Tesoro junior water polo Alyssa Diacono scored twice in the third period Monday against No. 8 San Clemente to set the Titans’ single-season scoring record.
Diacono, a first-year varsity player, now has 93 goals, one more than Lauren Colton, who now plays for Michigan. Diacono plays center.
San Clemente won the game, 22-5, to clinch at least a share of the South Coast League title.
In a battle of South Coast League rivals, San Clemente defeated Tesoro, 51-16, in the Pac-5 Division semifinals Friday. Christian Tober scored three touchdowns for the Tritons.
Video by Jonathan Khamis, for OCVarsity.com.
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Santa Margarita football coach Harry Welch believes the Pac-5 Division champion – regardless of its record — should represent the South in either the CIF state open division or CIF state Division 1 bowl game.
Pac-5 semifinalists Mission Viejo (10-2), Santa Margarita (10-2), San Clemente (11-1) and Tesoro (8-4) have each lost and find themselves behind a pair of undefeated teams in No. 1 Westlake (12-0) and Upland (12-0) in the maxpreps California bowl game rankings.
Welch believes the quality and depth of the leagues represented in the Pac-5 Division needs to be considered along with how a team finishes a season.
Advance tickets for the CIF-Southern Section Pac-5 semifinals still might be available at the participating schools.
Sales have been brisk, so call the schools before making a trip to purchase tickets. If tickets remain available, here is the ticket-sales information …
Steve Fryer, Carlos Arias and Dan Albano visit Estancia high school to preview the CIF semifinals:
Also, interviews with Estancia head coach Mike Bargas, running back Robert Murtha, and offensive lineman Ozzy Magana.
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The nonleague football series between South County neighbors Santa Margarita and Tesoro, dubbed the “Rumble at the Ranch”, has tumbled off the schedule after just two seasons.
The teams played highly-anticipated and well-attended nonleague games in 2010 and this past September but are not scheduled to continue the rivalry in 2012.
“We decided to go elsewhere,” Tesoro coach Brian Barnes said Monday.
Santa Margarita won the teams’ meeting on Sept. 9, 39-7, but Tesoro captured the game last season, 32-21.
Eagles coach Harry Welch hoped the game could develop into a highly-attended and anticipated series like the Read the rest of this entry »
The San Clemente vs. Tesoro game, a Pac-5 semifinal and Tesoro’s home game, is at Orange Coast College on Friday at 7:30 p.m. Tesoro coach Brian Barnes said that might have to be a Saturday game at OCC, but it will be a Friday game.
Here is what we have for semifinals sites and times for games involving Orange County teams …
Pac-5 — San Clemente (11-1) vs. Tesoro (8-4) at Orange Coast College, 7 :30 p.m.; Santa Margarita (10-2) at Mission Viejo (10-2), 7:30 p.m.
Southwest — Tustin (9-3) vs. Foothill (8-4) at Tustin High (Foothill is the home team), 7 p.m.; El Toro (11-1) at La Habra (9-3), 7 p.m.
Southern — Beckman (10-2) at Estancia (10-2), 7 p.m.; Corona del Mar (10-2) at Laguna Beach (10-2), 7 p.m.
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This year, all CIF-Southern Section football semifinals are scheduled for Friday (Dec. 2). The CIF-Southern Section football coaches advisory committee requested that all semis be played on Friday, so that teams that advance to the finals would have equal preparation time for the finals.
Here is what we have this morning about semifinals sites, etc.:
Pac-5 Division
Santa Margarita (10-2) vs. Mission Viejo (10-2). Mission’s home game. This one is likely to stay at Mission Viejo High.
Just like he did when Tesoro beat Edison in the first round, and just as he has done in past Tesoro playoff games, Los Alamitos coach John Barnes helped son Brian Barnes, Tesoro’s coach, with some game-planning and play-calling Friday night when Tesoro beat Servite, 24-20.
And if you think that is odd or wrong, well, you need to understand a couple of things …
My answer is a resounding, yes. Tesoro’s stunning, 24-20, victory against two-time defending Pac-5 Division champion Servite is the upset of the year in Orange County football and one of biggest upsets I can recall in recent memory.
“It might be the biggest win in (our) school history,” Tesoro coach Brian Barnes said in a phone interview afterward.
The Titans were a third-place team from the rugged South Coast League who had been inconsistent at times.
This is a team that was blown out by Santa Margarita in the “Rumble at the Ranch” early in the season but impressed me a few weeks later when it beat a super-athletic Narbonne. The Titans promptly fell to Chaparral in their next game.
And after Tesoro almost upset Mission Viejo in an emotional game, they got blown out again by San Clemente.
Tesoro vs. Servite, a Pac-5 Division second-round playoff game, will be played at Orange Coast College on Friday at 7 p.m., according to the Servite website.
It is Tesoro’s home game. Tesoro could have kept the game at its on-campus stadium, but over the weekend worked on securing Orange Coast College’s LeBard Stadium for the game to allow more people to attend. Capacity at Tesoro — 4,000; at OCC — 7,600.
Servite is selling tickets for the game this week at the school’s business office, today until 4 p.m. and Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cash only. Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for students with valid student ID and for children 13 and younger.
The OCC ticket windows open Friday at 5:45 p.m.
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Also, interviews with La Habra head coach Frank Mazzotta, running back Aaron Porter, and wide receiver Brett Bartalone.
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