The Cupertino Courier Sports Briefs MVP Wald leads Mustangs to title It's going to be tough to select a most valuable player on the Homestead girls basketball team when the time comes later this season. Every night it seems to be someone different stepping up for the Mustangs--Julie Speckels, Michelle Wald, Vickie Chiang, Shelly Mellberg, even sophomore Julia Randall. So picking an mvp may be tough. But it didn't seem to be such a tough choice for the members of the all-tournament team committee at the Del Mar Tournament last week--they went with Wald. Wald, a 5-foot-9 senior guard who is a returning all-leaguer for the Mustangs this winter, led Homestead to the team championship at Del Mar. The Mustangs whipped Westmont 49-41, handled Wilcox 42-26 and beat El Camino 63-43 in the tournament championship game. Wald was joined on the all-tournament team by Speckels and Randall, who took turns as scoring leaders in two of the three games. Randall and Wald topped all Homestead scorers in the championship game against El Camino. Randall buried eight shots to finish with a team-high 16 points and Wald supported with 11 points for the Mustangs. Speckels and Chiang added seven points apiece, Tanya Green and Marie Levey hit six each, Nadja Fabian and Chris Strombel both had four, and Mellberg added two. Speckels canned a three-pointer. The Mustangs outscored El Camino in every period on the road to the convincing 20-point victory. Homestead, now 12-1, opened the tournament with its toughest game, a 49-41 win over Westmont. [ Back to Contents Page | Cupertino Courier Home Page | Archives ] This article appeared in the Cupertino Courier, January 6, 1999. ©1998 Metro Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.