High School football scores from around the area:
Thursday November 3
El Modena 15 Pasadena 14
Corona del Mar 30 Ayala 23
Bellflower 30 Bell Gardens 27
Bolsa Grande 42 Duarte 6
Friday November 4
Northwood 63 Monrovia 56
Arroyo 28 San Marino 0
South Pasadena 43 Yucca Valley 35
Lancaster 28 Sierra Vista 16
San Dimas 13 West Covina 0
Yorba Linda 31 Charter Oak 21
Los Altos 34 San Bernardino 20
Baldwin Park 28 Dana Hills 16
Jurupa Valley 47 Azusa 21
Covina 35 Cantwell 23
Mayfair 35 Glendora 28
St Francis 48 Silverado 20
Norwalk 28 Rio Hondo Prep 27
Muir 28 Tustin 21
Canyon 35 Colony 21
Westminster 33 Schurr 7
Bassett 34 South El Monte 14
San Gabriel 28 Alhambra 17
Palos Verdes 14 La Serna 12
Sunny Hills 48 La Salle 22
Campbell Hall 27 La Canada 7
Rosemead 32 Silver Valley 12
Montebello 22 Indio 21
Ramona 27 Northview 17
Maranatha 41 Santa Rosa Academy 22
Downey 38 Santa Barbara 21
Diamond Bar 41 Coachella Valley 10
Palmdale 42 El Rancho 13
Santa Paula 63 El Monte 55
Sierra Canyon 22 Warren 21
Bishop Amat 70 Murrieta Valley 49
@Anon
I wasn’t calling the players special ed, I’m calling having a playoff division 133
a special ed decision by CIF.
What would be really intriguing though instead is, who would be favored in a matchup between Arroyo’s Varsity or any Div 13 team and La Serna’s JV?
Pick’em?
@Area
Yup La Serna took a beating in
that CIF Title game to West Covina.
It must have made the 35-3 run La Serna slapped on West Covina, in their playoff blowout win the very next year, all that much sweeter.
But if you would’ve told me right after La Serna’s 63 pt loss to West Covina in 2011 that from that night on until today, that La Serna would win 63 more games than West Covina, I would have first said you’re crazy, & then said and I’ll take it!
I Like This Scoreboard Better
2012-2022 (GAMES WON)
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La Serna 108
West Covina 45
(LS Wins +63 more than WC)
Really that CIF Title game was a turning point for 2 programs. Ever since,
West Covina has been a loser,
(45-67).
& La Serna has been, well, a Juggernaut.
(108-27).
FB Kharma, perhaps.
@ LS Juggernaut, for someone who claims to have played. You have a having not played way of
disrespecting the players who are playing now and doing their best to enjoy and play the game.
Calling any division the special ED division just makes you sound idiotic.
Area,
You are wrong, WUHSD’s Open Enrollment started about a 3-4 years prior to that Championship Game. West Covina themselves benefitted from their very own recruitment practices that year. If I remember the game correctly, West Covina could have easily scored 100+ points in that Championship Game, had they not taken the foot off the gas after the 3rd quarter!!!! Yikes!!!!!
Oh just stop it, the day La Serna got deflowered 84-21 by West Covina their school board decided they would sacrifice the other schools in the district.
I think I’ll stay awhile, there’s is too much excitement right now and drama to see if Arroyo can go on playoff run and win CIF playoff Div. 130. Aaaahhhhaa
Llllloooollll
Not really, nobody cares about
the Special Ed div. It’s nice of this site to still cover double digit playoff divisions,
though.
@Old School Chief
Ya it seems like the talent level drop off in the area is pretty severe.
For example here is the amount of D1 players I know about from the local area of Whittier, SF Springs, La Mirada, & La Habra/Hts that played HS ball back when I did.
This includes players that went to any of the HS in those cities & players who were from those cities but later moved or went to private schools outside the area.
Football – 50 D1
Basketball – 15 D1
Baseball – 60 D1
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Total – 125 D1 players from while I was in HS from….
1-Whittier
2-SF Springs
3-La Mirada
4-La Habra/Hts
I’m sure there is a few I that I missed, also.
Would be interesting to compare that to recent times.
For anybody that thinks that’s BS, I’ll gladly post the list. We’ve already saw what happened to the ? (the liar guy) he was proven not credible, while proving me to be completely credible. Thanks ? Liar guy.
You are even a bigger idiot than I thought. You with your LS education thinks every post named Anonymous is the same person. Do you have any brain cells left??????
LS: Go away and get a life. Like Peterson told you. nobody wants to read your crap.
@? There’s the lying turd. Well, at least you showed up again, I’ll give you credit for that liar.
I don’t know what was funnier, seeing you cry to Tim P “help Tim the thread is being hijacked” or finding out you are an Arroyo fan. Lololol
Good luck in Div 13 the participation trophy division for special ed.
Arroyo = Division One Hundred & Fifty Six
Ahhhhaahhhaa
@Sportsman
Ya I’m actually going way back 30 years to the early 90’s. LS had some really good teams in the mid 80’s but then Coach Moncrief retired and the FB program fell into the abyss in the late 80’s to mid 90’s.
But it was a participation issue, for example my freshman year out of the 8 teams in the league only BGardens was better, we finished 2nd. Shutout Montebello, Pioneer, Santa Fe, Cal. Even beat Los Altos. But only like 3 or 4 of the 45 guys on that team wound up playing FB all 4 years.
So LS has always had it in them. They just needed to get the players at the school to actually play.
Ken LaVigne was the coach that got LS rolling back to respectability in the late 90’s early 2000. Then Beltran took it to a whole new level and Andy George has a done a tremendous job of maintaining the level of excellence.
The best part is La Serna does it the right way. If you lived anywhere near La Serna why wouldn’t go play for Coach George, he’s an outstanding coach and an even better person.
@LSN. Pretty much. Not sure about Nomar though, he might have lived in Pioneer’s district. About 8 or 9 of those guys I mentioned could have walked out their front door and walked to LS in a couple minutes.
@Anon
The one time I was at his house, while he played at CSUF, he lived in Hac Hts, that’s why I said he was closer to LS than SP but maybe his family moved there after HS so you might be right.
Didn’t LS lose a long time ago in a galaxy far away……….Go Arroyo
Tim Peterson you are a savage haha
LS Juggernaut ? not sure how many years ago ? 15? 20? Back then (focus football only now) LS Football Program ( my opinion with no claim perfectly correct) was head coached by a very nice, good man personally, yet not a real good head coach. So I suggest many of best players in several sports transferred as you stated. I agree. But about about ten to twelve years ago he retired from football. The new head coach ( i cannot think of his name; he went to Bell Gardens after some?? trouble with a student in class) hired a very good and hungry assistant coaching staff. Pretty quickly LS became a CIF power, even playing in Championship game after losing to Cal -Hi for second time in 3 years (2011-12 season) . When this head coach had to leave (did he head coach a LS CIF Champion?) , many quality assistants stayed; one becoming Head Coach. Winning continued big time , also in CIF Playoffs. I believe, therefor , many of the best players stayed in LS Football success
@Tim P. That WAS the short version.
LOL
LS Juggernaut,
All the players you named lived within the La Serna attendance boundaries? Or did some live within Cal’s, Whittier’s, Pioneer’s…Open Enrollment was not around during the Garciaparra days or days of some of the athlete’s you name.
sunny guzman was a pico boy. nowhere near LS and LS was garbage back then so why would they?
@?
Lol. You are obviously foolish, or shall I say
you just made yourself look foolish by saying I am lying, when you don’t have a clue about anything.
Let me guess you are also the type that will say “that doesn’t prove anything, that’s just a bunch of names” after I destroy your idiotic notion that I am lying.
Rule #1 – When you publicly call somebody a liar, you better have the receipts to back it up, or YOU are the liar.
So you want names? Ok, here you go little buddy.
AMAT
Starting with Amat, their 1992 (15-0) CIF Championship season was QB’d by Mike Smith. Smith started his HS career at La Serna leading the Freshman to an undefeated season and then starting several Varsity games as a Soph before transferring to Amat. He later played @Washington & SDSU and briefly in the World Football League.
SERVITE
3 D1 Football players
RB/SS Mike Sullivan who started at Servite then went to Sunny Hills and led them to a CIF Title while rushing for over 1,000 yards. All CIF, he went on to play at Yale.
TE/LB David Parkinson, 1st team all Angelus league LB. I played on Whittier area youth teams with both Sullivan and Parkinson that’s how I know they were local. Another Servite player QB Josh Nelson (Ole Miss) was from La Habra Hts like me.
Literally living right across the street from La Serna HS were 3 Servite soccer standouts and 1 big time hooper.
Rhett Harty (USA Olympic team, MLS,
Gavin Harty D1, and Clay Harty (played at SMU/Cal Poly) all took their D1 talent to the Angelus League.
The basketball player was 3X All CIF 6-5 Guard Adam Anderson who helped led Servite to a State 3A title. He was also the 6th man on Steve Nash’s Santa Clara team that upset Arizona in the 1st Rd of the NCAA Tourney. He lived about a 2 minute walk from La Serna.
6’6 F Ruben Oronoz 2X All CIF @Whittier Christian went on to Avg 10 pts a game playing at CS Northridge.
2 way standout Ron Papazian FB/LB (6’2 225) lived in Whittier. He broke the OC record for rushing TD’s at the time and later as a LB @Fresno St ended his career top 5 in Fresno St history for tackles. Another D1 player @WCHS was TE John Mickuki who played @Oregon St.
More WCHS
Mickey Fortie, an OF who hit .358 @St Mary’s his Sr year was from Whittier and
Butch Bucher (6’6 230) played his first 2 years at La Serna before transferring to WCHS. He started @DH for Loyola Marymount as a Freshmen but his best sport was actually Hockey.
At St Paul from Whittier was Ace pitcher Steve Duda who went 44-9 with a 2.31 era at Pepperdine. He was WCC POY and an All-American and National Champion. Another P who went to CS Fullerton was Sonny Guzman who lived closer to LS than SPHS.
Last but not least, is my buddy Brandon Ertle who was an 2X All CIF Shooting guard at St Paul who later played at D2 in Nebraska. He’s probably the best 3 pt shooter from Whittier area ever, other than me of course.
Also just down the street from LS lived my little league teammate Todd Singleyn who was Co-MVP of the Angelus league while playing at Loyola HS. A 6’6 RHP he was drafted in RD 31 but went to college instead pitching for Arizona & CS Fullerton.
Who was he Co MVP with? Well, another Whittier guy you may have heard of named Nomar Garciaparra, who attended SJ Bosco. Besides being a pretty good SS, Nomar was a D1 level soccer player and Angelus league soccer MVP. But I think the baseball thing worked out for him ok.
Well, there you have it, the 20 or so D1 level athletes that could have easily gone to La Serna but attended private schools instead.
So you might want to try and think about it next time before calling someone a liar and ending up looking like an idiot or don’t I just keep serving’em up meat. Either way it was fun proving your ignorance with these facts. Out.
From T. Peterson: Good information I guess. But next time shorten it up a little bit. Nobody wants to read “War and Peace” on a comment.
Shut Up LSJ. You keep writing lies with no proof, facts or names. No one believes anything you write. Peterson the blog is being hijacked by one or two needy people.
*clapCLAPclap*
wow, i didnt know whittier even had that much talent as a whole city. But your right times have changed, maybe when you were in HS it was like this ….
but today, LS is not losing anyone .
@Old School Chef
Wrong
Old Chef,
your salty tears are delicious.
@Old Chef
Way back when I played at La Serna (damn I’m old) we lost a ton of Friendly Hills and Whittier area talent to private schools.
St Paul & Whittier Christian took the most, but Servite, Bosco, Loyola, and Amat,etc. took some too. I’m sure it still happens today to some degree.
I can think of about 20-25 D1
athletes in 4 sports
FB (10),
BK (4),
BA (6),
SK 4),
that easily could’ve attended La Serna during my 4 years, but instead got recruited away.
We, still dominated though, winning league & the CIF-3A baseball title with 9-10 D1 guys (one of the best area teams ever) and winning the league championship in basketball when it was still an 8 team league.
Of course, the Whittier area, plus the SGV as a whole, doesn’t produce nearly as much D1 talent as it use to when I played.
When I went to La Serna (a long time ago)
we lost several top athletes to private schools.
A few of the top of my head
To Servite:
Football (3 D1) = QB, RB, & LB.
Basketball – (1 D1 6’5 G) The best BB player on Servite’s State championship team.
Soccer (3 D1 brothers including an USA Olympian/Pro)
To Amat:
FB (1 D1 QB) Starting QB on Amat’s undefeated CIF champion team transferred from La Serna to Amat after Soph year.
6 D1 baseball players, (2 All-Americans) 1 each to St John Bosco, Loyola, and 2 each to St.Paul & Whittier Christian.
2 D1 FB to Whittier Christian (LB, TE) and 1 D1 6’6 F Basketball player to WCHS, plus a 2X All CIF SG to SPHS.
What’s that, like 15-20 dudes I just named that private schools took away from LS Just during the time I went there.
So, I’m sure to be some degree they still lose big time talent to the Private schools.
Even with all that talent going elsewhere,
we still won a CIF 3A Title & had one of the best baseball teams in area history stacked with 9 or 10 D1 players.
@Ls JuggAnut
La Serna is not losing ANYONE to private schools, you are taking kids away from private schools. ASK SP. Credit is given , you have been consistent. Yet never get any credit. wonder why? bc you suck
everyone knows you can only win a GOLF championship with kids from the hill. LOL
maybe tennis, water polo.
Old School Chief,
That’s not how Open Enrollment works. WUHSD Open Enrollment only applies to schools within the District. What Santa Fe was doing back in the day was not remotely close to being Open Enrollment.
“Wait til you see what we have cooking.”
I will cheer for your Chef’s next year if they can cook up a loss by less than 35 pts against the Crimson Clad Monster on the Hill.
@#LaSernaDozenYrsOfDomination