Raiders Youth Football and Cheer will be holding one last registration, Wednesday, April 13th, from 6-7 at Mountain Vista Elementary School.

Fillmore Youth Football and Cheer will be having Sign-Ups for the 2011 Season on Saturday, March 26th – 10AM-2PM, Tuesday, March 39th and Thursday, March 31 from 6-8PM. All Registrations will be conducted at Mountain Vista Cafeteria. Costs: Football $230 Cheer $75. For questions please contact John Holladay at #805-797-6804.

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St. Paul Minnesota, Concordia University, head football coach Mark Mauer has announced that Fillmore High School’s Quarterback Corey Cole has officially signed with the Golden Bears. Coach Mauer commented on the team’s overall recruiting class, “We are excited about our incoming class; we filled our position needs while bringing in a very talented group of young men.”

Corey will be the backup quarterback to Senior Spencer Ohm for the 2011 Season. He will be joining an elite group of athletes which for the 2010 season finished 8-4 overall. The Golden Bears finished with the third ranked passing attack in their conference and the offensive line protected it's skill position players to the point where the offense committed only 13 turnovers in 12 games. Only nine teams in the nation (151 teams) committed fewer turnovers on the season than Concordia football.

An All-CIF Quarterback, All-County MVP, Team Captain and Team MVP, Corey has been invited to play in this year’s All-County Football Game in June. He will leave for Concordia in July to join the Golden Bears as they prepare for their upcoming season. Corey is the son of Craig and Lynn Cole and the younger brother of Concordia’s starting offensive guard Curtis Cole.

Video Highlights from CIF competition. See match report following videos for full details.

Fillmore Wrestling CIF Conaway's First Match

Fillmore Wrestling CIF Orosco's First Match

Fillmore Wrestling CIF Zavala Second Match

Fillmore Wrestling CIF Conaway's Third Match

Dear Flashes Baseball Supporters:

My name is Matt Suttle and I am once again the Head Baseball Coach at Fillmore High School. I am extremely honored and privileged to return to this program that has such a rich baseball tradition. Fillmore has won 22 league titles, four CIF titles and countless Junior Varsity championships. I understand what it means to wear a Flashes’ uniform having been a member of three league championship teams during the early 1980’s. I am looking forward to carrying on this proud tradition at my alma mater. The success of our program on the field throughout the years has been a joint effort with our local community; together we’ve been a great team!

Budget cuts in our schools make it difficult for our program to operate. I believe in providing our athletes with the best safety equipment and supplies. I want our athletes to feel good about who they are and where they come from. Therefore, I am extending this invitation for your organization to join our sponsorship program. The sponsorship program will help defray the costs of equipment for more than 30 athletes in our program as well as facility upgrades.

The Diamond Club sponsorship program will allow your organization to directly sponsor one of our student athletes. A full player or position sponsorship is $75. Sponsors may purchase the full sponsorship or a partial sponsorship ($25). Each player may have up to four sponsors. The sponsor’s name will appear in The Fillmore Gazette along with the name of the player and his position. Players of the week will be selected throughout the season. A picture of the player and their sponsors listed below them will appear in the local newspaper.

If you would like to participate in the Diamond Club sponsorship program please make your check payable to “Fillmore High School Baseball” and mail it to:

Matt Suttle
555 Central Ave
Fillmore, Ca 93015

For more information, please call me or leave a message at (805) 625-2639. On behalf of the entire Flashes Baseball program, I want to thank you for your time, your consideration and your generous support.

Thank you.

Flashes attend and participate in the CIF Southern Section Central Division Individual Wrestling Tournament this past weekend.

The host school was Colony High School in Ontario. The tournament was run extremely well with six mat of wrestling action taking place from 11 AM on Friday to 7 PM.
To advance to the Quarter, Semi and Finals on Saturday a wrestler would have to win three matches in the double elimination tournament. On average each weight bracket had about 30 wrestlers competing. By rough calculations that equates to 420 wrestlers participating in the tournament.

Flashes earning the right to represent their school were; Robert Bonilla, Mark Zavala, Kyle Castaneda, Jonathon Minero, Alex Rivera, Christian Conaway, Marco Vega and Sammy Orosco.

Wrestlers who had a bye the first round were; Minero, Rivera and Orosco.
Conaway won his first match by pin. The remainder of the Flashes lost their first match.

Zavala won his second match by injury forfeit. Orosco won his second round match by pin. Conaway wrestled the #1 seed and lost by pin, the remainder of the Flashes lost their second round matches.

Conaway won his third round match by pin in 25 seconds. Most of the other Flashes lost their third round matches and were eliminated from the competition.

Orosco and Conaway advanced to the 4th round. Conaway lost his fourth round match with less than 1 second remaining in the 1st period. Both Conaway and his opponent were wrestling like fighting snakes on the mat with each earning take down points, and back points and reversal points during the first period. The official questioned the timer to see if the pin call happened on the buzzer or after. It was ruled that the pin was at the buzzer which handed Conaway his fourth loss eliminating him from advancing further.
Orosco wrestled the #1 seed in his weight class for the fourth round. Sammy lost the match on points. Sammy went the full count with the #1 seed and wasn’t pinned, which was an amazing feat.

Orosco advanced to wrestle on Saturday but was handed his second loss by points.

Hats off to Flashes Wrestling and the Wrestlers for having a vision all season and staying focused on their goal. While the outcome wasn’t the dream finish some had hoped for they represented themselves with pride, wrestled full speed all year under a very aggressive 40 match season (not including League Finals or CIF ) and earned the respect of the Tri Valley League and beyond.
All of their success wouldn’t have been possible if it were not for Coach Bob Calderon who donates so much of his time, talent and resources. He’s coached Flashes Wrestling for 24 years and does so with passion for the sport and the kids. Coach Manual Ponce is the driving force for motivating and teaching the wrestlers. Coach Cal and Coach Manual work well together as can be verified by the number of dedicated wrestler who earned league championships.

Flashes CIF Video Match Highlights to be uploaded shortly.

Looking forward the Flashes will have their Wrestling Banquet and awards.