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TRITON REPORT

BY ZACH CAVANAGH, SAN CLEMENTE TIMES

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Five Triton Wrestlers Qualify for State Championships

The San Clemente wrestling program qualified two boys and three girls out of last weekend’s CIF-SS Masters Meets for the CIF State Wrestling Championships this weekend in Bakersfield.

Garrett Boyd (boys, 145 pounds), Vance Fabrasilio (boys, 160 pounds), Eden Hernandez (girls, 116 pounds), Berlyn Davis (girls, 126 pounds) and Lily Mercado (girls, 235 pounds) all punched their tickets to the state meet at Mechanics Bank Arena this Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 24-26.

Both the boys and girls programs finished third as a team at the CIF-SS Eastern Division Individual Championships on Feb. 12, with the boys qualifying eight wrestlers to the Masters and the girls qualifying seven wrestlers.

At the boys CIF-SS Masters at Sonora High School on Saturday, Feb. 19, Boyd and Fabrasilio qualified for state with top-nine performances.

At 145 pounds, Boyd won his first two matches by decisions, 7-4 and 8-4, to advance to the quarterfinals, where Boyd was defeated by fall in 5:44. Boyd was then up and down in the consolation bracket with a 6-4 decision win followed by a 11-1 major decision loss, but by then, Boyd had already done enough to qualify for state. Boyd was then given the seventh-place match by forfeit, 4-3, to finish his tournament 4-2 overall.

At 160 pounds, Fabrasilio had a slightly longer road after losing his opening match by decision, 9-3. Fabrasilio then posted four straight decisive victories in the consolation bracket. Fabrasilio won by a technical fall (16-0 in 2:56), by decision (8-6), by major decision (8-0) and by fall in 1:26. Fabrasilio lost his fifth consolation match by injury default at 3:08, but like Boyd, he had already done enough work to qualify for state. Fabrasilio was given the seventh-place match by injury default.

Benjamin Hernandez (132 pounds), Dominic Morales (138 pounds), Cole Robertson (195 pounds) and Fernando Llanos (220 pounds) each won matches at Masters but did not reach a qualifying place.

At the girls CIF-SS Masters at Marina High School on Saturday, Feb. 19, Hernandez, Davis and Mercado all reached the state meet with top-eight qualifying runs.

At 116 pounds, Eden Hernandez had the best finish out of all the San Clemente wrestlers across the program. Hernandez won her first three matches by fall in 2:32, by decision (4-2) and by fall in the quarterfinals in 5:03. Hernandez was beaten by technical fall in the championship semifinals (19-2 in 5:15), but bounced back in the consolation semifinals with a fall in 4:40. The third-place match did not last long, as Hernandez lost by fall in 41 seconds, but she earned fourth place and a trip to state.

At 126 pounds, Davis won her first match by fall in 3:09 but lost her second match by fall in 1:52 to head to the consolation bracket. Davis then won her next three matches in the consolation rounds by fall in 3:28, by fall in 4:57 and by decision (9-4). Davis lost in the fifth consolation round by fall in 46 seconds, but had done enough to qualify for state. Davis earned the seventh-place match by an injury default in 47 seconds.

At 235 pounds, Mercado advanced to the quarterfinals by winning her first two matches by fall in 0:57 and 2:33. Mercado was defeated by fall in the quarterfinals in 1:52, but was strong early in the consolation rounds. Mercado won by decision (8-3) and then by fall in 40 seconds to advance to the consolation semifinals. Mercado lost by decision (6-0) but had done enough by that point to qualify for state. Mercado lost the fifth-place match by fall in 2:27 to take sixth place.

Keyla Ajoleza (131 pounds), Diana Bonilla-Gutierrez (150 pounds) and Brianna Rodriguez (160 pounds) each won matches at Masters but did not qualify for state.

The CIF State Wrestling Championships begin at Mechanics Bank Arena in Bakersfield on Thursday, Feb. 24. The girls championships open the day at 9 a.m., with the boys starting at 1 p.m.

On Friday, the consolations begin at 9 a.m., with quarterfinals scheduled for 3:45 p.m. On Saturday, consolations begin at 9 a.m. again, with semifinals at 11 a.m. The CIF State Championship Finals begin at 6:15 p.m. on Saturday.

The CIF State Wrestling Championships will be broadcast live online by the NFHS Network. To view the broadcast, go to nfhsnetwork.com/associations/cif.

San Clemente’s Garrett Boyd, pictured in the CIF-SS dual meet final on Feb. 2, is one of two boys and five Triton wrestlers overall to qualify for the CIF State Wrestling Championships, which will be contested from Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 24-26, in Bakersfield. Photo: Zach Cavanagh

Girls Soccer Falls in Division 1 Semifinal Shutout

The San Clemente girls soccer team went from shootout win to shutout loss in the CIF-SS Division 1 playoffs last week.

The South Coast League co-champion Tritons earned a dramatic win in penalty kicks against Mater Dei in the second round on Wednesday, Feb. 16, but San Clemente ran into a wall in the quarterfinals at Temecula Valley, losing 4-0 on Saturday, Feb. 19.

Against Trinity League champion Mater Dei, the Tritons battled back in the second half.

Mater Dei led, 1-0, at halftime, before two goals by San Clemente in the second half forced a 2-2 tie through regulation. Faith Gillette and Abby Succi scored the regulation goals for the Tritons.

After two scoreless overtime periods, the match went into penalty kicks.

San Clemente goalkeeper Emily Sanchez got the save the Tritons needed, and freshman Sophia Yeskulsky delivered the game-winning penalty kick for a perfect scoring run for San Clemente and the shootout win, 5-3. Sanchez made eight saves in the match.

The same magic did not come for the Tritons in the quarterfinals.

No. 2 seed Temecula Valley continued its high-scoring pace with two goals in the first half and another two in the second half for the 4-0 victory. Temecula Valley scored 16 goals in the first three rounds of the playoffs.

Sanchez made six saves against Temecula Valley.

In Stacey Finnerty’s first season back at the helm of the San Clemente girls soccer team, the Tritons showcased a stalwart defense all season. The Tritons went 10-4-5 overall and unbeaten in the South Coast League (4-0-4). SC

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From Africa, to Hawaii, to Peru, the origins of surf culture are where you find them

BY JAKE HOWARD, SAN CLEMENTE TIMES O n Feb. 14, 1779, the Hawaiian people, led by King Kalaniopuu, overtook British Captain James Cook and the crews of the HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery.

By day’s end, Cook and a number of his sailors were dead, while those who managed to escape found refuge on the Resolution offshore.

Tensions with the Hawaiians and British had been brewing for some time before violence broke out. After overstaying their welcome at Kealakekua Bay on the island of Hawaii, a place of deep religious significance for the Hawaiians, the British finally set sail.

But rough seas damaged the Resolution, and after a week, the expedition was forced to return to Hawaii to attempt to make repairs.

None too happy to see Cook and company, rocks were hurled at the British seamen upon their arrival. Shortly thereafter, the Hawaiians commandeered a small cutter vessel from the Discovery.

Negotiations for the boat’s return with King Kalaniopuu broke down after a lesser Hawaiian chief was shot and a group of Hawaiians overwhelmed the Cook party.

If you subscribe to the idea that Captain Cook “discovered” surfing, this is how it played out. But humans had been riding waves around the world for centuries prior to this cultural clash.

Fishing communities along the coast of Africa have a long, rich history of riding waves as a means of helping with daily labor, as well as for sport or enjoyment.

“The modern surf cultures currently developing along Africa’s long shoreline are not something new and introduced, they are a rebirth—the remembering and reimagining of 1,000-year-old traditions,” writes historian Kevin Dawson in his essay “A Brief History of Surfing in Africa and the Diaspora.”

“The first known account of surfing was written during the 1640s in what is now Ghana. Surfing was independently developed from Senegal to Angola,” Dawson continues. “Africa possesses thousands of miles of warm, surf-filled waters and populations of strong swimmers and sea-going fishermen and merchants who knew surf patterns and crewed surf-canoes capable of catching and riding waves upwards of 10-feet-high.”

That first written account in the 1640s would predate Cook’s description of Polynesian surfing by more than 100 years. But there’s more. Along the west coast of South America, there is archaeological evidence that pre-Inca civilizations were riding waves in the Pacific a full 5,000 years ago.

African surfers in Liberia, enjoying a perfect left-hand, sand-bottom point near the local surfing capital of Robersport. Photo: Courtesy of Sean Brody

GROM OF THE WEEK LUKE WYLER

BY JAKE HOWARD, SAN CLEMENTE TIMES

There aren’t a lot of competitive surfers in the world who can conjure a near-perfect score for one single maneuver.

In recent years, we’ve seen world champs including Italo Ferreira and Gabriel Medina take to the air and spin to win, dropping 9- or 10-point scores for one huge air.

Well, San Clemente’s Luke Wyler has entered the chat.

Competing last week in the USA Surfing Prime event in Huntington Beach, the 15-year-old regular-footer took to the skies and threw down a full rotation spin and stomped the landing. It was Michael Jordan-esque how he just seemed to hang in the air forever.

For the effort, the judges awarded him a 9.5 score out of a possible 10. Wyler ultimately finished third in the Under 16 Division.

But more than just a San Clemente air guy, Wyler is not afraid to charge when the conditions are pulsing. Spending this winter on the North Shore of Oahu, his barrel riding is as strong as his air game. Above the lip or in the pit, big things are on the way for Wyler.

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In the book 5,000 Years of Waves: A History of Surfing in Peru (which I had the privilege of editing the English translation), the working hypothesis is that Peruvian fishermen began riding reed craft called tups or caballito de totora between 800 to 600 B.C.

Meanwhile, some of the earliest records of he`enalu, or wave sliding, in Hawaii is traced back to the 15th century A.D.

“For several decades, developments in the field of pre-Columbian archaeology have revolutionized the traditional theory of the origin of the art of surfing,” writes author Roberto Meza.

“By studying the cultures of the coast of Peru, as highly developed as the ancient Egyptian civilizations, evidence proves that these men developed surfing thousands of years ago,” he continues. “Such is the case of the recent discovery of the ruins of Caral, which dates back 5,000 years ago.”

Whether it’s Africa, Peru or Polynesia, humans have been enjoying the magic of wave-riding long before Captain Cook inserted himself into the narrative.

In all the reading I’ve done and stories I’ve listened to, best I can surmise is that anywhere in the world that had access to the ocean—except Europe, where most people couldn’t swim—people found a way to get in the water and enjoy themselves.

From little kids bodysurfing to fishermen betting on the length of a ride, it’s all surfing, and it all deserves its place in the sun.

Jake Howard is local surfer and freelance writer who lives in San Clemente. A former editor at Surfer Magazine, The Surfer’s Journal and ESPN, today he writes for a number of publications, including Picket Fence Media, Surfline and the World Surf League. He also works with philanthropic organizations such as the Surfing Heritage and Culture Center and the Positive Vibe Warriors Foundation. SC

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