El Rancho, out of Pico Rivera, stunned San Clemente in the Division I SoCal Regional championship. The Dons scored three early goals in the first half and never looked back.
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Former San Clemente girls basketball coach Mary Mulligan-Crapo joined California coaching legends such as John Wooden, Bill Mulligan and Mark Trakh when she was inducted into the Southern California Interscholastic Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame last weekend.
Mulligan-Crapo, who played at San Clemente and UC Irvine, was honored during the CIF-SS girls bnasketball championships on March 1 at Anaheim Convention Center.
“Well, I am honored to be considered and very proud to represent women coaches because there aren’t too many in the Hall of Fame,” Mulligan-Crapo said. “I am proud to be included on a list of such well-respected coaches.”
Mulligan-Crapo, the 1981 Orange County Female Athlete of the Year, coached at San Clemente for 25 years from 1987-2011. She had 500 career victories, 13 South Coast League titles, including 12 in a row at one point. She led the Tritons to five CIF-SS championships and eight trips to the state tournament.
She was the CIF Division 1 coach of the year three times and she was the South Coast League coach of the year 13 times.
She had 28 players from her program go on to play college basketball.
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All-County offensive lineman Sean Harlow of San Clemente signed this morning with Oregon State, his father, Pat, confirms.
Harlow graduated from San Clemente on Friday and is set to begin studies at Oregon State on April 1, his father reports.
“He wants to get up there for spring football,” Pat Harlow said in an e-mail.
Harlow is the second high-profile football recruit in as many years to graduate early. Quarterback Travis Wilson graduated early to enroll at Utah.
In other San Clemente recruiting news, Sam Hunter and Landon Cook signed with Minnesota-Crookston, a Division II school that recruited the county hard. Kicker Bret Miller is headed to Arizona as preferred walk-on, San Clemente football reports.
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San Clemente offensive lineman Sam Hunter (6-2, 255) has committed to Division 2 Minnesota Crookston, Tritons football coach Jaime Ortiz announced.
Hunter was a two-year starter the Tritons.
Ortiz said in an e-mail that Minnesota Crookston is “trying to open up their recruiting to California schools.”
The Golden Eagles also has been recruiting Aliso Niguel quarterback Nathan Cole among other players from the county.
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San Clemente boys soccer coach Mike Pronier picked up his 300th victory when the No. 2 Tritons shutout Aliso Niguel, 3-0 last Monday.
San Clemente won two more South Coast League games last week, beating Mission Viejo and Capistrano Valley to give him a career record of 302-192-121.
“The last hundred has come a lot quicker then the first or second hundred. We have a lot of ties over my 25 years too, but some of those were ties we fought very hard for when we were looking for results against good teams,” Pronier said in an email.
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San Clemente offensive lineman Sean Harlow (6-4, 270) has de-committed from Washington and has committed to Oregon State, his father, Pat, said in an e-mail Tuesday night.
Harlow committed to Washington in late July but also made official recruiting trips to Oregon State, Wisconsin and Boise State in addition to Washington.
Harlow played guard Friday at the Semper Fidelis All-American Bowl in Carson.
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Five Orange County teams are scheduled to play in a Division 2 girls water polo showcase Saturday at Santa Margarita.
Here’s the strong lineup of matches: Santa Margarita vs. M.L. King of Riverside, 10 a.m.; Agoura vs. Murrieta Valley, 11:30 a.m.; San Clemente vs. Santiago of Corona, 2:30 p.m.; Mater Dei vs. El Toro, 4 p.m. and Riverside Poly vs. Rosary, 5:30 p.m.
Santa Margarita coach Kevin Ricks is seeking to add one team, preferably from Division 2, to play Long Beach Wilson. Interested teams can contact Ricks at RicksK@smhs.org.
El Toro (7-1) and Santa Margarita (9-1) were ranked first-second, respectively, in the last Division 2 poll.
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Strong-legged San Clemente kicker/punter Bret Miller has committed to Arizona and Coach Rich Rodriguez, his father, Brian, reports.
Miller, a first-team All-South Coast League pick the past two seasons, holds 10 of the 11 kicking records at San Clemente.
Miller, pictured left with Rodriguez, also set a CIF-SS record for consecutive PATs with 110. In 2011, Miller made all nine of field goal attempts.
Miller was a second-team All-County pick earlier this week. He was recruited as a kicker and punter.
Please send football recruiting news to Dan Albano at dalbano@ocregister.com
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San Clemente junior Melissa Eisele took home the individual title in the young women’s division of the 2012 USATF National Junior Olympics Cross Country Championships Saturday in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Eisele, who helped San Clemente win the South Coast League title and finish eighth at the CIF State Cross Country Championships last month, posted a winning time of 19:15.14 on the 5k (3.1 mile) course run at Ballon Fiesta Park (located at 5,085 ft above sea level.)
Tritons senior Elizabeth Hays finished eighth in the race with a time of 20:30.24, with Tritons junior Madison Huffman (20.48.09) placing 12th.
Foothill senior Jessica Selby (21:22.21) was 20th.
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Robby Stiefel scored from the left flat with about 20 seconds left to lift San Clemente’s unranked boys water polo team past host and No. 3 El Toro, 11-10, in a critical South Coast League match Monday.
It was San Clemente’s first victory against El Toro since 1996 – Coach Marc Parker’s first season — but also kept the Tritons’ chances of claiming a share of the league title alive in the Division 1 league.
San Clemente is now 4-2 in league with dates Tuesday at Aliso Niguel and Thursday at home against first-place Dana Hills (5-1 in league) at 5 p.m.
Lee “Hacksaw” Hamilton: “EL TORO … SHOW ME YOUR LIGHTNING BOLT!!!!”
No. 17 San Clemente had its starting QB Sean Donnelly back from the injured list and was looking to give El Toro, ranked No. 6 in the county and No. 22 in the state, a rude welcome back to the South Coast League on Thursday night at Trabuco Hills High.
It looked like the Tritons might do just that when they jumped to a 14-0 lead in the first quarter. Donnelly struck with a 21-yard TD pass to Sam Darnold. Then Kelsey Benoit picked off El Toro QB Conner Manning and returned it 20 yards for a touchdown seven seconds later to make it 14-0 Tritons.
San Clemente was bigger and more physical and was pushing the Chargers around in the trenches early on.
But then Manning got El Toro’s no-huddle offense humming. San Clemente was no longer able to take advantage of its size as Manning picked the Tritons apart with three-step drops and quick passes to his sure-handed receivers.
The two teams started trading touchdowns, but San Clemente couldn’t keep up with El Toro’s frenzied pace.
San Clemente has at least seven two-way starters and they were worn down by the second half when El Toro started to pull away.
It will be interesting to see how El Toro does against teams such as Mission Viejo and Tesoro. The Diablos and Titans are both big and physical, but they are both much deeper than San Clemente.
Manning was 27 of 37 for 349 yards and three TDs against the Tritons. He did have two interceptions returned for TDs. (Read the game story.)
Sure, El Toro played a soft nonleague schedule (some said it was a little cupcake and tomato can heavy), but South Coast League teams better start realizing than Manning and the Chargers are for real.
THE THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL MADNESS STUDS:
Nonleague games are great for bragging rights, rankings and preparation for league. That’s right, league. League games are what it’s all about. The Century and Empire Leagues started league play last week and the rest of the county joins them this week.
(Stuff) just got real.
If you are a team with aspirations of winning a CIF-SS championship, it all starts with league. In four- and five-team leagues, the top two finishers receive guaranteed playoff berths. The top three finishers in six- and seven-team leagues receive guaranteed playoff berths.
Teams that do not finish high enough in their standings can qualify for at-large berths, and no longer is a .500-or-better overall record required for at-large berth consideration. The Pac-5 Division has two at-large berths, the Southwest Division has two and the Southern Division has one.
But if you want to control your own destiny it’s all about earning one of those guaranteed playoff berths from your league battles.
All this talk about league play starting up has me thinking about “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.” Remember when Mad Max went toe-to-toe with Master Blaster in the Thunderdome. Two men enter … one man leaves.
Thunderdome announcer Dr. Dealgood was like a post-apocalyptic Bruce Buffer.
“Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls … DYIN’ TIME’S HERE!!!!!”
Dr. Dealgood would then lay out the rules to the two combatants.
“Thunderdome’s simple. Get to the weapons, use them any way you can. I know you won’t break the rules, because there aren’t any.”
LEAGUE TIME’S HERE!!!!
Game of the night: San Clemente (4-2, 0-0) vs. El Toro (6-0, 0-0) at Trabuco Hills High, 7 p.m.
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