CALLER 1: Hi, I’d really like to know who made all-league for boys water polo and girls water polo. I know the Pinnacle covered boys water polo. But I’ve seen nothing about the girls water polo. Could you please put something in the paper about both boys and girls water polo and who made all-league and all-CCS? Thank you.
GREEN PHONE: Caller 1, We’ll cut right to the chase, ladies first:
Girls All-TCAL Water Polo
MVP – Devan Kennifer, Santa Catalina
First Team – Ronni Gautschi, Live Oak; Chelsea Carillo, Live Oak; Amy Marshall, Live Oak; Kaitlin Boensel, Santa Catalina; Amanda Darnell, Santa Catalina; Sarah Figueroa, Salinas; Veronica Tonus, Salinas; Katie Buzzetta, San Benito; Krista Maisonneuve, San Benito; Marissa Rousso, Stevenson; Sabrina Gray, Monterey
Girls All-CCS Water Polo
Second Team – Ronni Gautschi, Live Oak
Boys All-TCAL Water Polo
First Team – Shea Coleman, Live Oak; Justin Short, Live Oak; Bryson Bailey, Live Oak; Kyle Fast, Live Oak; David Smith, San Benito; Joel Smith, Rory Bloch, San Benito; Matt Parrolini, Salinas; Thomas Carroll, Salinas; Sam Figueroa, Salinas; Chase Motley, Carmel
Boys All-CCS Water Polo
First Team – Justin Short, Live Oak
Honorable Mention – Shea Coleman, Live Oak
CALLER 2: I was calling in concern with you not covering the wrestling team. I don’t know if you people are aware that they are ranked No. 1 in the state.
They have four boys that are ranked top three in the state.
They just won four first-places at the Zinkin Tournament in Clovis. And you people don’t even print nothing on it. I thought you were a newspaper. Apparently you are not.
GREEN PHONE: Hello Caller 2. Well, I think we would have to be living under a rock to not know how good the Gilroy High wrestling team is. Which is why we did cover the Zinkin Classic, the Mustangs’ first major tournament of the season, in last Thursday’s paper.
Maybe you made this call earlier in the week, before the story ran. Something you have to understand with wrestling is that many of the tournaments Gilroy goes to aren’t held locally. And when we say not local, we don’t mean Salinas. We mean places like Fresno and Reno, Nev.
With the busy winter high school schedule, we can’t always send someone to cover these distant tournaments in person so we rely on the help of coaches to help get us results and other information. We’re still a newspaper. All we can say is, we’ll try harder.
