The shock, grief and emptiness that swept the Lompoc High campus Tuesday carried extra weight in the football office.

Brice Fabing, Mike Terrones and Darrell Solorio were all members of coach Robin Luken/s Los Padres League-leading football team.

Fabing and Terrones died from injuries they suffered as the result of a car crash Monday night on North A Street. As of late Tuesday night, Solorio was clinging to life at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. (See story Page A1)

Solorio is a member of the senior class. Fabing was also a senior while Terrones was in his junior year.

Practice for Friday/s contest against Santa Maria was cancelled Tuesday.

Athletic Director Dick Barrett said the schedule for the school/s other fall sports 7 tennis, water polo, volleyball, golf and cross country 7 would go on as scheduled.

&#8220I called the coaches into my office for a meeting Tuesday afternoon,C said Barrett. &#8220They all wanted to play. The feeling was that the boys would want us to go on.C

After the Braves tennis match against Morro Bay, coach Loretta Jensen said, &#8220We were playing for the boys. Jani (Carmona 7 Lompoc/s No. 1 singles player) said after winning two of her three sets &#8220I won two of those sets 7 one for Mikey, one for Brice.C

&#8220They were my guys,C said Luken with an unaccustomed catch in his voice.

&#8220It happened right where I Iive. I wasn/t home yet, but the neighbors heard it.C

Luken was called by police to help identify the victims.

Fabing was the team/s placekicker.

Recently he had begun to score without fail on extra points and from increasing distance on field goal attempts. He converted six PAT/s last Friday night at St. Joseph and added a 45-yard field goal in Lompoc/s 47-0 victory.

&#8220He missed a field goal against Paso Robles and a field goal and an extra point at Los Altos,C Luken remembered.

&#8220The other kids got on him. He needed to go out and work on his own, and he did. He/s improved dramatically. He was the leading scorer from kicks in the league.C

In addition to football, Fabing was the Braves starting varsity defender in soccer.

He had begun playing the roundball sport in Lompoc AYSO when he was eight.

Rick McDonald, now the LHS varsity coach, began coaching him a year later.

&#8220Other than the first year, I was the only coach he ever had in soccer,C said McDonald.

&#8220I coached him in the regular season and in all-stars. In U-14, the Crazy Legs were named after him. We called him Crazy Legs because he would get beat on defense but he could always get back and recover. He could get a leg in there.

&#8220He was on the Phenomenon national champion U-12 team in 2000 and he was on Phenomenon II in 2002 when we were second.C

Besides Fabing the Phenoms included such names as Jaymo Baca, Matt McDonald, Rolando Beltran, Daniel McNutt, Mikey Seelandt and Chris Thiele.

&#8220He was one of the kids who was never upset,C said McDonald. &#8220He never complained about drills, nothing. He was one who you could always count on. He was going to be a force for us this year.C

Fabing also played tennis earier in his Lompoc High career. He recently told Braves girls tennis coach Loretta Jensen that he was thinking about trying out for the boy/s team again during the Spring sports season.

Solorio was a key player on the Braves special teams.

Not one of the starting 11, he was a blue-collar guy, making his reputation on special teams, most notably on kickoffs. &#8220He busted his buns all the time,C said Luken.

Solorio did so well against Santa Ynez two weeks ago that he won an invitation from Luken to dine on free pizza at the North County Athletic Round Table Monday luncheon 7 normally the province of first-stringers.

&#8220He was one I was going to take for burgers again,C said Luken. &#8220Against Santa Ynez, he was the one who caused them to fumble on the 15-yard line. Then last week he made a tackle inside the 20. Every week he was making one inside the 20. He took real pride in it.C

Terrones. a backup center, had played the position in YFL where he was moved to a higher division due to his size and as a starter on the LHS freshman team.

This year he battled for playing time yet refused to quit.

&#8220Yesterday he didn/t make the six-and-one-half,C Luken said, referring to a speed-and-endurance drill which is a Brave requirement to suit up each week.

&#8220I scolded him. Those were the last words I spoke to Mike Terrones. Thirty minutes after practice he was dead. That/s what/s eating me the most. It leaves you with a sense of incompleteness.

&#8220I went over to see his father and apologize. Sometimes there are a few more important things in life than football. It/s a hard lesson.

&#8220Mikey hadn/t missed practice or weights or anything,C Luken said. &#8220He had the perfect attendance patch going.C

The Santa Maria-Lompoc game will be played as scheduled Friday night at Hutck Stadium. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m.

Sports writer John McReynolds can be reached at 737-1055, or jmcreynolds@lompocrecord.com. Sports Editor Elliott Stern contributed to this story.

November 2, 2005