On Oct. 4, 2014 Capo Valley JV teammates and best friends Matthew Melo and Alex Sotelo, both 14, died in a car crash coming home from Knott’s Berry Farm. Melo, of Mission Viejo, and Sotelo, of San Juan Capistrano, along with three other passengers, perished when the vehicle they were in careened out of control on Interstate 5 near the 133 toll road. The vehicle went off the freeway and ended up on an embankment, killing everyone on board, except for the unlicensed 16-year-old driver.
Matthew Melo and Alex Sotelo will always be remembered.