B2 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2013
THE WEEKEND FIX
WWW.SANTACRUZSENTINEL.COM/SPORTS
SPORTS EDITOR: JULIE JAG, JJAG@SANTACRUZSENTINEL.COM
SATURDAY’S LOCAL EVENTS
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL
TIME
Harbor at SHP (scrimmage)
11 a.m.
BOYS BASKETBALL
SCCAL Tournament championship
No. 2 Santa Cruz
vs. No. 1 Soquel
7:30 p.m.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
SCCAL Tournament championship
No. 2 Scotts Valley
vs. No. 1 Soquel
6 p.m.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
CSU San Marcos at UCSC
7 p.m.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
CSU San Marcos at UCSC
5 p.m.
COLLEGE SOFTBALL
Diablo Valley at Cabrillo (dh) noon, 2 p.m.
PLACE
Sacred Heart Prep
TIME
noon
10 a.m.
3 p.m.
Kaiser Permanente Arena
Kaiser Permanente Arena
UC Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz
Cabrillo College
PLACE
Fremont High
UC Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz
ON THE AIR SATURDAY
NBA
TIME
All-Star Saturday
5:30 p.m.
NBA D-LEAGUE
All-Star Game
noon
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Villanova at Connecticut
9 a.m.
Xavier at Dayton
9 a.m.
Notre Dame at Providence
9 a.m.
Kentucky at Tennessee
10 a.m.
TCU at Iowa State
10:30 a.m.
Purdue at Indiana
11 a.m.
Virginia Tech at NC State
11 a.m.
Missouri at Arkansas
1 p.m.
UCLA at Stanford
1 p.m.
Gonzaga at San Francisco
1:30 p.m.
Duke at Maryland
3 p.m.
Detroit at Valparaiso
3 p.m.
St. Mary’s at Loyola-Marymount
4 p.m.
Princeton at Harvard
4 p.m.
Oregon at Washington State
4 p.m.
Georgia at Mississippi
5 p.m.
Texas at Kansas
6 p.m.
San Diego State at UNLV
6 p.m.
CURLING
US National Championships
7 a.m.
GOLF
Africa Open, third round
6 a.m.
Northern Trust Open, third round 10 a.m.
Third round, continued
noon
Ladies Australian Open, third round noon
Ace Group Classic, second round 3:30 p.m.
COLLEGE GYMNASTICS
UCLA at Oregon State
7 p.m.
HORSE RACING
El Camino Real Derby
4 p.m.
MOTOR SPORTS
NASCAR Sprint Unlimited
5 p.m.
FA CUP SOCCER
Oldham vs. Everton
10 a.m.
TENNIS
SAP Open, semifinals
1 p.m.
TV
TNT
NBATV/YouTube
ESPN
ESPN2
CSN-CA
CBS
CSN
ESPN
ESPN2
ESPN
ESPN2
CSN
ESPN
ESPN2
CSN-CA
NBC-SP
Pac-12
ESPN2
ESPN
NBC-SP
NBC-SP
GOLF
GOLF
CBS
GOLF
GOLF
Pac-12
SAN JOSE
SHARKS
GOLDEN STATE
WARRIORS
SANTA CRUZ
WARRIORS
at Blues
at Blackhawks
at Stars
vs. Avalanche
vs. Red Wings
FOX
at Jazz
vs. Suns
vs. Spurs
at Timberwolves
at Pacers
vs. Los Angeles
at Reno
vs. Maine
vs. Reno
vs. Reno
KEVIN JOHNSON/SENTINEL
UC Santa Cruz middle blocker Jorges Reyes leaps up to spike the ball during the match against
Holy Names at the UCSC West Field House on Friday.
Monterey Peninsula College 60-56 to improve to 10-1
in Coast Conference-South
and secure a third consecutive CC-S title.
C o l i n G r u b e r s co re d
24 points to lead the Seahawks (19-7, 10-1), while
Dalton Noble added eight.
CJ Grigg and Da Karai
White each chipped in with
seven.
Cabrillo will travel to West
Valley on Feb. 22 for the CC-S
finale.
BOYS BASKETBALL
Nelson Pyle and David
Hightower each scored 19
points to lead MVC to a 71-30
victory over host North Salinas in the final game of the
MBL-Pacific season.
Hightower also had seven
steals for the Mustangs (176, 11-1), who have already
wrapped up the league title.
Nick Matiasevich added
12 points and Matthew Pirtle
pulled down 12 rebounds.
The Mustangs’ opponent
in the first round of the CCS
playoffs will be determined
at Sunday’s seeding meeting.
Continued from B1
CSN-CA
lowed by Harbor (93.5), Soquel (80) and
Santa Cruz (18.5).
“This feels amazing,” said Zacarias,
whose older brother Ramon, a junior,
won the crown at 122 pounds. “All of us
really work together and we wanted to
show we’re one big family. It was amazing to win the title together.”
The top three finishers in each weight
class advance to the Central Coast Section tournament at Independence High
in San Jose next weekend.
Aptos sophomore Ian Else (108
pounds) started the evening off with
a pin of SLV’s Jason Silva as the Mariners won the first three weight classes.
S ophomore Miller Clark (140
pounds), a transfer from San Antonio, Texas, and classmates Austen
Verdugo (162) and Mitch Gearing (172)
also won titles, as did junior teammate
Alex Marquez (287). Clark’s was the
only match of that quartet not decided
by a pin. Clark routed Scotts Valley
freshman Nicholas Reyes with a 17-2
technical fall — a victory of 15 or more
points.
No match matched the excitement
and roars from the crowd that Gio Zacarias and Kraft created.
Kraft suffered a bloody nose early on
but maintained a 4-0 lead. In the second
period, Kraft was forced to use injury
time as he looked like he suffered a rib
or arm injury when falling to the mat
TV
TNT
NBC
NBC-SP
CBS
ESPN
Pac-12
KICU
Pac-12
Pac-12
GOLF
GOLF
CBS
GOLF
GOLF
Pac-12
FOX
CSN-CA
5 p.m.
5:30 p.m.
5 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
CSN-CA
CSN-CA
CSN-CA
CSN-CA
CSN-CA
6 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
12:30 p.m.
4 p.m.
CSN
CSN
ESPN
CSN
CSN
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Wednesday
Thursday
Feb. 23
Feb. 26
Feb. 27
Despite trailing 34-16 at
halftime, the Pacific Collegiate School girls basketball
team battled back to claim
an improbable 70-67 victory over No. 3 King City in
the Mission Trail Athletic
League Tournament championship at Harbor High on
Friday.
Morgan Green put together another dominant performance, scoring 49 points
and a long, game-winning
3-pointer with three seconds
remaining.
Green scored 37 of her
49 points in the second half.
Teammate Margi Howard
added 12.
“King City came out super
aggressive, and we couldn’t
hit anything,” PCS coach
Daniel Kumasaka said of
the first half. “In the second
half, though, we willed our
way back into it.”
PCS (22-4, 13-0) owns the
league’s automatic playoff
bid and will find out its
next opponent at the Central Coast Section seeding
meeting on Sunday in San
Jose.
Sarah Shepherd scored 19
points to lead King City (197, 12-1), while Jessica Davis
added 17.
■ Monte Vista Christian
School beat visiting Alvarez 44-31 in the Monterey
Bay League’s Pacific Division finale on Thursday
night.
The Mustangs (21-3) finish
MBL-P play with a record of
11-1 and secure a share of the
league title along with Watsonville. It’s the first league
championship since 1998 for
the Mustangs.
Myckenzie Toler led MVC
with 15 points, while Sydney
Beadle scored 11 and pulled
in 15 rebounds.
School officials are unsure
of how the league’s automatic bid to the CCS playoffs will
be awarded. The CCS seeding meeting will be held on
Sunday.
MARINERS
FOXSOC
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Tuesday
Wednesday
Friday
Feb. 24
Feb. 26
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READER POLL
DOES VOLCOM OWE TORKOS $20,000?
DAN COYRO/SENTINEL
Local Santa Cruz surfer Zoltan Torkos claims to have
completed the first kickflip on a surfboard ‘above
and off the lip,’ and has the video to back it up.
Vote online at www.santacruzsentinel.com/sports
ley of the Sun stage race in
Phoenix.
The 28 minute, 33.785 second win is Jacques-Maynes’
first win with the Jamis/
H a ge n s B e r m a n t e a m ,
where he signed in December.
After the time trial,
Jacques-Maynes said in
an email, “It’s going to be
a pretty special feeling to
wear the leader’s jersey
tomorrow. The team has
put a lot of faith in me and
I’m just happy to be able to
pay them back so soon.
“I think this is a great way
to start the year and we will
have many wins with Jamis/
Hagens Berman.”
Jim Peterman of SonicBoom took second (6.698
back), and Jamis/Hagens
Berman teammate Luis
A m a ra n f i n i s h e d t h i rd
(13.553 back).
The pro class will begin
Saturday’s road race stage
at 11:30 a.m.
CSN
WHERE THE PROS ARE
Tuesday
Friday
Feb. 23
Feb. 26
Feb. 28
Green, PCS shock King City
CYCLING
Corralitos resident Ben
Jacques-Maynes won the
pro class time trial at the
MEN’S BASKETBALL
C a b r i l l o b e a t h o s t John Earley Memorial Val-
ON THE AIR SUNDAY
NBA
TIME
All-Star Game
5 p.m.
NHL
Kings at Blackhawks
12:30 p.m.
Capitals at Rangers
3 p.m.
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Ohio State at Wisconsin
10 a.m.
Louisville at South Florida
10 a.m.
Arizona at Utah
noon
USC at Cal
7 p.m.
WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Cal at USC
2 p.m.
Washington State at Oregon
4 p.m.
GOLF
Africa Open, final round
6 a.m.
Northern Trust Open, final round 10 a.m.
Final round, continued
noon
Ladies Australian Open, final round noon
Ace Group Classic, final round
4 p.m.
COLLEGE GYMNASTICS
Cal at Stanford
6 p.m.
MOTOR SPORTS
Daytona 500 qualifying
10 a.m.
TENNIS
SAP Open, finals
3 p.m.
LOCAL ROUNDUP
MVC girls hoops
claims first league
title since 1998
SUNDAY’S LOCAL EVENTS
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL
SLV at Fremont (scrimmage)
WOMEN’S TENNIS
Caltech at UCSC
Mills at UCSC
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HONORS
Continued from B1
Sentinel Sports Editor Julie Jag and Assistant
Sports Editor Jim Seimas
each hauled in three top 10
writing awards. Two of their
finishes were collaborative
efforts.
They teamed with staff
writers Andrew Matheson
and Jacob May in Project
Reporting, turning out a
17-article submission about
the NBA D-League’s Santa
Cruz Warriors. The staff
provided a behind-the scenes look at the city’s
newest pro franchise, from
SCCAL
CHAMPIONS
For a complete list of the winners
from Friday night’s Santa Cruz Coast
Athletic League Championships, go to
Scoreboard on B6.
on a heated exchange.
Zacarias said the stoppages helped
him regain his energy for a late surge.
“I caught my breath,” Zacarias said.
“He gives a fight. Me and him, I can see
we’re going to be really good friends.
It’s going to be a great four years (facing him).”
It was a repeat title for Ramon Zacarias, who took the 113s title in 2012.
The biggest repeat of the night
belonged to SLV senior Michael
Kraft. Make that repeat, repeat and
repeat.
Michael Kraft joined a handful of
wrestlers in SCCAL history to win a
league title all four years.
“It’s nice to have it done,” he said,
noting this was the first year he didn’t
cut weight. “It’s the result of a lot of
hard work.”
Kraft earned a first period pin of
Scotts Valley freshman Tristan Leonetti.
Scotts Valley’s Kevin Eddington (128)
and Harbor’s Willy Lamacchia — both
seniors — each won their third straight
league crown.
Eddington won with a pin of Soquel’s
Sonny Torres and Lamacchia earned
the day the Golden State
Warriors announced their
proposal to relocate their
affiliate to Santa Cruz in
April through the team’s
home opener in midDecember.
“Any time the sports team
can be recognized for enterprise reporting — going
beyond the covering of the
game — it shows how we
can bring value to readers
in ways that no one else can
locally about our local sports
scene,” Turpin said. “Who’s
doing that work? Who’s
doing that work? Who’s providing that to readers? No
one else is. We are.”
Jag a n d S e i m a s a l s o
teamed up and placed in the
a 17-2 tech fall over Aptos’ Miguel Barranco.
Harbor’s Bryan Battisto (154), a
junior, earned a 10-2 decision over
Scotts valley’s Doug Peyser to repeat
as champion and teammate Dakotah
Francis (222) earned a 7-2 decision over
Aptos’ Alec Bonsall to repeat as champion.
Francis scored most of his points on
takedowns on the exterior of the circle,
dragging his toes for extra points as he
gained control of Bonsall.
Despite bringing just six wrestlers
to the event, Harbor won three weight
classes.
“That’s pretty good. Actually, that’s
great,” Francis said.
After posting back-to-back runnerup finishes at the SCCAL tournament,
Scotts Valley’s Baldan Dashiev built
a big lead before pinning Aptos’ Nick
Demoro at 184 pounds.
“I finally got it and it feels great,” said
Dashiev, who moved to the area from
Russia prior to his freshman year.
In addition to cheering on the Kraft
brothers, Felton residents also got to
cheer on freshman Kurt Lambaren to
victory at 197 pounds. Built like a tank,
he jumped to a commanding lead before
pinning Harbor’s Colin Mackenzie in
the third period.
Among the third place finishers
advancing to CCS is SLV’s Karl Johnson. He sustained a dislocated shoulder two weeks ago and didn’t compete
in the league tournament. With just
three entrants entered at 182 points,
he disqualified himself in his first
match.
top 10 of the Breaking News
category for their April 4
coverage of the announcement that the Golden State
Warriors wanted to relocate
their D-League franchise
from North Dakota to Santa
Cruz.
For the second straight
year, Jag and Seimas also
finished in the top 10 of the
Explanatory category. Jag
finished second and Seimas
was third last year.
Jag was rewarded for her
Feb. 25 article on how airbags
helped local professional skier Elyse Saugstad survive an
avalanche in Washington.
With her trio of APSE writing awards, Jag boosts her
career total to eight.
Seimas, who now has 13
APSE writing awards, made
the top 10 in Explanatory for
a June 3 article on a trio of
changes to Major League
Baseball’s annual draft. He
explained how the changes
could affect local coaches,
players, scouts, agents, the
signing process and the
sport.
The Sentinel has hauled
in at least one APSE writing award every year since
2007.
The Sentinel won seven
awards for its 2011 coverage,
the most in the newspaper’s
15 years on record.
For links to the winning
articles, visit www.santacruzsentinel.com/sports.
B2 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2013
THE WEEKEND FIX
WWW.SANTACRUZSENTINEL.COM/SPORTS
SPORTS EDITOR: JULIE JAG, JJAG@SANTACRUZSENTINEL.COM
SATURDAY’S LOCAL EVENTS
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL
TIME
Harbor at SHP (scrimmage)
11 a.m.
BOYS BASKETBALL
SCCAL Tournament championship
No. 2 Santa Cruz
vs. No. 1 Soquel
7:30 p.m.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
SCCAL Tournament championship
No. 2 Scotts Valley
vs. No. 1 Soquel
6 p.m.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
CSU San Marcos at UCSC
7 p.m.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
CSU San Marcos at UCSC
5 p.m.
COLLEGE SOFTBALL
Diablo Valley at Cabrillo (dh) noon, 2 p.m.
PLACE
Sacred Heart Prep
TIME
noon
10 a.m.
3 p.m.
Kaiser Permanente Arena
Kaiser Permanente Arena
UC Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz
Cabrillo College
PLACE
Fremont High
UC Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz
ON THE AIR SATURDAY
NBA
TIME
All-Star Saturday
5:30 p.m.
NBA D-LEAGUE
All-Star Game
noon
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Villanova at Connecticut
9 a.m.
Xavier at Dayton
9 a.m.
Notre Dame at Providence
9 a.m.
Kentucky at Tennessee
10 a.m.
TCU at Iowa State
10:30 a.m.
Purdue at Indiana
11 a.m.
Virginia Tech at NC State
11 a.m.
Missouri at Arkansas
1 p.m.
UCLA at Stanford
1 p.m.
Gonzaga at San Francisco
1:30 p.m.
Duke at Maryland
3 p.m.
Detroit at Valparaiso
3 p.m.
St. Mary’s at Loyola-Marymount
4 p.m.
Princeton at Harvard
4 p.m.
Oregon at Washington State
4 p.m.
Georgia at Mississippi
5 p.m.
Texas at Kansas
6 p.m.
San Diego State at UNLV
6 p.m.
CURLING
US National Championships
7 a.m.
GOLF
Africa Open, third round
6 a.m.
Northern Trust Open, third round 10 a.m.
Third round, continued
noon
Ladies Australian Open, third round noon
Ace Group Classic, second round 3:30 p.m.
COLLEGE GYMNASTICS
UCLA at Oregon State
7 p.m.
HORSE RACING
El Camino Real Derby
4 p.m.
MOTOR SPORTS
NASCAR Sprint Unlimited
5 p.m.
FA CUP SOCCER
Oldham vs. Everton
10 a.m.
TENNIS
SAP Open, semifinals
1 p.m.
TV
TNT
NBATV/YouTube
ESPN
ESPN2
CSN-CA
CBS
CSN
ESPN
ESPN2
ESPN
ESPN2
CSN
ESPN
ESPN2
CSN-CA
NBC-SP
Pac-12
ESPN2
ESPN
NBC-SP
NBC-SP
GOLF
GOLF
CBS
GOLF
GOLF
Pac-12
SAN JOSE
SHARKS
GOLDEN STATE
WARRIORS
SANTA CRUZ
WARRIORS
at Blues
at Blackhawks
at Stars
vs. Avalanche
vs. Red Wings
FOX
at Jazz
vs. Suns
vs. Spurs
at Timberwolves
at Pacers
vs. Los Angeles
at Reno
vs. Maine
vs. Reno
vs. Reno
KEVIN JOHNSON/SENTINEL
UC Santa Cruz middle blocker Jorges Reyes leaps up to spike the ball during the match against
Holy Names at the UCSC West Field House on Friday.
Monterey Peninsula College 60-56 to improve to 10-1
in Coast Conference-South
and secure a third consecutive CC-S title.
C o l i n G r u b e r s co re d
24 points to lead the Seahawks (19-7, 10-1), while
Dalton Noble added eight.
CJ Grigg and Da Karai
White each chipped in with
seven.
Cabrillo will travel to West
Valley on Feb. 22 for the CC-S
finale.
BOYS BASKETBALL
Nelson Pyle and David
Hightower each scored 19
points to lead MVC to a 71-30
victory over host North Salinas in the final game of the
MBL-Pacific season.
Hightower also had seven
steals for the Mustangs (176, 11-1), who have already
wrapped up the league title.
Nick Matiasevich added
12 points and Matthew Pirtle
pulled down 12 rebounds.
The Mustangs’ opponent
in the first round of the CCS
playoffs will be determined
at Sunday’s seeding meeting.
Continued from B1
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lowed by Harbor (93.5), Soquel (80) and
Santa Cruz (18.5).
“This feels amazing,” said Zacarias,
whose older brother Ramon, a junior,
won the crown at 122 pounds. “All of us
really work together and we wanted to
show we’re one big family. It was amazing to win the title together.”
The top three finishers in each weight
class advance to the Central Coast Section tournament at Independence High
in San Jose next weekend.
Aptos sophomore Ian Else (108
pounds) started the evening off with
a pin of SLV’s Jason Silva as the Mariners won the first three weight classes.
S ophomore Miller Clark (140
pounds), a transfer from San Antonio, Texas, and classmates Austen
Verdugo (162) and Mitch Gearing (172)
also won titles, as did junior teammate
Alex Marquez (287). Clark’s was the
only match of that quartet not decided
by a pin. Clark routed Scotts Valley
freshman Nicholas Reyes with a 17-2
technical fall — a victory of 15 or more
points.
No match matched the excitement
and roars from the crowd that Gio Zacarias and Kraft created.
Kraft suffered a bloody nose early on
but maintained a 4-0 lead. In the second
period, Kraft was forced to use injury
time as he looked like he suffered a rib
or arm injury when falling to the mat
TV
TNT
NBC
NBC-SP
CBS
ESPN
Pac-12
KICU
Pac-12
Pac-12
GOLF
GOLF
CBS
GOLF
GOLF
Pac-12
FOX
CSN-CA
5 p.m.
5:30 p.m.
5 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
CSN-CA
CSN-CA
CSN-CA
CSN-CA
CSN-CA
6 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
12:30 p.m.
4 p.m.
CSN
CSN
ESPN
CSN
CSN
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Wednesday
Thursday
Feb. 23
Feb. 26
Feb. 27
Despite trailing 34-16 at
halftime, the Pacific Collegiate School girls basketball
team battled back to claim
an improbable 70-67 victory over No. 3 King City in
the Mission Trail Athletic
League Tournament championship at Harbor High on
Friday.
Morgan Green put together another dominant performance, scoring 49 points
and a long, game-winning
3-pointer with three seconds
remaining.
Green scored 37 of her
49 points in the second half.
Teammate Margi Howard
added 12.
“King City came out super
aggressive, and we couldn’t
hit anything,” PCS coach
Daniel Kumasaka said of
the first half. “In the second
half, though, we willed our
way back into it.”
PCS (22-4, 13-0) owns the
league’s automatic playoff
bid and will find out its
next opponent at the Central Coast Section seeding
meeting on Sunday in San
Jose.
Sarah Shepherd scored 19
points to lead King City (197, 12-1), while Jessica Davis
added 17.
■ Monte Vista Christian
School beat visiting Alvarez 44-31 in the Monterey
Bay League’s Pacific Division finale on Thursday
night.
The Mustangs (21-3) finish
MBL-P play with a record of
11-1 and secure a share of the
league title along with Watsonville. It’s the first league
championship since 1998 for
the Mustangs.
Myckenzie Toler led MVC
with 15 points, while Sydney
Beadle scored 11 and pulled
in 15 rebounds.
School officials are unsure
of how the league’s automatic bid to the CCS playoffs will
be awarded. The CCS seeding meeting will be held on
Sunday.
MARINERS
FOXSOC
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Tuesday
Wednesday
Friday
Feb. 24
Feb. 26
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READER POLL
DOES VOLCOM OWE TORKOS $20,000?
DAN COYRO/SENTINEL
Local Santa Cruz surfer Zoltan Torkos claims to have
completed the first kickflip on a surfboard ‘above
and off the lip,’ and has the video to back it up.
Vote online at www.santacruzsentinel.com/sports
ley of the Sun stage race in
Phoenix.
The 28 minute, 33.785 second win is Jacques-Maynes’
first win with the Jamis/
H a ge n s B e r m a n t e a m ,
where he signed in December.
After the time trial,
Jacques-Maynes said in
an email, “It’s going to be
a pretty special feeling to
wear the leader’s jersey
tomorrow. The team has
put a lot of faith in me and
I’m just happy to be able to
pay them back so soon.
“I think this is a great way
to start the year and we will
have many wins with Jamis/
Hagens Berman.”
Jim Peterman of SonicBoom took second (6.698
back), and Jamis/Hagens
Berman teammate Luis
A m a ra n f i n i s h e d t h i rd
(13.553 back).
The pro class will begin
Saturday’s road race stage
at 11:30 a.m.
CSN
WHERE THE PROS ARE
Tuesday
Friday
Feb. 23
Feb. 26
Feb. 28
Green, PCS shock King City
CYCLING
Corralitos resident Ben
Jacques-Maynes won the
pro class time trial at the
MEN’S BASKETBALL
C a b r i l l o b e a t h o s t John Earley Memorial Val-
ON THE AIR SUNDAY
NBA
TIME
All-Star Game
5 p.m.
NHL
Kings at Blackhawks
12:30 p.m.
Capitals at Rangers
3 p.m.
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Ohio State at Wisconsin
10 a.m.
Louisville at South Florida
10 a.m.
Arizona at Utah
noon
USC at Cal
7 p.m.
WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Cal at USC
2 p.m.
Washington State at Oregon
4 p.m.
GOLF
Africa Open, final round
6 a.m.
Northern Trust Open, final round 10 a.m.
Final round, continued
noon
Ladies Australian Open, final round noon
Ace Group Classic, final round
4 p.m.
COLLEGE GYMNASTICS
Cal at Stanford
6 p.m.
MOTOR SPORTS
Daytona 500 qualifying
10 a.m.
TENNIS
SAP Open, finals
3 p.m.
LOCAL ROUNDUP
MVC girls hoops
claims first league
title since 1998
SUNDAY’S LOCAL EVENTS
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL
SLV at Fremont (scrimmage)
WOMEN’S TENNIS
Caltech at UCSC
Mills at UCSC
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HONORS
Continued from B1
Sentinel Sports Editor Julie Jag and Assistant
Sports Editor Jim Seimas
each hauled in three top 10
writing awards. Two of their
finishes were collaborative
efforts.
They teamed with staff
writers Andrew Matheson
and Jacob May in Project
Reporting, turning out a
17-article submission about
the NBA D-League’s Santa
Cruz Warriors. The staff
provided a behind-the scenes look at the city’s
newest pro franchise, from
SCCAL
CHAMPIONS
For a complete list of the winners
from Friday night’s Santa Cruz Coast
Athletic League Championships, go to
Scoreboard on B6.
on a heated exchange.
Zacarias said the stoppages helped
him regain his energy for a late surge.
“I caught my breath,” Zacarias said.
“He gives a fight. Me and him, I can see
we’re going to be really good friends.
It’s going to be a great four years (facing him).”
It was a repeat title for Ramon Zacarias, who took the 113s title in 2012.
The biggest repeat of the night
belonged to SLV senior Michael
Kraft. Make that repeat, repeat and
repeat.
Michael Kraft joined a handful of
wrestlers in SCCAL history to win a
league title all four years.
“It’s nice to have it done,” he said,
noting this was the first year he didn’t
cut weight. “It’s the result of a lot of
hard work.”
Kraft earned a first period pin of
Scotts Valley freshman Tristan Leonetti.
Scotts Valley’s Kevin Eddington (128)
and Harbor’s Willy Lamacchia — both
seniors — each won their third straight
league crown.
Eddington won with a pin of Soquel’s
Sonny Torres and Lamacchia earned
the day the Golden State
Warriors announced their
proposal to relocate their
affiliate to Santa Cruz in
April through the team’s
home opener in midDecember.
“Any time the sports team
can be recognized for enterprise reporting — going
beyond the covering of the
game — it shows how we
can bring value to readers
in ways that no one else can
locally about our local sports
scene,” Turpin said. “Who’s
doing that work? Who’s
doing that work? Who’s providing that to readers? No
one else is. We are.”
Jag a n d S e i m a s a l s o
teamed up and placed in the
a 17-2 tech fall over Aptos’ Miguel Barranco.
Harbor’s Bryan Battisto (154), a
junior, earned a 10-2 decision over
Scotts valley’s Doug Peyser to repeat
as champion and teammate Dakotah
Francis (222) earned a 7-2 decision over
Aptos’ Alec Bonsall to repeat as champion.
Francis scored most of his points on
takedowns on the exterior of the circle,
dragging his toes for extra points as he
gained control of Bonsall.
Despite bringing just six wrestlers
to the event, Harbor won three weight
classes.
“That’s pretty good. Actually, that’s
great,” Francis said.
After posting back-to-back runnerup finishes at the SCCAL tournament,
Scotts Valley’s Baldan Dashiev built
a big lead before pinning Aptos’ Nick
Demoro at 184 pounds.
“I finally got it and it feels great,” said
Dashiev, who moved to the area from
Russia prior to his freshman year.
In addition to cheering on the Kraft
brothers, Felton residents also got to
cheer on freshman Kurt Lambaren to
victory at 197 pounds. Built like a tank,
he jumped to a commanding lead before
pinning Harbor’s Colin Mackenzie in
the third period.
Among the third place finishers
advancing to CCS is SLV’s Karl Johnson. He sustained a dislocated shoulder two weeks ago and didn’t compete
in the league tournament. With just
three entrants entered at 182 points,
he disqualified himself in his first
match.
top 10 of the Breaking News
category for their April 4
coverage of the announcement that the Golden State
Warriors wanted to relocate
their D-League franchise
from North Dakota to Santa
Cruz.
For the second straight
year, Jag and Seimas also
finished in the top 10 of the
Explanatory category. Jag
finished second and Seimas
was third last year.
Jag was rewarded for her
Feb. 25 article on how airbags
helped local professional skier Elyse Saugstad survive an
avalanche in Washington.
With her trio of APSE writing awards, Jag boosts her
career total to eight.
Seimas, who now has 13
APSE writing awards, made
the top 10 in Explanatory for
a June 3 article on a trio of
changes to Major League
Baseball’s annual draft. He
explained how the changes
could affect local coaches,
players, scouts, agents, the
signing process and the
sport.
The Sentinel has hauled
in at least one APSE writing award every year since
2007.
The Sentinel won seven
awards for its 2011 coverage,
the most in the newspaper’s
15 years on record.
For links to the winning
articles, visit www.santacruzsentinel.com/sports.
B2 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2013
THE WEEKEND FIX
WWW.SANTACRUZSENTINEL.COM/SPORTS
SPORTS EDITOR: JULIE JAG, JJAG@SANTACRUZSENTINEL.COM
SATURDAY’S LOCAL EVENTS
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL
TIME
Harbor at SHP (scrimmage)
11 a.m.
BOYS BASKETBALL
SCCAL Tournament championship
No. 2 Santa Cruz
vs. No. 1 Soquel
7:30 p.m.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
SCCAL Tournament championship
No. 2 Scotts Valley
vs. No. 1 Soquel
6 p.m.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
CSU San Marcos at UCSC
7 p.m.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
CSU San Marcos at UCSC
5 p.m.
COLLEGE SOFTBALL
Diablo Valley at Cabrillo (dh) noon, 2 p.m.
PLACE
Sacred Heart Prep
TIME
noon
10 a.m.
3 p.m.
Kaiser Permanente Arena
Kaiser Permanente Arena
UC Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz
Cabrillo College
PLACE
Fremont High
UC Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz
ON THE AIR SATURDAY
NBA
TIME
All-Star Saturday
5:30 p.m.
NBA D-LEAGUE
All-Star Game
noon
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Villanova at Connecticut
9 a.m.
Xavier at Dayton
9 a.m.
Notre Dame at Providence
9 a.m.
Kentucky at Tennessee
10 a.m.
TCU at Iowa State
10:30 a.m.
Purdue at Indiana
11 a.m.
Virginia Tech at NC State
11 a.m.
Missouri at Arkansas
1 p.m.
UCLA at Stanford
1 p.m.
Gonzaga at San Francisco
1:30 p.m.
Duke at Maryland
3 p.m.
Detroit at Valparaiso
3 p.m.
St. Mary’s at Loyola-Marymount
4 p.m.
Princeton at Harvard
4 p.m.
Oregon at Washington State
4 p.m.
Georgia at Mississippi
5 p.m.
Texas at Kansas
6 p.m.
San Diego State at UNLV
6 p.m.
CURLING
US National Championships
7 a.m.
GOLF
Africa Open, third round
6 a.m.
Northern Trust Open, third round 10 a.m.
Third round, continued
noon
Ladies Australian Open, third round noon
Ace Group Classic, second round 3:30 p.m.
COLLEGE GYMNASTICS
UCLA at Oregon State
7 p.m.
HORSE RACING
El Camino Real Derby
4 p.m.
MOTOR SPORTS
NASCAR Sprint Unlimited
5 p.m.
FA CUP SOCCER
Oldham vs. Everton
10 a.m.
TENNIS
SAP Open, semifinals
1 p.m.
TV
TNT
NBATV/YouTube
ESPN
ESPN2
CSN-CA
CBS
CSN
ESPN
ESPN2
ESPN
ESPN2
CSN
ESPN
ESPN2
CSN-CA
NBC-SP
Pac-12
ESPN2
ESPN
NBC-SP
NBC-SP
GOLF
GOLF
CBS
GOLF
GOLF
Pac-12
SAN JOSE
SHARKS
GOLDEN STATE
WARRIORS
SANTA CRUZ
WARRIORS
at Blues
at Blackhawks
at Stars
vs. Avalanche
vs. Red Wings
FOX
at Jazz
vs. Suns
vs. Spurs
at Timberwolves
at Pacers
vs. Los Angeles
at Reno
vs. Maine
vs. Reno
vs. Reno
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UC Santa Cruz middle blocker Jorges Reyes leaps up to spike the ball during the match against
Holy Names at the UCSC West Field House on Friday.
Monterey Peninsula College 60-56 to improve to 10-1
in Coast Conference-South
and secure a third consecutive CC-S title.
C o l i n G r u b e r s co re d
24 points to lead the Seahawks (19-7, 10-1), while
Dalton Noble added eight.
CJ Grigg and Da Karai
White each chipped in with
seven.
Cabrillo will travel to West
Valley on Feb. 22 for the CC-S
finale.
BOYS BASKETBALL
Nelson Pyle and David
Hightower each scored 19
points to lead MVC to a 71-30
victory over host North Salinas in the final game of the
MBL-Pacific season.
Hightower also had seven
steals for the Mustangs (176, 11-1), who have already
wrapped up the league title.
Nick Matiasevich added
12 points and Matthew Pirtle
pulled down 12 rebounds.
The Mustangs’ opponent
in the first round of the CCS
playoffs will be determined
at Sunday’s seeding meeting.
Continued from B1
CSN-CA
lowed by Harbor (93.5), Soquel (80) and
Santa Cruz (18.5).
“This feels amazing,” said Zacarias,
whose older brother Ramon, a junior,
won the crown at 122 pounds. “All of us
really work together and we wanted to
show we’re one big family. It was amazing to win the title together.”
The top three finishers in each weight
class advance to the Central Coast Section tournament at Independence High
in San Jose next weekend.
Aptos sophomore Ian Else (108
pounds) started the evening off with
a pin of SLV’s Jason Silva as the Mariners won the first three weight classes.
S ophomore Miller Clark (140
pounds), a transfer from San Antonio, Texas, and classmates Austen
Verdugo (162) and Mitch Gearing (172)
also won titles, as did junior teammate
Alex Marquez (287). Clark’s was the
only match of that quartet not decided
by a pin. Clark routed Scotts Valley
freshman Nicholas Reyes with a 17-2
technical fall — a victory of 15 or more
points.
No match matched the excitement
and roars from the crowd that Gio Zacarias and Kraft created.
Kraft suffered a bloody nose early on
but maintained a 4-0 lead. In the second
period, Kraft was forced to use injury
time as he looked like he suffered a rib
or arm injury when falling to the mat
TV
TNT
NBC
NBC-SP
CBS
ESPN
Pac-12
KICU
Pac-12
Pac-12
GOLF
GOLF
CBS
GOLF
GOLF
Pac-12
FOX
CSN-CA
5 p.m.
5:30 p.m.
5 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
CSN-CA
CSN-CA
CSN-CA
CSN-CA
CSN-CA
6 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
12:30 p.m.
4 p.m.
CSN
CSN
ESPN
CSN
CSN
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Wednesday
Thursday
Feb. 23
Feb. 26
Feb. 27
Despite trailing 34-16 at
halftime, the Pacific Collegiate School girls basketball
team battled back to claim
an improbable 70-67 victory over No. 3 King City in
the Mission Trail Athletic
League Tournament championship at Harbor High on
Friday.
Morgan Green put together another dominant performance, scoring 49 points
and a long, game-winning
3-pointer with three seconds
remaining.
Green scored 37 of her
49 points in the second half.
Teammate Margi Howard
added 12.
“King City came out super
aggressive, and we couldn’t
hit anything,” PCS coach
Daniel Kumasaka said of
the first half. “In the second
half, though, we willed our
way back into it.”
PCS (22-4, 13-0) owns the
league’s automatic playoff
bid and will find out its
next opponent at the Central Coast Section seeding
meeting on Sunday in San
Jose.
Sarah Shepherd scored 19
points to lead King City (197, 12-1), while Jessica Davis
added 17.
■ Monte Vista Christian
School beat visiting Alvarez 44-31 in the Monterey
Bay League’s Pacific Division finale on Thursday
night.
The Mustangs (21-3) finish
MBL-P play with a record of
11-1 and secure a share of the
league title along with Watsonville. It’s the first league
championship since 1998 for
the Mustangs.
Myckenzie Toler led MVC
with 15 points, while Sydney
Beadle scored 11 and pulled
in 15 rebounds.
School officials are unsure
of how the league’s automatic bid to the CCS playoffs will
be awarded. The CCS seeding meeting will be held on
Sunday.
MARINERS
FOXSOC
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Tuesday
Wednesday
Friday
Feb. 24
Feb. 26
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ley of the Sun stage race in
Phoenix.
The 28 minute, 33.785 second win is Jacques-Maynes’
first win with the Jamis/
H a ge n s B e r m a n t e a m ,
where he signed in December.
After the time trial,
Jacques-Maynes said in
an email, “It’s going to be
a pretty special feeling to
wear the leader’s jersey
tomorrow. The team has
put a lot of faith in me and
I’m just happy to be able to
pay them back so soon.
“I think this is a great way
to start the year and we will
have many wins with Jamis/
Hagens Berman.”
Jim Peterman of SonicBoom took second (6.698
back), and Jamis/Hagens
Berman teammate Luis
A m a ra n f i n i s h e d t h i rd
(13.553 back).
The pro class will begin
Saturday’s road race stage
at 11:30 a.m.
CSN
WHERE THE PROS ARE
Tuesday
Friday
Feb. 23
Feb. 26
Feb. 28
Green, PCS shock King City
CYCLING
Corralitos resident Ben
Jacques-Maynes won the
pro class time trial at the
MEN’S BASKETBALL
C a b r i l l o b e a t h o s t John Earley Memorial Val-
ON THE AIR SUNDAY
NBA
TIME
All-Star Game
5 p.m.
NHL
Kings at Blackhawks
12:30 p.m.
Capitals at Rangers
3 p.m.
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Ohio State at Wisconsin
10 a.m.
Louisville at South Florida
10 a.m.
Arizona at Utah
noon
USC at Cal
7 p.m.
WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Cal at USC
2 p.m.
Washington State at Oregon
4 p.m.
GOLF
Africa Open, final round
6 a.m.
Northern Trust Open, final round 10 a.m.
Final round, continued
noon
Ladies Australian Open, final round noon
Ace Group Classic, final round
4 p.m.
COLLEGE GYMNASTICS
Cal at Stanford
6 p.m.
MOTOR SPORTS
Daytona 500 qualifying
10 a.m.
TENNIS
SAP Open, finals
3 p.m.
LOCAL ROUNDUP
MVC girls hoops
claims first league
title since 1998
SUNDAY’S LOCAL EVENTS
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL
SLV at Fremont (scrimmage)
WOMEN’S TENNIS
Caltech at UCSC
Mills at UCSC
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7 p.m.
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HONORS
Continued from B1
Sentinel Sports Editor Julie Jag and Assistant
Sports Editor Jim Seimas
each hauled in three top 10
writing awards. Two of their
finishes were collaborative
efforts.
They teamed with staff
writers Andrew Matheson
and Jacob May in Project
Reporting, turning out a
17-article submission about
the NBA D-League’s Santa
Cruz Warriors. The staff
provided a behind-the scenes look at the city’s
newest pro franchise, from
SCCAL
CHAMPIONS
For a complete list of the winners
from Friday night’s Santa Cruz Coast
Athletic League Championships, go to
Scoreboard on B6.
on a heated exchange.
Zacarias said the stoppages helped
him regain his energy for a late surge.
“I caught my breath,” Zacarias said.
“He gives a fight. Me and him, I can see
we’re going to be really good friends.
It’s going to be a great four years (facing him).”
It was a repeat title for Ramon Zacarias, who took the 113s title in 2012.
The biggest repeat of the night
belonged to SLV senior Michael
Kraft. Make that repeat, repeat and
repeat.
Michael Kraft joined a handful of
wrestlers in SCCAL history to win a
league title all four years.
“It’s nice to have it done,” he said,
noting this was the first year he didn’t
cut weight. “It’s the result of a lot of
hard work.”
Kraft earned a first period pin of
Scotts Valley freshman Tristan Leonetti.
Scotts Valley’s Kevin Eddington (128)
and Harbor’s Willy Lamacchia — both
seniors — each won their third straight
league crown.
Eddington won with a pin of Soquel’s
Sonny Torres and Lamacchia earned
the day the Golden State
Warriors announced their
proposal to relocate their
affiliate to Santa Cruz in
April through the team’s
home opener in midDecember.
“Any time the sports team
can be recognized for enterprise reporting — going
beyond the covering of the
game — it shows how we
can bring value to readers
in ways that no one else can
locally about our local sports
scene,” Turpin said. “Who’s
doing that work? Who’s
doing that work? Who’s providing that to readers? No
one else is. We are.”
Jag a n d S e i m a s a l s o
teamed up and placed in the
a 17-2 tech fall over Aptos’ Miguel Barranco.
Harbor’s Bryan Battisto (154), a
junior, earned a 10-2 decision over
Scotts valley’s Doug Peyser to repeat
as champion and teammate Dakotah
Francis (222) earned a 7-2 decision over
Aptos’ Alec Bonsall to repeat as champion.
Francis scored most of his points on
takedowns on the exterior of the circle,
dragging his toes for extra points as he
gained control of Bonsall.
Despite bringing just six wrestlers
to the event, Harbor won three weight
classes.
“That’s pretty good. Actually, that’s
great,” Francis said.
After posting back-to-back runnerup finishes at the SCCAL tournament,
Scotts Valley’s Baldan Dashiev built
a big lead before pinning Aptos’ Nick
Demoro at 184 pounds.
“I finally got it and it feels great,” said
Dashiev, who moved to the area from
Russia prior to his freshman year.
In addition to cheering on the Kraft
brothers, Felton residents also got to
cheer on freshman Kurt Lambaren to
victory at 197 pounds. Built like a tank,
he jumped to a commanding lead before
pinning Harbor’s Colin Mackenzie in
the third period.
Among the third place finishers
advancing to CCS is SLV’s Karl Johnson. He sustained a dislocated shoulder two weeks ago and didn’t compete
in the league tournament. With just
three entrants entered at 182 points,
he disqualified himself in his first
match.
top 10 of the Breaking News
category for their April 4
coverage of the announcement that the Golden State
Warriors wanted to relocate
their D-League franchise
from North Dakota to Santa
Cruz.
For the second straight
year, Jag and Seimas also
finished in the top 10 of the
Explanatory category. Jag
finished second and Seimas
was third last year.
Jag was rewarded for her
Feb. 25 article on how airbags
helped local professional skier Elyse Saugstad survive an
avalanche in Washington.
With her trio of APSE writing awards, Jag boosts her
career total to eight.
Seimas, who now has 13
APSE writing awards, made
the top 10 in Explanatory for
a June 3 article on a trio of
changes to Major League
Baseball’s annual draft. He
explained how the changes
could affect local coaches,
players, scouts, agents, the
signing process and the
sport.
The Sentinel has hauled
in at least one APSE writing award every year since
2007.
The Sentinel won seven
awards for its 2011 coverage,
the most in the newspaper’s
15 years on record.
For links to the winning
articles, visit www.santacruzsentinel.com/sports.