Scrapbook, 2000-01

Estancia Top 10 1. The cross country team wins the Pacific Coast League title, is

second at the CIF Southern Section Division IV Finals and finishes fifth

in its division at the CIF State meet in Fresno.

2. Senior Nathan Thaler wins CIF Division IV championship in the

215-pound weight class and later advances to the state finals in

Stockton.

3. Senior linebacker Fahad Jahid is named Defensive Player of the Year

in the Pacific Coast League after amassing a team-high 110 tackles.

4. Senior Armando Ortiz shares Pacific Coast League Most Valuable

Player honors in soccer and leads Eagles to the second round of the CIF

Division IV playoffs.

5. Sophomore Humberto Rojas finishes fourth in the 1,600 meters at the

CIF Division III track and field finals and his time of 4:17.81 (4:19.41

converted to a mile) breaks the 25-year-old school record.

6. Seniors Nathan Thaler (215 pounds), Jeremy Valdes (135) and

freshman Victor Carmona (125) win their divisions at the Pacific Coast

League wrestling finals.

7. The football team rallies from a 20-0 deficit to defeat crosstown

rival Costa Mesa, 34-27, and retain the perpetual Bell Trophy, en route

to a school single-season record 312 points and its first CIF playoff

appearance in six seasons.

8. Senior football players Andy Romo, Fahad Jahid, Kenny Valbuena,

David Stoddard, Cesar Romero, David Rodriguez, and Ivan Garcia, senior

baseball player Brent Davis, senior basketball player Eliasar Maldonado

and his junior teammate Micah Young, are all chosen first-team

All-Pacific Coast League and All-Newport Mesa-District.

9. Bobby Arroyo (football), Alfredo Murillo (soccer) are first-team

All-Pacific Coast League choices; Tim Valdez, Robert Aguilera, Sergio

Perez, Matt Colby, Freddy Rodriguez and Jeremy Valdes (football), Rolando

Vivar and Juan Zarate (soccer), Phil Westphal (water polo) and Dan Wotta

(volleyball) are second-team all-league; and J.B. Goff (baseball) is

All-Newport-Mesa District.

10. The Baseball team wins best-of-three series with crosstown rival

Costa Mesa to claim perpetual Troxel Trophy.