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Saturday, December 10, 2005Go Aztecs!My alma mater, Esperanza High is playing in the CIF Southern Section Division I football championship game tonight against Loyola at the Home Depot Center. This is the first time that Esperanza has been in a championship game since 1992, when they tied arch rival Los Alamitos for the Division II championship. The game starts at 7:30 PM PST and I think it is being shown on KCAL, for anyone that cares.
UPDATE: Unfortunately, the Aztecs lost 49-42. They held a 42-35 lead (after being down 28-14 at the half) with 2 minutes left in the game. They gave up a really quick TD and then fumbled the kick off return and gave up another quick TD. Thanks to Joe for keeping me posted on the game. Comments:hey josh, guess are fellow aztecs alums. hah.. go esperanza. ps aren't we supposed to have class reunions every now and then?, I am approaching 10 years.. Hey thats funny you went to esperanza because i went to los al. We dominated you guys during the time I went there but now things have turned in favor for you. My brother played for Los Al this year and got destroyed when he played them. Hey but at least it's nice to see the Sunset League represented in the Division I championship game Yeah, when I went, Esperanza actually did pretty well against Los Al after a few years of sucking (I think from the aforementioned 1992 game until my Freshman year, when we beat a Los Al team that had won something like 40 straight regular season games). I graduated in 1999, so my 10 year reunion is a few years away. Jeff Howe from League of Angels also indicated he is an Esperanza alumnus here. Small, small world. Oh, and one of my college roommates (for 3 years actually) was from Los Al. wow, well, if it ain't an Aztec reunion, Class of '96. Go figure. Use to love playing Los Al in polo, best game of the year (because we always beat them). I was in wrestling and it was the same way (they stunk). My first varsity match was against them, my Sophomore year, a surprise bump up from Frosh-Soph (our JV was a mixture of second string varsity and FS, so I was essentially the second dtring wrestler at the 130 weight class). Anyways, I barely made weight (it was the first time I actually had to cut weight, but it was just two pounds), and the guy I was wrestling had enormous arms and was a senior. I was up 3-2 going into the 2nd period and the Griffin took bottom. I tried breaking him down for about 15 seconds with a half nelson and he wasn't budging, so I was moving to something else, and he fell down. I still had the half nelson in, so I just flipped him over and pinned him. And I was not a wrestler who pinned many people. Good times. |
