 There we go guys. The stage is set. And the rest of the Valley High School is set for the drama part of the International 2019 Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League Wrestling Championships. The pre-limbs and the some of the most famous league in only two stellar athletes. Inclusive in eight product years to go ahead tonight, vying for the prestigious title of league champ. I'm Rusty Reed and I have the pleasure to introduce you tonight with Rusty Roberts. There's no stranger to this scene. The league here in the wrestling is a head coach for 20 years. Hello, Rusty. Nice to have you here. Well, it's an honor to be here with you Rusty. It's not just Friday night but there's an electricity in the air tonight. There's a definite atmosphere as it seems to be a changing in the guard of Aptos kind of losing ground I think in the tournament early in the first day of competition and the only day of competition here to Santa Cruz, an uprising team with the 40 to 45 people on the team. A tremendous job by head coach Emiliano Aragon. But this is about the test. The wrestlers themselves have been going at it since November. And this is down to the final night. Some of these guys are going to go on to CCS for the section championships. A few of them hope to live the dream to find their road to the California state championships. And for some of the others that you're not going to see here that competed earlier, well, it's golf season early. Well, tonight we're actually seeing one of the closer league championship finals in terms of the team's score. Coming into the finals, Santa Cruz is holding on to a lead of 169 to 156 over Aptos. It's a difference of 13 points. That's not a big margin considering the fact that there are equal numbers of Santa Cruz wrestlers and Aptos guys in the finals. So anything can happen. And maybe Aptos can catch Santa Cruz, we just don't know. I do know this. Aptos has won this tournament for nine consecutive years. And Santa Cruz beat them in the dual meet earlier in the year, 40 to 39. They're looking for the clean sweep. They're not looking for the share. They're looking to take home all the Marble trustee. Aptos nine straight. Aptos top of that. By the decade, finally Santa Cruz could find the track here. At 220 pounds, Daniel, the top of the years. Absolutely. And in fact some of the matchups we're going to see tonight aren't going to be those Santa Cruz versus Aptos bouts. We've also seen an increase in numbers out of Soquel this year. They've jumped normally kind of in the bottom of the pack the last few years. They really ratcheted it up this year and improved their team. They took the lead in the tournament to the finals followed by Scott's Valley, SLV, and Harbour. Tonight they held finals. It was a sovereign note. I'm going to sit and I'm going to do the legendary Pat level. I'd like to congratulate all the A finals. Young man, stay out of this. I'd like to congratulate all the finals. I want to figure in better world than this night. That's a longer and that's a t-shirt that has a lightness on it. A former Olympian. There we are. A very dear friend in Pat Lobo about a month and a half ago. I want to dedicate the finals to Pat Lobo. I hope you all buy a shirt. It'll be the only one. It'll never be matched. That was a great husband, great father, great grandfather. For most of all he was a mentor and a great friend to all of us. We are all better, all people for knowing him. So I'd like to take a moment to thank you. One of the most influential men that I've ever met in my life. Pat was a dear friend. He's very supportive of the wrestling here in the community. This is his vision to have this tournament every year broadcast on TV and CTV. I want to say thank you for helping to keep that vision alive. That loves wrestling. He loves the community and we love him. We'll miss him dearly. I'm just going to do my best to keep that tradition alive in Pat's honor. Being a dear friend of mine. I want to say thank you very much from the bottom of my heart for everything you've done for me, Pat. Pat Lobo, it's nice for you, my friend. Well, on to wrestling. We have 14 weight classes going at it tonight. Here I thought the very first one at 106 pounds was going to be one of the most competitive of the night with Alexis Zacharias going at it. He's highly ranked and CCS is number three at that weight. But actually he's got a pass. Explain this. Unfortunately the opponent that would have normally faced Alex in the finals, Russell Combs from Santa Cruz, has bumped up a weight class most likely because of the one sided decision that took place in their duel meet. Alex had his way with Russell. I think they were looking to make sure that Russell gets his due and going up a weight class. Alex is an interesting story. He is the brother. He's the youngest brother of a long history of Zacharias. Sons of assistant coach Ramon Zacharias. He's a former CCS finalist and state qualifier. Ramon's 100 career victories. A three-time league champion. The Zacharias family very, very in tune with the sport of wrestling. So with Alex moving on to CCS and the words, ranked first. Move on to the state. Now we move on to the 113 pounders. It's the aforementioned Russell Combs against Solomon Fox. Sal is an interesting story. This is probably not a lot of action on the varsity level and somehow was able to capitalize today and be in the finals. Russell has got a 15 and 7 record on the season. He's ranked 15th in CCS. He placed 8th at the Pat Lovell Tournament which is a very, very tough tournament and took second at the Jim Root Tournament. Russell also ranked in CCS, number 15. Impressive. Added 106 pounds. In fact, he's been in the finals here in the league championship the last two years in a row. This is third on that row. He was in the finals as a freshman on sophomore and now he's, here he is as a junior. He's a good leg rider. Right now he's trying to keep Sal Ponce down. Sal does a nice job and there's one point escape. Good work on Sal Ponce who's really an inexperienced wrestler at this point. He's given Russell everything that he can go for. Aptos is in the, what you would call the Army Fatigue colors with blue and black trim. And Santa Cruz obviously is, Cardinals are Cardinal Red and Greg. Again, Sal is a pretty inexperienced wrestler so for him to be in the finals this is a highlight probably of his season. Ooh, that's kind of could have been a nice slam call there. He's in, Combs has got him in a predicament right now and referee Nate Urbansik is calling for three near fall and a potentially dangerous move which is probably illegal half Nelson. We've got a score of nine to three right now with 13 seconds left on the clock. Russell Combs in a pretty good lead right now. Combs in the orange Santa Cruz Red Trying to bring him back down to the mat. Sal's trying to keep his head up off the mat and that's the end of the first period. It's a good first period for Combs Rusty. Well yeah, he's no stranger to this. Third year in the finals no stranger to you that you've coached that young man finals as a freshman. Well that was Russell we've been going against him unfortunately. So the choice was given to Santa Cruz and they deferred the choice to Aptos. Aptos chose neutral position. Combs again sticking with that tight ride looking for a cradle Oh that's a dangerous spot Rust Sal steps over and there's two reversal If you lock in that cradle and you're going to take your body all the way to one direction you've got to make sure that that body is tight. Didn't really have control of Sal to be able to pull that off. You'll see what kind of ride Ponce has in mind here. He's looking for half Nelson gets way out front Still in control of Aptos six and four on the year He also took fourth at Overfeld this season. Gonna stop in the action Ponce is into graphic design Rusty and he loves to walk his dog Admiral Everybody loves to walk the dog. Hey maybe that's why he's able to stay up with Combs right now because he's used to chasing his dog Looks like he's got some skills in that department of going after things. Combs looking for a stand up escape Trying to free that lock that Ponce has on him Looks like we're going to get a penalty here for locking hands One point penalty is correct. So we've got a ten five score Illegal locking of the hands by Ponce Coaches for Russell Combs of Santa Cruz. Emiliano Maragon and Cody Kiff they've done a fantastic job at resurrecting the Santa Cruz program and putting them in position to win their first league title as a team in over ten years Absolutely It looks like Russell can Sal can't seem to keep those hands from locking but that's a tribute to Russell Combs ability to try and sit out. Every time he sits out it seems like Ponce is locking his hands. So we've got another penalty point Rusty. Four seconds left in the second period. We're up to eleven five score. My guess is that Russell is going to try to sit out again. The third period now Russell Combs with a nice low shot for a take down thirteen to five. Russell's hobbies is he likes to hang out with super super cool mom so yeah so apparently Rusty is the number one fan of his mom and you know I think all moms should have their VIP club with a caution for stalling on Combs by referee Nathan Urbansik a former coach at SLV and Soquel for many many years Nate's been a staple here as a referee for a long time here in the SECL. Combs under the lead thirteen to five just over a minute to go about Santa Cruz could walk away and looks like they'll walk away short of a pin of their victory team battle. Yeah this will definitely increase their lead. This is something that I'm sure is very pleasing to the coaching staff of Santa Cruz right now. This Sal is of Aptos is trying to get that head off the mat trying to get that power to lock that Combs has on his neck trying to sink that half Nelson. He's on the opposite side and that might open up a door for Sal Ponce but it seems like Russell Combs is doing just over powering him at this point. He's a pretty big 106 pounder and he's escaped. One point escape for Aptos followed by a nice double leg takedown by Combs increasing his lead to 15 to 6 and we're down to about 20 ticks left on the clock. Ponce is tempting a stand up escape even down to the last second and that does it. We've got a new league champion here 113 Rusty and a great job. Stepping up out of the 106 and not having to go against Al. Great job both wrestlers. Great effort provided by Ponce of Aptos being so inexperienced. Combs did what he had to do to get the job done. We're over at 120 pounds now Rusty and we've got Liam Patel of Santa Cruz coached by Emiliano Aragon and Cody Kiffin. It's another Aptos Santa Cruz coach up against Eli Galster who's coached by Rudy Guzman, Pete Maestes and Miguel Barranco. Galster's a senior. Patel's a sophomore and look at this. We've got Eli Galster with an immediate pin. That was over quickly. Galster of Aptos is a new league champion. You know I don't know too much about the Patel guy but Eli's been wrestling for four years. He was a finalist last year in the league championships. He is one of the nicest gentlemen you'll ever meet. Great family. Just a real hard worker and so you know I know his parents have got to be very pleased and proud of him right now. If anybody deserves the accolades right now Eli Galster is the type of guy who does. We've got another match up of Aptos versus Santa Cruz. So right now Rusty we're 1-1. The score is 1-1 in bouts. So it's things are starting to heat up here. We've got Bobby Gear of Santa Cruz who is at 1-26. He's 10-4 on the year. He's going to be taking on Tommy Victory, a freshman. A freshman for Aptos dressed in the black. Santa Cruz in the red. Got a two point take down for Gear of Santa Cruz. Gear is 10-4 on the year. He's not ranked. He took first at Don Bosco, eighth at Weber Lawson. And Tommy Victory is just new on the scene. He's 7-5 on the year as a freshman but found his way into the lineup. He's doing a pretty impressive job here to get to the league finals. Just noticed that. Just noticed that. These guys may end up seeing each other quite frequently over the next four years. He's got a nice turn. Gear puts Tommy Victory on his back. He's got a near fall situation here. And there it goes. We're up to 2-1 now. Santa Cruz, Tommy Victory with a nice effort there. But Bobby Gear is a new 2019 league champion at 126 pounds. Hey, the first weight class resty that doesn't have Aptos are Santa Cruz. I'm sorry for Aptos-Santa Cruz match up. We've got a Scots Valley versus Aptos match up. France is a freshman coached by Freddie Cortez and Ryan France. 29-4 on the year. Wow, I see. Why? She's also ranked third in the girls CCS right now. 9-4, an impressive record. Christian Montoya is a sophomore and Christian actually has been injured most of the season. He's 9-4 on the year. He had a nice attempt at a take down there and he scores the two after all. Montoya took third at the Ed Farrell tournament and sixth at Don Bosco. Riding a nice wrist lock right here on France. The only girl I believe in wrestling tonight? I believe so. I believe so. That's pretty impressive. Third in CCS rank right now and she's a freshman. 29-4 record. That's outstanding. Outstanding. Out of bounds. Christian Montoya has been wrestling for a while. He wrestles over the gold wrestling club over in Watsonville with coach Gary Garcia. He's a Santa Cruz gold. He loves his girlfriend. He wants everyone to know by the way. He's got a nice chicken wing. Looking for a half Nelson. On the first period, again three periods. France is trying to free that lock. Trying to get back to her base. Christian's just a little too strong in this position right now. Choice went to Aptos. They deferred to Scots Valley. Chose neutral position. 2-0 in Montoya of Aptos. Looking for...look like a dump there. Out up and Montoya puts France on her back. Getting some back points right now. Seen a position his body well. Almost as if he was anticipating that type of technique from Tyler France. These two I believe have met prior in the senior night at Aptos. If I remember correctly. We had three near fall there. Oh nice half Nelson by Christian Montoya. Tyler France and there's a fall. And you can tell if you look at the physique on Tyler France and being a freshman, my guess is that she's going to do some real damage next week in the gold CCS tournament. Coming up now at 138 pounds. You've got a family affair. The referee Nathan Urbansik has stepped off the mat because his nephew has stepped on it. We've got 138 pounds. Connor Urbansik a sophomore from SLV coached by long time legendary coach Ken Pallastrini. Dan Urbansik and Brett Swan and Colin Miller. Connor Urbansik in the, I don't know what you call it, red and black zebra looking colors. It's 18 and 11 on the year. He's facing Kevin Chavez Vasquez of Santa Cruz. Who's 14 and six. Stalemate position. Nobody's scoring off that position. The referee stops the action. Nice double leg by Urbansik. What a nice counter. Oh and he gives it up. Chavez with Vasquez trying to do a freestyle flip. Didn't work. Urbansik is now controlling the chicken wing looking for a bar arm. He's going to try and run that out to the head. Chavez looks like a pretty powerful guy. Doesn't look like this is a type of technique that's going to work to successfully on him. 2-0 right now. 56 seconds left in the first period. Chavez comes in at a record of 14 and 6 on the year. Nice sit out by Chavez but he's got to pick a direction to go. Urbansik trying to chin him back loses control. Both wrestlers continuing to move. Referee sees Urbansik still in control of this situation yet they're both kind of in a neutral position. Then we've got a separation right there in one point escape. 2-1. One point escape for Chavez Vasquez of Santa Cruz. A little arm spin by Chavez Vasquez. They're back up to their feet. Yeah these guys look pretty even. Every time it seems like Kevin of Santa Cruz tries for that high crotch duck under. Fireman's carry combination. It looks like Urbansik sees it coming and he's able to counter it effectively. Then Connor Urbansik is part of a long line of wrestlers in the Urbansik family. Dan Urbansik, Nader Urbansik. All successful wrestlers in their own right. Connor took 7th at the Peninsula of R City Tournament this year. 6th at the Webber Lawson. Took 2nd in the freshman sophomore tournament so that's pretty interesting because compared to his own age group he's looking pretty tough but most of the tournaments he's gone to are varsity tournaments. He's got a navy ride which is the hooking of that ankle. Makes it very difficult for a wrestler to try and do a stand up escape or even to get any movement whatsoever. A lot of wrestlers use that to frustrate the guy on the bottom. Looks like right now Connor's doing a good job at that. Got that arm across the back. What he's trying to do is grab that head and put pressure on him to take him hopefully over for some back points. Maybe even more. Yeah now Kevin's had better times for sure. He's looking like he wants to hook that elbow and hit a roll and he does just that and he scores a 2 point reversal. He's got a double wrist ride right now. Urbansik coming to his feet looking for a stand up. Chavez Vasquez has got to watch out. Looks like he was kind of pushing him out there and Urbansik was trying to get back into the action but obviously it wasn't that blatant. Otherwise the referee would have called something like that. Oh yeah. I think this is actually going to be one of the tighter matches that we're going to see this evening Rusty. These guys look pretty even. We're not seeing a senior versus a freshman here. We've got two guys relatively close in age. Urbansik being a sophomore. Chavez Vasquez being a junior. Got a nice outside single right now. Chavez Vasquez from Santa Cruz keeping the wizard. He's got a front underhook now trying to get those hips back but he sees an opening with that ankle. Out of bounds before he could swing around for his two. Yeah you can bet Aptos is Rudy Guzman right now and his coaching staff are really rooting for SLV in this situation Rusty. Aptos ice cream review at the helm. Well I appreciate that. It's some of the best years of my life and spent with some of the best people that you're ever going to meet parents and the wrestlers. Outstanding people every single one of them. Very big support group there. And Rudy Guzman is doing a fantastic job this year just keeping the ball rolling. Nice movement there by Chavez Vasquez. It's been a tough transition here honestly Rusty doing it for 28 years but you know what can't stay out of it that long and look at next thing I know I'm in the booth with the legendary Rusty Reid who would have ever guessed. You mentioned conditioning earlier Rusty and then this is really where it's going to kick in. I've got a minute 22 left and the guy who's been training the hardest is probably going to have that little burst of energy at the end. Right now it's 3-3. Kind of a standing switch maneuver by Irvancic. Chavez Vasquez is wrestling not only for himself in this situation really, really you can tell he's very poised in this situation to try and help his team out. Didn't give up on that. Oh he's put Irvancic in a very peculiar commitment where Irvancic then reverses him. Nice series of out. Chavez Vasquez puts him on Irvancic on his back again. Irvancic still has him in a good position. Chavez Vasquez looks like he's trying to hang on here. Reversal 6-5 he's one point short and a cruise coming up on top but there's going to be a real serious discussion right now Rusty because as we saw which we had the replay available you saw a flurry of three different reversals and the referee was throwing out points left and right or maybe they weren't and right now Ken is asking them obviously to check the score to make sure that score is accurate. Make sure that no points were missed. That was last 30 seconds I've never seen a nice reversal. Put the guy in a nasty predicament and it looked like we were going to get either some near fall points or a pin and the other guy just kept coming. Then he reversed Irvancic and Irvancic reversed Chavez and then at the very end right now the scoreboard is showing 6-5 Chavez Vasquez both wrestlers still waiting patiently in the center. You know I'm just noticing something sometimes being a former coach you have a tendency to stare at other coaches and see what they're doing and I just saw something out of a Miliano Aragon that really showed a veteran presence right there. He was asking Chavez Vasquez to keep his head gear on while they're figuring out the score just in case just in case let's say the score is tied and they have to go over time Chavez Vasquez would be prepared to go instead of fooling around with his head gear. It's not too many coaches that would pay strict detail attention to detail like Coach Aragon just did. I don't honestly know how the score is 6-5 to be honest with you because we saw three reversals in my mind so that's two each of those are two points and both at least two of those three reversals someone was on their back so you know maybe momentarily but they might have been a couple of near-fall points in there 6-5 score seems a little low from what we just saw. That is correct. The top three wrestlers in each weight class earn the right to go to the Central Coast section championships which is basically a qualifying tournament for the California State Wrestling Championships. One of the biggest wrestling tournaments if not the biggest in terms of numbers of competitors in the whole United States. I know Aptos as a team ranked 17th in CCS at about 50 schools. There's 135 schools in CCS wrestling. 17th very impressive top 20 which is not a strange place for the Aptos program to be. No actually you're right Rusty. Aptos owns a very nice honor and distinction over the last decade. Only four of those 135 schools have actually been consistently ranked in top 25. They are Gilroy who has basically won the title for the last nearly two decades 15 years 16 years. Bellarmine Prep Academy and Fremont High School and Aptos so if you were to ask it most people of four teams they'd probably guess the first three but my hunch is Aptos probably wouldn't have been the fourth choice for a lot of people. Congratulations Coach Reggie Roberts. Where you go? They deserve all the credit. They're still sorting things out. The score jumped up. We were correct. It was 5-6 at the end of the bout and it now stands at 11-9 with Kevin Chavez Vazquez with the 11 points. So he still has the narrow lead in possibly the championship 138 fouls and what we've witnessed is the lead best match of the night so far. Oh without a doubt. 14 weight classes. It looks like two of them won't be competing. We only saw 106 pounds. We didn't have two finalists and that's going to happen a little further down the road so we'll have 12 matches tonight. Here we go. We got a winner. Great match. Both wrestlers gave every fan in this SLV gym their money's worth. That's for sure. We're going to see a battle here at 145 pounds. I happened to take in the match in the dual meet and it came down to the final seconds. We've got Robert Tate, a freshman out of Santa Cruz. He's 12-7 on the year here at 145 pounds and he's taking on Luke Kieshaw, a junior coach by Rudy Gozman and Pete Mayasis. He's 20-6 on the year and he's ranked number 15 in CCS and he beat Tate in the final seconds of their match in the dual meet this season. Tate, you can see the body types here are drastically different. Tate, kind of a short lower build. Kieshaw, long, lanky, very athletic and toned and it looks like there's an overhook here on Kieshaw. Tate, one of those guys that just keeps coming forward. Like a little mini pit bull. Up Santa Cruz, familiar Santa Cruz singlet, gray and orange. Should be red, right? It does look orange. I guess that would be considered cardinal red if my fashion sense isn't disappearing. We're 2-1 right now, I believe. Nice double leg. Shot there by Luke Kieshaw. Tate tried a counter with some type of throw. Kieshaw anticipates. That ends up with two point takedown as they go out of bounds. Luke Kieshaw is an outstanding athlete by the way. Really, really good baseball player as well. His brother Jake Kieshaw plays catcher for Cabrillo College and Bob Kittle's program over there. Jake was a former wrestler at Aptos a couple of years ago and Luke seems to be following in his brother's footsteps with baseball and wrestling. Luke was a finalist last year in the league championships at a controversial loss of an early pin call. Took second place and it's really fired him up this season to try and take home the big prize here. High crotch shot there by Tate as the time runs out, fought off by Kieshaw. We're still a 2-1 rusty. And as you mentioned, Kieshaw of Aptos. 15th in all of the CCS. Very few top 20 rankings in the tournament tonight so it just goes to show you. Munney Leeds. Cooper Tate is in the bottom position for Santa Cruz. Luke Kieshaw is a pretty good rider, likes to sink legs as you can see there. Right now he's looking a little bit for, bring that other leg up. A lot of people on the east coast were in front of him calling it a banana split. It's a very painful maneuver. Absolutely and he took fifth at Jim Root as well as I'm noticing here. Jim Root is a very, very tough tournament. Eighth at the Weber Lawson. So we got a nice cradle rock back from there out of bounds. Cooper Tate has been wrestling in the middle school level. Obviously you can tell just by his style that this is not his first year wrestling. And to be able to come in as a freshman and be here in the league finals says a lot about his future. No. Kieshaw keeping both legs in control. Tate back down on the mat. Looking for that half nose. He's keeping... His dad Luke and Luke's dad Carl was a former state place winner in Oklahoma. So you can tell that there's some wrestling genes in that family. It's an outstanding family. The Kieshaw's one of the most supportive families that Aptos has is Mom, Jody. Oh, there's some back points right there. Got him in a nice cradle. There's two. We're up to four to one now. Kieshaw is leading. Four to one. He's riding tough. We got a locking hands right there. So it's going to be a point coming back to Tate. Kieshaw locking his hands right there. You probably saw that on the camera. Yeah, like I mentioned, he looks like a mini pit bull to me. That's correct. Tate also plays football and baseball along at Santa Cruz High. Lo and behold, he also lists his hobbies as, believe it or not, rusty working out with weights. So right here what you're going to notice is that they're choosing what's called an optional freestyle start. Tate is going to allow Kieshaw to get one point of an escape in hopes of taking him down because he feels confident that he can take down Kieshaw on his feet. And that's not working out to his advantage right now as we've got a two point take down. It looks like, oh, referee signals out of bounds. Sometimes a coach will get a particular feeling about a wrestler on the bottom and they think that they have some sort of funky turn so they want their wrestler to have a better shot on their feet, stay away from a reversal. Maybe Coach Aragon, that's what he was feeling at that time. Oh, a nice headlock and he's one foot too short right there rusty. Kieshaw comes in. He's a battler. He's definitely a battler. He's going to keep coming. He's not going to retreat from any challenge. We've got to look at the possible blood. The referees, the officials are doing a fantastic job tonight. If you'll notice that they're not wearing their typical attire of their gray referee shirts. All of the referees are wearing in symbolic honor of Pat Lovell. They're wearing the official Pat Lovell caricature t-shirt. Pat was a long time official for over 50 years rusty and had refereed in several, many, many years of NCA wrestling championships. He's a national wrestling Hall of Fame member. Again, you mentioned earlier, he was on the 1964 Greco-Roman Olympic team. He was the athletic commissioner here here in Santa Cruz County for almost 40 years. We lost a great man. He was a hero to many, but more importantly than anything, Pat was the real deal. What you see is what you get. Great sense of humor and he cared about an awful lot of people. Nice double leg, but there by Kieshaw and he's got a half Nelson that's pretty deep. Couldn't secure it. Tates too strong in that neck position. Going right down to the wire I think. This is probably not the last matchup we're going to see between these two schools. Again, Santa Cruz right now has a lead for as far as the league title goes with their head-to-head matchup winning the tournament. In order for Aptos to win, become the overall league champions for the ninth out of the past 10 years, Santa Cruz would have to finish in third in the tournament. That's not going to happen. So Santa Cruz high is most likely going to walk out of here as being the overall league champions for 2019. But that's not stopping Aptos from trying to hold on to its consecutive league tournament win streak, which is currently at nine years straight. Forcing that head down and Luke Kieshaw is your 2019 league champion at 145 pounds. Got to feel good for Luke. Showing some great sportsmanship right there. That's the way it should be done. Show respect to your opponent. Congratulations to Luke and his coaching staff rooting Guzman and Pete Maestes. Yeah, maybe there three more times. So we got 152 pounds coming up. Ethan Robinson also of Santa Cruz. Coast again by Emiliano, Aragon, Cody Kiff, and Dan Whiting. And Samuel Hugie. Hugie, thank you for the pronunciation of Soquel. Soquel with its first finalist. Coach by Shane Torres and Angel Leone. Shane has actually been a coach for Soquel now for at least seven or eight years. If I'm not mistaken, I just, I remember the days when Shane was actually wrestling in these finals himself. He's been a long time successful MMA fighter. And if you take a look at his cauliflower years, you'll obviously see how many years he's been doing it. Finally making appearance here in the finals. Sam Hugie. Take down there by Hugie with a nice double leg before they go out of bounds. Referee, Dader Bansik making the call. Ethan Robinson, Rusty, he's only a freshman. He's nine and six. He took first at the Don Bosco tournament. Mr. Hugie is eight and three as you mentioned. Two tournament placings from what I see. He jumped up in weight so he's obviously put on some muscle going from 138 to 152. He looks a little stockier than he did last year. He's definitely got some size advantage over Ethan Robinson of Santa Cruz. Ethan's got some hobbies. He loves to BMX racing and dirt biking. And he does some jujitsu on the side it says. Absolutely. You guys got him on his back. He's got a Santa Cruz guy on his back. He's looking to secure the pin and moving towards the outer circle. And there's the fall right at the corner. Good job Shane Torres. He's really done a fantastic job with that program. I remember the days when they used to have five or six wrestlers and this year I noticed that they were up around 20 to 25 wrestlers so the Soquel Knights are making some progress for sure. So we've got 160 pounds. We've got Douglas Hamam again from Soquel. And he's a sophomore. He's in the Navy Blue Singlet making on Tyler Slay, a league finalist last year. Coach by Rudy Guzman, Miguel Barranco and Pete Maestes. Tyler Slay has had a very successful year. He's 23 and 12. He's currently ranked 12th in CCS. Took fifth in the Pat Lovell Memorial tournament which is about 80 schools in that tournament Rusty including three states. Taking fifth in that tournament was huge. A huge step for Tyler's development who's a senior. He's taken first at Don Bosco, fourth at El Camino and he's taken sixth at Jim Roots. So he's had a really successful season in his final campaign. You can tell Slay has that chicken wing in pretty deep but he's trying to open it up. Trying to get Heyman to move in a position that he can capitalize. Trying to stay behind him and stay in control. Not too much movement out of Heyman but he's trying to take advantage of any crack in the wood here. Both out of bounds still 2-0 33 seconds left. Tyler Slay would like to say a big thank you to his dad Chris Slay for being there every step of the way and I can definitely attest to that. Chris Slay Tyler's dad is a fantastic human being great dad very supportive of both his sons endeavors and Tyler's come a long way here for Aptos wrestling. He's come a stalwart in the lineup the last two years. He's got that half opening up right there. That's what Tyler's been waiting for. He's got a wrist lock half Nelson. Trying to turn him over right here and time runs out and it doesn't look like you got any back points there. Choice goes to Soquel. Soquel chooses the bottom position hoping to get an escape or a reversal to get on the board here. The second period starting. Two points scored in that first third. Two to nothing. Two to nothing we got a nice reversal here. Not a reversal but Haydom's trying to get a reversal here. Trying to hook his leg but it's a nice cross face there by Tyler. He's got a leg hooked in. What he's trying to do is he's trying to open up his hips a little bit take him to his back. It's just one point escape but Soquel wrestler charges Tyler Slay and it looks like he's going to oh he's trying to hit a splatle there for a second. Very rare strategy used by wrestlers. Knock up here. Two to one right now slaying. Slaying the lead. Seeing the corner of Aptos. Oh there's a nice two point take down right there. Keeping secure of that elbow. Shoulder region. I think Tyler thinks that he can really turn him here and he is. Just got to tighten up right there. Alright so Haydom four to one. Four to one right now. Tyler Slays working tough on top. You can see in the corner Rudy Guzman assistant coach Johnny Velez with a very sporty looking tie over there Johnny. Nice hat by the way. Only a soft one against the very experienced Tyler Slay. And hips are up and Haydom coming out the back door. There's two near fall for Slay. Haydom trying to get a one point escape here. He hasn't been able to break free yet and out of bounds they go. Haydom's coached again by Shane Torres, Angel Leon and a Mitchell. He's also on the football team and track team at Soquel High School. Great football field. They're facilities. They're really doing a nice job over there. It looks like things are really coming up in terms of their fields and that they use. I know the football fields used by the soccer team and the cross team. It's just a nice area. Blue ball right next to it. Haydom's in danger of locking his hands it looks like there for a second. Trying to cradle up Slay here in the third period. 6-1 Slay up top. Slay trying to get his hips out. Trying to maintain some hand control. A lot of people don't realize that Tyler Slay is also a nationally ranked racer like a car racer. He goes to national tournaments all those little box cars that they race. I don't know the official title of it but I've known Tyler doing that activity for a long time and he competes in national tournaments all the time. Hey there's a two point takedown for Tyler towards the edge of the mat. Aptos really looking for a pin here at this point trying to gain that extra point or two to close that gap with Santa Cruz. At this point you're gaining a certain amount of points for first place. A certain amount of points for second place but you get that pin. You get a couple bonus points here. That might help the team chase and he's looking like he's going to do it. 23 seconds is a lot of time left if Tyler can settle here. Stepping over he's still got the wrist behind the back trying to sink the legs and hand him fighting with everything he's got to get off his back. We've got another three near fall there. Nothing to be ashamed there. Major decision for Tyler Slay when Tyler probably thought he was probably going to get a pin. Mr. Hannum, a lot less experience than Tyler. Nothing to hang his head on there. Coming up, 170 pounds. We've got Kailin Swan of SLV. Junior will be in the red and black Cougars. That's what it is. I said zebra earlier. I know that my friend would take offense to that. Since they are the Cougars, they're not the zebras. Rusty? Yeah, I may have to get out of town quick here. Lucas Dara from Harbour making their first appearance tonight in the finals. Coached by brand new coach here at Harbour High, Jay Reyes and Mike LeBou. Lucas Dara is two and three on the year. He's a senior and right now he's falling victim to a double chicken wing which you rarely see in wrestling anymore. Used to be a very popular move back in the 60s, 70s, even 50s. You just don't see a double chicken wing anymore. It's going retro. SLV also in the top 20 rankings of CCS in 17. He's got a 17 and 7 record. Again Kailin Swan is coached by longtime coach Ken Paulastrini who actually used to be an assistant coach for Santa Cruz many, many moons ago. Sorry Ken, but it was many moons ago that you were at Santa Cruz. Kailin Miller, Colin Miller, sorry assistant coach and Danny Urbansik and Brett Swan rounding out the coaching staff. So we got Apple Cider, Swan took 5th, took 6th and Weber Lawson in 1st and Don Bosco. I'm sure the fact that Lucas Dara is here in the finals for Harbour that he's just darn glad to be here. Let's see here, Swan of Junior. Hey, there goes that double chicken wing again Rusty. He's trying to turn Dara over here with about 5 seconds left. Not going to be able to do it. Not on Mr. Dara's watch in the first two periods here. Swan choosing the neutral position. Harbour wrestler deferred to SLV. We've got 2 minutes about to begin again. Second period 4-0 Swan of SLV. I want to thank all the fans for coming out tonight. This really is like the nice takedown by Dara. Coming right back with a strong takedown scoring two points. It looked like he had him in a cradle momentarily and Swan's trying to get out his head. Oh, his head's high right now. Swan is trying to grab that head. There he goes with a two point reversal. He's got a pretty deep half right now. Very deep half. Nelson is in good position. Plenty of time left on the clock and there you go. 2019 SCCL League Champion Kailin Swan. That's unfortunate Rusty. Marcos Reyes who became the all time leading running back in Aptos High history this year is going to accept a forfeit. There is nobody in the 182 final weight class in this tournament and if you look at Marcos's resume, I'm sure some of the other wrestlers moved either down or up a weight class away from Mr. Reyes. He came in to today's tournament ranked fourth in the CCS and has taken second in Jim Root, second in El Camino and second in Overfield and right now he's being looked at by many football colleges around the country. And in the finals the last two years it's a league championship and an easy one. But now we move on. Here we go at 195 pounds. This is a rematch from a couple weeks ago in their dual mate Juan Rosales and a junior from Santa Cruz taking on James Superfly Plotero who is 10-6 on the air and he's ranked 15th in CCS Rosales is 7-4 third in the Don Bosco Tournament, fifth in the Weber Lawson Tournament Plotero comes in and took fifth at El Camino James Plotero wearing the black and Rosales again in the Cardinal Orange as Rusty says 12th ranked CCS James has him on a nice lock from behind and he's got a two point take down like referee Nate Urbancic trying to see if he was locking hands on the mat and Superfly was just too sneaky at the time Oh! He ran right into a headlock but Plotero doesn't stay there. He's coming out the back door it seems. He's trying to get that head free but just can't get out. So we've got a two point take down James kind of rushed right into a flying headlock there the mat made a huge sound that you would have made Vince McMahon proud one point escape for Plotero now it was a score to 4-3 with 10 seconds left in the first period yeah it was a the choice goes to Plotero who defers and then Rosales looks like he's heading down into the southern position. Rosales not unlike any other teenager in this world these days Rusty is a big avid video game player and he also plays football for the Cardinals of Santa Cruz High School. One point escape by Rosales scores now 5-3 in favor of the Husky guy in the Cardinal Orange. Sorry Emiliano but I don't have my regular seeing glasses on tonight I have to agree with Rusty it looks more orange than red I'm sure you'll give me a text message later on correcting me like Greco Roman wrestling very very happy about that style yes Pat would be giving him tips as he'd be sitting here calling the action 1 minute to go James was a finalist last year in the league championships really came on strong at the end of the year for the Aptos Mariners it became a real staple in the lineup everybody on the team very popular guy for his personality great sense of humor just a likeable personable individual the Superfly because he used to have long curly hair like Jimmy Superfly snooker the professional wrestler from the 70's and 80's oh near side cradle there by Platero but can't lock it up turns into 2 for Rosales maybe Platero got to come out the back door again couldn't hold it brings a score to 7-3 James Platero again it's 10-6 on the year he's a collector of I'm not quite sure what this says or even if it's appropriate for the year but he collects them he is also a big fan of hard core Halo and I'm guessing that's a video game again 7-4 again Santa Cruz winning as we head into the third period Rosales with a 1 point lead over Platero of Aptos there's a 1 point escape it should be this could be a growing upset I'm just going to throw that out the window these guys have a similar body structure he's got a caution for stalling on the Santa Cruz wrestler Rosales just backing up obviously James is putting pressure on him right now he's known for that style of trying to keep after you he's only a take down away and we've got plenty of time left on the clock it's 1-26 he stops the shot from Rosales comes around to the near side he's got a look trying to get a near side credo but he gets stuck on his knees he gets behind him somehow but if he's going on the buzz it he's got to keep going and oh a 2 point take down called at the edge of the map by referee Nathan Urbansik I think Johnny Velez assistant coach let's do question that call a bit obviously Johnny's person now he's not going to argue assistant coach Pete Mayestas remaining calm in the corner that's probably going to be great 9-5 Rosales again Platero coached by Rudy Guzman in his first year as head coach of Aptos but he was an assistant coach for 15 years Pete Mayestas Ramon Zacharias long time assistant coach Johnny Velez and Miguel Barranco we got 2 for Platero and that brings the score to 9-8 Rusty 51 seconds we got plenty of time Platero signaling that he's going to allow Rosales to get 1 point for Afribe he's going to take his chances on his left here James trying to get to the outside and here comes the he's got to lock that elbow up continues to attack Rosales you can see the whole Aptos contingent pretty much over in that corner cheering on the Superfly right now 24 seconds left he's a takedown he needs a takedown right now Rosales gets a 2 point takedown and he's getting back points and now it's going to do it looks like Santa Cruz he's takedown Aptos here James Platero coming up short just short but with a gallon effort and Juan Rosales is here 2019 at CCDL League Champion great job by both guys lots of action from the start to finish coming up at 220 for Harbor long time veteran wrestler Danny Cruz Danny's been in his share of finals before outstanding wrestling formerly placed at the Pat Lovell classic last season which again that's a very tough tournament Danny's routinely been ranked in the top 20 in CCS over the last couple of years but I'm not seeing a ranking right now for him he's 7-3 on the year which seems to me like a low number of matches for a guy like Danny Cruz's caliber perhaps he was nursing an injury at the start of the season he's a senior coached by first year head coach Jay Reyes and Mike Labou Daniel Felix on the mat duking it out with him at Harbor High School Junior the Taco King Felix haha just noticed that Daniel the Taco King Felix record of 11-3 14 pretty high for a Santa Cruz guy he ranked in the top 14 top 15, top 20 that's pretty impressive again a true reflection of the job that Coach Aragon's been doing with that program Daniel Felix took first place at the Jim Root tournament Rusty was the champion at 220 he also placed fourth at the El Camino tournament and also the cold classic tournament which is up in El Camino up in the Bay Area no point scored yet 20 seconds to go in the first period nice take down there by Danny Cruz he's a well-schooled wrestler he's had several coaches over the last few years Mr. Cruz has and he's had formerly Steven Batisto coaching down in Bakersville area right now rather a Brian Batisto former league champion and CCS champion who's wrestling at Cal State Bakersville he's also been coached by a number of years by Greg Lopez longtime harbor coach with this one Danny Cruz of Santa Cruz and Daniel Felix of Harbor and Cruz as you mentioned so many league championships but yet it's Felix he has the higher rank in CCS yeah he seems to be the more busier guy right now that's the only thing I can guess at is that maybe Danny has been injured this season but at least he's here he's a senior he's getting a shot at nice throw by trying to hit that out of bounds no point scored Danny Cruz got a nice elbow throw by just couldn't capitalize there 220 pounders going at it it's a second to last match of the night heavyweight it's on deck but for now Felix and Cruz with the two point lead two to nothing Danny Cruz of Santa Cruz you know it's interesting that this is probably one of the tougher weight classes in this tournament these two guys have obviously earned their spot in the finals but I'm looking across the mat and there's a big guy over there for the Soquel jacket named Cody Bryan who's been in the league finals for at least three years that I know of and he's watching right now so one of these two guys had to beat Cody Bryan to get here and that was quite an achievement in itself considering that Cody Bryan is considered one of the probably one of the top 20 wrestlers in CCS number eight Cody Bryan's number eight and he was obviously upset by one of these two gentlemen the good thing is that the league's taking three guys to the tournament so all three of these guys could probably be facing each other at one time or another in the sectional tournament next week which is held at Independence High School the action's kicking off on Friday continuing in on Saturday and this year they'll be hosting the girls CCS and the guys CCS all under one roof now we've got some points on the board six to two to Cruz with the knot Danny Cruz six to trying to put Harbour on the bowl it looked like he was trying to hit a throw there but and Danny Danny Felix is kind of a tall customer he had some length there in his legs to be able to reach out and balance himself neutral position here to begin the third period six to Danny Cruz still in the lead both guys locking up now one thing that I've always known about Danny Cruz both Danny's actually I think that's where we keep getting confused a little bit it's Danny Cruz of Harbour and Danny Felix of Santa Cruz Danny Cruz there's cruises and there's Danny's we got them both one of the things that I respect about Danny Cruz of Harbour is his style it keeps coming forward it's got a good position he's keeps a good he's a good hand fighter keeps working to improve his position he's always been tough on his feet very hard to take down he's got a low center he's got a low center of gravity he's a smart wrestler but Danny Felix looks like he's got some physical skills himself and he's only a junior which means he's only going to get better next year 7-3 24 seconds left both guys not giving an inch to the other the officials doing a great job tonight want to thank them for being here want to also say thank you to CTV camera crew working hard here on a Friday night here in San Lorenzo Valley High School and there's a reversal throw by Danny Cruz but figure out of bounds or he ran out of time at the same time there you go your 2019 SCCAL league champion from Harbour Danny Cruz hey Rusty we're about to see the big boys final match of the evening folks 14 weight classes coming to a close right here 286 is the weight limit actually with the 2 pound allowance they get in January it's now up to 288 we've got John Garcia Gonzalez of Soquel short combination Isaac my bad, Isaac Garcia Gonzalez of Soquel he's a freshman and he's on his back right now and we've got a pin that didn't take long by Benjamin Williams Benjamin had a pretty good year he took third place at Don Bosco and seventh at Jim Root interesting enough one of Ben's hobbies Rusty we should say this is sarcasm what a way to end the evening six individual champions it's a good number to have a good run down who are league champions are Alex Zacharias Forfeiture Aptos High School the 106th league champion Russell Palms the winner at 113 pounds Eli Galster with a pin at 120 pounds Aptos High School Eli Galster with the pin run 20 also with a pin of Santa Cruz the champion at 126 pounds at 132 pounds it was Christian Montoya of Aptos with the pin and in that wild wild match the wildest of the night I think at 138 pounds was Kevin Chavez that was a wild match at 145 Luke T-Shaw Aptos he's got him Tyler Slay Aptos the winner at 160 pounds at 170 it was Kaelin Swann Ben Swann out of San Luis Valley High School so a favorite here at the home gym at the Cougars at 182 the fourth is Marco Reyes from Aptos the league champ Juan Gonzalez at 195 the champ from Santa Cruz Danny Cruz at 220 champion at Harvard Benjamin Williams from Santa Cruz High School so we'll have to wrap it up here right quick my hunch is that even with the six champions the fact that Santa Cruz had five is that Aptos probably couldn't close the gap enough to win the league tournament we're going to see a new league champion this year we're going to see Santa Cruz High School become the first league champions that they've had in about 10 years and congratulations to coach Emiliano Aragon and his group of fighting Cardinals and Orange that's great congratulations to Santa Cruz Cardinals so that's going to do it I appreciate you sitting at the table my pleasure out of the coaching booth and into the announcers booth my pleasure thank you very much thank you for having me Rusty and again