VOLLEYBALL-
Volleyball Ends Season at Home Against Bulldogs
SAN LUIS OBISPO (November 16, 2009)- This week: Cuesta Volleyball wraps up the 2009 regular season at home this Tuesday (7 PM) with a match against local rival Allan Hancock. The Cougars swept the Bulldogs on October 27 in Santa Maria in their first meeting.
Last Week: The Cuesta Women’s Volleyball team was involved in a pair of sweeps last week. The Cougars traveled to Oxnard and swept the Condors (25-14, 25-11, 25-18) on Tuesday and were swept at home on Friday by Moorpark (25-15, 25-17, 25-23). The Cougars are 4-5 against the Western State Conference and 7-13 overall.
Notes: Outside Hitter Mackenzie Sullivan (Waco, NE) smacked down 23 more kills last week and now leads the Cougars with 286 kills. She trails Single Season Kill Record Holder Courtney Carroll by 22 kills, which put her in range of the record since she has had more than 20 kills in match twice this season. Sullivan also does her job on defense and lead the Cougars with 207 digs and is third on the team with 34 total blocks.

Single Season Kill Leaders
Rank Player Year Kills
1. Courtney Carroll 2003 308
2. Julie Coelho 2007 300
3. Kati Purchase 2004 299
4. Mackenzie Sullivan 2009 286
5. Julie Coelho 2006 277

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M WATER POLO-
Cuesta Men’s Polo Advances to Regional Finals- Fall Short of State
SAN LUIS OBISPO (November 16, 2009)- Last Week: The Cuesta Men’s Water Polo team were the #6 seed in the 2009 Southern California Regional Playoffs and after a first round bye they drew Western State Conference rival and #3 seed Ventura in Friday’s elimination game. The Pirates had beaten the Cougars four teams during the 2009 season and have the Cougars had never been closer than four goals in any of those contests and lost one game by nine goals. That all change on Friday as the Cougars came from behind twice to shock the Pirates in a double overtime thriller, 13-12. The win sent the Cougars to the regional finals the next day, where they needed to win one more game to return to the State Finals for the first time since 2006. The Cougars lost to #2 seed Long Beach, 17-6, in the semi-finals and then to #4 seed Riverside, 11-8, in the third place game and were knocked out of the post-season. The Cougars ended the year with a 20-14 record.
Last week: No Contests, season over
Notes: Freshman Lawrence Bardelli (Simi Valley: Royal) eclipsed the century mark for goals during the playoff and became on of the few Cuesta players to score 100 goals in a season. Bardelli scored 7 goals in the Cougars second round playoff upset of Ventura to go over the top and has 103 goals on the season. Kelly Porter holds the record with 139 goals set in 1987.

Single Season 100 Goal Scorers at Cuesta
1. Kelly Porter 1987 139
2. Hank Peterson 1985 134
3. Toki Prlainovic 1990 120
4. Steve Farrell 1982 112
5. John Marsh 1980 105
6. Lawrence Bardelli 2009 103
7. Kevin Bradley 2003 100

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Cuesta Women’s Polo Finish 3rd in WSC- Schuler Wins #200
SAN LUIS OBISPO (November 10, 2009)- Last Week: The Cuesta Women’s Water Polo team finished in third place at the 2009 Western State Conference Championships. They entered the event as the #2-seed and lost to #2-seed Citrus, 10-6, in the semi-final. The Cougars won the third place game, 19-12, over #5-seed Santa Monica, who upset #4-seed LA Valley in the first round. The Cougars ended the season with a 12-19 overall record. The Cougars victory over Santa Monica was the 11-year old program’s 200th win. Coach Pete Schuler has led the program since its inception in 1999 and turned the program into a perennial contender. The Cougars have won four conference titles and reached the post-season six times. The Cougars 43-11 record against the Western State Conference is the top mark among the circuit’s teams. Coach Schuler said, “This win took a long time, a lot longer than I expected at the start of the year. We had a very strong team to begin the season, but did not have an experienced goaltender. We converted three former field players to fill that spot this season, but all of them missed games because of injuries. We averaged 10 goals a game on offense for only the fourth time in my eleven years, but allowed a school record 12 goals per game. Defense wins championships and we just did not have the personnel to get the job done this year, but I am glad that the season did not end at 199. The team worked hard all season and deserved to get the program to this milestone.”
Last week: No Contests- Season Over
Notes: First-year player Ashley Smith (Lompoc: Cabrillo HS) and 2008 All Southern California Second Teamer Morgan Thompson (Paso Robles HS) both etched their names into the Cuesta record book last weekend. Smith broke Ashley de Goede’s 2006 record for ejections drawn in a season and Thompson broke her own single season scoring record. Smith ended the season with 45 ejections drawn to lead the Cougars to a school record 210 power plays. She also led the team with 37 assists, while adding 53 goals of her own. Thompson scored 97 goals this season to break her record of 95 set last season. She also led the team with 55 steals. Thompson holds the Cuesta career scoring mark with 192 goals. >>top