Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
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Fallbrook High School's boys tennis team traveled to Escondido High School for an April 11 match against the Cougars and returned home with an 11-7 victory to improve the Warriors' season record in Valley League matches to 4-1. "We didn't play as well as we played against them the first time," said Fallbrook coach Bill Lenaway. Fallbrook's first match of the season against Escondido was played April 3 at the Fallbrook Tennis Club and was a 14-4 Warriors victory. "We had a lot of close sets the first time we played them,"...
Fallbrook High School's girls swim team improved its Valley League season record to 1-1 April 11 with a 110-60 home victory against Escondido. The Warriors had opened league competition March 20 at home against Classical Academy, but the Caimans returned home with a 103-80 victory. "Classical has quite a few more year-round swimmers than we do," said Fallbrook coach Sean Redmond. A school may enter up to three swimmers in each of the eight individual events and up to two quartets in each of the three relay races. Scoring for...
BONSALL – The CGA Mudslingers awarded High Point (first place) to three new champions at its show on April 14 at Stenerson Ranch in Bonsall. Bella McKenna of Carlsbad, Alexandria Kidd-Dragula of Fallbrook and Anne Shelton of Vista took top spots in Divisions AA, A and FC, respectively. Jenn Gosselin of Vista, who holds many of the club's arena records, placed first in the riding club's fastest division. Riders ranging in ages from 5 to oh, somewhere north of 50, took to the ar...
Belvoir Bay, who collected one win in six starts last year, matched her 2017 win total in her first race of 2018 when she captured the $81,725 Mizdirection Stakes at Santa Anita March 25. A 5-year-old mare, Belvoir Bay had been based at the San Luis Rey Training Center in Bonsall throughout her career. Things changed, of course, when the Dec. 7 Lilac fire ravaged a portion of San Luis Rey and closed the facility, which is scheduled to reopen this month. Belvoir Bay and most...
Junior pitcher Harrison Brown threw a one-hitter and his Fallbrook High teammates played great defense behind him as the Warriors shut out San Pasqual 3-0 in a Valley League contest Saturday, April 21. Senior Michael Gross doubled and scored a run on a wild pitch and senior Collin Hoff lined a two-run single to provide the scoring for Fallbrook, which plated all of its runs in the third inning. Brown kept the San Pasqual batters off balance with an effective slider, striking o...
Fallbrook High School sophomore Erin Murray won the girls 400-meter race at the morning session of the Jaguar Invitational track and field meet, April 14, at Valley Center High School. Murray had a time of 58.72 seconds. Poway High School junior Maggie Lusk had the second-place time of 59.41, and El Camino High School junior Lilliana McGraw completed her lap in 1:00.79 for third place. Hand-held times are displayed in increments of one-tenth of a second; electronic times are in one-hundredth of a second increments....
Fallbrook High's Stephen Shedd has his eyes on the ball as he gets ready to make a backhand return against Escondido April 3. The Warriors defeated the Cougars 14-4 in the varsity tennis match....
Seven small elementary schools in northern San Diego County and southern Riverside County participate in tournaments throughout the year with each school hosting a different sport. When five of those schools convened in Anza for the March 22 cross country meet, Vallecitos Elementary School sixth-grader Edgar Ortega won the boys race, and the Vallecitos boys placed second as a team. Cross country team scores are derived by adding the positions of a school’s first five finishers, so a minimum of five runners are needed for a t...
The Palomar College Athletic Hall of Fame now includes 1987 Fallbrook High School graduates Scott Barrick and Bill Dunckel. “I just thought it was a big honor, and I am very grateful to have at least one season to play under Coach Craft,” Barrick, who played football for the Comets in 1989 when Tom Craft was Palomar’s head coach, said. “What an honor,” Dunckel, who was one of Palomar’s baseball players during the 1988 and 1989 seasons, said. “There are so many great athletes that have gone through that school. I just feel p...
Chris Toth has been named as the Major Arena Soccer League's goalkeeper of the year. The 2007 Fallbrook High School graduate was also named to the all-MASL first team. Each MASL team's head coach or general manager voted for the league post-season awards. "I'm very happy about it," Toth said. "I thought I had a good year personally." Toth played 12 games during the regular season and allowed 45 goals for a 3.80 goals against average, and his 134 saves gave him a save percentage of .753. He was also one of only two MASL...
Seven small elementary schools in northern San Diego County and southern Riverside County participate in tournaments throughout the year with each school hosting a different sport. When five of those schools convened in Anza for the March 22 cross country meet, Vallecitos Elementary School sixth-grader Edgar Ortega won the boys race, and the Vallecitos boys placed second as a team. Cross country team scores are derived by adding the positions of a school’s first five finishers, so a minimum of five runners are needed for a t...
The Palomar College Athletic Hall of Fame now includes 1987 Fallbrook High School graduates Scott Barrick and Bill Dunckel. “I just thought it was a big honor, and I am very grateful to have at least one season to play under Coach Craft,” Barrick, who played football for the Comets in 1989 when Tom Craft was Palomar’s head coach, said. “What an honor,” Dunckel, who was one of Palomar’s baseball players during the 1988 and 1989 seasons, said. “There are so many great athletes that have gone through that school. I just feel p...
Belvoir Bay, who collected one win in six starts last year, matched her 2017 win total in her first race of 2018 when she captured the $81,725 Mizdirection Stakes at Santa Anita March 25. A 5-year-old mare, Belvoir Bay had been based at the San Luis Rey Training Center in Bonsall throughout her career. Things changed, of course, when the Dec. 7 Lilac fire ravaged a portion of San Luis Rey and closed the facility, which is scheduled to reopen this month. Belvoir Bay and most...
The Fallbrook High School boys’ lacrosse team posted a 6-1 record for the month of March. “I'm impressed with how we've been playing as a team,” Fallbrook coach Brian Kimmell said. “We’ve been playing real well.” The Warriors began the 2018 season with a 19-6 home win, March 3, against Murrieta Valley High School and followed that triumph with a 14-2 victory, March 6, at home against Serra High School and a 19-0 win, March 9, in Fallbrook against Mater Dei High School. The Warriors’ only loss in the month occurred Marc...
As the lovely sunlit days of spring in Southern California give way to the stifling heat of summer, a sparkling swimming pool becomes a draw for people of all ages. Warm afternoons and evenings signal an opportunity for family and friends to gather for playtime at the pool, where loved ones can cool off and unwind both in and out of the water. In too many cases, however, joyful activity turns to sudden tragedy. A beautiful backyard pool can become an unrelenting reminder of...
Joseph Greenwood broke his own school record for 11 dives March 17 when he scored 482.65 points to win the boys 11-dive event of the Early Season Diving Invitational meet at the Fallbrook High School pool. "I was definitely expecting to get a lot lower of a score," said Greenwood, who is a senior at Oasis High School and competes for Fallbrook High School under the CIF San Diego Section's Multi-School Teams Status policy which allows athletes from certain schools to play for a specified other team. "When I saw 482 that was a...
BONSALL - The Bonsall gymkhana riding club "Mudslingers" set four new arena records on Saturday, March 31 in addition to attracting a record number of riders. Thirty-six equestrians took to the saddle to participate in seven events, including Hurry Scurry, a speed-jumping event that riders aim to complete in 10 seconds. Gymkhana, or games on horseback, is an equestrian sport that requires excellent communication between horse and rider and often involves flying lead changes,...
The Feb. 25 meeting of the Valley League's girls water polo coaches included the selection of four Fallbrook High School players for all-league recognition. Anna Draves and Gabby Vazzana were part of the league's first team. Second-team distinction was bestowed upon Ella Hearn, and Naomi Wood was given honorable mention designation. "It was great," Fallbrook coach Sean Redmond said of having four all-league players. "I didn't really have to say a whole lot because the other coaches were the ones that brought them up." The...
Girls soccer player Audrey Petersen, with a GPA of 4.30, heads a roster of 33 student-athletes from Fallbrook High School that made the San Diego Union-Tribune's winter sports All-Academic Team, which was announced March 21. The All-Academic Team honors juniors and seniors who participate in a California Interscholastic Federation-approved varsity sport and maintain a cumulative, weighted grade-point average of 3.0 or better. All San Diego Section schools were invited to...
The Fallbrook Rugby Club's under-18 girls team took sixth place among the 28 teams in the under-18 Girls High School Open Sevens division at the Las Vegas Invitational Tournament March 1-3 while Fallbrook's under-16 girls placed fourth among the 10 under-16 teams. "We learned a lot," said Fallbrook co-coach Craig Pinnell. "Overall we came out of it as a stronger group." Fallbrook's coaches utilize early-season tournaments to provide experience for the girls and determine what preparations need to be made for the Southern...
Fallbrook High School's boys volleyball team held a 3-2 record after the Warriors' first five matches of the 2018 season. The fifth match of the season, a March 15 contest at Liberty Charter, was also Fallbrook's first three-game victory of the season. The Warriors prevailed in 25-23, 27-25 and 25-12 sets. "Right now they're doing good," said Fallbrook coach Chip Patterson. The Warriors opened their season Feb. 28 with a 25-14, 25-21, 27-25 loss at San Pasqual. The March 6 match at Escondido Adventist ended as a 25-23,...
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Senior Softball League is now accepting new and returning players for the Spring 2018 season. New players interested in tryouts and practice sessions are asked to call (760) 751-8389 for information. Registration fees are due by March 26 and the draft is scheduled for March 27. After the draft, players will be contacted by the team managers. Fallbrook Senior Softball is for adults age 50 and older. Games begin at 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday and each team plays two games per week. Games are p...
A 135-51 loss March 6 at Carlsbad opened Fallbrook High School's girls swim season, but the Warriors followed that defeat with a 107-62 home victory March 8 against Oceanside and then prevailed over Escondido Charter by a 100-82 score March 15 in Fallbrook. "It's been exciting," said Fallbrook coach Sean Redmond. Redmond wasn't expecting a victory over Carlsbad. "The majority of those swimmers are year-round club swimmers," Redmond said of Carlsbad. Times rather than positions were Redmond's objectives. "I was expecting us...
The Fallbrook High varsity girls’ softball team played its home opener March 8 and recorded its first victory of the season, defeating La Jolla Country Day 13-9 behind the explosive bats of sophomore Vanisa Ivie, and juniors Blanca Favela, Jaylyn Leeman, and Randie Bueno. Ivie went 3-for-4 at the plate with a home run and five runs batted in. Favela went 4-for-4 and knocked in two runs, Leeman went 3-for-4 with two RBI, and Bueno went 3-for-4 and scored four runs. Sophomore Amy Pierson belted a two-run homer for Fallbrook, w...
Fallbrook High School's boys lacrosse team opened the 2018 season with a 19-6 home win March 3 against Murrieta Valley. "Really good showing," said Fallbrook coach Brian Kimmell. "I'm really impressed with what our guys did. We had great leadership from our returning players. We had a lot of new players getting on the stat sheet." Kimmell is carrying 21 players on the varsity roster and many of those were on last year's junior varsity squad. "We definitely have more experienced guys," said Kimmell. "It's really nice having...
