They were getting after us,” said Cabrillo coach DON CROSS as he thought back to Friday night’s 41-14 whipping at the hands of Pioneer Valley.
“Offensively Pioneer Valley owned us. Those big kids can move. A lot of kids that size are still at the line of scrimmage but they went on downfield.”
Cross tabbed the Panthers as favorites for the Los Padres League championship. “I sure hope there’s nobody any better than they are,” he quipped.
On offense the Conquistadores moved the ball, at least between the 20-yard-lines and when the ball was in the hands of tailback BENNY GARRETT (pictured). “He had 97 yards rushing and he has just a yard under 300 for the season,” Cross said. “He’s an incredibly hard worker. He rarely leaves the field.” Garrett is a corner back on defense and a returner on special teams. He is also among the strongest players Cross has, bench pressing 360. Cross said Portland State is already interested in Garrett for 2008.
“I still think we’re a pretty good football team,” Cross went on, choosing to forget about Pioneer Valley and looking forward to Nipomo tomorrow night. “We just have to be consistent. When we get down there we have to finish. You have to crank it up even more when you’re inside the 20. We have to maintain that energy.”
Cross said the Q’s suffered no further injuries but that wide receiver JOSH BOWMAN will be held out another week due to a concussion and that lineman DAVID KULP is indeed gone for the season.
Friday night’s game at Huyck Stadium will be broadcast by Press Box Productions on Comcast Channel 23 beginning at 7:30.
“Offensively Pioneer Valley owned us. Those big kids can move. A lot of kids that size are still at the line of scrimmage but they went on downfield.”
Cross tabbed the Panthers as favorites for the Los Padres League championship. “I sure hope there’s nobody any better than they are,” he quipped.
On offense the Conquistadores moved the ball, at least between the 20-yard-lines and when the ball was in the hands of tailback BENNY GARRETT (pictured). “He had 97 yards rushing and he has just a yard under 300 for the season,” Cross said. “He’s an incredibly hard worker. He rarely leaves the field.” Garrett is a corner back on defense and a returner on special teams. He is also among the strongest players Cross has, bench pressing 360. Cross said Portland State is already interested in Garrett for 2008.
“I still think we’re a pretty good football team,” Cross went on, choosing to forget about Pioneer Valley and looking forward to Nipomo tomorrow night. “We just have to be consistent. When we get down there we have to finish. You have to crank it up even more when you’re inside the 20. We have to maintain that energy.”
Cross said the Q’s suffered no further injuries but that wide receiver JOSH BOWMAN will be held out another week due to a concussion and that lineman DAVID KULP is indeed gone for the season.
Friday night’s game at Huyck Stadium will be broadcast by Press Box Productions on Comcast Channel 23 beginning at 7:30.
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HUNT ON HISTORY
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Veteran sportswriter AL HUNT used his Thursday column in the Santa Barbara News-Press to recount the departure and return of DARYL AGUILAR and BOBBY COLLINS from Lompoc High to Rancho Cucamonga and back again [short version Daryl's dad Rick moved after a family breakup and Daryl and his friend Bobby went too]. In his column Hunt posts Collins' track times from last spring at RC. According to Hunt Collins, who was Santa Barbara County champion in the 200 as a freshman at LHS, ran 48.35 in the 400 to take third place in CIF's Div. I meet last spring and earned a spot at the state meet. Besides that he ran the first leg of the Cougars' 4x100 relay team which was the fourth fastest in the state. And he ran in the 4x400 relay which finished to Long Beach Poly in the CIF Southern Section Div. I finals. Both relay teams also went to the state meet. "It is not a stretch to say that Bobby Collins is the fastest high school kid in Santa Barbara County," Hunt proclaims.
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