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Temescal Canyon, Elsinore High Schools in CIF Dual Meet Wrestling Tournament

The No. 4-seeded Titans and the Tigers will vie for the CIF Division 3 Dual Meet title Saturday.

Bleed Silver. Sweat Blue.

's wrestling team might want to add one more line to that motto -- Finish Undefeated.

The Titans enter Saturday's CIF Division 3 Dual Meet Finals without a loss this season at 17-0. Seeded fourth in Division 3, the Sunbelt League champion will face Channel Islands, an at-large team from the Pacific View League.

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was also given an at-large berth and will face Pioneer League champ South Torrance in the first round.

Both Sunbelt League teams will compete Saturday at Carter High School in Rialto. Weigh-ins are at 9 a.m. with first-round matches starting at 11 a.m.

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Temescal Canyon has every intention of finishing with a perfect record this season, coach Tim Collins said. But the entire team knows they must be at their best Saturday and overlook no one.

"We know we'll have to be at our best every single round," Collins said. "It's kind of difficult to anticipate (prepare for a team) if you haven't seen them in a dual meet. We're not worried about who we're wrestling but how we're preparing."

The Titans are led by 215-pound Michael Palafox, the Riverside County champion at his weight class and heavyweight Phillip White, who was a CIF individual finalist last year.

Elsinore has a strong roster at each weight, including 135-pounder Arthur Santore-Tovar.

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