Rancho Buena Vista (Vista, Calif.), at left, won her fourth state girls wrestling title on Saturday. (Photo: Facebook)
Rancho Buena Vista (Vista, Calif.) senior Alyssa LaFrancis hasn’t lost a high school girls wrestling match since she was a freshman. Saturday night, she won her fourth consecutive state title, pinning Modesto’s Marianne Schaeur in 1 minute, 38 seconds for the 160-pound championship.
LaFrancis, who had been home schooled but competed for West Covina her first two years of high school and Poway last year, is taking regular classes this year as a senior at Rancho Buena Vista.
The University of the Cumberlands signee has competed in 15 countries for Team USA and is a three-time Body Bar national champion and a five-time Girls Folkstyle national champion.
LaFrancis had the American Family Insurance ALL-USA Performance of the Week. The rest of the ALL-USA Performances:
Dwayne Bacon, boys basketball, Oak Hill Academy, Mouth of Wilson, Va.
Senior guard, who has signed with Florida State, put up 40 points in his final regular-season game Tuesday, an 118-66 defeat of Southwest Christian (Little Rock, Ark.).
Connor Cashaw, boys basketball, Stevenson, Lincolnshire, Ill.
Senior guard, who has signed with Rice, had 27 points, 11 rebounds and five steals in a 79-38 defeat of Maine East (Park Ridge) in a Class 4A regional semifinal on Tuesday.
Alexa Efraimson, girls track and field, Camas, Wash.
Senior, who was running for Nike, finished fifth in the 1,000 meters at the U.S. Indoors in Roxbury, Mass., on Sunday with a time of 2 minutes, 41.23 seconds, the second-fastest time by a high school girls runner.
James Gollon, boys basketball, Pacelli, Stevens Point, Wis.
Senior guard, who has committed to Ohio University, scored 40 points in a 74-63 playoff loss to Spencer on Tuesday. He finished the season averaging 30.7 points a game.
Tyler Hooker, boys basketball, Hillcrest, Simpsonville, S.C.
Senior guard, who has signed with East Tennessee State, had 34 points in an 80-76 double-overtime defeat of Wade Hampton (Greenville) in the Class AAAA Upper State championship on Monday. He also had a 40-point game in late February to lead his team to a 78-69 defeat of Woodmont (Piedmont) for the Region 1-AAAA title.
Jason Jolly, boys basketball, Stone Bridge, Ashburn, Va.
Senior guard scored a school-record 50 points in an 88-83 overtime defeat of Edison (Alexandria) in the a state 5A quarterfinal on Saturday.
Ross Palazzo, boys swimming, Hudson, Ohio
Florida signee broke a 10-year-old state record in the 100-yard breaststroke Saturday at the state Division I meet in Canton, finishing in 54.35 seconds.
Tucker Russell, boys swimming, Lander Valley, Lander, Wyo.
Senior won all four events he entered in the state 3A meet last weekend, winning the 200-meter individual medley in 1 minute, 59.55 seconds, the 100 backstroke in 53.99, leading Lander Valley to a win in the 400 freestyle relay and swimming on a state-record 200 medley relay team that finished in 1:39.15.
Muhammed Zahr, boys basketball, Fordson, Dearborn, Mich.
Senior point guard set a school single-game scoring record with 50 points and 10 rebounds in a 69-34 defeat of Garden City on Thursday.