November 1, 2012 Page 5 Joe’s Sports Turnovers Plague Sents in Ocean Showdown Loss By Joe Snyder hopes of winning an Ocean League game all In a league showdown, turnovers do not only but gone with a 20-6 loss at Beverly Hills hurt a team but can hype up the opposing last Friday. The Cougars had a few chances squad. That was the case with Inglewood to score, including driving to the Norman 12 High’s football team in its Ocean League yard line in the first quarter, but were held. showdown at home against Santa Monica That came after a key interception from last Friday. The Sentinels lost four fumbles, Raymond Scarbrough. including two inside the Santa Monica 15 The Cougars (1-8, 0-4) had four turnovers yard line, and the Vikings pulled away for a that hurt their chances to defeat Beverly in 39-10 victory to take sole possession of first a match-up between two struggling squads. place in league. Also plaguing the Sents, Hawthorne’s only touchdown came in the third who ended their six-game winning streak quarter on a 58-yard pass from quarterback and fell to 6-3 overall and 3-1 in Ocean play, Paul Fuller to wide receiver Xavier Clark. were 13 penalties for 110 yards. Proving how little of a chance that the Inglewood started things well as it grabbed Cougars will win a league game, their finale an early 7-0 lead on a 25-yard touchdown is against Ocean-leading Santa Monica at run from quarterback Damian Woods midway Santa Monica City College Friday at 7 p.m. in the first quarter. Later in the period, Santa The Vikings are already coming off a 39-10 Monica (6-3, 4-0) came back to tie the win over host Inglewood in their league In a league showdown, turnovers do not only hurt a team but can hype up the opposing squad. game at seven on a 10-yard TD pass from showdown last Friday. Santa Monica has very quarterback Ryan Barbarian to wide receiver good depth on both ends of the ball, behind Denicio Gonzalez-Drake. University of Southern California-bound wide The Sentinels had a chance to regain the receiver Sebastian La Rue. lead as they drove to the Viking nine yard TORRANCE ROLLS line, but quarterback Ricky Calderon when OVER LAWNDALE attempting to pass to wide receiver Trevion Lawndale High’s football team continued to Benton was hard hit, causing him to fumble find the Pioneer League too much to handle as Santa Monica recovered the ball at the as it was routed by Torrance 41-6 last Friday 10. The Vikings drove 90 yards on 10 plays, at Lawndale. The Tartars, who improved to capped by a three-yard scoring run by Trent 3-1 in league and have a shot at pulling off Hill. Inglewood managed to cut Santa Monica’s the Pioneer title with a home win over cross- lead to 14-10 on a 30-yard field goal from town rival North Torrance (4-0 league, 7-2 Jose Magana shortly before halftime. overall) on Friday, had a balanced rushing A rash of mistakes continued to plague attack with 310 total yards on the ground. the Sents in the second half as the Vikings The Cardinals (3-6, 0-4) were held to just pulled away. The Vikings added a field goal 56 total yards on offense, but managed a and a safety after a botched punt that caused touchdown on a 95-yard fumble recovery by Zaire Andre to be tackled in the end zone Austin Nanigo with 7:56 to go in the game. for a safety. Santa Monica would add three Lawndale closes its season at home against more touchdowns, including a 93-yard run Centennial High from Compton Friday at 7 from Russell Ravis and two more scores p.m. The Apaches are coming off a key 27- from Ryan Chamberlain. 14 home win over El Segundo last Friday. Inglewood hopes to pull off second place MIRA COSTA PROVES as it faces cross town rival Morningside at TOO MUCH FOR LEUZINGER Coleman Stadium Friday at 5 p.m. Mira Costa High’s football team continued CULVER EDGES MORNINGSIDE to make things overwhelming for Leuzinger in Morningside High’s football team had a its 49-0 Bay League rout last Friday at Mira chance to defeat Ocean League power Culver Costa. The Olympians (1-8, 0-4) were limited to City for the first time in several years, but time just 113 total yards on offense. Travionne Pope, ran out as the Monarchs found themselves who had two very good games in Leuzinger’s just 11 yards shy of that victory in a 14- losses to Peninsula and Redondo over the past 13 defeat to the host Centaurs last Friday. two games, had four catches for 30 yards. Down by one point, quarterback Caleb Lewis Quarterback Sami Puloka completed 10 of 24 threw a 27-yard pass to Travon Agee as the passes but was sacked four times. Mira Costa Monarchs (5-4, 2-2) were at the Culver 11 used an effective ground game with its veer with two seconds remaining. Time, though, offense, as all seven of its touchdowns were ran out by the end of the play. on runs. The Mustangs ran for 410 yards. Agee had seven catches for 94 yards as a Leuzinger closes its season at home against wide receiver and he had two quarterback West Torrance Friday at 7 p.m. After losing sacks as a defensive back. Agee also returned their first three Bay games to Mira Costa, a blocked punt 35 yards for a touchdown and Redondo and Palos Verdes, the Warriors kept added a 20-yard punt return. their CIF-Southern Section Northern Division Morningside hopes it will pull off a CIF- playoff hopes alive by crushing Peninsula 56-6 Southern Section Western Division playoff last Friday at West. The Warriors have a very berth with a win over cross-town rival effective rushing attack led by Barry Thomas Inglewood on Friday at Coleman Stadium. with 307 yards and four TDs in their easy win HAWTHORNE FALLS AT over the Panthers. Senior quarterback Joey BEVERLY HILLS Notch has also done very well, passing for Hawthorne High’s football team saw its nearly 2,000 yards this season. • “Football doesn’t build character, it reveals character!” ~ Marv Levy
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