Tag Archives: Justin Smith

The Peterson Principle 6/4/12

Temple City Coach Barry Bacon has won 140 games in the last eight years
I haven’t heard anybody bash Temple City Coach Barry Bacon lately. I guess I have to wait a couple of days. We’ve heard the grumblings from other places. Football fans used to have a problem with Monrovia Coach Steve Garrison even though [...]

Ram Update: TC Alive and Well

Michael Bassette leads the bubbas in the trenches
(Temple City) – Everybody else might be on dead period but at Temple City, the Rams are alive and kicking. Temple City took an early dead and came back the week after the Fourth of July holiday.
“It worked out perfect for us,” said Temple City Coach Mike [...]

All Rio Hondo League: Baseball 2010

Temple City's Dusty Sanderson earned All Rio Hondo League First Team
MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS: 
Nick Bueno, (Jr) -Monrovia
Aaron Murphree, (Sr) – Monrovia  
1ST TEAM
OUTFIELD
Jimmy Bradley, (Sr) –  La Canada
Tim Kim, (Sr) – La Canada  
Justin De La Nuez, (Sr) – Monrovia  
Branden Pultz, (Sr) – Temple City
INFIELD
Justin Smith, Temple City, (Sr)
Stevie Yortsos, San Marino, (Sr)
Jairo Jiorge, Monrovia, (Jr)
Dusty [...]

Rams Getting Ready

The lineman running through drills
(Temple City) – It’s been a long strange off season for Temple City. First year Coach Anthony White resigned to take the head coaching job at Buena Park. Then During a lengthy hiring process to bring in a new coach a couple players transferred out. Finally Mike McFarland was named [...]

Fanview Lite: May 12, 2010

T-Minus-120 Days until “The Mid Valley Classic”
Good Afternoon!
Finally…
From the Dark Side of the Moon: “Yes, yes, okay, there is a Mooney Curse in the second round”.
I knew it!
Oh, I’ve always been a Sam Bradford fan.
I’m so glad the law doesn’t work the same way the NCAA does. While current USC players have their careers on [...]

Murphee Pitches Cats to Brink of Title

Aaron Murphee threw six and two-thirds scoreless innings
By Tim Peterson
(Temple City) – Nick Bueno singled to open the game, advanced on a base hit by Jairo Jiorge and eventually scored on a ground ball by Robert Nakamura. It was the only run Monrovia needed as Aaron Murphee made it stand up in a 1-0 [...]

Rams Fit to be Tied

Ruben Jara's lead off double in the third led to two Temple City runs
(Arcadia) – For 10 innings Temple City went toe to toe with area heavyweight Glendora. And after it was all over both teams were left standing. The game was called due to the time limit and they settled for a 2-2 tie [...]

The Peterson Principle 3/9/10

Kevin O'Neill has USC headed in the right direction
By Tim Peterson
That was a cool haircut that Ron Artest was sporting Sunday against Orlando. But it didn’t seem to help. Besides hasn’t it been done before? When I first saw him running down the floor I thought Dennis Rodman had made a comeback. Actually I [...]

Fanview Lite: February 1, 2010

SEM/Fullerton LB Joe Morales will announce his D-1 destination Wednesday afternoon.
Good Afternoon!
T-Minus-231 Days until “The Mid Valley Classic”
Talk about an athlete with legs, we first started talking about former South El Monte, St. Paul, and now Fullerton JC linebacker Joe Morales in 2003. Wednesday afternoon we will be talking about him once again as he [...]

Mid Valley Draft: Quarterbacks

Is Valley Christian QB Kevin Running the sleeper pick of the Mid Valley Draft?
Draft Day: Tuesday, February 9th 2010
The Mid Valley Draft is an exercise where staff/readers adopt NFL teams and then proceed to meet their personnel needs by drafting local players out of the Mid-Valley & Southeast divisions.
Over the course of the next few [...]