WRESTLING NOTEBOOK: STATE SLOTS ON THE LINE AT MASTERS.Byline: IVAN OROZCO Staff Writer A group of area wrestlers See
Lancaster's Jeff Merrill (112), Highland of Palmdale's Greg Burton (125), Crespi of Encino's Gary Espinosa Jr. (130), Simi Valley's Mikey Murphy (152), Royal of Simi Valley's Shane Crosley (152) and Kevin Dunn (125) all won individual CIF titles in their respective weight divisions last weekend, and are competing to clinch Clinch, river, c.300 mi (480 km) long, formed by the junction of two forks in SW Va., and flowing generally SW across E Tenn. to the Tennessee River at Kingston. a slot in the state championship tournament March 2-3 in Bakersfield. The top eight in each weight division at this weekend's Masters Meet at Carter High in Rialto Rialto, city (1990 pop. 72,388), San Bernardino co., S Calif., a residential suburb of San Bernardino; inc. 1911. The city has greatly expanded as a result of the economic and demographic growth of the southern California area. will earn a spot. There will be 23 area wrestlers competing to qualify. One champion that stands out is Espinosa. The Crespi wrestler is only a sophomore and is trying to follow in the footsteps of a former Celt, 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. Valley's only state champion Sione Fue. Only this time, Espinosa wants to make it easier for him to qualify for state. Fue made his way into the title match out of the consolation bracket In programming, brackets (the [ and ] characters) are used to enclose numbers and subscripts. For example, in the C statement int menustart [4] = ; the [4] indicates the number of elements in the array, and the contents are enclosed in curly braces. after losing a couple of tight matches. Espinosa opens competition against Atascadero's Andrew Hernandez in the 130-pound division, which also features Westlake of Westlake Village's Dan Nguyen. Arian Ghaffari (36-4), also from Westlake, will wrestle in the 119-pound division. "I'm going in there blind," Espinosa said. "I've never wrestled against these guys. I expect good competition. I hope it's tougher than CIF." Dunn is also looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. tough competition after ripping (1) Converting an audio CD from its native CD-DA format to MP3, AAC or some other compressed audio format. When the term was coined, it had a perverse meaning. Many loved the idea they were "ripping off" the music industry by making copyrighted works available in a compact format through league and championship tournaments with a 47-2 record. He's the favorite to finish first at the tournament, which begins today and concludes Saturday, after he drew the top seed and a first-round bye. "CIF and the Masters is just practice for state," said Dunn, who qualified for last year's state competition. "State is where I expect it to be tough and I'll be ready for that." Highland's Burton also earned a bye and could be a threat in the 125- pound bracket. Murphy (47-7) also earned a bye in his bracket, while teammate Matt Bruno (160) will wrestle Highland's Ryan Gifford in the opening round. Merrill didn't earn a bye as a CIF champion, but will wrestle a lower seed in the first round of the 112-pound bracket, which will also feature Royal's Sam Mestaz. Mestaz's teammate Crosley (41-6) and Harvard-Westlake of Studio City's Matt Katz will be competing in the 152-pound category. ivan.orozco@dailynews.com (818) 713-3607 |
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