Ventura High football coach Brad Steward on St. Bonaventure leaving the Channel League to join Oaks Christian in the new super Marmonte League next fall:
"I haven't any input in this thing at all. My response today was 'Wow, that's huge news!'
"I kind of have mixed emotions. I feel like... It's a difficult thing to express, isn't it? I've always enjoyed being able to prepare against the best team around. We'll have one more time. It's just been difficult coming out on the short end of it again and again.
"I'll miss that opportunity to play the best team in the state of
California. We got to do that because they were in our league. It's
exciting for our guys to put in the preparation like that.
(Is this solving anything? Isn't the Marmonte League just being put in the position the Channel League has been in?)
"Maybe those guys are better suited to having them than we are. I do feel like we've had our turn."
"Things change. I think we need to do as good a job as we can, frequently, to make sure we do the best job we can for kids."
Ventura High athletic director and Channel League representative David Hess on St. Bonaventure and Oaks Christian joining the Marmonte League for the 2010 season, which proposed Thursday in Long Beach:
"I was pretty surprised. We're happy in that our goal from the start of this process was to find a more competitive place for St. Bonaventure football... We feel that we have done that... As it played out, my ultimate obligation was to take care of kids in the Channel League and at Ventura High.
"As (the) meeting approached, nobody was talking to us, which was an indicator that people were talking in a way that was not going to go well for the Channel League... So we needed to look at the process and what was available to us.
"What do we think will work if whole lot of schools that are not in Ventura County are voting? How do we tell the story?
"We did not want to bring St. Bonaventure in for all sports... Ultimately we felt that would not be good for all sports for St. Bonaventure."
"We didn't want to do something that was simply punative... If we supported St. Bonaventure coming into the league for all sports, we were saying that it was alright for St. Bonaventure to be in the Channel League for football and we're not... We wanted to stand on that principle."
Looks like the Ventura and Buena girls' volleyball teams are on the upswing this season.
Both recorded impressive wins last night with Ventura sweeping Oak Park and Buena beating La Reina in four games.
Ventura has put together an impressive coaching staff. First-year coach Jared Godinez is a former volleyball standout for the Cougars and his assistants are Maurice Shimabaku, Debbie Litten and Melissa Yeto.
Shimabaku once led Hueneme High to a state title, Litten is Ventura's former successful head and Yeto was an assistant at Ventura College.
Buena and Ventura compete in the always-tough Channel League and will have to contend with the powers up North, especially Dos Pueblos. Ventura hasn't made the playoffs since Litten was at the helm.
The Channel League Swimming Finals have been moved from San Marcos High to Ventura College because of the Jesusita Fire.
The meet is scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m., but could be delayed if the athletes from the Santa Barbara area have transportation issues.
The Channel League Track and Field Finals scheduled for today at San Marcos High in Santa Barbara has been moved to Buena High because of the Jesusita Fire.
The meet will begin at 2:45 p.m. at Buena High's Bulldog Stadium.
No decision has yet been made regarding Friday's Channel League Swimming Finals, which are scheduled to be held at San Marcos High.
Maddie Fahan had a game-high 17 points and nine rebounds as the Ventura
High girls' basketball team (16-5) improved to 4-0 in Channel League
play with a 56-23 win over San Marcos (7-13, 1-3) Tuesday night.
Abel Tadeo set up Sal Mora for the opening goal and multisport star
Kory Kindle converted Kevin Tanner's throw-in for the game-winning goal
as visiting Ventura High boys' soccer team (16-3-3) beat Dos Pueblos to
improve to 4-0-1 in the Channel League Tuesday.
After a scoreless first half, Aaron
Glover broke the game open with two goals in a six-minute span and
Derek Kirk added a goal and an assist as the St. Bonaventure High boys'
soccer (11-5-1) team improved to 4-0 in Frontier League play with a 3-0
win over visiting Santa Clara Tuesday.
Macey
Herrera set up Nika Nelero's goal and Megan
Erskine set up Riley Ridgik's goal as the Buena High girls' soccer team
(14-7-1) improved to 5-0 in Channel League play with a 2-0 win over
host San Marcos Tuesday.
Adrinna Nunez scored
four times and Diana Leon scored twice as the Santa Paula High girls'
soccer team (10-1-1) improved to 4-0 in the Frontier League with a 8-0
win over host Santa Clara Tuesday.
But the Pacifica High girls' soccer team (13-3-3, 5-0-1) did not stay
perfect in the Pacific View League. Amber Pimley opened the scoring for
Camarillo (6-7-2, 4-1-1) in the 24th
minute off Briana Leriviere's throw-in as the Camarillo High girls'
soccer team handed Pacifica
its first league draw.
Sabrina Munoz's free kick in the 60th
minute kept the Tritons unbeaten in league play.
The Buena and Ventura high girls' basketball teams opened Channel League play with victories Tuesday night.
Keani Albanez had 18 points, Samantha Strang and Isabel Halpern scored
11 points apiece and Holly Holcomb grabbed 13 rebounds as Buena (12-6)
beat host San Marcos, 58-34.
Maddie Fahan had 17 points, eight rebounds and four assists, Nicole
Frank had 12 points and Kristen Wilson and Amy Pupa had 11 each as host
Ventura (11-4) picked up its ninth win in 10 games by defeating Dos
Pueblos, 61-48.
Alexis Lee scored two twice, Alisa Argend added another and goalie
Jessie Smit made 11 blocks, but the Ventura High girls' water polo team
(7-2) opened Channel League play with 4-3 loss against Santa Barbara.
In the first round of Marmonte League play, Agoura swampted Thousand
Oaks 14-4 and Royal edged Westlake 6-3 on Casey Creek's three goals.
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