SANTANA AND VALHALLA WIN VARSITY AND JV TITLES IN Academic LEAGUE .

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February 27, 2011 (San Diego`s East County)Santana and West Hills went direct to steer on February 23rd to see the 1st place Varsity team to be the 2010-2011 Grossmont League in the county finals this Spring.

Ruth Weiss moderated the couple and over 150 people crowded into the Grossmont High School library, where the standing-room-only crowd watched two brilliant teams of scholars move backward and forth with the lead.

It was not until the last few minutes that the Santana Sultans, coached by Brooke Crocker finally took and held on to the wind over the West Hills Wolf Pack coached by Cheri Gabler. The final score was 84 to 75.159 points amassed by both teams in a 35 minute match.

"If you have always had the favour of watching a dual match, then you love that the buzzers were humming and stacks of right answers to the difficult academic questions were being given," said SteveHaiman, Academic League advisor. "Despite defeating Santana in an earlier dual season match, West Hills still had to get a head-to-head playoff match, since they both had the identical 9 -1 records_The coaches and the participants made us all proud." These matches were followed by several All Star matches pitting the better of ten teams from about the territory against each other and the Santana varsity winners. Cheri Gabler and Dick Beachserved as coaches of the All Star Team while GUHSD school board member (and other AL Moderator) Dick Hoy, Mark Gabler and Ruth Weiss served as moderators. The roll of the All Star players was nominated by their respective coaches. It is estimated that over 350 students, parents, coaches and moderators were in attendance to enjoy an awards presentation and spaghetti dinner. GUHSD school board member Priscilla Schreiber joined Dick Hoy to observe the participants. Each coach was brought up to the microphone to introduce their team members and be given certificates for their participation.

Valhalla took initiative in the Junior Varsity division with an undefeated record, while Santana earned the foremost place trophy in the Varsity dvision.

The El Capitan vs Granite Hills match will be on Channel 16 TV on March 3 at 7:00 pm.