Calvary Chapel Advances Seven to Quarterfinals

FOUNTAIN VALLEY —  After three rounds Calvary Chapel was clearly the dominant team at the Five Counties Wrestling Invitational Friday, advancing seven of its wrestlers into the quarterfinals.

Defending state champions Joe Calavitta and Ty Wilcox both recorded pins in third-round matches. Calavitta, wrestling at 140 pounds, pinned Doug Cooper of Marina in 56 seconds. Wilcox, at 160 pounds, pinned Jose Zuniga of Union City James Logan in 3:38.

Calvary Chapel’s Louie Hernandez (145) and Tino Archuleta (125) also won by fall. Hernandez beat Layuen Reguero of Fremont Mission San Jose in 4:51 and Archuleta pinned Dung Nguyen of Vallejo in 1:56. Jay McGuffin, at 135 pounds, also advanced, as did heavyweight Josh Schultze and Josh Saul at 215.

Calvary Chapel Coach John Azevedo said this tournament, with 61 teams competing, might be the best other than the state meet.

“Five Counties is a very tough tournament,” Azevedo said. “You have some of the best teams in the state competing. Many of these guys will be at state finals.”

Two Santa Ana and Newport Harbor wrestlers advanced to the quarterfinals. Santa Ana’s Tony Perez (103) defeated Cato Yang of Fountain Valley, 10-0. Fernando Serratos (112) beat Matt Cox of Oakdale by technical fall, 22-8.

Newport Harbor’s Matt Large defeated Bryan Matsamoto of Fountain Valley to advance. Heavyweight Jason Deere was the other Newport Harbor wrestler to advance. Deere beat Brandon Cash of Brea Olinda, 7-0.

Other county wrestlers who advanced were Irvine’s Andrew Pena, who dropped from 125 pounds to 119 and beat Edgar Picaso of Lake Elsinore Elsinore by technical fall. Pat Cadwallader of Brethren Christian pinned Paul Romo of Sante Fe Springs Santa Fe in 1:03. Paul Devries of Fountain Valley won his 189-pound match, 3-2, over James Calvan of Fresno Clovis West.

David Saucedo of El Modena advanced by beating Brett Wilson of Lakewood Mayfair, 3-2, in sudden-death overtime.