Well, all the Mustangs are doing thus far in the El Camino Division is stretching out their lead over the rest of the pack!

Homestead won two more league games last week—beating Wilcox 43-37 and Santa Clara 56-28—to stretch their record to 6-0 in the division and to 14-5 for the year.

Leading the Homestead scoring attack, as they have all season long, were junior forward Mandy Wald and junior guard Jenelle Kitasoe.

Kitasoe pitched in 15 points and Wald added 14 to lead the Mustangs past the Chargers 43-37. Kitasoe had a three-point bucket among her five field goals, and she added four points at the free-throw line. Wald hit six buckets from the field and two free throws.

Sophomore Melissa Manuel supported with six points in the win, soph Shelly Baxter had five points and senior Joanna Harris had three.

Homestead jumped in front early, taking a 16-8 lead in the first quarter. Wilcox cut the lead by three in the second period and two more in the third to make it close at 30-27, but Homestead topped the Chargers 13-10 in the final quarter to ice the win.

Earlier in the week, Wald had a big 22-point night to lead the Mustangs to the easy win over Santa Clara. Wald drilled seven shots from the floor and added eight points at the free-throw line.

Manuel joined Wald in double digits with 11 points, and Kitasoe was close behind with nine. Harris and Baxter chipped in with four points apiece, and junior Innie Kim, senior Elyse Maru and senior Kelly DeSilva added two each.

Homestead jumped out to an early 19-5 lead and never looked back. The Mustangs outscored the Bruins in each of the four periods.

Homestead will take its unbeaten record back to the floor this week to host Lynbrook on Feb. 5, 5:30 p.m., and Cupertino on Feb. 7, 6 p.m. The Vikings are 5-1 in division play after beating Mountain View 47-27 last week.

Fremont also nailed a win over Wilcox last week, but the game was much closer. The Firebirds pulled out a tight 27-25 victory over the Chargers to scoot their De Anza Division record to 4-2 and their season mark to 7-11.

Denise Moore hit a three-pointer and finished with nine points to lead all Fremont point-getters in the low-scoring game. Erin Sturm and Diana Sanchez supported with six points apiece, Natalie Arias had four and Aneta Pariaszevski added two.

The clubs were locked in a 9-9 tie after a period, but the Chargers took a slim 16-14 lead at the half. Fremont outscored Wilcox 7-3 in the third to lead 21-19, then matched the Chargers' six points in the final quarter to clinch the win.


Boys basketball

Travis Harris tossed in 12 points, Jesse Enchill had 11 and Paul Russell second 10, but the Fremont boys basketball team dropped a tough 50-46 decision to Wilcox in the SCVAL's De Anza Division last week.

Dan Bergeron supported with seven points for the Firebirds.

Fremont slipped to 4-2 in the division and to 13-8 for the year with the loss.

Homestead fell to 0-7 in the De Anza Division after suffering a pair of losses. The Mustangs fell 66-28 to Milpitas and 55-40 to Wilcox.


Boys soccer

Marcos Valdovinos knocked in five goals and added three assists to lead the Fremont boys soccer team to three wins last week in the El Camino Division of the SCVAL.

Valdovinos buried three goals to pace the Firebirds to a 6-1 win over Milpitas. He had two goals and two assists in a 5-0 whitewash win over Wilcox, and he added an assist in a tight 2-1 win over Cupertino.

The Firebirds are now 7-1-1 in the division and 11-2-2 for the season.

Cupertino slipped to 3-4-1 in league play and to 6-6-5 for the year with the loss.

In De Anza Division play, Homestead won a game but lost twice last week. Goals by Ralph Vargas and David Camburn sparked the Mustangs to a 2-0 win over Saratoga, but Homestead was blanked 4-0 by Mountain View and could manage just a Camburn goal off a penalty kick in a 3-1 loss to Gunn.

The Mustangs are now 1-8 in the division and 2-11-4 for the year.


Girls soccer

Dina Fagalde scored a second-half goal off an Ashley Mason assist to lift the Homestead girls soccer team to a 2-1 win over Saratoga last week in De Anza Division play.

The win helped the Mustangs improve to 5-0-2 in league play and to 7-3-3 for the year.

Fremont, meanwhile, dropped a 9-0 decision to Santa Clara to slip to 0-9 in the El Camino Division.