This is a great article about Mallory and her successes on the water polo team. We are all so proud of our polo star. Go Mallory!
Murrieta Valley's Mallory Montano, right, puts pressure on Chaparal's Palmer Hardy as she tries to pass during the first half of their match on Tuesday. (Don Boomer/Staff Photographer)
By JEFF SANDERS - Staff Writer Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:33 PM PST
∞TEMECULA ---- Bryan Lynton admits he's hitting the reset button this season. It's just not the same thing at Murrieta Valley as it is at other Valley girls water polo programs.
Junior Mallory Montano scored a game-high four goals, the Murrieta Valley press rattled Chaparral's high-octane offense and the Nighthawks began defense of their fourth straight Southwestern League title ---- not to mention back-to-back section championships ---- with a 10-5 victory over the host Pumas on Tuesday afternoon.
"They are never going to be down ---- they've got a club program and they are always going to have great players," said Chaparral coach Tyson Cleveland, whose team is ranked No. 8 in Division III. "They'll lose great individuals, but they've got a great team concept and they play great individual team defense.
They are never going to be a team that's down."Those great individuals ---- All-Valley Players of the Year Kirra and Torrey Kylander, Sydney Sonoda and Kristen Stragier, to name a few ---- helped build the Nighthawks into a Riverside County powerhouse.
This year, with Montano the veteran among the new bunch, Lynton is leaning more than ever on the depth of his program.And in the first Southwestern League match of the year, that depth passed every test.Maria Quiroz assisted on three goals, Chelsea Harrod assisted on two and scored a goal, and Brianna Tryon, Hope Rollison, Melissa Hale, Ashley Amparan and Katie Henry all scored goals.
"Besides Mallory, not a lot of those kids have varsity experience," said Lynton, whose team is ranked No. 3 in Division III. "They are learning as we go. ... The thing that makes us good is, every high school team is going to have one or two good players. It's the other ones ---- the No. five, six, seven, eight, nine girls ---- that get you over the hump."Our subs went in today and we feel like we didn't miss a beat.
"The same goes for new goalie Ashley Fedler, who stopped six shots ---- including a pair of point-blank shots from UCLA-bound Brooke Martin ---- in an eye-opening contest for a sophomore who wasn't with the squad a year ago."We had a tournament this weekend and she's improved so much just in the last three days," Montano said. "We're all really happy for her. She did really good."Credit the Murrieta Valley defense for the assist on Fedler's performance.Determined to keep Martin from dominating the game on the perimeters, Lynton ditched dropping two and three players on the Pumas' attacker for a man-to-man press that caught Chaparral by surprise.
The Pumas (8-2, 0-1) committed 25 turnovers to Murrieta Valley's 13, missed on their first nine power plays and didn't score a goal until Paige Hardy's buzzer-beater at the end of the first half cut the Nighthawks' lead to 6-1.By the time Martin finally got on the board in fourth period with a pair of goals, Murrieta Valley (9-3, 1-0) was well on its way to a victory.
"Murrieta just came out and played really solid defense," Cleveland said. "You're going to get your shots, but you have to execute and we didn't really execute in the first half. I think the girls were a little shell-shocked in the first half handling Murrieta's defense."
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