Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
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Joe Naiman Village News Reporter The Aug. 20 football game at Fallbrook High School began the season both for Fallbrook and for University City High School, which won the contest. University City prevailed by a 48-7 margin. The Centurions had a 12-7 lead at the end of the first quarter and held the Warriors scoreless for the final three periods. "There was a lot too little," said Fallbrook High Head Coach Troy Everhart. "It was a fundamentally poorly executed game on our...
Retired Fallbrook High School football coach Tom Pack, center, is honored by fans, Warrior football coach Troy Everhart, left, and FHS Athletic Director Patrick Walker before the start of the varsity Warrior football game, Aug. 20. Pack coached the Warrior football team for 17 years and led the team to their first CIF Championship win 35 years ago in 1986. Village News/Shane Gibson photo... Full story
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter Field hockey play for Fallbrook High School began Aug. 19, and the Warriors won both the varsity game and the junior varsity match. The Warriors hosted Chaparral High School. The score of the varsity game was 5-2, and the junior varsity prevailed by a 2-0 margin. "Very nice," said Fallbrook coach Debbie Berg. Fallbrook began the season with 18 girls on the varsity roster and 14 players on the junior varsity, although that includes one player...
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Youth Rugby Summer 7's season came to a close on Saturday, July 31 with one final home game held at Potter Jr. High. FYR began Summer 7's with a soft opening in May offering only conditioning. The official season started on June 1 with practices two days a week. FYR was able to field four teams: 10U, coached by Justin Robinson; 12U, coached by Michael Zimmerman and Cash Day; 14U, coached by Christopher Ward and Stephon Ramirez and a U16 team, c...
FALLBROOK – Fallbrook Pop Warner athletes took to the practice fields at Potter Jr. High, Aug. 2 at 5:30 p.m., after approximately 20 months since the last football/cheer season. FPW has fielded five football teams and three cheer squads for the 2021 season. Flag football is coached by Luis Ruvalcaba; 8U is coached by Stefan Ramirez; 10U is coached by Floyd Dudley; 12U is coached by Lloyd T. Morgan III, and 14U is coached by Austin Moss. Flag Cheer is coached by Chelsea J...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter Andrea Breuninger has been chosen as the new Bonsall High School athletic director. Breuninger replaces Eric Hendy, who stepped down as the Legionnaires' athletic director but will continue to coach Bonsall High School teams. "I am excited about working with the athletes and the community and the faculty to improve participation and competitiveness and school spirit at Bonsall High School," Breuninger said. "She'll be a great addition to the...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter In his first California race, San Luis Rey Training Center gelding Viking Plunder took first place in a photo finish. Viking Plunder made his California debut Aug. 5 at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club. The second race that day was a one-mile turf competition for 3-year-olds and upward who started for a claiming price of no more than $16,000 in 2021. Viking Plunder and jockey Trevor McCarthy were sixth halfway through the race but finished a nose...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter What is important in a scrimmage, for example the football scrimmage Aug. 13 at Fallbrook High School in which the Warriors faced Mount Carmel High School, isn't necessarily the score but rather how the players executed. "It wasn't crisp," said Fallbrook head coach Troy Everhart. "I wasn't overly impressed." The Warriors had 21 practices prior to the scrimmage. "I thought we could do a little bit better," Everhart said. CIF football returns to fall after the 2020-21 games were held in March...
FALLBROOK – Fallbrook Youth Rugby held a Summer 7's season from May until July 31 for the youth of Fallbrook. Part of the FYR program is offering referee training for Fallbrook athletes and adults involved in rugby. The training involves concussion training, rules/laws of rugby play, hand and whistle signals and building the confidence needed to interact with coaching staff. On July 25 at Potter Jr. High, FYR held a six hour referee class and out of the seven attendees, f...
FALLBROOK – Fallbrook Pop Warner is in full season already, However, it would not be possible without the support of some amazing sponsors. On Saturday, July 10, the local office of Rancho Family Medical Group hosted a free physical event for the Fallbrook Pop Warner Football and Cheer athletes. Each season Dr. Brandon Miller, his wife, Dr. Anna Miller, and several friends and family streamline this event to ensure each athlete is healthy enough to compete in their chosen s...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter High school football competition – or at least a scrimmage – returns to Fallbrook tomorrow, Aug. 13, when Fallbrook High School hosts Mount Carmel High School. Practice for the Fallbrook football team began July 30, so the Warriors had eight practices as of Aug. 7. "I thought they did well," said Fallbrook High Head Coach Troy Everhart. "There's definitely a core of tough players I'm really excited about." Everhart is excited about the turnout in general. "We've got 92 kids in the program rig...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter Neptune's Storm became the first San Luis Rey Training Center horse to win a 2021 Del Mar Thoroughbred Club stakes race when he finished first in the July 18 Wickerr Stakes. The Wickerr Stakes was a one-mile race on the Del Mar turf course for horses 3 years old and upward. Neptune's Storm, who is now a 5-year-old, led throughout and finished 1 3/4 lengths in front of second-place Majestic Eagle. "We were expecting him to run well, and he did," said trainer Peter Miller. The eight horses in...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter The North Valley Outlawz basketball club team consisting of Fallbrook High School and Bonsall High School players placed fourth at the West Coast National Championship tournament July 15-17 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. "We did great," said North Valley Outlawz head coach Moe Golshani. Golshani is also Fallbrook High School's head boys basketball coach. The Warriors' CIF season ended June 1 with a loss in the Division IV playoffs....
Derick Moore Special to the Village Team USA sent 613 athletes from 46 states to this summer's 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, which were postponed a year due to the pandemic. California, the most populous state, sendt the most (126), but Colorado sent more per capita (5.9 per million). The full roster of the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team shows athletes by state, including their name, sport, hometown and event(s), https://www.teamusa.org/tokyo-2020-olympic-games/meet-team-usa/athletes....
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter The San Diego High School Sports Association annually honors a male athlete and a female athlete from each CIF San Diego Section member school. The award is called the Senior Student-Athlete, but Bonsall High School had no senior girls on any of the Legionnaires' 2020-21 athletic teams, so freshman Mahala Sayler was chosen as Bonsall's girls student-athlete of the year. "It was a real honor and honestly a real surprise for me," Sayler said....
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter The second race of the 2021 Del Mar Thoroughbred Club summer meet ended with San Luis Rey Training Center colts finishing first and second, although a stewards' decision reversed the order of how the horses finished on the track. Hiding the Brick finished a nose ahead of Flash of Genius. A photo finish determined the winner, and then a stewards' inquiry determined that Hiding the Brick and jockey Cesar Ortega had interfered with Flash of Genius and rider Flavien Prat in the stretch. Hiding the...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter The Junior Olympics water polo tournament took place July 22-25 in Orange County, and six players from Fallbrook competed with the Pacific Polo club in that tournament. Kai Maestas, Doug Pearce, Ian Ritchie, and Kayden Trafford played for the boys 18-and-under team. Grant Fukunaga and Calvin Martin were members of the boys 14-and-under team. "Junior Olympics was a success for both the 14 and the 18 boys," said Pacific Polo coach Heather Calvin. The positions are based on brackets which reflect...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter Two Fallbrook High School softball players were given all-league recognition by the Valley League coaches. Baylee Howley was selected to the Valley League first team. Berlin Broussard received honorable mention designation. "I think it's a great thing," Fallbrook High Coach Lisa Stehle said of having two all-league players. "I'm very proud of the ones we have," Stehle said. "It makes me happy to know that we have recognition for those girls."...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter Three members of Fallbrook High School's 2021 baseball team were given all-league recognition by the Valley League coaches. Alex Lopez was named to the Valley League second team. Mitchell Baker and Anthony Thomas were honorable mention selections. Lopez was a senior who was on Fallbrook's varsity for four years. Lopez played both third base and second base for the Warriors. "He understood what winning was, he understood what hard work was,"...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter Kayden Trafford swam and played water polo for Fallbrook High School as a freshman and sophomore. He still lives in Fallbrook, but due to academic reasons he transferred to San Pasqual High School for the 2020-21 school year. San Pasqual is in the Palomar League and in Division I for boys water polo, and Trafford was a second-team Palomar League selection for his junior year while missing all-division honors by one vote. He was also given the Golden Eagle Award by his teammates. "Kayden's a...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics allows high school student-athletes to sign letters of intent with NAIA schools prior to their senior year, and 2020-21 Fallbrook High School junior Cole Tenger has signed a letter of intent to play lacrosse with Westcliff University. "It's a blessing, and I thank my family and my coaches and friends," Tenger said. Tenger was also considering Morningside University in Iowa, Concordia University in Irvine, and Dominican University in San Raf...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter Fallbrook High School sophomore Manava Pedro was placed on the Valley League first team by the league's boys volleyball coaches. Pedro was one of six Fallbrook players to be given all-league recognition. Dre Escobedo was part of the second team. Fernando Fuentes, Lucio Leal, Giovanni Portillo, and Derrick Yap were honorable mention selections. "I'm happy we did," Fallbrook coach Chip Patterson said of having six all-league players. Fallbrook's six all-league players had a combined eight...
FALLBROOK – Fallbrook Girls Softball will have two walk up registrations in August for the fall season. These will be the only registration opportunities for fall softball. They will not have online registration. Both registrations will take place at Ingold Sports Park, 2551 Olive Hill Road. Saturday, Aug. 7: 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 11: 6-7 p.m. Age divisions include 6U, 8U, 10U, 12U and 14U. The fall season runs between September and November. There will be two games played every Sunday and one or two p... Full story
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter The Fallbrook Union High School District increased the education requirement for the district's athletic trainer position. Previously the athletic trainer only needed a bachelor's degree, and the equivalent of an associate's degree with courses could substitute for experience with the prevention and care of athletic injuries and some experience working with physical education and athletic equipment. The 5-0 FUHSD vote July 12 now requires the athletic trainer to have a master's degree, and...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter Fallbrook High School's baseball team began 2021 Valley League play with nine consecutive league losses, but the Warriors won four of their final six games to finish fourth among the six teams in the final standings. The Warriors' 4-11 league record was part of a 6-20 overall season mark. Prior to the final six games, the team had a 2-18 season record. "I'm not disappointed at all with this young group because we were starting from the beginning," said Fallbrook High Coach Patrick Walker....
