High School Football scores from around the area:
Thursday September 8
Sierra Vista 60 Bassett 13
Glendora 34 Los Altos 7
Walnut 40 Rowland 0
Bell Gardens 65 South El Monte 0
Downey 56 California 6
Diamond Bar 34 Montclair 7
Bellflower 60 Glenn 6
Friday September 9
Northview 42 Covina 12
Temple City 40 Mt. View 26
La Salle 48 Rosemead 0
Ayala 41 Monrovia 0
Hoover 44 Duarte 0
Schurr 45 Baldwin Park 28
Mission Viejo 41 Sierra Canyon 0
Brentwood 48 Burbank 6
La Serna 27 Tesoro 21
Charter Oak 16 Chino Hills 15
Mayfair 27 Lakewood 8
San Gabriel 47 Glendale 0
El Rancho 40 Montebello 14
SPXSMA 47 St. Francis 22
Pomona 28 Ganesha 7
Pasadena 15 Loyola 14
West Ranch 35 St. Paul 0
Moorpark 41 Crescenta Valley 7
Franklin 44 Alhambra 9
Fillmore 38 San Marino 7
Mater Dei 35 La Mirada 0
South Pasadena 12 Heritage Christian 0
Saturday September 10
Bonita 21 San Dimas 13
West Covina 42 South Hills 0
SF wasn’t taking kids from the Whittier area, they were digging into Downey, Norwalk, Compton area, they won 5 straight league titles but it never felt like SF was an all star team they just had a handful of standouts every year, Taminich, Jackson, Pellum, Gardley, Cleaveland, Kimbrough, teams in the DRL kept it competitive every year because the district wasn’t aiding SF, the way they are aiding LS.
Anonymous,
People said the same thing about the Chiefs back then, people just didn’t have Social Media or these types of forums to amplify those statements
Victim? I’m not playing a victim, just stating facts. It’s not the right thing to have La Serna, La Habra, and Monrovia in leagues where they are far and above superior to everyone else. Doesn’t make sense. It’s the same way with LB Poly in the Moore League. The Big VIII found a way to mix it up after years of Centennial dominance so there can be some more competitive games. The newly found Gateway league is doing it as are several others. But not the Del Rio, Freeway, Rio Hondo, or Moore Leagues. It does a disservice to the ones on top and to the ones at the bottom.
What I am saying is that now more than ever, it is important for leagues to be equitable. Having 1 team in Division 3 and all others in division 10 and below kind of ruins the system that is being created. I went back and looked. Santa Fe wasn’t beating big power house teams back during their run. They were even losing to teams like Schurr and Alhambra. La Serna, La Habra, and Monrovia. should be proud of their work. They should be celebrated for their work. They should get more recognition for their work. But they should not be the neighborhood bully either. I credit those teams for stepping up their non-league schedule.
The “everyone gets a trophy” argument is tired and is only used by the ones in a situation where they keep getting the trophy. If you don’t want to live in the “everyone gets a trophy” generation then find a way to step into a more competitive league. Those teams literally have to just show up to win their league.
I see a lot of excuses of why me, poor me. SMH. Stop playing the victim.
@FBfan Playing the victim? Get better! LS isn’t Bosco or amat but I don’t see them whining?
Love how no one cried when Santa Fe was top dawg in the Whittier Area in the early 2000s but when LS is now everyone wants to boot them out.
Cry harder guys. Make up whatever all-star takes you want but the fact remains that LS is doing it right with undersized kids against bigger and better programs in non-league games and in the playoffs.
It’s easy to win when you’re an all star team composed of all the top talent from Whittier, parts of la habra, La mirada, Santa Fe springs, Norwalk and throw in bits of pico rivera and hacienda heights, to top it all off you don’t even need to borrow an adress, LS will allow you right in with their open enrollment application period, easy peasy.
Blame the WUHSD: Some superintendent likes to favor La Serna. He/she allows La Serna to pick and choose what athletes they want as incoming students. They always have room for football stars. Meanwhile Whittier, Cal. Pioneer and Santa Fe limp along fielding teams that are 3rd tier because all the good players in their attendance area have been poached by La Serna. Pioneer got out but too late. Their program is dead even with the biggest stadium around. Santa Fe and Whittier are heading in the same direction. La Serna folks are fine with the status quo. They are absolutely guaranteed a playof spot every year by just showing up. LS does not have the class to step up and compete for a playoff spot. They just beat a team that plays in one of the toughest leagues in the US. But they prefer to play Whittier almost 100 points in rating difference for a league championship? Cmon now. And yet they cry about being neglected. Time for the School Board to step up because the district won’t.
@Dude,
I agree with Anonymous. They put up over 400 yards against Monrovia. I’m not even sure Ayala did that. But you make a good point, El Rancho is a D10 team and La Serna is a D3 or D2 team. Why doesn’t La Serna move onto a league that it is more comparable with them? The other surrounding districts have seemed to figure this out, but not the Whittier area districts. It’s easy to schedule “step up” games when you’re in a league that you’ve outgrown. Do you guys like being the neighborhood bully?
@Anonymous, 30 points against who? c’mon Dogg ER plays weaker teams to pad their stats. They get shut out every year by La serna and are a D10 team. ER scares no one.
The ER offense is legit, they just don’t have the horses that LS does.
@Anonymous,
While you make a good point about not pandering about everyone getting a trophy. You have to think about schools like La Serna, La Habra, and Monrovia. They want to stay in their leagues because they want that trophy. CIF has made it clear they want equity and there isn’t much equity in the current model for some of these leagues. All you have to do is take one look at Monrovia and one look at Temple City and you know they don’t belong on the same field. Sure, Temple City can get better, but the opportunity to get better doesn’t present itself when they have to play Monrovia. And the Del Rio League doesn’t even make sense geographically. La Serna is at minimum a 20-25 minute drive from Santa Fe and/or El Rancho.
@Dude,
Not an ER fan here, but that “booty backyard offense” averages over 30 points a game and had over 400 yards against Monrovia. And it’s been producing those kind of results for years.
LS don’t scare anyone … believe that.
Leave our league alone, if anything bring one more team to our league so we can get 3 automatic bids for playoff
I would love to get a league like the new gateway style ! Each league will be competitive…. Leave LS bring La Habra but they won’t want to lose Orange County coverage
HAHA ER fans are like cowboy fans. You are not at the level with that booty backyard offense
Both Rosemead’s get in?
@Anonymous
No one is scared of ER lol. And re-organizing leagues once a team has won 5 years in a row? Give me a break, Santa Fe should have been out after the early 2000s then but look at them now. Sounds like you’re the one who is scared lmao.
Stop crying and get better.
No re-leaguing, keep leagues area specific and if a team is terrible we’ll get better do better, stop pandering to this everyone gets a trophy era
BG has beat Garfield more than once
Hahaha. La Serna would be league Champs against these schools they need more competition not these schools
@Lol2 is absolutely right. Anonymous, your leagues are good with 1 exception, La Serna is head and should above every single one of those leagues. They should be with La Habra and La Mirada or they should go in the super league with Downey and Warren.
Did Monrovia field their JV squad against Ayala?
oh no here come the obnoxious LS fans hating on ER
you sound scared of ER
bottom line, League Reclassifications should be made once a team wins league 5years in a row or something to that sort.
@ Anonymous
Schurr, Montebello and Arroyo? HA HA Bruh you’re not the brightest of the bunch are you?
Stop acting like ER is on the same level as LS.. LS would win it every year the other teams will battle it out including ER there overrated
@regal Eagle
Well 65 points is a lot to give up especially to a team that isn’t that good. So your claim of a defense guru doesn’t hold up. And, Are we just gonna pretend we don’t know why SEM was successful in 17 18 lmfao
By the way your defense of Frank is odd as a matter of fact you sound a lot like , him! Frank is that you? lmfao
@Anon: Boy you are just wrong.. Just before Covid El Rancho played Garfield at Garfield in one of the best game never talked about. ER won 36-35 scoring in the last seconds on a pass play before a packed out Garfield stadium. The sportsmanship shown by Garfield considering they just lost a heartbreaker at home was beautiful as were the Gaarfield fans. The Almont is willing to schedule Garfield, Franklin and Wilson and the results are lop-sided in favor of City. In fact other than Del Rio’s El Rancho the Almont has never beated Garfield. It is to bad those teams are not scheduled more often. I would love to see a Roosevelt El Rancho game as well. They are an easy drive.
What would Montebello or Schurr do in a league with ER and LS, they would literally never make the playoffs because they would finish 4th or worse every year and maybe 1/20 seasons finish 3rd.
It was the third string qb the starting qb is out with a achillies tear after recovering all year previously with a achillies surgery @goldberg
The comment section has devolved from good takes about football to sounding like clips from Mean Girls.
they need to do a re-league
Del-rio , almont , mission.
Del- rio: La Serna, El Rancho, California, Schurr, Montebello, Arroyo,
Almont: Whittier, Santa Fe, Bell Gardens , EL Monte, SEM, Rosemead
Mission Valley: Alhambra, San Gabriel, Gabrielino, Mountain View, Rosemead, Mark Keppel
you can also trade LA SERNA FOR SONORA out of freeway