Meyer Wins Again, but Clutter Grows

Herb Meyer, El Camino’s football coach and athletic director, is notorious for having one of the most cluttered offices in the county.

Maybe it’s all those plaques and trophies. They do tend to pile up when you’ve had a career as distinguished as his.

Meyer recently was presented with yet another major award, the 1992 State Award of Merit by the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Assn.

State Award of Merit winners--one from each state--are selected for their leadership and contributions to high school sports.

In winning a third consecutive San Diego Section championship last fall, his eighth overall, Meyer was named San Diego County coach of the year by The Times and California coach of the year by Cal-Hi magazine.

His overall record in 29 years at El Camino and Oceanside is 243-99-13, fourth-best in California history.

Easy to remember: Two of the best volleyball players in the Metro Conference this season are Leo Vargas of Southwest and Leo Vargas of Sweetwater. They are not related.

Another good one is Sweetwater’s Kynoi Phetsanghane. And while it’s probably safe to assume he’s the only Kynoi Phetsanghane in the league, his sister, Nana Phetsanghane, was an all-league performer this past fall for the Sweetwater girls’ team.

Adjusting your game: Jill Wery of Mission Bay finished ninth out of 40 in the girls’ division of the Taylor Made Woodlands Junior Classic, played earlier this month in The Woodlands, Tex.

Maybe it should have been the “Tailor Made Classic.”

The tournament was scheduled to go 36 holes. But because of severe flooding at The Woodlands Executive Conference Center and Resort North Course, it was reduced to two nine-hole rounds. Golfers played holes Nos. 1-6 and 16-18 twice. Par was 36.

Kellee Booth of Coto de Caza was the only girl to break par. She shot a 35 and a 36 and won the tournament by four strokes. Wery shot 39 and 40.

Control your destiny: It’s easy to see why Marco Inzunza is 7-1 as a pitcher for St. Augustine. In his past 31 innings, Inzunza has walked only two batters.

Delayed gratification: Las Vegas or not, you’ve got to like your chances of winning a baseball tournament when your team wins all four games it plays, right?

Vista did. But the problem was, so did Bonita Vista and Mojave (Ariz.).

All three teams finished 4-0 in the 38-team Las Vegas Bishop Gorman Tournament, setting off a wave of confusion as to which school won.

The tournament was played the week before Easter with a pool-play, non-championship game format, which meant the team with the best record wins the championship. The first tiebreaker was supposed to have been fewest runs allowed.

Mojave allowed the fewest runs (10), followed by Bonita Vista (11) and Vista (14).

But when the tournament ended, Vista was awarded the championship trophy.

Apparently, the records of Bonita Vista and Mojave were overlooked initially by the tournament officials, and it took a couple of days to straighten things out.

End result: Tri-champions.

Hot streak: Another Easter-break, Las Vegas-based tournament was the Sundevil Classic. It was hosted by El Dorado High, but the Mt. Carmel Sundevils felt right at home.

As a team, Mt. Carmel went 58 for 126 (.460) and won three of four games.

Notable performers were Marty Camacho and Vince Valle.

Camacho went 10 for 15 with three doubles, a home run and 11 RBIs for the tournament. Valle, in a 15-0 victory over Cimarron Valley, pitched a one-hitter and struck out 14 and went four for four with three RBIs.

Unfortunately for Mt. Carmel, the tournament ended.

Last week, the Sundevils fell to 7-11 and totaled only 10 hits in two Palomar League losses to Poway and Torrey Pines.

“We probably should have stayed in Las Vegas,” Mt. Carmel Coach Steve Edwards said. “The hot streak over there was not evident once we got back.”

On track: One of the most unique track and field events in San Diego will be held Friday when the Orange Glen Invitational kicks off with field events at 4 p.m. and track events a half hour later.

The meet features two girls’ divisions and three boys’ division plus a boys’ invitational division and ends about 10 p.m. It is the only night meet in the county.

Coming late in the season and being contested solely by section rivals, the Orange Glen Invitational has been the stage to some of the most exciting races in recent years and often foreshadows results of the section finals.

The invitational 100 meters features five runners who have turned in sub-11 second times.