ROYAL, CRESPI HEAD TOURNAMENT PACK TOP SOUTHERN SECTION TEAMS READY TO DO BATTLE.Byline: Dave Shelburne Staff Writer Crespi High of Encino and Royal of Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. are the top seeds today in Southern Section dual-meet wrestling championship tournaments. Highland of Palmdale goes in with history on its side. They have been the area's marquee Southern Section teams in a season that also has produced playoff play·off also play-off n. Sports 1. A final game or series of games played to break a tie. 2. A series of games played to determine a championship. Noun 1. qualifiers at Lancaster, La Canada, Calabasas and Alemany of Mission Hills. For top-seeded Royal, the overpowering o·ver·pow·er·ing adj. So strong as to be overwhelming: an overpowering need for solitude. o Marmonte League The Marmonte League is a high school sports league primarily made up of schools from Ventura County. The Marmonte Leauge is part of the CIF Southern Section. Click here to view the league schedule. champion that produced 10 of a possible 14 individual finalists in last week's league tournament, today's Div. V dual-meet championship at Kaiser High in Fontana is a second chance. The Highlanders went undefeated in the regular season last season and were seeded second in the Div. IV dual meet at 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. High. They finished 16-1 after an eight-point quarterfinal loss to Mayfair. ``That's all we've been working for,'' Chad Davidson, one of Royal's nine individual league champions, said of taking another shot at a section title. ``Everything else was preseason. The season starts now.'' This year's Highlanders, solid throughout the lineup, enter the playoffs 8-0. Coach Paul Mole's team is especially strong at 154 pounds, where Eric Blackwell (33-5) is a returning state qualifier, and 114 pounds, where Kevin Dunn (40-3) was a national freestyle The code name for the MCE version of Windows. See Media Center Edition. team member last year as a freshman. Royal might have to get past the area's most successful Southern Section program to win the championship. Highland, seeded second in Div. V, has won four section championships - the past two Div. VI dual-meet titles and the 1997 dual-meet and individual division titles in Div. IV. Highland (28-3), which has won the Golden League three years in a row and 12 of the past 13 seasons, features 2004 Masters Meet qualifiers Kyle Burnett (36-3 at 121 pounds) and Steve Frehn (33-2 at 147) among five individual league champions. Highland also has the state's winningest coach in Mike Young, who takes a 569-138-4 career record into today's Div. V tournament. Young said that if he has learned anything in 26 years of coaching, it's that wrestlers See
``You can't get too elated e·lat·ed adj. Exultantly proud and joyful. e·lat  ed·ly adv.e·lat or you're done,'' Young said. ``And if a team makes a run on you, you can't get too down on yourself. You have to just be steady and wrestle tough.'' Three-time Mission League champion Crespi, which didn't have a wrestling program six years ago, is seeded No. 1 for today's Div. VI dual-meet tournament at San Marino San Marino, city, United States San Marino (săn mərē`nō), residential city (1990 pop. 12,959), Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1913. Of interest is the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. High. The Celts The following pages provide lists of nations or people of Celtic origin, arranged by branch of Celtic ethnicity or language grouping: Goidelic Celts
Crespi (15-1) is fielding its best wrestling team in the best possible season, since divisional realignment re·a·lign tr.v. re·a·ligned, re·a·lign·ing, re·a·ligns 1. To put back into proper order or alignment. 2. To make new groupings of or working arrangements between. has removed six of the seven teams that joined Crespi in last year's Div. VI dual-meet quarterfinals. The Celts' good fortune continued in last week's Mission League finals, where they produced 12 individual postseason qualifiers and seven league champions. Eric Buth, initially placed second at 132 pounds, joined the winners' ranks after a tiebreaking error was discovered late in the meet. Crespi's Luis Munoz (114), Martin Ciccolini (142) and heavyweight Sione Fua won their third league titles. Conrad Agajanian (173), Lamar Reed (154) and Sean Ellis (147) are Crespi's other league champions. ``It's tough being No. 1 because (the other Div. VI qualifiers are) going to try to knock us off,'' coach Mike Odman said. ``We've got to go out and wrestle like we know how and handle business because they're all coming at us. We're going to rely on our faith and see what the Lord has in store for us.'' Mission League runner-up Alemany and Rio Hondo Rio Hondo may refer to:
Marmonte League runner-up Calabasas and Golden League runner-up Lancaster are in the Div. V tournament, also scheduled for an 11 a.m. start. Dave Shelburne, (818) 713-3609 dave.shelburne(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: Sophomore Kevin Dunn, top, is 40-3 this season for undefeated Royal of Simi Valley, which is the top seed for today's Div. V dual-meet championship tournament at Kaiser High of Fontana. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News Box: SOUTHERN SECTION DUAL-MEET TOURNAMENT |
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