Titans

San Marino High wrestling co-Coach Joe Gallardo wasn't sure if any Titan has ever won a CIF Southern Section Division Individual title coming into the final day of the Eastern Division tournament. Either way, San Marino added three division champions to its resume at Oak Hills High Saturday. All three of the Titans' state-ranked freshmen - twin brothers Evan and Zander Wick and Julian Flores - won their respective weight classes. “I don't know that it's happened,” Gallardo said of any previous division champions from San Marino.

SAN MARINO - The San Marino High girls' soccer team's CIF Southern Section Division V playoff match at home against San Jacinto on Thursday night ended early after a San Jacinto player was carted off the field by paramedics. In the 48th minute, the Tigers' Aracely Ortega fell to the ground at midfield after landing awkwardly going for the ball. Following a 25-minute delay, San Jacinto Coach Walter Guzman asked that the match be called. “It's a tough decision,” said San Marino Coach Jaime Acuna.

RIALTO - Perhaps the San Marino High wrestling squad's best season in a generation came to an agonizing conclusion in team dual-meet participation a little earlier than expected. The Titans held an 11-point lead late, but succumbed to an opportunistic Rim of the World unit and some questionable officiating in a 30-29 defeat in the second round of the CIF Southern Section Division VI Dual Meet Championships at Carter High on Saturday afternoon. A San Marino squad that won its first Rio Hondo League title since 1998 ends with a dual meet record of 7-1 and will now prepare for the following weekend's Eastern Division Individual Championships at Hesperia Oak Hills High.

For a second straight year, the San Marino High wrestling team qualified to the CIF Southern Section Division VI Dual Meet Championships at Rialto Carter High on Saturday morning.   The similarities between this year and last, however, end there for the Titans, who head into the 11 a.m. first round against Downey Calvary Chapel not as an at-large team, but as the Rio Hondo League champions, something the program hasn't been able to boast since 1998.   "I think this year's team has a little more confidence," Titans co-Coach Joe Gallardo said.

LA CAÑADA - It was clear from the emotion displayed at the end of the game by the San Marino High boys' basketball team that it was far from a run-of-the-mill victory. For the first time in 13 years, the Titans defeated La Cañada, and did so on the Spartans' home floor, in a Rio Hondo League game Tuesday. The 67-51 win came with an impressive defensive performance and two monster runs from San Marino. “It's been a long time,” San Marino Coach Mihail Papadopulos said of the last time the Titans beat the Spartans.

MONROVIA - There was already plenty of evidence of how much progress the San Marino High wrestling team had made in 2013, but just in case there were any questions left, the Titans provided even more evidence at Saturday's Rio Hondo League Finals. San Marino, which won the league title with a 5-0 league record, sent a league-high 12 wrestlers onto the CIF Individual Tournament at the league tournament. The Titans did so with a league-high six league champions, three second-place and three third-place finishers.

SAN MARINO - Coming into its showdown with San Marino High on Friday night, the South Pasadena girls' basketball team had only suffered four losses all season, and only one of those came in Rio Hondo League play. San Marino dealt South Pas its only league loss in a one-point thriller. This time around, the outcome changed dramatically, as the Tigers dominated the Titans, 46-19. “We just had to come out and play our game and let things speak for itself,” South Pasadena Coach Tammy Lai said.

SOUTH PASADENA - After 160 minutes of regulation and an additional 10 minutes of stoppage time, perhaps it's fair to say that little separates the San Marino and South Pasadena high girls' soccer teams. Both squads met for the second time this season and, for the second consecutive match, there was no victor. Yet, there wasn't exactly the feeling of equality on either sideline after the visiting Titans responded from a two-goal second-half deficit with a terrific rally that produced a 2-2 tie. “This is just the character that we have from the group.

SAN MARINO - Perhaps there's no plainer way to state the obvious. The San Marino High boys' basketball team was out of its element Wednesday evening and, as a result, may very well be out of the Rio Hondo League title chase after a discouraging 66-24 loss to league-leading Temple City on Wednesday evening. “We just have to move forward from this. That was a bucket game. Temple City shot well, moved the ball well and played as well as they had all year long,” Titans Coach Mihail Papadopulos said.

TEMPLE CITY - A series of missed chances begot a larger missed opportunity for the San Marino High girls' water polo team in Rio Hondo League play Tuesday afternoon. The visiting Titans finished one for seven in six-on-five opportunities and came up short in their bid to finish among the league's elites after falling at Temple City, 9-5. With the win, the Rams (13-8 overall, 6-1 in league) kept their league championship aspirations alive as they're a game in the loss column behind defending league champion South Pasadena (9-6, 5-0)