The Temecula Valley Golden Bears won this past Thursday’s home conference match against Vista Murrieta by a score of 3-0. With the win Temecula Valley (13-2, 5-1) now claims a share of the Southwestern League leader board with a statement making sweep of Vista Murrieta (13-8, 5-1).

The Golden Bears, who have now won six straight matches, jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the first set and never looked back as they took the sets 25-14, 25-15 and 25-14. Madison Snow was Temecula Valley’s standout player in the sweep.

The following day, on Friday, Sept. 29, Vista Murrieta headed to Arizona and lost their first match of the Nike TOC match against Desert Vista High School by a score of 0-2 and dropped their second match to Sierra Canyon 0-2 as well. The score for their third match against Casteel has yet to have been recorded (at time of publishing).

Temecula Valley has the weekend off and will play Chaparral (16-6, 2-3) and Murrieta Mesa (17-9, 1-4) in the upcoming week.

JP Raineri can be reached by email at sports@reedermedia.com.

JP Raineri

JP is an award-winning multimedia journalist and head of the sports department at the Valley News. A former Southwestern League head baseball coach and former President of the Temecula Youth Baseball League, he has also worked as a local radio personality for All Pro Broadcasting and as a television host for the Outdoor Channel. When he’s not covering sports, JP works in the Media Technology Department for Major League Baseball.