Covina Quarterback Darren Torres
(Covina District Field) – “We look a lot better now than we did in the spring. That’s for sure,” said first year Covina Coach Joe Brown. The Colts are coming off of a season in which they reached the semi finals but have since been hit hard…really hard, by graduation.
Emilio Zertuche is also in the QB battle
“Yeah that team last year was special. They all were seniors at the same time. We have only one starter back on defense,” Brown said,
The Big Boys taking a break
Although they are not the name players that stepped on the field last year, Covina isn’t completley void of talent. Darren Torres, who has been the kicker for Covina the last couple of years, is now in a battle for quarterback with Emilio Zertuche.
It all gets under way “for keeps” next week
“Tonight will go a long way in deciding on the starter. We’ll go back and watch some film,” Brown said.
South Hills QB Adam Goss and first year HC Albert Rodriguez
Both players saw time in the scrimmage Friday night against South Hills. Evan Stretton, who started last year is back at wide receiver along with David Gonzalez. Frankie Ramirez will be the feature back. Justin Turner, Elia Sema and Albert Naranjo will be the guys along the front lines.
Naranjo played last season with a hole in his heart…literally. He had heart surgery and thought that he would never play football again. But has has fully recovered and is now a living breathing miracle and starting for the Colts.
Ready to rock
“It’s quite a story,” Brown said. “Unbelievable.”
Defensively Covina is led by Turner, who will play on both sides of the ball and A.J. Oserio.
Covina opens the season with West Covina next Friday night in game that is going to be televised by Fox. ”At first I was thinking oh no, not in my first game as coach. But then I started thinking the kids are excited about it so it’s good,” said Brown.
Covina then faces La Puente, El Monte ,Walnut and then Northview to start Valle Vista League play.
As for South Hills, quarterback Adam Goss looked good and the skill players made some plays but when you compete in a league with the likes of Charter Oak, Chino Hills, Damien and Ayala, it makes it tough.
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Ummmm covina did good but South Hills was being scouted by Colony….it looked like they weren’t even running all their plays! I didn’t see one counter, which they run well, once! Covina is not fast ahahahaha u kidding me!? Plus I didn’t see Deen and Aiono in for a while, Goss wasn’t in the whole series….man don’t get ahead of urself, South Hills was just playin with yall … South Hills is obviously the better team
Tpeterson,
Idk what scrimmage u were watching,
But the Colts made SH look really bad.
SH was huge physically, but the Colts
Looked decent size compared to them,
The Colts were much quicker and more aggressive
I don’t see SH winning more than 2 games.
If the Colts stay healthy, they will give SD all
They can handle.
Yeah Northview is a Valle Vista League game… Got it…Thanks.
Northview is league play. The winner paints that statue, right? Or did they change the valle vista during the off season?
Yeah Panther Pride is right. They didn’t keep score. If they did South Hills would have won by maybe a touchdown. They looked like the better team. Goss, the quarterback looked solid and they did have some skill players. Covina had one big pass play for a touchdown from Torres to David Gonzalez…Other than that it was mostly South Hills. Could be a tough year for Covina because of the loss of all the players (like I stated above.) Not a big fan of saying who does or doesn’t look good in scrimmages…..a lot of it is scripted. It’s just a glorified practice. It’s more about talking to the coaches and seeing who they like so far on their squad. If you’re asking if Covina will compete this year? Sure. But they might be hard pressed to make the playoffs. They didn’t have big numbers either.
Score? they didn’t keep score.. It was a SCRIMMAGE! ha ha !
So how about a little detail boy’s.
Which team looked like the better team? Was it a game like scrimmage? If so what was the score? How did Covina look? Standout players? Come on Mid Valley give us your honest opinion on this scrimmage.
From Joe T.: I was thinking the same thing. Come on Peterson/Bad News tell me a little about the scrimmage.