The San Dimas line plowed the road in the win over Whittier. Here Fadi Zaki (75) paves the way for Austin Rivera (28).
High school football scores from around the Mid Valley area:
Thursday
South Hills 19 San Juan Hills 7
South El Monte 28 Nogales 21
Glendora 21 Charter Oak 7
St. Paul 31 Los Altos 25 2 OT
Pomona 53 El Rancho 27
Friday
San Marino 76 El Monte 36
Alhambra 20 Temple City 2
Gladstone 32 Mountain View 13
Don Lugo 35 Monrovia 28
El Dorado 30 Cal 20
Rosemead 16 La Puente 7
San Dimas 49 Whittier 14
Northview 51 West Covina 6
South Pasadena 7 East Side 6
Rowland 35 Walnut 14
Arroyo 56 Schurr 16
Azusa 28 Maranatha 18
San Gabriel 61 Marshall 9
Mayfair 20 Lakewood 6
Bonita 47 Poly 28
Hart 31 Arcadia 27
St. Francis 38 Damien 21
Ayala 14 Diamond Ranch 6
La Serna 23 Mira Costa 20
Sierra Canyon 42 Redondo Union 7
Paraclete 49 Quartz Hill 6
Pasadena 30 Pioneer 28
Crescenta Valley 42 Montebello 26
Western 56 Baldwin Park 8
Viewpoint 33 Duarte 25
Claremont 48 Diamond Bar 47
Bozo why do you keep talking about the Monrovia coach, what is your obsession with him? Is it because arcadia is trash with or without you? My team is on a role! We are going to beat the breaks off arcadia! You guys aren’t even making the playoffs and you were talking State before the season! Shut yo Bozo @** up and shave that ugly disgrace of a pube hair looking thing you call a beard growing from your face. You suck so much that the Big D1 LB you got can’t get better than a D3 offer. He’s way better than that but you wouldn’t be able to tell because hes playing for arcadia! Sucks to be you BOZO MAXIE! Cant wait till everyone really leaves nezt season and com back home! And you cant really claim Dena if you went to Marshall!
Bro, Arroyo won big because you were there! The best Get Back Coach and Assistant to the Assistant ever! I’m sure you were glad you got the night off as Chain Gang though right?
And please! I know you and your pops are sweating the EM game. Arroyo is NOT San Marino. If they put up 36 on SM. They can put up points on you guys. Don’t worry though, I still have you clowns winning a high scoring game 42-35. But you never know. Funny things happen when you pound the rock so effectively.
Hey Williams, how did Monrovia do against a winless Don Lugo team last night? Stay off the blogs Williams the Monrovia admin and and fans don’t like losing! They had high hopes for you, but are learning very quickly that NV looks as good or better without you, and Monrovia is worse off with you. Coach it up!
@-maverick- well said and truth be told! Big test next week vs colony but our boys are up too the task and in all divisions! Full steam ahead! No one fell off we’ve been fallen on! Drl putting it down!
La Serna just keeps rolling, going to be tough for anyone to dethrone them.
Mira Coast to beat Saint Francis last week that’s an impressive win
When I come on these blogs I see all the talk about Arroyo and El Monte…. Why??? Their in Division 8 and 13.
If they played a good team like La Serna they would lose by 50… Last year you guys were all talking about how LS would fall off the map because the Beltran era is gone. Well I’m not going to jump to conclusions about this years team, but we’re off to a great start 3-0 and we just beat a good Mira Costa team (Yes Mira Costa beat St Francis this year) and L S beat them in all levels Freshmen and JV.
That says a lot for La Serna’s program!
Oh its a JV team!! You guys pounded your chest when you beat up on BG when they had more than half of the starters were sophomores. How does it feel karma.
La serna 23-20 over Mira costa, looking like a well oiled machine! @ colony next week.
@lol No we beat Schurr! As Schurr was always meant to be. You count on Xfers you get this from time to time! Either way Schurr woulda lost with or without them. Does Schurr expect pitty? You want me to feel sore for these guys? They flirted with the rules and got caught to nobody’s fault but their own!
You literally just beat a JV team… it’s like saying grass is green or the ocean is wet.
Never one to say I told you so… but I told you so! Schurr always gives up big points vs Arroyo and this year I thought 50 would be the number. Spot on prediction. Here’s the thing we’re still young and getting better everyday.
Ohhhh EL MONTE how’d that taste? Lol
Still only just El Monte and don’t ever forget it lol. Well at least this puts to rest all the “is he D1 talk” the answer is a resounding NO! But hobbie might be lol. What a performance albeit against the kitties from EM
Cathedral is a BUY
Blue Horseshoe likes the Phantoms and it’s new coaching staff.
Apparently, the school has made some good moves with a new staff. Doing it with less, sure sign of real coaching.
The kid you’re talking about is still a year away, solid hard working true Pico product home grown kid, however let’s not write those checks quite yet.
Make no mistake that LA’s team IS younger than last year’s team, and they still gave St. Paul an extremely competitive game. SP is better and older than their team was last year. But SP will struggle in the playoffs because their passing game is weak. I was there last night, and if it wasn’t for SP’s solid defensive unit, LA would’ve won. They have 2-3 guys that can truly run the football. When their run game is neutralized, they are uncomfortable throwing the rock. Mark my words.
Yeah speaking to that kid. I know he doesn’t miss any practice. He’s itching to get on the field for the varsity. And yes he’s definitely going to be valuable. I didn’t know that they didn’t let him play. He should get some reps but I can see them saving him for league on var
JB one kid can’t beat a team and I don’t know well coached the jv squad is. And you have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA which kid I’m talking about!!!!! But it’s hilarious to think that you do. A kid like this normally doesn’t go to ER… trust! I work at the school so I’d know. We don’t need your luck we just need our back end of the defense to defend
That’s because I’m assuming he’s a transfer and theirs rules to bringing a kid up from jv. I’m not sure, but you surely are confident about what’s going to happen at seasons end and where each team will end up at. I’m just gonna let you talk your smack, and wait for you to eat crow on your hating
Pomona had some fast athletes but they weren’t John Muir… what killed us was mental toughness. It could of been a scoring shootout, but when refs forget what down it is and blown coverages and missed open tackles will hurt you big time. The offense is pretty good 3 games into season. I could see a big win next week vs. Montebello
The St. Paul -Los Altos tussle was a good matchup because both teams still have the memory of past glory. This brought-out the competitive juices, both on-field and online, which is what makes high school football so great. Best of luck to both programs as they fight for their spot in the middle.
After the first game which was terrible. I saw ER put a complete game together against BG. Our offense won’t underachieve this year best believe. And once DBs learn to cover and pass deflect balls they can be really good.
@coach, quit using youth as your scapegoat. You clearly have much more talent than last years team did and the fact that they’re underclassmen is an advantage because you have them for the future. You also had 20plus transfers so stop with the youth excuse and coach em up.
ERSupporter
I couldn’t agree with you more about Thursday games. Getting up for work was a struggle this morning Haha.
But yeah, refs are almost never perfect but this was beyond the norm. Plus the announcer/ commentator just annoyed me all night.
Yeah I really like ERs O- line. And don’t forget, our D- line missed out on at least 5 sacks. Our DBs need work. Their were so many times all they had to do is swat the ball to the ground and then it’s a 3&out instead of a conversion of 1st down. Yes this kid is probably the most athletic then el rancho has ever had period. He’s fast. Plays RB I believe but i could see him playing strong safety as well. I’m going to see the kid play next Thursday afternoon.
arcadia about to take that BIG “L” tonight!
@ Anonymous, Your statement and I quote “Last years team was also sophomore heavy…” that does not make any sense. If that were true, it would have made this year’s team with more juniors than sophomores and seniors combined. which is not the case. Regarding lineman, I believe most of the boys on the sideline who could play the line, are sophomores who are JV’s players still learning the position. It would be unfair to put them into that situation. Alas, coaches with Tunnel Vision, please explain how you come to that conclusion. Unless you understand the game plan, the players you have, the opposing teams strengths and weakness you have no clue what you are talking about.
Out coached? maybe if your boy made more tackles or catches LA would have won! Same ol same ol LA parents.
Remember the day of St Paul competing in D-1 and making noise… how far they have fallen to thump their chest about winning a D5 game.
Football is a game where the only thing that matters is the scoreboard.
Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda, doesn’t count.
I was pulling for Los Altos last night. Mistakes cost them. Welcome to football!
Been there! We know what’s it’s like to go down to the end and come up short. But any team that loses a close one to another team wants the team they lost to to do good. The better they look the better you look. Still, hats off to L.A. They will only get better. And their chances of getting another shot at St. Paul is pretty good. I hope they make a statement next week at home vs Glendora.
I also was pulling for P-Town. Glad to see they pulled it off. Nothing against ER, I just am a homer for teams that used to be in our league.
But it’s preseason and coaches try different thing and take more chances than they might normally do in league games. So, lighten up on your teams, go with the flow, and remember the ONLY thing that matters is your kids out there getting a lifetime of memories.
You “St. Paul Guys” are delusional @StPaul homer. Stop acting like Al Bundy and trying to live in the past. Under Coach Zepeda SP is 18-27! You got booted from the Mission League, Angelus League and are currently in the weak Del Rey League that has a combined record of 1-7 excluding SP. Although the Swordsmen are much improved, they are far from the top tier program they once were. So don’t go putting down other programs, Los Altos with a much younger team gave you all you could handle.
There will always be disgruntled parents, last night LA had a few opportunities to win the game but the coach’s failed. Last years team was also sophomore heavy so their lack of maturity falls on the coaching staff. The biggest problem LA has is the coaching staff seems to have tunnel vision, there is no reason their linemen should be going both ways. They have a sideline full of boys who could have played, the big boys were tired and it showed they did give it their all though hats off to them. @LaParent has a good point #88 is a beast! He has fine turned his skills but there are other players. How does your MVPs from last season who are still working their ***** off not get any playing time? Those guys are linemen too
My thoughts on last nights game were that Los Altos could have won before the end of regulation had they played a bit more disciplined. I applaud Coach Brown because the team has definitely exceeded the early expectations and are playing good football. This game showed me they are playoff material but not a championship team… yet. There are things they will need to improve on and that is primarily the quarterback play and finding a go-to running back. The quarterback lacks arm strength and it showed with two early interceptions that lead to them being down 10-0 early on. Not only that but he needs to learn to throw the ball away, there were many times when he forced the pass which could have easily lead to more picks. This, of course, is something he will need to improve on during the offseason or else I can definitely see his spot taken if someone better were to transfer in. In terms of the running back play, you can only use Zaldivar in so many places. He is obviously your best offensive weapon but he is definitely a much better receiver than running back. This year, in my opinion, should be used to get better and add experience to those young talented sophomores and juniors that will only get better next year. This team does not have a dominant player on either side of the ball as prior years with Nevens, Olmos Tolmachoff or Jimenez but, they play hard and will only get better as the season progresses. By the way, #49 is a stud linebacker, I definitely enjoyed watching him play at full force every play. Its only week 3 but this season has been very interesting so far.
@ER:
As someone who has been heavily involved in the DRL the last 7 seasons, I have seen CAL and ER underachieve at an astounding level. Both schools have near/over 3000 students and continually fight to not be in the bottom 3. ER has been losing kids to St. Paul and WUHSD schools left and right. ER was pretty good under Lopez 2014 but since then has taken some pretty tough L’s to the likes of Cal and Pioneer. But who know, it could all be fake news.
Kinda annoying to hear these big predictions of greatness. Let’s stop with this O-Line is special talk for now, we are 1-2 although that’s probably exactly where we should be. A team like Pomona with its atheletes can really stretch the field and exploit smaller DB’s easily, not sure if they have a new Head Coach but to me they seemed much better coached than last year. ER needs to capitalize on red zone opportunities, we’ve left so many points on the board in the first 3 games and it’s killing us. As of right now we don’t look like we will make too much noise in league, but that’s why the game is played, this is not an X’s and O’s issue, it’s jimmys and jo’s.
This game should have not been close. We should have been up 28-0 in the first half if we had Allen at RB but he did not play. He would have punched the ball in on short plays for td’s. Than with 30 seconds left in the half we fumble the ball inside our 20 yard line and gifted a TD to make the game close at half time. The next time we play Los Altos it will not be close, but I don’t see it happening. They still got to get by school in their league. Yeah they beat Covina which usually plays better as the season go along. Remember Covina could not beat Arroyo in weeks 0 in the passed.
88 is the real deal, he beat us last year with I think 3 td’s. This year we held 88 in check, but he still made two td’s. This kid will be playing somewhere in college.
ER doesn’t give JV any priority, there is a RB who could have played that whole game and and they won’t let him because he is too valuable for varsity especially with our RB depth going from deep to non existent. That’s the only kid who might shock this league and he never misses practice, not sure who else you’re talking about.
Wow let’s relax a bit with these predictions.
LA had this game but hats off to St.Paul but in the end dont understand why LA in OT would go for it on 4th and 3 get the points and let your defense play, look what happen after they went for it LA got an unsportmanship penalty which pretty sealed the deal for STP to steal the game…..Bad decision making or arrogance on pary of LA coaching staff. It was an important game for LA.
@LaParent, I don’t know what game you watched,. LA was not out coached. If that was case, LA should have been blown out, as many had predicted. What you saw last night, was a heavy sophomore laden LA team go up against a heavy laden Senior St. Paul team. The boys from Los Altos went toe to toe, especially that defense. Los Altos has a bright future. But since you created this comment, you must be a disgruntled parent. Instead of bashing the team why not support them, because no one is giving them chance. Last night’s game, was huge confidence builder for Los Altos. Great job!
St Paul Los Altos was a great game. Saldivar is a baller for LA. St Paul is old school punch you in the face defense is great. Both teams were sloppy at times but defense was awesome!
SEM lucky win. If 24 played soft Nogales you guys would’ve lost. He got hurt against the Knights! So…. consider yourselves lucky!
@PhillyB
I agree! I’m not one to say it’s the refs fault, but they were really bad last night! Not to take anything away from Pomona, especially their RBs. Great athletes.
I’ve been saying all along that this O-line is special. I haven’t watched JV play, looks like I need to check out their games.
Can I just say Thursday night games suck? Makes it hard for this old man to get to work on Friday.
@DRL, Defense rounding the corner? They give up 48 against Northview, 28 against Bellgardens and 56 against Pomona……ha! Some defense. Won league, are you serious? The staff well let’s just say they are seasoned but not looking very good right now. Good thing is that the next 3 games are games that are winnable
I love everyone who keeps talking up ER. ER will struggle to take 3rd place and will miss the playoffs. If you have a stud on JV, why is he not on Varsity? I guess ER is ok with going 2-3 in preaseason. They shouldn’t be if they fighting for an at-large bid.
DRL standings:
LS
Whittier
SF
ER
Cal
El Rancho will beat Cantwell and Baldwin Park and that is it! El Rancho goes 3-7 (0-4 in the Del Rio League). Medrano is lucky he was promoted to AD, the last few coaches at El Rancho to have back to back losing seasons were fired. As for the JV, I was at the Bell Gardens vs. El Rancho game and at one point BG was up 28-6 and ended up winning 28-22 or something like that. The kid you are talking about misses practice at least twice a week, he isn’t the savior! Good luck EL Rancho, you are going to need it!
What a hell of a game st paul vs los Altos. Good job Los altos for a team whom was supposed to get there butt kick you guys showed up to play. You guys had the game despite the fact of how young you guys are but the immaturity showed with that unsportsmanlike penalty that costed the game..cant wait to see you guys in the playoffs
Cathedral Phantoms are ready for Loyola next week by defeating Carson 41-0.
Heard something very interesting tonight at CDF while watching SH dismantle a huge San Juan Hills team. Their varsity coaching staff coaches all 3 levels Frosh, JV and varsity. After seeing them play I don’t know how they don’t have transfers lining up and 8th grade kids wanting to go there. That team and coaching staff is the real deal.
Pomona won…. they’re big receivers were faster then ranchos DBs, but the REFS were straight garbage. Missed calls took forever to set the ball and start the clock!!!!! Pomona is not 25 points better then el rancho…. maybe 14 but that’s it!!! El rancho will make noise in league play. Mark my words. Gotta kid in JV that’s gonna shock the league especially with our O- line
We should have won that game. We were outcoached. We had more talent and 88 is a year older.
I still think ER wins league. That defense is coming around the corner. All star staff is ready to peak.
Final Cathedral 41-Carson 0. The Phantoms have a Great Defense to go along with it’s Offense. Next up for The Phantoms Loyola.