Estancia’sWase named Co-MVP

Estancia High junior Trisha Wase, who helped lead the Eagles to an

unbeaten Golden West League season, has been named Co-Most Valuable

Player by the league’s girls basketball coaches.

In addition to Wase, a 5-foot-4 point guard, Estancia seniors

Xochitl Byfield and Tisha Gray are first-team all-league selections,

as is Costa Mesa senior Rhondi Naff.

Estancia junior Nancy Castro and Costa Mesa senior Rickell Reeves

are third-team picks.

Wase, who shared Player of the Year laurels in the Pacific Coast

League as a sophomore, when she helped the Eagles win a

co-championship, averaged 12.3 points this season to help the Eagles

reach the second round of the CIF Southern Section Division III-A

Playoffs and finish 17-9. After a first-round bye, they were

eliminated by Harvard-Westlake.

Byfield, a 5-8 wing, averaged a team-leading 13.4 points, while

Gray, a 5-9 post, chipped in 11.6 ppg.

Naff, a 6-0 guard, averaged 18.5 points to help the Mustangs

finish third in league and post a 15-12 overall record. They lost in

the first round to La Canada.

Naff, Byfield and Gray were first-team all-league picks a year

ago, while Byfield and Gray were second-team All-PCL performers as

sophomores.

Castro, a 5-10 forward, averaged 6.3 points for the Eagles, while

Reeves, a 5-8 forward, averaged 6.3 points and led the Mustangs in

rebounding.

Biava Arganda, a Westminster High senior who will represent the

league in the Orange County All-Star Game, April 5 at Orange Coast

College, is the other Co-MVP.