Photograph by George Sakkestad
Homestead's Matt Hall buried six three-pointers and finished with 18 points, but the Mustangs lost a 59-55 decision to Fremont.
By DICK SPARRER
Mountain View has a lock on the soccer title in the De Anza Division of the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League.
And there wasn't anything the Homestead boys' soccer team could do about it.
Still, the Mustangs didn't let Mountain View's success get them down. They took the field last week for a pair of division games, and won them both by blanking their opponents.
The two wins helped Home-stead improve to 7-1-2 in the division, good for second place behind the Spartans.
Mountain View jumped to 10-0-1 in the division with a 6-3 victory over Cupertino. The win gave the Spartans 21 points with just a game to play in the regular season. Homestead has 16 points and sits alone in second place.
Daniel Castillo and Remo Maggiora knocked in three goals apiece in two games last week to lead the Mustangs to a pair of victories.
Castillo scored off a Wes Stubbs assist and Lucas Pytlik scored off a Maggiora assist to help the Mustangs jump out to a 2-0 lead in the first half against Lynbrook. Maggiora added an insurance goal in the second half to clinch the 3-0 win.
Homestead handled Gunn 4-0 a couple of days later. Castillo scored twice in the win and Maggiora had two goals, one off a Paul Mudgett assist.
The Mustangs are 9-4-5 for the year.
The Fremont boys lost and tied in two games last week, falling 3-0 to Lynbrook before battling Milpitas to a 2-2 draw in El Camino Division play.
Brent Conrad scored off a Charith Peiris assist, then assisted Peiris on a goal to lift the Indians to a 2-0 first-half lead against the Trojans.
But Milpitas scored two goals in the second half to knot the score 2-2.
The Homestead girls suffered a pair of tough De Anza Division losses, falling 4-1 to Mountain View and 2-1 to Gunn.
Senior sensation Regina Holan scored the lone goal for the Mustangs in the loss to the Spartans.
Sue Liew knocked in a first-half goal, but Fremont lost a tough 2-1 decision to Milpitas last week in the El Camino Division of the SCVAL.
Liew scored off a Jodie Walters assist to give the Indians a 1-0 lead that stood up through intermission. But the Trojans scored twice in the second half to claim the win.
Fremont, a 3-0 loser to Monta Vista earlier in the week, slipped to 4-5-1 in division play.
Boys' basketball
Rich Lockmanese and Randy Rivera pitched in 15 points apiece to lead the Fremont boys' basketball team to a 59-55 come-from-behind win over Homestead in the El Camino Division of the SCVAL last week.
The Indians were down by four heading into the final period, but outscored the Mustangs 22-14 to pull out the win.
Jabbar Burton joined Lock-manese and Rivera in double digits with 14 points. Thai Kim supported with seven points, Danny Douglas had six and Michael Hardwick added two.
Matt Hall led the Mustangs with 18 points, all of them coming on three-pointers. David Blasquez fired in 10 points for Homestead.
Earlier in the week, Fremont had come on strong in the fourth to turn back Wilcox 51-43. The Indians were up just 35-34 heading into the final period, then whipped the Chargers 16-9 in the fourth.
Rivera poured in 21 points to lead the Indians. Lockmanese finished with 12 points and Douglas, Hardwich and Kim had six each.
The two wins left the Indians 5-4 in El Camino play.
Homestead lost twice to slip to 0-8 in the division and to 6-14 for the year.
The Mustangs lost 43-26 to Mountain View to open the week. Hall had 10 points to lead Homestead.
This article appeared in the Sunnyvale Sun, February 7, 1996
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