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The Daily News All-Area teams for girls' water polo, wrestling, boys' soccer and girls' soccer will run Wednesday, April 18 and Thursday, April 19, and the week will be capped off with the boys' basketball and girls' basketball teams both running in the Sunday, April 22 edition.

In the first update about the CIF Divisional finals this past weekend, it was reported that Simi Valley had five Masters qualifiers and Crespi had four. Sadly, we missed one Celts qualifier and we regret that omission.

Josh Romero, who is a freshman, also qualified for the Masters tournament when he placed 4th at 106 pounds. He defeated Simi Valley's freshman Jacob Cano 15-10 in his first match, then beat Scott Noah of Palm Springs 7-3 afterward. In his third match, he lost to Nico Sanchez by fall, but then won his first consolation match over Jacob Gutierrez of Hesperia 2-1 and lost to Sanchez again 9-1 to finish fourth.

We deeply regret omitting Romero in the story in Sunday's paper.

In other Crespi news, Blayne Briceno won his first CIF title at 132 pounds. His title is the third Celt CIF championship in the last 12 years.

Romero, Briceno, Carlos Lazo (160 pounds), Adrian Manzo (113) and Richard Ortiz (152) will all compete at the Masters Meet at Temecula Valley High on Friday and Saturday. The top nine finishers at that particular meet will go to State in Bakersfield at Rabobank Arena on the first weekend in March.

Several Southern Section wrestling teams will be competing in the Dual Meet Championships, in various locations, on Saturday.

Marmonte League champion Simi Valley (7-0) - which is seeded fifth -and league runner-up Royal (6-1) will both compete in the Div. II championships at La Quinta High in La Quinta. Simi's first opponent will be Palm Springs, which is the Desert Valley League at-large while Royal goes against Troy - the Freeway League champion - in its first matchup. Some of the other teams in the Div. II championships include St. John Bosco, Servite, Santa Ana, Northview, which is the No. 1 seed. Simi and Royal are in opposite brackets and the earliest possible time they could meet is the semifinals, if both teams make it that far.

Highland, Quartz Hill and Knight of the Golden League and Crespi (along with Bishop Amat) of the Mission League will compete in the Div. IV championships at Quartz Hill High. Crespi is the third seed behind Victor Valley and Ventura, which handed City Section El Camino Real its only loss of the season. Crespi could meet Quartz Hill in the second round.

La Canada is the only Div. VI area team that will be competing at Downey High.

Wrestling in all divisions starts at 11 a.m. in every location.

The results got in too late, but Quartz Hill beat Littlerock 67-15 in a dual match and then defeated Antelope Valley 60-12.

No other details are available.

Several Rebel wrestlers will compete in the Sam de John Tournament at San Fernando High on Saturday. Other teams that will compete include San Fernando, Crespi, Sylmar, Chatsworth and some members of the Royal team, among others.

In another dual match, San Fernando defeated Panorama 63-12 at home. The Tigers will travel to Monroe for their next match.

El Camino Real placed 6th as a team at the Santa Ynez High School, two-day, 32 team tournament.
The second-placers were Josh Adad (120) and Shayan Shahangian (152).

Michael Henderson (195) and Guy Shamam (160) placed 4th. Pasha Sabet (126) finished fifth, Kenny Lemus (220), Saam Shahrokhi (145), and Sean Polakov (113) placed 6th and Seamus Sullivan (170) was 7th.

San Fernando is the only local team competing in the two-day Temecula Valley tournament.

Fourth-seeded Sergio Mendez is still active in the championship round and Johnny Parada lost once and is now in the consolation round, but still competing.

Crespi and Royal are two area schools competing in the 5-Counties Tournament in Fountain Valley, which started Friday and continues Saturday.

Blayne Briceno, Carlos Lazo, Adrian Manzo and Richard Ortiz won all of their matches on Day One and continue in the championship bracket on Saturday.

Nathen Ruiz, Taylor Amic and Jon-Bert Dones of Royal also haven't lost yet and move forward in the championship bracket. Cody Goshman, Deric Ginther, Grant Goldberg, Colton Wergryzn, Tristan Lyga, Ryan Blomquist, Bryson Stikkleman and Tomas Castillo have all lost once and are still alive in the consolation bracket,

There will be many items about wrestling in tomorrows paper, but we ran out of room for the results of San Fernando dual meet

Tigers 57, Vaughn 3.

No other details are available at this time

In other scores.
Simi Valley 41, Moorpark 31 (Marmonte League)
Crespi 35, Bishop Amat 33 (Mission)
El Camino Real 62, Cleveland 3 (West Valley)
Monroe 42, Panorama 39 (East Valley)
Newbury Park 35, Agoura 26 (Marmonte)

Simi takes the lead in the Marmonte League - and sets up a season-ending match with crosstown rival Royal for the title - and Crespi has positioned itself to potentially win the Mission League - after beating last year's champion.

After Christmas comes the league dual matches and Alemany continued through its schedule, defeating Harvard-Westlake 60-15 at the Wolverines gym. Alemany remains undefeated in league play so far.

In the Mission League schedule, Alemany hosts Crespi on Feb. 2 after the Celts go against Bishop Amat in La Puente on Thursday.

In a call that came into us slightly too late to make the newspaper, Moorpark defeated Agoura 55-16: in Marmonte League competition Jake Ruth (106 pounds), Richie Vaillancourt (120), [BODY]Oran McMichael (126)[/BODY], Vincente Avila (132), Ryan Thompson (152), Tyler McManus (170) and Bryan Spencer (182) all won matches for the Musketeers.
Kyle Bischoff was the lone bright spot for Agoura (0-4, 0-3) with a 13-5 decision over Kevin Vega.