Twelve Cal Wrestlers participated in the Watts games gaining valuable experience.  It was a youthful dozen and three (Anthony Zepeda, Miguel Maldonado, and Miguel Rosales) managed to get to the semifinals in their respective weights.     All nine remaining wrestlers won at least one match.  In the end,  Anthony was the only placer as a runnerup at 130 lbs.   Good performances by Juan Rosales, Omar Lopez, Nick Mercado,  and Andrew Garcia.   Other Condors with victories were Mark Gonzales, Alyssa Garcia, Ismael Zamudio, and Dean Stevens.  Congrats to Elias Mercado for getting his second career win. 

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Date
June 13, 2009

Locations
Southwest College

Brackets
103 lbs, 112 lbs, 119 lbs, 125 lbs, 130 lbs, 135 lbs, 140 lbs, 145lbs, 152 lbs, 160 lbs, 171 lbs, 189 lbs, 215 lbs, and heavyweight

Reminders

• Weigh-in from 6:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m
• Bouts begin at 9 a.m.
• Competition is expected to run until approximately 7 p.m., with awards immediately following.
• There is no food or drink allowed.
• If you have not paid your entry fee, or plan on bringing additional wrestlers to the tournament, please bring the fee to the tournament. ($10 per participant, $140 maximum if more than 11 participants)

Rules

• Bouts are three (3) one-minute periods. If no winner, there is a 30-second sudden death overtime period.
• Double elimination tournament where after the first loss the wrestler moves to the consolation bracket and after a second loss wrestler is eliminated.

Awards
1st, 2nd, 3rd place medal winners and MVP trophy, Sportsmanship Award, and 1st place team trophy

Westminster High School
Saturday May 16th, 2009       

14325 Goldenwest St.
Westminster, 92683

Cal hosted a free wreslting clinic this past Saturday.   It was a four-hour clinic conducted by Fernando Serratos.  Wrestlers from other high schools like Millikan, Monrovia, Trabucco Hills,  Santa Margarita, etc. were in attendance.   It was a great morning of techinque and some live matches.

Big thanks to Fernando for taking his saturday morning to do this.  Check out his Bio under comments. 

Also, visit his Rat Pack Wrestling Website and Wrestlingmart for wrestling gear.

Cal High’s Coaching Staff is excited about Matt wrestling at Clackamas next year and wish him the best as he embarks on a different phase of his wrestling career.

Cougars Sign High School All-American Melendrez

Also Add Mestrovich and Root

Oregon City, OR- California High School standout Matt Melendrez has signed a letter of intent to continue his wrestling career at Clackamas Community College next season.  The Whittier, California native finished 4^th at the California State Championships and was capped off with an 8^th place finish at the NHSCA Senior National Championships.  Matt compiled a 48-9 win-loss record this year finishing with an incredible 38 falls.

“We are extremely excited about Matthew choosing Clackamas,” said Head Coach Josh Rhoden.  “He is an incredible wrestler with a huge upside and we can’t wait to work with him,” added Rhoden.  Melendrez is ranked as one of the top wrestlers in his respective weight class in the nation, coming in at 24^th among 145 lbers.  “We definitely look forward to having Matt in the room and helping him win a National Championship,” said Rhoden.

The Cougars also added Levi Root of Burns, Oregon and Derek Mestrovich of Nampa, Idaho to their list of recruits for this season.  Both Mestrovich and Root will be transferring from Southern Oregon and Boise State this year.  “Both these guys fill some gaps for us and both of these guys are tough wrestlers,” said Coach Rhoden.  Each of these young men were finalists in their respective weight classes at the Cliff Keen Reno Worlds, with Mestrovich winning the tournament crown.

“We are excited about the kids we have coming in so far and look forward to hearing from a number of other top kids in and around the Northwest.”  “We have been blessed with a great group and we are building something that top kids want to be a part of which is exciting,” finished Coach Rhoden.

http://depts.clackamas.edu/athletics/CougarNews/Wrestling.htm

http://depts.clackamas.edu/athletics/Wrestling/index.htm

We have upgraded our website’s server and host services and are happy to be back on.   We do have some updated information to share and will be posting soon.

Some housekeeping stuff:  calhiwrestling.com is also calhiwrestling.net and for those who have restrictions at work because of the domain name you can also now log on under californiacondors.org   

Thanks to our webmaster, Moe,  for the upgrade and on the work on transferring all the old data (almost complete).

These tournaments are great to obtain mat experience.  Last Saturday, we had 13 wrestlers compete at Western High School. Coming home with medals were Anthony Zepeda, Torrie Moreno, Miguel Rosales, Nick Mercado, Alyssa Garcia, and Elias Mercado. Other wrestlers winning matches were Omar Lopez (placing fourth), Arnie Orozco (open), Rogelio (Roger) Alvarez, Ray Cruz, Andrew Lira, Andres Saavedra and Benjamin Romero.

As a coach, I enjoy watching the new wrestlers compete for the first time and get rewarded for their hard work. Roger Alvarez won his first match of his career this past Saturday and Alyssa Garcia &  Elias Mercado came home with their first medal.  Good job guys keep working hard and you will be rewarded on the mat.

 

 

 

 

 Saturday  4/11/09    
Saddleback Folkstyle Tournament          
Saddleback High School
         Cadet-Junior-Open

 

 

Coach Art Garcia

(714)881-9496                      
2802 S. Flower St 
Santa Ana CA. 92707

55 Fwy/Dyer Rd. East / West to Flower.  School on Left

 

 

 

 

 

 Matt loses by 13-12  in his last match and places 8th.

From winning four matches as a freshman to 8th in Nationals, I’ll say that is not too bad.

Matt has exemplified the results  that hard work and confidence will lead you to.  Join me in congratulating  Matt and his Parents as this is a well deserved accomplishment.  

¡Felicidades!

Brackets/Results

After a great win over Alex Rodriguez by fall in 3:36, Matt comes up short loosing 2-3 to Scott Sakagushi from Clovis.

Matt is wrestling for 7th place vs Bryan  Herold from New York.

Keep wrestling tough, we are all proud of you.

Matt pins Alex Rodriguez and places at Nationals!!

Up next a rematch from State semifinals: Scott Sakaguchi from Clovis.