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The TEN

(“The Ten” is not a top ten, but ten items worth being included in The TEN)

1.) The Friday night edition of “The Mid Valley Sports Show” is LIVE tonight (10:30 PM) at www.midvalleysports.com (Click on UStream button)

2.) Verlander.

3.) San Dimas at Baldwin Park tonight 7:PM

4.) Dodgers and Cardinal open NLCS tonight in St. Louis (5:37 PST)

5.) On this date in 2002 Arcadia defeated Rancho Cucamonga 23-13, thanks largely to a defense that shutdown the RC offense and accounted for two safeties. The first coming in the opening quarter when Justin North and Samson Jagoras trapped quarterback Justin Zellhauer in the end zone. The second came in the final period when Reese Phillips tackled Zellhauer behind the goal line. Brian Ziska added a pair of short touchdown runs, and Michael Howe (94 yards rushing) added another as the Apaches improved to 5-0 on the season.

6.) The entire Tri-Valley League (Nordhoff, Bishop Diego, Oak Park, Carpinteria, & Santa Paula) owns a winning record. Combined they are 26-2.

7.) “Oh he’s a bad man, he’s a very bad man,”—Former Duarte HC Wardell Crutchfield Jr. on September 2, 2005 after sophomore running back Chris Harris secured the Falcons 24-20 victory over the Marshall Eagles. Crutchfield was on the sideline of the Duarte-Gladstone football game Thursday night, and so was Harris, who helps out with the team and is a middle-school teacher in the district.

8.) “I don’t Joe, what do you think? Shouldn’t teams take all the money they spent on buying all this pink stuff and just donate it to breast cancer research?”—Rio Hondo Alum (Photographer) Keith Birmingham to Joe Torosian after seeing Duarte come out with its pink gear to raise breast cancer awareness.

9.) According to MaxPreps Sierra Vista running back Justin Torres has rushed for 1,007 yards so far this season.

10.) Temple City last beat Monrovia in 2006. The Wildcats have won the last six games by a combined score of 208 to 49.