The Metro Conference follow the general tule of professional hockey with tie games at the end of regulation play advancing to a three-on-three overtime tiebreaker, though shootouts folowing the end of deadlocked overtime haven’t been conducted as of yet this year.
The conference’s first OT game of the 2025-26 season took place Jan. 8 with Southwest and Mar Vista skating to a scoreless extra session as the teams settled for a 1-1 tie in the Metro-South Bay League standings.
Esai Varela scored for Southwest in regulation while Raeden Owen answered for Mar Vista.
‘There was a lot of defense by both teams,” Southwest coach Chris Alvarez said.
Bonita Vista engaged Mar Vista in another low-scoring affair that was settled in overtime on Jan. 13.
Neither team was able to score on the opposing goaltender — Aryk Winters for Bonita Vista and Richard Scarborough for Mar Vista.
The game went to sudden-victory overtime where BV’s Aaron Odvina tallied the tie-breaking goal at 2:48 of overtime for a 1-0 win in the non-league game.
“It was thrilling with us not scoring in the first three periods,” said Odvina, a sophomore.
Odvina had a fabulous freshman season in 2024-25 with 55 points (27 goals, 28 assists) during regular season play as the No. 4 scorer in the conference. He’s retained his scorer’s touch in 2025-26 with four goals each in games against Southwest, San Ysidro and Sweetwater and three goals each against Otay Ranch and Hilltop.
Mar Vista and Southwest met again in a league matchup on Jan. 15 with Mar Vista skating to a narrow 1-0 win on goal by Fernando Corona, assisted by Raeden Owen.
Bonita Vista played another close game on Wednesday — a recurrent theme all season — in a 4-3 overtime loss to Otay Ranch. The Barons lost earlier this season as well to the Mustangs by a 4-3 score.
Otay Ranch freshman sensation Gavin Cirriveau scored all four goals for the Mustangs, including the game-winner.
Metro-Mesa League Standings (through Jan. 21):
Eastlake Titans 4-0 (60-1 goal differential)
Otay Ranch Mustangs 2-2 92-0 vs. Bonita Vista/0-2 vs. Eastlake)
Bonita Vista Barons 0-4 (0-2 vs. Eastlake, 0-2 vs. Otay Ranch)
Overall records: Eastlake 10-0, Otay Ranch 7-3, Bonita Vista 4-6
New horizons
With the official announcement that Castle Park will not be fielding a team this season, the remaining two teams in the Metro-Pacific League have been moved over to the Metro-South Bay League to create a five-team league with each member team playing league opponents twice. The three Metro-Mesa League teams will play each other three times with no schedule adjustments.
Sweetwater and San Ysidro join Hilltop, Mar Vista and Southwest in the revamped Metro-South Bay League lineup. Eastlake, Bonita Vista and Otay Ranch remain in the Metro-Mesa League lineup.
Hilltop remains the Metro-South Bay League leader, having already beaten Sweetwater (12-1) and San Ysidro (6-0) in prior cross-league play. The Lancers defeated San Ysidro, 9-0, on Thursday to improve to 7-0 in league play (revised schedule), 10-1 on the season. Tre Nichols led Hilltop with four goals and two assists while Michael Han logged a hat trick.Brenden Beaver recorded one goal and one assist Ethan Ocequera and Gael Jansen each scored one goal. Zack Rubi tacked on one assist.
In games on Wednesday, Hilltop skated past Mar Vista, 6-1, on the strength of five goals by Nichols and one goal by Han while Sweetwater defeated San Ysidro, 3-1, on two goals by Ryan Lopez and one goal by Phoebe Blas.
Nichols has logged 16 goals in his last four games after opening the season with four goals. He’s not out of the conference goal-scoring race.
Hilltop is 2-0 against both San Ysidro, Southwest and Mar Vista, 1-0 against Sweetwater. The Lancers have one league remaining against Sweetwater. Sweetwater has two league wins against San Ysidro (from prior Metro-Pacific League play) and losses now to Hilltop, Mar Vista and Southwest (from prior cross-league play) for a 2-3 league record (excluding games against Castle Park), 4-6 overall (including two forfeit wins over Castle Park).
San Ysidro is 0-2 against Sweetwater, 0-2 against Hilltop and 0-1 against Southwest (5-0), Otay Ranch (15-0), Eastlake (15-5), Bonita Vista (7-0) and Mar Vista (3-0) for a 2-9 overall record (including two forfeit wins over Castle Park).
Southwest and Sweetwater were scheduled to play on Thursday but a rain delay occurred with just over three minutes to play in the first period with Southwest holding a 2-0 lead on goals by Prince Corpus and Esai Valera.
Eastlake and Bonita Vista were also scheduled to play on Thursday in the nightcap.
All make up games will be played on Tuesday. Jan 27th.
5:00 pm Southwest vs. Sweetwater
5:45 pm Bonita Vista vs. Eastlake
Metro-South Bay League Standings (through Jan. 22)
Hilltop Lancers 7-0
Mar Vista Mariners 3-2-1
Southwest Raiders 2-3-1
Sweetwater Red Devils 2-3
San Ysidro Cougars 0-6
Overall records:
Hilltop 10-1
Mar Vista 4-5-1
Southwest 4-5-1
Sweetwater 4-6
San Ysidro 0-9
Metro Conference Overall Records:
Eastlake Titans 10-0
Hilltop Lancers 10-1
Otay Ranch Mustangs 7-3
Mar Vista Mariners 4-5-1
Soutrhwest Raiders 4-5-1
Bonita Vista Barons 4-6
Sweetwater Red Devils 4-6
San Ysidro Cougars 2-9
Castle Park Trojans 0-10
Metro Conference Roller Hockey Update
Monday, Jan. 12
Metro-South Bay League: Hilltop 5, Southwest 0
Metro-Mesa League: Otay Ranch 4, Bonita Vista 3
Metro-Pacific League: Sweetwater 7, San Ysidro 1
Sweetwater scoring: Phoebe Blas 3 goals, Ryan Lopez 3 goals, Fernando Gonzalez 1 goal, Ian Garcia (goaltender win)
Hilltop scoring: Tre Nichols 3 goals; Michael Han 2 goals
Otay Ranch scoring: Gavin Correveau 2 goals, Santiago Pearson 1 goal, David Hedgecock 1 goal
Tuesday, Jan. 13
Non-League
Eastlake 1, Castle Park 0 (forfeit)
Bonita Vista 1, Mar Vista 0 (OT)
Hilltop 6, Otay Ranch 3
Southwest 5, San Ysidro 0
Hilltop scoring: Tre Nichols 5 goals; Brenden Beaver 3 assists; Michael Han 1 goal
Bonita Vista scoring: Aaron Odvia 1 goal
Wednesday, Jan. 14
Metro-Pacific League: San Ysidro 1, Castle Park 0 (forfeit)
Metro-Mesa League: Eastlake 12, Bonita Vista 0
Metro-South Bay League: Hilltop 6, Mar Vista 2
Eastlake scoring: Chris Rollbusch Jr. 4 hgoals, 2 assists; Sidney Jonason 4 goals, one assist; Jacob Fox 4 goals, 1 assist; Nico Battillo 2 assists; Desi Garcia 2 assists; Kaden Tomasian 1 assist
Thursday, Jan. 15
Metro-Pacific League: Sweetwater 1, Castle Park 0 (forfeit)
Metro-South Bay League: Mar Vista 1, Southwest 0
Metro-Mesa League: Eastlake 18. Otay Ranch 0
Mar Vista scoring: Fernando Corona 1 goal; Raeden Owen 1 assist; Richard Scarborough shutout
Eastlake scoring: Chris Rollbusch Jr. 7 goals, 1 assist; Jacob Fox 3 goals, 1 assist; Sid Jonason 2 goals, 2 assists; Desi Garcia 2 goals, 2 assists; Nico Battilo 2 assists; R. Resano 1 goal; Sam Chavez 1 goal, 1 assist; Kaden Tomasian 2 goals
Metro Conference Standings
Metro-Mesa League: Eastlake 4-0, Otay Ranch 1-2, Bonita Vista 0-3
Metro-South Bay League: Hilltop 3-0, Mar Vista 1-1-1, Southwest 0-3-1
Metro-Pacific League: Sweetwater 3-0, San Ysidro 1-1, Castle Park 0-3
TOP CONFERENCE RECORDS
(Through Jan. 15)
Eastlake 10-0
Hilltop 8-1
Otay Ranch 6-3
Mar Vista 4-4-1
Southwest 4-5-1
Bonita Vista 4-5
Sweetwater 3-6
San Ysidro 2-7
Castle Park 0-10
Eastlake Scoring Leaders
(Through Jan. 15)
C. Rollbusch Jr. 43 gosls, 14 assists – 57 points
J. Fox 38 goals, 17 assists – 55 points
S. Jonason 10 goals, 12 assists – 22 points
D. Garcia 9 goals, 12 assists – 21 points
N/ Battillo 7 goals, 10 assists – 17 points
K. Tomasian 7 goals, 5 assists – 12 points
R. Resano 5 goals, 6 assists – 11 points
S. Chavez 3 goals, 6 assist – 9 points
T. Javier 1 goal, 4 assists – 5 points
S. Kitamura 1 goal, 3 assists – 4 points
