 Good evening and welcome to Soquel High School. I'm Rusty Reed along with Pat Lovell bringing you tonight's Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League Wrestling Championship. It's all down to tonight. They've been going at it all year long The blood sweat and tears comes down to 14 league champions tonight. Pat Lovell, former Olympian in wrestling He'll be bringing us to our analysis tonight and It's they've been going at it all day We've seen a lot. What is the status of wrestling here in the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League, Pat? Well, we have a very strong showing again from Aptos High School, the defending champion and We've had some things happen in the league, you know, some real close dual-meet matches or injuries the wrestlers have come into play and That has hurt a couple of the teams in trying to challenge Aptos at this time. We've had a great Santa Cruz High School has really their program has really come on this year last year. They've had we're down to like four wrestlers They have a new coach who's Amelia Ariano and Erdogan, I'm sorry and They have about 25 25 wrestlers out which is very very good turnout for the Santa Cruz program which used to be a powerhouse So I think you're going to see some changes some of the other teams are going to are going to get better as the year goes on and Aptos, they're seven championships in eight years and SLB will give them a run for their money for the team title They're lining up on the mat We have seven teams from the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League St. Francis High School the first year with the wrestling team Out of that program. Yeah, that was great to have them come up come on board where they gave us seven teams in the league now All right, great. Oh, yes, we're gonna sign off and be right back with the first weight 115 pounds right after this Oh Oh, okay, I'll scoot down a bit. Okay, Rusty, it looks like we're ready to go here, 106 pound weight class, Chris Markey from San Lorenzo Valley, who's coached by Ken Paulasrini and Todd Kerr. He's currently 25 and 8 and ranked number 14th in the SCCAL, excuse me, in the CCS. And he'll be going against Russell Calms, a freshman. So two freshmen at 106 pounds. Now Markey, he's 14th in CCS as a freshman. He's made quite a mark. He's got a great record. He comes in with a record of 25 and 8, Markey from San Lorenzo Valley High School and Russell Calms from Santa Cruz High School, both undefeated and leaked. Yeah, Rusty, I might say that Chris Markey, I know his dad from the junior college days when I was coaching at Cabrillo, his dad with a very outstanding wrestler at Chabot College went on to Cal State Bakersfield where he competed. You know it's in the genes. Markey is a tough little guy. He's only 106 pounds, but he's very tough. So they've been wrestling all afternoon, junior varsity and then quarters and semifinals leading up to the finals here tonight. There'll be 14 matches, 14 weight classes from 108 pounds to the heavyweights. Yeah, you see the coaches and some of the wrestlers out there now are wiping off the mat. They just re-clean the mat again before the final, so there's still some wet spots. So it reminds me of the Warriors game when the guys, those guys fall down and the people come running from the side with the towel to wipe the floor up. So these guys could probably go to work for the Warriors the next time around. So we'll have high school wrestling, like college, three two-minute periods? Yes, there'll be three two-minute periods. You know at the end of the first period, the referee will flip the disc. Whatever color comes up red or green will have his choice to take top, bottom or defer. And from that point on it just changes in the third period. Take downs with control and with one wrestler supporting points inbound is two points. The reversal is two points. The scapes are one point. Near falls are, it could be two, three or four or even five with a penalty situation. So here we go. It's Calms in the Santa Cruz, red and white. And San Lorenzo Valley, Chris Markey in the black, red and white. For the league championship, 106 pounds. Markey's got to be the favorite from SLV. Highly ranked in CCS as well. Yeah, it's a good job. They're both a nice double leg shot there by Markey for two point take down. It's amazing, Rusty. Rusty, you see some of the skill level of some of these ninth graders. You know, these freshmen in high school, they have very good skills. You see Markey working for the cradle, near side cradle. He's got the cradle. He's now scoring near fall points. It holds him there for five seconds. He's got to get three points. Still working for the pin. It's a tough to get a guy down. The cradle is a great move to score points on. But a lot of times it's hard to get that inside shoulder down because it's up against your chest as you're trying to pin him. Same maneuver. He won't get another three points because he has not changed the hold. Now if he goes back to the cradle, he would get another three point. The comms waiting him out there, avoiding the pin. Yeah, he's doing a good job defensively. Markey's got to begin. He works on that cradle. I think we've got to do two points near fall because he held him for two seconds that time. So yeah, defensively, he calms a nice job. I mean, avoiding the pin twice. He's got his hands full with Markey for sure. Yeah. He's got to make sure he can't get that one knee up near his head or he's a big trouble for that cradle. It looks like Markey, that might be his trademark move. Markey trying to switch. Comes into a stand up. I don't see the clock, Pat. Oh, the clock must be on the table. Two minute periods. Yeah, they're not using the... Here we are in the second period. We have no idea what time. You kind of still feel it. There goes Markey with a duck under. Duck under for another two point take down. Now he's working that bar half. Crank it a half, Nelson. Driving it hard. A lot of points for Markey. He's up over calms. 10-nothing here in the second or three periods. And there's your fall. So Chris Markey, the freshman from San Lorenzo Valley High School, league champion at 106 pounds. On to CCS. Next stop, CCS. You're right. That's a big win for him, especially when you're a freshman. So the next weight class, 115 pounds. It'll be Gabby Sandoval, league champion, defending league champion against George Mendoza. Mendoza out of Soquel High School, and Gabby Sandoval from Scotts Valley. Kind of a sad story about Gabby. You know, Gabby was the number one ranked girl and girl wrestler in CCS. Came down sick and was not able to wrestle in the CCS tournament to get a chance to win the state championship. So she's here tonight, you know, wrestling for her team, for team points and so forth, and it's a real shame that she did not get a chance to go to state. It was a nice takedown she had. I think it was a double leg that she took her down with. She's working, trying to control the wrist to get some type of a tilt. Working on the breakdown, she's riding, riding very well. She's got her arm bar. Trying to work the arm bar. Gabby's a junior, Mendoza sophomore, Mendoza in the blue of Soquel. Gabby number one ranked CCS in girls and unable to compete in that meet. I remember when she won league last year. That was, I think, the first league champion that was a girl. Yes, I think so, yeah. I think Domino Perich would have been, but what she did is when she wrestled in the league finals, she Domino was one of the outstanding wrestlers from Scotts Valley High School and now up at Simon Fraser University in Canada. She just got second place in the Nationals and she would have probably, or could have won our league championship, but she defaulted in the finals, did not wrestle for first place. Gabby's working on top. You know, Gabby was first at the Ed Ferrell Classic, second at the Weber Lawson Classic, third at the Nick Musletch Tournament, second at the Baylor's Bash and second at the 50th Peninsula Invitational. Right now you see on her bio here she's working to get her health back to 100%. I noticed she was, I saw her earlier today, she's using, I think, I don't know if she's using inhaler or not, but she had bronchitis and you know that just takes the wind out of your sails. Have an injury time out now. Nick Mendoza must have a bloody nose, I think is what our hold up is. Scott's Valley Coach, Freddie Cortez, chatting it up with Gabby there. You know, at this time too, I'd like to introduce the referees we have working tonight, finals. Abram Ross is out on the mat. He's the referee on the mat, his assistant is Gene Naniz and our other official is Nate Urbancic, former Soquel wrestler. Gene Naniz, his brother, wrestled for me way back in the 70s, when I, late 60s and early 70s when I was head coach at James Lake High School. His brother was a Northern California champion, was 43 and always senior year. Get all the blood wiped up and they'll be ready to go. George Mendoza at the bottom here as they go, coached by Shane Torres. Hey Gabby, on the offensive. Yeah, Gabby's a tough rider. You can tell she's had a lot of experience. She knows where her hips are supposed to be and how to keep that upper body down to the mat so you can't get anything going for you. Two nothings, a close match here so far. That first match with Markey with 10 to nothing before that fall or a pin. Oh, there we go. Nice reversal, reversal there by Gabby and a switch move, what we call a switch. But she changes that position from bottom to top. It's a two point maneuver and she just put together there. Nice job on that. You notice she's tall too for a girl in her weight class. She's very tall so she has good leverage. You know, when you get a, you find a wrestler who's like that, who has strength and has a long gated body they have a lot of leverage. Here she's working on that wrist ride, inside wrist ride. She's trying to work it up into an arm bar but Mendoza is giving her a good fight. There's one penalty point for Gabrielle, a stalling call on Mendoza. Camila, there she goes. Also at this weight class. Yeah, she almost had him with that half Nelson. She had him going in the turn but she couldn't quite get to the side. She was working that arm bar. Alec Newbergers in the 113 class along with Maya Lentona, Aiden Largue. All mostly freshman. A lot of people thought Camila Barranca would be in this final against Gabby and George Mendoza pulls it off. Yeah. Soquel, I know not a lot of wrestlers at the lighter weights but boy when you get to the heavy weights it's a lot of Soquel High School. Yeah, they don't have a lot of the smaller weight classes. I noticed that in watching them in their dual meets. You notice Gabby has her inhaler now. Mendoza's bleeding and Gabby's using her inhaler. Gabby is really looking to place in the top three at the Folk Style National in Oklahoma next month. And she'd like to thank her coaches and thank her dad for always supporting her 100%. And thanks to her mom for always feeding her. And again only a junior so looking to become a back-to-back champion here in the league and maybe as a senior make it three in a row if she can get past Mendoza here. She's up on points five to nothing. Third period. Mendoza really needs a fall here. Nice single leg move there. Mendoza coming forward took that single leg. She's back in the control position again. Now the thing about the girls wrestling is they have their own section championship and which Gabby was not able to wrestle in because of an illness and they also have their own state tournament which is I think coming up shortly or it might have been this weekend I'm not sure. So boys CCS is yet to come where girls CCS wrestling happened last weekend. In the third period Sandoval up seven nothing on points. Yeah she's been in total control the whole match for Mendoza hasn't been able to get any kind of an offense going at all. Defending league champ. You're going to have your hands full. Mendoza is still leaking a little bit up top so take another time out. They get five five minutes time out for bleeding. Some of the kids you know are just that way they get hit in the face and they bleed easy and takes a while to get it stopped. And some housekeeping on the mat as well. We're at Soquel High School hosting the 2017 version of the league title. Yeah we'd like to thank Stu Walters for hosting the league championship today. He's done an outstanding job. They call him the king of the Kettle Court. Last year's league championships that you and I brought to community television of Santa Cruz County was up at Scotts Valley High School. Louis Walters hosting that the athletic director up there. And Gabby on top again traps that arm again working to do that head crush on him trying to get it in the turn working for that arm bar. You see her got the two on one on that arm trying to lift it up put the pressure on his back with the elbow and there she goes she's got him starting to turn. And Ty I'm about to run out on Mendoza. Riella Sandoval second year in a row league champion so that's a league first who had a gal be a league champ two years in a row of nice big hug George Mendoza. Yeah her coach Freddie Cortez the great guy former James Lake High School wrestler wrestler for Ray Jimenez over there. She's a happy camper now. Hugs all around the junior second time league champ go for the hat trick next year. Yep. Now we move on to 120 pounds it'll be Jeremiah Aguirre the senior SLV and the red and black against Joe Hamana from Scots Valley only a sophomore. Gary is coached by Ken Paulisrini and Todd Kraft he's got a record of 24 and 7 just scored a take down for Ryan and he's ranked number 8 in the CCS. He's a hard worker you know he had a good season last year and he's really come on this year and Kenny had predicted that he would Coach Paulisrini predicted he would go to state this year so it looks like he's on his way the first stepping stone right now there he goes to the cradle move he's got him in the cradle points I think on a near fall the referee holding until he makes sure he's completely out of the first hole that he tried to score with. Hasn't lost in league yet this year and two time defending league champion he's our only two time defending league champion tonight's contest the fact are only four returning league champs in the whole league yeah he's a lot of seniors won and graduated last year yeah a lot of them did that was the thing with the scots valley program is you know they had a number of wrestlers last year this year their numbers are way down and it's just hard to try and figure out why why that happens but uh Joseph Hermata is coached by Freddie Cortez and Helen Rosseter the team mom who's been with the program at scots valley for a long time he is ten and four on the season and Gary's riding him really tough again Jeremiah SLV cream of the crop in this league he's again in the red and black two time league champion going for three in a row here senior only a sophomore in the finals of the league Gwyer is also in the future of marrying his high school sweetheart which that's pretty good he's got Hermana in trouble right now he flipped him over he's working on the near fall here trying to put that half that tight half he gets that in there we could see a fall here he's got him now he's got him in trouble officials calling counting for the near fall remember if he holds it for five seconds it's a three pointer less than that two seconds or more here's your fall the league champion for the third year in a row that's pretty impressive Lorenzo Valley Cougar congratulations to the senior undefeated in the regular season and now the league champ here tonight undefeated all day long yeah, Gwyer now he'll be one of the top seeds in the center coast section when we our league we get two qualifiers out of this tournament usually our first and second but if the second and third place wrestlers have not met each other throughout the tournament we wrestle for what's called a true second and those true second matches if they happen will happen tomorrow at the harbor high school at 10 a.m. now we've got another star of the league Raul Ortiz from Scott's Valley High School and he's going against Evan Carrillo from Aptos yeah, this looks like it could be a pretty good match here oh, nice signal he's got him got him up in the air for the takedown Ortiz it's got a Ortiz has the gold on his singlet from Scott's Valley Ortiz is coached by Freddy Cortez and Ken Kenagard Ken sister coach has been ill most recently and he is not here this evening our prayers are with Ken he's got him in the nearfall now Ortiz holding there for the nearfall and Ortiz another defending league champion winner last year the SCCAL title Raul Ortiz ranked seventh in CCS Evan Carrillo from from from Aptos is 15 and 15 on the season he was a former SCCAL league champ two years ago and he was fifth at the dusk and dawn tournament I don't know if he had some injuries or what but I do remember him from a couple years ago so a great bout at 126 pounds two league champions going at it for the title of 2017 Ortiz is really working that tight waist trying to trap the near arm working for working for the nearfall he's got him now he's got him in trouble now scoring a two point nearfall in that particular move so he is leading the match now looks like 5-0 here we don't have the scoreboard within our view yeah it's a little tough to see at this angle I think 6-0 on points Carrillo beat Jack Greathouse in the semi-final Harvard wrestler and a close one but Ortiz the favorite the one to beat you notice Ortiz has that brace on his shoulder two on his right shoulder so he's wrestling at a little bit of a disadvantage today but inside inside ride for the kill hard bar kill here in the end of the first period he's got Carrillo in trouble now at the buzzer three point nearfall looks like our score is 9-0 9-0 Raul Ortiz with the lead over Carrillo it looks a lot closer I've never really been going at it you see what happened there it was Ortiz's choice he chose to defer and that gives the choice to Carrillo took standing wrestling in the second period now in the third period comes around Ortiz won't have his choice nice double leg you notice at that point if the toes of the wrestler are unbounded it becomes points of score oh I guess they did not call it oh there's Ortiz with a two point take down so Carrillo tall mountain to climb at this point yeah Freddie Cortiz is asking about the last take down just before this one that was not called he had his toes in it should have been a two point two point take down remember last year Rusty we were Scott's Valley we had the mat lamp up above us it was exciting I thought we were at the WWF tournament I was waiting for Brock Lesnar to walk out any minute adds to the drama I remember at the old gym at Watsonville high school I had great drama and the lighting just one spotlight on the mat and center stage and everything else and the inky darkness yeah the Watsonville gym is still there but they have that new facility it's absolutely beautiful down there Ortiz take a shot of the single leg working the upper body with inside trip two point take down for Carrillo first point to the match nice roll out nice roll out there by Ortiz that was almost out of there Evan Carrillo finally making a charge here now down nine two in point second period Carrillo again in the aptos blue little tough to tell but Scott's Valley has the gold on the leg this matches real good there's Ortiz with the reversal and Carrillo's got himself in real trouble crawling on his elbow he's being scored upon while he does that while he's on his elbow Ortiz to come up with another near fall here and goes he tried to take him again with that with that cheap tilt uh oh uh oh nice move nice nice change up on that move by Ortiz Evan Carrillo from aptos a junior so one league as a freshman he's still got a nice future he's a good wrestler he's up against though one of the elite of the league in Ortiz and Roller Tees was first at the Jim Rood Classic sixth at the California Coach Classic and uh he uh what's the thank this SCCL wrestling community and uh right back at ya oh that's a great uh a great thing Evan Carrillo is a fighter here they got scores thirteen to two in favor of Ortiz Ortiz does a nice job of getting that getting that foot across there and tripping uh tripping Carrillo down so unless we have a pin here by Carrillo it looks like Ortiz on his way to CCS currently ranked eight nice double hit take down that was a beauty that was the one you like to teach the kids and they do do it third period cannot see the clock so I can't tell you how many seconds are left but we're nearing the end fifteen to two Ortiz with the lead on Carrillo Ortiz has a guillotine has a guillotine on him that's the aptus contingent that's so loud here in the Soquel Jim they've got a lot of wrestlers and a lot of fans yeah he got a tech fall fifteen points which is called a tech fall very very skilled match I thought uh well Ortiz did a great job and Carrillo was a great competitor to hang in there like he did that was a really exciting match that really was well thought as should be but next year as a senior Carrillo could go after league title number two yeah sure could deal with that for sure you know back to the team scores here real quick you know aptus was undefeated in the league this year there was 6-0 and tonight that's scoring after the semi-final matches aptus is 174 points Santa Cruz 102 points that is really moving up for Santa Cruz Harbor 71 Scots Valley 60 Soquel 49 and St. Francis our new baby 28 point so I give them credit for scoring so well as a first year team here we go 132 it's Brendan Fitzgerald against Ryan Braga Braga out of aptus Fitzgerald San Lorenzo Valley High School 132 pounds freshman in sophomore youth for a pretty good weight strong weight 132 yeah we have Ryan Braga from aptus he's coached by Rudy Guzman, Jacob Rodriguez and guess who Reggie Roberts 15 and 12 on the season fifth at Marin Catholic 6th at Los Gatos Frostoff Tournament Brendan Fitzgerald out of SLV High School 5-1 record in league he went up against Raul Ortiz and that was his only loss, Ortiz jumped a weight so otherwise in his weight class he'd be sitting undefeated and undefeated so far today to reach the final Fitzgerald has a good record of 19 and 8 that's nothing to shake your head that's a pretty good number of matches and only a freshman again Fitzgerald from SLV in the red and black Braga and aptus pretty much a solid black Braga is the sophomore but two good wrestlers for being so young yeah he is very good nice single leg very nice nice single leg for a two point take down converted that over from a single into a double took him right down that's just the way you're supposed to do it take down my finalist in his weight class Blaise Parrish and Kevin Chavez also freshman but it's Fitzgerald and Braga in the final gaining seconds in the first period nice control there by by Fitzgerald did a real nice job there controlling from the top position Fitzgerald up two to nothing on points after the first period first of three looks very well skilled for a freshman I'll tell you that nice single leg shot there shot there by Braga but Fitzgerald was right there to block him off and Braga tried to get a signal tried to work on that leg but Fitzgerald thought letting him get in there Braga the nickname of baby Lou he was nicknamed after his idol from the nose TV show Hulk Lou the Rigno Lou still to nothing Fitzgerald with the narrow lead got a great shot got a double leg but they they went out of bounds on that one Fitzgerald is very impressive for a ninth grader I'll tell you and again only the one loss in league and that was to the senior the league champ Raul Ortiz and it was close it was seven to five and only a freshman Braga just a sophomore so they're going to be duking it out for a long time those two they'll get to know each other real well Fitzgerald has a great thing he wants to do also is make it to the state tournament so that's a pretty big order for a for a freshman but that's where it starts you got to have those dreams you know one thing to be a freshman 108-115 but this is a tough wait 132-134 that's where everybody is you know the end of the second period two minutes left and still two to nothing with Brandon Fitzgerald slim lead over Braga Braga hyping himself up here we go the third and final period two minutes yeah Fitzgerald chose to wrestle up on his feet so that's where he's on nice double beautiful double a take down that's textbook right there that was very very nice almost turned it into nearfall points but not quite this kid's going to be a real cover I'll tell you so four nothing on points Fitzgerald with the lead on halfway through the third Fitzgerald in control here all the way got that near side arm trap keep it breaking down broken down off of his base the two powers of the league Aptos and SLV as far as team wrestling is concerned and they're showing it right here individually as well Braga tried to go into a switch and Fitzgerald kept the arm bar on him look like he was going to take over there at that point in time but he can't now he got to be careful of the arm he can't have the arm up beyond the 45 degree angle and they'll stop usually as a potentially dangerous hold half the clock and there's not much left he's up four to nothing Braga scores the one point escape less than 10 seconds that's it so you have a freshman winning the league championship at 132 Brendan Fitzgerald with a hard fought victory over Ryan Braga another good one the last two matches have been very very good very very well skilled wrestlers now we move on to 140 pounds we've got Christian Olsen of Aptos High School a senior and Justin Parker out of St. Francis that's Olsen who's out there now the two have met before well they've met twice Olsen and Parker and they're one and one so this is the rubber match of the year yeah this would be a good one glad to see that St. Francis has a wrestler in the finals first year first year program Coach Guerrero is doing a great job there Justin Parker and the St. Francis Purple and coach by Nick Guerrero who's just been so impressed with the strides that Parker has made this year yeah him and Brian Johnson his assistant coach they've done a great job there at St. Francis for a first year program I hope they just keep getting better and start getting a few more kids you know they only have 120 boys in the school but he thinks he might have oh nice move Olsen went to go around oh Parker's got him in the headlock now he's got that headlock tight he's got a score here he's got a take down he's got three point near fall he needs to tighten that thing up and it'll be all over which would be a huge upset Olsen the senior undefeated well the one loss in league to this very Justin Parker Olsen fighting for his life he's got to be tight he's got to sit through with that and lift the head he's doing the right the right thing on the move but he's going to lose it a five point move take down a three point near fall that was very good for Justin Parker I'll tell you Justin Parker's 14 and nine on the season and Duane third in the section and Christian Olsen from Aptos is 20 and 11 seventh at the gym sixth at the El Camino tournament and he plans to walk across country in golden slippers after graduating from high school that I'd like to see well that's the end of the first period how about that Justin Parker the sophomore given Olsen all he could handle up I think the score five nothing here as we begin the second period with the sophomore sophomore in the lead so I see Nick Guerrero the coach at St. Francis I see why he was so impressed with his man Parker just coming out first year wrestling and the strides that he did turned himself into a real wrestler he's got Parker's on top trying to trying to turn Olsen he's got the leg in on him he's got his hips too high though he could be in trouble here if Olsen works his arm through he's going to be in trouble there he goes so down by points but Christian Olsen comes back and gets the pin for the Aptos victory Christian Olsen the senior wow what a match well I tell you it's all about balance he let himself get off balancer Olsen was able to pull him right under with that headlock and put him away so one good headlock deserves another I guess but that was some match some turnabout Parker up on points great job by the sophomore Justin Parker of St. Francis who will become the first wrestler in the history of St. Francis to go to CCS yeah Christian Olsen the champion won 40 with that pin congratulations to him now we move on to 145 Anderson of Harbour High School against Patrick Peoples of Aptos Mace Anderson people took a shot there and Mace Anderson just whipped him over on the sides of two point cake down Mace Anderson is one of our outstanding wrestlers he's got a nice single leg here right there and he's trying to trip him down there he goes nice trip that's Mace with the yellow and somebody's got blood on Mace from Harbour has the yellow headgear and Mace one of the only four returning league champions so he's defending his title one last year yeah Mace Anderson is coached by Greg Lopez Steve Bautista and Elroy Ruiz he was second at the Weber loss in tournament fifth at the coach classic and eighth at the CIT and his record is 26 and 12 and he's ranked number 5 in CCS so Mace Anderson is a very from what I've seen he's a very skilled technical wrestler he just needs a little more strength I think and from watching what he's doing because you look at him you look how tall he is he's got the leverage he just needs a little more strength that's my estimation of him but he's a kid who loves to learn he loves wrestling and he wants to go on I think and wrestle beyond the high school level very very good student very high grade point average outstanding athlete Patrick Peoples is coached by Rudy Guzman Pete Messis and Reggie Roberts 14 and 4 third at the Marin Catholic fifth at the El Camino and he wanted to win the national lookalike winner of the Alfred E. Newman contest which would be a heck of an honor back to live action still in the first period Mace Anderson cut him loose cut to Anderson loose so he could score comes right back in you'll see he's very aggressive on his feet nice single leg trip now he's going to let him go again so he's going to put on the take down clinic force nice shot by Peoples got his hips in the wrong position was not able to hold Anderson off Anderson scored another two point Anderson up 8-4 on points yeah he's in a high crotch position now but he's also oh that was a beautiful move you don't see a lot of high school kids that can do that a lift like that a body lift that take you right to your back now he's going to cut him loose he's going to score some more points here Mace Anderson up 13-4 on points just the first period though over Peoples Peoples a junior Anderson a senior Anderson and trying to become a two time league champ yeah he just goes for that high crotch and turns it into like a fireman's carry comes up on top for the two point nearfall excuse me two point take down you know looks like he's going to ride him out to the end of the first period the other two semi-finalists there he's taking him again for and the clock runs out another two point nearfall semi-finalists in this weight class that lost to both Mace and Patrick Liam Parrish and Ruby Sartain Miller reaching the semi-finals at 145 so here we go on to the second period there's Anderson again with that double leg take change the single leg take down to a double rolls up on the body kicks that far shoulder trying to try to turn peoples over we might see a tech ball in this particular match Anderson up 19-5 right now playing in the second period he's an optional start he took him right off his feet into the nearfall very nice very nice head move yeah that's him from Harbour High School well that stays undefeated in league well I will see him in the newspaper newspaper here someday as a champion if he keeps improving the way he does he's got a good chance to go on and really become a fine wrestler he's ranked fourth in CCS so he could go out there and he has a shot at the title on the state we'll see so congratulations to Mace 152 pounds Berné Aguilera and Damon Regains Regains out of Aptos Aguilera from Santa Cruz High a familiar red and cardinal and white looks like a couple of real scrappers here Aguilera is coached by Emilio Aragonio, Cody Kiff and Justin Bowers he's Damon Reagan coached by Pete Mestis Ramon Zacharias and Reggie Roberts they're mixing it up real good here on their feet Rusty they're getting after it pretty good we're at about the halfway point in the matches tonight we've had some really good ones and give you a little more information about these two guys that are up here battling right now Damon Regains just through a nice headlock Aptos has the draw right now and off the mat I think he scored did he get a 2 point takedown 2 point near fall that's what it is just the takedown again from Santa Cruz the junior Regains a senior he's got it in a tough ride now Regains beat Hunter Blinkenberg in the semifinals another St. Francis wrestler who did very well in the first year of the St. Francis program and St. Francis coach Nick Herrero is going to give Blinkenberg the wrestler award he's just making it up this year because he's the perfect wrestler oh nice nice takedown but René Aguilera he just kind of whipped Regains over he kind of shot it with a little bit off balance came right up on top for the 2 point takedown Devin Gunderson the other semifinalist in this weight class 2 to 3 close bout into the first period so a nice little comeback there by Aguilera yeah real nice comeback he's down 2 to nothing now finds himself up 3 to start of the second period here we go they go up under feet now in the second period they're really bad oh nice throw didn't work out for him and he lost a good try there that was a nice try by Damon he just couldn't quite get Aguilera over Aguilera now a 5-2 again Aguilera in the red and white Santa Cruz he's running that cross face hard try probably looking for that cross face cradle pulling back in for an arm bar Reagan's favorite quote is don't look back you aren't going that way well nice spin over and Aguilera reversed it on him off the mat another point there for Aguilera Gaines got a point too Aguilera is up 7-3 second period off-match nice throw by Damon that was really nice he took him down for 2 gotta watch his bounce 3-point near fall it's tied up reversed it oh final seconds of the second period there actually Aguilera goes up 9-7 end of the second period oh man that's a good one that was a good one they reversed that lead several times it's 7-7 a moment ago now up by 2-9-7 Aguilera takes bottom third period start of the third Gaines out of Aptos in the dark singlet third and final score 10-7 10-7 Aguilera okay this is a good battle Aguilera working that front head arm comes all the way around to get his head out of there he's up 12-7 now Gaines can push points on the board see if he can do it here finds him down by 5 third period Aguilera Gaines is pretty wise on that Aguilera starts to take him over he's getting real dangerous because he almost reverses every time Aguilera up 12-7 halfway through the third and final period Reg is trying to work his set out but Aguilera is doing a great job of following him that's the one move he just keeps doing it doesn't work anymore and then you go to something else oh he's got the half in there deep oh he's got him now in trouble got that half watch his balance watch your balance Aguilera had him there Gaines came right out of it he goes back over again he's won a match I'll tell you Aguilera putting the points on the board he's up 15-7 now final seconds of the match Rene Aguilera Santa Cruz High School your league champ at 152 pounds and what a battle hard fought Damon Regaines that was a good one Regaines took the early lead Aguilera stormed back and won the title a lot of good matches and going a good long three periods we're getting our monies worth tonight then it was first period pins here we have first and second place teams and the team score battling each other right here Marcos Reyes from Aptos against Jesse Berry Belly I'm sorry Jesse Berry from SLV nice double leg shot both these wrestlers highly ranked in CCS Berry is 7th a lot of schools Marcos Reyes of Aptos is ranked 13th in CCS he's got to be that front head and arm he's trying to trying to spin here block the oboe and spinning behind for two point takedown but Berry's a little too smart for that two teams met during the regular season Aptos and San Lorenzo Valley very close Aptos came away with the win but partly because SLV had to forfeit two weight classes and Aptos got those points automatically short of that the other six bouts they were sick they were sick Berry came up with that cradle almost had it completed lost it ended up just scoring a two point takedown so Berry's coached by Ken Paulistrini and Todd Kraft 16 and 6 on the season Half Moon Bay Consolation Champion Apple Cider 3rd and Overveld Tournament 4th and his personal goal he's got two of the greatest one is to win a beauty pageant and also to wrestle a bear so he's got his work cut out for him later in life his goals they've been writing down you ride down tough on top trying to work for the tilt trying to control that near side arm for a arm bar if you can Berry a junior out of SLV Ray is only a sophomore a big kid for a sophomore wrestling 160 pounds so yeah again when the two SLV and and Aptos trying to make the point that they had 12 matches and each team won six of them and SLV had to forfeit the other two Aptos wins the team regular season match yeah Marcus Reyes was from Aptos was 22 and 6 first at the Harbor Frost 5th at the Wren Catholic 3rd at the El Camino Tournament and he wants to be an all state running back in football well that Aptos program is pretty powerful Randy Blankenship's got him going over there and he's just lovable to do that trying to get a headlock on that that time Marcus Reyes did but he could not keep a hold of Berry like he should have and ended up losing two points on the maneuver so Berry up 4 to nothing in the second period he looked at his turn he's got about a half oh and there's a fall Jesse Berry of San Lorenzo Valley High School the champ at 160 pounds with the second period of Marcus Reyes only a sophomore Reyes seeing him next year of course as well as Berry and each other both fare well at section yeah both of two really good looking two good looking wrestlers I'll tell you interesting how Aptos and SLV during the regular season the two best teams but yet today it's Santa Cruz you know got in there in second place for the team title and here we go at 170 pounds it's Keegan Dutton Jones of Aptos against Donovan O'Brien of Santa Cruz nice nice head pull down and take down there by Dutton Jones he's riding on top he's looking for that cheap kill got the vine in there he's going to try and get him up off his shoulders and control that near side arm what he's looking for Dutton Jones the Aptos junior ranked ninth in the section has an impressive record of 23 and 7 you know and with 3rd at Marin Catholic 3rd at El Camino 4th at Dijun Rupen you know he's still got some room to grow that's for sure both these wrestlers are juniors 3rd at the novice novice tournament so I don't think they've been to a lot of a lot of the bigger tournaments like some of the other teams have and down the road that could hurt you but when you're building a program like Mr. Coach Aragon is over there you don't want to take those kids into tough competition too early and get them discouraged 2-0 lead by Dutton Jones he's got a tough ride he's trying to work that arm bar he can turn the head on there he's got got O'Brien in trouble now fighting to get out of the pin still a lot of time here in the first period looks like he might work his way out of there yeah it looks like going back to base he had a good fight always got the deep half got the deep half now he's got him so Keegan, Dutton Jones with the first period pin over Donovan O'Brien the two juniors at 170 in your champ right there Keegan, Dutton Jones of Aftos High School ranked ninth in the section see he can go out there and certainly make a mark next weekend yeah for that's for sure Ethan Spence is another wrestler at 170 here today semifinalist and now we move to 182 they just keep getting bigger and bigger it's Chris Obanez and Armando Membrino Obanez from Aftos High School Membrino from Harvard Membrino with the yellow head gear and only a freshman Membrino at 182 pounds Obanez a senior so freshman versus senior Obanez hasn't lost in league this year he's the favorite coming in again from Aftos no points on the board just the start, first period that was a nice a bonus nice take down on that he just reached in grabbed a hold of Abrino's legs and took him over he's working the half he's got that thing tight got that thing real tight he's working them over Judd's quite having near fall yet he's working hard he needs to reverse that into a half got the head now now he needs to power him over he's starting to get his near fall points there he got him to rock over if he can get him to rock over going for another first period fall we're going to have two in a row here yeah Obanez up 2-0 he needs to tighten that up Abrino might be saved by the bell the knockout will not happen that had to be right at the buzzer he gets the pin that had to be right at the buzzer Chris Obanez of Aptos High School so Aptos on a roll they're racking up the points now as a team the senior wins the title at 182 pounds SLV Santa Cruz and Aptos close during the regular season but now Aptos seems to be pulling away we move on to 195 pounds it's Adam Vega of Aptos High School he's there in the center of the mat right now and he's going up against Danny Cruz of Harbour both outstanding wrestlers ranked both of them in the top 15 in CCS here we go at 195 pounds it's Cruz with the yellow headgear Vega of Aptos the senior Cruz of sophomore Danny Cruz coached by Steve Bautista and Greg Lopez at Harbour his record is 19-11 he's ranked 15 CCS and he was 8th at the Coach Classic which is a very very tough tournament Adam Vega coached by Mestez John Valazzo Reggie Roberts he's 18-7 ninth he was 2nd at the Marin Catholic almost close take down there by Cruz you look at the body style the difference on these two guys you have the tall guy and you have the short guy so leverage becomes that factor here it can become so you usually have to over overcome a lot of strength nice shot there by by Cruz but he just couldn't hold it lost two points there Adam Vega from from Aptos would like to Marine Corps what he's done with school and serve our country which is a very very nice gesture on his part indeed boy wrestling practice would certainly beef you up for being a Marine in boot camp wrestling practice no picnic is it talking to a Olympian in Pat Lovell 1964 Olympics you've had a lot of blood, sweat and tears probably all over wrestling mats across the world Vega got off a little balancer look like look like Cruz was going to put him on his back but he wasn't able to get him over and Vega ended up back on top again Cruz only a sophomore a big kid the Harbor High School wrestler parked underneath there get set to go second period Vega with the edge yeah Vega has to be a little bit careful on his balance he wants to you know you don't want to get up too high on a short drive you could roll put that roll move on you you could be in trouble only two matches left after this one heavyweight Tom Decker there was a nice nice move by Cruz again Adam Vega just lost a little bit of his balance and just couldn't quite get in the right position so Cruz the sophomore ties it up ties up to senior Vega it's two to two here in the second period yeah there he goes they're going to reverse positions here again I think yeah Vega coming up on top for two point reversal so Vega up four to two other two wrestlers like Cody Bryan and Nick Scott but it's Vega and Cruz made their way to the final duking it out right here yeah Vega is working trying to work that arm bar if you get underneath that shoulder he'll be able to turn him but can't quite get the position Vega currently ranked ninth in the section with Cruz 15 so he's got a future boy that Cruz only a sophomore and uh yeah Vega just kind of ridin' him out now Cruz is trying to get the stand up but he can't quite do it potentially dangerous hole there the referee was right on top of it to make sure the wrestler was not injured stopped it before it could happen very nice job Vega trying to get another win for the Aptos Mariners their uh SLV has a number of wins here individually so the team title could be closer and we haven't got a good update in a while but it'll be SLV and Aptos right to the bitter end yeah they're right down the wire there we go there's Vega getting up off balance again Cruz is going to get out of there I think he got his one point escape did he or see I can't see the scoreboard right now yep looks that well I can't tell I can't tell you we're about to start the third period 2 minutes to go that's 4-2 Vega with the lead same thing you know Cruz started to roll and he got put himself right in a bad position and went right to his back which allowed Vega to reverse him you know you gotta be careful with that Vega working for the tilt working for the near fall there he goes he got the near fall got the arm bar on him he hasn't lost in the SECAL this year he had to be in trouble now and he gets the pin Adam Vega here Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League Champion with the third period pin over Danny Cruz impressive performance reaching the finals the sophomore Cruz Vega there's your champion and your future Marine going into the Marines right after graduation how about that Vega your champion at 195 pounds and another win for Aptos Aptos and SLV each have right around four or five individual wins they're going for the team title as well and now we move on to 220 pounds it's Caleb Martin of Aptos the senior going against Carlos Mercado a sophomore out of SoCal High School this is our first shot of a SoCal guy you know they've been here like we talked about earlier they got the guys in the big way and that was a nice lateral drop there by Mercado did a real nice job on that real nice job on the lateral drop scored his two point take down and Caleb Martin is a is a senior coach by Pete Nestos John Velez and Reggie Roberts 16 and 6 13th ranked at CCS fifth at the El Camino fifth at dawn to dusk and he's riding tough Mercado only a sophomore sophomore on top he's got the blue singlet he's coached by Shane Torres Shane's young coach here at Aptos I mean excuse me at SoCal High School who's keeping the program going here and we hope to see better things from SoCal in the future Mercado is all over him he's a very good rider here he's following Martin very well he is 14 and 7 and he's ranked 17 going to present so the sophomore's got the bead on Caleb Martin Martin might be able to escape there's an upset Carlos Mercado from SoCal High School hands Caleb Martin of Aptos his first loss of the year in Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League action so again only a sophomore from SoCal Mercado there he is congratulations 220 pounds well they don't have the quantity at SoCal but they have the quality in that young man that was a nice job SoCal's got some weight in this next one as well well Dave Gabrielle he lost in the semifinal then he had Ty Cunningham also in the semis but now as we go to the heavyweights it's Adrian Luna of Santa Cruz High School moving out into the mat against Maddie Maestis of Aptos it's our final match of the night Maestis is the senior Luna Santa Cruz the junior here we go Matthew Mechterson in the blue uniform and Lima in the red uniform from Santa Cruz Lima current record is 2-1 he wants to play football and work out in the weight room which is very doable Matthew Mechterson coached by John Velez and Pete Mechterson his dad and Reggie Robertson 14-11 6th at the gym root 4th at the dawn to dusk 7th at the Weber Lawson and he wants to put a gym together for puppies which is a very very nice gesture looks a lot like your style of wrestling Preco Roman yeah, yeah the two big boys battling out first period no points on the board yet the heavyweight division 286 stalling call in red trying to throw that headlock Maestis is trying to get the body lift on him Lima keeps backing up he's going to get called for stalling a lot of hands to the face here I don't know if the referee is going to let him continue to do that but they're battling each other trying to work inside work inside the upper body trying to get something set up last seconds of the first period it is a Greco Roman wrestling match isn't it yeah, this is a Greco Roman match I remember that style alright, so 0-0 start of the second period they only have four minutes of wrestling left tonight Pat Lovell that's right they're going to battle it out here both up on their feet then look like they want to get down underneath one another they work that upper body you got to be careful here not to back up you know the referee is looking for somebody to call here for stalling I think there's no action whatsoever no attempts whatsoever one point stalling call goes against Lima Lima was called for stalling the second time Mestis gets one point for that I'm sorry Adrian Luna I'm sorry, looked like I had Lima down there but Luna the fans are going wild in this one Santa Cruz and Aptos two big guys, oh he's got him in the bear hug now he could just throw him watch out what happens here and off the map so just one point scored so far Mestis with the lead one nothing midway through the second period I think the last time they wrestled that Luna upset Mestis beat him and that was a real turn about you know somebody will have to take a shot here pretty sure we're going to have all stalling stalling calls into the second period so two minutes left that's like haven't had a knee hit the mat yet in this bout two minutes of the night who will take the heavyweight title he's going to have to hold him down here he's going to be able to do it he's going to have to hold him down it does look like Luna's got those baby legs he's got some thighs on him boy he's going to fire out of there there he goes he's up there goes Mestis he's got him on his back he could have a fall here Rusty here's Aptos crowd it's Matty Mestis with the win for Aptos High School with the pin in the second period make it the third period listen to those Aptos fans that was a great that was a great show by the two big guys finally you know Mestis had the internal fortitude to take that guy and lift him up and put him over that was a really nice move on his part 14th champion of the night it all started when Chris Markey had 106 pounds from San Lorenzo Valley won the title and then Gabby Sandoval the league champ had 113 pounds in his many years Jeremiah Guire won at 120 pounds from San Lorenzo Valley High School it was Raul Ortiz of Scotts Valley High School with the technical ball on points who won the title at 126 pounds and Raul is the winner of the Ed Ferrell Most Inspirational Award for 2017 Brendan Fitzgerald won the title at 132 pounds from San Lorenzo Valley High School and he's only a freshman Christian Olsen won at 140 came from behind for that win Mace Anderson star out of Harbor High School won at 147 the champion at 152 Rene Aguilera from Santa Cruz High School Jesse Berry the cougar of SLV at 160 the champion won 70 Keegan's Dutton Jones of Aptos who started quite a run for Aptos Chris Obanias won at 182 for the Mariners and Adam Vega at 195 and then it was the Soquel night the one winner for Soquel tonight Carlos Mercado when you're the whole school you gotta get some gold you gotta get some gold and Maddie Mace just won that we just saw the heavyweight they've got listed at 286 from Aptos High School and that might have sealed Aptos Mariners team title hard to know exactly the kids did a great job tonight all the matches some were over matched but all in all it was a great night for SCCAO wrestling and we want to wish the best to all these young lads going on to CCS and look forward to see them 14 new champions and a lot of youth some of course some seniors we even have a freshman champion yeah and that's pretty unusual pretty unusual to have a freshman as a champion well Pat it's been a pleasure I've done a number of these league championships with you over the last 20-30 years we're always fun and it's always fun to listen to your expertise your play-by-play yeah it's been a long haul Rusty I enjoy working with you and with community TV people it's been absolutely super the television of Santa Cruz County the crew here we've got Victor Herman who was our director and our two cameramen and Berlin Dutton and Scott Gray brought you that match tonight we hope you enjoy the broadcast it'll re-air several times the ice packs and the bloody noses it's a tough night yeah it's all part of the game that's where they learn to be a man in this sport that's the reason why before Pat Lovell and the community television of Santa Cruz County crew I'm Rusty Reed saying so long a very special thanks to SoCal High School for putting this on and of course Abtos High School to help with a lot of the notes and help put on a great show thank you alright gang for Pat Lovell I'm Rusty Reed saying so long from the 2017 Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League wrestling championships