up 5 unearned runs in the first two innings, and compounded the pitching & defensive woes by hitting, or not hitting, at a .182 average for the game. They did draw 6 walks to supplement their 4 hits, but were unable to score. Tony Eliot, who took the loss, Justin Boggs, and Tyler Ramsden shared the pitching duties.

JV @ Righetti


Frosh @ Righetti

Lompoc
Varsity (1-5) vs SLO (3-0) lost 11-5.
Watch out Santa Ynez !! The Tigers are coming ! After thrashing St. Joseph 10-4 and Morro Bay 15-2 last week the bash brothers from SLO continued their assault on the LPL with an 11-5 pounding of the Braves. They play the Pirates on Thursday. In the first inning, Lompoc surrendered 4 runs in the top half, before taking the lead with 5 runs in the lower half. That lead soon melted away, however, when they allowed five in the 2nd inning. Darrin Mullen went 3-4 vs Lompoc (single, double, and home run), scored twice, and drove in four runs. Rob Nadalsky added a homer and four other players had doubles. For the Braves, Scotty Aguailar went 3-4 with two doubles, 2 RBI's, and scored a run. Cody Berryman started on the mound, and Ritchie Hirzel came on in relief. Lompoc host St. Joseph on Thursday, 13 March.

JV @ SLO lost 3-2.

The cruelest form of defeat is having victory snatched away at ye last moment. Yup, up 2-1 in the bottom of the 7th, they allow 2 runs and the ballgame is over. Daniel Dunaetz gave up two earned runs while going the distance on the mound. At the plate, they scattered 9 hits.

Frosh @ SLO lost 9-4.
It was worse than it sounds, all four Lompoc runs were scoredin the 7th inning. Pat Hill relieved Adam Card on the hill after three. B. Howard had two hits including a three-run double.

Boys Tennis

In LPL action Templeton beat Santa Maria 14-4 (5-4 sngls, 9-0 dbls) with lots of substitutions.

Cabrillo
Varsity (1-4, 1-1) vs Morro Bay won 11-7.
The Conquistadors finally got to pick on someone their own size. They were undefeated in doubles, as the teams of Casey Owen / Jose Flores, Jordan Daniels / Arjun Ayyar, and Andrew Shewell / Ryan Anderson all swept three sets. In singles, they were able pick up two points although both Mike Ion and Matt Hansen swept 3 sets each for the Pirates.

JV @ Morro Bay

Lompoc
Varsity @ Arroyo Grande lost 15-3.

A reconfigured Lompoc team got wholloped by the Eagles. Alex Jensen and Marco Pasallo won both singles points, and Joel Martin / Kyle Thumm collected the only doubles point for the Braves.

JV vs Arroyo Grande

Due to illness (ouch!) and grades (OUCH !!), the Braves JV squad is undermanned and unable to field a full unit.

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Brandon Pate Memorial

On Monday afternoon, the Lompoc boys golf team joined with the Cabrillo team and with friends and family members to remember teammate Brandon Pate who died in a traffic accident last summer. A tree was planted in his honor just north of the 10th tee at La Purisima Golf Course. The team also presented game shirts for the Lompoc- Cabrillo match-up to Mr. and Mrs. Pate. As noted in a previous post, the team also has remembered Brandon on each of the game shirts worn this season. The gathering was briefly addressed by coach Chris Adams and then by Brandon's father.

Cabrillo coach Craig Knowles and Lompoc AD Jesse Davis
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Thursday Update 6 March 2008

{UPDATED TO REFLECT LOCKDOWN CHANGES}
The Lompoc boys golf team have chosen a singular way to honor their former teammate Brandon "The DJ" Pate. Brandon who was killed in a car accident last June just a month short of his 17th birthday, was a starter on the Braves varsity squad last year as a sophomore. Each team member has a memorial embroidered on the sleeve of their uniform shirt (see photo). Also, before Monday's match with Cabrillo a short ceremony will be held adjacent to a tree planted on the La Purisima course in Brandon's honor.

Wed, 5 March

Lompoc Boys Golf
Varsity vs Nipomo Titans @ La Purisima GC [ Story ]. lost 400-486.

The guys had their best outing of the young season, bettering the score they posted on Tuesday by 16 strokes - but still lost handily 400-486. The Braves were led once again by three-year letterman Brent Van Dyke (photo), their only senior, who carded a round of 80 for fourth overall. The other Lompoc scorers under triple digits were the other returning lettermen, sophomore Brian Magann (91) and junior Alex Stone (98). The rest of the varsity consists of frosh Abie Luna (100) and " the Tylers", sophs Tyler Grossi (117) and Tyler Grossini (166). The scores by Magann and Luna were personal bests. Laboring under the "double par" competition rule, it was the first time everyone finished all 18 holes.

JV [No competition was held since there were too few players for scoring, but they did play the course.]

The five man JV team, with freshmen Carter Bovee (127), Nick Martinez (132), Nick Foster (131), and Zach Sleigh (130) was easily out-pointed by the Titans. The fifth member, junior Matt Zebley, a very recent convert to the game managed to beat the aforementioned rule and complete 9 holes for the first time ever.

The Braves take on Cabrillo on Monday (March 10th) at their home - La Purisima Golf Club

Thur, 6 March

LHS Baseball:
Varsity @ Pioneer Valley 3:30 pm. [ Story ] [Stats] lost 6-3.
The Braves squandered their opportunities on Thursday in a 6-3 loss. They received 12 free base runners courtesy of 7 walks and 5 hit batsmen, but they did not convert them into runs because they only had two hits on the day. They put more runs on the board than they had hits, and stranded six runners on base. Starter Ryan Bower went five innings and took the loss.

JV vs. Pioneer Valley 3:30 pm. won 9-6.
The JV on the other hand did what the varsity couldn't do - get clutch hitting. They had come out of the gates strong, scoring five runs in the second inning, but then cooled off, putting up only one more in the next four. The Panthers took advantage of the lull to take a 8-6 lead going into the bottom of the seventh. Lompoc then got some timely hitting, some help (passed ball, etc.) from PV, and tied it up. So when Nick Tatigue came to the plate, with two out and runners on, in the rapidly darkening dusk, the question was whether the Braves could finish the job or would the game be ruled a tie. The sophmore quickly provided the answer by rapping a looping liner to shallow right field for the game-winning RBI. Tatigue, the starting pitcher before being relieved by Pete Hernandez at the start of the sixth, went 4-5 with 5 RBI from the plate. Hernadez got the win. The Panthers left six men on base over the course of the game.

Frosh vs. Pioneer Valley 3:30 pm. lost 7-3.
The freshmen played the visiting Panthers even for much of the game. The problem was that "even" worked to their disadvantage because Lompoc needed to catch up. They gave up a quick five runs in the first inning en route to a 7-3 loss. Pitchers for the Braves were Dillon Morgan (3 innings), Adam Card (2), and Burluson (2).

CHS Baseball :
Varsity @ Paso Robles 6 pm. lost 3-1. [ Stats]
Not a good evening for the Conq's, as junior right-hander Zach Jones shutout the locals for five innings. He had five strikeout, and gave up only three hits and one walk. Paso Robles scored all the runs they would need on a two-run single in the first inning. Tony Elliot started, took the loss, and went four innings. Deuce Galvan pitched two scorless innings in relief.
JV & Frosh idle

LHS Swim vs Righetti @ COLAC 2:30.
Note: All Distances are in Yards.
Righetti frosh sensation Karen Hendrick (left, as she waits for the official to sign her time sheet) was clearly the star of the meet. She posted three CIF qualification or consideration times - two individually (1:04.05 in the 100 butterfly & 1:02.41 in the 100 backstroke) and the 400 freestyle relay (4:04.01) with her sister Julie Hendrick, Ellery White, and Shawna Weston.
[Complete Results for the LPL Pentathalon, Atascadero & Righetti meets will be posted by 5 pm Sunday 16 March]

Girls Varsity lost 54-116
The Henrick sisters also served on the winning 200 freestyle relay (1:53.08), and Julie won two individual events herself - the 200 IM (2:20.12) and 100 freestyle (59.95).

Lompoc placers were:
2nd 200 Medley Relay Team #1 (2:21.96)
[Kimly Xiong, Brooke Crouse, Carla Alvarado, Andrea Caballero]
2nd 200 Free Relay Team #1 (2:04.38)
[Kimly Xiong, Amanda King, Andrea Caballero, Shelby Carpenter]
2nd 400 Free Relay Team #2 (4:24.72)
[Katie, Candice , Anna, ????]
2nd 200 Free Shelby Carpenter (2:30.08)
2nd 200 IM Kimly Xiong (2:57.16)
2nd 50 Free Daniela Caballero (32.19)
3rd 200 IM Brooke Crouse (3:03.66)
3rd 100 Fly Amanda King (1:37.41)
3rd 100 Free Andrea Caballero (1:07.84)
3rd 100 Back Kimly Xiong (1:21.92)

Boys Varsity lost 33-122

3rd 200 Free Robert Menezes (2:16.61)
3rd 500 Free Carl Thacker (6:13.49)
3rd 200 IM Kyle Pickles (2:43.72)

Boys JV lost 33-74
Basically it came down to being a numbers game- LHS doesn't have them.
2nd 200 Medley Relay Team (2:32.34)
[Naem, Brandon, Josh, Ed]
2nd 200 Free Relay Team (2:13.71)
[Ed Pelkey, Josh Menezes, Naem Nameh, Brandon Bassett]
2nd 100 Back Naem Nameh (1:32.68)
2nd 200 Free Naem Nameh (2:47.41)
2nd 100 Free Josh Menezes (1:12.26)
3rd 50 Free Georges Hoebrechts (33.36)
3rd 100 Breast Brandon Bassett (1:44.77)

Girls JV lost 82-81.
Lost a two point lead in the last race.

1st 50 Free Stephanie Cardoza (41.46)
1st 50 Back Krystal H (46.43)
1st 50 Breast Alex Morgan (44.08)
1st 100 Free Krystal H (1:24.26)
1st 100 IM Alex Morgan (1:40.76)
2nd 50 Free Sarah Lozier (43.36)
2nd 50 Fly Bria Hamlin (46.47)
2nd 100 IM Bria Hamlin (1:45.55)
2nd 200 Free Relay Team #1 (2:41.69)
[Krystal , Alex Morgan, Bria Hamlin, Sarah Lozier]
2nd 200 Medley Relay Team #1
[Krystal Hutchins, Alex Morgan, Bria Hamlin, Stephanie ??]
3rd 50 Back Jenny Kosanke (51.22)
3rd 200 Free Amber O (2:53.54)
3rd 100 Free Stephanie Cardoza (1:38.68)
3rd 100 IM Kelly Rogers (1:53.58)
3rd 400 Free Relay Team #1 (6:57.28)
[Jenn, Brittany, Stephanie, Kellie]

LHS Boys Tennis
Varsity @ Templeton 2:30 pm won 14-4.
The Brave took their second lengthy road trip of the week, but this time returned victorious, defeating the Eagles 14-4. At #1 singles Alex Jensen once again cruised to three set wins, while #2 Robert Rodriguez and #3 Marco Pasallo won three and two sets respectively.

JV vs Templeton 3:30 pm lost 17-1
The Short-handed (no # 3 doubles) had a rough day at the Dave Bickmore Courts. Only the # 1 doubles (Devin Day / Carlos Diaz) pulled out a win, taking their third set 6-2.

CHS Boys Tennis
Varsity [0-3, 0-1] @ St. Joseph 3pm lost 17-1.
The Cabrillo problems began with singles - St Joe's are really good and they swept all nine sets, while loosing only nine games. Doubles, unfortunately for the Conq's, were not much different, but were where the best Cabrillo performance of the day was found. Jordan Daniels & Arjun Ayyar (doubles team #1) led the Knights #1 team 4-3 but couldn't put them away, eventually dropping the set 4-6. They also played the second set tough before falling 3-6, but rallied in the third round to win 6-4. Three players made their 08 varsity debuts- Ben Brady in singles and Casey Owen/ Jose Flores in doubles.

JV vs. St.Joseph won 11-7.
Cabrillo managed to keep the singles portion close winning four sets - two by Ryan Anderson and one each by Frankie Caldera and Alex Hibbs in his first action of the year. Cabrillo was assisted in doubles by St. Joseph being a doubles pair short resulting in three forfeits by the Knights. But the Conquistadors won it on the court with four more set wins, two by David Terrones / Jeff Rodriguez (in his first match of 08), while Calvin Hoffeld / Ricky Ruiz and Matt Stumreiter (also in his first action) / Dan Garmendia contributed one each.

CHS T/F with St Joseph @ Santa Ynez 3 pm.
[Full Results to come, if event was conducted - likely on Saturday]

Upcoming:
{Also "The Grid" Coming Soon}

Fri, 7 March {UPDATE: ALL EVENTS POSTPONED DUE TO LOCKDOWN}
Lompoc and Cabrillo swim teams tangle in the COLAC pool at 2:30 pm.
Lompoc Softball: Varsity @ Coast Union (CCT)
Lompoc Softball: JV @ Coast Union (CCT)

Sat, 8 March
Lompoc Softball: Varsity @ Simi Valley Trny [2]
Cabrillo Softball: Varsity @ Cabrillo Trny [2]
Cabrillo Softball: JV @ AG Trny [2]
Cabrillo Baseball: Varsity vs. Carpenteria [2]
Cabrillo Baseball: JV @ Carpenteria [2]
Cabrillo Baseball: Frosh @ Lompoc [2]
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