WRESTLING: CITY SECTION CHAMPIONSHIP: S.F. WINS ITS 10TH CITY TITLE MEMORY OF DEJOHN INSPIRES TIGERS.Byline: Gideon Rubin Staff Writer Nobody on the San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. High wrestling wrestling, sport in which two unarmed opponents grapple with one another. The object is to secure a fall, i.e., cause the opponent to lose balance and fall to the floor, and ultimately to pin the supine opponent's shoulders to the floor, through the use of body team actually knew Sam DeJohn, but many feel like they do. And nearly a year to the day after the former San Fernando coach died of cancer, the Tigers won a third consecutive City Section championship in his honor. DeJohn founded the program and was instrumental in helping wrestling become an officially sanctioned CIF (1) (Common Intermediate Format) A standard video format used in videoconferencing. CIF formats are defined by their resolution, and standards both above and below the original resolution have been established. The original CIF is also known as Full CIF (FCIF). sport in the early 1970s. He coached the Tigers from 1974 to 1989, and for more than 10 years before that, when it was a nonsanctioned club team. To draw on DeJohn's legacy, the Tigers wore robes robe n. 1. A long loose flowing outer garment, especially: a. An official garment worn on formal occasions to show office or rank, as by a judge or high church official. b. An academic gown. c. from the program's 1974 inaugural season in the championship meet on Saturday at Birmingham of Lake Balboa Balboa, town (1990 pop. 2,751), Colón prov., in the former Panama Canal Zone, on the Gulf of Panama. The port for Panama City, Balboa was the administrative headquarters of the Panama Canal Zone. It was also the site of a U.S. navy base (closed 1999). . ``It's an honor to even know his name,'' said Raphael Reynolds, the City Section wrestler of the year who won his second consecutive City title at the 135-pound division for San Fernando, which won its 10th title, tying El Camino Real El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road or The King's Highway) was the name of a series of pre-automobile highways linking the various New World colonies of Spain:
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Reynolds won all three of his matches by pins in less than four minutes - combined. He pinned Luis Mesa of Bell in the championship match in 1:41. Ricky Aguirre (140) pinned Bell's David Rodriguez David Rodriguez (born on January 1, 1952) is a folk music singer-songwriter, performer, and poet. Life and music David Roland Rodriguez was born and raised in Houston, Texas. in an championship match that clinched the team title for the Tigers. And San Fernando's Raul Uribe pinned Birmingham's Jose Alvrenga in 3:00 for the 145-pound title. First-year coach Fernando Gonzalez reminded his team of the history before the championship round. ``I told them that there's a lot of spirit and soul that's in that cup,'' he said. ``That cup has touched the hand of coach DeJohn, coach Mike Castillo, and many other of the coaches in the City, but for us, coach DeJohn is the one who started most of it.'' San Fernando finished with 194 points, 24 ahead of second place Bell (170.5). Chatsworth, which led the section with four individual championships, finished third with 150. ``We know he's (DeJohn) smiling down on us,'' Reynolds said. ``He inspired this team.'' DeJohn is considered one of the most significant figures in Valley wrestling history, and Saturday's championship was a virtual who's-who of people he impacted, including Canoga Park coach Phillip Guerrero, a former two-time City champion who wrestled under him. ``He basically put me on the right path,'' Guerrero said. ``I was from a low-income area. There were a lot of bad influences and this was my key - my key out of the neighborhood. It got me into college and got me an education, so I would say he was like a second father to me. He was tremendous.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Birmingham's Mohammad Usman Brigadier Mohammad Usman was the highest rank officer of Indian Army killed in the combat in independent India. He died while fighting the raiders in Jammu and Kashmir during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-48. , top, has the upper hand, but El Camino Real's Brandon Gionnotta went on to win. Joel P. Lugavere/Special to the Daily News |
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