FALL SPORTS ROUNDUP : Chatsworth Girls Beat Cleveland Soundly

The Chatsworth High girls’ volleyball players blamed lack of communication for their slow start against Cleveland on Wednesday in a Northwest Valley Conference match at home.

“We play better when we talk to each other,” said middle blocker Lori Mertes, who had a game-high 12 kills in the Chancellors’ 15-12, 15-11, 15-4 victory, their seventh win in a row. “At the start of the first two games, we didn’t talk. (Communicating) raised our spirit.”

Chatsworth (9-1 overall, 6-0 in league play) fell behind, 8-1, in the first game and, 10-1, in the second.

The Chancellors scored the last seven points of the first game and the last eight of the second, including seven service aces by Heather Gorman.

Chatsworth Coach Steve Berk attributed the comeback to the leadership of captain Kris Bassler.

“It’s really easy to get down after falling so far behind, but Kris doesn’t let that happen,” Berk said.

Bassler had 30 assists for Chatsworth and middle blocker Marie Mariano recorded nine kills. For Cleveland (7-3, 3-3), freshman Michele Diana had seven kills and Jennifer Williams and Monica Martin each added six.

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In other volleyball matches:

Thousand Oaks d. Westlake, 15-3, 15-7, 15-8--Amy Chellevold had eight kills, Debbie Bueche had seven and Holly Hughes six to lead the Lancers in a Marmonte League match at Westlake.

Taft d. El Camino Real, 15-11, 4-15, 15-11, 17-15--Outside hitter Michelle Clearman had a team-high 17 kills to lead Taft in a Northwest Valley Conference match at El Camino Real.

Sarah White had five blocks and Leslie Scates had six kills for Taft (2-4 in conference play).

Canoga Park d. Kennedy, 16-14, 15-13, 12-15, 14-16, 15-9--Host Canoga Park improved its record to 4-4 overall, 2-4 in West Valley League play.

Men’s Soccer

Cal State Northridge 1, Cal State Bakersfield 0--Scott Piri scored at the 20-minute mark on an assist from Jim Hofferber and John Alevras, and goalie Mike Littman had seven saves to record his third shutout of the season in a California Collegiate Athletic Assn. match at Bakersfield.

The victory moved Northridge (7-3-3 overall, 4-1-1 in conference play) into sole possession of first place in the conference standings with nine points.

The Matadors entered the match tied for first with Bakersfield (13-2-1, 3-1-1), the No. 3-ranked team in Division II.

Piri’s goal was his fifth of the season.

Occidental 4, Redlands 0--Lewis Tierney recorded his fourth shutout of the saeason in a Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Assn. match at Redlands.

Jay Caba, Aran Aleamoni, Eric Levinson and Ron Rothenberg scored for Occidental (6-6-2, 5-3-2).

Women’s Soccer

Occidental 1, Claremont 0--Occidental (5-8-2, 5-2) registered the only goal of the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference match when Suzanne Oppenheimer scored on an assist from Jos Bergmann in the first half at Claremont (4-2-1 in conference play).

UC San Diego 7, Cal Lutheran 0--UC San Diego, ranked No. 1 in Division III, had no trouble with Cal Lutheran in a nonconference match at UCSD. Cal Lutheran is 4-8-1.

College Wrestling

Moorpark 33, Rio Hondo 10--Moorpark (5-1-1, 1-0) won a Western State Conference meet at Rio Hondo behind Bill Scannell’s pin at 126 pounds and a Serge Mezheritsky win by technical fall at 150.

Boys’ Cross-Country

Camarillo 18, Thousand Oaks 39; Camarillo 18, Newbury Park 42; Thousand Oaks 25, Newbury Park 32--The Scorpions (7-0 overall, 5-0 in league play) posted their 20th Marmonte League dual-meet victory in a row.

Seniors Abe Valdez (15:41), Derek Kite (16:13) and Shawn Goetzinger (16:16) placed first, second and third for Camarillo in the meet at Cal Lutheran.

Girls’ Cross-Country

Chaminade 25, Bell-Jeff 30--

Colleen McDonough (19:38) and Liz Poduska (20:25) finished first and second to lead the Eagles to an upset of fourth-ranked Bell-Jeff at Griffith Park.

Camarillo 26, Newbury Park 31; Camarillo 21, Thousand Oaks 38; Newbury Park 24, Thousand Oaks 31--Freshman Stacey Auer (19:28) finished first for Thousand Oaks but Camarillo (4-2 in league) won the Marmonte League meet at Cal Lutheran.