MURRIETA VALLEY WINS TOURNAMENT; THOUSAND OAKS DOESN'T GET NEEDED AID FROM HIGHLAND.Byline: Chris Cocoles Daily News Staff Writer For a while, Highland High appeared to be Thousand Oaks' best friend, ready to swipe the Bulldog Invitational wrestling tournament title for the Lancers lanc·er n. 1. A cavalryman armed with a lance. 2. A member of a regiment originally armed with lances. 3. lancers (used with a sing. verb) a. A kind of quadrille. b. . But in the round-robin tournament's final match, Highland lost to Murrieta Valley to give the Nighthawks This article is about the painting by Edward Hopper. For other uses, see Nighthawks (disambiguation). Nighthawks (1942) is a painting by Edward Hopper that portrays people sitting in a downtown diner late at night. a perfect record and the championship. Murrieta, ranked seventh in Division 3, outlasted Highland, the top team in Division 4, 33-24 to finish 10-0 in the two-day event. Highland had already lost 45-18 to unranked Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. (9-1). The Lancers, who dropped a heartbreaking 36-31 decision to Murrieta, probably would have won the overall championship on tiebreakers if there were a three-way tie. ``It would have been real nice (for the Bulldogs to beat the Nighthawks),'' Thousand Oaks coach Manuel Valdez said. ``We had a couple of close losses (against Murrieta) that could have given us the win.'' Highland's loss to the Nighthawks also was sealed with a number of tight decisions that went against the Bulldogs. Rallying from 15-3 down, the Bulldogs tied it on eventual 140-pound champion John Garfinkel's 6-0 win over Pat Meredith. But at 145, Robert Estrada lost 2-1 to Jim Morlock and the Nighthawks took command. The teams split the next two bouts, but Adam Cloud was beaten 5-3 by Tony Wilson Anthony Howard Wilson (20 February 1950 – 10 August 2007) was an English record label owner, radio presenter, TV show host, nightclub manager, impresario and journalist for Granada Television and the BBC. , who scored a tiebreaking reversal with 22 seconds left. Mike Luman closed in on a pin of Murrieta's Travis Nesbitt in the 215-pound bout. While Nesbitt escaped from the near fall he quickly turned the tables and pinned Luman at 3:54 to all but seal the win. ``There were four or five matches where we were within a point or two of winning,'' said Bulldogs coach Mike Young, who saw major improvement between this loss to the Nighthawks and a 49-12 decision in the finals of the Murrieta Valley tournament. Area wrestlers who won individual championships included Garfinkel at 140 pounds, Thousand Oaks' Andrew Sprowl (130), Larry Schneider Lawrence "Larry" Schneider, PC (born March 23, 1938) is a Canadian politician. Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, he was mayor of Regina from 1979 until 1988. In the 1988 federal election, he was elected as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the riding of (145), Evan Jones (160), Steve Jauregui (215) and Brian Smith Brian Smith is the name of:
CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Robert Estrada of Highland High, left, gets entangled en·tan·gle tr.v. en·tan·gled, en·tan·gling, en·tan·gles 1. To twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; snarl. 2. To complicate; confuse. 3. To involve in or as if in a tangle. with Desert High's Robert Narciso on Saturday. Tom Mendoza / Daily News |
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