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Eagles Hold on For
Victory over Westchester
By Gregg McMullin
For the second week in a row, El Segundo
played their game on the road. After defeating
a solid Bishop Montgomery team in Week-1,
the Eagles traveled to Westchester to face an
athletic Comets team. The penalty-riddled
game was marred by controversy, big plays,
and injuries that could be problematic. But in
the end, the Eagles withstood the adversity to
hang on for a 29-27 win over the Comets. It
was El Segundo’s first win over Westchester
in the football program’s history.
This was a good matchup between the
undersized Eagles and the undermanned
Comets. The game was sloppily played in
terms of penalties by El Segundo; the Eagles
committed 17 penalties. It didn’t go unnoticed
by the coaching staff that was frustrated by
all of the miscues. “We have to be better
than that and have more discipline,” said
head coach Shawn Green. He said the team
was excited all week long, and it carried
over into the game. “The penalties are signs
that we need to slow ourselves down,” said
Coach Green.
El Segundo’s offensive line isn’t big and,
in many cases, won’t push the opposition
around. They do have good coaching and
technique to allow their running backs to break
the line of scrimmage with their quickness
and speed. They also have depth, and they’ll
need it with the injury to Damien Garcia, who
injured his ankle and could be questionable
for this week’s game. The offensive line was
missing Gabe Blanco, but Ariel Santiago filled
in nicely, and Mason Lindor substituted for
Garcia when he went down.
The Eagles used their speed and overall
depth to wear down a Comets team that
seemed to play with limited numbers. During
extended El Segundo offensive drives,
it was obvious that the Eagles seemed to
be fresh while the Comets seemed to be
gassed. When the game was stopped due to
the sprinklers coming on, on the El Segundo
sidelines, it gave Westchester players time to
take a breather.
Junior quarterback Leo Menendez led the
Eagles to an early first-quarter score and an
8-0 lead with the successful two-point conversion
on a pass reception to Jack Stoker.
On El Segundo’s next possession, Menendez
fumbled the ball on a quarterback sack.
Westchester took advantage of a short field
and wasted no time in scoring with 10:34
left in the second quarter.
On the Eagles’ ensuing possession on the
first play from scrimmage, Mason Kahn took
a handoff and sprung outside, got past the
secondary, and went untouched 71 yards
for a touchdown. Kahn’s overall speed and
athletic ability gave the senior running back
the vision downfield to score the second of
three touchdowns to give the Eagles a 15-7
lead. Westchester responded when Damon
Coronado took a toss, broke one tackle, and
raced 57 yards for a score to make it 15-13
with 6:14 remaining in the first half.
After an El Segundo punt, Westchester
had the ball with decent field position. The
Eagles’ defense stepped up and halted the
Comet’s drive. First, Billy McKinzey sacked
Comet quarterback Teyon Boatner for a loss
of eight yards. Then with time running down
Anthony Temesvary intercepted Boatner and
returned it to the El Segundo 38-yard line.
With 15 seconds left in the half, instead of
running the clock out, Coach Green had a
play drawn up. Menendez found a speedy
Nate Pascarelli open on the left side and
drilled a strike, in stride, to him. Pascarelli
literally ran away from Westchester’s secondary
on his way to a 62-yard touchdown and
a 22-13 halftime lead.
In the second half, penalties plagued the
Eagles, but the defense stepped up. Westchester’s
first second-half series resulted
in a punt, and the Eagles took advantage
of a weary Comet’s defense. El Segundo’s
prepossessing offense resulted in an 11-play
series that consumed much of the third
quarter. Kahn, who rushed for 158 yards
on the night, gained 52 yards on the drive,
including a 17-yard scamper for a touchdown.
His third touchdown of the night extended
El Segundo’s lead to 29-13 with less than
four minutes in the third quarter.
Westchester responded with a long drive
of their own, helped along by El Segundo
penalties. On the first play of the fourth
quarter, Ilyas Abdullah scored on a rushing
#53 Jeremy Hoover and #45 Matt Higginbotham bring down Westchester’s Ilyas Abdullah for a short gain.
Film Review
‘Wild Indian’ is a Gripping Thriller
About Generational Trauma
By Ryan Rojas for cinemacy.com
In his feature debut Wild Indian, Indigenous
filmmaker Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.
commands the big screen with the story of
a troubled Native American man, whose
trauma-filled past leads to him committing
an act of violence that changes multiple
lives forever.
From its start, Wild Indian captures the
suffering of Native people, by presenting a
title card that reads how man’s sickness was
carried west (the connotation of the “western
world” being an important note here), as
well as the visual of an early Native man
in headdress and tribal wear standing over
another downed by an arrow, showing a
vast history of pain that writer/director Lyle
Mitchell Corbine Jr. connects back to later.
A jump in time brings us to the image
of young Makwa (Phoenix Wilson), whose
largely silent demeanor hiding behind shaggy
hair that often hides the signs of abuse at his
father’s hand. Although Makawa is comforted
daily by his sensitive friend Ted-O (Julian
Gopel), his agitation turns into a quiet anger,
Wild Indian, courtesy Vertical Entertainment.
Check It Out
Hummingbird Salamander
by Jeff VanderMeer
Book review by Roz Templin, Library
Assistant, El Segundo Public Library
Security Systems Analyst “Jane” receives
an envelope handed to her by a barrista in her
local coffee shop one morning and it literally
upends her entire life. Soon she is running
down an extremely dangerous rabbit hole that
will spawn mysteries dissolving into more
mysteries, intimidation and violence, crimes of
wildlife trafficking and ecoterrorism. Will she
solve the clues that include a taxidermied hummingbird
and a salamander? Will she become
a warrior battling climate change and worse?
Jane is a sturdy woman, a former wrestler
in high school and a former body builder.
She will soon realize just how much physical
abuse she can take when she decides to open
the envelope and discovers a key to a storage
unit that contains that first clue. That door
literally opens a shadowy underworld where
everything and everyone is suspect and capable
of physical and psychological brutality against
her and to those she holds dear.
Returning to her early interests in criminology
and psychology (and an idea of joining the police
force), Jane becomes a noirish detective. She’s
Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer Roz Templin
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