Chula Vista Star-News from Chula Vista, California • Page 10

He Sunday. February 14, 1988 South Bay to) wirts Castle Park takes team title in Metro Conference meet divisions. "They were the ones who did all the work. We're just fortunate to have a good group of kids." Victor Trasvina, the 122-pound division's second seed, upset top-seeded Xavier Plascencia of Hilltop 7-2 in the final while brother Rafael, the No. 1-seeded 178 pounder, pinned 2 seed Mickey Porter of Sweetwater in 48 seconds to win his division's championship.

No. 1 seed Frank Partida pinned Sweetwater's Jose Luna in 55 seconds to win the 193-pound weight class. The victory was Pallida's fourth ithour atossrall have teen -by pin. Partida moved into the 193-pound position last week when Rafael Trasvina dropped a weight class. By Ed Cahill Sports Editor The Castle Park wrestling team, after rallying from a 30-15 deficit last week to defeat Bonita Vista 32-30, dropped a 33-23 decision to Mar Vista on Wednesday.

"Coach (Jorge Mancillas) told us to think about the future and forget about the past," said Trojan 122-pounder Victor Trasvina. For Castle Park, the future was literally tomorrow as, on Thursday, the Trojans edged Bonita Vista 81-80 for the team championship at. the Metro olit a Conference wrestling tournament at" Montgomery. "It always feels nice to win, but all the credit is to the kids," said Mancillas, who had three wrestlers win. their "Rafael moved down to 178, which gave Partida a chance to wrestle 193," said Mancillas.

"And that gave Roger Vanorden a chance to wrestle" at heavyweight. That gives us a pretty solid 18 points." Castle Park had five other wrestlers Edwin Ventura John Conrady (115), Victor Oraha (134), Tony Deddeh (141) and Vanorden (heavyweight) take third while another An--thony Madarang finished fourth in the 148-pound division. Bonita Vista, Hilltop and Southwest each had two champions while Chula Vista, Mar Vista, Montgomery and Sweetwater each had one. The second seeds upset their Please see restling: B-3 i Staff photo by Paul Longwonh Montgomery's Carlos Garcia (facing camera) appears to have the upper hand against Mar Vista's Paul Madrid in their 102-pound division semifinal Thursday at Montgomery. However, Madrid the number one seed pinned Garcia in 1:50.

Silva, Fezzey lead Southwest to 65-53 victory over Aztecs to eight points. The Aztecs would get no closer than four points the rest of the game. "Nothing seemed to work," said Aguilar. "That's a tribute to their defense. Steve's a good coach.

He had his kids ready for us and they did just a good job on us inside." Leading 53-49 with 3:51 left in the game after Montgomery's Arnold Embuido sank a pair of free throws, Southwest scored seven unanswered points to take a 60-49 lead with 1:19 left. Ed Cahill Sports Editor Coming off of a 58-54 victory over Sweetwater? Montgomery coach Bob Aguilar and assistant Tim Murphy figured that the Aztecs were due for a letdown. "Tim and I talked about that at dinner," said Aguilar following his team's 65-53 homeeourt loss to Southwest Wednesday. "Our kids are human. 1 think they kind of came with their scrapbooks on their backs tonight.

Meanwhile, Southwest which never trailed Grossmont defeats So'western By Ed Cahill Sports Editor Becky Aiken scored 34 points while teammate Jamie Speidel posted a triple-double to lead visiting Grossmont to a 92-66 victory over Southwestern Friday, night. Southwestern (0-18 overall, 0-10 in the Pacific Coast Con- (erenceA hattfed Ciromnnt to a 16-16 tie with 12:41 left in the first half before Grossmont (11-13, 6-4) scored nine straight points to talce the lead for keeps at 25-16 enroute to a 43-30 halftime lead. "We played hard but wF played in spurts," said Lady Apache coach Jon- Newlee. "That's been one of our problems all year long. We can't string together long periods of good Play." Michelle Wilkes led Southwestern, with 26 points while grabbing 1 1 rebounds.

Teammate Kelly Kneadler added 15 points and 14 rebounds and Lee Copeland tossed in 13 points. the daughter of Southwestern men's basketball coach Bob Speidel, scored 12 points, grabbed 1 1 rebounds and dished out 12 assists. Liz Larceral added 23 points while grabbing a team-high 13 rebounds. Embuido hit a layup with 50 seconds left to narrow the lead to 60-51. However, it was too little, too late as the Raiders hit five of six free throws in the final 46 seconds to clinch the win.

Cid White led Montgomery with 27 points and 16 rebounds while Paul Ssali added 15 points 1 1 of which came in the first half and 10 rebounds. Embuido dished out nine assists while Geronilla had five steals. Despite the loss, Montgomery "backed" into sole possession of the Mesa League championship with Sweetwater's 65-62 overtime, loss at Marian the same night. In other Metropolitan Conference action Wednesday: Marian 65, Sweetwater 62 (OT) Brannon Hays (23 points), Pat Mendes (20 points) and Jerry Conlin (19 points) combined for 62 points as host Marian (5-16, 4-8) rallied from a 31-19 halftime deficit to post a 65-62 overtime victory over Sweetwater (11-12, 8-4). "In the second half, the kids just gutted it out and played with a lot of desire," said Marian coach Bob Swisher.

"They just made up their minds they wanted to win." Please see Basketball: B-3 realized a season-long belief. "The kids have thought all year long that they were just as good as Montgomery," said Southwest coach Steve Selland. "I think this docs a lot for the confidence of the kids and I think it really gives us a lot of momentum for the playoffs." Adalberto Silva scored 16 points while Rollie Fezzey added 12 to lead Southwest (14-6 overall, 7-5 in, league play). Sean Swcnson added nine points while ill Tate and Hubert Phillips each tallied eight. Selland had Tate, with Montgomery's Maile Geronilla guarding him, stand in the backcourt several times while the Raiders played the Aztecs four-on-four.

1 "Will does not have a high scoring average but, of-course, he creates a lot," -aid Selland. "I felt confident playing four-on-four. Whoever was guar-. ding Will had to be their best defensive player and gave the offense more room to maneuver." The Raiders led by as many as 10 points at 19 9 before Montgomery (13-7, 10-2) rallied to within two points twice before settling for a 29-25 deficit at halftime. Back-to-back baskets by Silva and Fezzey to start off the second half boosted the Raider lead back up Staff photo by Paul longworth Southwestern second baseman Rudy Rodriguez takes the throw from third baseman Torn Allison (2) for a force out during the Apaches' 7-3 victory over San Bernardino Valley Friday.

1 Castle-fiaiders 1-1 tie blurs akeaAvhazy olavoff oieture Apaches win tourney Si I 4 7 1 't- i 1 Zl J. A opener 7-3 SlMif Bhula goes up for a shot during the visiting Grossmont Friday night- alter nine innings, but advanced to the winner's bracket on a 4i don't know how we'll do in the tournament," Bartow said. "At least we got a game in. By Ed Cahill Sports Editor Back-to-back one-out' doubles by catcher Jeff Shephard and pinch hitter Matt Loewe sparked a four-run eighth inning to snap a 3-3 tie as host Southwestern defeated San Bernardino Valley 7-3 in an Apache Gassic first round contest Friday. "We're a young ballclub.

We've got a lot to learn," said Southwestern coach Jerry Bartow. "We're not a real solid hitting ballclub. We've got to catch the ball and make the plays." Gary Ross pitched eight innings to pick up the victory, giving up three earned runs on eight hits while walking two, striking out two and hitting four Indian batters with pitches. Todd Hable came, on in the ninth to pick up the save. After Loewe, pinch hitting for third baseman Tom Allison, doubled to drive in Shepherd to break the deadlock and pinch hitter win Proby walked, second baseman Rudy Rodriguez grounded out to first base to advance the runners to second and third bases.

Shortstop Victor Vargas then delivered a two-run single tq up the Apache lead to 6-3 and advanced to second on the throw to the plate. After Pat the Raiders can make the postseason CIFSDS playoffs is as a wild-card team. The tie severely hurt the team's chances. Confused? So were both teams on the field Thursday. Castle Park missed on a breakaway by Ronnie Hernandez before forward Memo Solorio's 'garbage goal' at 28 minutes drew first blood for a 1-0 Trojan halftime lead.

"Their guy (Victor Perez on a breakaway) was going to take a shot," said Southwest goalkeeper Victor Ruesga (seven saves). "It bounced off (defender) Rafael Yanez. I couldn't hold it." The ball went through the middle of the box to Solorio, who found an open right side. Southwest scored twice in the second-half, Castle Park once. Raider Jorge Cortcz tied the match 1-1 on the first of his two goals two minutes after halftime.

Cortez collected a loose ball in the Trojan zone, and from 30 feet out, sent a hard drive into the upper nettingDver Castle Park goalie Arriulfo Luna's right shoulder. Cortcz, off an assist from Jorge Zepeda, put Southwest ahead 2-1 with 20 minutes to play. Taking a through ball, Cortcz drcW Luna to the edge of the penalty box, and with the goalie too far out, rolled in a low shot from 25 yards. "1 didn't see (Trojan defender) Sal Arreguin next to (Cortcz) because the sun was in my eyes," Luna said. "Then I tried to get back, it was too late.

He touched it past me." Solorio saved Castle Park and further confounded, the league standings with three minutes remaining. When a trio of Raiders stopped play in the Southwest penalty area, waiting for a handball call from the referee that never came, Solorio' took the loose ball and, from 15 feet out, stuck it between uesga and the near post "We dominated them, then we slacked off," said a disappointed Southwest coach Henry Silva. "I thought we had 'em. We let down one minute at the end, and it was that moment (that did it)." The two goals put Solorio one behind teammate Sergio Hicks (ten goals) for the team-lead with nine, and raised Solorio's out-put to five in the last two matches. "Memo has become a smarter said Castle Park coach Paul Avalos.

"Earlier in the season he was trying to score only beautiful goals. Now he's using his brains, getting our goals when we need Luna made 14 saves off 21 Southwest shots, including 12 saves in the first-half. Metro Rotes: Coronado's Dar-P lease see Soccer: B-3 By Phillip Brents Sports Writer When the Southwest and Castle Park boys' soccer teams met Thursday at Swift Stadium in the wake of Tuesday's ruling by Sweetwater Union High School Superintendent Anthony J. Tru-jillo that re-arranged the Mesa and South Bay League standings, both squads needed victories to solidfy possible playoff spots. The two teams' 2-2 tic, I i nowever, oniy complicated an already confounding situation.

Here's the scenario: Hilltop, by virtue of the tic and Wednesday's 1-0 forfeit win over Bonita Vista, clinched the South Bay League title. Castle Park (5-3-3 in league, 12-4-4 overall), with the tic and Tuesday's 1-0 forfeit victory over the Barons, moved into sole possession of second place in the South Bay League, two points ahead of third-place Coronado. The best the Trojans can do is finish in second; the team can finish as low as third. Castle Park and Coronado tie in" the standings, both teams may be forced to play-off for at the conclusion of the regular season. Southwest (6-2-3, 9-4-4), leaders in the now abbreviated three-team Mesa League, assured itself of nothing.

The, only way Southwastsrn's Lee Copeland Lady Apaches' 82-C3 loss to Floyd walked, pinch hitter Rick Tyman singled to right to score Vargas for the final run. The Apaches played Orange Coast Saturday in the tournament's second found. Orange Coast had tied Fullerton 5-5.