City’s Best Battle in Wrestling

San Fernando and El Camino Real, the City Section’s best wrestling teams, square off in a dual meet tonight at El Camino Real.

El Camino Real (8-3-1, 3-0 in West Valley League) is defending City champion and has won three City titles in six seasons.

San Fernando (8-3, 3-0 in East Valley League), second in the City last season, is at its strongest since 1991, when the Tigers last won a City Section title.

El Camino Real beat San Fernando by 4 1/2 points last season in the City finals.

The City dual meet finals are scheduled for Feb. 17-19 at El Camino Real.

BASKETBALL

Together again: The Crescenta Valley girls went six games without their regular starting lineup because of injuries.

All-Southern Section guard Tara Gregory missed two games with a back injury, All-American guard Michelle Greco sat out 2 1/2 games with a strained quadriceps muscle and sophomore forward Sinnamonn Garrett was sidelined two games with tendinitis in her left wrist.

Last Friday, the trio joined guard Kristie Umemoto and center Liz Settle for the first time since Jan. 20.

“If the injuries lasted any further, we were going to have to change our initials from C.V. to M*A*S*H,” Coach Damian Scribner said.

SOCCER

Fit for a tie: League races don’t come much closer than the Pacific League girls’ competition, which will likely end in a title shared by powers Crescenta Valley and Arcadia for the second time in four seasons.

Crescenta Valley won the 1994-95 and 1996-97 titles and Arcadia claimed the 1995-96 crown. Assuming each team wins its final league game to finish 8-0-2, this year’s tie will result in a coin flip to determine which team enters the Southern Section playoffs as the league’s No. 1-seeded team.

“We’ve really modeled ourselves after Arcadia,” said Crescenta Valley co-Coach Judd Bogust, the guiding hand of the eight-year-old program.

Crescenta Valley and Arcadia are 2-2-2 in their last six games.