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The Dodgers have had their fun with us, getting to the brink of a World Series appearance in both the Manny Ramirez/Joe Torre era and in the recent Don Mattingly era, but always seem to fall apart in the games that matter the most. Then there are the Lakers. The Lakers made Los Angeles the place to be in the early 2000s. With a young Kobe and Shaq at the helm, they were raking in championships left and right. L.A. was happening. Look at the purple and gold now. Pinning this year’s playoff hopes on one player who can’t carry his own luggage without hurting himself and another who has one good leg to stand on. Literally. Alas, worry no more! Hockey season is back and the Los Angeles Kings have been the team to save us from our sorrows. Last Wednesday the Kings opened a brand new season and raised their championship banner to the ceiling, reminding sports fans all across Los Angeles that they do, indeed, have a team to be proud of here in L.A. The Kings lost to the San Jose Sharks 4-0 on opening night this year. But never mind that! As a raucous crowd of more than 18,000 fans showed up to the Staples Center last Wednesday night, they roared with excitement as the black and white banner that read, “Stanley Cup Champions 2013-14” was raised to the rafters. Our championship team was back and the Sharks might have ruined the first game of the season but they did not ruin the celebration. “Los Angeles is the greatest hockey city in the world!” Kings Hall of Famer and president of business operations Luc Robitaille exclaimed. Leave it to Luc to put a little home-town cooking into his exclamations, but while Los Angeles is certainly no Montreal or even Detroit for that matter, it has grown tremendously in the last four years or so as a hockey city. The thing that makes the Kings unique and has Los Angeles showing up to their games is not simply the fact that they are winning championships. Naturally, that doesn’t hurt the cause, but unlike the Boys in Blue just to the south of Staples Center, the Kings don’t buckle under pressure. This team is gritty. They’ll hit back and hit back hard. They play their best game with their backs against the wall, don’t buckle under pressure and meet the moment when the moment is at its highest point. That’s what the Kings have come to be defined as over the past few years and that’s why people love showing up to watch them put the blades to the ice. These Kings just haven’t let their fans down. Opening night didn’t look pretty. Not only did the Kings lose, but they got shut out. Fans were left excited about the new season but empty about the fact that they couldn’t even see their team score a goal. Three nights later, things weren’t looking much better. The Kings finally scored their first goals of the season as both Tanner Pearson and Jeff Carter scored in the first period of play, but the Arizona Coyotes rallied to a 3-2 overtime victory sending our beloved Kings to an 0-2 start to the season. Call it a hangover. The Kings just four months ago won the championship, cut them a little slack. They’ve probably just been drinking champagne every day, basking in their own glory. Once the hangover wore off, the Kings then won against the Winnipeg Jets, the Edmonton Oilers and had an exciting and intense shootout victory over the St. Louis Blues here at the Staples Center. At least one L.A. team can beat St. Louis, right? Your Kings are back. The season is just underway and we have until April until it is complete. Expect the Kings to be good this year, but don’t expect them to be the best in the league. The losses will come along with the wins, but remember, this team plays its best hockey with their backs against the wall. Three season ago, they won it all as the eighth seed. Last season, they won it all as the sixth seed. They may not know what to do with themselves if they enter the playoffs as the one seed. So sit back and enjoy the ride. It’s going to be a long season. For now, just be happy that hockey is back. Your World Champion, banner waiving Los Angeles Kings are back and L.A. is ready to be transformed, once again, into a hockey town. • AUCTION! SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2nd Preview 9:00a-1p Auction 1:00p WE CAN SELL YOUR ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES FOR YOU ON eBay 337 Richmond St El Segundo 310-322-3895 Fri thru Mon 9-5:30 .studioantiques.com Rivalry at its Finest By Adam Serrao It was a game that was all that it was made out to be. North High vs. West High in a divisional rivalry game for first place in the Pioneer League. What could be better? This high-scoring affair was loaded with all that you could ever ask for as a football fan. Big plays, lots of scoring and of course, it came down to defense. The Warriors showed that their team was the superior team on both sides of the ball last Friday night at North Torrance. West traveled onto the Saxon’s home turf and walked out with a 49-35 victory as the Warriors remained undefeated on the season and kept a tight hold on the first place spot in the Pioneer League firmly in hand. The game started off tight, as most of these rivalry games do. The Warriors held a 14-7 lead early on in the second quarter before starting quarterback for North High, Chris Kuaea, tied things up for his team as he hit Just Allmond on a 24-yard touchdown pass. That’s when the scoring frenzy ensued. West High’s defense kept them in the game all night long, most notably in the third quarter with the Warriors clinging to a one point lead at 21-20. Bobby Fujioka intercepted a Kuaea pass and returned it just shy of the end zone, setting up West’s star running back, Brett Ojiyi, for an easy goal line plunge. “It was a slugfest,” North head coach Todd Croce said. “Both teams going as hard as they could for four quarters.” Croce was right and North never went away. As the fourth and final quarter began, the Saxons found themselves down by seven points at 35-28. Quarterback for West, Trevor Mallett, thought he put things out of reach for North when he threw a 30-yard touchdown pass to put his team up 42-28. Then North’s most talented player got going. Mique Juarez took a 70-yard pass down to the five-yard, line setting up a touchdown to pull the Saxons to within seven points. With just over eight minutes remaining on the clock, North needed a stop badly. Mallet, Ojiyi and the rest of the Warriors knew the ball was in their hands, however, and decided to burn a little clock. 12 plays and 64 yards later West would put another seven on the board to lead 49-35. “We just kept playing,” West head coach Greg Holt said bluntly. His team played until the clock ran out and the Warriors found themselves on top, ultimately taking the victory by two touchdowns. Chris Kuaea had an excellent game in the loss for North (4-3, 1-1), completing 20-of-37 passes for three touchdowns and 411 yards. He also gained 57 yards and a touchdown on the ground. Juarez had two touchdowns of his own on the night for the Saxons, reeling in four catches for 197 yards. With the loss, North drops into a tie for third place with South and will take on the second place Torrance Tartars this week looking to improve on their standings. For West (7-0, 2-0), Mallett completed 19-of-37 tosses for 246 yards and two touchdowns while Ojiyi finished the night with 169 all-purpose yards with three touchdowns. The Warriors will move on to take on Centennial looking to keep their perfect record intact this season. South High Coming off of a disappointing loss two weeks ago to Torrance High, the South High Spartans were looking to rebound in a major way. Things didn’t look good for South through the first quarter. An early touchdown by their opponents, the Centennial Apaches, had South and head coach Joshua Waybright worried about a possible two game losing streak coming to fruition. With another score early on in the second quarter, the Spartans trailed 13-0. That was enough of a deficit to get them going. South running back Kevin Adams turned things around for the Spartans when he scored two times in the second quarter. Starting quarterback Gabe Zuniga found one of his favorite receivers, Bailey Bjazevich for a third touchdown, all in the second quarter, to all of a sudden put South up 22-13. Centennial would hold the Spartans scoreless coming out of the halftime break as they moved closer with a touchdown to bring the game to 22-20. South running back Vini Bjazevich proved to be too much for the Apache’s in the fourth quarter though, busting out a 54- yard touchdown to put his team up for good as the Spartans avenged their loss and came out of this one victoriously with a 36-28 win. South (5-2, 1-1), currently tied for third place in their division, will take on Leuzinger this week looking to get themselves back into contention in the Pioneer league. Torrance High Perhaps the best running back in the league, and maybe even in California is on our very own Torrance Tartars. Coming off of a seven touchdown, 321 yard performance two weeks ago against South High, Harris did his best to repeat the performance by racking up 200 total yards and three touchdowns on the way to his team’s 37-14 win over Leuzinger at Zamperini Field last Friday night. The Tartars jumped out to an early 9-0 lead in the first quarter before putting up 14 in the second and 14 in the third to put the game out of reach. Harris was the story as the Tartars (5-2, 2-0) won again to remain undefeated in league play and stay on the heels of West High for first place in the Pioneer League. The Tartars next challenge will come this Friday night against North in what should be another hotly contested rivalry game. •
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