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Warriors vs. Oak Park Cate football playoffs
November 7 - 13, 2013
Bryant, Stork finish as top two league individuals
Warrior freshman Odessa Stork had little trouble in the Frontier League singles tournament until meeting teammate Kelsie Bryant in the finals. Bryant, an undefeated junior, didn’t take it easy on her understudy in a 6-0, 6-0 victory in the Frontier League Championship match. For the third straight season, the Warriors captured the top two singles places in league and Bryant came out as champ. “In the final, I thought (Stork) was hitting really Odessa Stork well but (Bryant) was just a little more consistent and was able to dictate more of the points. (Bryant) did a good job of moving (Stork) around and finishing points once she got her out of position,” commented coach Charles Bryant. In doubles, Warriors Merissa Souza/Gabi Montes De Oca finished fourth in league and teammates Lesly Zapata/Natalie Saito defeated them for third place, 6-4, 6-4. Bryant said the girls are capable of winning the type of matches that would have advanced them to the championship but did not have their best day. The top-ranked Warrior team begins its bid to defend the CIF Division 5 Championship after press time on Kelsie Bryant Wednesday, Nov. 6.
BILL SWING
Warrior running back Peter Ramos ran for 95 yards and two touchdowns in a 28-11 Homecoming victory over Santa Paula High School.
Warriors erupt for 28-11 TVL win Playoff hopes still alive in final week of season By Peter Dugré
BILL SWING
Cate School’s Will Hogue uses his wingspan to send the ball over Warrior Sal Briceno in a 12-6 Cate victory.
Rams earn split of City Championship By Peter Dugré
Cate School boys water polo avenged an earlier season loss to Carpinteria High School and earned a split of the season series and City Championship with a 12-6 win at Carpinteria Community Pool on Nov. 1. Zack Allen and Alex Brown each scored four goals for the Rams, who built an early lead and preserved it with the excellent goal keeping of Sam Furmanski. Ram coach Nathan Alldredge commented that the team has played cleaner water polo as the season has progressed. “I told them that we don’t have to do anything fancy or special to win. We just need to execute and do the small things,” he said. Alldredge added that his team has clicked over the two weeks since the last meeting with Carpinteria, an 8-7 Ram loss. The Rams (4-8, 2-7) jumped out to a
3-1 first quarter lead and built the cushion to 6-2 by halftime. Warrior bids to get back into the game in the second half often met the quick hands of Furmanski, who had 10 saves. “They’re well coached and beat us in every aspect of the game,” Warrior coach Bryan Swarm said. “They came ready to play.” The Warriors have had a rebuilding year and suffered losses to Tri-Valley League foes Cate and Nordhoff High School for the first time in several seasons. Thomas Fly scored three for the Warriors (7-15, 2-7), and Noah Reed, Casey Walter and Malik Mehai scored one each. Zeke Hart had nine saves. “Our goalie put in a tremendous effort in our losing battle,” Swarm said. Will Hogue scored two goals for the Rams, and Sam Kim and Austin Jackson had one apiece.
Following two weeks of famine, the Carpinteria High School football team feasted in the Homecoming Game on Nov. 1 against Santa Paula High School. A bottled up Warrior offense finally erupted on an 11-yard touchdown run by senior fullback Peter Ramos in the second quarter—the Warriors’ first score in eight quarters—and the momentum continued in a 21-point second quarter leading to the eventual 28-11 victory. “We’ve been struggling with our execution on our blocking schemes,” Warrior coach Ben Hallock said. “When you execute like you should, the ball moves down the field better than when you don’t.” The Warriors improved to 1-3 in Tri-Valley League and 7-2 overall in the victory. The team dealt with two straight losses and the serious injury of senior Jonathan Esqueda, who was hospitalized after a car accident on Oct. 26, leading up to Homecoming. Esqueda attended most of the game in a wheelchair, and circles with his number 23 inside were painted onto the field. The Warriors scored twice in the final three minutes of the first half. Ramos covered the final 12 yards of the drive on a run of 11 yards and a touchdown plunge of 1 yard to give the Warriors a 14-3 lead. Then Craddock found senior tight end Duncan Gordon on a 33-yard score with 55 seconds left in the half to give the Warriors a 21-3 cushion at the break. Craddock had thrown a 7-yard strike to Ruben Garcia and an 11-yarder to Ramos earlier in the quick five-play, 54-yard drive. The Warrior defense had stopped Santa Paula on fourth down to set up the short field for the offense. Craddock was 9-of-13 on passes for 130 yards. The Warriors held strong in the second half with a bend-but-don’t-break defense. While Santa Paula’s offense gained more yardage, two timely Warrior interceptions kept the Cardinals from scoring and getting back into the game. Craddock hauled in an interception in the end zone early in the third quarter
after the Cardinals had covered 70 yards, mostly by running the ball. Then Connor Kelsey hauled in his own drive-killing interception in the end zone in the fourth quarter to preserve a 28-11 Warrior lead. Santa Paula also shot itself in the foot with numerous holding penalties. The Warriors had taken a 28-3 lead on an 81-yard punt return by Bryson Frazer with 1:58 left in the third quarter. Frazer hit top speed up the left sideline before cutting in to elude another row of defenders heading toward midfield. The Cardinals scored their only touchdown of the game on the next drive, which covered 80 yards in 10 plays at the start of the fourth quarter. The Warriors marched inside the 5-yard line to end the game and knelt the ball to run out the clock.
Oak Park scouting report
On Nov. 8 the Warriors have an opportunity to alter the balance of Tri-Valley League and Northwest Division against top-ranked Oak Park High School (8-1, 3-0) in the season finale. Oak Park has unseated top dogs Nordhoff High School and Bishop Diego High School in division rankings and TVL standings. The seventh-ranked Warriors lost to Bishop, 24-6, and Nordhoff, 28-0, both on the road, while Oak Park defeated Bishop, 42-28, and Nordhoff, 23-3. A win at Carpinteria Valley Memorial Stadium on Friday at 7:30 p.m. would make a strong statement in the Warrior case for a playoff spot. The Warriors will finish in fourth place in TVL, the strongest league in Northwest Division, but cannot get into playoffs without being accepted as an at-large applicant. “I don’t know what else we can do. We’ve got seven wins, and our losses are to really good teams. Even if we beat Oak
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