Page 4 November 13, 2014 Lawndale Finishes Second in Ocean after Routing Hawthorne By Joe Snyder Photos by Joe Snyder Lawndale High’s football team enjoyed its best season since its earlier days of the 1970s, finishing second behind champion and the CIFSouthern Section Western Division’s second seeded El Segundo, in the Ocean League, by rolling over a shorthanded Hawthorne team 42-0 in both teams’ league finale last Friday at Lawndale. With that finish, the Cardinals, who ended their regular season at 6-4 overall and 4-1 in Ocean action, are in the Western Division playoffs where they open against Bay League champion Palos Verdes at a site to be determined, tentatively slated for 7:30 p.m. Against the Cougars, who have been struggling since the year after winning their last league title 10 years ago, Lawndale dominated from start to finish. The Cardinals took a quick 14-0 lead in the fourth quarter behind touchdowns by Austin Manigo on a 12-yard run and Taylor Walker on a 35-yard pass reception from quarterback Chris Murray. The Cardinals added three more TDs in the second period that included a 70-yard pass from Murray to Sauileao Isaiah Torres, a 30-yard interception return from Kiyaam Cooksey and Manigo’s seven-yard run as Lawndale grabbed a 34-0 halftime lead. Murray finished off the Cardinals’ scoring with a 40-yard touchdown run with 11:24 left in the third quarter that was followed by his two-point conversion pass to Bryant Perkinson. “It’s great to win this game and make the playoffs,” Lawndale head coach Rick Mathieson said. “No matter what happened, we’re in. We’ll probably be ninth or tenth seed in the playoffs.” Manigo had a big game rushing for 135 yards and two touchdowns. Murray threw for two TD’s and ran for another. Mathieson knows that the Cardinals will have to play at a much higher level and one of the those squads that is at that level is Palos Verdes that won its fourth consecutive Bay crown and holds a 23-game winning streak in that usually very competitive league after rolling over host and hill rival Rolling Hills Estates Peninsula 42-14 last Friday. The Sea Kings finished Bay action at 5-0 and are 7-3 overall after a mostly tough non-league schedule that included losses to top CIF-Los Angeles City Section Marine League teams Carson and Narbonne, that finished in a three-way tie with San Pedro. P.V. also lost to Southern Section PAC Five Marmonte League school Moorpark 24-20 on September 5. The Sea Kings defeated Newport Harbor, which usually does well in the Southern Section West Valley Division Sunset League, 49-35 on September 12. Palos Verdes is very well coached by head mentor Guy Gardner and usually plays well in Hawthorne ballcarrier Paris McDaniel attempts to run past Lawndale defenders during last Friday’s Ocean League football game. The Cougars finished fifth after losing to the Cardinals 42-0. the clutch. The Sea Kings have one Southern Section Northern Division title from two years ago and could surprise the division this season, with Pioneer League champion West Torrance being the top seed. P.V. has very good depth behind quarterback Steven Delcarson and running back Stanton Gilbertson, who rushed for 214 yards and four touchdowns in its win over the Panthers. Delcarson is tough both in passing and running. He rushed for 145 yards and two TD’s in the Sea Kings’ key 21-10 win over the Bay’s runner-up Redondo on October 31. Hawthorne started this season with potential but a rash of injuries virtually wiped out any Cougar hopes at a respectful season. Hawthorne lost seven starters to injuries, including key receivers Jamal Mill and Rojal Neely. The Cougars ended their season at 3-7 overall and 1-4 in Ocean action with their only league victory at last place Beverly Hills (1-9, 0-5) on October 17. Inglewood tops Morningside In an Inglewood football rivalry last Friday at Coleman Stadium, Inglewood High closed out Lawndale quarterback Chris Murray prepares to throw the ball during last Friday’s Ocean League football finale against rival Hawthorne. One Man’s Opinion Another Man’s Opinion The Party’s Over Assisted Suicide for the Terminally Ill By Gerry Chong Should Always be an Option The party’s over / It’s time to call it a day / They’ve popped your pretty balloon / And By Cristian Vasquez taken the moon away / It’s time to wind up On Nov. 1 Brittany Maynard decided to end the masquerade / Take off your make-up / Just her life with medication that was prescribed make your mind up / The piper must be paid to her by a doctor, and despite the tragedy – nat king cole of her circumstances, I was comforted by On the morning after the election, like the fact that there at least some states in our a common drunk, America woke up and country that will facilitate such a decision. blinked its eyes. A shadow of its former self, Maynard had a brain tumor which doctors it emerged from a blind alley, and wondered could do nothing about so the outlook for where the last six years had gone. Truly, it the remaining years of what natural life was a binge of the highest order: Unlimited she had left was bleak. So when Maynard spending and unlimited debt. World’s highest decided to end her life and die with dignity, income tax rates. Sky-bound regulations. Free her personal ordeal became a national debate food. Subsidized car purchases. Free phones. about the right to end one’s life. Maynard Housing subsidies. Unlimited money printing. and her family moved to Oregon, where she Government directed and funded healthcare. would have access to the state’s Death with Government spying on Americans. Government Dignity Act. Under this law, terminally ill spying on allies. Inept appointees administering Oregonians have the right to end their lives bloated bureaucracies. 92 million unemployed. by voluntary self-administering a dose of Part time and entry level jobs being touted life-ending medications. These medications as “job growth.” The racial divide and the are prescribed by a physician. gender divide growing. The chasm between Sadly I have experienced having a loved one rich and poor exploding. Unrestricted illegal commit suicide; I have also witness a close immigration. Failed foreign policy. friend attempt suicide and the experiences were The drunk tried to remember. Six years! both heartbreaking and scary. At the same Seemed like everything was fuzzy and out time I have seen people who are terminally of focus, a scary movie that had somehow ill wither away into a painful and agonizing morphed into reality. He tried to remember death. Sadly these people did not have the what he had drank to get him into this stupor, option to take the steps that the State of but could only remember some red-colored Oregon provided for Maynard. It is worth KoolAid. The container’s label featured the noting that to my knowledge, assisted suicide smiling face of a benign savior. Everything was not something they considered. However, seemed so cool. So reassuring. So, so politically watching them suffer and become a shell of correct. But now the hang over must begin…. their former physical selves was too much. the piper must be paid. Pass the aspirin and Maybe I’m a coward. Or my faith in God a soothing broth. or a higher power is weak and hence I’m not enlightened enough to have such strong convictions. However, despite the agony of knowing that someone that you love took their own life, watching someone you love suffer as they await death is infinitely worse. There is little that can convince that it is better for someone with Parkinson’s Disease, who is on a death timeline, should sit there and suffer rather than die with dignity, if they desire. I accept that some people will hold on to their faith, or the strength that made them amazing people when healthy and simply wait for death to come. Yet, some of us aren’t like that and there should be an option for people like Maynard who would rather avoid the agony of long hospital stays, the inability to care for one’s self if in the end death is unavoidable. I’m not questioning the morality of this issue. Furthermore, it’s not an attack on people of faith or their convictions. The fact is that with or without the right to assisted suicide provided by the state like in Oregon, my peers of faith can still decide to use their faith as they await death in agonizing pain. However, without the option on the table we are all made to suffer even if we want a less painful and faster solution. My prayers go out to Maynard’s family and my praise to the State of Oregon. Making such a decision has to be gut-wrenching to say the least, but if I’m down to my last year of life and it is scheduled to be a painful one, I would like the option of assisted suicide without having to leave the comfort of my home state. • Perhaps the aspirin could be a bipartisan commission similar to the Military Base Closure Commission, convened to comb through the budget and list those programs that have outgrown their usefulness, and whose costs exceed their benefits. Congress could vote on an up-or-down basis to eliminate waste. Perhaps the broth could include ingredients favored by both political parties. For example, an energy policy that approved the Keystone Pipeline, encouraged fracking and on-shore oil exploration would drive down the cost of energy. That policy would have four critical benefits: First, it would create real jobs. Second, it would lower the cost of living for all Americans. Third, it would make American products more cost competitive in the world market. Fourth, it would reduce American dependence on volatile Middle East oil suppliers. Some of the benefits thus derived could be used to support bonds to improve highways and other infrastructure, and to support R&D to make alternative energy sources more cost competitive and more reliable . . . all without funding private companies like Solyndra, and all without raising income taxes or incurring more debt. And so the drunk starts with a shower to scrub off the detritus of his binge. Cleansed, he lies back to wait for the aspirin and broth to cure his aching head and rebelling stomach. With eyes half closed he vows never to drink from the Leftist KoolAid again. In the immortal lyrics of Dandy Don Meredith, “Turn out the lights, the party’s over.” “The Party’s Over” is copyright 1956, written by Jule Styne, with lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. • the season with its third straight Bay League win over Morningside 22-14. The Sentinels had two touchdown runs of three and one yards by De Juan Tyson and a scoring run from Kendric Johnson. Patrick June had a TD reception for the Monarchs, who ended their season last in the Bay at 0-5 and were 4-6 overall. Despite a third place finish in league, Inglewood (4-6 overall and 3-2 in league) was not selected into the Western Division playoffs due to six leagues and 16 spots. The difference could have been the mass ejections from a scuffle that occurred that led to its double forfeit loss in a non-league game against host North Torrance on September 26 and another forfeit in non-league to L.A. University due to lack of eligible players a week later. Instead, the CIF-SS took four teams from the Pioneer League that included third place Torrance and fourth place South Torrance. Leuzinger Wins Finale Leuzinger High’s football team had it tough going in the extremely highly competitive Pioneer League but finished on a good note with a 39-20 home win over Centennial from Compton last Friday. Khalil Miller and Angelo Smith sparked the Olympians, who enjoyed their best overall season in several years at 4-6, with two touchdowns apiece. Miller scored on runs of four and 10 yards, and Smith caught scoring passes of 33 and 55 yards from quarterback Edwin Santos. J.J. Liavara had a 31-yard interception return for a TD and freshman Loren Dowen scored on a four-yard run. Leuzinger finished league at 1-4. •
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