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18 Thursday, March 13, 2014
Coastal View News • Carpinteria, California foot with a lack of patience and too many unforced errors. But overall it was a good learning experience for us to play against a top-notch opponent.” The warriors’ record fell to 3-1. March 11 – Warrior boys tennis defeated Oxnard High School 10-8 on the road. number-two doubles team Ricky Zermeno/Collin Nathanson went 3-0, dropping only four games, as did number-three doubles Bryan Taira/Ruben Andrade. “This was their first time playing together and they were awesome. They were very consistent from the baseline and aggressive at the net—a perfect combination,” commented coach Charles Bryant. number-one double Sammy Gutierrez/Jacob Ascencio came back from a 3-1 deficit in the final set to pull out a 6-3, match-sealing victory. In singles, Ben Murray, Sean Welty and Sam Truax all won one set. The warriors are now 4-1 overall.
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Warrior swimmer Forrest Van Stein won the 200 individual medley versus Channel Islands.
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Boys swimming
March 7 – warrior boys and girls swimmers picked up victories in their seasonopening meet against visiting Channel islands High School. The girls won 95-56, and boys won 123-43. For the girls, first-place honors went to Allison Wagner, 200 free (2.15.47); Brenda Rodriguez, 200 individual medley (2.41.23); Wagner, 100 fly (1.15.61); Sierra Garibay, 100 free (1.03.69); Leticia Cruz, 500 free (6.05.69); Rodriguez, 100 back (1.19.35); Cruz, 100 breast (1.24.67). The 200 medley relay team—Rodriguez, Cruz, wagner, garibay—won in 2.14.5, and the 200 free style relay—Rodriguez, garibay, Grant, Wagner—also took first (1.58.51). First place finishers for the boys were Thomas Fly, 200 free, (2.03.38); Forrest Van Stein, 200 iM (2.40.33); Malek Mehai, 100 fly (58.28); Noah Reed, 500 free (5.30.91); Fly 100 back (1.03.55); and Lucas Kalin, 100 breast, (1.19.46). The 200 free relay team—Fly, Chris Fedderson, Sal Briceno, Mehai—took first (1.38.94); as did the 400 free relay team—Reed, Briceno, Eric Thornburgh, Mehai (4.00.11), and the 200 medley relay—Fly, Casey Walter, Fedderson, Mehai (1.55.59).
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Joel Monte, right, passes the baton to Tim Jimenez in a Warrior 4x100m relay victory at the Rincon Races.
Track and field
March 8 – Hosting the Rincon Races, Warrior track and field posted some positive results against visiting Santa Ynez, Fillmore, Morro Bay, Providence and nordhoff high schools. For the warriors, Peter Ramos won the discus (137-03) and Nicole Pepper won the 100m hurdles (18.12). Boys won the 4x100 relay, and Joel Montes, Tim Jimenez and Terence Ayala finished in second, third and fourth place in the 100m, respectively. Gregorio Elizarraras finished second in shot put with a throw of 38-02 ¾.
Warrior setter Jesus Ortega recorded 27 assists in a loss to Oaks Christian. Bill Swing
Warrior senior Kevin Stein slides by the throw at second during a season-opening double-header versus Santa Ynez High School.
Baseball
March 8 – Hosting Santa Ynez High School in a double header, warrior baseball dropped both games. Connor Kelsey’s two RBI singles in the first inning of game one keyed a Warrior five-run frame and staked the home squad to a 5-1 lead after an inning. However, it would be all the runs the team could generate in the eventual 9-5 loss. Senior right-hander Mo Sanchez pitched “well enough to win” according to warrior coach Pat Cooney but was done in by seven unearned Pirate runs. The Warriors committed five errors and gave up seven runs in the sixth inning. In game two, the warriors lost 7-1 and managed just two hits. The warrior defense, however, patched things up and committed zero errors. Both Kevin Stein and Sanchez had two hits over the two games. “The Pirates seem to be a machine that is already firing on all cylinders ... ,” commented Cooney. “once we get our motor running, i think we’ll catch up to speed.”
Boys tennis
March 7 – Playing against Hart High School, warrior boys tennis suffered a 15-3 loss, its first defeat of the season. The Warriors were greatly outmatched by Hart’s top two singles players, and the three points falling on the warrior side of the ledger came against the Hart number three team. Coach Charles Bryant stated: “in some matches we were outplayed, but in others we just seemed to shoot ourselves in the
Boys volleyball
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March 11 – warrior boys volleyball dropped its season-opening home match 3-0 (25-21, 25-18, 25-14) against Oaks Christian High School, last season’s CIF Division ii runner up. Coach Marc denitz commented that the team battled well despite being over matched. Senior setter Jesus Ortega recorded 27 assists. Junior outside hitter Victor Saldaña had 10 kills, and Mason Picerni had 10 kills and three blocks. “i was really proud of the way they played. For most of our players this was their first varsity match,” Denitz said. The Warriors, 0-1, travel to Malibu High School on Thursday, March 13.