The Santa Fe boys’ fight team to compete for the CIF -ss Division 3 Double Championship – The San Gabriel Valley Tribune

When CIF Southern Section 3 Division 3 playoffs were released, Santa Fe Fa Anthony Romero’s coach knew what the mission was, forward to the finals and received a second shot in the softest Sultan.

So, there is no surprise that after # 3 the seeds Santa Fe (19-3) Cathedrals # 2 Sonora, 41-31, in the semifinals of last week, that he will advances and has to travel to Haspery on Thursday to take the Sultan in the Sultan 7:00, for the title. The Sultan (9-1) advanced with a semi-final victory by 53-19 over Los Alamitos.

“They certainly received some hammers,” Romero told the Sultan. “They have three boys ranked on the top 12 in the state. But we do not shake ourselves by traveling and feeling that this is our year to win. “

Thursday’s championship was a rematch of the Rosemead tournament earlier this year when Sultan defeated Santa Fe in the 48-30 championship.

Santa Fe lost eight games to her five wins.

“We missed two boys that day and another person injured themselves during a match,” Romero recalls for the first date. “But we have eight returns that were in the double final last year, so they experienced it and we’re ready. We wanted to stand up and we were expecting to stand up. “

Santa Fe has a rich history in the fight. Romero was a fighter in the latest team of Santa Fe’s double championship in 2009. In fact, Santa Fe advanced to five made the double finals from 2005-2009, winning three championships and the rest came in 2005 and 2007.

In Team Wrestling, Santa Fe won her lonely CIF-SS title in 1986, but she was in the finals of the team seven times.

So, she wants to return to her winning ways.

Santa Fe came short in her last three trips to the double finals, losing in 2011, 2012 and appeared in last year’s double final of Division 4, losing from Chino, 36-27.

“We were right there last year, a match of winning all this,” Romero said. “It was reduced to a match where we expected our man to win, and he came out briefly.”

Senior Fernando Tuscany, who has been fighting at 215 pounds, was the destructive that appeared in the finals in recent years and this time is motivated to lead them along the final line.

Tuscany was a Masters qualifier last year and is one of their best bets to win Thursday.

“It was not his guilt last year, this is not one person,” Romero said. “He has been in mind a lot about our program and knows him, he will give him everything that should help us win.”

The other two key fighters for the superiors are Ricardo Rodriguez, a 120-pound and managing master qualifier. And Josia Castile with £ 150, a return CIF-SS placent.

But the key is to have eight starters back from last year’s running of the double finals and the experience that comes with it.

Usually, in doubles, coaches tend to juggle bands, looking for favorable matches, often sending fighters in matches from their weight classes.

This probably won’t be the case for Santa Fe on Thursday.

“Last year, we tried to manipulate the matches, but this year we will go out there, be ourselves and live with the results,” Romero said. “We have struggled them, we know them and we want our boys to go there confident in their weights and have a mentality of Santa Fe’s struggle.”