All-CIF First Team football players recognized

announced the names for the top student athletes that made the All-CIF First Team for the sport of 8- and 11-person contact football. These lists are presented by the LA84 Foundation, selected by the Football Coaches Association. According to CIFSS Program Coordinator Anita Fopma, only First Team selections are recognized in 11-person.

“We only have an All-CIF First Team, if the coaches select a player for a Second Team, we do not recognize it as All-CIF,” she said.

On top of the list of local selections, the largest group of premier football players selected from the 2022 football season came from San Jacinto High School, who not only won the Mountain Pass League title, but also won a CIF Southern Section title, a SoCal Regional CIF State title and were runners-up in the CIF State Bowl Game. Their list also includes Championship Coach of the Year and Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year as well.

Chaparral also had a good number of players honored with four, and Murrieta Valley’s Bachmeier brothers, Tiger and Bear, won’t have any trouble sleeping at night knowing they were also on the list.

All-CIF First Team local selections:

11-person

DIVISION 2

Murrieta Valley: Bear Bachmeier, QB (10); Tiger Bachmeier, WR (12)

DIVISION 3

Chaparral: Caron Tyler, Skill (12); Stacy Dobbins, Skill (11); Izaiah Souriolle, Line (12); Aiden Alefosio, Line (11)

Vista Murrieta: Akili Smith Jr., Skill (10)

DIVISION 4

Orange Vista: Sire Gaines, WR (11); Corey Johnson, OL (12)

DIVISION 5

Great Oak: Trevor Schuck, LB/ TE (11)

Murrieta Mesa: CJ Moran, Ath (11)

Temecula Valley: Jake Sinz, MLB (12)

DIVISION 6

Offensive Players of the Year:

Dereun Dortch, San Jacinto and Dillon Gresham, San Jacinto

Defensive Player of the Year: Andre Taylor, San Jacinto

Championship Coach: Aric Galliano, San Jacinto San Jacinto: PJ Enosa, OL;

Malachi Brown, RB; Ahlijah Afemata, LB; Vincent Holmes, DB

DIVISION 7

Paloma Valley: Stephen Gallegos, Skill; Jacob TorresHornbeak, Skill

DIVISION 8

Elsinore: Mykai Skinner, Skill;

Zavier Swoffer, Skill

Hemet: Tanner Fye, Skill

Liberty: Eddie Smith, Skill

DIVISION 9

Tahquitz: Dorian Levinston, WR (12); Do’Jonni Bryant, WR (12)

DIVISION 12

Linfield Christian: Jonathan

Aguilar, Skill (12) selection for football in

DIVISION 13 Santa Rosa Academy: Holden Weber, OL (12)

DIVISION 14

St. Jeanne de Lestonnac: Malik Douglas, Skill (11); Adrian Ortiz, Line (9)

Temecula Prep: Wyatt Lynch, Skill (12)

8-person

DIVISION 2

First Team Defense

Cornerstone Christian: Caden Kakoschke (12)

California Lutheran: Aiden

Boehm (10)

Second Team (All-Around)

Cornerstone Christian: Jaiden Chavez (12)

California Lutheran: Nathan Nash (12)

A complete list of selections from the entire state can be found online at www.cifss.org. JP Raineri can be reached by email at sports@reedermedia. com

LEAGUE from page C-1 in the victory. Meanwhile, at Bronco Arena, Vista Murrieta defended their home floor with a 71-64 win over the Nighthawks after falling 5755 on Jan. 18. In that Friday night victory, it was Donovan Ford leading the way with 17 points, six rebounds and five assists. Brody Guinn added another 17 points with seven rebounds while Gary Dodson chipped in 12 points with seven assists and five rebounds. Rounding out the Broncos double digit scorers was Andrew Clyburn with 14 points.

Great Oak will get to carry a number one seed into the division one playoffs and has earned a home game against JSerra because they are in a different playoff division than the Broncos and Nighthawks.

Vista Murrieta will host Crespi mid-week as the league’s second place team while Murrieta Valley is the league’s No. 3 seed based on tiebreakers and makes a short trip down I-15 to Linfield Christian (the Ambassador League runnerup).

For the Southwestern League girls side, they also had a shared league championship as Vista Murrieta and Great Oak both finished with 9-1 records. The Broncos were victorious in their first matchup with the Wolfpack 50-34 on Jan. 13 before falling last Wednesday night, 48-35.

Janylle Nieto had 16 points to lead the Wolfpack, who were ranked third in division 2A, while Alyssa Schuzete added 10 points with six rebounds in that league championship clinching win. For Great Oak coach Jared Curtiss, it was the culmination of a rebuild which started after a 20202021 season where the Wolfpack recorded marks of 2-10 overall and 1-9 against the Southwestern League. Vista Murrieta will host Marlborough in their first-round matchup while third seeded Great Oak (Division 3A) will host California School for the Deaf (Riverside). Round 1 action will begin Thursday, Feb. 9, with tipoffs currently set for 7 p.m. Derryl Trujillo can be reached by email at socaltrekkie@gmail. com